[DING]
[BODY CREATION MODULE]
[TRUE FORM SELECTED]
[CREATION COMMENCED]
I watched as a whitish-gold stream of seemingly liquid stuff flowed out of me. At this point, I realized I still couldn't see myself—almost like I didn't exist—but I could still note my surroundings and this liquid leaving me.
I watched as it flowed into the screen and, like a vessel, began filling the form I made. Slowly, it left the screen and hovered to the side on a podium that I didn't even realize was there all along.
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
[CREATION COMPLETED]
The form totally came to being, looking even grander and bigger than it had on the screen. The muscles were more detailed, and the body screamed "powerful."
If this wasn't my body, I would have peed in my pants just at the sight. Luckily, it was my body, and I didn't have an excretory organ.
Another chime, and more words popped into my mind.
[DING]
[BINDING ???? DIVINITY WITH TRUE FORM]
[BINDING COMMENCED]
A whiplash hit me, and then I felt myself get sucked in. The images I could detect suddenly vanished, and space blurred around me.
Within my head, I could hear the ticking and rise of the percentage bar as everything spun. I felt myself spreading. It was like my mind, but more like I had been stretched to cover a vast area.
Finally, a new ding sounded out, and I found myself feeling things in a different way from earlier.
I tightened my hands, then my toes curled up. I frowned at the thought. Wait, I frowned? My eyes shot open at the thought, and bam—I froze.
Space. Literal space. I was floating in space. But it was not what I expected. I'd always seen pictures of space and watched movies acted in space, or at least a CGI take on it.
While most of it was farfetched, some parts had a semblance of truth to it at least. And right now, there was none here. The space before me was dark—not black like space. Just dark.
There was no light, no life, no anything. Just nothing. Only rocks floated about like dead corpses. If those were even rocks.
It felt like a graveyard for elephants or mammoths, where skeletons of the great prehistoric animals lay to rest. Even with all the darkness, I realized something.
"Am I glowing?"
Within the ten-meter area around me, light shone. But it wasn't the light—it was more of the light source that was unnerving.
My eyes dismissed the prompt in my view as I stared at my body. It was the same. No, not the same as my human body, but the same as what I just finished designing.
'What kind of prank is this?' I murmured.
Yet deep in me, I was already doubting if all this was even a prank.
"Tell me what's going on. Everything. From who you are to where I am. I need to know," I demanded.
[LIKE I SAID. I AM YOU. BUT TO UNDERSTAND, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN. WE DIED. OUR SOUL CROSSED THE DISTANCE TO JOIN THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH. BUT A NEWLY RECREATING SPACE OR MULTIVERSE TORE US OUT OF THE PATH AND INTO ITSELF. THIS IS HOW WE WERE REMADE.]
"Wait. Wait. Let's say I believe this. If you are me, how are we... different or separate? And how do you know all this? Shouldn't you be as confused as me if so?"
[WE WOULD CALL OURSELVES NOT DIFFERENT BUT UNIQUE. WE HAVE ATTAINED A STATE THAT OTHER GODS LACK. IT CAME AS A RESULT OF YOUR... WELL, BOREDOM. HARD AS IT IS TO BELIEVE, BUT TALKING AND REPLYING TO YOURSELF WHILE GETTING REBORN, OR MOST APPROPRIATELY SAID REFORGED, GAVE A SENSE OF SPLIT MIND. I WASN'T SEPARATED. JUST DIVIDED TO REASON ON MY OWN. I AM YOU, JUST THINKING DIFFERENTLY. IF THAT MAKES SENSE.]
"That barely makes sense," I argued, confused while frowning.
[WE WERE NEVER THAT SMART.] the voice replied in a defeated tone.
[AS TO HOW WE KNOW OF THIS AND OTHER THINGS. WE DO NOT KNOW EITHER. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THE ANSWERS FOR MOST THINGS POP INTO OUR HEAD. LIKE AN INTERNET SEARCH OF SORTS.]
"Why don't I know these things then, if we are the same?"
[YOU KNOW. YOU JUST DON'T KNOW YOU DO. WHICH IS WHERE I COME IN. I DRAG THIS INFORMATION OUT AND EXPOSE IT TO YOU. THINK OF IT LIKE A GEM WITHIN A SAND. I'M THE HAND THAT DIGS THE GEM AND YOU ARE THE EYES THAT HAVEN'T SEEN. YOU FEEL THE GEM THROUGH ME, BUT UNTIL I PULL IT OUT OF THE SAND, ONLY I WILL KNOW WHAT IT IS.]
'Hmm, sounds okay.' I couldn't help but agree. My eyes focused on my body once more. The light that shone came from me—all of me. Standing or floating upright and naked in my form, I glowed—no, I shone like a star. Not just bright enough...
"This light?"
[YOUR DIVINITY.]
"So this is actually not a prank?" I asked again.
[NO. IT IS NOT.]
Nodding my new head, I made a little smile, then looked at myself again. The blue streams I decided to call Damas flowed wildly within me. My hands burned with the red light that made it look like I dipped my hands in a volcano.
My entire body felt and looked powerful. Looking up, I realized how clear my vision was. I knew I had five eyes, but I also knew that the fifth was shut.
Trying to open it, a ding resounded in my head as a red light of words simultaneously flashed in my vision.
[ADVISED TO REFRAIN FROM USING THE FIFTH YET]
[INSUFFICIENT DIVINITY TO POWER FIFTH EYE]
"The hell? How could my fifth... ohh? Right." Remembering what I imagined as I made the four eyes and what I thought of while creating the fifth, I kept my mouth shut.
Removing the prompt in my vision, I finally saw the first prompt I had ignored until now.
[BINDING COMPLETED]
[WELCOME TO YOUR MULTIVERSE]
"My multiverse?" I asked, raising my eyebrows at the statement.