The Empyreal Gem Master

"The Peacemaker…what a unique moniker!"

Payadar showed the whites of his teeth as his smile beamed, and he jovially nodded as the Grand Tao of Destruction wrapped around him.

"A week is just about right. I will let the others in my Universal Coalition know as days from now, we should be attempting another Ascension Tower Raid! Who knows, this time, we might even end up getting into the regions past the Storms of Grand Taos- toward the areas where supposedly the allure of Cosmic Taos burn!"

…!

Payadar spoke of grand things as he revealed outright that above even the pristine Grand Taos that Alexander was just dipping his feet into right now, there were those termed Cosmic Taos.

Just from their name, they should be Taos that governed Cosmos themselves.

Meanwhile, Alexander had barely just begun forming hundreds of Supermassive Empyreal Galaxies minutes ago- being far distant from forming a Universe, much less anything greater.

But the utility of the Tea from the Omniversal Oak of Existence was still contained within the Enneagram and being released in short bursts.

Less than a percentage of it was currently utilized, as by the time Alexander finished all of it, he may very well spill over into the Universal Realm!

So for now…

'Prepare.'

He affirmed to himself as Payadar formed a crimson diamond of destruction that floated towards him.

"My Marker of Destruction. I will keep in touch through this and give you your space to have your Epiphanies without bothering you. When I have gathered the others, I will let you know!"

Alexander nodded at Payadar as this Universal Realm Entity could see he was a man of few words.

He nodded toward his figure before a storm of Destruction spun around him, and he disappeared!

"…"

Alexander remained where he stood.

He looked at the edge of the observable boundaries of Galaxies in the distant locations all around him as silently, four different colored rivers of Taos flowed into him in this silence as a few seconds later…

BOOM!

Four explosions erupted out above as another four stellar rivers of different Taos gushed out!

These…were the ones he was holding back from while he was talking with Payadar- Taos he had already connected with through his other Covenants of Nature paired with the ridiculous gifts of the Core Feature of the Reformer.

||You have stepped on the path of and understood 1% of the Grand Tao of Cloning.||

||You have stepped on the path of and understood 1% of the Grand Tao of Verve.||

||You have stepped on the path of and understood 1% of the Grand Tao of Devouring.||

||You have stepped on the path of and understood 1% of the Grand Tao of Glacialis.||

4 brand new stellar rivers gushed down, with the Tao of Cloning bathing him with purple rivers of stellar brilliance, Verve radiating stellar blue wonder, Devouring releasing a river of murky dark light, and Glacialis causing the temperatures nearby to drop way past freezing as icy white rivers of brilliance flowed into Alexander!

8 Grand Taos.

Not one less!

When he achieved this number where he was assimilating 8 Grand Taos all at once, he felt like it was the most he could do at his current stage, and once his Existence received more and more baptisms from these Taos as he formed Supermassive Empyreal Galaxies of Glacialis or Chrysopoeia, the limit of what he could do would gradually increase as when he fully understood and assimilated these Taos…

Empyreal Gems relating to them could already be made as an overabundance of Gem Recipes waited for him!

"Slow and steady…"

He said this as he floated in between Galaxies, but he knew he was anything but slow.

While Payadar and other existences took decades to get stronger before attempting their Ascension Tower Raids, the single week he asked for…may just be equivalent to hundreds of years of their progress!

Because he also had another boon.

This body here receiving the baptism and spreading it to his main body was a single Minor Empyreal Clone.

He held 15 in total.

The other 14 could also put their efforts into comprehending and Assimilating Taos as their progress would all be added together, and in addition to all of this….there was another distinct feature of his Enneagram that made everything much more obscene.

The Achiever.

What he utilized before to rapidly assimilate Covenants of Nature when a Battle was nearing- the Temporal Enneagram Space that came from this Core Feature!

||Under the banner of the Achiever, the Temporal Enneagram Space can be accessed for as long as enough Ascendant Energiea exists to sustain it. Being the peak of achievement of the Enneagram aside from the Peacemaker, the Temporal Enneagram Space is one that has a time dilation of 10:1, with 10 minutes passing within for every 1 minute in the outside reality, or 10 days within equating to 1 day in the outside reality. Empyreal Gems can be made with even greater ease within the Temporal Enneagram Space.||

A Time Dilation of 10:1.

He asked for a week, he would actually have 10 weeks.

10 weeks of 15 Clones tirelessly understanding Taos, Assimilating Taos, and connecting to new Taos.

As for his main body…it would continue to enjoy Peace with Claire as, in the next moment, the Clones surrounded by 8 rivers of Taos disappeared!

From this region of space, he appeared within a grand Temporal Enneagram Space where other Minor Empyreal Clones were already there, rivers of the same Taos surrounding them as they sat on a massive nine pointed Enneagram floating in a space of violet purple radiance- a space that was gradually becoming distorted more and more by nothing else but the Grand Tao of Space-Time that was running rampant.

As if it very much liked this domain and space!

The different Alexanders looked at each other before they calmly proceeded with their shocking undertaking, with the allure of hundreds of Supermassive Empyreal Galaxies being born only scaling upwards more and more as in a few days…there may very well be hundreds of thousands if not millions of Supermassive Empyreal Galaxies within his Enneagram.

At such a time, how would a Universal Realm Entity like Payadar compare?

How much would his strength be changed by fully assimilating even a single Grand Tao, much less 8?

He did not know the answers to any of this, but he forged ahead to ensure that, for the sake of peace- he had all these answers!