Chapter 689: One & The Same

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- Nexus of Creation, The Tree of Life.

"A-Am I doing it right?"

"Still no, Gulban." Asherah answered.

"I can't believe this. I've seen you craft realities from the ashes of dying stars and tear asunder old worlds to make anew. And yet you can't play a simple card game?" Azrael was honestly bewildered.

"It's not exactly easy when I'm playing against god himself!" He defended.

'You don't need to make it sound like I'm cheating in this contest...' Yesh almost seemed as if his feelings had been hurt.

"I can't exactly be sure you aren't though, can I?!"

'I'm not.'

"...Fine. Let's go through this again."

The group of supremely powerful immortal beings threw their cards into the center and reshuffled their deck once again.

Time truly does not flow within the nexus, making providing an accurate estimate of how long they'd been playing next to impossible.

But this was their 123rd game in a row... you do the math.

"Why are we doing this again..?" Azrael asked in exhaustion.

"You could always piss off and go see that lady friend of yours." Gulban grumbled.

"...She is currently upset with me."

"Did you tell her did not find her text messages interesting again? Dumbass..." Gulban shook his head.

"I would not make that mistake a second time..." Azrael grumbled.

"So what did you do this time?"

"...She told me to stick around at her home while she went to work."

"My word, you shit in her toilet!"

"I did no such thing!" Azrael snarled.

"Oh. Then what did you do?"

"...The time spent alone rendered me bored, so I finished watching the rest of the televised series we began observing together."

"...Jesus, kid. I think she would've been happier if you clogged her toilet."

"Please shut up and deal."

Gulban shrugged and did as he was told.

"For the record, I'm only learning how to do this because I want to impress my grandchildren. I'm tired of the little one beating me in spades." He confessed.

"Gabbrielle?"

"No, Courtney."

"...She's five."

"The rest of them are only one or two, so what's your point?!"

"Thea and Thrudd are 19 and 18 while little Mira is technically only eight." Asherah reminded.

"I-I knew that of course!"

He did not know that. Gulban just assumed all of his grandkids had funny ages because of their parents.

"Come on, let's start the game again!" He urged.

Just as the divine beings were about to start playing, Yesh suddenly dropped his cards out of nowhere.

"Father?"

"Husband?"

"Card-opponent?"

The strangest thing occurred on Bekka's chest.

A grotesque mouth appeared in place of her breasts.

It opened to reveal hideously sharp teeth and an esophagus that was purely white. Like a black canvas.

The mouth inhaled deeply; creating a powerful vacuum in the air in front of her.

So powerful that it sucked in everything in it's vicinity.

Everything.

The water that Abaddon was turning into tar, the rocks on the bank, the trees around the forest, and even the color.

Color and life itself was being drained out of Gaia's divine realm endlessly.

When a spot had no more of anything for her to take, it was simply ripped.

As in the fabric of Gaia's very divine realm was ripped apart like a wet sheet of paper.

What it left behind was only an eerie white void; of the same kind that rested within Bekka's mouth.

It horrified the ancient goddess to no end.

"Y-You, whore!! What do you think you are doing here?!"

"I think it's called redecorating, but I'm not sure. The home improvement channel bores me terribly so I don't know all the terminology."

"AAHHHHH!!!"

Gaia's former tranquil beauty became a distant memory as she wailed like a vengeful banshee.

She began trying to patch up her realm as quickly as she could while simultaneously striking back.

The mountain overseeing the lake trembled as if it were about to fall on top of the outsiders.

It shaped it's cliffs and jagged peaks into great fists and the face of Gaia.

At over 200 meters and with a face made from bedrock, she no longer seemed like the gentle, all welcoming earth mother. Instead she was a vengeful goddess of anger and resentment.

"I WILL BURY YOU BOTH HERE!!!"

Bekka started to act on her own, but before she got the chance her husband acted first.

"It's been ages since I became a primordial... You have no idea how anxious I was to really see what I could do..!"

The newly rechristened wheel of supernatural fortune reappeared behind Abaddon like a sideways halo.

Leathery dark red wings jutted out from his back; each larger than even nine foot tall Bekka.

He launched himself at Gaia in a fraction of a second.

As soon as he reached her, he raised his hand high in the sky above his head; wielding it like the grandest blade of all.

"A split to cleanse this broken world."

Bringing his hand down right between Gaia's eyes, he cut her perfectly in half.

As well as everything... and I do mean everything that was in the path of his attack.

Gaia's divine realm now had a massive dark trench in it that was as wide as a lake and went on for forever.

Gaia's two halves fell apart and crumbled into the ground in the wake of Abaddon's attack.

But this was still her divine realm. Here, she was her own cause and effect.

The forest air rumbled with immense power.

Gaia's divine realm underwent a massive earthquake completely unlike anything he had ever experienced before.

The next thing the couple knew, the entire divine realm was coming to life and filling itself to the brim with 600 meter tall mountains of Gaia as far as the eye could see.

"FOOLS! it doesn't matter what you do, I am invincible here! You can kill me 1,000 times if you want, but it will change nothing in the end! This space is mine! I am the only god here!!"

Bekka flew to Abaddon's side as she continued to observe Gaia's every copy with the same empty gaze as before.

"Then I look forward to seeing you watch us tear it all down. If only to show you that we are the only ones who have a claim to voicing those kinds of absolutes."