Upgrades Chapter 115 (Patreon)

An Aeon was a living concept, a personification of their Path, and all of their actions were heavily restricted to said path. Though it was impossible to look down on an Aeon for being slaves to their paths for a simple reason.

They were impossibly powerful, easily destroying galaxies, and a major conflict between the two of them at one point killed more than a third of all life in the entire universe.

But Aha, the Elation... He 'wasn't' completely bound by his path. He was Elation, he was chaos incarnate. In one moment, they could make someone else the Aeon of Elation for laughs, and then the next, they would steal a kid's iPad and throw it into a nearby pond.

"Aha is so happy that another see's the Erudition as the piece of junk it is hahaha!" Aha cackled and I felt a rib pop and I winced as I forced down the maniac giggles his simple presence infected me with.

But I convulsed next as Aha's aura slammed into me like a fucking star's gravity as I crushed the marble wall I was on and yeaah... I felt several bones give way under the power of Aha just laughing as he teased.

"Awww! Aha just gave you a little push, you have no Imaginary Energy somehow so Aha just had to... Squeeeezeee it in ya hahah! Aha is so ashamed he wasn't able to sneak it in... Nah Aha is laughing at your pain!" Aha cackled even as I coughed out blood and weakly drowned myself mildly as I downed a potent healing elixir.

Then Aha tilted his head to the side as he looked at my elixr in particular... And I knew he was looking at it because an Aeon's 'gaze' was the conceptually least fucking subtle thing in this universe.

"Hahaha! Aha is the true genius then! My newest Fool has stolen a true immortal elixir from that twiggy loser Yaoshi and is able to mass produce them without facing Hooh's curse of being of a fence sitter, haha!" Aha cheered and I felt more Imaginary Energy entering me as Aha blessed me further.

The Path of Elation became clear to my very soul, to which I could bend hilarity to, in turn bend reality in response.

And with a mad snicker, I spat out past some blood. "How much do you think those horsie worshipper's would hate me or love me if they realized if I could fix their mara problem as well? As well as fix Long's neutered brats so they could reproduce?" 

Aha's whole form paused at the idea.

The countless mask's, each showing countless different emotions and faces. Became mostly evil laughter and amusement at the thought before Aha, then looked around and shrieked out.

"Aha doesn't like being peeped on by you all! Especially by dirty clankers like you!"

And the very world itself seemed to turn fuzzy like a VCR tape that had gotten 'dusted clean' by some idiot brat using a wire brush.

'Whelp... Lygus probably got smacked. I wonder if he is literally dead or hell, for all I know he got turned into a mini-fridge with how Aha is.'

But then, with a smaller giggle Aha pointed at me, and the blank mask that had been floating towards me shot forward, and my vision went completely dark as the mask completely covered my face.

Soon enough, the mask changed as I waited. I knew each Masked Fool's masks were fitted for the one to whom Aha gave the mask to.

And the mask pulled up away from my mouth and tightly fit to my face so that as the eye holes came in. My vision was all but completely unmessed with.

"Oooh a foxy mask! Aha, almost wants to just throw you onto the Yaoqing, into their generals bath as she is taking a shower right now! But no! Aha won't ruin the biggest joke in the universe by jumping to the punch line haha!"

I felt something inside of me... Shift as Aha laughed in his mad way again and he said. "You wanted to make that Droidhead have a conniption? Then go! Have fun at one of his favorite haunts then haha!"

'Ah shit!' I mentally screamed as my vision was filled with swirling colors and my vision then faded as I was forcefully ripped out of Amphoreus and my mind that could see the 'Truth' in the universe had the wonderful sensation of being taken across the cosmos in a single step by the Aeon.

And I truly lost consciousness as Aha's mad laughter spoke out one last time, even as I felt my mask be hidden inside the layers of my armor.

"Oiii Droidhead! You rusty bucket of damned bolts! You lost one of your little geniuses and Aha is so kind as to return him! Don't worry! Aha won't ask for money... Aha is just going to borrow this little Simulated Universe doohickey from your brats to mine some Creditcoin, haha!"