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[Skill, {Immersion}
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As soon as those unexpected words filled my vision, my world dissolved into darkness, and the last thing I saw were the strange and bizzare characters on the walls come to life and flutter around me like leaves in the wind.
And then the next moment, my consciousness was warped and pulled inward sharply.
'Not again....! ' I barely managed to hold on to a final thought which also quickly faded and ceased at once.
Suddenly, everything became still and distant.
As my world blacked out and my consciousness turned thin, my mind was suddenly raided by the prescence of abstract thoughts and information.
Deep within my blackened subconscious, strange letters and characters flowed like a raging blizzard then died the rest of my consciousness in a sharp bright light.
Then, after that, everything was over.
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The 'First Great Calamity '
Those words... reverberated deeply within my subconscious.
Then everything shook.
The depths of my darkness shifted, and the black empty scene of vacuum unraveled to a different scene.
What could be described as 'otherworldly' presented itself to me at point black.
My eyes were widened to their extremities. I couldn't move, and everything was black.
No.
It was black, but there was something even darker... something sinister undulating like lightless tendrils in front of me.
I couldn't move my body, but I could also tell there wasn't anything like solid ground or surface in this 'dream" which I assumed it was due to my past experiences with the [Immersion] skill.
That was because the endless vacuum of space surrounded me in its cold and empty embrace.
And in the very depth of this vacuum of 'space', there weren't such things as distant twinkling stars, or even the heavenly bodies that comprised of the sun, moon, and planets.
Instead something very dark, very sinister.... Something repulsive took their places.
It was shapeless. It was formless.
It only continued to grow and expand, devouring even the furthest non-existent extremities of space.
Then a group of words reverberated deeply in my soul. And instinctively, I knew what that 'thing' was.
[@$!#@!$#$¥@$!#@!$]
My head thrubbed. It was like I just got hit by a jackhammer.
Was it from staring at the blot that was the beginning of everything, or was it simply for 'imagining' the 'name' of 'that thing', i didn't know.
And I also wasn't left the room to ponder it for too long.
The black blot wasn't the only thing undulating in the vast vacuum.
A hot boiling ball of 'gas'. An infernal 'point' who's radiance alone challenged the sinister tendrils of the black blot, burned fevently.
[@?!!#$#!!@]
Light and darkness slowly approached.
But the boiling 'point' wasn't a star. I couldn't fathom what the visions I was seeing meant, but I at the very least understood the two were abstract symbolism of something else, something more meaningful a mortal mind like mine would fail to comprehend.
So instead, it was presented to me in a manner that was more comprehesible for my standard.
Light and darkness. The vacuum of space...I couldn't take my eyes off the scene, but strangely my thoughts were racing.
I wasn't thinking, but something was pieceing everything together easily for me, making it seem as though I already was aware of the idea.
These...these are 'gods'!
Then I recalled the first words I heard again.
The First Great Calamity—
'Light' and 'Darkness' met, and they 'colided'.
An explosion, one akin to birth, or fall, of a new star ruptured the piece of the world that filled my vision.
I watched the two abstract 'symbols' colided and collapse on each other. Pulses and waves of power exploded forth, and as they intertwined more deeply within each other, they spread a dark, yet radiant halo through the void.
An incinerating point of heat met my skin and peeled it off but by bit.
Arraghhh!!!
The wave was undulating, it was relentless. It burnt the very surface of my existence, and yet I still couldn't take my wide eyes off the otherworldly scene before me.
That was because I was watching 'stars' weave, and 'galaxies' spin into existence.
The 'World' was birthed at the very spot the 'Light,' and 'Darkness' colided, and my existence was burnt, erased into nothingess.
The very pain turned my whole mind white, as every second I spent feeling the waves of the explosion bite away at my body felt like a torturous eternity.
Goddammit! I somehow cursed with gritted teeth.
What was up with Meta and making unnecessarily realistic visions anyway?! I'd seriously die if this continues one day!
Fortunately that day wasn't today.
As my world burned, my vision shifted and the scene presented to me changed.
Then a few words reverberated from deep inside my soul again.
The 'Second Great Calamity '.
Once more, everything shook.
Not this again...
Then I sharply plummeted through a boiling red sky. The scene changed so fast and so abruptly that the background raced by quickly before me. Thunder rumbled, and lightning streaked next to me. From the corner of my eyes, I saw dark silhouettes highlighted by the passing lightning.
There were 14 shadowy figures sitting around a long table. But it quickly disappeared, leaving the entire moment like an illusion my mind conjured from mixing the light.
I felt the bias of the immense wind pressure as my meager body tore through a crimson red sky and cloud and plummeted straight into the earth below in a shattering crash.
-BOOM!
I shattered into the ground and my bones and body exploded. I stumbled and rolled, the insane momentum I had gained from my sudden descent sped me across the shattered ground, and my body exploded and crashed into the distant buildings and structure like a bouncing ball.
All of the impacts and collision slowly helped to reduce my momentum, and I inadvertently stooped moving against the ground.
The first thing I did was gasp sharply, but I quick regretted that.
'H-huh? My lungs..are crushed.'
I also couldn't move a single muscle. All of my bones had been crushed and exploded. My limbs were twisted, and a portion of my chest had caved in from the side. My vision was dyed with the red of my blood and I felt my windpipe and lungs clot and full with blood. My ears were filled with incessant distant ringing, and my world was increasingly becoming more darker and darker
Am...I dying?
Everything became quiet: the ringing in my ear, the slowing of my heartbeat, and even the wheezing sounds of me attempting to draw breath through my crushed windpipe and lungs.
D-dammit..I thought weakly, I don't...even... know what's... happening..
It was increasingly getting harder to hold coherent thoughts. I couldn't feel anything but the pain of my broken and shattered body.
But just then, from the corner of the eyes of my dimming world, I saw a black and distant figure streak through the blood red sky.
They weren't just one, but many. It was an entire army that flooded the red skies.
A group of them circled above me like vultures awaiting the final breath of their prey. They were still far, but at the same time close enough for me to study their features.
The figure were strange and twisted creatures. They had pitch black and ugly skin, and were humanoid in nature. They were crowned with horns, stood taller than man with two black and large membranous wings sprouting from their backs.
As they circled above me slowly, they had a thin tail that wagged through the sky.
'Demons.' I recognized.
These guys were demons. Blood red eyes, pitch black skin, a crown of horns and a pair of jet black wings.
The terrifying creature crackled and chuckled ominously like hyenas circling their prey. I was the target of their urges, but yet, strangely I couldn't be bothered.
Maybe it was because I was already dying.
As soon as I thought that, a portion of the red sky was flooded in a great white wave of brilliant light that illuminated the world. As the brilliant rays of the brightest light enveloped my existence, I watched as the black and ominous figures of the demons scream and wraith as they vanished into nothingness inside of this light.
To me, the light was like the final flash of my life. I let it wash across me and slowly closed my burning eyes in death's eternal embrace.
It hurts.. everything hurts...but...at least it'll be over now...
I had already given up on trying to make sense of anything that was happening. I was done, I just wanted to be over with all of this pain.
How many times have I died now just in this life? Was this fair? A vision or an illusion, wasn't it to cruel to make it this realistic?
Why did I have to suffer along with my body and mind during events that most presumably happened in the past, or would happen in the future?
I just wanted to live in peace, was it too much to ask for?!
It was regrettable, but at least it was over.
But alas, the vision went on.
As the light swept by, a new scene presented itself before me once again.
"Huh?"
This time around, I wasn't in the depth of space, or plummeting like an asteroid through the sky. Instead I was laying on the bare ground.
"I don't want to get up..." For justifiable reasons, I didn't want to see what this part of the vision held for me.
'I'll just die again.' I gave a tired sigh.
I was languid. My mind was depressed, and my body just wanted to sleep.
'But it won't end if I don't see it through.' I thought fleetingly.
And so I forced myself up. Since the vision changed again, my body wasn't crushed and broken like before, but my mind still clearly remembered the scars.
I gritted my teeth and rose to my feet. The sky was still red here, and my surroundings lay in utter and complete chaos. Boiling mass of asteroids broke through crimson skied, leaving dark black fuming trails.
I felt the ground underneath my shaky feet rock as one of the asteroids met the earth kilometres again. Next moment, there was an immediate wind pressure that was like a tsunami, quickly accompanied by the radiating heat that spread from the point of impact far away.
I didn't struggle nor pose any opposition against the force. Feeling only nothing but hate and contempt in my heart at myself for my own weakness, I gritted my teeth and be swept up by everything.
My skin burned, and my bones crushed again. I streaked through the air like a broken rag doll and tumbled into collapsed structures before meeting the ground.
-drip drip!
I raised my head as red beads if blood trickled down my forehead. My vision was hazy and my left leg was crushed, but I still forced myself up.
I felt lifeless...hate, anger, pain, and fear, all of the emotions creates such an empty vacuum inside of me.
But I was still going to see it through.
After all.
The vision still wasn't over.