In a vast empty void of pure darkness, in the distance a faint teal light was slowly pulsing.
A man floated before a black glass like egg that was pulsating with with dim light. The light reflected off his pale white hands that where to the sides of the egg shaped object.
His pale face lit up by that light had a crazy smile on his face, his teal turquoise eyes focused and glowing with determination. His black hair with teal streaks in it flutter behind him from the force coming from infront of him. His black robes that faded into the void where hardly visible to make out, the only thing that made them noticeable was the light shining before him and the echoing of the flapping of his clothes.
"You want to control me? Heavens will? Fate? Destiny? Old River of Time?"
The man muttered under his breath. He increased the output of his energy into the egg before him. The teal light started shining brighter. His skin slowly started deteriorating, transforming into energy and moving to his arms, down to his finger tips and into the egg. All that was left of him right now was a hollow shell of what he used to be.
Suddenly 4 glowing lights boxed him in from all directions. The one infront of him was a calm gold color that looked like flames. To his right a violet colored light in the shape of a water droplet, to his left green and red swirled in a yin-yang symbol with no defined shape. Behind him was a grey light in the shape of a snake eating his tail.
"HAHAHA YOU FINALLY SHOWED UP UH?!"
The man left out a boisterous laugh while cranking his head back staring at the grey light behind him with his shining teal eyes while still doing his task at hand. He looked over to his right with his head his leaned back
"Wow Destiny i thought we where cool? Kinda hurt you know?"
The violet light pulsed and a feminine voice echoed through the void
"You know laws are laws existence 10028033, we have to terminate you before you do irreparable damage"
"Hahaha"
He laughed so hard tears spilled out of his eyes and transformed into energy then shot towards the egg.
"But the thing is you cannot act yet right? hehe"
The red and green light flared yelling out in a masculine voice
"It is your fate to fall here existence 10028033, don't think you'll be getting away with this!"
The man briefly look over to his left then focused on the gold colored flames before him
"Heyooo Heavens Will, how ya been? been busy lately?"
The gold flames in front of him flared and roared in a feminine voice
"You sick pitiful existence, because of the planes you've destroyed and the uncountable consciousnesses you have ended i have never been so busy within my system since time immemorial!"
"Haha sucks to have to do your job no? why don't you just quit? wouldn't it be easier? hey hey by the way how much time you got left before you and the fun bunch of.. have before you can act?"
"haha your time will end soon enough and fun bunch of what?"
"FUN BUNCH OF STUPID MOTHERFUCKING LOSERS!"
All the energy making up his existence was pulled into the egg and it blinked out of existence never to be seen again.
All four lights surrounding him where already at the spot he had been prior but all that was left was a fragile crystal like marble that slowly cracked and turned to dust. Their anger erupting in bright enough light to fill the void. Yelling and shouting curses that shook the void before disappearing in a hurry.
The man known as existence 10028033 had disappeared.
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The man that they named 10028033 hadn't always gone by that name, he had many others before coming here. That existence was 'cursed' to never forget anything, the feeling, the taste, the touch, the sights, the sounds, everything.
The first thing he remembers is waking up in his mothers arms.
"Useless"
"Get rid of him now"
Abandoned, forced to fight to stay alive for money in a underground fighting arena, lived 14 years and then is embraced by Death.
He opens his eyes again the same situation, abandoned, forsaken and alone.
Dead after 21 years. Cause of death is beaten by street gangs
Again, 17 years, cause of death, hanging for 'breaking' royal law
Again, 27 years, betrayed by his childhood lover and best friend. Abandoned. Left to die in a welll
Again, 35 years, learned there's supernatural and mystical powers in existence, learns of cultivation. Cause of death is torture
Again, 60 years. Cause of death is old age and bad health. Lived a normal life, never ran into the existence of cultivation in this life
Again, 160 years, abandoned but found hope in cultivation. Cause of death is being weak
Again and Again
Until he found a piece to his missing puzzle called life.
He arrived on a place called Earth. There was no people with supernatural powers or cultivation, no Dao was in the air but the people knew of it's existence. But people wrote about it in books, can control avatars in a square box of a plane that can perform abilities unthinkable in his past life, shows, even mythology about it. He became absorbed in the world of fantasy novels, technology and everything he could learn in this life time.
Lived 83 years.
Died alone in his apartment with no family or friends but surrounded by books that covered just about any topic he could get his hands on and comprehend that would be useful to him in his next life.
Again but this time was different. He had a clear goal, to be the strongest, to control his own life forever.
He paved his own path, created a dantian that was like a computer system that housed a part of his soul as an AI. His dantian was him and he was his dantian.
The further he progressed he controlled the earth. The 4 basic elements earth, wind, water and fire. The advanced elements lighting, magma, metal, force, light and darkness.
He tried to control the Heavens, Time, Fate and Destiny. He could only glimpse pieces of his Destiny, the rest refused his advances.
He then thought of just energy as a whole.
What makes up Heaven and Earth? How does it function? Why is it Heaven and Earth? Why can't it be considered Heavenly Earth? Why are they separate? If you stripped away the identity's of the appearance, aspects and symbolic significance of different forms of energy, what would you have left? The rawest version on energy.
"Can't be created or destroyed… only can be changed from one from to another huh.."
Like the last piece of the puzzle falling into place he had an enlightenment. He then became a hermit and dedicated his life to finding out how to rid himself of his curse that would forever leave his mark on this plane.
His solution? part of his soul was already a system and the system was him but to keep living with these memories and experiences make his existence heavy. He needed to forget it all but still needs the knowledge so he planned for his last rebirth because death was closing in soon once again.
He would convert his existence as a whole, energy, experiences, everything into his systematic dantian as a program and store it deep within his soul so that the rivers of samsara won't wash it away.
He destroyed countless life's on the pursuit of his dream.
He took the energy of multiple planes of existence just for his purpose. Angering the heavens but by the time they realized his plan with the energy, it was already too late.
This time he won't succumb to the atrocity's and hardships of his previous life's. He would learn from it but not relive it and that was his vow before going through with this operation.
He will be born weak and feeble because of not having his full soul but his system would activate when his new body hit the age of 7 or else the the system would fry his nervous system and permanently damage his soul cause irreversible damage so he'll have to hang in there until then.
Lived 537 years, Cause of dead is unconfirmed
This is the story about Atlas von Rivers