“The primordial god of light did not awaken. He continued to slumber even after the bet was won. Our ancestors then speculated that because so much of the primordial god’s power was consumed to defeat the darkness avatar, the light god slept to recover his powers.”“At the same time, the darkness god went silent. His avatar was destroyed but he was not defeated. Because he lost the bet he couldn’t directly interfere with the Etherium again but with the light god sleeping, the darkness god would definitely return.”“Fearing that he would return to attempt to seize power again, and as a punishment for their part in the darkness gods' schemes, the Shades were banished from the planet and sent to wander the stars like rootless duckweed. Finally, peace reigned on the planet for countless millennia and the Aeth set forth to conquer the entire universe.”“Sadly, just when we thought the past would stay buried, it, like a phantom came to haunt us once again.”At this point, Azalea had finishe
Arran finally knew what his destiny was — that was to slay a god!To be honest, Arran wasn’t shocked by this revelation. In fact, ever since he had stepped into the transcendent path, Arran already had an inkling that he would encroach on the territory of godhood.Whether it was to become a god or slay a god, something deep within him, an instinct of sorts, had told Arran that he would encounter those choices.Perhaps it was his destiny calling out to Arran all this time but when he heard that he was expected to gain the power to slay a god, he wasn’t surprised at all. Unlike Alec who was scared out of his wits when he learned of this.What was a god?There are many definitions or views about what or who a god is. But there was only one universal truth about the nature of gods.Gods were beings, entities, that held supreme power and supreme authority over the world.In the beginning, the universe was void, and from void sprung order and chaos and everything else. In this universe, the
Gods are seemingly all-powerful beings, and that was indeed the case. But they aren’t infallible. Yet, it doesn’t mean they could be profaned. To seek to kill a god was an effort in futility.Many have tried, but few have succeeded. Of the ones that have succeeded in killing a god, it ended up mainly being new gods who got killed.New gods like law gods and faith gods were the easiest to kill mainly by other new gods of wings with traces of divinity. Less often was it common for a normal being without divinity to kill a god, even the weakest of new gods.Of course, gods could fall and new gods could rise to take the place of fallen gods. Such is mostly the case when primordial gods seize to exist.The light and darkness gods of the Etherium were primordial gods — the highest of primordial gods for that matter — they represented the aspect of duality of light and darkness making them high-order gods of order and chaos. It wouldn’t be an easy e free at to kill them. Yet Arran’s destiny
The message abruptly ended not giving Arran any time to process the rest of what was said.Watching as his parent's image slowly disappeared, Arran felt stifled inside. Before this, he’d had a feeling that he had gotten closer to finding his parents, only to end up right where he started, being no closer to them than he first was. All he had ended up learning were things he could do nothing about now and a destiny he had no control over.It all boiled down to Arran lacking strength — the strength to fight, the strength to resist, and the strength to change or affect his own destiny — arran lacked the strength to do any of these so even after learning all of this, there was nothing he could do about it at all.Fortunately, things weren’t so bleak. While Arran couldn’t do anything now, he wasn’t required to do anything at all for now.When the sky collapses, there will be people there to hold it up for Arran. All Arran had to do was rely on others to block the wind for him while he trai
Space didn’t know what to say anymore. Frankly, he couldn’t understand Arran’s way of thinking nor did he know why he even cared at all. It wasn’t like he was the one who had to face the pursuit of a god.And Arran was also right admittedly. Even if he knew, what could Arran do about it at all? He could only rely on others to protect him while he tried hard to gain the power to kill a god. As for if this would be possible… one can only say that it wasn’t impossible.After all, it wouldn’t be the first time a mortal has tried to kill a god. Some have succeeded while others failed. Though the number of successes over failures was abysmal it didn’t stop others from trying.Sigh!Arran’s laissez-faire attitude was infectious, affecting Alec and causing him to gradually relax. Deciding not to think about this affair, Alec shifted his focus to something else instead.Looking at the projection device, it was still functioning, giving off light to illuminate the surroundings without doing any
One hour later…All seven Aeth were gathered inside the room discovered by Arran and Alec. As soon as the two of them had called, the others had rushed down here at their fastest speeds to get here.Inside the room, the other five stared at the model of Earth floating in the center of the room and the projection of stars visible all over the walls of the room wondering what they were looking at.Joyner who was the more experienced of the bunch recognized the device sitting quietly in the room.He said, “That’s an Ozzelovf’s Thought Emitter. It’s a device that’s meant to extract observations from perceived phenomena in a person’s memories and construct a realistic model of that phenomenon into the world.”“Because the model was created from a person’s thoughts, the information in it is usually subject to that person’s biased interpretation and understanding of the observed phenomenon. This is remedied by adding in true details of the observed phenomenon to supplement the overall image.
Of course, the change had already occurred so instead it was the expected range of impact this change would have and it seemed to encompass the entire solar system starting with Earth as the center.After this realization, everyone’s perspective suddenly returned to Earth, their view focused above the planet where they could see everything happening simultaneously.In everyone’s hearts, an imaginary line appeared that divided the Earth into two hemispheres. This was the equatorial line. On this line, thirteen regions were like dotted islands existing along it. From there, branches connected outward to the rest of the planet following which strange and obvious changes began to occur.First of these changes is a massive explosion happening within the earth’s core causing massive tremors and quakes to rock the earth, beginning from the equator and spreading to the rest of the planet opening up large cracks in the earth.With the earthquakes originating from the equator, it is the stronge
Everything Arran and his group learned came as a certain kind of understanding like they were simply fitting pieces of a puzzle together and naturally came to a conclusion. This understanding wasn’t theirs but rather that of Arran’s parents.The images shown in the simulation served as evidence for which these understandings were based, with the evidence tracing the transformation of Earth all the way back to the formation of the planet and the solar system revealing these changes as nothing more than a return to origin for the planet. This thus begs the question…What is Origin?Origin is the birth of all things, a template from which everything came into existence.Origin is a metaphysical spark responsible for evolution and the beacon light of transcendence that birthed all things, pushing them toward the peak of their given path.Everything possesses origin. It is the most malleable and changeable aspect of the universe and also the most rigorous which signifies the randomness of