Gōman Chizaru— his surname containing the kanji for "haughty, arrogant, insolent, proud, overbearing" (傲慢 gouman) and his first name containing the characters for "blood" (血 chi) and "monkey" (猿 saru); all which are closely tied to his origin.
The full extent of Gōman's origin still remains shrouded in mystery, but his first appearance could be dated back to over millions of years ago.
Though legends state that this being had been born from blood, death and void— this is actually not too far from the truth.
Even with the existence of the progenitors— the realms are by themselves, their own entities. For example, if humans were to think of the bacteria on their bodies as just things that 'exist on them'— the realms see living people as no different from bacteria. We cannot affect the realms, besides from the progenitors that is. Due to the rules of heaven and earth, the realms must choose and obey a master to control the balance between the gods, the progenitors, and the mortals.
The realms are currently ranked by their size and how powerful the mana of each realm is in purity. Putting this into consideration— the realms are currently ranked; Mortal Realm, Realm of Time, Realm of Gold, Realm of Blood and Realm of Life. These are the rankings from lowest to greatest. But just how there are infinite possibilities— the ranking of a realm can change.
Though it is said that it can change— it's mostly meant that it can increase or decrease. Though as rare as it was, a realm, as its own entity, can reproduce to make an either superior or inferior realm. This phenomenon only happening once every billion years!
Now, bringing the subject back to Gōman Chizaru— Gōman had been born 5 million years ago. He had been conceived during rift cracks, formations and expansions in the void during the birth of a new realm. Well, to be more precise— he had been born from the instabilities constructed from this new realm. To date— that realm was possibly the biggest and most powerful realm even the gods had ever seen. But however, as stated earlier— this realm was unstable; it was so unstable that it threatened to implode on itself, threatening to destroy or cause huge damages to the other realms. Due to this— it had to be separated; cut in half by the gods. Though this fixed the situation temporarily— the now 2 realms needed a progenitor to control them.
Correct. The only way to control the realms was to only have one progenitor controlling it as the 2 shared the same consciousness— and due to the instabilities; the 2 realms— later named the Realm of Death and the Void had been sealed and restricted access to or by the outside. Later leaving without their knowledge— an unstable and chaotic demon born from the Blood Realm which had birthed the Realm of Death and the Void.
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Arrogance, 傲慢, Blood, 血, Monkey, 猿, Monkey, 猿, Blood, 血, Arrogance, 傲慢
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Gōman's true appearance is that of a monkey with 7 tails, a second pair of eyes underneath that of his normal ones, and he possesses a mouth on each cheek and his normal mouth as well. Though he has extra parts such as extra mouths or eyes— they usually stay closed so tightly to the point they almost look like scars. He only opens his extra parts when in a highly emotional state, such as; being excited, angered , happy or sad. Though it's not confirmed whether he can feel those emotions— it had been told that they had once opened while he had been showing great pleasure on his face while fighting a strong opponent; showing off his three tongues and four eyes in a sadistic smile.
His fur could be said to be one of the hardest surfaces in this world— it was said to be as dark and ensnaring as the night sky. However, the most ominous part about him was— 血
The magic he used. The type of body refining and manipulation he practiced. And his atrocities so far.
In Gōman's long existence— there had been a fact which could had never been confirmed from the people of the past or of the present... most people however claim that it had been this way because the people who'd discovered the answer had long died or had been killed. However, the question begs... why had Gōman been named after an arrogant, blood monkey? And was the word of him having fangs true...?
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"But mommy, what was so bad about the baddy?" 'Damn! Not even mentally a 10-year-old person speaks like this!'
Amser shook her head, and before she could continue, Dhahabu had decided to take the reins in the storytelling. "It all started after his discovery. Soon after his birth— since the Realm of Death and the Void had been sealed off, he had decided to take refuge inside his 'mother'— the Blood Realm. After arriving at a village nearing a crystal clear lake, Gōman, not knowing much of the laws of nature, life and death, had already begun to feel hunger for the first time.
In just one night— Gōman had killed and devoured 1000 out of the 5000 people in the village, not discriminating against men, women and children alike. Filling and completely turning the crystal clear lake a dark and blood-red color. The next day the remaining villagers had all rallied and had called for a low-ranking Baron to do something as they believed a mysterious and possibly dangerous 'beast' was killing off their people.
Though the Baron was reluctant at first, he still had to do his duty as the possibility of a threat which could kill 1000 in a night was too great to ignore.
And just like that— in the span of a year— Gōman had killed 1 million people. After which, that was when people truly began to fear him.
They all feared and hated his existence, and so... they decided to put everything on him— to curse him. To curse him for all of their griefs and misery, for deaths and diseases. There were even some people who had worshiped him as a god or deity of death." Dhahabu took a short break before Aìma took over. "And that was when things truly went out of control. After deciding upon this— they had all decided to curse him with all of their sins; they had decided that he was going to be responsible for all and every sin...
After the passing of 25 years— 1.3 trillion had died. Resented by people as evil, and at the same time worshiped as a god of death someone who is truly no one...
An existence created to which people wished upon it to be evil. Which later became a reality. An existence which embodies all evil in this world— and existence which can curse all 97 trillion people ranging from the Mortal Realm to even the Void... that is the true guise of that demon.
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Arrogance, 傲慢, Blood, 血, Monkey, 猿, Monkey, 猿, Blood, 血, Arrogance, 傲慢
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"But Norn says he doesn't look like a monkey... why's that?"
"Amser, I think Norn just regressed in mental age." Aìma seemed exasperated as she said this looking at Amser.
"It's not her fault! It's just that body manipulation seems like an instinct or second-nature for her, so she wouldn't really know that everyone could do what she can do!" Amser quickly tried to defend Norn like a mother.
"Isn't it supposed to be the opposite?! Aren't kids supposed to think everyone can be able to do something if they can?!"
"Well... she sometimes believes that she's special and stuff...! Wait that's not necessarily true!" The two began to bicker for a while.
"Uhn... that's true. However, Gōman's skill in body manipulation is truly beyond our imaginations... though completely changing one's appearance to even look that of a different person and or race is quite basic body manipulation— the way he can change his aura, temperament and even level to that of a certain body is quite outstanding; the only thing probably being able to tell the real from the fake being actions, personality or speech patterns." Dhahabu said.
"Indeed, as we progenitors are here to keep a status quo between us, the gods and mortals— we are also here to mediate in between. We connect the heavens and the earth." Rhin began. "However, that Gōman— could possibly be a bridge between the gods and hell. We, as progenitors are known as the Sons of Heaven or the Daughters of Heaven— this bastard may as well be 'The Son of Heaven and Hell'. He's an anomaly— a heresy! We must get rid of him!" Rhin gave in his final thought before raising his arm.
"Do you guys see this?" Rhin, with his arm raised pointed a finger at the shrine's altar. Before anyone could even have the time to ask what he was pointing at. A magnificent and dazzling golden spear had appeared on the shrine's altar. The spear was a brilliant dark and heavy gold, and it was decorated with ancient runes and almost seemed to replicate a malevolent and evil aura.
"Though only a replica I've recreated through my core strength, this is currently the vessel being used by Gōman Chizaru." Rhin smirked.
"The vessel he's currently using is of little to no importance. What is important however, is Gōman's current location."
"As we are progenitors— We are essentially omnipotent and omnipresent in our own respective realms with the help of the realms themselves.
Alas, if you haven't already tried searching for him in your own realms— I can confirm for one that he's not in the Realm of Life."
"Un." The other three nodded to confirm. "He's not in mine either." They all answered in unison.
"Now... that only leaves— the Realm of Death, the Void, and the Mortal Realm." Rhin finally gave out a twisted smile as he scratched his hair, later sniffing his fingertips to smell the scent of his hair. After wrinkling his nose as if he'd smelled something off, he continued— "The two formers are currently unable to be accessed due to their being sealed; now only leaving the latter— being the Mortal Realm."
"Well, no shit. We all came to that before you even started blabbing about the vessel."
"What?! Then why didn't you stop me?!" Rhin seemed quite flustered now as he'd wasted a bit of time.
"Well no matter, the point being that with the scarce to almost nonexistent amount of mana in that realm— it would take him between 100 and 1000 years for him to fully reawaken, so I guess we are fortunate in that aspect."
"Though this is true— the issue still lies in that we do not know his exact location." Dhahabu interjected. Dhahabu was the type of person who'd always be wary of the enemy no matter how much of an advantage he may have over them— he takes everyone seriously and dislikes not having full control of a situation or not knowing the full extent of a situation.
"Heh heh, Old Bu, we've been together for so long, yet it feels like you haven't changed from our very first meeting."
"I'm just being cautious as we don't know how much our enemy had changed from back then."
"Go on...?"
"I don't know about you, Rhin... but. Have you taken in consideration his vessel?"
"Oh? That spear? Though it is not bad, I believe a person like Gōman would kill without hesitation the person which had crafted that spear for just 'how it looked. No worries— Though 2000 years have passed, I am still a progenitor and know of the affairs on the outside... well those of that in my realm at least."
"No, no... that's not what I—"
"Oh? The House of Spear? Haha! Are you worrying that much about such little ants? We don't even need to take them into consideration! If I wished of it— I could even send out a purge order to eradicate that house as they only have a shallow history of 1000 years.
Dhahabu's face was filled with slight irritation— but it had vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
"Wrong again!
However... have you taken in consideration his... human vessel?"