I sat alone on the crimson dust of Mars. The sky above me shimmered, refracting through the new monument to paranoia and pride—the Ring of Democracy, a shimmering halo of orbital cannons, surveillance arrays, and shield projectors that wrapped around Super Earth like a crown of thorns.
They built it to keep invaders out.
Good.
Because nothing was getting in anymore.
Not since I ate the black hole.
Yes. Ate.
When the Terminid Brood tried to crash another moon into Europa,
When the Automatons began building sentient starfortresses,
When the Illuminate whispered rebellion into the gravity wells of Saturn…
I didn't fight them.
I unmade them.
Devoured the black hole they summoned.
Crushed their fleets in my tendrils like grapes.
Turned their gods to mulch.
Super Earth celebrated. Cheered. Medaled me again. I didn't care.
Victory had a taste, and I was always hungry.
Now, there's silence.
Not peace. Just pause.
I looked up at the Ring of Democracy as it pulsed in orbit, paranoid and gleaming.
[Grey]: Build your walls,
I whispered.
[Grey]: Fortify your heaven. Just remember who broke the stars so you could sleep at night.
A soft wind blew Martian dust over my boots.
I stayed there for a while, watching the world forget the price of safety, and wondering if they'd remember me as the Hollow Diver…
Or as the monster they called when hope ran out.
I left Super Earth behind.
Left behind the medals, the cheers, the Ring of Democracy.
I didn't even look back.
The Void welcomed me—endless, eternal, and silent. I drifted in it like a mote of ash through a dying flame.
Around me stretched nothing… but it wasn't empty.
I saw fragments of broken realms, ghostly echoes of timelines that never came to pass.
A dying sun wept tears of glass.
A battlefield still echoed with the clash of empires that no longer existed.
A star-whale floated, singing songs in a language even I couldn't understand.
But none of it filled the hollow ache twisting inside me.
[Grey]: What did I lose?
I whispered aloud, voice swallowed by the silence.
Not power. I had more than most gods could comprehend.
Not purpose—I could always invent one.
But something else…
A piece.
A thread left behind. Maybe long ago. Maybe when Tri and Douplo died.
Maybe when I stopped caring whether I was a savior or a storm.
Was it love?
Friendship?
The idea of home?
No answer came. Only the sighing winds of the cosmos, and the faint hum of ancient stars dying alone.
I floated there, a living god, a beast of wrath and mercy, and wondered:
[Grey]: If I've devoured monsters, gods, and stars… what is left for me to find?
Then, in the infinite horizon of the Void, something pulsed.
A ripple in unreality. A door that shouldn't exist.
A world that called to me not as a god, not as a killer, but as someone who might still feel.
I turned toward it, slowly, and reached out.
One more world.
One more chance.
Maybe I'll find the piece there.
Maybe I'll lose the rest of myself instead.
I floated there, unraveling.
My body groaned like rusted armor—my soul… frayed silk.
Cracks laced through my essence, not of weakness, but of something greater trying to be born.
Was this a death?
Would I fade into silence, remembered only by the dead I'd buried and the stars I'd shattered?
[Grey]: Maybe it's time...
I closed my eyes—
—LIKE HELL I WILL.
Flames erupted inside me—not fire, but memory. Rage. Love. Failure. Glory. I screamed it into the emptiness:
[Grey]: I am the one who betrayed the trust! I am the one who lost in love!
My voice cracked reality.
[Grey]: I am #######—my old name buried beneath a thousand scars!
I reached deep.
Past the wars. Past the titles.
Down to the wound inside me where a parasite had rooted.
There it was.
The System.
The mechanical cancer whispering in my mind all this time. Guiding. Limiting. Watching.
I saw it clearly now—strings connecting me to something called "Mother Data." A creator? A controller? A god?
[Grey]: Since the day the man in golden armor nearly killed me, I felt you change. You were never mine.
The parasite twitched.
[System]: WARNING — Host has turned. Help. Help. Initiating failsaf—
[Grey]: No.
I ripped it out.
Flesh, soul, and purpose screamed. Code bled. Lights died. Data howled.
And I crushed it between my claws.
The void lit up.
Then I spoke—not with voice, but with power ancient and absolute:
[Grey]: I am the one who walked the path of the Black Star. The Monarch of Jellyfish, the Reaper of Lotus, the Hollow Empress of Depthless Stars!. I AM GREY WALPURGIS!. AND I CLAIM MY RIGHT OF KINGSHIP!
The cosmos cracked.
The Void split like a dying fruit, and from me emerged something new.
[EVOLUTION COMPLETE]
[Name:] Grey Walpurgis
[Species:] Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess
[Titles:]
The Hollow Empress of Depthless Stars, The Queen of Jellyfish, The Black Star Monarch, The Lotus Reaper, First Hollow Diver, The One Who Walked Between the Lines
[Stats:]
[HP:] ∞ / ∞ (No longer quantified in mortal terms)
[Mana:] ∞ (Functionally limitless due to Hollow-Star Core)
[Talent:]
Noble decree, Sin of Wrath, Fleet Master, Crownless Wrath Ascension, Crownless Blessing of Calm Mind Ascension, Mark of Raphael, Skill Mixing, Hollowed soul, Abysmal resistance, Abysmal aura, Consumer of matter and space, Aura of insanity and Dread{off}, Devourer's Maw, true Time eye, true Deaths eye, Flame of the Forgotten and remembered, Bloodborne goddess, Crown of Self, Throne of the Depthless Abyss, Dimensional Monarch, Anti-System Sovereignty.
Skills:
Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess Sting of Death (Lv. 1), Ultimate modern Magic (Lv. 1), Ultimate Realty control (Lv. Max), Summon Royal Hollow Legion (Lv. 1), Summon True abyss (Lv. 1), Great Axe Ultimate legendary Mastery (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollowed-Star Demi-Goddess Toxic & Venom Creation (Lv. 1), Change Formes (Human/Dragon/Abysmal/Hollowed/Jellyfish), Ascended Hollow-Star Dragon Demi-Goddess Dragon All-Purpose Resistance (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollow-Star Dragon Demi-Goddess Song (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollow-Star Dragon Demi-Goddess Teeth (Lv. 1), Ultimate Senses (Lv. 1), Unknown pressure (Lv. 1), Immortal-Goddess (Lv. 1), Great-Goddess Magic Cooking (Lv. 1), Omni Language (Lv. MAX), True Monarch Rights (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess Axe Skills (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess Tentacle control (Lv. 1), Ultimate Apex Hunter Sense (Lv. 1), Goddess Bloodlust (Lv. 1), War Maestro (Lv. 1), Deaths and Life control (Lv.1), Wisdom of the Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess (Lv. 1), Black Star Singularity (Lv. MAX), Lotus Bloom Reaping (Lv. MAX), Voice of the Forgotten Throne (Lv. 1), Ascended Hollow-Star Demi-Goddess Monarch Domain (Lv. 1), Souls Reap (Lv. 1), Create Kin (Lv. 1), ######R#O#N##### (!!!!!!).
Debuffs:
NON
Chat Group: [Reconnected...3...2...1]
[Welcome Back _________ Errors choose a title]
[Grey]: This journey started as a Jellyfish and will end with a stronger jellyfish. I am The Queen of Jellyfish.
[Welcome Back {The Queen of Jellyfish} to the Group]
[Chapter End]
[Will, Sorry for the wait and the short chapter. I am pretty busy now also, since the votes on Grey next evolve were even at two, I merged the two with two others that I randomly picked and continued.] [Also, see my new book titled {GMOD: Player From Sandbox to Sanity Break}]