Chapter 331: The Alchemy of Gods (2)

The moment Akasha unleashed his Elsewhere Flame, he unknowingly gained the immediate attention of someone quite interesting.

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

Far from the Multiverse of Bounded Hearts, the void between Multiverses was not the black empty people expected when they heard void.

Distant lights hung here—vast structures and the edges of other Multiverses—and the space between them glowed, not because the void had any color of its own, but because the radiance spilling from those Multiverses filled it until the darkness had nowhere to form.

However, this particular stretch of the void, spanning ten million kilometers—a modest size given the vastness of the surroundings—was special in a way that meant no two people would see it quite the same.

What they saw would have depended on who they were.

A God of Creation would have been looking at a masterpiece so complete that their own hands could not have made it.

A God of Beauty would have been looking at a beauty they could not reach, no matter how long they had worn the title.

The thing in the bright void did not hold one shape for every pair of eyes. It held the shape of whatever that pair of eyes had already failed to make.

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

HUMMMMM!!!!!!

In that moment, after what felt like an eternity, so long that many might have thought that the "thing" was nothing more than a natural phenomenon of Pantheos itself.

Then, as the presence began to move, it drew itself together from the surrounding brilliance and formed into the shape of a woman—appearing human at first glance, yet somehow off, marked by the strange, unnatural hue of her skin.

She was white—not pale, not porcelain, but the pure color itself, skin and all—with eyes as white as snow and long, flowing hair just as white.

For a moment, she did nothing but look at the two notifications before her.

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

[Significant Event Detected - Location: Multiverse of Bounded Hearts]

In this moment has she was flooded with status screens she tilted her head in slight confusion, but with an undeniable glint of interest in her eyes.

"Interesting." She said... right before vanishing all together.

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Back in the Grand Collection of Nethar, every gaze in the hall had drifted from the stalls.

No one was displaying a relic anymore, and no one beneath the floating square remained calm.

The floor was crowded with Gods and Constellations gathered around three small structures that barely rose above the ground, glowing so intensely they seemed only half real.

There was a blue fountain, a red fountain, and a golden fountain, and the noise from the crowd had drowned out the usual market chatter.

"One sip! Haha, just a single sip and my divinity skyrocketed by a million!"

"My bloodline! The red fountain boosted it by an entire rank!"

"Oh my... By my Authority, this is unbelievable!"

"This elixir is... it h-has absolute purity!"

"T... The Golden fountain elevates innate powers by a whole rank!"

At that moment, describing it as chaos and ruckus would be an understatement.

People jostled and pushed to claim a spot at the basins, while others drank and laughed as if they had just realized they’d been deceived their entire lives.

Some stood with a hand over their chest, staring at nothing while the change finished inside them.

Above it, Akasha, Tina, Melvin, and Calyx still sat on the zafus, clear of the crush.

Tina’s blue eyes lingered on the basins, while Melvin’s gaze stayed fixed on the crowd... awkwardly.

Calyx kept her attention on the golden fountain, yet, despite their varied focuses, none of them held the attention of the onlookers.

All eyes were on Akasha... well, all those not fighting over the things he created in mere moments.

Currently, gray fire turned in the air in front of him, bright and wrong against the light and his hands kept moving through it as if the three fountains were only the beginning of his absurdities.

In truth, they actually were. Akasha had no real intention of becoming an Alchemist or dedicating much time to it.

The reason he was acting so openly and flamboyantly, which was unusual for him, came down to two factors.

First, these creations were made on a whim, solely to show Tina what she could become by being his disciple.

Moreover, Akasha could be seen as subtly scheming in this moment.

The identities of the Lord of Dreams and the Lord of Nightmares were crafted for entirely separate purposes, but if Sunya could already draw some sort of connection between them, it meant Akasha had made a past mistake.

Now, he was determined to begin weaving the legend—the tale of the Lord of Dreams.

By all measures of using the Alchemy of Gods, Akasha, he was cheating by a long mile... even if one disregarded how he had the complete knowledge of Saint Ranked Alchemy... in this moment he was not even using "Pantheos".

As mentioned before, there were no need for actual herbs and other things, while they were still widely used due to the variety of herbs, things could be created using anything around them.

Akasha though?

He was straight up dreaming items he needed, and only making it look good for Tina.

Akasha kept his hands moving, and the gray fire gathered into a circular glyph that hung in front of the zafus, bright enough that the three fountains below it looked like ordinary lights.

HUMMMM!!!!

Inside the ring, three things appeared one after another: a single green leaf, a single drop of water, and a cup, each of them plain, each of them small enough to sit in a mortal’s palm.

A voice from the crowd cut through the shouting at the basins.

"Look! He’s making something else!"

"Haha! Another one! He’s making another one!" a god exclaimed, laughing so hard he had to grab the shoulder in front of him. The shoulder shoved back, its owner not once looking away from the glyph.

"Move!" The God said as he shoved back, not once looking away from the glyph.

"Move, I can’t see his hands."

"Look at those ingredients! I’ve never seen such a thing before!"

Hearing them, Akasha found it hard to maintain his act... of the mysterious Alchemist.

’Truly... ignorant old fools,’ He thought to himself as the leaf, the drop, and the cup were only mortal things, the kind of materials that one could find on earth.

As mentioned before, he was cheating—not actually using proper ingredients to create something.

While they appeared normal, they originated from the Land of Elsewhere, allowing him to adjust their purposes at will.

To these people, however, they seemed like ordinary mortal items, and since they had never even seen a mortal before, they couldn’t really be blamed for their misunderstanding.

HUMMMMM!!!!!

Akasha waved his hands once more, and the fire gathered the three pieces, pulling them together.

The glyph burst into a gray glow that drained the color from the nearest faces.

When it thinned, a gumball machine hung in the air beside the fountains, purple, ordinary in shape but magnificent in the presence it gave.

"Take a single Saint-ranked pill," Akasha said, "that can boost your battle power by fifteen tiers."

In that instant, the floor erupted into chaos.

Those who had been sipping at the fountains spun around and pushed toward the machine, hands reaching out, voices overlapping as they scrambled to be the first to try it.

"What?!!"

"I-impossible!"

"And... it’s all for free!"

A nine-tailed fox woman reached it ahead of the crowd.

HUMMMM!!!!!

The moment she took a pill, slipped it into her mouth, and a white wave of divinity burst from her so intensely that the nearest gods had to brace themselves.

Her battle power climbed in front of everyone and when the wave settled, she looked up at the man on the zafu with her ears still flat from the surge.

"Who are you?" she said. "When did an alchemist like this appear in the Multiverse of Bounded Hearts?"

"Well," Akasha said, glancing at Tina briefly. "I’m not an Alchemist... I am the Lord of Dreams."