"Yep."

Felix knew that Asna's core would eventually get taken out of him when Asna awakened, but he couldn't get rid of the stone of reality and his human heart.

After all, one was a celestial heart while the other was believed to be an awakened celestial heart.

While currently, the stone of reality was merged with his human heart, he knew that the moment it awakened, it would need its personal space.

"Still, I am gonna collect them all," Felix remarked calmly, "Just like Eris said, collecting them all might be the key to awakening my celestial heart."

Felix was already informed by Eris on her theories on how to awaken his own Elemental Celestial heart.

She told him that he could either seek the universe's heart's help or gather all the unigins cores in his body.

After all, most elements were branched out of laws and while there were merely a dozen unigins, they commanded all hundred+ elements.

If Felix were to bring their cores together, it would be the same as collecting all elements in the universe under one banner.

After he was done with this, he was already planning to give Lord Hades a visit on this matter.

"Can you get rid of him now?" Apollo broke Felix's thought process by holding his hand with a puppy look.

"I am starting to think I should get rid of you both." Felix gave him an annoyed look, but Apollo merely chuckled not taking his words seriously.

Now ascended, Felix was in full control of Apollo's core, which meant, he was in control of his soul too.

Thus, without much struggle, he erased Apollo's darkside with a single forehead tap.

"Noooooo..."

Apollo's darkside screamed one last time as his consciousness faded into the ether once and for all.

The moment he was gone, Apollo's appearence and expression returned to normal, making him touch his face in a daze.

"I can't hear him...I can't sense him...He really is gone?" He murmured, his playfulness was nowhere to be seen.

The tenants gazed at him silently, having no idea what it must have felt for Apollo to be enslaved by his own alter ego for billions of years.

Under the mask of playfulness and perviness, he was living under a constant cloud of darkness...It was finally blown away.

"Don't be too happy." Felix smiled innocently as he patted him on the shoulder, "I need you to carry on with your alter's mission."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Apollo was left stunned.

"Of course, I have no interest in putting the entire universe in darkness, but his plan will accelerate the process of harvesting celestial energy by a lot." Felix explained.

"No, wait."

"I need you to create enough dark creatures to bring to the surface and make them reproduce with dark energy...Prioritize deserted galaxies in your mission."

"Wait! Wait! I didn't sign for this!" Apollo caught Felix's clothes with a tearful look, "I just want to get laid and make music."

"You can do both, you are a unigin for god's sake."

"Not anymore! You took my core!"

Apollo wanted to guilt him to let him enjoy a peaceful life, but alas...Felix rolled his eyes at his unhealthy laziness and walked away, having no interest in arguing with him about this.

"I expect the dark army to be live and working in less than a month following the matter universe's timezone."

Watching his back getting further and further, Apollo wiped his fake tears as he mumbled, "From under the tyranny of one into another, when will I catch a break?"

Although he was complaining, he had no intention of disappointing Felix. Escaping from the grasp of his alter ego was a wish, he never expected to come into life...For that, he was forever grateful.

Thus, Apollo exited Felix's consciousness space and started working on creating the dark creatures in the void. He wanted to get over it quickly, so his main consciousness on the matter universe could handle it while he chilled back.

Meanwhile, Felix still had to run some experiments after the ascension. The first one was seeing what happen if he switched the cores.

He placed Apollo's core inside the stone of reality while pulling out Poseidon's core. The moment he did so, Apollo complained, "What did you do? My powers have weakened immensely."

From being able to create millions of dark creatures to a mere thousands. How could he not notice such a drop in power?

"Interesting, I can switch between them without much reaction from the universe." Felix ignored Apollo's whining and returned his core outside.

"This means you can have a passive and an active core." Eris remarked, "You can switch between them depending on the situation and the powers required to solve it."

"As long as there weren't any other negative effects, I am good with just this." Felix smiled.

***

After finishing with the ascension, Felix brought his dragonic tail with Apollo's core back to the galaxy-wide clone, reuniting with Eris and Apollo.

"Are we going to pay a visit to Lord Hades now?" Apollo inquired with a bored tone.

"Not yet, I have to meet my son and void nation first." Felix smiled, "It's sure been a while since I saw that little cutie."

"I will keep chilling here, you do you." Apollo waved his hand carelessly as he sat on top of Felix's toe.

Of course, both of them had to enlarge themselves to have some comfort being near Felix in his current size.

Eris said nothing, but Felix understood that she also had no interest in joining the reunion. He left them be and swiftly took off in the direction of Nimo and his void nation. It took him almost no time to appear before them, his eyes scanning the horizon, searching for the one face he had longed to see.

Suddenly, a figure appeared from the entrance of a pitch-black citadel. The moment he saw him, Felix's smile turned soft.

"Nimo," Felix called out, his tone echoing through the void realm.

The instant Nimo's ears picked up his voice, his expression turned frozen for a second before his eyes gleamed with joy and exhilaration after spotting Felix.

"Father!!" He called, his voice almost choking up.

Felix took a step forward and appeared right in front of him. With a proud smile, he took him in his embrace.

"I've missed you," Nimo said, holding him tighter.

"Me too, my son, me too..." Felix patted him, his gaze wandering across the bustling void nation. "You sure have grown strong, and the Void Nation flourished under your guidance."

"I only did what you told me." Nimo smiled akin to a little child again, enjoying the patting.

"My lord!"

"My lord! You have returned!"

"My lord! We awaited your return!"

Suddenly, the beautiful moment was spoiled by the swift appearance of The Ruiner, Arthur, Meriam, and the rest of the upper echelon.

They promptly knelt before him, their eyes filled with great reverence and awe.

"I have returned indeed." Felix smiled as he calmed the irritated Nimo, who seemed like he wanted to rip their heads off for interrupting them.