4.3 billion linear years ago
A figure stood in front of a rather large stone the size of himself. The stone was round and gray that reached the height and width of the size of the figure.
The stone was mysteriously lifted up with no hands, then it fell with no hands. This same action repeated again and again for thousands of times. There was silence except for the stone dropping in the open grassy plain.
"Up till now I assumed that when things drop, it is because the stone is going to the ground, but could it be that the ground is going to the stone?" He voiced out his question just to break the crushing silence. "But how would that be?"
And the sound of the stone hitting the ground continued for 10 years.
***
"Lucas stop staring into the distance without any direction of thought!" Sharia snapped at her only student.
They were standing in the middle of the ocean with nothing around them, the waves had tried to attack the two like offenders of nature but all attempts failed to do so.
"Look at the space world around you, and have some direction in that thought!" Sharia continued on, "The water, the air, they all are made up of stuff, that stuff makes up all of us actually."
"Really? The water is water, the air is air. How are they the same? If they were that would be water vapor" Lucas looked confused as he reached down to grab water, and then reached up to grab air."
Sharia simply grabbed a piece of the ocean, then in a few seconds they turned into air that defiantly wasn't water vapor by the looks of it. "Everything seems different, that's because it is. The reason why it is different is because these tiny annoying particles that are also waves that travel around crazily and make things, well things."
"So what did you do to them?" Lucas still didn't understand anything.
"I simply manipulated them by bribing them with energy, it's more of my own thing, but you could use the magic system to your advantage when doing this."
Lucas tried to make the water not water, but it didn't work. "What's the point of all this anyways? Water into air, I could do that by making a fire!" Clearly a disgruntled student.
"Well, I can also turn you into air, without a fire at all." Sharia said with a smile, and you could too if you try enough. I'll tutor you."
"How?"
"I have some friends that enable me to do things, even if they are no longer friends, their abilities still are with me." Sharia then made complex signs with her hands and touch his hand, drawing those symbols that seem mysterious. Then there was the whispers.
There were first small words that meant nothing, then larger words that made no sense, and finally mystical words that warped meaning itself. Then finally, there was meaning. Meaning that was made for nonsense, that was imposed onto meaning.
Lucas could only take in so much meaning, that he felt like he was exploring the world, the incorrect, imperfect destroyed world. They stood for 4 hours, just standing there.
At the end, Lucas stood there and asked Sharia, "What does it mean?"
"As a student, you cannot just ask your teacher, your peers, or anyone to tell you that, Lucas, you have to figure it out yourself. You cannot just ask, if I tell you, it won't work for you because I am not you." Sharia looked towards Lucas seriously for the first time, "It is your world to form around yourself, I cannot form your world for you."
"I understand." And Lucas left Sharia, to explore his own world. He casted his own spell, "Solidified Liquid", and started to walk on water.
"Lucas, there will be disasters every 6 months, until 3 years are done, in which the entire universe will descend into chaos."
"Will you be one of those disasters?" Lucas looked at the floating Sharia.
"I am the first of 6 invincible beings cursed by our selves." Sharia did her signature look into the sky, "Goodbye."
And that short teaching session was over, and the teaching carrier was over.
Sharia disappeared, Lucas thought it was because she went at such a speed that he couldn't comprehend. He turned away, in thought.
What is life?
***
"Report to Sir Highness!"
A messenger ran through the halls of a golden palace.
"In Boru, the largest harbor city, there have been traces of strange things such as masses of people collapsing on the ground and dying of internal brain bleeding. Also a giant sand castle pierced the heavens and took away the beach! Chaos has assumed power! The apocalypse is nigh!!!"
The reported fell to his knees, bowing to the regal figure sitting on a golden throne surrounded by advisers.
The figure who would be the King sitting on the throne spoke, "What's the worry? We have plenty of rank 8 powerhouses to handle this rouge disorder, go and deal with it. I don't want some apocalypse in my country."
"Yes your majesty, I'll send in the recruitment right away!."
***
Sharia traveled to the capital of the most prominent empire in Tentia, Tensa, and the capital Tensin. Tentia was probably named after this giant empire that took over most of it by now, so the names made sense to Sharia, but in reality nothing made sense to her, literally and figuratively, she didn't care anyways.
The streets were always there, existing, with boards of advertisement and incentive to go do things, fight for your nation and all that junk.
Why does it even matter anyways? Sharia filed through her memories, there had been a time when she cared, but now it was all gone. There was no care in life, no happiness, no goodness, no justice, no meaning left to her. They say time heals wounds, it also seals what makes a person a person.
What's after a person doesn't person? Sharia didn't know how or why to do any act, to be that being that became something other than a person. Why was there a need to get up after sleeping, eating food, playing games, saving people, killing people. Nothing really. Everything was useless and there wasn't any reason to do anything.
Sharia sank into the ground, she didn't care for the comfort of a bed, the warmth of heating or any judgment that went her way. She didn't care for those things either. Why should she even care?
A long time had passed until a pedestrian walked by and attempted to poke her with a stick. The stick disappeared and the person yelped in fear, waking up Sharia from her trance. She had stared into the sky daydreaming and watching the sky turn dark, then turn bright again. The sun always existed in all these worlds because life required it. So when she inevitably destroyed it, a tragedy would befall all the living beings, making everything here meaningless.
"Hey woman!" A voice called, "Get up, the King is coming through!"
Turns out, Sharia lay on the ground in the middle of a decently wide street, normal people just walked by but the King being so regal and important must have a good place to cross and have a parade following him.
There was no movement from Sharia, she lay there, still staring into the sky, falling into the trance again.
"How could you disobey me? Where is your slum you sleep in, get out of the road!" The voice got louder and closer.
Sharia turned her head slightly and saw in the corner of her view that someone with a voice amplification spell was approaching to yell at her.
There was a smirk on Sharia's face as she turned to face the angry dude, "If there was any time to say the words 'make me' it would be now! So, make me."
"Have you gone insane?" And before he could continue the rambles, Sharia cut him off to start her rambles.
"Probably, I don't know what sanity is at this point, what is even sanity? What is anything, what is normal, how to act normal, what to think, how to think, what is the meaning of thinking? Tell me, why should I move, why should I listen to you, why am I even existing?" Sharia continued but at this point the words were getting lost in peoples ears, or rather, it was making people get lost.
"I as a rank 6 mage, will get rid of this evil fiend!" The rank six mage shouting at her now proclaimed his statement to everyone else. "This evil witch has plans to assassinate the King with this plan of distraction! I will now kill the witch!"
It was really strange for a person to blame someone for a plot they didn't even have, but this meaningless justification allowed it for the rank 6 mage to be great and good.
Sharia moved her head back to the original position of looking at the sky, she couldn't be bothered with this stupid attempt.
The attempt really was stupid. A fire dragon appeared, large lights appeared, so many things consecutively appeared to attack Sharia, and none of them did anything to her. After a few minutes the ground below her cracked and crumbled but Sharia maintained her position by floating above the air.
"It would also be a nice time to say, 'Is this all you got?'" And Sharia continued to look at the sky, completely disregarding the attacks that had risen in intensity.