When there is a great joy, celebration, fortune, the devil always lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce and take the source of your happiness. Such is the will of the devil its purpose. To rip and tear. As a human, you must resist and not succumb.
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Today was June 7th, the day of the World banquet.
Humans, all over the Solar System where required to stop their activities, cancel their plans, and wait.
Everything that required humans supervision would be handled by the Oak Tree Race that prepared for this day with all their might. When the lands of humans became vacant, they would take over and tend to human business for a day while every single human would be transferred to Mercury nearest planet to the sun and the most dangerous one in the past.
As we know, Mercury is a bit larger than our Earth's moon.
In the past, Mercury had dramatic changes in its day and night.
The day was always scorchingly hot. (450c)
The night was always cold. (minus 180c)
Dominus and Zagaroth transformed Mercury five years ago, and it would become accessible only for a day, once a year.
This was the fifth World banquet. Every year, billions of humans waited for this day with great anticipation. It was gathering place of all humans, of all religions, beliefs, orientation, etc.
No one was allowed to decline. Even the laziest, most reserved person needed to come, there were no exceptions.
World banquet was a place where humans weren't transported randomly. Everything was impeccably planned by Dominus to gift every human with great time and long-lasting experience, that would brighten their souls and minds.
The sitting position, who sat with whom. Who ate what. Who watched what, all was planned and would come as a surprise for every human.
For some it would be random they could be separated from their parents, lovers, friends, and divided in a way that at first glance made no sense, but over time, feelings would transform the awkwardness would disappear.
On this day, thousands of humans would be awarded for their achievements, tastiest unaccessible dishes from tens of thousands of planets would be provided and consumed.
Thousands of songs would be sung from other civilizations, performed by humans who practiced for this day with all their might.
Hundreds of thousands of various performances never before seen would be shown on this day.
Most importantly, every single human would surprisingly watch the show they would enjoy the most, and they would eat the food they would enjoy the most. In the end, Morgols would open an arena, and ranking of the inner members would be reshaped, and the top ten could challenge anyone in the elite, once a hundred, now ninety-nine.
Lastly, Dominus would come out to perform something amazing and give a speech.
The celebration would be exactly twenty-four hours.
...…
"Today is the day, huh?"
A tall, middle-aged man was walking on a sideway, he looked tired and his clothes were ragged.
Pedestrian was walking near him, seeing this man's ragged appearance after some contemplation he decided to have some talk.
"You there, just released from 'Prison'?"
The middle-aged man looked the person up and down, he looked young in his twenties with bright features and approachable personality, but the moment he saw the eyes, intuition told him that this person was dangerous, probably just like him.
"Yeah its that visible?"
"You look like a beggar, of course, it's visible, look around us, who looks as shabby as you, by the way, my name is Antonio."
The middle-aged man smiled at Antonio and extended his hand, "nice to meet you, Antonio, I don't like your name, but you can call me Badoi."
Antonio and Badoi shook hands casually.
"So how long?!" Antonio smiled mysteriously.
"Five thousand years if I remember correctly."
Hearing Badois words Antonion grimaced, "you're a little saint arent you, I have twenty-seven thousand years."
Badois hearing that number blanked out, "what are you?! Jesus!"
"It doesn't matter, I only served three thousand years, it is said that if we repent, we will be released that's bullshit right there, I repent every day, but with no avail.
Badoi laughed at his words, "well I served for four thousand years already, and I understand that repenting won't help. That damned bastard doesn't care if you repent or not, what he wants is for us to understand something and I don't know what that is."
"Epiphany? Huh? I thought of that, but either I can't be changed, or I won't ever attain freedom, fuck Dominus and fuck that World AI, fuck them all."
"Shhh… what is wrong with you don't you know World AI sees everything, we are free, but we can be imprisoned again, I don't want to go back,"
Antonio calmed down after a round of cursing and asked Badoi, "why do you think we have been released for World banket it didn't happen previously, I missed three already."
World banquet, hearing these two words Badoi salivated in his mouth, he only attended once. Only The first one and it was the most enjoyable time of his life. "Who knows and I don't care, lookup we have five minutes till world banket starts and since you, I, and probably others like us have been released something big is going to happen, I cant wait to see what goes down. Don't you agree, ei, Antonio? Stop clenching your hands into bizarre shapes. I see it."
"Oh really, sorry a habit." Antonio loosened his hand that was covered by his sleeve.
Atop their heads floating clock with a minute countdown hovered everywhere because exactly at midnight of Mercury time they would all be transported.
In the past, those who were "imprisoned" were exempted from world banquet because Dominus considered and categorized them as not humans. Every person that had a thousand years in 'prison' couldn't be categorized as human, more like devils in human skin.
But today was different even they were allowed to have fun and enjoy what was to come.
Do not assume the 'prison' is the same as real-life prison were these guys are powerless victims unable to do anything. It's a masterfully crafted virtual reality, that gives them as much freedom as possible, just like parallel universes, only they know its an illusion.
In 'prison' Dominus plays God and tries to find a way to truly redeem these sinners or find a purpose for their lives. You would think giving them such a high sentence of thousands of years is cruel, but the amount of life they get to live. The experience they have, imagine that?
Once redeemed and pardoned they can and will be beyond grateful just like several Morgols are now, invaluable experience, true suffering for their sins, but an absolute chance at success.
When a man comes out of prison, how hard is for that person to rise? Do they even have a chance to make a comeback? Especially child molesters or worse? Zero, they are doomed to become the scum of society, irredeemable pricks.
The only person that gives them appropriate punishment and allows reformation is Dominus.
No one, till this day, knows that to create a time ratio of 1:1000, Dominus had to sacrifice his ability to see the future further than ten years.
If you want to create something great, there are things that you will have to sacrifice, but the choice is yours what you sacrifice for this greatness.
Even if circumstances force you! You are the one who chooses! So the blame is all yours in the end.
In 'prison' Antonio and Badoi were exceptional; they had the bloodline of the last human civilization awakened inside them without them even knowing. The civilization of humans that was degraded by the Silobun race.
Their decisions could shape the fate of an entire race.
...….
"Mother hurry, we must prepare, who knows maybe you will find someone to marry to."
"What nonsense daughter, if you're beautiful mother, wanted to marry she would have done so already."
"You are lying, why are you lying, I said to prepare, finding solace in virtual realities is not the goal, world banquet is our best chance!"
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Somewhere in Africa,
"Granma, get up, everyone has to go."
"I won't, I am too old, leave me!"
"What do you mean, only a hundred and five years old, you still have potentially a hundred more years to live, stop using age as an excuse."
"Alright, alright I will put on some makeup, last time I had great fun with that Travis, but he never sought me out, I don't want my hopes of meeting him to be dashed."
"So that's what you were afraid of! Don't worry, grandma World banquet never disappoints."
....
"It's great and all to have this banquet, but why do I have to be there for twenty-four hours, can it be ten, twelve, come on I can't be there for so long."
"Husband stop complaining, a day of great joy and fun what's to complain about, maybe I should write a report, even after so much guidance on everything how my husband still complains."
"Woman if you write a report about me, possible you are going to be one who gets in trouble, hehe."
"Oh, shut up!"
...….
Every street in every country was filled with discussions, and the atmosphere was great even though people died, and these weeks have been though the assuredness and protection of Morgols brought peace to people. With such towering pillars of support and their tireless work, everyone believed humans would resolve the problems efficiently.
Maybe nobody knew what was going on, but the trust was at its limits between Morgols and humans.
Many assumed that all the happenings would stop after World banquet, but little did they know that humanity declared war on every super civilization.
The news was perfectly covered by Dominus if he didn't want to, no one would know anything, leaking information was even more impossible.
This year's World banquet was so important that Dominus was betting everything on it.
Finally, it was time, the atmosphere of Mercury changed, the lands of mercury brightened up, magnificent radiance filled heaven and Earth, the sun became just decoration for viewing.
Billions of chairs of magnificent shapes appeared all over Mercury than were tables decorated with thousands of different ornaments with different material composition, but great synergy.
Mountains that once were either super hot or super cold were leveled, flatlands overtook Mercury earth and heaven were evened perfectly. Half of humanity would sit for twelve hours facing the sun enjoying the refreshing breeze the other half would sit on a cold side for twelve hours enjoying the beneficial cold breeze.
If necessary humans would be randomly transported from one place to another and no one would ever know with who or where they would appear. This was also a planned attraction, an unknown little adventure for people's enjoyment.
Also Starting from the deepest depth of the planet, finishing with the sun that wouldn't blind anyone by looking at it and instead would provide an unimaginable view, everything was done impeccably there was not a single mistake made in preparation.
Dominus, who was resting with his eyes closed, was awoken by his children's reminder.
"So its time, the most important turning point in our lives."
"We are ready, father, don't worry about us."
"Alright I could have prevented the inevitable for a longer period, but it's better to do this sooner." Dominus pointed his hand towards an unidentifiable object that had countless numbers flushing on it every second, flicked his hand, and waved at Zagaroth.
Zagaroth seeing this hand gesture couldn't help but blurt out, "what were you flicking your hand about if you didn't do anything."
"I forgot for a second. I can't use any of the remaining energy in the ring, also, too tired of erasing embarrassing moments and pretending it never happened, for coolness points."
"Just do the damn thing."
"It's not easy to teleport every human even if we have their genetic segments coded in "Avalanche" it's too hard."
"Either do it or else!" Dominus took out a simple revolver from his ring and pointed at Zagaroth.
"Hehe hehe… calm down don't point that on me, I will do it anyway, I was just complaining because it's a hard job."
"You have 4….. 3…..2...1.."
"Got it!"
Zagaroths eyes flushed with power. He willed his God might with full attention and concentrated on "Avalanche" time seemed to slow down. Countless names passed past his eyes. They were all humans in different corners of different planets in the solar system on pluto, on mars, on venus and others. But most humans were still on Earth.
When Dominus's counting reached 0_, Zagaroth sent a tremendous wave of energy that reached every human in an instant. Soon billions of humans were transferred as if something pulled them through absolute power.
Nobody felt anything, but they covered the terrifying distance in just a second, and soon they all appeared sitting, in their rightful places.
Zagaroth began to pant, "are you happy now!"
Dominus kissed the revolver and put it away gently, "now I will just attend and see who should be sent were while having fun the rest should be handled easily, great job Zaga we couldn't have done it without you."
"I would give you something, but you have everything so sorry about that."