GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Everything within the mortal realm froze as if caught in amber. It will continue to be so until the Celestial Supreme releases his Order or runs out of divine energy. Those are 2 of the 3 ways that anything can be released from his Order.

Considering that he has been saving divine energy for millions of years, he can surely sustain the exorbitant consumption that freezing the mortal realm for a hundred years will cost him. It will bankrupt him to do it and it will leave him weakened but he can do it.

The third option for release is for the frozen things to release themselves. The Celestial Supreme is not omnipotent in the plane. He has spread his power all over the plane so his Order can be broken if they are strong enough. They don't have a choice anyway. The Celestial Supreme is certainly not going to release his Order. So if they want to be released, they have to do it themselves.

If they don't release themselves, then they will start dying soon. The plants, bugs, and other things that need oxygen to live will be the first to die. Time is still flowing, it hasn't stopped for them. So if they don't get oxygen soon they will die.

The next ones to die will be the vitality core stage beings followed by mana entities. Those in the vitality core stage need to breathe. They too will die. Mana entities can stay without oxygen but they still need to breathe to get the mana that they need into their bloodstream.

Breathing allows mana in the air to enter their lungs and from there it enters their blood. But their lungs can't move so they have to subsist on the mana they already have in their bodies. The mana entities of the Zargoth plane may be special due to the low concentration of ambient mana and have evolved to get mana through others means but even they won't be able to do that when they can't move.

In less than one hour all vitality core stage living things will die. Mana entities can last longer but they will also die once they run out of mana. All these creatures will die with their consciousness fully intact. The lack of oxygen and mana that sustains life will make them die and they will be painfully aware of it.

Right now, the ones that need air are feeling the suffocation but there's nothing they can do. They are weak and can't release themselves. Their lungs can expand or contract so they will be asphyxiated by the tantrum of their celestial supreme. All because of a conflict that doesn't concern them.

The god of fate is still laying about in his river of fate when he heard the command for the world to freeze.

He chuckled to himself and said, "Oh no, he didn't."

He doesn't care so he won't do anything about it. It is not in his nature to interfere with the world. He has also made a deal with the god of Order and Justice that he won't meddle in the affairs of the plane. That deal was the only way for him to get the god of order off of his back for being a Celestial god.

The fact that they got a stalemate in their fight doesn't mean that the control freak of a god would have left him alone. The god of Order would have tried other avenues to get rid of him. But he is a peaceful god who is laid back and likes to snoop on people. So he convinced the god of order that he is harmless and made the oath to prove it. So he can't interfere with this mess even if he wants to. He is bound by the contract to watch and do nothing.

The other gods of the pantheon can't interfere either. They can only watch what's going on with different reactions. The god of knowledge has a weird reaction to the event. He is most excited to see the frozen plane.

"Wonderful. Marvelous. Simply unprecedented." He guffawed as he scribbled. "Absolutely divine."

He took out a tome and started recording his observations of the situation in the mortal realm. It is not every day that one can observe the consequences of freezing space. The last time it occurred was a very long time ago during the time of an older generation of gods. So he is feeling extremely lucky and excited to witness this.

He is an outlier though. Not a lot of gods are excited by the situation. Some of them, like Harkam, are solemn. Harkam the god of the sky and tempest knows when a storm is coming and for some reason, he can smell one on the way.

None of them know why the Celestial Supreme suddenly froze the world. What they do know is that it happened after Stelios threw his own tantrum. Harkam suspects that the two are related. It is either that or the Celestial Supreme's tantrum is a coincidence. His rival the god of the sun has other things preoccupying him right now, so he doesn't care about the situation in the mortal realm.

Most of the gods are bored and unconcerned. They don't have enough reason to care about the current state of the world apart from the fact that it is spoiling their fun. Where are they going to get their entertainment now that the mortal realm is frozen? Should they start fighting each other instead? Is that allowed now? But no one has enough courage to ask the Celestial Supreme that.

They don't care that millions of entities will die because those that matter will be able to free themselves from the effects of the Celestial Supreme's Order to freeze. The gods weren't affected at all because every god is Sovereign in their divine kingdom. The Celestial Supreme can push his weight around in the mortal realm and most of the divine realm but not their divine kingdom.