"Where does the Stellaron start, and where does it end inside of your mind Cocolia?" I spoke as I threw aside any thought of. 'Allowing the newbies shine.' I had a fucking Stellaron's will staring me in the face and I would not suffer its existence.
Cocolia's face turned into a frown as she spat. "You have no idea the suffering we of Belebog have suffered in fighting off the eternal winter for centuries!"
And with that, I exhaled and everyone paused. All the guards paused, Bronya, Cocolia, Gepard, Stelle, Elysia, Dan Heng, and March 7th paused as I unleashed my conceptual weight of an Aeon upon their forms.
"I am not playing this game... In another situation I could allow this to go on, we could flee this battle in order to not harm you guys. Before dealing with the Stellaron in a timely manner" I spoke slowly as everyone was encased in locks of cosmic power that I made conceptually unbreakable with how they were all inside of my range of absolute dominion.
I took a breath with my eyes closing as Cocolia's form glowed with the power of the Stellaron and with a harsh cracking noise I could feel how the Stellaron 'froze' the cosmic locks and then burned through its own power to use Nanook's domain of Destruction to break the locks.
"My name is J̵̞͝a̸̞̒k̸̹̇e̴̻͠ ̵͉͐Ḅ̷͐a̷͕͝r̷̺̔i̸̟͆s̵̲͠ś̷͍, I am the Aeon of Creation... And you Cocolia, you have succumbed to the will of the Stellaron." I spoke as Cocolia's form was engulfed with seemingly abyssal power and as she rose up in the air dramatically with an even larger massive lance of ice.
I just floated everyone to the side as I glared at Cocolia who finally snarled. "You don't understand what I had to live with! From when I was but a child, I was ordered to save the last bastion of life on this damned planet! And for what? What good is even living another day when the entire damned planet is a frozen wasteland!?"
I gave her a sad smile as I spoke softer. "Cocolia... Even if your mind has broken from the Stellaron, you still are a pathstrider of Preservation. Q̷̢̓i̴̭̎l̶͚͛p̷̠̒ọ̵̆t̸̯͂h̴̆͜ still looks upon you with hope with his power maintaining this world to this very day in the nodes of Geomarrow that fill this world."
My eldritch invocation of the Preservation Aeon with my own enhanced power made a loud humming noise and I looked up towards the endless dark grey snow-filled clouds above our head. As a golden light gently pierced through the endless clouds and the light of the Preservation Aeon fell upon his Pathstriders.
With Cocolia going stiff as Qilpoth's gaze fell on her. And I noticed as Qilpoth's golden gaze fell upon a guard, Stelle, and Gepard as well with a flash of light ringing out as a large lance formed in Stelle's hand making my lips twitch at the sight.
But I refocused on Cocolia and held out a hand to her as I spoke kindly. "Cocolia... This world hasn't been abandoned! Preservation has always been watching and helping, I myself will make this world filled with life again! Just push aside the power of the Stellaron and everything can be fixed!"
There was a pause as Cocolia paused and then I heard a snapping noise making me frown as the majority of her body remained stiff as the completely abyssal ice-covered form of Cocolia twitched with the massive ice lance smashing down at me.
"Supreme Guardian no!" Gepard yelled as he realized all to well that I was telling the truth, and I realized that those who were gazed upon by Q̷̢̓i̴̭̎l̶͚͛p̷̠̒ọ̵̆t̸̯͂h̴̆͜ were also unfrozen and unprotected from the chains I put them in. So I got rid of the rest of the chains on everyone else as it became clear that Cocolia had completely lost control.
A massive tree sprouted through the concrete and the ice lance although elementally powerful and heavy, didn't have the conceptual power of destruction that she used previously to break the bonds I put her in.
So when the lance hit the violently growing tree, it just got caught in its thick hardwood with the branches shooting out at high speed and shooting toward Cocolia.
Cocolia let go of her massive lance, and then tried to fly backward as thick snow began to fall down atop us as she pulled on more of the Stellaron's power but a loud banging noise rang out with her head snapping back as Bronya literally shot her adopted mother in the face.
But... Thankfully? Bronya's wind element-infused bullet couldn't pierce Cocolia's abyssal ice armor. 'Hmm... Well, time for a snack.' I thought as I knew that fighting Cocolia here in the city would be a terrible idea.
Already after but a minute of the fighting having started, half a foot of snow had fallen. And it was getting oppressively difficult to see through the swirling snowstorm that was hitting us and everyone inside the city.
To put it bluntly, I didn't want to be responsible for the people of Belebog dying to this snowstorm that the Stellaron had summoned up.
Marshaling my power I created a portal behind Cocolia in front of me on the ground and as I fell out of the portal from stepping into it. I grabbed Cocolia around the neck and I surrounded her form with my power.
"You will not be a slave to the Stellaron. Nor Nanook himself." I hissed under my breath as I ignored the razor blades of ice that sliced into my flesh as my power slammed through the abyssal ice surrounding Cocolia and once it synched into her body.
I flared my Restoration power with Cocolia going stiff as her mind was wiped of the Stellaron's will and I could feel the tethers of the Stellaron trying to get back to into control of Cocolia. But with my direction connection to Cocolia and my essence of the Aeon of Creation, the Stellaron could find no purchase.
With the snowstorm abruptly dying as the clouds above us weakened as the the local connection to the Stellaron was cut and broken.
"Uhmm what the heck just happened!" March 7th yelled out as I hummed and I poked Cocolia on the forehead with a rainbow gem that had a tiny rose within the gem formed atop her head with the rose having an enchantment that would specifically grant Cocolia with a hint of my power to prevent her her mortal mind from being corrupted.
Instead of answering her, I frowned as I saw the clouds above us were weakening too much. 'What is the Stellaron planning on doing now?' I thought before I created a barrier as Bronya shakily held her rifle up at her cleansed adoptive mother's head.
"Bronya, I have cleared Cocolia's mind of the Stellaron's influence... She does not need to be executed." I said firmly and the girl flinched at the sight of my gaze making me want to sigh.
"Now... In the meantime." I spoke as I looked towards Gepard. "You, you are Serval's brother right?" At his swift if not confused nod, I continued. "Breaking the connection with the Stellaron is making it act odd with how its pulling back its storms. You need to have the Silvermane Guards ready for anything."
It wouldn't at all surprise me if the Stellaron was pulling back all its power to flood the Fragmentum, attempting to overwhelm Belebog with the monsters of the Aeon of Destruction that would spawn from the Fragmentum.
"Now... Just to keep Cocolia out of trouble or doing something stupid." I muttered as I surrounded Cocolia in a prism of Geomarrow that would keep her in stasis for a while so I didn't need to worry about her running off, offing herself, or otherwise someone else killing her.
"Now! March 7th, Dan Heng, it's all your show now. I am going to keep quiet and just eat popcorn while you two take over." I said shamelessly as everyone just gaped at me doing literally just that as I plopped myself down on my floating throne with a summoned bag of popcorn.
The members of Belebog's Silvermane guard, the leadership, and the young Nameless just looking at each other seemingly utterly at a loss at what to do.
With Elysia obviously just sitting on the arm of my throne as she leaned over and picked at the hot cheesy dusted popcorn I manifested as she also just watched the awkward silence in amusement.