"DIE!!!"

THEIR might. THEIR divinity. THEIR will. THEIR existence. THEIR vengeance.

All of which, a manifestation of an incomprehensible power in the Cosmos, a force so powerful that it can bring calamity to an entire galaxy without anything or anyone being to stop it, if THEY choose to do so.

Yet, standing in front of THEM, is not anything else below, it's a being, a form of life equal to THEM, an Aeon. THEIR wounds began to heal as fast as they formed on THEIR otherworldly flesh... THEY smiled warmly, despite the Lux Arrows piercing through their body multiple times, each time creating enough energy to obliterate an entire star system, yet the Aeon of Abundance treats those wounds like scratches.

"Why won't you die?!" - The Hunt, the best carry, the top product on the shelf, the Lan-shelf asked, as THEY stopped firing for a moment.

"Abundance, darling." - A thousand voices rang out from Yaoshi, the Aeon of Abundance, it was overwhelming for any mortal being to comprehend their voice, yet to Lan, the monotone crafted from a thousand voices just further irritates THEM.

The Hunt was reaching their boiling point, yet, all of a sudden, when standing in front of the Abundance, they calmed down and turned away.

"I'll be back next Tuesday."

"You can drop by for some tea on the weekends~ I welcome you~" - Yaoshi smiled and waved a hundred hands to Lan, who immediately dashed away, back to the nearest Xianzhou ship. "You're my special, after all~"

Lan then goes away, to a few thousand systems away, a few galaxies away from Yaoshi almost immediately, then THEY fired a Lux Arrow, the weapon of the Divine, to obliterate an entire planet roamed with Denizens of Abundance locked on a battlefield with the formidable Cloud Knights from the Xianzhou.

Then THEY, the Aeon of the Hunt, decided to take some rest, taking a good look at THEIR pokemon collection, the very same collection that he will occasionally take one out to gift to a newly appointed Xianzhou general, all that and then turned to the Abominations of the Abundance, that THEY had kept around, acting as THEIR own plants placed in some pots, and by pots, those are just dead planets, with some Lux Scissors, THEY cut off the overgrown limbs.

And then THEY closed their eyes for a brief second of rest, but it was not done yet when THEY opened their eyes, to see a bunch of props and masks have appeared in front of them.

"Riddle me this! Dear Lan! What comes in Harmony, comes in Beauty, comes in Order?

Fraudsayswhat"

"..."

"Wohohohohoho! You're so damn good at this, dear Lan! Well, off to see Xipe I go!"

Lan would have shot a Lux Arrow at the Elation, but THEIR tools of vengeance are not meant for it.

— — — — —

"Wuht."

"Yeah, luckily he managed to get it in control the second time, or otherwise the whole Parlor Car would have been flooded as a result, at the time there was no viable option to remove all the water, but luckily he pulled it off and also cleaned the floor."

"What the [Trailblaze profanity], that Dan Heng guy of yours, is the High Elder of the Vidyadhara on the Xianzhou Luofu."

"Well, formerly, but yes he still has some of the powers I guess, I believe he called them cloudhymn magic, being able to create tidal waves, calls rain to fall down, even severing the sea!"

"So you're telling me our water pikachu here has all that cool powers, yet never used them for more than once, especially after the Xianzhou Luofu story where the only enemy his abilities were used against is, none other than Phantylia the fraud?" - Akivili asked in disbelief. "And the other time he used it, it wasn't even him actually using it, and the last time he was confirmed to be using it, is just to clean the floor?"

"Yup."

"Is he stupid."

"No, he lives in the archive room."

"You know, that might be perfectly reasonable, considering he is one of Long's Scions." - Akivili said. "Speaking about Long, you said THEY have died, right?"

"Well at least that's what the loading screen tells me." - Stelle claimed those sacred words came from the loading screen, where every player takes from, with no actual ingame backup lore drops, yet all of them believe every single word written on it with every cell in their body.

"Well, you'd think it would be ironic for the Aeon of Permanence to die, right? I mean, THEY could have at least been Long-lived. Get it? hahahaha"

"...."

"Anyways, THEY don't simply die. Such as when THEY introduced some of the species THEY have been personally working on for a few Amber Eras, a bunch of mushrooms with the ability to reality warping with the use of pure willpower on a massive scale, Qlipoth have to step in to help us to get rid of those freaks, but then now I think about it, those funny mushrooms would have been really helpful against the [Trailblaze profanity] bugs or the automatons during some of the biggest wars." - Akivili sighed. "As such, when THEY created the Vidyadhara, me and Aha made a bet on what their purpose could be."

"Well what did you bet on?"

"Those funny dragon horned people might be capable of dealing with one of the next uprising forces of the Cosmos. It was my guess. Aha guessed that Long created them purely for nothing but for fun, as always. But now thanks to your description of them, at least for the bunch of Luofu, I can already tell that their entire existence is something like a mobile circus, especially after the Dan Feng guy failed horribly to even do something right with all the materials he ever needed for it."

"Well... I agree that the plot to assassinate or even hold their current High Elder - Bailu in order to seize all the power for themselves is stupid especially with all the protection she's got now... But I doubt they are for nothing, for instance, don't they have the ability of Transmutation, inherited from Long?"

"You mean the Transmutation Arcanum? The very thing some random dudes used to further drives Luofu down to the spiral of despair until this day?" - Akivili asked. "It is not 100% of the original power Long used, which is just Transmutation."

"I heard it can change anything into anything."

"Sorta, except that it might have some limitations, which I don't know either, was not that close with the Permanence. I can however, tell you that those powers are not a joke, Long the Permanence can turn any organic being into an entirety different life form at will, for example, if you fight a comically big bug, THEY can just change it into a worm which Aha would certainly be happy to use as another experiment to see if it can join the Nerds' Club."

"It's..."

"Yup, quite bizarre, but at the time the Transmutation was what allowed Long to truly master over all the other inferior lifeforms, well, aside from the Aeons of course and some other special cases."

"Well such a shame then... Since the Vidyadhara now can't use the Transmutation Arcanum, meaning it's nothing more than a decoration at the moment, but Dan Feng the previous High Elder was able to use it through some unexplained means, that might indicate Bailu or Dan Heng can use it as well?"

"I doubt. Maybe that is the reason why he messed everything up so badly, he didn't read the manuscript I think." - Akivili said. "Or maybe that Long did not even leave behind any manuals for them to use, or that they forgot how to read after living for so Long, or maybe Long forgot to make those scrolls or books or whatever which contains the information with some kind of, you know, Long-life materials. Heheheheheheh."

"..." - Stelle cannot smile at all due to those terrible puns. "I think Long did leave behind a scroll... But I don't know what it is about exactly."

"Well way to go, Long the Permanence cannot look that far in the future huh, you can say he wasn't"

"stop"

"really"

"stop it"

"long-sighted."

"..."

"hehehehehehehehe"

"Anyways I don't know why the Vidyadhara lost their abilities and understandings to use the Transmutation Arcanum as well, I thought they have somewhat a flawless reincarnation system, as well as a good quality of immortality."

"Well, have you ever thought about losing their memories in their reincarnation, and maybe Alzeheimer's?"

"Wuht. Wait that would make sense tho"

"Anyways. It's either Long wasn't very Long-sighted or THEY had planned this before, I cannot know yet when you haven't known as well."

"Huh... What do you think about the possibility of Long being in a reincarnation cycle as well? Like maybe THEY will return eventually in the physical properties of an Aeon but no longer an Aeon?"

"That would be... Not exactly possible, I can't say for sure, the Permanence does work in weird ways but this is a bit too ridiculous. Anyways back to roasting that Dan Heng guy for not using his dragon form to fight an Emanator and a literal God."

— — — — —

Due to the ship's damage, it wasn't able to protect itself from the space pirates properly, the breached hull section, despite having been reinforced with galvanized square steel and eco-friendly wood veneer, the heavy assault from not only from mounted guns and asteroids have forced the crew to make an emergency planetfall.

But yet, they weren't even spared from the relentless onslaught from the space pirates, the fleet from orbit dispatched several strike teams, making planetfalls as well, and the crew have been fighting against the ravagers for quite a while now, until Phantylia the fraud came out, she was getting serious now, planning to bring this planet down with them even if it risks her men's lives, but she can't.

Simply, after the meeting, the other Lord Ravagers have notified Nanook, and as a result, her Destruction Authority was severely restricted, which can only be activated when several conditions have been met. But still, she wasn't always an all throwing fist Lord Ravager, she is fit to be a strategist.

"Alright guys! Remember your training! Formation B! Gun them down! We have the high ground! The Destruction stands!"

Her men cheered as their spirit uplifted once again, but this time looking at the next wave of dropships of the pirates, the situation quickly got serious again.

As Phantylia was trying to use her powers, to finally wipe them out once and for good, the weapons' deafening blasts suddenly all died down, replaced by that of an angry roar of some sort of machine in the distance, curious, she peeked out of the ship with her guy-shield, only to discover that all the pirates are dead, rather, eradicated.

She was relieved, but quickly stunned by the amount of lights that began to appear through the thick dust cloud surrounding them, 1, 2,... It quickly went up to a few hundreds before stopping at a few thousands at least, some of them moving up and down, they all approached the ship, while from behind them, missiles were launched from the surface, all headed straight to the ships hovering in the orbit.

"We're... saved?"

"No... I think we're about to die..."

As they walked through the dust cloud, their forms revealed : an army of automatons, all brandishing the weapons of the technology that exceeds their imagination, ground anti-gravity vehicles hovering over the craters and quickly approached the rear of the ship, all of the Annihilation Gang's men kept their guns down, unable to fire, as they have already surrendered.

The situation turned out to be worse for Phantylia, if only she had all of her powers now...

"Four hundred and eighty six flesh bags. One energy lifeform. Confirmed, Annihilation Gang, and that must be the fraud, Lord Ravager Phantylia." - A machine voice appeared within the army, it belonged to one of the automatons, walking through the others. "What is your purpose here?"

"Holy shit..."

"Is that..."

"No way, I thought he died..."

"The vessel crashed onto my oil rigs. Those filthy organic beings destroyed my solar energy panels. You must give me a reasonable reply, within 5 seconds or be eradicated." - The machine stood in front of its own army, its figure was unmistakingly, to be one of the most notorious figures that have ever appeared.

"You're the #27 of the Genius Society! Rubert!"

Thanks to AaruEichu