They Call Him The Wizard: Chapter 4 – The Council of the Twelfth

They Call Him The Wizard: Chapter 4 – The Council of the Twelfth One night, deep in meditation, the Wizard began to traverse the chakras, exploring the connections that might tie human consciousness to the strands of DNA and beyond. As he ascended through layers of light and energy, he felt himself passing through dimensions, each one a new level of existence, a new frequency of being. Finally, he reached the Twelfth Dimension—a place that felt both infinitely vast and intimately close, as if he were everywhere and nowhere at once. The air shimmered with colors he had no names for, and the space around him pulsed with a gentle, rhythmic energy. There, he met Aurora. Aurora was a being of extraordinary beauty, with scales that shimmered in iridescent hues of blue, green, and violet. She had the grace and form of a serpent, yet her presence radiated warmth and wisdom. Her eyes, deep and knowing, seemed to hold the mysteries of the universe within them. She introduced herself as one of the Serpent Class, beings who had once walked the Earth in ancient times, long before humanity had fully formed. They were the original inhabitants, their souls evolving over countless millennia until they ascended to higher dimensions. Now, they existed in realms far beyond human comprehension, in places where time and space were fluid, where thoughts could shape reality itself. Aurora had once been a high magistrate in a grand council that oversaw the balance of the cosmos. The council was a gathering of the wisest and most powerful beings from various dimensions, each tasked with maintaining harmony across the realms. On one fateful occasion, the council convened to decide the fate of humanity. The Wizard watched as Aurora shared her memory of that moment. In a grand hall that seemed to stretch into infinity, the council members gathered, their forms as varied as the stars in the sky. Some were beings of light, others were ethereal shadows, and still others had forms that shifted and changed with every passing second. The issue at hand was the humans on Earth—those young, reckless beings who had been bred from the very elements of the planet, mixed with the essence of the stars. To many in the council, humans were seen as a mistake, a nuisance. They were third-dimensional creatures, bound by physical forms and driven by base instincts. They caused wars, they polluted their planet, and they often acted in ways that seemed foolish and destructive. Some council members argued that humans had had their chance and had failed to evolve beyond their primal nature. They proposed that it was time to cleanse the Earth and start anew. A vote was called. One by one, the council members cast their votes, each one signaling their decision with a pulse of energy that echoed through the hall. The air grew tense, and it seemed as though the fate of humanity was sealed. All eyes turned to Aurora, waiting for her to cast the final vote. But Aurora hesitated. She had a history with Earth—lifetimes she had lived as a being both of and beyond the world. She remembered what it was like to walk among the humans, to feel their joys and their sorrows, their hopes and their fears. She had seen their potential for both great darkness and great light. And she believed that they deserved a chance to grow, to evolve, to become something more than they were. So, she abstained. Her refusal to vote against humanity broke the unanimity the council sought. Her decision was met with shock, and then anger. For defying the consensus, Aurora was banished from the council, stripped of her position and her status. But her act of compassion had swayed enough of the others, and the motion to eradicate humanity failed. The humans were spared, given another chance to prove themselves, to learn and to grow. As Aurora finished her story, the Wizard felt a profound gratitude wash over him. Here was a being who had risked everything for humanity—a race she no longer belonged to but still held in her heart. He realized then that the universe was far more complex and interconnected than he had ever imagined. Beings of immense power and wisdom were watching, waiting, and sometimes intervening in ways that shaped the destiny of entire worlds. Aurora looked at the Wizard with those deep, knowing eyes, and he felt a connection that spanned eons. She had once walked the Earth, lived and breathed as he did now. And though she was now a creature of light and energy, existing in a dimension beyond his understanding, she still cared for the place she had once called home. "You must understand," she said, her voice like a melody in his mind, "that every being, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, has a role to play in the grand tapestry of existence. Humanity has within it the seeds of greatness Global Robotics Corporation Robert Colee