GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The world engine was a golden band of light. But it became a sphere of golden light once it began to work. The sphere of golden light surrounded and sealed in the collapsed two loops. The world engine began converting cosmic energy into cosmic force. 

It is now capable of performing the energy-to-matter transformations, power-to-authority interactions, and laws-to-concept manifestations needed to run a law matrix. However, its operation won't last. 

The world engine needs a sustained input of power for it to work with cosmic energy and void energy as raw materials for it to work. The Kickstarter has only provided a short burst of power. The burst is very powerful but it is not sustained. They don't have a supreme law to make it sustained.

Meanwhile, there is a debt of time and space to pay within the sphere that the world engine has become. The false order of the first sage and the world ender have been reduced to their basic forms tethering on destruction. 

Their power was squeezed out of them to start the world engine. Fortunately, they are capable of destroying worlds themselves so they can't be killed by something like this. It is not exactly a good thing for them though. 

The two of them are alive so they have to deal with the negative coefficient of time and space. The seal of the world engine ensures that only they will suffer the consequences and not Legion-1's inner world. 

Space had collapsed at that point. It began to expand after the collapse but it couldn't expand past the world engine. Time began to rewind within the world engine too. It rewinded back to the point before the collapse. 

The world engine provided the energy and power needed for these reactions to occur by taking them from the void universe. It resulted in making the events that occurred within the sphere unravel and reset. Everything returned to point zero.

The black loop of Chaos was reconstructed from the provided energy as time rewinded. The world fragment reappeared in its rightful position at the center of the black loop. The white loop also reappeared and the world-ender was sent back inside the white loop. 

The world ender returned to the time when it was rotating around this single loop over and over again. At this point, Space is expanding and time is progressing faster than the rate of time in the void universe within it. The tree father could still handle the progression of events and energy requirements at that point.

The white loop is a small world free of the laws of the void universe. So time and space can be warped within it. All it costs apart from the initial cosmic energy requirements is energy to run it. 

Unlike earlier, the energy is being provided by the world engine through the Authority of Celestial Supreme present at the center of the loop. So the world ender is allowed to accelerate forward through time around and around the loop far beyond what the tree father could allow. 

But the world engine faltered after it had used up the initial burst of power. This interrupted the flow of energy through the Authority of Celestial Supreme to the white loop. The closed system of the white loop fell. It became open and free to react with the black pool again. 

The world ender reached the black loop again and the supreme law of the first sage attacked the new World Ender again. There was a collapse followed by another release of power. The power entered the faltering world engine and sustained it for another round. It used its power to force the world ender and the supreme law to pay the debt of time again. 

Everything reset to the point when the tree father could handle the requirements for the time warp. This time, the world engine is more powerful than the previous cycle so it could push the acceleration of time a little further. This support is still temporary so the collapse happened again. This led to a much stronger collapse and the release of more power for the world engine. 

The cycle of operation occured smoothly like well-oiled gears in a clock. Reality was smashed apart against the supreme law and world ender. The energy and matter used to set up the Kickstarter were converted into power through the collapse. The world engine remained working through it all. It gained more and more power with every cycle. 

"It worked," Soverick said in part disbelief and part relief.

Then he slumped down. "It worked." He muttered again in excitement. 

He repeated it again, this time with pride. "It worked."

He is not the only one surprised. Legion-7 couldn't believe it. "It actually worked. This fucked up idea of yours actually worked."

"If world gods can do it so can we," Legion-1 said proudly. 

The tree father chuckled and said, "But we are not world gods."

Aeternus agreed. "No, we are not. We are better. We are Legion."

They all felt immense pride in their achievement. They have performed a miracle. It is something they ought to be proud of and they let themselves be. They baited a demon god. Then helped that demon god to become a world-ender. Then used the world ender and the supreme law of the first sage to kickstart their world engine. 

It is one fucked up idea if there ever was such. Even world gods would be wary of world enders and wouldn't want to get in touch with one but they decided to make one themselves. 

Helios muttered, "I still can't believe it worked."

Soverick felt offended. "I said it was going to work and it did."

"But even you were not certain it was a good idea."

Soverick defended himself smugly, "I was not certain it was a good idea only because it had never been done. But I was certain it would work. I have seen it work so it should work. It worked so I was right and that's all that matters."

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A/N: Does this count as nuclear fusion or fission?