Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 568 - 536: The Destruction of Earth and the Emergence of the Celestial God
Have you ever seen the scene of the universe’s birth?
I guess no one has seen it.
But have you seen the destruction of the universe?
Hawk has seen it.
Right at this very moment!
At first, it was just a glimmer of light, but not the kind where dawn pierces through the mist, nor the kind of red light flickering in a darkroom, but a golden-red light bursting simultaneously from every corner, every point of the universe’s existence.
Stars were no longer distant specks of light but transformed into sources of light.
At this moment, every star, planet, and even the tiniest interstellar dust in this universe began to burn from within.
The endless cosmos had entirely turned into a sea of fire.
Golden-red flames burst from every corner of the universe, soaring high, as if the flames constructed a golden-red Fire Phoenix within the cosmos.
Accurately speaking, it’s not the cosmos that constructed this Fire Phoenix, but rather the Fire Phoenix wholly embraced this section of the universe.
And because of this, the universe embraced by the Fire Phoenix, unable to withstand its temperature, began to burn.
When the first wave of flame surged, the universe also began its path towards destruction at that moment.
The spiral nebulae curled and dissipated slowly like ink on rice paper.
Black holes stopped devouring and instead spewed out all the accumulated material, forming brief yet splendid fountains.
The crust of every planet started to melt into flowing rivers of light, tracing their final paths in the starry sky.
All planets were headed towards destruction.
Naturally.
The Solar System was no exception, which of course included Earth.
After all—
If Earth doesn’t get destroyed, then the Order God Tiyaam he has scheduled for himself wouldn’t be able to be born, and thereafter willingly and tirelessly help him maintain the temporal order of the Phoenix Cosmos.
And, of course, without any compensation required.
Such a high-quality laborer, how could he possibly miss out?
However—
Although Earth was also being destroyed, and the life on it was perishing along with it, there were some among them who did not perish together.
For instance—
Hawk directed his gaze to Professor X, who had accepted his invitation to witness this scene.
At this moment, Professor X’s expression was indescribable, as if in a daze, staring at the impending destruction of the universe.
"How about it, Charles."
Hawk took in Professor X’s expression and said calmly, "Isn’t this scene beautiful?"
Upon hearing this, Professor X turned his head rigidly in his wheelchair towards Hawk.
But just as he was about to speak.
Hawk gestured for silence and said to Professor X, "Don’t speak, Charles, look, Earth is beginning to be destroyed."
Professor X instinctively turned his head towards where Earth was.
Beside him, Wanda, holding Jean, smiled wryly and shook her head, saying to Jean beside her, "Now you know how quirky your dad’s sense of humor is."
Jean nodded in agreement but didn’t speak, her gaze fixed intently on the distant blue planet.
Hawk then glanced at Wanda, who had spoken up.
Meeting Hawk’s gaze, Wanda raised her eyes.
Their eyes met.
Hawk smiled slightly, prompting Wanda to roll her eyes and then focus her gaze on Earth.
He didn’t concern himself with Earth’s destruction.
What he cared about was his Order God.
Tiam is about to be born!
At the moment when the Phoenix Fire began to envelop the Earth, it wasn’t the humans on Earth who reacted first but the earthquake monitoring stations built by them.
Almost at the same time, on the infrared graphs of 5,326 earthquake monitoring stations worldwide, the baseline jumping across the instrument’s center leapt up simultaneously within the same millisecond, marking Earth’s heart suddenly pulsing heavily once.
Simultaneously, Earth’s magnetic field collapsed.
Globally, pigeons, turtles, and migratory monarch butterflies lost their way at the same time.
They spun on the ground, drawing irregular circles in the air, and the aurora in Norway erupted without a solar storm, yet it wasn’t the usual green curtain but a dark gold never recorded before, like molten bronze flowing across the sky.
However, if anyone had ever witnessed this aurora in Quantico or New York City, they would certainly recognize it.
This dark golden red light was precisely the color of Adamantium.
All this happened too swiftly, so fast that changes came again almost before humanity had time to respond.
The central Sahara Desert began to rise, with its dunes sliding away like a receding tide, revealing rock strata rarely seen by humanity.
These were not naturally formed granite or basalt, but a metal with a golden sheen, akin to the dark gold aurora flickering above Norway at this moment, its surface covered with geometric patterns, resembling some colossal circuit board.
Orange-red light symbolizing life flowed through the patterns, akin to lava but without thermal radiation.
But this wasn’t the end; it was the beginning.
At the same time, not only in the Sahara Desert, but also beneath the Siberian Plain, the interior of Australia, the depths of the Amazon rainforest, under the Antarctic ice cap, under the Greenland Island ice, and at the very heart of the Pacific Ocean, seven points have formed a perfect sphere that acts as an arching pivot covering the entire Earth.
The waters of the Pacific Ocean began to boil—not in isolated patches, but across an expanse akin to the size of the North American continent reaching boiling point simultaneously.
Massive steam columns shot up into the stratosphere, triggering a chain of storms worldwide.
Torrential rains poured upon the continents, but the rain was not cold; it was warm, with a salty taste and a hint of metallic scent.
The next second.
Without any warning.
A hand burst forth from the frozen layers of Siberia, as five thousand square kilometers of permafrost rose and cracked like a fragile eggshell, and emerging from the fissures were not rocks or magma, but fingers covered in stardust material.
A single finger was even taller than Mount Everest.
The hand that appeared from within the Earth began to bend, and the stress generated by the bending directly tore apart the Eurasian Plate, triggering a cataclysmic earthquake surpassing any ever recorded by humankind.
Shockwaves encircled the Earth, and almost in an instant, all existing man-made structures suffered catastrophic damage.
In the meantime.
The waters at the center of the Pacific were completely displaced by the boiling.
The exposed seabed revealed the forehead of Celestial God Tiya.
The eyes on Tiya’s forehead opened.
Not one eye, or two, but three pairs—six eyes in total.
At this moment.
Hawk’s voice appeared in Celestial God Tiya’s ears.
"It’s time to emerge. Sometimes, death is a gift, and instant death even more so—right now, it’s that time. Don’t let them suffer."
"Understood, Main God."
Celestial God Tiya responded without hesitation.
Stand up!
And as Celestial God Tiya stood up, Hawk and others in the cosmos witnessed the Earth’s surface covered with glowing cracks, resembling an egg about to hatch.
The eggshell, or the crust, began to flake away.
Not into small pieces, but the entire continental plates warped and peeled away like mud at the bottom of a dried lake.
The Asian continent split down the center.
The Himalayas were divided in two.
Europe cracked like a broken cookie.
Africa folded along its spine.
Oceans poured into the newly exposed mantle, vaporizing into superstorms in an instant. Next, Earth shattered like an egg.
At the planet’s cracked core, Celestial God Tiya fully stretched his body.
Celestial God Tiya stood in the cosmos, while the Earth transformed into fragmented pieces orbiting around him.
Seeing this, Professor X couldn’t help but cry out in anger.
"No!"
"..."
Just appreciating the appearance of his new subordinate Order God Tiya, Hawk was startled by Professor X’s outcry, raised his eyebrows, and glanced at the weeping Professor X sitting in a wheelchair: "See, destruction can be so simple."
Celestial God Tiya, shimmering with six beams of light, drifted from Earth’s ruins to appear before Hawk, then knelt on one knee in the cosmos.
"Main God."
"Tiya."
Hawk’s body floated into the cosmos above the enormous Tiya, reached out his right hand, and placed it on Tiya’s similarly giant forehead. His voice was no longer cold—or rather, it remained cold but carried a sacred and solemn quality.
"In the name of Hawk Phoenix, I grant you Tiya, to be my Order God, to govern my cosmos’s time, and maintain the stability of cosmic time."
At the moment the words fell.
The golden-red Fire Phoenix reappeared, manifesting behind Hawk, spread its wings, and, after a shrill cry, rushed towards Celestial God Tiya at lightning speed.
After the Phoenix, all things can burn.
Celestial God Tiya was no exception.
The endless Phoenix Fire instantly enveloped Celestial God Tiya, but rather than refining him, the Phoenix Fire was accepting him.
Soon.
The Phoenix Fire vanished.
Celestial God Tiya emerged from the flames again, seemingly identical to before but with an indescribable aura upon closer inspection.
Simply put.
At this moment, Celestial God Tiya was no longer Celestial God Tiya of the Celestial God Team, but Hawk’s subordinate god, Order God Tiya.
Celestial God Tiya now carried Hawk’s essence.
Hawk felt joy at the moment.
He looked at Celestial God Tiya, who was slowly rising before him, about to speak when a voice piped up from that direction.
"I was wondering when you would realize that time needs not only creation but also maintenance."
"..."
