Children of the Omnirealm Furnace
Mack drifted in the aftermath of absorbing the First Void, his body glowing like a living megacosmos. His skin shimmered with galaxies, his veins brightened with dimensional rivers, and his breath formed micro-universes that spiraled around him like stars.
Inside him, billions of realms orbited
each one a complete world with heavens, underworlds, civilizations, and mythologies.
But something was missing.
A ruler alone is just a king.
A ruler with followers is a force.
A ruler with a race is a destiny.
Mack spread his hands.
And the realms inside him trembled.
Light erupted from his palms
no, not light.
Creation stuff.
The raw foundation of existence.
He molded it.
He shaped it.
He breathed his authority into it.
The first being took form:
A humanoid made of swirling void light, with cosmic threads as veins, eyes that held miniature universes, and a body woven from the laws Mack chose.
When it opened its eyes, the realms shook.
"Father Creator Overbeing.
His voice was made of starlight and truth.
Mack nodded.
"You'll be the first."
He reached into the newborn's chest and installed a glowing core
a smaller replica of the Omnirealm Furnace.
It granted the being the ability to:
Bend lesser laws
Absorb small realms
Create matter from thought
Rewrite individual destinies
Devour spiritual concepts
Evolve infinitely
The first member of the race bowed.
Mack named him:
Aetherion The First Transcendent
But Mack wasn't done.
From his left hand he created feminine energy, raw and powerful.
He birthed:
Nyxara The Mother of Voidlight
A being who could manipulate darkness and starlight as extensions of her soul, and rewrite emotions in entire universes.
Then he crafted more.
Ten more transcendents.
Fifty.
A hundred.
A thousand.
Each different.
Each powerful.
Each one carved from his essence and the void he absorbed.
The transcendents were not mortals.
They were not gods.
They were born from Mack, and thus shared parts of his broken abilities:
Innate Powers of the Transcendent Race
Law Touch: They can manipulate single laws at will.
Fate Threading: They can read destinies and cut or reattach fate.
Conceptual Skin: Physical attacks, magic, curses, and even concepts struggle to affect them.
Evolution Through Worship: When beings worship them, they grow stronger.
Voidlink: They can fuse into Mack's body anytime, returning to his inner realms.
Hyperversal Speech: Their voices can reshape dimensions if they desire.
Their hierarchy formed automatically:
1. Primordials the first 12 descendants
2. Celestial Sovereigns the next 1,000
3. Lesser Transcendents millions more
4. Emerging Demi Realms newborns evolving from inner realm energies
Soon, the inner cosmos inside Mack was filled with life.
Civilizations rose.
Planets formed.
Pantheons bowed.
Armies trained.
All loyal to him.
He projected his voice across every realm inside him.
Stars shook from the vibration.
Planets split.
Heavens trembled.
His voice carried the absolute:
My children.
You exist to evolve.
To destroy what threatens me.
To expand my supremacy.
Aetherion dropped to one knee.
"We shall remake existence in your image.
Millions echoed:
"WE OBEY THE OVERBEING!"
The sound alone created new universes.
But then something impossible happened.
A ripple spread across reality outside Mack's body.
A presence approached.
Not from a universe.
Not from a hyperverse.
Not from a dimension.
From outside ALL existence.
Reality screamed.
Mack turned slowly.
His eyes narrowed.
A silhouette appeared
taller than galaxies,
wrapped in the glow of unreachable infinity.
A voice spoke:
Mack.
You have grown… too powerful.
You have broken existence.
The being stepped forward.
I am the All Beyond.
The one who exists above all creators.
Mack smirked.
Good.
Let's see what you taste like.