The Divine Immortal chapter 10: Epilogue (this is the unedited version)

Queen Rea tends to King Xander’s wounds in the royal bedchambers. It has been a week since the heroes fell to Xerxes at the battle of Nammu.

“Oh Xander you have gotten too old to participate in these kind of conflicts.. you’re mind may be prepared for another war but your body is prepared for politics.” Rea said

Just then, Rea hears a portal open in their bedchambers near the door. Rea, without looking behind her, comments.

“Collector this is not the time for one of your visits”

Rea does not hear a response and turns around.

“Apologizes your highness, I figured a portal would be more appropriate rather than tearing through space” Xerxes said as he enter the room

“GUARDS TO MY AID!!” Rea yells

The Guards quickly enter the room and put themselves between Xerxes and Rea. Xerxes does not act.

“Apologies again your highness but I am not here to fight” Xerxes announces

“Then why are you here, monster!” Rea shouted

“I only came here to see you!” Xerxes kindly said

“Over our dead bodies!” The guards act upon Xerxes’s statement

The guards raise their phasular rifles at Xerxes and opens fire. The charged ammunition flattens upon hitting Xerxes’s chestplate. The guards quickly grab their sabres out and swing at Xerxes, the blades shatter upon hitting Xerxes’s neck and helmet. The royal guards stand confused and overwhelmed as Xerxes only stands still.

“Please stop this needless assault I only came to talk” Xerxes said

“If you want to talk then I can talk.” Rea calmly said, “Guards stand down”

“I wish to walk with you and see your land.” Xerxes requests

Rea nods, gets up from Xander’s bedside, and walks to Xerxes.

“Guards, while I’m gone, please care for the king” Rea orders

The royals guards run off to fulfill her orders.

“I tire of portals and warping so can we simply use the door.” Rea requests

“As you wish, your highness” Xerxes accepts as he opens the door

Queen Rea and Xerxes exit the palace where they go through town to see hundreds of townsfolk out in the streets watching with interest and worry.

“Who is that walking with the queen”

“He’s huge”

“Have you ever seen such armor as that”

“That horned helmet could bring portend catastrophe.”

“I respect what was clearly well-intended heroes who believed they were protecting their realms but it arrived more as an invasion” Xerxes says

“So you are versed in politics.. not just a tyrant” Rea replies caught off guard

Why does everyone see me as a tyrant, I seek no throne except the power to bring the natural balance back to this multiverse” Xerxes sighs

“How much has to be destroyed for your ‘balance’ to be achieved” Rea retorts

“Ah I knew seeking counsel with you was a good idea.. you do remind me of her.” Xerxes remembers, “I seek not to destroy anything but to build a society where nature and the likes of man can coexist peacefully. I take your land as inspiration, you rule wisely as your people are fed and nature is thriving”

“Thank you for the complements but this land took years, centuries even to reach this point, Andromeda was not built in one day.” Rea wisely advises

“Well a lot of other worlds including mine were plundered of their natural resources and the exploitation of their peoples, I understand that you couldn’t save everyone including some of your own allies but I can fix those problems in a day.” Xerxes boasts, “I have already started by eliminating one of the greatest threats in the multiverse”

“What have you done?” Rea fearfully asks

“I have eliminated Tinted Earth from equation” Xerxes boasts

“What do you mean by eliminating them” Rea trembles

“I found their headquarters, destroyed their factories, and removed their grip over everything” Xerxes states

“What about the peoples in those factories” Rea said

“I saved liberated them from their enslavement and returned them to their homes” Xerxes says proudly

“What about the higher-ups?” Rea questioned

“I let everyone go, everyone except the Immoral owner and his cadre of wicked executives” Xerxes explained

“Did you kill them?!” Rea worries

“It was 11 horrible lives who could never be redeemed over the saving of billions or trillions of innocent lives” Xerxes heroically stated

“Yes, Tinted Earth had been a problem in multi-geopolitics for millenniums but you can’t just murder them because you feel like it” Rea snaps

“I am disappointed that it had to come to this but this will speed up the healing process, I did what Collector’s god was afraid to do!” Xerxes explains

Rea takes a deep breath to compose herself.

“Now tell me about this ‘her’ you mentioned?” Rea asks trying to change the subject

“My dear goddess queen of Nammu… Kosmas” Xerxes laments

“What was she like?” Rea questions the last Nammuian

“She was brilliant, beautiful, wise, she shined brighter than these other ‘stone guardians’ today” Xerxes further laments, “She used her power to govern wisely in peace”

thought you were the ruler of Nammu.” Rea states

“No your highness, I was merely her consort.” Xerxes expressed

“Ah, so she was the brains to your brawns” Rea ribs

“Don’t misunderstand, for centuries I was trained in the math, science, military strategy, and combat prowess” Xerxes boasts, “However she was more than intellect.. she was wisdom personified. She chose me to rule with her as the will to enact her infallible logic”

“So what happened to her” Rea asks with great interest

Xerxes ceases walking and is silent for a moment. Rea turns back and sees Xerxes looking down at the ground.

“She was infected with a deadly virus… the same virus I sensed in you” Xerxes states

Rea’s eyes widen as the crowd around them starts to murmur loudly.

“Is the queen sick?!”

“What is he talking about?!”

“What infection?!”

“How could you possibly have known this?” Rea shockingly admits

“I sensed it during our skirmish” Xerxes points to the stone in his chest, “I apologize your highness I assumed everyone knew. How long since you have noticed the infection from the time it has grown stronger in you, it will begin by you losing feeling in your arms and legs an leads to paralysis”

The crowd around them starts to tear up.

“This is why I never said anything for I wanted to prevent a panic” Rea sighed

“Then allow me to solve this problem” Xerxes states

As Rea exclaims how, Xerxes reaches forward and grabs her arm. Creation, Destruction, and Soulsborne stones all glow in harmony. Rea rips her arm out of Xerxes’s grip and exclaims.

“What do you think you are doing?!”

“I have neutralized the infection and injected a part of my being into your cells” Xerxes explains calmly

Rea immediately notices her breathing steady, sensations return to her limbs, and the strain on her face disappears as natural abilities strengthen as if she was young once again.

“IT’S A MIRACLE!!” The crowd erupts in joy

“I appreciate the gesture but do not do anything like that again without my consent.” Rea warns

“Apologizes your highness but I wanted to return their just queen” Xerxes smirks.

“Xerxes, I believe our conversation has reached it’s conclusion” Rea smiles

“Xerxes, the miracle maker!!” The crowd cheers

In the Realm of Creation, The Collector paces back in forth in stress as he talks to Inkmatas and Amber.

“You two were help hostage by that monster for a week, of course I will be worried!” The Collector says exasperated

“Collector, we weren’t really prisoners” Inkmatas says, “When the battle ended he removed my cuffs and showed us to palace where he had rooms and food waiting for us. We were treated more like guests for a royal dinner than combatants”

The Collector shakes his head.

“What did he want from you, please don’t say-“ The Collector begs as he was cut off

“No, not that, he just wanted to talk and learn about us and one other topic.” Inkmatas sighed

“What other topic” The Collector worried

“He wanted to know everything about Tinted Earth.” She explains

“Why did he want to know that.. that means he was most likely behind the events that shut down Tinted Earth permanently” The Collector figures out

“He really did save hundreds of endangered species, I really don’t know if he’s that much of a villain that you made him out to be.” Inkmatas defended Xerxes, “He could’ve ended all of us easily but thinking back to the battle, he went out of his way to spare us”

“What about Mirai, she got vaporized in front of us?!” The Collector stressfully said

“She grabbed at the stone recklessly while Xerxes did not attack her, it was tragic but not his doing.” Inkmatas

“Why are you defending him, did he use that geode on you!?” The Collector angrily responds

“He did not go into my soul, he allowed me into his” Inkmatas retorts, “I saw his intentions with no bias or lies, I saw what he went through and what he’s trying to accomplish. He is trying to save everything, not just his own people but animal, insects, the environment, and the multiverse!”

The Collector, exasperated with Inkmatas’s gushing point of view, turns to Amber.

“Do you feel the same way?” The Collector explains

“I refused to tell him anything but he remained civil, never raised a weapon, and allowed me to leave at any time” Amber explains, “I never felt trapped but I felt inspired to learn more about him and I sensed no deviltry behind his words.”

“I can’t believe this.” The Collector sighs heavily

Back on Nammu, Xerxes walks to his balcony and watches the sun rise.

“Ah, begins the dawn of a new multiverse.” Xerxes proudly thinks to himself

‘Our time has finally come!’

xerxes is right
who tf cares about like 11 bitchass middle aged men in suits and ties