6 Birth of Creation & Harbinger of Death (2/2)

Inside Astrallis' soul-space[1], an infinitely-small naked replica of himself sat, suspended-in-animation amidst the desolate void, pondering on the Astral Qi.

Gradually a disturbance formed behind the golden-angelical figure.

Two separate clusters of essence gingerly formed, one a blinding white the other a burning red. These two different Dark Nebulae expanded their intake of essence, seemingly competing against each other, sucking in all the light around them.

Each using a different method in which to absorb essence, but both at the same speed. In unison both clusters of essence invoked a raging tempest amalgamating into a ball of intense zealous energy; one small and pure white, the other large and red but lacking a solid hold of the firmament.

One White Dwarf Celestial Star.

One Red Giant Celestial Star.

A cosmic explosion of energy occurred between the centre of the two Celestial Stars.

Two scintillating beams of energy struck each other head-on, one elegant and refined the other tempestuous and colossal. One red and another white.

The two stars fought for hundreds of thousands of years; gradually the red beam began to fade intermittently; the white beam's impetus was forever staying stable in the celestial heaven. Over the aeons, the stars had slowly formed sentience and further control over their power. The white beam of light forced the red beam back till there was nothing left to stop it.

The White Dwarf Star sent a last final resonance towards the Red Giant, ”Quality will always trump over quantity; you may have had the largest amount of energy, but I've always had the most power.”

Realising it's follies the Red Giant used its last dying dregs of energy to form multiple blackholes around itself, an innate feature of a giant star.

But how would the White Dwarf Star allow this to happen? The White Dwarf Star blazed with ever-growing white light and tore through the Red Giant, extinguishing its last vestiges of sentience, but not before it sent off a final resonance, ”If I'm dying then we'll go together”.

The White Dwarf Star was gradually pulled towards the black hole as the suction power was too intense.

As a last resort, the White Dwarf Star sent out its most potent attack, a terrifying beam of the pure essence with traces of Astral Qi inside, shot towards the blackhole sundering the black hole in half.

The black hole, not wishing to be destroyed, instinctively attached itself to the White Dwarf Star and surrendered itself to it. The White Dwarf Star, tragically dim, accepted the subservient blackhole and amalgamated with it.

The remnants of the black hole formed a celestial ring around the White Dwarf Star; this ring had nine miniature black holes absorbing the essence around the White Dwarf Star at a speed manifold to that of the previous unamalgamated White Dwarf Star.

This new White Dwarf Star broke through from its tribulation and formed a monstrously sizeable humanoid figure. The only distinctive feature of this figure was the bright, surreal golden-hair, the rest of the humanoids figure was shrouded in a misty haze.

While all of this was going on, Astrallis looked on, comprehending the profundities and the esoteric values of this incorporeal of creation and harbinger of death.

The indistinctive incorporeal form appeared in front of Astrallis. A jarring juxtaposition in size ever present. Its forefinger reached out and gently touched the front of Astrallis' forehead.

At that moment, the experiences of this colossal battle of life and death coalesced into a small pure white small star around Astrallis, with a celestial ring enclosing it, and miniature black holes forming around it.

The incorporeal figure looked on; it's golden hair brightening in approval.

The incandescent white star moved to the front of Astrallis, just below his navel, and entered him.

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