The commotion on Earth kept growing, until even Arishem the Judge, a Cosmic Celestial, turned his gaze toward the blue Planet.
Two Cosmic Gods faced off on the same Planet, with a third, even more powerful Cosmic God standing nearby. The confrontation had already gone beyond what most Dimensions routinely recorded.
Monitoring systems that had long tracked fluctuations in Cosmic Energy would normally flag a confrontation of this magnitude as an event requiring close attention.
Arishem was naturally interested, especially with a Mutant nearby whose power surpassed that of most Cosmic Gods.
The universe's hierarchy of power had always had relatively clear boundaries.
A true Single Universe-level being, releasing their full power, could shake the underlying structure of an entire universe. They could do more than change the local distribution of matter or the flow of energy.
They could reach the cosmic constants and parameters usually considered immutable, interfering with how the rules operated within a given area.
Power released at that level would leave energy traces in the surrounding space that could be observed for a long time. Sometimes, it would even change how energy flowed through that region afterward.
Then there was another group whose members were often confused with them in name. They were just as ancient and just as vast, but their energy density and ability to interfere with the rules were on a distinctly different scale.
Some ancient celestial beings found in certain universes were typical examples. Their bodies could cover entire planets, and they had existed longer than the recorded histories of most civilizations. Yet their power was expressed mainly through physical influence over matter, while their ability to interfere with the underlying rules remained limited.
They could not compare to a true Cosmic Celestial like Arishem.
Because of their size and age, civilizations