"So this is how I go?"
A ragged and torn-looking man in a broken space suit near a rusty spaceship muttered hoarsely as his dim eyes saw the Planetar Class Nemesis Destroyer Ship hover in the skies, Its Size was Huge enough to Become a new Moon For the Planet, It then let out a massive beam of energy onto the Planet.
This Energy was unlike Regular Energy- It was from a higher dimension within the Universe and was the most miraculous any sentient being came across, it could alter Reality itself -
Turn a piece of Stone into Gold?-Tch Easy. Turn Water into Wine? -Hmmph Not hard. Break the Laws Of Old Earth Physics?- Pah! Of Course!
As long as one knew how to harness it, one could do anything- For this instance, the energy beam from the ship was destabilizing the Planet's very atoms, Shredding it apart until all that remains is dust...
These So Called Mythic Factions did not care if People lived or Died, A Planet Gone Just Like that! Poof!
This was only a small extent of horrors committed. The true extent would make a steel human cry tears of blood until there would be none left. It was reality, such games were common for all Sub factions of the 9 Great Galactic Factions.
Yes, some Factions opposed this indifference and Even Some Great Factions had principles they would not break, But then again who's to say an Angel Won't fall and Demon Won't Rise?
In the end, what mattered was whether you were strong enough.
If one had Power, one lived, if not - one would die. There were no equal rights at the Galactic Level. Only the strong could set the Laws and the weak obeyed!
The Unfortunate Young man above was a part of one of the Neutral Star Countries who were victim to the traitors in their Ruling Faction who had executed the most devious and vile scheme the Lower Ring Had Ever Known-
His Name was Aavesh - The last survivor of The Rathiel Genocide.
His Star Country had changed hands at the top level and several portals to the Abyss had opened up with armies and false Demon Lord Projections descended to harvest life and fallen souls- All this carnage and tragedy for what? They had gifted the entire territory to an Evil Faction for resources to progress further in Mythic Power.
As a result, a mass culling began and unfortunately-His planet was annihilated instantly- His Country had Fallen and Everyone he ever knew- Dead.
With Nothing Left, He took the last batch of children induced into a cryo-sleep who had somehow survived the Tathlum curse into deep space. the Tathlum Curse evoked Bloody Memories filled with Despair. A curse so vile in nature, that even Most Higher Dimension would seethe in rage due to it.
He did not know what had happened exactly - A Tathlum meant that at Atleast Six Great galactic Factions would send out armies to Capture the culprit and ensure his\her soul is personally Sent down to the Primordial Crucible - A fate far worse than death.
But No One came to Avenge their Star Country or other star Countries. Something had happened in the inner Rings that stopped them. The Outer Rings had completely fallen into Abyssal Influence.
The Genocide at Rathiel was just the first. Soon More Followed and the Human Resistance Fought Back. Aavesh also fought alongside the Resistance Fleets - But it was to no avail. Whatever had happened in the Rathiel Republic had caused something major to Happen at the Galactic Center.
There were no more Reinforcements- The Strength of the Outer Rings obviously did not compare to those in Inner Rings and the Core. Stronger Demons Came - Ones that Humans in the Outer Rings could not compare to.
But People still had hope. Some believed there was a major blockade in the Inner Rings and that there were Still Human Forces Present.
Those that went into the Inner Rings were never heard of again. They had become Silent as Space. No Communications - Nothing.
Nowadays, The Human Race was nearly Extinct. There are very few living in hiding from the Abyssal forces - But that would not last long enough for a civilization to make a comeback. Other Races were not spared either - Most were already being harvested as food.
It was a Hopeless Situation to Stay in the Milky Way anymore. Aavesh worked hard enough to steal an Inter-Galactic Warp Core Prototype from turncoats, to take the last seeds of Hope into another Galaxy At least. Others echoed his sentiment and joined in to try and escape the Death Trap, The Milk Way had become.
Even the New Gods had helped - They tried all measures to Help the fleeing Races - Until all the gods had suddenly faced an unprecedented Assault - The Demon Goddess, The Undeath Goddess, and The forbidden Devil God.
They Killed them all - Nearly all.
The Goddess of Death and Reincarnation- somehow escaped to her Realm with heavy injuries and the souls of the perished Gods.
That was all that the Rumors of Fate Said when an Oracle tried to Divine what the fuck had happened.
Realms had begun to fall one by one.
The Apocalypse was here.
All Lost.
Humans No Longer had the Protection of Several Divine Beings - They were now rootless weeds in a Stormy Sea. All those who had joined in to escape the Galaxy alongside him, died one by one. In the End, Only he survived.
His eyes then looked at the group of children still in an induced sleep completely unaware of their impending Doom.
He remembered being chased around like a dog across several Star Countries for decades while trying to hide the last seeds of hope from his devastated Star Country, to at least let them live in peace. But "those" cruel hunters never relented in searching for any survivors! The Survivors had to be cleansed to the last atom!
He had brought them to hide on this planet, but it seems that "those" forces still found them and this time they cut off all routes to escape, the entire System this planet was in, was blockaded very tightly leaving no room for any maneuver. They all could only wait for death to approach them.
Aavesh then clenched his fists as he saw the oncoming wave of destruction, but then loosened as he seemed to have suddenly recalled every aspect of his life. It was like the final Remembrance before Death- Recalling every memory, to try and hold onto something- before death.
It was as if he wanted to know where he went wrong and how things come to this- a miserable existence who could not even complete his final task to let those children hide and live in peace from this catastrophic war...
He then had a flash of realization as he saw all of his memories piece by piece, a regretful smile appeared on his face as he looked at the Bright wall of light that was just about to approach him. He spoke his last sentence as he was being engulfed by light -
"I am not Good or Evil but sometimes I wish I could be both... because aren't they 2 sides of the same coin?".
His thoughts drifted to all those he loved in this life- his family, friends, and ... Her - before being disintegrated to atoms, his soul then felt extreme grief as it then saw all of them die one by one he was helpless to change this outcome, Then his last thought appeared- that line he spoke, it was the culmination of everything wrong he had done.
He had not handled those situations with decisiveness, did not stick to his principles when the time came, and became soft-hearted at the worst times of all... It was as if he engraved this thought into his soul so that he would never forget it- be it this life or the next. As this oath was being imprinted his soul became unconscious in the now empty void.
The Enemies had long left after determining that no living being existed after the Blast.
But it was this thought that came from his very soul, as a final wish of sorts - an oath began to echo in the universe, as the unconscious soul was about to fly into the grand gate of judgment, something awoke within the soul.
Suddenly fragments of broken glass-like substance appeared on the soul and a mysterious will appeared from this glass and converged above the soul to form a shadowy cloaked figure glowing with bright blue eyes akin to stars in the night sky.
Its Cloak Seemed made of a primeval Darkness that was neither evil nor good, it simply represented what Universe looked before it was Born. It was Perfect Darkness - Absence, Void, Unexistence. Yet the Fabric of its cloak did not hide its Contrasting Body
Its Body resembled the Starry Universe - Dark as the night sky But Filled with Various Stars all around. Its Powerful Transparent Unblinking Blue Eyes - which were akin to 2 Blue Solar Stars - were unlike a Human's. Its gaze seemed so desolate and cold - like a machine's yet there seemed to be hidden within the very depths of its eyes - Traces of Emotions so inexplicable.
The Countless Stars on its body had formed an unknown Pattern - with Blue Lines connecting them temporarily, to form unknown runes. Its Breath - so Eternal As Old As Time.
The Cloaked figure's very presence warped the surroundings around itself - and even the Gate of Judgement shuddered at its very existence- It trembled so fiercely that it shattered into rays of light when the cloaked figure gazed its glowing eyes at it. The Death hold on Aavesh's soul disappeared.
The figure raised its hand and space-time stopped - as if waiting for its order. The figure moved its dark shadowy finger in the anti-clockwise direction and space-time reversed!
Flashes of light streaks appeared around them as they finally stopped at a scene where an extremely younger version of the man- now a small boy was sleeping soundly in his room completely unaware of the torment he would face in the future.
The figure then created a triangle-shaped light Blue symbol on its finger and placed it on the forehead of the sleeping boy.
The unconscious older soul then began to float to the strange triangle mark as the glass pieces on it seemed to hum and shine with blue light. The strange triangle mark trembled at this, as if something was being awakened by it in the young boy- the same cloaked figure appeared on the small boy's forehead.
It seemed that blue triangle symbol-like rune had awoken it, It looked at the one that summoned and nodded in Acknowledgement of a Reason only known to them.
The 2 cloaked figures stared at each other for a moment - The Cloaked figure with the older Soul of Aavesh from the future - both melted into Bright Blue Light which merged into the Sleeping Young Boy.
The Cloaked Figure then raised both of its arms and looked at the vortex formed due to this, its eyes containing powerful blue light flashed, and mysterious runes of an unknown language containing infinite power that could rip the very fabric of Reality appeared and rotated around its dark arms.
Each rotation made the runes incredibly powerful as they gathered mysterious energy from the Cloaked figure. Soon they began to cause a slight distortion of reality - The Power of Law was being bent to the very Extreme!
Just as it seemed that the Laws of reality were going to break - powerful Blue light shot across the Void from the Cloaked figure's Glowing Eyes and created a powerful fissure in reality but only for a nanosecond and in that time the revolving runes shot out across to the Fissure from its Arms with extreme speed.
The Gaze of the Cloaked figure Dimmed down and Reality Quickly Repaired itself. Its arms began to glow again and across the Universe, an invisible change began to occur.
It spoke in a deep voice and the universe seemed to obey its every command like Sacred Laws,
"Law Altering Runes Merged---"
"Temporary Control of Fate--- Gained!"
"Merging memory of past self, retracting excess soul power to avoid Temporal Guardian Kronos..."
"Merge complete, Erasing all traces of stealth Time Travel and sending runic code to shift destiny chart to Chaos- - - Achieved--- All Protocols of Rebirth- Complete!"
"Good Luck Aavesh, I hope you can awaken this time..."
The Cloaked figure mysteriously said this and disappeared into the young Boy's forehead...