[There should be mountains of dead bodies on the battlefield field. Where are they?]
---snap---
My hunch began to flip around.
"The dead!!"
My intuition began to soar as I fell into deep thought. Suddenly, I turned around only to be a witness of the unexpected. Nearly one billion skeletons were standing in wait. When I was the Demon god, I was able to tell how many people were in the battlefield by looking at the area that was occupied by them.
[Can't believe my past experience is helping me.]
The skeletal appearance must be a side effect of the dead entering the realm of living beings.
---crackle---
A black and white lighting began to open up a rift on the sky circularly. It was the descent of the origin of aftermath. His eyes omitted black and white flames. He was wearing dark clothes like a reaper. His face resembled a dazzling young man. I thought he too would look like a skeleton. Guess there is nothing that the origin entities can not defy. But something felt off. The colour of the aura that he omitted were identical to Madrona's and the origin of light's.
"!!!!"
The phrase 'dead'... It made me even more clearer as the events evolved further.
Origin of dark was never formed nor born. He was just an entity with no consciousness. His consciousness was formed right after the 'Big-Bang explosion' as a side effect of the cosmic evolution. He was the first entity with a consciousness. Later came the origin of light.
The origin of dark and the origin of light were never on good terms with each other. So, they were always on constant wars. The conflict between them resulted in the deaths of many living beings. Living beings that obtained the power of dark or light died in these wars.
The aura of every dead soul contained a regret for being blinded by power. Since they had nowhere to go after death, the resentment of the souls who died with the powers they obtained from Madrona and origin of light intact grew more.
As a side effect was formed the origin of aftermath who carried the resentment of the dead towards the origin entities. Since they died with their powers intact, the origin of aftermath ended up obtaining the power of both dark and light. He worked hard and created his own authority and sovereignty to use both the powers at the same time.
With the combined IQ of my'scientist'self and my'Demon-god'self, I grasped most of the part that was ongoing. I ended up getting a compliment from Madrona via sound transmission.
"Not bad, young lad!"
But I felt something missing. Why would the origin of aftermath just be on standby? He can intervene to stop the fight inbetween both entities if he carried on the resentment of the dead.
"!!!!"
I turned around to see how the fight between Madrona and his archenemy progressed. Both of them were fatigued. I thought that the lord of afterlife was waiting for this chance to take down both of them. But I was wrong.
Instead of attacking both the archenemies, he attacked Madrona with his army of a billion dead souls that were skeletons. Now, all the pieces of chess were placed together.
The origin of light took the authority of the living and the origin of aftermath took the authority of the dead. Their purposes were similar in a way, unlike the origin of dark who had the authority on both the living and the dead creatures. Earlier in the war I witnessed dead souls with omnipotent aura wrapped in dark armour. They were fighting alongside Madrona. Madrona must have posed a threat to both of the origin of light and the origin of aftermath.
The billion skeletons flew together like a huge cloud in the space. Once again, I was fazed by the weird phenomenon but figured it out quickly. The origin of aftermath was using his sovereignty. And different light rays started forming huge thorn shaped beams that were 10 to 15 meters long. Millions of such beams were pointed towards Madrona. This sovereignty was obviously the origin of light's work. Both the origin entities reigned non-stop series of attacks on Madrona. I was only spellbounded by the impacting phenomena.
---crackle---boom---whoosh---thud---thud---boom---whoosh---boom---crackle---boom---crackle---thud---boom---and so on---
[;;;; These beings are beyond logic.]
"Hmph?"
---Gasp---
I faltered as I witnessed Madrona falling on the ground from the impact of attacks in the outer space. Madrona stood but fell on his knees due to fatigue.
---step---step---step---
---step---step---step---step---
Origin of light and aftermath stood infront looking down on him. Both of them gave off a smirk. Now, how would Madrona evade his death? I got more curious. The lord of the afterlife (origin of aftermath), came forward and raised his left hand.
He began to chant spells in a weird language that was difficult to understand. To my surprise, I was still able to understand it. I didn't know why I was able to understand an unknown language. But I focused on what was happening. The origin of aftermath enchanted,
""WRATH OF DAYLIGHT!!""
"!!!!"
Right after the lord of the afterlife chanted those three phrases, weird letters shining in mid-air with black and white aura began encircling his left hand that was raised. A beam of light spread around the whole place.
Then, I witnessed the origin of aftermath having a weapon in his left hand. It was a double edged weapon. On one edge was an axe and on the opposite edge was a scythe. It emanated Black and white lightning and flames. It must have been the weapon he created to take down Madrona since the name 'Wrath of daylight' criticises 'Darkened Daylight' that is the power of the origin of dark.
Then, origin of light created millions of thorn shaped light beams and began combine them into a single beam. The beams combined and formed a long sword with different colours fluctuating in it. The sword was nothing more than shaping of an aura. Because it didn't have any particle matter like steel or metal. It was just a powerful light resonating the shape of a sword.
---crackle---
---whoosh---
Both weapons now began to emanate aura. On one side, the origin of aftermath aimed for the neck and on the other side, the origin of light was aiming for the heart. Both of them engaged forward. As both the weapons were about to cut and pierce Madrona-
"""DARKENED DAYLIGHT"""
"""DARKENED DAYLIGHT"""---booooooom---A huge bursting of aura took place.---Gasp---Both the origin entities that were about to kill Madrona got stuck in mid-air. Their weapons turned into smithereens. Madrona's aura now became dark and white. The darkening flames were wrapped around the white flames. Guess that is the darkened light flames...."!!!!"[Wait a minute.]When I was a scientist in my first life, I learnt about Newton disk. When the colours of rainbow are set in a disk with equal proportion, they would display a white plane when the disc is rotated fastly. That means right now Madrona is circulating all the seven darkening flames rapidly inside him while keeping them in harmony.What scared me was the technique Madrona used for suppressing the origin of light and aftermath. It was different from the sovereignties I observed until now.---splat---Both origin of light and origin of aftermath vomitted blood and the lord of the afterlife began to question."Huaak... What
[How much crazier is my life going to become?]"No need to feel like a burden!", Madrona tried to cheer me up. But his looks were so obvious. They didn't cheer me but pitied me. I felt like wanting to kill myself. I didn't even think of myself as a burden. But, here is an origin entity mentioning me as a burden. How obvious can he be?I had no choice but to let it slide, since the one who is infront of me was none other than the first and foremost origin entity whose might reigned supreme than the other two entities.[I wonder what kind of monster I would become if I am about to inherit the 'Darkened Daylight'. Would I become like him with a dragon face and a body with claws and spikes?]---smack---I was smacked with flick of the finger of Madrona, that sent me flying backwards.---crash---When I opened my eyes, I saw myself being stuck inbetween the cracks of the walls where I crashed.Madrona ordered me, "That's your punishment for making fun of my appearance. Stay there until I f
"Please enlighten me...!"The dark reigner asked, "Do you have any other doubts that you want to ask?";;;;"No, thanks. Too much time has passed. It is better to get it over with the main forum!"And I already wasted two of my precious chances due to my stupid curiosity. But, I atleast found out something new. So, I began to cheer up.I cleared my and sharpened my senses for what what was about to be revealed. I locked my gaze straight onto the Dark Reigner. And he began to reveal."The war that you saw was later termed as the 'War of Origins'. After a few thousand years, a weird phenomena occurred. Beings with irregular shape and mixed powers of mine, Martha's and Kraissilis's began to move rampant over all the three realms. We called that weird phenomena 'The Anonymous Emergence'!"I engaged inbetween the elaboration, "Are these beings stronger than your average living gods? Did they pose any threat to the origin entities?"The dark reigner continued, "Of course, they were no match
The mood began to lighten up. I was writhing in anticipation for the Easter eggs to be cracked and for the shells to be opened. I got myself together and calmed my mind.I asked, "What was it that lead to the emergence of Grand laws?!!"The dark reigner began to explain,"Earlier, I told you that we sent irregulars who took the authority of hunters while having their authority of observers in a temporary halt. Hunters who were sent to hunt down the escapee, failed in their mission. That was the first time we suffered casualties. The hunters were dead, and they weren't killed by any escapees but rather by the dwellers. So, we investigated the reason why dwellers killed the mutant asymmetrons who were our loyal pawns. Moreover, the mutant asymmetrons were aliased as outer gods who reigned supreme over the gods in the realm of living. It was far too fetched to be true. Later, we found out something out of the ordinary...We uncovered the reason behind the concealment of the escapees. Whil
"And for your note, the grand laws 'emerged' from some of these cultivators!""!!!!"I yelled in anticipation, "Please continue...!""The cultivators put an end to this game of the fake gods. But, the case was not same everywhere. Cultivators whose powers weren't strong enough to suppress the blessed entities died. There were still seven million worlds that still remained under the rule of the fake gods. If we were to eliminate the fake gods, beings who received their boon would cease to exist. And we can not afford to lose five hundred trillion souls!"[The count is way too overwhelming...;;;;]I interrupted, "Five hundred trillion in the sense, all the infinitos, the living and the dead combined together?""Yes...!", answered the dark reigner.[If it was all three realms combined, then it makes sense.]"So a few days later, Kraissilis came up with a solution.[Here comes the smartest being of all the three realms]He came up with a new game that would end the game of the fake gods a
"Yes, you are right. The grand laws were the people whom we later chose as our successors...!"...[There's no wonder in him telling me that I was about to inherit his power.]I interpreted, "You people are beings who are unbounded. You are origin entities. There is no need for you beings to falter over anything. So, why would you choose to retire in the first place?"The dark reigner responded, "Can you guess what my age is ever since I gained a consciousness?"I attempted, "Maybe a hundred or two hundred million years?!!!"He corrected me, "One hundred trillion years... I am nearly that many years old!"My hunch was an 'over-underestimation'. One hundred trillion years is too greater than one hundred million years. Its two constants above. My mouth was stuck open in excessive shock. It felt like being stuck by a lightning.He continued, "Now, tell me... After living for that many years, do you think we won't have a change of heart?"I interpreted, "Yes, I understand. But, what is th
"The origin entities who were our successors killed eachother...!"...[Sigh... Its one thing after another. I just wanted to know the true reason for my misfortune and then I ended up knowing something past the limits of even transcendent knowledge that is ten thousand fold above common knowledge. Even the events of the history keep on changing one thing after another. First it was about origin entities, second it was about irregulars, third it was about games and now it is about plot twist. I didn't even hear a single thing that involved me. And for a note-]"What kind of library is this, and how can the bookshelves still be visible when I am looking from a faraway distance!!!", I stood and yelled the last part without even realising it. Until now, I was in a circular room where there was no wall but only bookshelves. Every book cover was black in colour. What's more is that even the bookshelves, the floor, the sofa and the floor-cloth were black in colour. There was light falling f
"The scale of this war far exceeded the previous one. That is a point to be noted. But the casualties in the second 'War of Origins', were four hundred trillion!""!!!!"At this time, I didn't even react like how I would. Everything is making me spellbound. Every single thing that is required to be known is making me spellbound without even a gap. This time, instead of opening my mouth, I just stretched my eyebrows upward. Guess what, I am adapting to the atmosphere of someone and something that is beyond logic. My crazed state reached its limits and turned into a normal state. I am atleast happy for that. I then continued, "What happened next?"The dark reigner said, "We had no choice but to start everything all over again. It took us two billion years to settle everything back to the way it was. Our powers weakened enormously due to all these years of effort. We were already in agony for consisting too much power when we were the origin entities. And then, the second origin entities