Katherine appeared monts later in a swirl of crimson mist, her bloody eyes narrowing as she looked at the two won.
"You two are moving too damn fast," she said, crossing her arms with a mix of amusent and mild exasperation. "I can barely finish things on my end."
Raven smiled at her, her white eyes calm and confident.
"You still finished though, right?"
Katherine shrugged, a small smile tugging at her lips.
"Tsk, maybe... maybe not."
In truth, she hadn’t finished at all, but she was close to bringing her construct into the library.
While it could have been accessible to all of Pantheos, she wanted it to carry deeper aning and be sothing that had to be earned.
As the Goddess of Kinship, her vision was for it to center on the bonds between the Pantheons themselves.
She still hadn’t worked out all the intricacies, but the foundation of her idea was already taking shape.
Sumr rolled her eyes and waved her hand impatiently.
"Can we get on with it already?"
At her words, their banter ceased.
Monts later, Raven picked up where she left off, channeling her power until it overshadowed the very concept of Boundless Infinity.
HUMMMMM!!!!!
The mont she did, a cocoon of shifting black and white light encased her completely.
Not only that, the entire verse of Pantheos froze in place — ti, motion, even the flow of the River of Ti itself halted as her evolution began.
HUMMMMM!!!!
A phenona appeared around the cocoon — vast, ethereal shadows that stretched into infinity, eclipsing countless concepts of limitation and hierarchy.
Golden threads of narrative weight unraveled and rewove themselves around her, symbolizing her transcendence.
The air humd with the sound of breaking chains, as if the story itself was bending to accommodate her new state.
And in that mont, faint whispers of the Fifth Wall echoed, and for a brief mont, the Sixth Wall’s silhouette appeared in the distance, almost like a door waiting to be opened.
The cocoon around Raven pulsed with increasing intensity.
HUMMMM!!!!!
The very fabric of Pantheos seed to bend and flex, the distant universes flickering as if acknowledging the birth of sothing new.
In the midst of the commotion, Ash appeared out of nowhere, materializing alongside the group of won he had been with—Aurelia, Khaos, Sia, Elysia, Emma, Aethea, Aurora, Ellyn, Rita, and Lithia.
Together, they turned their attention to the cocoon, their expressions a mix of awe, intrigue, and quiet curiosity.
Aurora tilted her head, her white and blue hair swaying as she asked,
"Just what sort of evolution can possibly make all of Pantheos freeze like this?"
They knew normally only Ash’s evolutions could cause sothing like this and the reason was simply because when Ash beca more, it was literally the verse of Pantheos itself becoming more.
This case, though, was different, because Raven was becoming more than what Pantheos could contain.
Her power, in this mont, was rising beyond even Ash’s own, surging in a way that seed to eclipse everything around her.
Ellyn, still close to Ash, smiled softly.
"It seems as if our Mothers have achieved sothing amazing."
Ash chuckled, his reddish-purple eyes lingering on the cocoon with evident approval.
"Right, and it’s sothing that’ll save so much ti," he said, his tone calm and content.
It went without saying that he knew exactly what was happening in his verse without even needing to look, much like when Nia sensed him watching her—it wasn’t truly the case.
It was more like his subconscious was constantly keeping tabs on everything.
Beyond that, he could already feel Raven’s evolution beginning to echo within himself, and he knew she was climbing the ta Road at speeds far surpassing his own.
Granted, he had been deliberately pacing himself, but still, she had unknowingly shifted his plans for the future.
Originally, he intended to cultivate the Ten Boundless Stars before stepping into the Pri Expanse; however, now he wouldn’t take as much ti.
While the Boundless Stars were still essential, he could simply... bend the process a bit more in his favor.
After all, the Stars weren’t rely his path to achieving ta—they were also the keys to unlocking the powers he envisioned.
They were, in a sense, his narrative organs.
As he watched the cocoon settle, he gave a casual wave of his hand and released Sumr and Katherine from their frozen state.
"You guys have been quite busy, huh?" he said, his voice low and amused, a faint smile playing on his lips as he looked at them.
Sumr’s black eyes lit up with a mix of relief and hunger the mont she could move again.
She didn’t hesitate — she rushed forward, wrapping her arms tightly around his waist and pressing her body against him.
"Right, we’ve been too busy," she murmured against his chest, her voice husky. "And I Missed you."
Katherine moved just as quickly, her bloody crimson eyes dark with want as she slid in from the other side, pressing a firm kiss to his neck before resting her head on his shoulder.
"Right, we’ve been working sooo hard," she added, her tone possessive. "But we made it worth it. You better appreciate what we’ve been working on."
They wrapped their arms around him in a dual embrace, pressing kisses to his cheeks and neck, and simply holding him tightly as they expressed how much they had missed him
Aurora, Ellyn, and Rita watched from the side, their expressions shifting to sarcastic amusent.
Aurora crossed her arms, raising a brow.
"Wow, mothers." She said, "You’re just going to ignore your own daughters like that?"
Ellyn shook her head with a soft laugh, though her cheeks were still flushed.
"Typical... they see Dad and suddenly we don’t exist."
Rita, especially, looked a bit more pointed, her arms crossed as she stared at Sumr — her biological mother.
"Yeah, Mom. Nice to see you too," she said dryly. "Glad to know I still rank below Dad’s dick."
Sumr pulled back just enough to glance at her daughter, a teasing smirk on her lips.
"Don’t be dramatic, Rita. You know I love you. But right now... priorities."
Katherine laughed, still pressed against Ash’s side.
"Exactly. Just be patient like good girls."
CRACKKK!!!
And while they chatted, the next instant, the cocoon around Raven shattered with a brilliant flash of black and white light.
Raven descended slowly, her form unchanged on the surface — the sa long white hair, the sa elegant features, the sa pure white eyes.
However, the power emanating from her was even heavier than Ash’s in that mont, a vast, eclipsing presence that seed to swallow anything.
She landed gracefully, walking up to Ash with a soft, satisfied smile.
"Do you like your gift?" she asked, her voice smooth and affectionate.
Ash smiled back, his eyes warm.
"Of course."
In that instant, Raven wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply.
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