Only darkness existed in there, among that darkness was him, he looked frustrated, he had long since lost the passage of time in that void.
"F*uck this! curse you heavens, you're not even letting me rest in peace, damn you"
He could only curse in that situation. Nothing existed around him, it didn't matter how far he ran, the limitless darkness never ended. He had been there for who knew how many years, nothing he did seems to trigger any reaction.
"Hmmm, am I a special case or does everyone suffer like this after death" He mumbled
"Initially I thought that life was sh*t, but now I realise that even that life filled with those sorry excuse for humans was better than this."
Time continued to pass, minutes turned into days, days turned into years, years turned into decades, decades turned into eras, but still nothing happened.
"Maybe I have to stay here forever" He said to himself. "I need to do something or I would go crazy due to this boredom"
Minutes of silence passed, he struggled to find something to that he could do in that situation but nothing seemed to come to his mind.
Finally an answer came to him, "I can only think" He finally concluded.
And so he started thinking....
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Eras passed just like that. He was laying on the black surface looking at the black sky above. He looked just like before, passage of time has not affected him in the slightest.
"When I was alive, I created the space contraction theory, if my theory was correct then between two spaces there should be a place like this,... maybe I am stuck between two different spaces" He mumbled
....
"I wish I had something to write on, I could at least complete my theory before I lose my mind, there is a limit to how much one can do in mind, I need to do some calculations" He said "but still, I don't think that even if I understand space, it will help me in getting out of here. There is a difference in theory and practical after all"
Something strange happened at those words. A strange black glow came out from his fingertips, that light was extremely dim but even in that strange black space it was shining.
He didn't even noticed that at first, but when he looked at the previous spot where his hands were resting he got surprised. Marks of his fingertips were on that spot.
"What is this!" he exclaimed after finally noticing that his fingertips were glowing.
He casually pointed his forefinger in air and casually waved his hand. To his surprise his forefinger drew a white line in that air.
"So this is a tool for writing, but how in the hell did I get this." He questioned himself.
"I gave it you, I noticed that you were quite bored"
A deep voice resounded in the area, that voice was not normal at all, it carried heavy bloodlust, it carried a feeling of intense anger.
The voice seemed to came from every direction, it didn't have any specific source.
He was surprised beyond imagination, eras have passed without any change and now out of nowhere someone was talking to him, even giving him some tools to write.
"Who are you?, are you God" He asked.
"When you think of God what exactly do you imagine ? " The voice replied
"What", he said. He did not know what to say at those words.
" I am asking, what is a God for you" The voice replied.
"I... I.. I don't know what you're asking" He Stammered. He had a hope now, he didn't know what powerful being was talking to him, but one thing was clear, that he knew about Gods. And such existence had to be very powerful.
"What a pain you're to deal with" The voice sighted.
"What exactly are you" He asked softly. He wanted to get out of that place, and that existence can help him in that matter.
"You will know soon, but you should know two things first"
" First is that I cannot save you from here, but I might give you something that might help you to to get out of here, the first thing I have already given you"
"And the second" He asked as disappointment grew in his eyes. He had got his hopes up for nothing. But there was still a chance. He could still get out of that hell, or that was what the voice said.
" The second thing is this.... "
Suddenly a pain filled his body, every inch of his body was screaming in pain, even his hairs were hurting, it was a pain that he had never experienced before.
His skin began to shatter, blood flew out of his eyes at veins in his eyes exploded.
He soon became unable to sense anything, only pain filled his mind. The process continued for hours. But Finally the pain stopped.
A humanoid figure was standing on the black ground, it a human like shape but but no other features on its body. It was just a mass of dark red gas. That had a specific shape.
"What have you done to me" He asked after checking his condition. He did not have any eyes or other sence organs, but he was able to see and hear.
"This is the last bit of power that I had left in me" The voice said. The bloodlust in the voice had weakned but the anger still remained the same.
"I am on my deathbed currently" The voice said, " I do not have much time left, so listen closely to what I say carefully"
He nodded, even if there was no one specific to see that gesture.
"In your world, people believed in certain identities that appeared out of nowhere and performed deeds beyond human limits. You people call them gods, right"
"Yes... I guess"
"Those people were just like you at some point"
"Wha.. " He tried to ask a question but the voice continued.
"Those people come from lands just like yours, but those lands are not independent like yours, the are under the control of an entity which is far more powerful than those mere gods..... People from those planes strive to reach that spot, but no one ever succeeded"
He didn't said anything, he had more in his mind than he can process, he was not able to speak at the moment.
"When you exit from here, you will reach such a plane, strive to reach that spot that everyone wants, there you will find every answer to your question, on your journey you will encounter someone that have a right connection with me. Kill him at all costs. I might made some mistakes during my journey, and that person is the greatest mistake of them all."
The voice stopped speaking at that moment,
And he feeled a gaze on his back, he turned around to see 2 red eyes staring at him from the darkness.
Take this also, the voice resounded and the eyes suddenly shot forward and merged with the gas.
2 eyes appeared on the face of that humanoid figure.
"Farewell then"
"Wait"
"What"
"What exactly have I become" He asked.
"You are nothing for now, become what you want"
"What is that supposed to mean"
" Figure that out for yourself"
"At least tell me how to get out of this place
" I don't have any idea, I was never trapped somewhere like this, " That answer left him speechless. He could not believe that even such existance didn't know how to get out of that place.
"Goodbye, and don't forget to take care of that certain someone"
The voice faded at that point. Leaving him clueless again about what to do.
"I guess this will take me countless eras, no point in waiting then.... "