Ascension of the Nephilim

The power that Kyros and Mechiel gathered remained for a long time, and slowly, the elements were moving into Kyros.

The Blood Calamity marveled at the sensation. It was as if what they were doing was natural.

"How is this possible? He can't hear the elements, but yet it's like they are talking!" The Blood Calamity couldn't make heads or tails of the scene.

Of course, Kyros had made several deceptions to hide how he was doing it. Unknown to the Blood Calamity, the Soul Console was already moving the elements automatically. Kyros didn't have to put any thought into it as his other souls acted as programmed. All he did was focus on the memory of his recent experience and try to respond to it. With the Blood Calamity there to issue the charmed call to gather the elements, Kyros had a huge load of his concentration.

By looking at the memories of what he just did, Kyros was now in the process of deducing how to channel the energy. The thoughts of Kyros weren't even hidden from the Blood Calamity as he could see Kyros observing the miracle of what was happening around him.

And so the Blood Calamity began to ponder on the miracle and begin her meditation.

But as she did, she couldn't make heads or tails of this. The Emberdons were in a better position. The Blood Calamity did not wield any of the elements. The Emberdons at least had studied magic all their life, and while they had just begun learning the real path of magic, it was still better than what the Blood Calamity had.

Outside, the Emberdons were holding on to the Elemental Cores given to them. The Skeleton Emberdons had a body that was practically like Elemental Cores. They sacrificed flesh to imbue magic on their bones. And so, they could compare and imitate the magical mystery before them.

"It doesn't make sense! Just how is it that the Earth responds? Is this a word of power? Are we truly unable to imitate it?" Stellya cursed.

"The Wind is acting differently! It's not as how I wield it! How is it working together with Earth which is on the opposite side of the Elemental wheel?!" Ressi couldn't understand the scene either.

The Blood Calamity had been listening to them in hopes of gaining something as she knew she was at a great disadvantage. But their words proved that it was too difficult even for them.

"The Time God!" Demerus suddenly recalled.

"Oh, brother..." Calaminus feared this would happen.

"Erm... Kyros. Could you help me out here?"

"What?! I'm busy! Can't you see I'm in the middle of something?!"

"I-I know. But the Emberdons...! They are asking me for help!"

"Then help them! We are fighting with our lives on the line!" Kyros irritably answered. The powers around him and Mechiel grew unstable.

"But-but-but...! The truth is, we gods of different code are just like you guys! We can't learn a Code that isn't ours, but we have to slowly train in them!" Calaminus secretly called out to Kyros.

"Then why didn't you train in them?"

"I was... preoccupied with my other incarnations."

"Then it's not my fault that you can't help them!"

"Come on, man! Help me out here! I don't want them to think I'm some lame god!"

"You are a lame god right now!"

"Please! Can't you think of something to get me out of this mess?"

"Use your other incarnations and give them some words of wisdom! Just Sstoptalking to me!" Kyros somehow managed to block his ears.

"Great God Calaminus! Weren't you there at the start of time? Tell us what you saw!" Demerus pleaded.

Seeing as Kyros refused to help him, Calaminus sighed.

"Er- Right! I'll help you! First, you need to know this mystery! When I was born, I was... ve-very young."

"...What?" Demerus had a very confused expression.

"?" Even the Blood Calamity couldn't understand what Calaminus meant.

"What do you mean?"

"I am speaking... of heavenly things. What I saw and what I am cannot be put into words." Calaminus decided to add mystery in his talks.

"He was very young when he was born..." Faye tried to ponder the meaning of this mystery.

"Isn't... that obvious? We are very young when we are born!"

"No! Think about it! He is the Time God! Time was young then!" Demerus explained.

"Correct!" Calaminus explained.

"I was young then. Therefore, what I saw, was young things."

"Young things?"

"What?"

"I cannot spoon-feed you. It would be going against my Code to teach that which is learned through time." Calaminus spoke in mystery.

"I will, however, reveal certain mysteries. In the eyes of a child, the wrong can be right."

"The wrong can be right?"

"Yes! That's the truth! The early bird catches the early worm!"

"The early bird? What's the early bird?"

"One wrong move and you're already mistaken."

"What? What does that mean?!"

"There is no war in Bai Sing Sei. Oh! Sorry, that's from a different concept. But... I guess that's all I can say. You have to learn everything else... in Time." Calaminus decided to add more mystery to his Time God persona and spoke nonsense.

Demerus frowned. Faye was scratching her head. Stellya decided to stop listening and focused on the elements. Ressi was already trying to imitate what she saw. But Triona kept repeating the mystery words of Calaminus as if it was a mantra.

"That's it! The eyes of a child! We've been all elements wrong!" Triona shouted.

"What?!" Demerus turned to her.

The rest also did.

"Think about it! He was very young when he saw the world. He saw the elements! The right way to wield them! And he said, in the eyes of a child, the wrong can be right! We have seen how others wield elements and thought of it as correct! But it was wrong! We should see things as the early bird!"

"The early bird!"

"Yes! The early bird that saw the true elements, which is the early worm! Right now, we are seeing that which is right! One wrong move and you are already mistaken! Because our ancestors did not see things as how it was, they were already wrong! We have before us the truth! The reality of how to wield the elements! It seems mysterious and strange, but this is how it should have been! Even Astra did not wield the elements but borrowed the Celestial Code!"

"But that doesn't help us..." The Lowly Lich spoke.

"No! It can! Everyone! Get back to the basics! We master the basics first! Don't search out the impossible! Search for the possible! Compare it with the books! We have two sources of truths now! Theories and practical wielding of magic must occur! Triona is right! The Time God is also right! He saw it from the beginning and is trying to tell us that if we make one mistake in applying the theories that we learned, which will be the foundation of magic, we are already mistaken!" Faye shouted.

"Faye is right! There are many things that we can't comprehend! Go back to the elementary parts! Everyone! Bring out the books and start researching and comparing!"

"Thank you, Time God!" Triona bowed.

"I... Proud you!" Calaminus was so relieved that Triona saved him that he muttered a grammatically incorrect statement.

"I proud you all!" Calaminus repeated.

As that was happening, the Blood Calamity also fell into a strange form of enlightenment.

"The words of those Emberdons and the Time God ring true. I don't have to understand that which I can't. I'll start with the basics!" The Blood Calamity decided.

And as she began to approach the basic way to wield the elements, she unknowingly synched with Kyros, who was also doing the same thing. And as their souls acted in synch, the power grew stronger.

Back in the realm where time continued... 

Somewhere in the Planesworld, Daradiel felt his power being summoned.

He could not understand but somewhere, someplace where his eyes could not see, his power was being invoked.

"Who?! How is this possible?!" Daradiel shouted.