With that, Ash went back into the Discord to double-check if he had missed anything pertaining to the design of the characters.
He scrolled through the channels again, his thumb moving across the screen with quiet focus.
The void around them felt still and intimate, the soft glow of the phone was just about the only light source as Elysia leaned against his shoulder, watching silently.
However, they quite literally didn’t ntion it.
Ash leaned back slightly, a faint, amused scoff slipping out.
"Perhaps they forgot such things," he muttered. After a few more checks, he spotted it.
He paused, then chuckled softly.
"He doesn’t want to be a humanoid?" he said, his voice tinged with surprise.
"Well, as you say... let’s make you into a cat."
At those words, he turned his attention back to the silhouettes.
The three blank, shrouded figures hovered in the void — dark, featureless shapes waiting to be given form. Ash studied the first one, the one ant for EclipseTeller.
Elysia raised a brow, her golden eyes sparkling with amusent as she looked at him.
"Do you think he’s being serious?" she asked, a light laugh in her voice. "And NovelGeek didn’t seem to ask them anything about it either."
Ash smiled, clearly enjoying himself.
"It matters not... if he was joking or serious." He said, "Because now, he will beco a cat!"
He focused on the first silhouette.
HUMM!!!
With a wave of his hand, the dark shape shifted and condensed, transforming into a sleek, black cat with glossy fur that seed to absorb light.
The cat floated in the air, its form elegant yet lazy, with piercing white eyes that already carried a hint of effortless nonchalance.
Ash then spoke in the Language of Gods, his voice resonating with divine authority as he bestowed the Star Na.
"Zephyr."
The na settled into the cat’s being, a golden glow briefly flashing around it before fading.
He went on, outlining the powers with deliberate clarity. These weren’t just fictional characters, after all—they were readers.
He had no intention of giving them the standard frawork found in Pantheos, particularly since they’d already contributed so of their own ideas.
Apart from their Star Na, they wouldn’t have a God or Constellation Star, aning they wouldn’t inherently possess any innate abilities.
Still, Star Nas were never just arbitrary labels; they ca from Minx, the Akashic Records, or Ash himself, and that alone made them far more significant than simple nas.
"Lord of the Changing Eclipse, you shall dwell in a constant state of effortless nonchalance. The less you exert yourself, the greater your strength will grow," he proclaid, continuing to outline the foundation of EclipseTeller’s powers.
It was straightforward yet utterly absurd.
As Discord user EclipseTeller described, his abilities were ant to center around bad jokes, darkness, and an unshakable sense of laziness.
With Ash as the creator behind it all, he was determined to make each of these beings as overpowered as possible.
In short, the more he relaxed, joked around, or acted like he didn’t care, the more Pantheos itself seed to bend and twist in his favor.
With this na, he beca the First User and the Embodint of the First Darkness—exactly as ominous as it sounded.
This was tied directly to the very first nonexistence Ash had brought into being within Pantheos.
This essentially granted him dominion over all aspects of Darkness and even a asure of control over nonexistence itself.
Beyond that, he could quite literally fade into the background of the narrative, becoming nothing more than unnoticed static when he wished.
On top of it all, Ash had turned his terrible jokes into actual weapons.
With each groan-worthy pun or painfully bad dad joke, a fleeting Authority of Pantheos would spring into existence for a brief mont.
Now, the black cat—Zephyr—hovered in place, its shape fully realized yet still devoid of sentience.
Ash had chosen not to breathe life into it just yet, preferring to wait until he knew exactly how the readers envisioned its design.
Elysia watched the sleek black cat silhouette float in the air, her golden eyes sparkling with amusent.
"This isn’t bad at all," she said with a soft chuckle. "I rember seeing sothing on NovelGeek’s Webnovel... Powerstones and Golden Tickets. They should give us a pat on the back and bless us graciously..."
She then looked up toward the sky, as if addressing the readers directly, and winked playfully.
"Right?"
Ash chuckled, shaking his head as he looked at her.
"Cut it out," he said, though his tone was fond.
He paused for a mont, a random thought crossing his mind.
"The Coliseum tournant... it hadn’t started yet," he murmured. "I still haven’t gotten word from Klaus that he’s killed Male and the rchant."
Elysia tilted her head, her voice steady as she stated the obvious.
"Well... how can it even begin if no Realities exist anymore? That ans there are no champions left who could possibly go there."
This was clearly the result of Nia and Ouroboros both devouring recklessly, but that wasn’t the only cause.
Ash had openly declared that all Realities would collapse the next ti they appeared, so in a way, the delay was partly his fault.
He couldn’t deny that he’d gotten distracted, spending too much ti with his won and letting the real problem slip from his mind.
With a wry smile, he realized just how much he’d let himself drift from dealing with it all.
Then, with a single glance, his reddish-purple eyes cut through Pantheos, slicing straight to the Coliseum like a knife through silk.
The grand arena floated in the void, its massive structure humming with tension.
Klaus hovered high above it all, his pure white hair and eyes blending into the background as he waited with laidback patience, his presence completely unnoticed by those below.
Seeing all of them waiting so patiently, Ash blinked once.
In that instant, four to five new champions materialized in the arena — figures he had created on a whim, each one radiating unique, powerful auras that made the other champions look on in surprise.
The mont they appeared, a grand explosion erupted above the Coliseum — a brilliant, colorful firework display of light and energy that lit up the entire void, signaling the true beginning of the final selection.
Ash pulled his attention away, his focus shifting back to the Discord as he turned to the second reader.
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