Date: ???
Location: ???
Situation: The lowest point of a weird tower with some man standing in front of Noah.
Noah is confused, shocked, and scared all at once.
"Th..." He stuttered, sounding and looking terrified, "The Stray Empire...?" He continued.
"Yes, The Stray Empire, and I am the king." The man says, lowering his sword.
"Then... What is The S-Stray Empire?" Noah says, still scared, "And, and, who a-are y-you?" Noah continues.
The man then takes his large bamboo jingasa hat and puts the katana sword through it and the katana sword disappears inside it like a magic trick.
"H-How did you do that?" Noah says, a tad bit less scared.
"An eternal and invisible pocket dimension inside my hat. It's like an infinite void that I have full omnipotence over." The man says as he puts his hat back on, "I created it myself." He continues.
It's then silence for a moment until the man continues to speak and explain.
"The Stray Empire is an infinite tower outside of the multiverse that you live in," he says, "there are sets in each tower, each one getting bigger and bigger. We are in the lowest set." He continues.
"... A-And you said you were the k-king...?" Noah says, still a bit shaken.
"Yes, I am." The man says, "I am Mayoeru Ō."
"N-Nice to meet you," Noah says as he then gets up nervously, "My name i-"
Mayoeru then cuts him off and says, "I know who you are, Noah Berkley."
"How do you...?" Noah responds, shocked.
"I'm the king of this sacred tower. Not only is there nothing I don't know about all of creation, but even if I didn't I can observe the lower sets in the tower, that and the multiverse." Mayoeru says.
Noah is then more shocked, "So that means... you..." Noah uttered.
"I have lived before the cycle of events that created your multiverse even happened." Mayoeru responds, "I have seen you and every persons entire life on the Gaia, or should I say Earth."
"How could that be possible?!" Noah yells, "This can't be real! There has never been evidence of any of this back on Earth!" He continues.
"You're civilizations technology is nothing! Compared to others in the multiverse, and especially the empire, at least." Mayoeru responds to Noah's denial.
Noah's brain can't handle all of this information, "No... no way...!" Noah utters, his denial evident in his tone and expression, "NO WAY! THIS MUST BE A DREAM RIGHT! AND HOW DO I EVEN GET OUT OF HERE! I HAVE A LIFE BACK ON EARTH! THIS IS BAD, THIS IS BAD!" Noah yells, he's essentially having a mental breakdown.
Mayoeru then swiftly slaps the hell out of him, making him instantly shut his mouth, he still looks shaken though.
"Stop this wining. Hold yourself together." Mayoeru says, sounding and looking calm but serious in this situation.
Noah takes a deep breathe, "Okay... I'm calm... I'm calm..." Noah says, calming down and taking deep breathes.
There is a moment of silence until Noah starts to speak again.
"Wait, if you're the king then why are you in the lowest level of this tower?" Noah asks.
Mayoeru sighs, "Someone stole my throne, my authority, my army, and sealed my almighty power greatly. I'm trying to get up there." Mayoeru says, "It's easy but it's not at the same time."
"Well, let's make a deal." Noah spoke while holding his hand out.
"Hm...?" Mayoeru says.
"I'll help you reclaim your throne. In tern, you'll get me back to Earth." Noah responds.
"..." Mayoeru stands there for a moment then shakes Noah's hand, "You have a deal." He declares.
Noah smiles slightly, "Good!" He says, "Now where is your throne?" He continues.
"At the peak of the empire." Mayoeru responds.
"WHAT?!" Noah yells, shocked, "YOUR THRONE IS AT THE PEAK OF THIS INFINITE TOWER?! ARE YOU SERIOUS!" He continues.
Mayoeru then responds with, "Yes, and this one set of the empire we're in is infinite in si-"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Noah yells, cutting Mayoeru off, "Oh god, we're I'm never going back home." He continues.
"Hold yourself together, I can get us out of here in no time." Mayoeru says, "But, I need to break the seal first." He continues.
"What seal?" Noah asks.
"The one that put me down here put platonic metaphysical seals on each set, and destroying these keys are impossible to an ineffable amount on top of that." Mayoeru answers, "How to find them and/or destroy them varies between each set."
Noah then is confused, "Who is the one who's doing all of this." Noah says.
"Not even my omniscient mind can tell you that. But maybe if the seal is broken I could." Mayoeru responds, "I don't know why or how they did this..." Mayoeru continues as he raises his palm to the sky, "But I will find out, no matter what!"
"I see..." Noah says, "So where do we break the seal?" Noah asks.
"Follow me." Mayoeru responds as he starts walking.
Noah follows and they walk 4 miles until they come across a mountain the size of the sun of our solar system.
"That's a mountain?" Noah asks, his expression is in awe as he looks up at the mountain with it being so big you could barely make out it was a mountain.
The mountain was made out of some dark substance.
"Yes, and it's covered in a "Shade-Essential."" Mayoeru answers, "A Shade-Essential is the essence of the shadow entities you were attacked by before." Mayoeru goes on, "The affect it has on you is infectious. It will make you a mindless husk that attacks anyone you see in front of you. It can effect the most almighty gods in a second." Mayoeru explains.
"Then how will we get up there?" Noah asks but suddenly he feels Mayoeru trip him off his feet and then he sticks his leg out to catch Noah with the top of his foot.
"I've got this." Mayoeru responds.
Mayoeru then kicks Noah up and then swiftly catches him then carries him on his back. He the starts running faster than the speed of light along the Shade-Essential.
"How the hell are you not getting effected?" Noah asks.
"Even if my power and being is sealed, my body is still unique." Mayoeru answers, "IT IS ABSOLUTE!" Mayoeru says as he goes faster.
"WELL I'M A REGULAR HUMAN, I SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SURVIVE THIS! ESPECIALLY AT THIS SPEED!" Noah responds.
"I know that, that's why I put invisible protection on your body so you won't get affected, and survive this speed." Mayoeru says.
It then takes 1 minute to reach the top. With the top being a large flat land made of rock and Shade-Essential.
"Damn, that was fast." Noah says.
Mayoeru chuckles, "That's not even my top speed." He says.
Noah laughs, "Haha! You know what, I actually believe that." Noah says, "You're actually kind of amazing." He continues.
"So, what now?" Noah asks.
Mayoeru then puts his palm up on the air and presses against it, his hand is positioned like it's a flat surface. Mayoeru then takes his hand off and taps the air and a large castle appears covered in Shade-Essential. The doors are large and have a lock on them.
Noah looks at the castle in awe, "Woah!" He says.
"Come on." Mayoeru says as he is ready to break the lock but then he crouches at the speed of sound.
"Hey, what are you do-" Noah says until he's cut off when Mayoeru slams him to the ground suddenly.
"Ah! What was that for?!" Noah yells, irritated.
"They're here." Mayoeru answers, his tone serious.
"Who?" Noah asks.
Then two 10'0" entities covered in Shade-Essential stand before them with grand swords. They wear knights armor.
"The Penumbral Knights!" Mayoeru says.
"The what?!" Noah asks, shocked.
"Stay back, I got this." Mayoeru says as he stands up and the takes his katana sword out of his bamboo jingasa hat/pocketdimension.
Mayoeru then rushes towards one of them, dodging their speed of sound slashes and then Mayoeru jumps up, readying his sword as he slices the Penumbral Knight's head off so fast it didn't even look like he moved and it falls to the ground. Then, the other Penumbral Knight appears behind Mayoeru, about to slash him with the grand sword in it's hands. But then Mayoeru turns his head to the side as he sees the Penumbral Knight in his limitless peripheral vision. He then stands on the air and points his sword to the Penumbral knight then makes a small slit in reality itself.
"That's it," Mayoeru says as the Penumbral Knight faces away, "you don't exist anymore."
Mayoeru then jumps down to the ground right in front of Noah.
"Let's go." Mayoeru says as he turns around to the lock on the doors.
"This lock is one only nigh-omnipotent beings and above can break, I see..." Mayoeru says.
Noah nods and gets up and follows him. Mayoeru then thumps the locks and it deteriorates.
"Wow..." Noah says in his mind, "Mayoeru is strong..."
Mayoeru then kicks the doors open. And inside is an infinite parallel dimension that is all Shade-Essential, it is like a medieval civilization where all the people are shadow entities, this civilization is the size of Asia and seems to be thriving.
"I see a castle an infinite distance from here." Mayoeru says.
"You have a blindfold and even then you shouldn't see from that distance." Noah says, "What even are you?" He asks.
"I am that I am." Mayoeru responds.
Noah raises his eyebrow looking confused, "What does that even mean?" He asks.
"Don't worry about it." Mayoeru says, "Come on, we got work to do." He continues.
Noah and Mayoeru then walk into the civilization to continue their journey into The Stray Empire!
Chapter End!