Chapter III

# "LOST CONTROL"

## ACT I: "Depths and surface"

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LOCATION: Carat of Darkness, The depths of prison.

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The enclosed space of Carat, in which these who were caught during the war between hell and heaven would be imprisoned, with dozens of thousands of Arhyns guarding this very structure itself, the prison itself remains extremely hard to escape from, however, it was quite weak in it's own capabilities, it had different sections dividing each and every stage of powers Arhyns knew, the biggest gaps were assigned as sections, first section was accessible to beings assigned to 1 Rectangle of dimensions, if any being lower than it would be tried to be taken hostage, he would of been killed instead as a being of such capabilities would be deemed 'unfit' by the Abysstials. Although, akin to The Totality Prison, all jail sections feature anti-magical and anti-manipulation fields that, owing to their different power sections devised by Senus himself, would make escape nearly impossible. The highest section capable is that of nigh-full capabilites of Senus during Hateful War, the structure being at the Third Nous-Suprima at it's strongest 'section', however, for one human nothing was impossible.

Nyrah sat inside the jail, knowing that without the inner knowing of the Elder of Time she had acquired, she would be unable to escape via the primary manipulation of time. She was resting on her stone jail bed, her gaze wandering the prison she had found herself in, scarlet, gray bricks that filled almost every wall, unknown of origins weins that conveyed something similar in liquid to that of lava that resides all around walls. The prison was incredibly hot, and the cell appeared walled off by a couple of cell bars linked together into some magical barrier which excluded the huge 'metal' (in appearance) door with a little opening to see through at the front. Noises of imprisoned souls and vessel bodies screaming for help could be heard in the background, tortured by the demons to get as much information about the heavens and their plans as possible, tortured were primarily really important members that would be worth getting information out of, rest would be kept to create fear among enemies and possibly gain fortune if some would try to get their relatives back - However, as clear as it may be, Nyrah was not buying it, and she already had an escape plan in mind, but first she had to think of a tool or anything else to somehow break down fields that would keep her in cell, so she sat down on the stone jail bed now, looking around with her hands placed on her knees.

"Yknow what? All this fucked up bullshit got me there, might aswell find a way out of here, god, now I wish there was some sort of Deus Ex-Machina waiting for me around the corner, I hope nothing bad happened to Reavl, but I think they didn't take him, he is probably fine, and even if he wasn't, I first have to escape myself to save this skeleton, it might not be as hard to do as I initially think. . " - Said Nyrah as she slowly stood up and walked up towards the bars, looking around closely. She would grab one of the bars with her hand, shaking it back and forth to check if the bar would bend or deform, to her surprise, there was no deformation in particular but there was a little dent that would not regenerate, which would indicate that Abysstials haven't thought of making sure that the material held inside hell's prison would be durable, which said a lot to Nyrah.

"Hah, that's something, eh? How did they not think of that?" - Nyrah looked close at the dent, it was incredibly small, yet she used a lot of her force, which actually erased her smile from her face just as quick as she smirked. It would take a lot of force to break down the bars, and even if that was done, there were probably dozens more obstacles awaiting her. She started to think. . what about the anti-magic? How does it work in particular here? Did Arhyns really utilize the forbidden sorcery to make this prison? And to what extend did they make it? These thoughts rose as she realized that next to her, in another cell was a prison with a very similiar voice - but she could not bring herself to remember whos voice it was.

Hours. . .or maybe longer? The time dragged, and dragged on, she now just remembered when Rihh told her how much Nyx ditched them, and that he sold himself off to Hipolites, however, she was simply wondering what was that very certain deal, well, hell if she knew, after all there would be practically no one here to tell her, at least from her view. Finally, she heard the voice of heavy armor clanging, until she noticed dozens of Arhyns of different kinds and appearances, all in a dark grey armor that had similiar weins to these inside prison, some of them pointed towards some of the cells, and Arhyns took prisoners from them taking them somewhere else, one of them finally pointed at Nyrah, the cell door opened, as she was forcefully dragged out of cell.

"AT LEAST LET ME FUCKING WALK GOD DAMN IT!" - She said moving her hands in air trying to get out of grip, however she was quickly punched to the ground as the guard would toss her to other guards dragging her into another section of the prison.

It was a not nice feeling, that punch was quite personal, from what it felt like, it was hard to distinct whatever from anything as her vision worsed alot due to the sudden hit, she fell unconcious noticing a sign, saying "Warahun".

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LOCATION: Carat of Darkness, Depths of prison, Warahun.

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Warahun was an interesting sight to behold, but increadibly disgusting at the same time, after all this was hell, what one could expect? Corpse laying all around the room making it the walls of this part of the structure, the great mound of all that ended up fighting against hell, many prisoners were brought here, along with Nyrah, that by that time was woken up by one of the demons and forced to stand up, she looked around and noticed handcuffs on both of her hands, a weird notice, why would they need handcuffs? Where was she? Now her thoughts again changed its course, is there a possibility of escaping here? What is this room for? Maybe she should wait for something to happen for distraction? It all seemed really. . utopian, to be exact, dozens of Arhyns standing near the prison made it virtually impossible to just run away, all of them were heavily armed and one wrong step could easily result in her death without her power. Suddenly, the voice echoed throughout the entire structure, a being walked up on the hellish corpse-made stage. It was the sin of Apathy, a amalgamative, barely humanoid being withered away from feelings that would indicate humane emotions. No longer in state of bargain, loss, second thoughts, not bounded by the thought of immorality, this being held broken chains of emotions he dragged along the stage, just as his emotions were withered away, so was his body, with a singular sign of Apathy existing and flashing on his torso, as the rest of it's body would be helmet covering it's entire withered-away, amalgamative head.

His body held barely on the corpses as many signs could tell he was in an incredibly weak state, however, he seemed to behave as if nothing was happening to him at all, around him were Arhyns of Apathy, his personal guards, finally, and the slow-decaying voice of the being would be heard for Nyrah.

"Welcomee...all unworthy of further existance, your time is what you live for, and then, even your time is in my hands." - Said sin of Apathy in his hand creating a spark of hope that he crushed with just his old...withered away hands, breaking into it with it's claws.

"You all, unworthy and pathetic creatures will reside in this very prison until your vessel withers away of anything it has." - Said creature, and suddenly, storm around him would appear that would move around the crowd, one of the prisoners that was the closest to it began losing water inside his body, causing his body to completely wither away into just a skeleton of his former vessel body, along with his soul that became sourceless, the soul avatar would fly towards Apathy, as he would, infront of everybody, devour the soul avatar along with it's essence that the storm has collected, Apathy's body would start to dewither a little, and his movement seemed to become more fresh.

"Ah. . .good, good, you will be all of good use." - Said Apathy, Nyrah would now realize what this being really is, he was a sin of Apathy, not only that, but now the whole structure being composed of corpses made sense, this thing was feeding off of emotions to regrow it's will, so it is using beings struck inside hell to feed himself, truely a disgusting sight.

"This. . .damn old man is truely disgusting.." - Nyrah said to herself, Apathy started to walk down the stage of corpses towards the prisoners, he walked up towards the one that was closest to him, prisoner tried to get away but his movement got slower and slower as Apathy simply looked at him. Suddenly, prisoner fell to the ground while his soul essence was completely devoured by the sin, he then simply out of this very essence was able to make more proper and active movement, kicking prisoner rapidly and quickly in the torso until prisoner collapsed, then, he grabbed him up in the air, creating a simple shiv out of 3 Trival Provincias, as he struck it into vessel's neck. Apathy seemed to quickly calculate the strength of the being and what he could survive with no problem, so he increased said power to said amount to make sure that the deity he jabbed will be dead on spot.

"Worthless. . .truely." - He threw the corpse on the ground, leaving it to turn into dust - the prisoner seemed to be a deity.

Apathy would feel the sudden increase in his apathy as he watched the others completely lose all hope.

"There are couple rules for all of you, underbeings that when broken, will result in the fate as- shownnn below." - Said Apathy stomping on one of the corpses he just killed.

"There is to be no attempts...of escape...that is I believe obvious, your fatee....is truely sealed here. . ." - Sin continued, as the guards urgently followed him, helping him walk, move, as from time to time he began to again weaken and his movement was greatly reduced, until. . .

"And. . . . .all. . . .are. . .re-" - Apathy fell onto the ground on his knees as his state worsened, his body could now be compared to a skeleton of a long passed, carbonated prehistoric animal, suddenly Arhyns quickly took him out of the view of stage as he was carried away.

Silence. . .nobody really expected this to happen, prisoners, Arhyns, something was wrong, Nyrah looked at it quite confused but at the same time she was still in shock of the enviroment she was in, forced to walk on the dead corpses of beings.

"This old fucker is losing his time, I thought sins cannot die of old age? But it looks like this guy is unable to even enforce anything, how is he still a sin? Whatever - maybe this is the moment to look around?" - Nyrah said to herself as she looked around the place, still in handcuffs, she would have to break them somehow, now that Arhyns are arriving towards Apathy, it was a good time to try and make first steps for escape.

Firstly, Nyrah looked down on the ground, about to throw up, she forced herself into looking around, perhaps there is something of much use, and now she has realized, Apathy, while falling, has dropped it's shiv, it was still on the ground, stuck near corpses, while some Arhyns were searching prisoners, Nyrah from minute to minute moved slightly towards the Shiv while inside a huge group to not be easily distinguished. Until finally, after couple minutes she was near the Shiv, she looked around now, some prisoners looked back at her trying to in a way tell her that she shouldn't do it, however, Nyrah was not gonna give up so easily, she would quickly kneel grabbing the Shiv with her handcuffs, and she would hide it inside of her still-remaining from war clothes.

"Good. . .now, should I try to break the handcuffs down right now? And better question would be, will they work." - She looked around the place, realizing that it was people of her 'section', meaning that perhaps the handcuffs could be specifically made for them? But that was just a theory, she had to make sure it would work, after looking around for a long while she noticed some Arhyns coming back along with Apathy barely walking back towards stage, now a thought ran over her head, what if. . .she killed the sin? But then, she remembered, this 'thing' might be far more powerful than just that shiv, trying to kill sin, even in such a weak state would be a hard task, adding onto the fact that she could not use her capabilities.

One of seemingly high in hierarchy Arhyn would walk up the corpse stage.

"Alright! First wave, line up infront of sin of Apathy, the great destroyer of all emotions. Our great sin has been feeling worse lately, you all will serve well." - Said Arhyn pointing his sabre towards the nigh-dead looking sin.

There was a huge problem now, as Nyrah was in the first wave, because she had to move closer to get the shiv.

". . .Fuck, what do I do?!" - Nyrah started to finally panic, her temper began to slowly vanish as she realized she just might be a body fed to this very being.

"I just need to get back my powers. . ." - Nyrah said to herself looking around, analyzing the situation, around ~50 Arhyns for each side, while infront. . an Officer, and two guards, this will be impossible to fight unless her magic will be received back, but how would that go? She had to bet now, will the shiv work and break down the handcuffs?

". . .First." - Said Sin of Apathy ,pointing towards one of the prisoners, and his fate was obvious, Apathy withered away all his emotions and soul, leading the being to completely collapse, withered.

"Next. . ." - The sin continued, his movement has increased a little, it's withered finger pointing towards the next prisoner, just next to Nyrah.

"Fuck...Fuck...FUCK!" - Thought Nyrah, it was now or never. She quickly walked up next behind the prisoner to be infront of Apathy, she suddenly jumped up in the air with handcuffs, sin of Apathy opened it's eyes wide, realizing what was happening, suddenly the shiv travelled all the way towards Sin's skull.

Sin simply watched as the shiv that Nyrah used would disappear, doing nothing against the sin of Apathy.

"Pff. . .pathetic, and ungrateful." - Said Apathy as he would point towards Nyrah, Nyrah however jumped on Apathy quickly hitting his head against the Apathy, if it was enough powerful (the handcuffs), that means they could perhaps inflict pain towards the sins, with each hit against Apathy, Apathy simply took it while looking at the human, she had no more than seconds to live, guards are running towards her, yet suddenly, all the prisoners grouped up to strike against it's own enslavers, the battle unleashed between cuffed prisoners and the Arhyns guarding the prison, she looked around confused as everyone followed in her ways trying to stop the unstoppable. This was shocking, the slaughter of prisoners began, each to their own died, this was a lost battle, she suddenly felt as the handcuffs would begin to wither, Apathy, with his mind and body becoming withered again, made a grave mistake, he created sword of his power to quickly get rid of Nyrah, yet Nyrah used handcuffs to protect herself from each slash that weaker and weaker Apathy tried to hit, one of the guards grabbed her by the throat dragging her away from the Apathy, suddenly time stopped around them, the cuffs were broken, a weirdly looking bone passed through, as Apathy's soul was moved into the cuffs, leading his (sin's) hand to break the handcuffs apart, the sword of Apathy did enough cracks inside the handcuffs that they break down in on themselves just by Apathy slamming it down, Nyrah looked behind her, there were dozens of corpses of prisoners that would rather end their life than live inside this very prison, a tear fell from her eye as he saw everyone give up their lifes just for the sake of dying better.

"After all. . .all of it is just our try to change our way of dying. It is just a matter of choosing how we die, not how to win." - Said Nyrah as the time would visibly speed up, Apathy would slowly stand up, seemingly unphased by the time stop of Nyrah, it was too weak to inflict him, it would have to be just as strong as the deity of time which Nyrah could not do in current state, she would quickly reconstruct her sword of time out of the prime manipulation of time, quickly swinging her sword through the hands of Arhyns as the time came back, she would be immediently kicked in the stomach by the Apathy as he would now create withering storms on his fists trying to hit Nyrah, yet Nyrah slightly began to slow time with her now regained inner knowing of the Elder of Time, she could make it harder for Apathy to strike, however, suddenly Apathy broke through limits of time, crossing over it's concept entirely delivering a punch that sent Nyrah off into the wall with her jaw almost entirely destroyed, hit so strong that even the inner knowing could not protect her body from it, she slowly stood up, noticing a familiar skeleton fighting along with. . .heaven's army? She has now noticed the flashing lights from the prison, it means that. . .they came in for the rescue? Now she became motivated even more to take down all the enemies, for the sake of all dead prisoners that were meant to be tortured, she put the sword down for a moment before continuing the fight.

"For all of you. . .all of you that knew to die publically infront of the world." - Said Nyrah as she rised her sword time warping near the Arhyns as Apathy tried to catch her with his slowly capabilities for quick movement, two Arhyns ran towards her with the spears, one of the hits she repelled, breaking the spear apart in a blink of an eye, after all all the weapons of Arhyns were just composed out of Preso Luminas, and with the inner knowledge back in her hand, nothing like that could stop here, she would swing her sword back and forth cutting both Arhyns in half and sending them off into ashes of time that Nyrah used to increase her strength, she send off a disc that pierced through all barriers of speed, reaching the speed of just time, cutting another Arhyn that tried to run towards her in half, another two Arhyns attacking from two sides, this time one of them was one of the personal Apathy's guards that almost hit her with the power of infinite Trival Provincias quantites leading to a probable way of hurting Nyrah's body, yet, a bone appeared behind her that pierced through the helmet of the demon killing him off at spot, it was Reavl, fighting off demons, his body was covered by a brown cape and his eye was enhanced with better vision technology, Reavl would move back and forth creating blasters killing of weaker Arhyns, while Nyrah realized that, she was met with an upcoming Apathy's punch that this time was far slower than it was before, this time, time slowing worked perfectly, leading to Nyrah dodging the fist jab via moving behind Apathy, then he was meet with a strong jab with the sword of time that hit the sin in back of his neck, leading Apathy to collapse falling on the ground, it's body was already collapsing, it's jaw has almost fallen down, all the bones remain now clearly withered, his whole body was almost entirely gone, then, he quickly looked up in the air and through his broken jaw, as his whole body shook, came out the dark grey beams that reached for every dead corpse of prisoners or anyone else near, feeding off of their lasting emotions on Spirits, an explosion would occur, leading to Naryh covering her face from the amount of dust.

". . .You sick fuck. . .YOU WILL MEET THE GROUND!" - Yelled Naryh holding her sword of time, behind her, just for the moment, appear the Elder of Time 'Karok', his body would point towards sin of Apathy as it's eyes flashed, Apathy slowly stood up from the ground, it's 'skin' coming inside of his body creating a compressed tissue creating a pain that Apathy had felt no pain for, his body completely reinverted, making his insides come out, which caused a huge shockwave that brought down everyone to the ground. His 'insides' from what it seemed like was just another body that now looked far less withered, his body, was still live with action, he quickly kicked up in the air creating a whole crack inside the entire prison including all sections, this very hit would cause Jopik to appear along with his other fallen angels, it was now clear that it was time to escape now, Nyrah quickly jumped over the new incoming horde of Arhyns, now with full agreement of Elder of Time, she spinned up in air hitting her sword against the ground creating a huge crack in the ground that caushed the another shockwave, this time the blue one that ceased Arhyns in time, it would Nyrah quickly pierce them all with couple sword jabs, one went through Arhyn's stomach, through it slash went breaking Arhyn's skull down, another, then a sping with the sword of time that caused another two Arhyns to collapse down rotting away.

But through the brave fighting of Naryh, she felt like more and more Arhyns was coming, and Apathy was just waiting for the next strike, Nyrah had to act quick, but she was overwhelmed by the enemy.

"JAB OF TIME!" - Yelled Naryh as she would point her sword towards the enemies, making Elder of Time appear behind her.

". . .And will is granted." - Said Elder of Time as huge blue wave coming out of the sword causing all those affected by it, infront of her to be pierced down through the ground, including the personal guard of Apathy, and even those that wore the anti-magic armor forged out of Trival Provinicas, it would break down easily causing it to explode and Arhyn to dissappear from existance.

Then, Nyrah ran towards Apathy that has just regained his feet on the ground, he would slam the fist on the ground as he enlarged himself so much that he was as tall as the ceiling of the Prison itself, Apathy out of his fists would create the rotting feelings trying to hit it via binding storms to the ground and moving them out like bones used from the ground, but Nyrah dodged them each time, suddenly she would dash down now.

"Decrease." - Said Elder of Time, suddenly, Apathy felt like his movement was greatly reduced, he was well aware of power of the Elder of Time.

"YOU foolish mortal." - Said Apathy as he began furiously punching around the ground leading all sectors to collapse along with all prisoners that fought and tried to escape, he began to group up all bodies around him, connecting them all into his own body, enlarging himself and his capabilities, his hits were now far faster, as now even Nyrah became tired of dodging each and every attack, but she was aware that once she would be hit by at least one of his storms, she would be done for, not even the inner knowledge could save her from fate of the sin. Suddenly, a punch was delivered by the Apathy, he put all of his remaining withered emotions into his body armor, as Nyrah began running around the giant, shooting out her slashes out of her sword every less than a second, yet suddenly every hit began to not inflict any damage towards the sin, Nyrah was aware that there was nothing else she could do, so she decided to make a last try to weaken Apathy.

"Okay, I gotta admit, you're quite good at it, to be honest." - Said Naryh, while she ran around and continued to try and hit Apathy while his armor hold him strong, she continued.

"You are really good at fighting, you know? You should fucking try it sometime more or something." - However, it seemingly didn't change much for Apathy, Nyrah decided to make a last blow towards the enemy, for all the people that died down there. Flash, fist, darkness, the storm.

Reavl in the meanwhile, was fending off enemies, but as much more of them began appearing, and less there was support, there was the final decision made by the commander of heaven's army, retreat.

"RUN! GOD DAMN IT!" - The voice could be heard in the darkness. . .

Jopik and his fallen angels began to make huge advancements, causing the heaven's army to retreat through portals, she was grabbed by Reavl dragging her along through portal, as they jumped through it, the portal closed.

The eyes opened, was that the end? Death? Was she hit? She tried to look around, she couldn't even move, eyes still closed.

The close thought of death roaming, it was so strong, but at the same time so far, it was as if her soul avatar was breaking apart, she felt everyone near her, but couldn't do anything, it's as if she was in a different state of mind completely. All seemed so far, it was hard to understand anything that was said near her, but there were conversation, someone moved here somewhere, more people walking near, it was a night show.

That night show took long time, so long that it prolonged months, just pure darkness and inner conciousness lost, a thought of nothing, but a feeling of everything, until suddenly, the eyes open, the light approaching her eyes, everything now so visible. Everything around now so. . .full, for a moment it was just utter silence until Nyrah has realized where she was. She was in one of the houses of deities, laying on the bed, she was alive? Or was it just a hallucination? She slowly stood up looking around the place, empty. The house was empty, filled with light through the windows. All seemed so far yet so close really, but it was hard to say where she found herself at, she didn't feel her inner knowledge of Elder activated, which meant she must've been still asleep, stuck in a limbo of nothingness, what happened? She didn't know, still hearing the voices, but there is nothing she can do, there was no door to exit the room. She couldn't even say anything, it was like a dream, yet so strong, is it what happens after death? Is it how you feel when you are just the spirit of yourself? But the time in this house seemed still, as if all was stopped in time except for her.

"There is nothing left from the body. . " - A voice was heard in the background, Nyrah opened her eyes wide. . confused, she looked around the empty house, nothing. She was dead, but. . .how? She didn't come back afterwards? She didn't change the upcoming? Her trauma came true? She was hurt? It all seemed so wrong to her yet so correct as it all would have made sense. The darkness was mighty and strong, as she crossed over upstairs of the house, there was a portal, a portal that extended itself slowly through the attic she found herself in, until, she decided to walk in. Nyrah seemded to appear in a distorted farm field, broken sky, shattered stars, the night sky, and the surrealistic, nonsensical plains near the farm, it all seemed to not have much sense, as she walked through the tall wheat looking for anything, this very wheat was so tall that she couldn't see through it, it was like a complex maze out of just the wheat, she didn't know what this place is nor what the meaning of it was, yet it seemed so close, or. . distant? Her hands no longer had wounds, nor her body, but she also didn't feel anything she had, her...clothes were different, it reminded her of- the first time she appear in ReavlTale. This was. . .so close to her, and it all yet didn't make sense. She walked through the vast terrain of wheat, crossing through the dirty mud, while the crickets were heard in the background, it all seemed so much like her original world but. . .it was not in the underground? Could it be. . .? Nyrah started to get a little tired due to vast movement she made through the wheat, she now realized something, time was nonexistant here, and it seemed like there was no space either, far from it actually, all felt abstract...maybe all of it is just...fake, an abstract image of something that isn't real, but exists as a surrealistic state of mind? Then, where was she? If there was no time, no space, no mirrors, it couldn't be...no it couldn't be singularity, couldn't it? But if that is true, is she...no longer in her body? Is it only her memories? But if that is so, is she...dead? Those thoughts were now constantly bothering her, until she managed to cross this long wheat maze, finally getting to one of its ends, seeing a road, and plains, it wasn't any of the structures she knew, and anything higher looked like a fever dream from the telling of others, so, did this mean that she was indeed stuck in her own memories, but why? She sat down on the grass, waiting, maybe there will be a car indicating that maybe it is not just a memory? She looked up in the dark sky, it was all...weird, no, it wasn't for sure her home, nor was it something she directly remember from her memories yet it was something really. . close to her somewhat? Memories of time passing? She still couldn't say anything, so it was a dream? She still could feel everything, so, alive, or dead? She never knew how it feels like to die, but maybe it is how you truely die after all? In a peaceful place where your memory remains, then her thoughts came of the recent incident, "After all, it's all about choosing how we die, and not if we can win, "Choosing 'glory' by a heroic fight or, cowardness by dying alone". But in her mind something ignited, some sort of anger, after all, what about all the people that did die without a fight? Weren't they brave? Shouldn't they be remembered? These people that had no choice but to die from opressors' hands, it shouldn't have been her to attack Apathy, it shouldn't have been her to make a choice of escaping, it was a mistake, she wasn't qualified to anything, she didn't know any complex tactics, she didn't have any strategy in mind, she never was guiding anyone, yet the struck of complete luck made her somewhat of a leader of prisoners' own demises, how come? "If I die. . . I knew I died for everyone else to be remembered, not for me to just fight mindlessly, I was there, and if someone can hear me. . .I want everyone that will remember or learn. . .not to think about me or people that are the ones to open mouth the most, but those that. . .give themselves in, their lifes, in the background, in the shadows for us to be able to do what we can, these people are most important." - She thought to herself, she could finally. . .say something, but maybe it's because her emotions were so strong that she could break through the silence? "It feels...small from here, haha." - Continued Nyrah, watching as the never-ending night flashes its light.

"And. . .at last, I am sorry Reavl for torturing your kind, we were always enemies, but at last you came in to save me, it is not your fault, but my foolishness to think that I should be allowed to dictate others lifes, if another human controlling a Universe will see this. . maybe. . just maybe we wont have more bloodshed in AUs...heh." - She closed her eyes sinking into the surface of thoughts, as she defeated the depths of her own problems.

## ACT II: "The Intellect Crisis I"

Since the beginning of the prime reality, there was meant to be a being made by Almighty that will create mortals, though the deity itself had the freedom to choose his own opinion on his own creation. This being was named 'Polyanyr', he stepped back from Almighty's ideals, fighting against them purposefully, and collaborating with the very mortals he has created, it led to many problems and troubles within Mythoversum such as the long gone incident with Michael, but many others in which some mortals remained extremely powerful from Polyanyr's ancient power. Since the anti-collaboration of Polyanyr, and his first acts of power for mortals, he dissappeared without trace, so suddenly. Polyanyr was after all a Hoplite, thus there was many controversies about his powers and if he should have been even made this very role, but he was given choice, and he chose what he felt like was truthful for him.

Polyanyr not intentionally has caused the prolonged Intellect crisis caused by dozens of groups, bloodlines partaking in forbidden acts due to the fact he was the only Hoplite that seemed to be completely against his own creator, it sparked a revolution alike aspect inside a lot of inhabitants and led to many bloodsheding events in Dhour or it's lower counterparts. Many inhabitants of lower sectors believe that Intellect sector is the place of inner peace and collectiveness, while it is partly true, there still remains dozens of crusades and battles that completely debunk this very statement of complete peace.

Of course, it was not the case for core parts of the Intellect sector itself, the very place of spirits creations, of death later on, and of spirits capabilities - after all these core parts of structures were really important and could not be bothered by the mere conflicts of its inhabitants.

However, not only did the Intellect Crisis cause a bloodshed across the entire sector, it also caused corruption in lower sectors and spreads of different dangerous diseases created through the forbidden sorceries or through other means of warfare that when uncontrolled, led to many negative effects and toll on inhabitants of lower existance.

This caused many beings that learned about the Intellect sector to accuse it of being 'the core of issues in Mythoversum'. Although this statement seems quite radical, many say that Intellect remains in 'grey' in morality, and with ever-so-occuring battles of clans and deities along with dangerous anomalies causing chaos it seems like Intellect sector has fell quite low in terms of general safety. But there lays yet another reason for the safety in Intellect worsening, Hoplites themselves are being pre-occupied with already existing conflicts inside Intellect sector, yet due to corruption of it's own members, ever-so-decreasing amount of members, and ever-so-increasing issues that had to be resolved. However, this, along with the oath that Hoplites have to resolve mainly to affairs in terms of their own sector makes Hoplites most of the time completely impresent in recent events and situations, the only exception being Hoplite 'Aureus' that has been sent down to deal with Michael long time ago, however, it only has happened due to said mortal being the threat to all three sectors. While to elaborate, the oath itself was created along with Hoplites before Symbols creation, in the beginning they were assigned to this oath, being the closest to the Messiah, because there was no need to assign them to all three sectors as the situation was already worsening inside Intellect sector at that time, primarly the sudden invasion of 'Farah'. Marauder is a recent example that Hoplites measures to hold Intellect together slowly collapse - after all this incident shook the entire sector along with Hoplite members; Marauder was seemingly unphased by Duell and defeated him within a moment, and any try to take him down then have failed miserably, leading to Marauder dissappearing out of thin air as previously known.

This led Hoplites to finally arrange a meeting of the highest important members in order to converse about the current situation inside the sector.

Through list, following members were invited: Aprogeus, Aureus, Lekus, Jasmin, Jacob, and Mornn, each was representative of most branches.

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LOCATION: Castle of Hoplites, Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector.

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The luminic light of Korway would show itself through the windows of Castle where the meeting was arranged in, it was placed ontop of the mountain in Dhour, emplaced in such a way that it would be incredibly hard to find by any other deity not associated with Hoplites themselves. The castle itself. . .made out of grey brick-alikes, castle itself at the top of it had the shape of an arch, and was covered by smaller walls, the closest to Castle itself was probably 'Liokum', a town inside Dhour in which lived a certain cult, this very cult believes that the only way for any kind to survive is to remain still in their actions and adapt themselves with the enviroment they found themselves in. The point of complete vegetation and acceptance. The town itself was seen from this far but very, very hardly. The castle itself however had a special room, through many big corridors, sections, there was a meeting room with roundtable inside and couple chairs especially designed. Inside this very room was a window for the nearby vision, along with couple plants and a source of vision. Through this very window Korway made itself present while travelling around the Ring. The Castle was empty, but only for a moment, as the footsteps approached the Gate, it was Aprogeus that appeared in Castle early, he would look around the empty plains and mountain devoid of life nearby, the darkness surrounding everything in his vision as Korway and it's fragments were the only ones giving any vision through.

Aprogeus sighed, as he paid close attention to nearby structures, most did not make sense and felt out of place, but this is what Intellect really was, despite many perfections, there were always some imperfections, maybe not in the main core of structures but always there was something not so acceptable. He would grab the handle opening the Gate, he walked inside, leaving the Gate open for others as he then walked through the empty and cold corridor.

"This is indeed gonna be an evaluative meeting." - Said Aprogeus as he walked up towards the meeting room, the windows still uncovered, making the Korway seen as it continued to lightly enlight everything around it. Aprogeus slowly opened the door to the meeting room as he found himself a sit next to the roundtable. He sat, looking around closely on everything around him.

Then, rest came, second was Aureus, then Jacob, Mornn, Jasmin, and last, Lekus, all took their sits and the silence in the room slowly dissappeared.

First started Jacob, the representative of image deliverers - "My dear ruinical apotheosises, we've found ourselves at an issue, an obvious problem that lingers here. Us, the Image deliverers would like to increase authority and control within the cosmic bridges of the Intellect sector, as they are the main causes why we lost our dear fellows. They are attacked by unknown beings inhabiting Intellect, kidnapping them and taking away their essence of power. We cannot let that happen further. My proposition is to not only increase the authority over just the bridges, but to increase our total control inside Intellect, taking down clans one by one that stand against us.."

Jacob was then interrupted by Lekus that slammed his fist against the table.

"You want to increase authority?! This would lead to even more instability, you are pathetic, Jacob. Think before you talk, if we will increase our authority over the regions there is even bigger chance more Hoplites will be targeted, we are vastly outnumbered, our try of bringing total control over Intellect sector would not succeed, unless you are up to fighting dozens of abstract deities that some remain as grand devourers of anything they would want. I knew common deliverers like you won't know anything of worth. I think instead we should first find more deities to ascend to help us combat this very situation, after all mercenaries are welcome." - Said Lekus, the representative of combatants, but he afterwards was quickly interrupted by Jasmin.

"Maybe. . we should contact the great messiah about this? Convince him to ascend more beings to Hoplties or create new Hoplites to battle this inequality. . I am sure he would listen." - Said the representative of Image transmission. After a while, Aprogeus argued.

"I beg to differ if contacting messiah would be possible, we do not know where he might be as of current, in Singularity perhaps. I wouldn't rely just on messiah however, after all he helped in management of everything around us, I think we now should take our opportunity given to our hands to do things our way. Now, to do that maybe we could deform the Spirits of beings that are the biggest threats to us, or, just like Lekus said, we could simply get the help from mercenaries and ascend them to help us, afterwards we could always kill them off if they would be of no use." - Said the representative of Spirits management.

Silence again, this time Mornn would speak up, as almost everyone beside him would already try to find solutions, he would put one of his large hands down on the table as it was his turn to speak.

"There is no true point of suggesting anything in particular, if we won't do anything at all. This has happened sometimes and I am wary that this issue will not dissappear so quick as it appeared. We cannot simply wait for other deities to do work for us, nor can we rely on Spiritual sorcery or understanding of inhabitants, there is only on way to go with this, strike at the mightiest of threats and destroy it with all our powers." - Said Mornn, the representative of administration

Then, in the silence, Aureus was sitting, after Mornn finished, he looked around the room as he sighed, the representative of Balance spoke.

"I've been both a deliver and warrior, I've both served in different causes and defeated the most potent of mortals. With all this knowledge and experience, just like all of you here, I have a statement to make. I believe that with the chaos of thoughts we have, we should perhaps try to incorporate our ideas into one. We could try and find our primary target of operation, while step by step, secretly we would increase our governing over Intellect sector, along with that we could make use of willing deities and if anything goes not with the plan, there is always a possibility to contact the messiah." - Said Aureus as he looked over his brothers and sisters.

A silence, it was quite a long one again, so long that the 'night' would seem to already advance as there would be less and less visibility outside. This silence, combined with looks of Hoplites that looked over one another, created an awkward situation to say the least. Brought by Korway, abstract wind would hit the walls of the Castle weakly, as the silence spreaded throughout the corridors and the entire building, some would begin to think about what others said, and what Aureus stated. This seemed like a chance for a major change and perhaps successes so desired by these beings.

"Aureus is right, I believe. We all have a certain plan but it is not clear if any of them would work, combining them and using different tactics at once we will have many shots to fix our current issues. . I am with it." - First said Aprogeus, Jasmin added on to it, as Lekus and Mornn simply noded.

"Yeah, however I am not too fond with lives-risking." - Said Jasmin, as Jacob would speak up too.

"Hmph, we can try that, but we cannot afford to lose more of our people unless we want our control fall over and anarchy to start forming." - Said Jacob as he looked over all other Hoplites, while they agreed with what Aureus said, they seemed to be still not so 'content' with the people they are around, seemingly all had a different vision and character that simply did not fit with one another, it was visible that Hoplites were not too much fond of each other, not an organized group, rather an aglomerate of individuals with their own vision.

Again, silence, no one had much to say currently, there had to be someone to keep the conversation going, and this time it was Lekus.

"The meeting is over due again that means." - He said as he looked around, but mainly at Jacob, an entity he often time sees as 'rival', always trying to compete with him in power, however it wasn't a friendly competition it was a hostile one to be exact. It was primarly due to their views and personal goals.

Aureus in the meanwhile sighed heavily, looking at yet another small conflict forming, he would stand up from the chair finally and announce the following:

"Alright, I believe we've reached consensus on this very important topic, however, we will arrange more visits in order to make sure that our plan goes accordingly. I expect from all of you including myself to work on this issue, utilizing our capabilities to our fullest, I will personally make sure to take down beings that will try to interviene into our plan, I believe that is all I have to say." - Said Aureus looking around, Aprogeus stood up right after Aureus.

"Mhm, I agree fully, the meeting is over." - He said, Aprogeus then left the room, with him Aureus, and afterwards the rest, last were obviously Jacob and Lekus that walked the different exit through the castle, the castle was desintegrated including the foundation based on Dhour by Aureus and Aprogeus, so that no one will be able to re-find this localization of the meeting.

So, new hopes for Hoplites? They will finally decide to face the consequences of their incapability and fight against the unlawful inhabitants of Dhour, however, the chance of succeeding is very low, but perhaps if they work together, they might reach what was previously so unreachable.

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LOCATION: Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector.

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Aureus stood infront of the palace with his new plan in mind, while almost everyone left already, there was only him and Aprogeus, this very Hoplite was thinking of something, skeleton decided to walk up towards him in yet visible confusion as to why the deity remained. At some point, Aprogeus turned towards Aureus.

"Oh, greetings again, Aureus." - Said Aprogeus as he stuffed his hands inside the imaginary jacket of his.

"Mhm, I was wondering, would you be up to visit and do a quick patrol over the depths of desert of the Dhour with me? Unless there is something else you have to do, I believe we both are quite competent and should be able to at least check our surroundings yet again, telepatically I've felt as dozens of clans were having a clash, again, we could approach the place where they fought to gather intel, your opinion?" - Said Aureus, also known as Peltus. He has kept his temper and mind stable for quite a long time just for this very meeting, he will have to still maintain his mental disorder, after all, Aureus' biggest problem is that he tries to hide his own issues, mostly these regarding mental health. As much as it is known, Aureus can enter sort-of Psychosis state in which he seems to transcend his mind into the realm of inner main abstract layers of Intellect sector, or from what it seems like. When he enters this state, Aureus seems to see and view things in a far more surreal and illogical way, many things do not come to any logic or sense there, his vision of everything around him completely changes as his entire vision snaps and so his mental state as he is being overwhelmed with philosophical questions, this is where his Dissociative Personality Disorder would occur and show. For Aureus, showing himself in this state was unacceptable during any serious encounters, tasks, or situations, thus he always repells his mind from this state during these situations, that is why many beings are not aware that Aureus can be unstable mentally.

Yet, Peltus was aware that he had to take a rest and give in to his Psychosis state sooner or later, and thus he decided to first complete the patrol, and then for quite a long time - rest, and let the Psychosis come and go. Now that Aprogeus has agreed to taking a quick patrol with Aureus, both Hoplites would travel through the 'desert', or rather an abstract image that Dhour shows. They would walk through it, and pass through it, both on alert, while making sure that they miss nothing while they speed-travel through the entirety, finally, they spotted first signs of a clash happening, left, abstructed cosmic body parts that would differ in size, appearance, and difference, these all parts and substances would inform the Hoplites that it was a serious one, Aprogeus took one of the body parts out a similiar types 'laying around', while Aureus took the other one that is similiar to a different type that was 'laying' on the different 'side'. Aprogeus would simply touch the part he found, his inner mind would glow as he looked at Aureus.

"Baron bloodline, the one that our messiah gave you task to defeat before he simply ceased to appear here, remember? Maybe you will get to finish your task early, Hah." - Said Aprogeus as he would toss the body part to the side, Aureus in the meanwhile gave the other bodypart for Aprogeus to 'scan' for, upon touching the bodypart Aprogeus' mind again began to glow.

"Hmm. . .Yahor Bloodline, that's interesting, weren't they in a way 'allies'?" - Said Aprogeus as he looked at Aureus - after all he knew more about Bloodlines than the rest due to more experience.

"Well, I wouldn't say 'allies' already. . .but I believe it has something to do with how wicked Baron bloodline is and how their magic works. As you know, they have the biggest aglomeration of forbidden sorcery and all that stuff, while also having a lot of allies that are considered forbidden beings for Directives or anyone else. Yknow. . .I've tried many times to take them down since I had that task but, it has been a while." - Said Aureus as he scratched the back of his hoodie, looking around the lonely and empty 'landscape'.

"And. . how did that go? I mean, you trying to catch them." - Said Aprogeus as with the two body parts he tried to retrospect where their vessels essentially where to find a probable bloodline's location.

"Not really well as you can tell from this- I mean I did catch some of them, but I had to resort to killing them on spot as they tried to ressist for so long it was quite impossible to catch them. While I found some success- I'd say that their forbidden sorcery might be able to outmatch me if I would've gone right off to find their primary base, after all their bloodline has grown really strong very quickly." - Said Aureus as he would look around too, his golden eye would glow for a second as in his hand appeared a small stick he pointed 'forward'.

"I believe messiah know what he was doing when he tasked you to deal with it, I believe you have enough strength to take them down, but look, with me, if we even got into deepest troubles, we will find a way, so worry not if they attack us haha." - Said Aprogeus quite sure of his abilities - after all he was primarly known for his capability of finding a solution to almost every problem when faced directly with it, the only downside of it was, as stated before, his own capability of solution-finding is only put to work when faced with physical conditions and problems upfront, this is why Aprogeus, while a really good and strong member of Hoplites, has to be always near other people to help them out.

"Yeah, let messiah bless us with his knowledge, I believe in our success of taking down these. . .clans." - Said Aureus as he would travel onwards through the emptiness with Aprogeus, their patrol would come to a sudden hold as they would pass through an old village on the lonely 'desert'.

Both would look at one another as the skeleton decided to go first, following through the near one another roads while looking around for anything suspicious, there was nothing found, yet the body parts of deities were found near.

"Something is wrong. .this village is too close to this very place, it is either a possible ambush or- one of Baron's bases are nearby." - Said Aprogeus as Aureus looked around the houses closely inspecting them as if he made sure that there was no clanmembers waiting to assault them like other Hoplites.

"You are right, but I don't think they are in this village for an ambush, simply their base might be just close, but it looks like no one inhabits this village, which is weird because it looks like it wasn't abandoned, are. . .inhabitants dead? No. . .they dissappeared?" - Aureus would curiously look around confused, as he then noticed a huge floating surreal abomination filled with mouths and eyes, surreal matching of body structure, it flew past them up in the air while it shot its beam towards something behind itself, which seemed to be a sort of giant being similiary surrealistic and hard to comprehand, from what it could be seen the giant was bending Dhour with it's aura, instead of a head you would expect for a giant was a huge sphere that inside of itself had a light, the giant was catching up to the other floating entity until it was hit with the beam, then it would release shockwaves that moved the ground up and down until the floating mouth-eye creature fell down eventually, leading to giant crushing it down with his aura, and absorbing it's body into the bending aura.

Aureus looked at it for a moment distracted but he quickly remembered his original assignment.

"Not so dead now, eh?" - Said Aprogeus as he looked around again to make sure that they haven't missed anything in particular.

"Hah, right." - Said Aureus as he suddenly looked back at the giant again.

"Hold on. . .that aura, wait-" - Aureus teleported near the giant that seemingly began to walk his own way through Dhour, this. . . strength reminded him that Baron's clan was nearby, perhaps it was their deity? Or maybe it is just a paranoia of a possible enemy?

Aprogeus teleported right next to him.

"Nothing wrong with it I persume, although quite extremely strong." - Said Aprogeus as he would drag the skeleton back from the giant.

"Now, let's move to make sure that this Baron clan is not up to another fight nearby." - He continued as Aureus looked at him, and then back at the giant, then again back at Aprogeus, skeleton nodded.

They both continued the patrol, keeping in mind the unusual incident from before in case there was a reason to come back there, they stumbled upon nothing much for the most of their further travel, no other conflicts at hand, at least for now.

Through the bulges of terrain they have noticed one of the deities of 'Baron' clan beating up a celestial body, shattering apart it's all celestiality-like body, the creature seemed to use an interesting type of magic which Aureus knew very well. The forbidden magic of Berskery, that would let any user of such sorcery be able to completely overwhelm the enemy with direct conceptual attacks that are meant to shatter ones existance instead of body, allowing to shatter anyone within reach with a singular hit to certain points that each is unique to every being, this was a long forgotten sorcery created and used originally by Polyanyr when he betrayed the Hoplites and messiah himself. Now that Aureus got to recognize this, he walked up to this very deity creating a bone in his hand that he quickly with the spark of gold light created into a sharp sword that he swung infront of the deity.

"Ah! There you go! First off the clan I see! It's gonna be a honor fighting against the user using power of a betrayer." - Said Aureus as he slowly walked around the Deity.

Being itself quickly looked back at Aureus noticing that it was surrounded not only by him but by another Hoplite also, in panic, the being has casted one of Berserkery's abilities, a recreational break that created cracks through the part of reality around them, causing dozens of Surreal Layers to shake and break one by one, suddenly the creature punched through it breaking said layers as he would use it to attack Aureus from a 'place' he could not 'notice'. Now Aprogeus had a moment to look directly of what this being really was, it was not some divine being that is simply a helper of the Baron clan, from knowledge of Aprogeus it seemed like it was a long-time member that has long ago been corrupted by the forbidden sorcery, walking around the places aimlessly killing anything it sees, but through it's body it seemed like it was composed out of floating concepts making an indescribable mess of a body, there was no words exchange, this being was over-the-top out of his mind as after one successful hit he began to furiously punch into nothingness trying to further inflict any damage upon Aureus yet everytime he missed, as he missed his punches grew stronger and stronger as Aureus kept on blocking newer and newer attacks from this being which were mainly attacks of the mind, spirit and Berserkery that tried to create a beam to hit Aureus, he could not stand up so easily due to the kick he was hit with, so he instead decided to crouch on the ground taking deity's attentions so that Aprogeus could attack him from behind.

Suddenly, a hole was made through, emptiness, the first look of shock as the being suddenly stopped attacking and psychotically backed off while it's body began to break down. It screeched as suddenly the ground shook a little and debris fell around, the being would shoot out of it's body orbs that would slowly 'move' towards Aureus, as he stood up however they picked up the 'pace' and then tried to hit against Aureus' body one by one, first two were blocked by Aureus himself, third he was not able to react to but Aprogeus has shrinked the orb into implosion, when they looked back at the clan member, the abstract enemy was already defeated on the ground with it's body flattening out surrealism that fell out of it's body.

Many would then ask, what really is surrealism in Intellect sector? It is what makes a lot of beings composed out of it, most deities or Periphrasts that live in Intellect sector are abstract and surreal, making no sense or being incredibly complex in their appearance, looks, and body types. Their race is also quite impossible to be tracked for many inhabitants, some call a lot of beings from there 'complex' or 'hard to understand' yet for anyone that got to live in Intellect sector got used to it sooner or later. Surrealism and Abstract essence is sort of what every being inside Intellect sector is composed of, so when this essence 'flows out' of a being, it means that said being was hurt or is already dead.

Aprogeus and Aureus already knew that this amount of essence flow meant certain death, yet suddenly some of the essence went back inside of it's body as being's many eyes and shaped hands would come back to life trying to attack Aprogeus. However, Aureus used this momentum to appear infront of Aprogeus creating orbs that blocked the hands making them bounce off of the orbs, then, a golden eye of his would flash as all the orbs would fly into the being exploding afterwards in a clump of implosions that lead finally to the Periphrast collapsing in on themselves making it dissappear into nothingness.

"Alright, we have to move Aprogeus, but this time we will go forward, I think we might be close to their base if their valued member walked through here." - Said Aureus as he looked around cleaning his hoodie from the essence that flew on him when the skeleton imploded the enemy.

"Good point, I think this patrol actually might turn out good." - Said Aprogeus as he would create a a pair of sunglasses, putting it at the 'level' of his eyes.

"Let's get to it." - He said as he continued onward.

"Hah, that's interesting way of motivation." - Aureus shrugged as he followed his Hoplite fellow.

Infront of him were vast amounts of 'dunes', and after that there were more surreal structures rising up high. Both Hoplites decided to visit that very part of Dhour as it remained unknown for them.

They travelled through the dunes seeing nothing more than just empty grounds, excluding some encounters in which they saw other Dhour's lifeforms and beings that simply travelled through the same way as them.

Yet there was not much encounters after all as the place where they were at was simply devoid of any activity, they made their way through the dunes and went onwards until they eventually approached the 'mountains'. Both of the Hoplites from there would realize that there was a strange abstract sphere that was resonating down couple mountains.

"We have to check this out, it might be further trace." - Said Aprogeus as he slowly went down towards that 'object', Aureus would follow with him until they were extremely close to it, as they got closer however it turned out that there were smaller versions of this 'sphere' inside the one they found, it resonated a weird type of energy, as if the sorcery they both knew. Red, black, both of these colors filled these unknown structures. Both would inspect this very structure and upon closer look it seemed like this might be their final 'destination'. As both were close enough to the Abstract Sphere itself, they felt as everything was slightly stretching around them until they got closer.

"This might be something related, no?" - Said Aureus as he would get closer to the Sphere until he touched it with his finger, this is when Aureus fell through the Sphere and along with him fell Aprogeus as the Sphere behind them inherently closed.

They fell down onto the new unknown ground, around them were ruins comprised into some sort of aglomeration, the Sphere was a gone, it was a portal? Perhaps? Whatever it truely was both were not sure, but by it's functions it was quite obvious it had to be some sort of travel structure. As both Hoplites stood up and looked over the situation ahead of them, both would get into their battle stance as Aprogeus would carefully look around the place as if to make sure that there will be no ambush made against them, a thought went through his head. . .

"I think we might just be at our goal." - Said Aprogeus as he lowered his sunglasses making them dissappear, it seemed like this place was quite an unstable one and it immedietly reminded them of Berskerery - so was this Baron's bloodlines nest?

Suddenly, they heard the increased footsteps that were closer and closer, both Hoplites could feel an immense amount of aura coming from one of the main palaces. It seemed like whatever it was, resonated with strong sorcery that Aureus could easily feel through his body as it passed through the entire place they found themselves in, suddenly red particles would appear near them as couple of beings would close up on them, most of them hidden by the sheer abstract darkness they found themselves in, the particles would move around these being's bodies as some of them would cause their body to glow in red, primarly their attacking body parts, as some would close up to the Hoplites, suddenly, ontop of the biggest palace appeared an extremely tall being, widening itself to the top as it's hardly describable body would float over the roof they found themselves in, with him would be two another beings, one composed fully out of colorful shards, while the other one was a humanoid marine being, it's eye was covered in some sort of material that could bend the reality of Dhour, it had an armor that covered it's almost entire body that seemed to be covered in the same red particles but that would seemingly cause the armor to become rotten version of itself.

While everything began to slightly shake, the individuals near Hoplites would begin their attack, first one would be the one with Dhour's rocks that constructed his body into a golem-like form, that charged it's fist with the same forbidden sorcery they saw before, with the sole punch it shock the ground but luckily Aprogeus was able to avoid it changing his movement, the hit was so mighty and so strong that it broke through the ground of Dhour with ease. Both Hoplies had to back of and move back as they would be approached by more and more enemies, some were completely diverse non-humanoid, some were humanoid with destructive modifications to their appearance, all seemed like a bad state.

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LOCATION: Baron Stronghold, Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector.

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"They all look like zombies. . ." - Said Aprogeus before he noticed that a red slash was coming his way, he quickly dashed back causing the slash to hit the nearby wall instead causing it to break apart and dissappear into nothingness.

"Yeah..that's what I- TOLD YOU!" - Said Aureus as he spinned over enlighting his fist with gold aura that he used to hit the the being that caused the slash, however he also has missed, hitting the air instead of where that being was at.

"By the natural order of Intellect sector, we, the Hoplites are going to send you down to Nyx Waterfall." - Said Aprogeus as he looked at every and each being that surrounded them, his eyes would shine with a reality inside, causing the ground to change colors repeatedly, until suddenly - he was hit by one of the bloodline members, with berserkery enabled, it causing Aprogeus body to dismember for a second before reconnecting back and hitting the ground heavily after being hit.

". . ." - Aprogeus looked around trying to stand quickly but he was approached by other 3 beings that now used this opportunity to attack him, Aureus immediently jumped in for help but he was surprised to see that he was hit in the leg with an arrow, arrow that penetrated his leg and went through hitting the ground.

"That's it. . ." - Aureus said as his spirit had a hole now, knowing the capabilities of the arrow. The damaged spirit itself didn't harm him, Aureus was half-aware that his Spirit is quite not relevant, what was more important that his core 'self', his entire existance was hit.

"I am not gonna lose like before, I am not gonna scramble away, avoid further damage, this was my task, and I will complete it." - The silence occured as the clan members would close up to him finally delivering newer hits, one was delivered through fists of a humanoid, second through the weird shards of illogic, third through the floating skulls.

Aureus punched the fist coming at him causing it's entirety to crumble and fall of, he then changed his target as he saw the shards forming into a chainsaw-like construct, rapidly spinning blades which in this cause would be said shards would try and hit Aureus, at first he used his bones to block this attack but the blades went right through, he would quickly jump over the blades kicking the shards-enemy into his own bodily centre causing his vessel to crumble and some of the abstract essence to fall of, Aureus had to quickly help Aprogeus, but he was then attacked with colorful skulls that appeared out of dozens and dozens of grounds making themselves a surreal amalgamations of mind perception that formed into spirals, these spirals would shoot out trying to hit Aureus, along with the shards blade that would still move despite it's user being knocked out cold, the blades would now rush with far more 'speed', approaching Aureus, he had no choice other than punching creating couple blasters that he sent off into the blades, however they were easily dismantled by the chainsaw that now approached faster, in Aureus' hand Scales would form, from which the Scales would turn into a double-bladed axe, that he used to quickly swing the chainsaw on the ground, it caused shards that were composed out of Dhour to shatter after three hits, he completely forgot about the spirals he had to deal with as he was now hit with two spirals piercing through his body again, causing his own essence to flow out.

"N- No. . ." - Aureus said as he turned back, he began to repell spirals one by one, crushing them with each hit into nothingness with a shockwave happening each time the impact between spirals and axe happened, quicker, Axe would begin to show signs of breaking down until suddenly, a ray- a ray that completely erased spirals and so the enemy infront of him appeared, Aureus looked around confused, the shards entity is still laying down, while the humanoid one made a jab that broke the axe apart.

"What in the- Okay, okay." - He noticed that Aprogeus has made this ray, he was able to deal with all the four enemies at once rushing at him, that shocked Aureus but what was next surprised him more, Aprogeus stopped all motion for everyone as for him his movement was normal, he walked up to the humanoid, his eyes would again flash with Dhour's reality as he would grab the entity's head, and pull it up causing it to shatter through the abstract layers, it's body to decompose into illogical mess then turning into spirals that closed in on themselves causing the entire being to dissappear into nothingness except for the spirit that remained.

"Keep the Spirits alive, Nyx might be mad at us for erasing their Spirits." - said Aprogeus.

Aureus was confused, he took a quick look at the beings who attacked Aprogeus, a high ranking cultists, stronger than these that Aureus had to fight with. . .this was shocking, he looked at Aprogeus as he got closer and closer towards the palace.

"A- Alright okay. Yeah. Let's bring them down to Balance." - Said Aureus as orbs would appear behind them along with floating Scales, making his body more surreal.

"Remember to not overuse body morphing." - Said Aprogeus as he looked up noticing that the being was still up at the rooftop,

"You are right, let's defeat this unworthy being." - Responded Aureus as he noticed more and more beings appearing throughout the palace, they were notified of Hoplites act, this was going to be a hard one, Aureus looked around, so many beings....thousands? No. . .it was far, far, far more. Easily, this bloodline was huge, every single one of them possessing the battling unstoppable sorcery, this seemed like an impossible task to defeat and sure was one, they had to think, this was when Aprogeus took it upon himself to explain. After all, this sorcery had dozens of unknown capabilities that might be able to easily limit the Hoplites. Even with Goldification that Aureus uses often, some could surpass his reaction, or hit him when he wasn't aware of it.

"We might die here, and it is not a joke, I saw that in my vision. We have to work smart, use our ascension to defeat them, we gotta go serious now, we will have to make a huge ground up structure from which we will take down enemies from the highground." - Said Aprogeus as he looked at Aureus, Aureus nodded as both would walk up to the centre of the palace.

In a blink of an eye, Aprogeus would hear a voice inside of his head.

"I will call for small help." - Said Aprogeus.

"I can do that. . ." - Said Yurei, as suddenly they were sent up in the air and below them was created a structure made superior to the Dhour, making it virtually indestructible for the enemies.

"Remember that I've only done that due to Aureus' action against that mortal, take this as my 'thank you' gift." - Said Yurei as the voice dissappeared.

"Who was that?" - Said Aureus as he looked around the place, a structure that he was so confused about, it seemed irrational for him.

"Doesn't matter, fight, come on!" - Said Aprogeus as he walked up to the edge of the structure sending in another ray, this time from one of his eyes that caused some beings below to lose their vessel bodies, a few spears flew by at the structure but to no avail, it didn't even get a scratch.

More and more attacks flew yet the clan members were aware that to fight them they would have to get all the way up to that structure, some would begin to float, those that could, fly towards the structure yet both Aureus and Aprogeus would use their powers to take them down with immense precision each time, Aureus felt more alive than ever, his body began to resonate more.

"This is amazing. . .We can stop them all now!" - Said Aureus as he rose his fist up in the air, creating a rip of Dhour's essence that caused the entire nothingness from each sides to create, corrupted holes that blocked the way of view and entering, he sent them off into the enemies causing the hole to enlarge with places it approached causing a paradox that created a spiral that eventually turned shape and works into more fractal-like, hitting the ground and killing many cultists below, Aureus then rose up his fist as the MAINFRAME button appeared, he pressed it with his hand, causing the Dhour to halt, his eye would flash with gold color along with the orbs around him, Aureus' orbs would fly towards the hordes of clan members, when hitting the enemies, it created connections with other vessels freezing most of them in gold statue-like state, they were in stasis, Goldification, Aureus' golden eye would flash as all froze were surrounded with gold border around their vessel, and as sudden as it happened, all these cultists were turned into ashes, suddenly one of the cultists rose his fist up towards Aureus trying to hit him, yet the skeleton using MAINFRAME would cease enemy's current action, ripping their entire vessel out of their soul with the press of the button, more and more would try to get Aureus, and with more and more hits, Aureus would grow tired, his orbs while being extremely effective, were not enough when he used all of them on beings around him, there was always that one being shooting Aureus from distance with what seems to be spears, this caused Aureus to stay confused for a second before he noticed some of the cultists making it on top of the structure, he would turn, using Karma to cause them all to fall back down, until he was finally hit with the spear through his torso, yet the flash of the golden eye would cause a fast regeneration that completely erased the wound, but as Aureus looked around having a moment of free time, he realized that Aprogeus suddenly fell to the ground.

"Huh?! Aprogeus?! What the. . ." - Aureus looked up, he noticed that same marine/fish-like humanoid that just hit Aprogeus with one of the points of the berserk, meaning his entire spirit, and existance was wounded, said creature boosted itself up onto the very structure, Aprogeus would slowly stand up hurt, while Aureus would point at that being, fists around the marine entity would appear, all would be bright red, pointing their fingers towards Aureus, suddenly all of them flew out trying to hit Aureus, first bones appeared to block them, then Scales that balanced them into nothingness, said Scales transformed into a tsunami-like form that was meant to throw the marine off the structure, it worked, the creaure hit the wall of the palace flying through it.

"Now that's something, eh?" - Said Aprogeus holding his wound, Aureus would feel as his body would resonate more and more, it was hotter and hotter, he felt like he was about to shoot out all of his power, Scales would appear above him, dozens of them, all formed into huge Ravans (Ravans in this case are like black holes in the way they work, yet they exist only inside Intellect sector, they bend all the laws around themselves despite being similiar in works to black holes, they are far more powerful as they can bend everything inside the Intellect sector excluding structures outside of it like Dice, Ring, and more.) that he sent off into the ground causing an explosion that hurt the ground of Dhour again, this explosion would get rid of most clan members, Aureus would feel as it would be so hot that he didn't even need a hoodie now, he tossed it off from the structure with only his undershirt on his torso.

His eyes would begin to glow widely as Aprogeus would stand up now. This was the moment of when Psychosis began.

"Aureus. . .something is wrong, I can feel it, you are going too far with your usage." - Aprogeus said fighting off the clan members again until he was hit with a shard that instantly made him fall unconcious as his 'core-self' and the spirit was already hit, it was the same shard entity, it was still alive, in fact it was ontop of the structure too, Aureus would fall into madness, everything would begin to change in his eyes, his vision would turn this abstracticity into surreal madness that didn't make sense, everything in his vision, the colors, and all would start turning, it caused his entire body to seemingly shake, was this the shard entity...? Or a guy? Aureus was so confused with the sight he sees now, but it was too late to think. The clan member looked as Aureus would jump up and move to the left side where the shard being even wasn't at, yet, in a sharp second, he was hit, shards Periphrast would shatter and explode as it's remains fell down along with essence.

Everything began to deform in his eyes, all would cease to make sense eventually, everything simply became so confusing it could not be described, Aureus now knew that it was his own Psychosis, he fell to his own madness, there was no going back now.

Aureus began to experience sudden change in personality, he stood at the top of the structure, not moving an inch, while Aprogeus was laying on the ground with his essence around.

His eyes...they weren't even gold anymore, they were - the same as his vision all a colorful mess like a lava of different thoughts and ideas. He would enter the state of seeing only the surreal layers, the questions would begin to float inside of his head.

"Does this all..make sense? Why am I even fighting? What's the point of all this? Why did I walk up here? Why am I working for messiah, or anyone else? Maybe I should work for my own cause? Screw this. . ?" - Suddenly, his body would twitch, he was hit by a punch delivered as more bloodline members would finally manage to get almost ontop of the structure Yurei created, this very hit, caused again the essence to flow out of his body, this caused this surreal madness to lower a bit, the questions stopped, but his madness continued.

"I will not work for others. . why would I." - He completely ignored Aprogeus laying around as he began punching into nothingness causing the shockwave to set the enemies on golden fire that would cause their vessel body to turn into balanced mess, this fire continued as suddenly Aureus jumped down delivering a fist punch to the ground with his whole body on said fire floating strong, impact. . .a beam appeared out of it, so huge that it evaporated everyone around him that tried to catch him.

The silence. . .was that really it? Aureus stood in place again, feeling as the Psychosis strength would return as his body now would feel weaker, his fire would dissappear as he slowly made his way inside of the Palace. He said nothing, his face expression remained still as he watched some of the bloodline members creating out of Berskery the damn beasts of fist fighting, suddenly he was hit in one of his two points, his 'core-self' was hurt again, causing his Spirit to already dissappear into nothingness, showing that Aureus' spirit was purely useless to him - Aureus didn't even twitch or move, he simply grabbed the member throwing him into the most dangerous ones, setting them all on fire and causing the fire to spread and set everything ablaze at this level of palace, including all the uncountable infinite amounts of surreal layers all around this structure that was caught in Aureus' fire and destroyed completely with his will, he walked up the stairs now, watching as everything burns, his body was quite close to reaching it's limits, and with his 'core-self', the so-called 'existance' being nigh-broken - Aureus could easily die if he overused just one ability.

"I can't believe. . ." - Aureus spoke a sentence as he mindlessly moved up another set of stairs.

"That I was. . ." - Another set of stairs passed.

"So idiotic. . ." - Yet another set of stairs passed.

"Not realizing. . ." - Last set of stairs passed.

"That you were here all along." - Said Aureus as he reached the top of the roof, it was him who he was, the creator of this forbidden magic, with him was again this..fish humanoid that despite some of it's scars was not really wounded.

He stood there, seeing as more and more red floating fists would appear, while their seemingly primary base was set ablaze, it didn't matter, it's not like both Hoplites managed to kill all of his members, the bloodline will continue, and that's what lead to Aureus' madness.

"Pathetic." - Said the Sorcerer of Berserkery, the infamous 'Jiran'.

"I wanted to kill you. . .for so long. . . I've imagined destroying your body into pieces, and, while I will die here, I will get my revenge." - Said Aureus as he slowly made his way towards the sorcerer.

Aureus suddenly started to stumble he went from left to right, stepping on the right side now, Aprogeus' eyes flashed as he slowly stood up.

"Thank god...Thank god it's not the other way. . ." - Aprogeus would say as he suddenly gained motivation, the hit that Sorcerer was about to deliver missed as Aureus suddenly as said before made his way to the right side, causing the hit to simply collapse the palace.

"So if it's this possibility, then I already have a solution." - Said Aprogeus as he appeared behind the sorcerer, he now delivered a punch to his core that was ontop of his head, it caused Aprogeus to melt his own hand to smitherines.

Aureus would slowly stand up from the ashes of the Palace, while his body heavily wounded, he refused to give up.

"Fighting is the only choice here, so fight." - Aureus' eyes would begin to glow in these. . .surreal colors again as his fist would completely fall into surreal madness as he sent a punch making Sorcerer fall towards Aprogeus that used it to deal another punch to the Baron sorcerer.

The fish would quickly walk up to the sorcerer and would create a portal infront of themselves, suddenly the portal would corrupt though.

Aureus would point his finger up moving it left and right.

"No no no. . .no escaping." - He said as he struggled to move forward, the marine quickly spinned delivering a punch into Aureus' ribs breaking them apart, yet he still stood, the power that was dealt to that body was that of the power of Dhour, but suddenly the fist began to glow as the power accelerated so much along with Berserkery that charged fully, that it could shatter dozens of amounts of Surreal Layers, marine was surprised, yet Aureus did not move now, not an inch, his expression faded.

Marine slowly turned towards Aprogeus.

"Alright..." - Aprogeus coughed up the eseence, after all he was also hit before in his point with berserkery.

"You might think this is over. . .But. . .this was my plan of this possibility. . .Look behind you." - Sorcerer looked behind, and just like Aprogeus thought, this was his time to strike.

"This is your time." - Said Aprogeus as out of nowhere, as he would use his competence to create something that would fill in the gaps in order to stop him, this time the Sorcerer was hit with his own Berserk fist that would hit on point, causing his existance and Spirit to be damaged.

"This. . .cannot be." - Said Sorcerer as he would now create more and more fists, cleavers would appear out of thin air and would hit everywhere creating a barrage of attacks, the lava of berskery that would melt down anything it met with would fill around the ground, Aureus still did not move.

"AUREUS! RUN! AUREUS!!! GOD DAMN IT." - Said Aprogeus as he would jump from the debris to reach Aureus, while avoiding lava, cleavers, and fists, he would dodge them one by one creating different measures and using his advanced telekinesis to make a huge stone out of smaller rocks made out of Dhour, he would send it at the Sorcerer jumping up at Aureus and dragging him away from Lava, suddenly, Aureus' eyes opened golden fire would surround Sorcerer as he was hit over and over with the fire until his body began to melt, this was when both marine manage to break down the portal paradox so that they could both retreat, which they did.

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LOCATION: Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector

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Silence, Aureus' eyes closed again, Aprogeus looked around.

"Damn it...damn it...damn it. What the hell was that? I was sure that this might happen but I didn't know how this would work, that is truely a crazy encounter. We have to get you somewhere." - Said Aprogeus quickly creating a portal himself.

"But before that, I will make sure that these freaks won't create their base from this old one." - As Aprogeus appeared infront of the abstract sphere he saw before, this time knowing it's weakened state uncontrolled by the sorcerer, he simply crushed it down with his telekinesis, abstract sphere, that existed on the composite strength of Dhour, having completely irrelevant numerically quantity of Surreal Layers, downed to countable infinite amounts, which then Aprogeus could break, it would start bending down to Aprogeus will now, as it was destroyed completely by said telekinesis.

"Now, we gotta go." - Said Aprogeus to laying down Aureus, he grabbed him by the cloth dragging him along, teleporting him through portals to reach to other Hoplites quickly, this might be critical, he didn't know much about Aureus' mental state after all.

And they both went. . .with their objective completed, but at what cost? What will this change? Is this the time when the bloodlines rage will lead to. . .another conflict?

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LOCATION: Celestiality, Intellect Sector

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In the meanwhile, Nyx, the newly ascended deity along with it's competition, Life, were residing inside the Intellect Sector now, their life has changed strongly, as both were now definitive conclusion of vessels and their further future. This competition however was not much of a serious one, while Nyx is not a huge fan of Life, he is also not considering Life a hostile being, as without Life there wouldn't be Death - because of that Nyx feels quite reliant on Life and it's post-products that he personally hates. Nyx is not a huge fan of variety, he loves simplicity and that's how he lives, yet the post-products of Life are...the extreme opposite of what he likes, while also sometimes trying to trigger Nyx by trying to interfere in terms of Death. For Death itself though there was one thing that stopped him for further actions, for his last actions of killing and resurrecting different beings, he was forced by Hoplites to sign an oath in which he mustn't kill anyone out of pure bias or thought, which obviously was a hard task as he personally despises Abysstials.

Nyx's routine became more stale, as he walked around different structures from time to time, picking up the spirits from dead vessels with his lamp to transport them into Nyx Waterfall where they could rest. In the meanwhile, Life became the governor of Celestiality, ascended to the same structure as Nyx, Dhour. Life's existance however became more interesting and diverse, as she now had a far bigger field to create anything she imagined, including as said before - her post-products that she calls 'children' or 'elements':

Nature

Vessel

Vigor

Evolution

Life has gotten into good connections with Yurei himself, and with that Yurei began to transmit creative thoughts into Life, making new deities far more diverse and complicated. Nyx, the embodiment of death was not much content with this information, but now he couldn't do anything against it, at least from his oath. Yet, what Nyx did from time to time was to 'speed up' the time of death for those inside the lower half of the Singularity and Vessel World sector. For Nyx it was called 'Collection season', everytime there was an opportunity, Death went for such an 'event', oftenly using for it mortals, ending lifes of those that Death saw as already fit for the death realm, collecting their souls through his dark lantern, eluminating blue light, he used it to gather said before spirits and souls to then deport them into his death realm. The 'seasons' were happening quite rarely and quickly became a legend, that when you here the sound of the lantern in the darkness, it is the sign that it is your time to leave the living realm to enter the Nyx Waterfall. Through those legends, many mortals 'created' their own 'ways' of stopping Death from visiting them, some symbols, different hand-crafted items, however, as obvious as it may seem, they were all superstitions, there was no way to really scare the Death itself, but Nyx saw it as quite a fun exercise to watch mortals and deities trying to fend off him, sometimes he would act as if these superstitions would work, to only come back couple hours after for a surprise. Nyx, despite his dark background, origin, and embodiment, still liked to make a fool out of someone, or simply state a joke. He started to love visiting a special place made inside Dhour's substructures, inside the substructure called 'RAKUM', there was an anonymous bar created by an unknown deity, it was a place to rest, and think, from time to time he would visit such a place to look around and think. Despite all, Nyx would rather remain lonely, it was obvious why it would've been so anyways, after all, Death is the sign to behold.

Life on the other hand has quickly met many companions in the godly realm as she was ascended. She obviously tried many times to stop Death from going on his 'season' but she could never catch him on the act, supposedly Nyx was so stealthy that even a deity like Life could not find him anywhere, adding to the fact that the seasons would always happen during the darkness of Wizewjusz.

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LOCATION: Outside of erased Baron stronghold, Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector.

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Nyx looked at the corpses of dead abstract vessels laying on presumed surreal 'ground' that was near the now-erased Baron Stronghold. With some bodies still remaining, and their spirits and true souls still intact, Nyx slowly but surely began collecting them one by one, throwing them inside of his lantern as he used it to harvest the souls and spirits. As more and more would flow into his abstractfully infinite lantern, he would come to a stop.

"Hm, I guess that's it then?" - He said to himself in a more tired voice as he looked over the corpses left behind.

"Hah, something sure happened here, eh? Maybe Hoplites finally came to do something when they lost their reputation as amazing saviors haha." - Said Nyx as he looked around for a brief moment.

"Maybe, just maybe we will get to see them do something. Everytime I see these damned by fate beings I get to feel a certain. . .emptyness, after all it feels like they cannot do much about current situation inside this. . .questionable sector. At first I expected Intellect sector to be a place of final peace, just to understand that. .the final peace here truely is the lack of any moral compass and concepts that would divide 'good' and 'bad', after all there is presumably nothing like that here. It's just. . .right and wrong, both sides make sense only when you are at one, then the one you are at becomes 'right' and the one you stand against becomes 'wrong', how funny." - said Nyx as he would sling his lantern on his belt.

"At least you don't have to align with the 'good' ones to not get screwed over, after all there is no good, you are always the target if you are with any of the sides fighting." - Continued Nyx himself as he looked around.

"Welp! Let's hope that Ragnarok doesn't appear here, after all the worst moment would be the embodiment of power interrupting my job, as always." - Nyx said as he slowly turned, a portal would open, through it he would open his lantern releasing all the spirits into the realm of Nyx Waterfall.

"One after one. . .essence after essence. . ." - He said as he would feel disgust for a moment.

"Someone manifested into existance, Life is not slacking off, eh? And with help of Yurei himself. . haha." - Nyx said as he would look around. Nyx picked up the skull of a mortal from the Vessel World.

"But in the end. . .it is I that brings mortality and even the immortality to it's knees, it is I that creates conclusion for vessels, for their life. I should not stand here and converse with just myself, I have to keep on my schedule to make sure that Life doesn't overpopulate our world." - Said Nyx as he would slowly walk through the portal he threw spirits into, the portal closed in as he walked through it.

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LOCATION: Yurei's Spectrum, Dhour (and Surreal Layers), Intellect Sector

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Yurei's spectrum is one of Yurei's domains that exists as the inspiration of pure creativity, inside this very structure was also Life that was talking with Yurei.

"Hmph. . .This creation will be instead an immense one." - Said Twilight , as from her hands went the veins and essence of creation that would start the life of a Vessel Body, she would look over her sons running around the abstract garden near Yurei's Spectrum. Nature was trying to catch Vessel, with the help of Evolution, while Vigor was trying to help Vessel, they were jumping through said garden's beauty of life, trying to find each other in this newly found world they were created in. While everybody played, it was quite clear that the descendants of Life were extremely friendly to one another, and while they were trying to catch up to each other, every one of them lived in pure harmony with one another, co-existing, rather than fighting for power, something quite unseen in Mythoversum.

"It's inspiring to see your descendants play in such harmony and understanding, Twilight ." - Said Yurei as he held one of books from The Great Archive that were given to him by Phonn, he would look at the certain page, as he looked over Life with his other eye. Suddenly, a spark would appear that would emanate from Yurei's eye, it would hit the newly created Vessel Body giving it a different, complicated yet far more creative shape.

"Oh, I think so too. I've given birth to all my children, making sure that all of them will co-exist with each other happily, looking after them was extremely inspiring, as I got to work with them and show them how life is made and how it exists. Also, thank you for help Yurei, I've lost my creativity a long time ago inspiring many creations, I will never cease to appreciate your help." - said Life as she would look again at the Garden.

"There is absolutely no problem! But I think I will have to go pretty soon to complete one unfinished business." - said Yurei as he looked around the place.

"I've tried to made a deal with certain someone a long time ago, and I believe it is time to face them once again," - He continued, closing the book and putting at aside.

"You can remain here in my Spectrum, it will continuously embrace you with creativity to create more life that will inspire your future 'projects', but remember to not go overboard, remember, it is my domain." - Said Yurei as he would walk towards the exit of his own Spectrum.

"Understood." - Said Twilight as she held the veins of life against the Vessel Body now created by her with a blink of an eye, this very being was meant to inhabit Celestiality and govern over many important structures inside of it, and so it was given body that would be equally as strong as the structure itself.

Then, he was given mind, as Life used Celestiality to create a Spirit, which then was ascended to be completely equal to Celestiality in power, the veins suddenly inserted into the being as the Spirit, soul, appeared into the vessel, giving it life, veins would dissappear as the being would now appear at Celestiality, created.

After doing so, Twilight would walk into the garden to take care of her children, her own quota that she made for herself was now completed, and now there was time to let the ceaseless wheel of life to continue it's work, this time for weaker beings, the ones that do not exist within Intellect sector, this she could easily do through just thinking about a certain creation and , that is why she partially remained inside Spectrum to quickly regain ideas of creation that would come to her mind, Life was by no means a good being, Twilight only cared about her children, the descendants of her power, while for those created she feels nothing towards, monsters, heros, villains, destroyers, those that you can't name, those that achieve complete chaos. Just like projected before, there was no morality in her. And the proof could be found right now, as she has now created an enigmatic beast that started to slaughter entire villages inside Vessel World.

"My children, you will all soon learn about the beauty and the horror of life, of what it leads to and what is the ultimate conclusion." - Said Twilight as she called for her children to approach her from the garden.

"I will tell you a story about life and death, and the consequences of life. Where there comes life, the conclusion is death, life is careless for those that are created by it, and thus there can be horror, but there also can be beauty. You all, my children, are chosen to take care of the result of creation and its aspects. Vessel, you are responsible for vessel bodies of those created and those that will be created accordingly by the fate itself. You, nature, are the greatest force of life, a wild and composite expression of all that is concious, and you are the one to manage it's behavior, roads, ways of work and appearance of it. While our dear Evolution is what becomes of species of mortals, and the further change of any vessel body, the laws of nature and life. And finally, Vigor, you my dear bring the WILL to exist, a protector of life and the will to keep the nature and its laws. All of you have an important power to hold, while cooperating with one another you will all achieve greatness and make sure that my honor, wheel of life and all that comes with it will remains stable. You all have been already through my trainings and teachings of governening over your special domain, and now it is time that your mother will ease some of her power for all of you." - Said Life as she stood up now looking over her wheel of life. All the descendants looked at each other, all motivated to finally do their work by themselves without any ingerention of their mother, it was an important moment for them, while still not autonomous by any means, it still meant more freedom for them which was what they strived for in the end. The veins of life would again appear around her, now instead the veins would be far larger, brighter and more transparent, as suddenly the wheel of life would pull out of Twilight releasing it's true capabilities showing it's form as the veins that moved into the souls of her descendants, would disappear quickly as suddenly half of Dhour would in a simple second be completely under the light that was made due to this particular situation.

Nyx in the meanwhile was about to harvest more spirits of the killed by Hoplites, until he noticed a huge transparent veins flying through the abstract sky of Dhour, suddenly all of said veins dissappeared in his view, leaving only himself and the remnants of abstract light that began to dissappear.

"Huh? If it's life again I will truely lose my mind." - Said Nyx as he slowly walked towards the place where the light appeared originally. He would walk quite bravely with his lantern in hand as he moved towards the place.

He would walk through the deserts of Dhour, teleporting himself forward to reach the place from where he remembered the abstract light come from, Nyx had surprisingly an unstoppable memory that led him to remember where it started from, as he would get closer, he would already know where it all began.

"Yurei's spectrum." - He said as he approached one of Yurei's weaker domains, while still a formidible place, due to the fact that it can give to anyone creativity and ideas that they couldn't even dream of. This all connected into one idea that he was 'troubled' with for a long time, it has to be Life again, gaining her creativity to continue this madness of creation. As he got closer and closer he finally got himself near the Garden where he looked around trying to find anyone that was inside the structure, as he vaulted over the fence of the garden he would quietely inspect the garden around him noticing different veins of life around the Garden, until he realized the mistake he made.

"So... It is what I thought." - Said Nyx as suddenly he noticed four beings around him, with one of the tallest appearing aside from all four beings. Nyx would have his own hand near his weapon while looking at all the beings.

"What are you doing here." - Said Twilight as she approached Nyx.

"I am here to check what the bullshittery you and your people are doing that caused the place to light itself up." - Said Nyx as he carefully looked around the place, looking closely at those that surround him.

"It is not your certain business to get into other embodiment's works. Get back to your own domain." - said Twilight , while the wheel of life would begin to slightly appear through.

". . .Alright. Let it be your way then, old lady." - Now as Nyx looked closer, he could feel the same presence of the "wheel" with her descendants around, it soon all became clear for Nyx. He didn't want to get in whatever fight that could happen right now, after all he had still many tasks to do currently and the last thing he wanted is to unleash an entire war with another concept over a small thing like this.

"You are ascending your descendants to ease up your work? Certainly a funny way of giving power, but don't worry, it is as you said "not my business"." - Added Nyx as he walked towards the portal, suddenly the wheel of life would create it's transparent vein that would grab Nyx by his leg. Nyx's eyes would all begin to glow as a Naginata would appear in his hand that he used to quickly spin over the tentacle slicing it in half, he would quickly back off towards portal as more and more veins would fly towards Nyx as he repelled each and every coming at him with veins themselves increasing in power until one of the hits would be as strong as Dhour itself being able to harm the blades of Nyx, due to this, he quickly swung his weapon back and forth creating slashes that would stop the attack, letting him dissappear into the portal he closed right after.

"Again, trying to ruin what I do? So typical of him. All he wants is his own gain, trying to interfere into others, only to gain upperhand in his imaginary conflict, expected from him." - Said Life. All the descendants of Life would look as Nyx retreated, some of them would look back at their mother and some would already "dig" into their own possibilities.

"Alright, we will return now to our own Domain. I've already harvested enough creativity." - Said Life as she led her descendants into her own place of choice.

"Hmm..." - Questioned Nyx as he walked out on the other side of Dhour.

"Threatening with wheel of life? Who would've expected, but if I would try to defend myself it could easily lead to another war, not today old lady." - Said Nyx as he looked around stretching himself.

"Welp, it's time to keep the work going." - Said Nyx as he was about to continue harvesting the spirits of sectors before he noticed an explosion from afar.

"Ragnarok. . ." - Said Nyx as he watched the Periphrast from afar clashing with embodiment of power.

"I wish I could kill him, this freak should be dead long ago, yet the fate doesn't seem to want him dead, I really wish I could meet him privately in MY domain, haha." - Said Nyx as he would fling his weapon up in the air.

Embodiment of power would be hit over and over with attacks from the Periphrast, the being sent it's floating missile like projectiles into the Embodiment of Power, over and over, sending abstract images of mouths that flew up towards Ragnarok biting him and causing no damage to the enviroment of Dhour as it was aimed only at Ragnarok with concentrated power - power that would be able to take down Absolutely Infinite Surreal Layer.

These attacks would slowly and surely cause Ragnarok to glow in purple color until he finally served his first attack, after being hit many times with projectiles, stunned with the floating mouths and held down by Periphrast's pawns as the creature seemed to resemble a chessboard. His first attack was a jab, Ragnarok's fist hitting the being causing it to crumble at first, then it's body was set in the fire of true potent power causing it to fly aimlessly across Dhour while burning into complete nothingness.

Nyx watched the fight unleash, he quite expected this outcome.

"Ah. . .mistake mistake, they always try to attack him first." - Said Nyx as he continued harvesting the souls and spirits, this time bringing them from Vessel World and Singularity with his power inside his lantern in Intellect sector.

"ANOTHER DEAD, EXPECTED." - Said Ragnarok as he would hit the ground repeatedly causing it to shake.

"NO ONE CAN DEFEAT ME! LEAD ME YOUR BEST MAN, ALL WILL DIE!" - Said Ragnarok as Nyx realized that Ragnarok had a conflict with one of the clans, and the one he killed was presumably one of better clan members, he saw Ragnarok run out of sight as he began crushing down more members of the clan, until, from what it seemed like, Ragnarok grabbed Dhour fragments throwing it at the presumable base of the clan that blew up into smitherines causing it to completely collapse in on themselves, Ragnarok watched in excitement as the enemy he fought fell to their knees, completely obliterated.

"Expected, after all from the books of many mighty deities of Intellect sector, Ragnarok was the sign of complete doom, wherever he appeared in, no matter how much deities you could bring against him, he always won - he seemingly comes in origins from a realm we cannot comprehand - but he was always left completely dominant on the battlefield, unlike Duell, the God of War that has lost against. . .the outsider." - Said Nyx as the spirits and souls would flow into his lantern, the blue fire would increase inside of it.

"No matter how much people hate him, they won't get rid of him, he will run around, and destroy egos of all that approach him, and it is quite funny to see. Legends say that uh. . .he once did lose, and it was against Mytos, but, who knows how it really was? Back then when it could've happened, everything was different, Mytos was the greatest warrior and solved all the issues as they weren't as dangerous as they became now, and now Mytos is seemingly gone - yet not dead, at least by concept of death itself, as I did not get to harvest his soul, meaning he is either erased or, well, still alive. Then again, Mytos was one hell of a being, born by mortals but ascended into someone no one could recognize, that weak yet hopeful mortal became protector of many selfish deities. I am wondering what would happen if Ragnarok fought against Duell. .hah." - Said Nyx as he quitely moved onwards through the desert. He noticed Ragnarok walking his own way to probably cause even more chaos.

"Hoplites might have a problem with him, but uh, not my deal." - He continued upon seeing a visible place where the abstract flora would all turn into gray color. Nyx would sit for a moment, moving his lantern in the abstract wind.

"The diseases became widespread, who would've expected, primarly 'Manifold', eh?" - Said Nyx as he looked at the gray parts of Dhour nature, well, while the diseases still continue to spread, and wars continue, there has to be further action and insight, yet. . .while the 'Baron' issue is for now solved, there are still dozens of issues and problems, are you willing to see them?"

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## ACT III: "The Cycles"

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LOCATION: Mainframe of the OPU, Vessel World sector.

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World was never a good one, was it? From the dawn of time there were issues and problems in mythoversum happening in each sector, as anyone has it's own interests and objectives, conflicting with others. Yet this time the cycle of conflict seems to have stopped, at least for now, as CA would sit on the empty ground.

"World is in ashes." - He said, laying on the empty ground, it was all glitched, all in shambles and corruption.

Since everything has been taking more chaotic turn, there's no certain, through the trips that CA took with Irasis, through it's examination, it seemed certain, Mark is not just a mortal, but at the same time he is not a deity nor any of it's protoplasts, through Irasis' mind were couple scenarios, perhaps Mark was creation of Ribborn himself? But it would make sense for him to take human form in order to remain unnoticed, yet, there is a problem with this theory, how could Ribborn create him? He was trapped inside MPU for long enough time that he shouldn't be able to manipulate anything, at the same time, he is the forbidden embodiment of inexpectancy, so there is perhaps always a way for him. The other scenario could be that Mark was just created, nothing interesting to it, he became a thing because Twilight wanted it, yet, if that was the case, how could Mark have parts of inexpectancy inside of his spirit? Nothing made any sense, yet maybe. . .the third scenario is that, he was created, because he is inexpectancy, or apart of it, he was created with no expectation, he just. . .began to exist at some point unnoticed, that would explain why Directives tried to kill him off with the help of FATE, but at the same time, Irasis did not hear much about anything that Mark was talking about with Ribborn, CA seemingly didn't want to start this topic, which concerned it. What was so important that he hides it? Perhaps if it could insert itself into Mark's head it would work? It tried, but it didn't succeed, every time there seemed to be some unknown force pushing her out of the possibility of doing it. There is now time to confront him about this, no longer just asking, forcing him to say what has really been happening there.

Irasis with it's body deteriorating with glitches, turning more into an amalgamation of it's real self turned towards Mark as it made it's way towards him, until, when Mark turned towards Irasis, he was grabbed and held up in the air.

"A- ALRIGHT. . .I- I 4M T1RED OF YO- YOUR BULLSH1TTERY, T3LL M3 WH4T Y0U W3RE TALKING 4BOUT WITH TH4T GR33N FRE4K!" - Said Irasis as it would tighten it's grip on him.

"F- FUCK! WHAT THE HELL? WHY WOU- UGH. . .OKAY OKAY! JUST PUT ME THE FUCK DOWN!" - Said Mark tried to escape the grip, yet it was not possible.

". . ." - Irasis thought about letting Mark go, she would loosen her grip so that Mark would be able to talk.

"Ugh. .I said release me damn it! Okay. . .Ribborn was telling me about. . .MY DARN FATE! OKAY? I was meant to FUCKING DIE, THOUSANDS OF TIMES! THEY WANT ME DEAD. . .THESE DAMN...COPS, OR WHOEVER THEY ARE. They WANT. ME. DEAD. and YOU know it. That's the ENTIRE THING we were talking about! Now you're being a damn paranoic freak! What, you think I am lying to you?! I would've been fucking dead otherwise!" - Said Mark as he was still lifted up in the air, he tried to now get out of the grasp of Irasis, yet Irasis still persisted, slightly lowering him down to the ground.

"P- P4RANO1C. . .? P3RHAPS, B3CAUSE MY EX1ST4NCE IS PUR3LY AND M3RELY AT CONST4NT W4R. . . TH3RE'S NO C3RTAIN TH3Y- T- TR- TRY T0 3ND M3, I- I C4NN0T AFF0RD 3NOUGH T0 H4VE A SN1TCH. . ." - Irasis stopped talking for a moment as it examined the creature it held, Mark gave up on trying to escape, from it's grasp it was purely impossible with his sole strength.

"I am not a damn snitch! Okay?? ALL I've been trying to do is SURVIVE, yet by ALL MIRACLES EVERYONE wants me dead, either 'cus they don't know me, or they just think I HAVE A PLAN, well, to your surprise I DON'T HAVE ANY PLAN! I WAS BETRAYED BY THAT MOTHERFUCKER, I listened to you and I trusted you! Yet you now try to fucking kill me? Seriously? That's damn fucking pathetic. . .by all my tries." - Mark said as he instead wasted his energy to speak, and try to get to Irasis with what he has to say.

"Y3AH, SURE, I 4M N0T TRY1NG TO K1LL YOU, IF I WOULD W4NT TO THAT'S WHAT I WOULD DO SO ALR34DY. BUT, WH1LE YOU 4RE AN ENT3RTAINM3NT AND H3LP, H0W C4N I BE C3RTAIN?" - Irasis did not know what to do, now it was the moment it realized that, even if she or rather it would try to get information out of him, he could lie anyways, this was the moment when it had to choose. Let Mark co-exist with him, or. . .abandon the creature. These both options had their cons and pros, in the end, if Mark was really a snitch, and secretely still helped Ribborn, it would've meant a bad time for the creature.

"SERIOUSLY? God damn it, I helped you! I KILLED THAT DAMN HOLOGRAPH THAT TRIED TO KILL YOU! I BACKSTABBED IT WITH IT'S OWN WEAPON, I fought by your damn side against them all, you seriously think I would change my mind because some freak would tell me otherwise?" - Said Mark, hanging by the grip of the being still.

". . ." - Irasis would not let go off of him, dropping him down on the ground.

"WH4T3VER. . .WH1LE YOU AR3 R1GHT, D0N'T TRY TO FU- FUCK AR0UND WITH M3, 4FTER A- ALL Y0U'R3 ST1LL 4LIVE ON MY W- W4TCH." - Said Irasis, as it would turn around looking, going back to what was originally her goal of that moment, breaking into the mainframe of OPU, the substructures of the MPU, to gather power over code inside the Vessel World, its hands would land onto the air of the Vessel World as couple of its hair pieces would attach onto the air, breaking this reality piece apart, revealing CODE lines, all sitting tightly inside each disc that would float between the black and green matrix of a layer. As Irasis attempted to get into contact with this CODE layer, it noticed that CA slowly stood up from the ground.

"Right. . .right, yeah. Listen, there's no reason I'd lie to you, really. If I would I would've been dead, aye." - Said Mark as he adjusted his clothings from the 'fight' and looked around this empty space.

"Uh, where are we again?" - Said Mark curiously.

"S- SHUT U- UP F0R 4 M0M3NT. . .W3 A- AR3 4T OPU M- M4INFR4ME." - Said Irasis while looking around all the discs floating in this weird sort of space. All these discs had some sort of strings connected to each one which all led to something, Irasis would use it's enigmatic body manipulation to extend it's hand into a glitchy spike that it used to break through bigger piece of reality in order to see the bigger image of what it sees currently. Upon closer inspection, all the discs were connected to a. . .folder.

"W3 w1ll b- br34k. . .i- int0 it." - Said Irasis now in a calmer voice as it would extend the hole they broke through again, Irasis would grab with it's avatar hand a folder that was connected to couple of discs, noticed the flow of code being transported into the discs.

"Hm . . ." - Mark would get closer to Irasis looking at the phenomenon.

"You sure there ain't no one protectign this. . thing you just opened?" - Said Mark curiously looking over at this place.

"0V3RALL. .? N0, I us3 COD3 at 4ll t1mes. H3r3? P3rhAps?" - Said Irasis as it pushed Mark back a little trying to focus.

"Why do we break into this place anyways? I mean, while we did stop an assault, I don't think we should be messin' with yknow, a thing that perhaps dictates everything, at least from what I've seen you do, this 'CODE' is powerful, eh?" - Responded CA, shrugging as he would then again think of something that he could do in a meanwhile, maybe just, sit down and think for a moment again.

". . ." - Silence, Irasis did not want to reveal it's plan now, for now it is meant to be a secret until it is done. With no response whatsoever, it would put it's hand ontop of one of the discs floating, seeing through the code lines of the first one it picked up.

"Uh huh." - Irasis would say as it would touch the barrier, seemingly, this is where the real mainframe barrier ended, by getting through it, Irasis would be able to access OPU, and with access to OPU, known also as Optic Perceiver Unifier, which translates all CODE languages into a universal one represented with '1' and '0', known also as the BINARY CODE, the entire Perceiver could be overwritten and thus the foundations of Vessel World could be entirely changed, while Irasis had access and manipulation of CODE, it was possible with it's hair pieces that could grab any code and change it, yet for a universal change of everything, the most probable would be taking over the MPU.

Irasis would slowly enter through said hole made inside the reality, entering to yet another realm, the layer of CODE.

Irasis would look around formations of discs and folders into different shapes, just like stars in the cosmic sky. Shinning with code lines that would flow through said discs, many different, yet always beautiful.

Through these codes and its structural hierarchy were small green lines that creater web-like connections spreading across the entire space. These webs were shinning with different colors dependent on what content was sent or delivered. For example, purple color travelling at the view of Irasis meant basic functions and their response. Despite this colorful web surrounding the entire place, there was an another structure interconnected with said web, it was the Stream, a cable-like structure working as a composite filter of all information send from or to MPU, OPU. With that out of the way, Irasis noticed an interesting detail in OPU, primarly the fact that it's filled with different files outside the discs or folders that float around or make structures inside the CODE layer, each having different functions. In the meanwhile CA wandered outside of the CODE layer, sitting before the hole that Irasis made, thinking about the entire point of their journey, after all, he didn't even know what to do next, he had no original purpose, no original objective, he was not created with a fate in mind, and now, he's left by himself and his own thoughts, what to do now?

After all, if he isn't trying to survive, what else would be the purpose of his existance? He tries to avoid the inevitable, or prolong it at least, but, for what he does it really? Is there a factual point to go with? That's what Mark had in mind and that's what bothered him. . .this weird 'freedom' of choice, in which he could assign to himself any 'life objective' he would want. This however, was more of a problem than privilege, as having no real purpose set, it all felt. . .empty, it all felt like his sole purpose was to survive, and he survived, at least for now. And, with goal accomplished in mind, instead of feeling happiness, or simply being glad of everything, it just. . .feels deeply empty.

"Sure, I've overcame everything that tried to kill me, at least their first try, because what stops them from simply continuing their hunt? In the end, it feels like it's my only purpose. . .but I don't want that to be my only purpose, everything just- becomes blant, meaningless, because there is so many things i could do, but so many things I don't think of, so many possibilities that instead of. . .giving happiness just make you crumble. . .too much to choose, fucking damn it." - Said Mark looking at both of his hands, this was just, dissappointing.

"I thought that. . .maybe because I am an inexpected creation, that I am kinda 'special', I would be able to do more, I would be able to accomplish more, and with that maybe achieve something no one else could, but. . .it's a lie. I am just, an idiot, and not only an idiot, but a delusional one. Deep inside my mind, it was so easy. . .Ribborn saved me, then I discovered my 'powers', so, I thought that maybe I am the one to do something more, to change everything, that I thought was the truth, but the real, brutal one is. . .because I had no intend of being created, I am not really some sort of 'main character' or. . .anyone of that sorts, I am not a strong warrior, or a deity that can destroy everything with just a punch, or a surreal weird shit that could turn everything into whatever it sees fit. . .I am just a mortal, one that has no purpose, that's the only thing that makes me stand out, and Ribborn just used me as a way to regain his power, I got manipulated, fucked over, and uh, I guess that's it. Dumbass with weird power that. . .really doesn't accomplish much, and now, what to do..? Eh. ." - Said CA as he looked around the place, slowly standing up as he hid his hands inside his pockets of the hoodie, he sighed, thinking deeply about this issue, he noticed that Irasis was already deeply inside the CODE layer, he looked at the hole, his hand touching the layer.

"Ugh. . .Do I go in?" - Said CA, this time more silent, but enough loud for Irasis to hear from the other side.

"Y3AH, G0 1N, HUM4N." - Said Irasis while taking down some of the discs. It would break it with it's hand using the avatar, crushing some discs apart and converting their code into a biomass of error codes that would begin to slowly spread through the green line towards the folder and other discs.

Mark looked back, then again at the hole, entered through it, and noticed the quite same sight, just like Irasis, a colorful web of different directories and files.

"So, where is the 'OPU'?" - Asked CA looking at the web.

"W3 A- AR3 I- 1NS1dE 0f 1T, DUMB4SS." - Said Irasis more energic as it grabbed some of the green lines and strings, checking how they react with each other.

"This looks weirdly beautiful for something that is meant to yknow, be part of an important program or whatever the 'OPU' is that you said." - CA said as he picked up one of the discs.

"So. . .you said there's like. . uh yknow, a lot of them? So why do we go into one OPU?" - He continued.

"F1RST 0FF, TH3RE'S 1S P0SS1BLY 1NFINITE 4M0UNTS 0F OPUs, BUT I N3ed Just 0ne." - Said Irasis, moving around the folders, it noticed that suddenly one of the programs would shake. It was 'TEMPLAR.sys' that would begin to vibrate and send off small shockwaves that would cause the lines to become yellow instead, the place where biomass of error code would expand, was also where the uninfected lines became yellow, seemingly error code could not spread on them, and struggled very to do so. This would interest Irasis, but also iritate it in a way, this file was trying to stop her, some sort of defense program it seemed like, so there was only one goal for Irasis in mind currently, to take the file down and destroy it.

First, Irasis' hair pieces would flow in the air as some of them tried to grab the file, however, file began to move everytime Irasis tried to grab it, avoiding each and every hair coming at it, then, the file started pulsing, CA would look up seeing what's going on.

"UH, you need help? This seems like some sort of, defense?" - Said Mark trying to create his scythe.

"N- N0 SH1T SH3RL0CK." - Said Irasis grabbing Mark with the hair, and throwing him at the file.

"T4CKL3 1T D0WN DUMB4SS!" - Said Irasis watching as Mark flew near the file grabbing it by the top of it's icon, and falling with it down on the ground causing a small shockwave, file would try to get away but was held down by Mark.

"AAA- WHAT THE FUCK?!" - Said Mark trying to hold it, suddenly a claw would appear near Mark that would tear the file apart within seconds, causing it to dissappear, and the code lines to return into color green.

"M1ss10N 4cc0mplished." - Said jokingly Irasis, looking back at the files that were connected to the web itself, each one with different name attached obviously. CA in the meanwhile slowly stood up, throwing dust off his clothing.

"That wasn't fucking funny! Ugh. . .Next time you try and do this and I won't help you with jackshit." - Said Mark a bit angry and overreactive due to the dynamic of the situation.

After a while however he calmed down, and watched as Irasis tried to break into OPU, in the meanwhile he glanced around the beauty of virtual realm, he viewed the infinite plane, the neverending meeting spot for all strings of the web, that kept on going and going until out of vision. Web seemed so large that for Mark it seemed like a bad idea to even try climbing up there. Once he walked up closer to it, he noticed as said web became bigger and bigger, the closer he got, and smaller the further he went away from it, suddenly something important came to his mind.

"Ay, Irasis? I know I said that before we entered in, but still, I am thinkin'- yknow, even though there was no one stopping you from using the CODE indirectly, now we are in an actual, uh- kind of 'system'? New 'realm'? Yknow, there has to be someone here besides us, which uh- yknow the example is the file we just sent into Oblivion." - said Mark while standing near one of the strings of Web.

"I D0N'T TH1NK TH3RE W0ULD B3 4NY0N3 N3AR TO ST0P US. . .UNL3SS TH3SE C4RT0N-H3AD3D F0OLS W1SH T0 F1GHT 4GAIN. . ." - Said Irasis, now thinking about all the Directors it saw in general, there was one missing in particular that did not engage during the last war, the third one, Irasis in fact never got to even see him in the first place, presuming that perhaps he wasn't even real, and that there was no third director despite people saying it is, through Irasis' mind came ideas that maybe the third director would be the Absolute Solver? But in the end, that wouldn't make sense from hierarchical perspective.

Instead, Irasis decided to neglect a possible issue, as it didn't seem near real, after all, if third director doesn't interviene, why would it care?

"B- B3SID3S, IT W0ULD B3 TO0 CL1CHE 1F S0M3ONE JUST 4PP3ARED TO ST0P US N0W." - Said Irasis while tossing around the files, looking for a certain one.

"Fair enough, but still, yknow, 'cliche' things still happen, just don't say I didn't warn you." - Said Mark, as he looked back at his own business, this. . .weird size anomaly.

"4LS0, D0N'T T0UCH TH3 W3B, 1T W1LL TURN Y0U 1NTO SP4GHETTI 'N J3LLO, L3AV3 TH1S T0 A PROFF3SIONAL, 1 KN0W WH4T I 4M D01NG." - Said Irasis shoving Mark back from the strings of web.

"Oh, come on. There is literally nothing else I can do here! What else am I supposed to do? Watch the ceiling when you are doing all the work? That's boring. Come on, if you were in my place you would do anything to cease the boredoom." - Mark said

"0H Y3AH, I WOULD W4TCH Y0U T0UCH TH3 W3B 1F I W4S B0R3D, FUNNY THEATRE DR4MA." - Said Irasis, suddenly, one of its hair pieces would reach towards one of the code pieces, quickly, gloves were created that landed in hands of Mark.

"J0K3S 4SIDE, H3RE, H4VE TH3SE GL0V3S. TH3Y W1LL H3LP Y0U FR0M G3TTING SPAGH3TTIFI3D, Y0U W1LL COLL3CT D4TA FR0M TH3 STR3AM, W1TH TH3M, JUST CL1MB UP TH3RE." - Irasis pointed in the exact direction, which was at the top of some finite web strings Mark could easily climb on, inbetween them was some sort of space-vacuum.

"Okay, that's something. Still hate you for that throw though." - Said CA as he grabbed the gloves and put them on, he reached slowly towards one of the strings, once touched, they released some sort of energy that caused the gloves to shake, but in the end they were untouched by it. Mark would gulp, noticing how a single mistake could easily make him end up in hospital - well, if there was one above the mortal realm.

He then grabbed the lower string with the other hand, thinking about how to climb up if his legs would be still uncovered.

"Ay, 'rasis, there is an issue. Gloves and all, but how am I supposed to climb with just gloves? Like, uh, I gotta use my legs for somethin'." - Said Mark looking at Irasis with a true poker face.

"H- HUH? Y- Y3AH, T4KE TH3M AND S- SHUT UP." - Said Irasis throwing pants at him with the same material as the gloves.

Mark would jump down, grabbing the pants and putting them on his own.

"Can't you just give it to me instead of acting like a darn angsty teen on steroids?" - Said Mark now with a mildly unpleasant expression, now he looked back at the place he was meant to climb, with the pants on, he realized that he also would need shoes, but looking at Irasis, he wasn't in mood to anger her, so instead he used some of his magic to bend over the 'material' of pants to make them into a jumpsuit with shoes.

"Okay, that somehow worked- Honestly, I am surprised." - In the end Mark didn't believe that his slight usage of powers currently would do anything along the lines, but supposedly it was just enough for it.

Now, he changed the topic of thinking, now his goal was set: get to this weird 'vacuum space' between some strings. First, he did the same thing as before, grabbing higher string and lower string, with each hand, then, he stood on the lower one, shifting his hand towards the higher one, with both of his hands on the same string, he pulled himself up with some struggles - and managed to get ontop couple of strings, he was already quite high for the mortals, and so now Mark had to concentrate, infront of him was string that was flinging without one side connected, he used it as a liane, throwing himself on the other side of the web, now just nearby the space he wanted to get to. Now, he strategically moved with boots angled a little bit so that he wouldn't fall off the web, once he could reach towards the spot, he jumped up, grabbing higher strings, pulling himself up, he found himself just in touch with this vacuum space he went through, while still not that far, he found himself near the Stream that Irasis talked about.

"How exactly. . .do I pull data out of this thing?" - Said Mark, holding his gloves on the huge cable-like structure.

Suddenly, Mark heard voice from the other side echoing through space.

"Y- YOU H4V3 T0 PUNCH 1NT0 1T, TH3N T4K3 OUT 4S MUCH 4S YOU C4N COM1NG THR0UGH." - Said Irasis, suddenly next to him was a huge storage container that Irasis has created out of CODE, composed out of dimensional structures, in this case, couple Nirvana Luminas, that in their composition lead to creation of this weird composite furniture, because it was made out of dimensions themselves, with this, lower class of CODE being transported that potentially could fit in it.

"T- PUT 0NLY TH3 Y3LL0W ON3S 1N, S0M3 AR3 T00 STR0NG." - Continued Irasis as it began to slowly make a destination point for OPUs.

"Uh, okay. . .How do we. . .ah- alright." - Mark punched a small hole through the Stream with the use of his gloves, and began to slowly, and also nervously pull out yellow code pieces, putting them quickly into the 'storage', or rather a 'chest'. Until obviously, there space was filled, some code pieces fell down, but most were successfully transported.

He closed the chest down, back off from the Stream.

"Done! But uh, how do we seal this thing back in?" - Asked Mark, looking at Irasis.

". . .I- IT W4SN'T- UGH. . .G0D D4MNT 1T, JUST G3T B4CK H3RE." - Said Irasis, as some of its code biomass would throw itself through the space vacuum into the Stream, using it to seal off the broken part.

"Uh. . .alright?" - He said grabbing the chest with his gloves, he made his way through the spot back onto the strings, then slowly, angling his boots a little, he made his way down, almost falling with the whole chest in the end.

"4T LEAST W3 HAVE WHAT W3 NEED." - Said Irasis grabbing the chest with one of it's hands.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake a little, Irasis would grab all the yellow pieces of code inside the chest, and would then grab some of the files off the web it found, with it's hair, it would move through files and insert code pieces into each, until finally, a wormhole opened, a reality modification, this wormhole would begin to release couple hidden files with '.sys', '.log', and '.dll' in the end of their names. Irasis' avatar would smile as it got closer to these files, until, all of them appeared to have a red 'X' on all of them, files went back into the Wormhole as out of it walked out an enigmatic skeleton covered in long jacket, creature would look at the wormhole, then at Irasis.

"OH C- C0M3 ON, YOU H4V3 T0 B3 K1DDING M3. 4M I IN A TRUM4N SH0W OR WH4T?" - Said Irasis looking at the creature, however, now certain emotions were shown on skeleton' face.

It was Voyager, the third Director of Directives, the one that hasn't appeared during the recent 'battle' between Errors and Directives. He obviously didn't seem pleased with the information that someone was trying to breach into a purely modifiable code realm. All that Irasis and Mark could read from him was a simple emotionless expression, one of his eyes was covered in an exclamation mark alike warning messages icon. For this being, there was no morality, there was no true side, there was just the opportunity.

"Mhm. . .Brave ones decide to go further into their own demise of a reckless death. Sometimes, the opportunity comes right at you, eh? But sometimes it sparks with 'bad luck', and I can easily sense it from you, Irasis. My Patreons sent me here, for a purpose to use it as an opportunity, and a good one to be exact. Yet, for one, life should've been over, and that's what they are yelling to me about, weirdly though 'this' being still tries to manifest, you've avoided your fate, alike one forbidden being that comes to my mind. . .But well, aren't we just creatures made for entertainment, pleasures of others? Because, as obvious as it might seem. . .entertainment is the stage. And stage is the world of actors, wouldn't you agree that the actors have to play their role accordingly for the stage to be 'entertaining'?" - Said Voyager as he looked over both of the creatures, behind him appeared a tall humanoid.

"I figured that the best way to accomplish my given goal, is to settle differences aside with dear 'friend' of yours, after all, we have the same goal in mind as of current, getting rid of an Error and a transformed mistake such as yourself. Sadly, I have to explain my devious plan to you, but that's just what the fate has ready for me." - Said Voyager looking directly at CA.

"Thus, let Patreons be entertained, as we enter into a brainstorm of a fight." - From the shadows, the tall figure has shown itself, it was indeed, Ribborn. That smiled looking directly at his primary prey.

"What the fuck. . .You teamed up with a chaotic anarchist?! What is this bullcrap!" - Said Mark looking at the Ribborn with fear in his eyes, he slowly reached the air infront of him, creating his Scythe.

"E- 3XACTLY. . .C0NTR4D1CTING ID3ALS, TH4T- TH4T'S JUST P4TH3TIC." - Added Irasis, the error biomass would clump up behind it's avatar as it's body would begin deforming.

". . .? It doesn't matter. As long as there is opportunity, there is a success, who would give a second thought about an idealised and utopiafied idea? When you can accomplish something far greater. . .It isn't in my business what happens afterwards." - Said Voyager as he pointed his finger towards Irasis, his coat would be now blown by the wind, showing off his insignia of a Director. Suddenly, around him couple blasters would create, floating nearby him as few wound start charging their black beams.

Irasis looked at Voyager, then at Ribborn.

"R1BB0RN 1S A T0UGH M- M0TH3RFUCK3R, W4TCH 0UT, D0N'T L3T H1M T4KE Y0U." - Said Irasis. . .in its thoughts however, was quite a chaos: 'How did this. . .freak - how did he manage to bring him to an agreement?', that's the thought Irasis had by just looking at this nonsensical duo that they will have to face.

"Right. . .I have no idea what that damned skeleton has in mind, so let's just be careful." - Said Mark, whispering to Irasis, both have now noticed the blasters charging up, this was the moment when Mark would bolt his hands forward, creating a shockwave which caused some blasters to collapse, couple beams flew out hitting in different direcitons and places, Irasis however decomposed into the ever-so-transforming biomass, which it used to try and take over control of their place of fight.

Dozens of black and red colored bones would flow out of the ground causing the code to flow out like a stream of lava that would slowly cover some part of the ground it hit through. Voyager would place his finger up in the air, closing it into a fist, and suddenly CODE from the WEB would begin to change colors into red, suddenly, Voyager was surrounded with dozens of protective files called '.sys' that would now create beams autonomously one by one, trying to hit Irasis that quickly started reshaping itself to avoid all the beams, once she was hit, the beam did minor damage to the actual biomass, but the more there was of it, the stronger beam became, Irasis out of it's own body created as shield that it used to reflect beams into the files, while CA teleported next to Voyager.

"Death looks like the nicest opportunity for you, huh?" - Said Mark charging up his scythe to then create a lightning strike that caused some files to collapse, Voyager quickly punched CA in the stomach once he swung the whole weapon, infront of him (CA) appeared Ribborn, his deformed smile would appear on Ribborn's expression as it's hands would float near it's deformed body.

"EXPERIMENT-090, ❄︎☜︎☼︎💣︎✋︎☠︎✌︎❄︎✋︎⚐︎☠︎ ☹︎⚐︎☝︎ 💧︎❄︎✌︎☼︎❄︎✋︎☠︎☝︎📬︎." - Said Ribborn as all it's floating hands would now wield bows, arrows would flow out trying to hit CA, as one of the hands would fly up to Mark trying to grab him by the leg, however, human simply jumped up slashing down the hand with his own Scythe, as he furiously reflected arrows, one by one, another by another.

"EXPERIMENT NOW? HUH? Devoted old man! Lost by your own ideology, left by yourself, so desperate." - Mark said as his continous slashes would become stronger and stronger, destroying arrows that slowly gained in speed and color, until suddenly, all new arrows coming up to him started glowing, suddenly all the arrows would break the barrier of dimensions, the arrows flew so fast in fact that it surpassed possible dozens of Nous Suprima that these arrows could destroy now, piercing through the slashes and scythe, this lead to CA landing down on the ground with arrows inside his body.

"ARGH! YOU SICK FUCK!" - Said CA quickly standing up, with his adrenaline pumped up, there was no time to care for the pain he has to endure, slowly his body began to regenerate off of the hit.

Ribborn did not seem to play around this time, he wanted CA die infront of him, right now.

In the meanwhile, Voyager would grab CA by the telekinesis, throwing him up and down as he stood up and began to regenerate, then, Irasis unleashes it's claws on Voyager, skeleton used this opportunity to throw Mark at the creature, Voyager then again, curled his hand up to a fist, leading to the force increasing so strong that Preso Luminas would break if they were here. This strength of force lead to some biomass collapsing in on itself and exploding, while CA bounced off of the biomass hitting the ground face on. Some of the files floating in a circle behind Voyager would begin to flash, creating dozens and dozens smaller beings and algorythms that would try and take down Irasis, files would increase them in strength and power as much as they possibly could, modifing Mirrors nearby them.

Voyager would snap his finger as dozens of code pieces would form into a sword.

"This CODE class is something you might know, Irasis - ORANGE." - Orange code class was similiary strong as to the force that Voyager applied before, similiary ORANGE was meant to serve as a hierarchically dominant in aspect of final results of some operations and functions inside the files.

Once ORANGE code that the sword was composed of began to glow, dozens of exclamation marks would appear around Voyager, with all the files glowing near him, Voyager would begin to swing his sword with one hand, each exclamation mark swiftly turned into a lighting of code that created strong dents and shockwaves which would cause Irasis' biomass to slowly bolt back and lightly lose mass.

". . .BURN 1N H3LL, FR3AK. . .SU- SUCH A PROT3CTOR OF 0RD3R? N0, YOU'R3 JU- JUST A SN0WFL4K3 WITH N0 4LINGM3NT NOR S3LFHOOD." - Said Irasis as it's hair on longly deformed avatar into biomass would begin to grab between files and codes, breaking them apart into error codes that would flow at the files, all of them, like a stream of water, formed into a drill-like weapon instead, which began to move it's blade like a drill bit, Irasis then thrusted this weapon at Voyager, forcing him to block the attack with his blasters, however, drill pierced through them with even stronger force than Voyager's sword, Voyager was forced to block with it after blasters were suddenly destroyed, however that did not help, as sword began to weaken and weaken as drill would continue through, Irasis would now boost itself forward suddenly, causing the drill to bend down and hit Voyager's arm, it would crack, as skeleton backed off from the drill teleporting couple meters back.

"Tch- . . .You got me, good job." - Said Voyager as the crack of his arm led to it completely breaking apart the limb, it suddenly began to regrow with smoke surrounding it's regeneration on the place of the crack.

"Why would you need personality that would be exploited?" - Said towards Irasis after the insult he heard, suddenly one of Voyager's eyes would glow, as dozens of blasters and bones appeared behind him, forming into different insignias, some files would be given different forms by Voyager as in his other, untouched hand would appear the composite CODE, the binary one, that would turn from time to time into Mirrors and their respective amounts from the Rectangle Theory.

"P3RSON4LITY C4NN0T B3 EXPLO1TED, YOU JUST C4- C4NN0T ACC3PT TH3 F4CT 0F H0W M3RE YOUR EX1STANCE RE4LLY 1S." - Said Irasis, forming into a sort of giant spider-like monstrosity that would slowly make it's way to wounded Voyager, it's hair would turn instead into tentacles that began combining error coded files into an amalgamation of functions and operations that would differently manipulate CODE, one of these operations turned some Trival Thorneums from dimensional realm into a error codes that would flow down and turn themselves into apart of the 'spider'.

"T- TW0 C4N PL4Y TH1S G4ME." - Continued the creature as a response to Voyager's dimensional manipulation.

Both of these creatures fighting was an interesting sight, yet it was quite clear that while Voyager is stronger than his own domain of choice, he isn't exactly as strong as Irasis, at least from what is known, no Director has control over The Centre, which Irasis is capable of destroying, this would mean that on the long run Voyager won't really accomplish his goal by his sheer self, which is why there comes his Ace, his sheer intelligence and knowledge. He knows that once CA is killed, he could steal human's entire aura, increasing his sheer power.

From the other hand, there was Ribborn, that in his primal possibilities was on same terms with Irasis, which meant that if Voyager can play his game right, he might just win, all is needed. . .is that darn human.

CA was laying on the ground after getting exploded in the back, suddenly, out of these wounds on his back, appeared a pair of crystal-like wings, that would pull him up in the air, his head was in blood, as he looked at Ribborn heavily floating, as his right side was closer to falling than the left side, holding his Scythe by hand as Ribborn would simply increase his corrupted smile, showing at least some sort of emotion. Suddenly, Ribborn's hand would attack CA's back, yet, Mark used his inexpectancy to expect the attack, however, the attack itself was also an inexpected concept, which meant it would now hit from a different place than expected, which lead to CA finally overwriting this inexpectancy as he would use it to then spin taking down all attacks nearby him.

"☟︎✌︎☟︎✌︎📬︎ 📬︎ 📬︎ ✋︎ ☟︎✌︎✞︎☜︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ☟︎✌︎👎︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎💧︎ ☞︎🕆︎☠︎ ✋︎☠︎ ✡︎☜︎✌︎☼︎💧︎📬︎ 📬︎ 📬︎💧︎⚐︎ 💣︎🕆︎👍︎☟︎ ☞︎☼︎☜︎☜︎📬︎ 📬︎ 📬︎💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ 🕈︎☜︎✌︎😐︎📬︎ 📬︎ 📬︎👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ ☝︎✋︎✞︎☜︎ 💣︎☜︎ 🏱︎⚐︎🕈︎☜︎☼︎📬︎" - Said Ribborn as his aura would extend when CA repelled the attack, causing the whole green aura around this enigmatic being to wave like water, chaotically.

". . ." - CA wouldn't even say a thing now, noticing that Ribborn's aura would increase, but how? Human would fly around Ribborn with his wings, holding scythe so that it started piercing through the layer of CODE, causing a hole of slashes that would flow out hitting Ribborn repeatedly, however, there only was the characteristic sound of a glitch. Just like Irasis, Voyager - Ribborn was immortal due to him being a deity, this was a problem as CA was well aware that he wouldn't be able to kill Ribborn normally, but stopping him at least was what he hoped for.

Suddenly, as the slashes stopped, Ribborn would appear four hands that would show different symbols, one of them would cause everything to blacken out for CA, the other one caused the flow of a black fluid that began coming towards CA like a tsunami, while the other symbols would create beams that defined logic or expectancy, making unnatural shapes and illogic traces or paths that would otherwise be impossible to comprehand. CA would rise his Scythe up seeing the upcoming wave.

"Alright then. . .if I am some sort of your 'experiment', perhaps, then maybe it is time when it overcomes it's own creator?" - Said CA, filled with what humans know best, the determination. He slammed the Scythe down into the ground causing a huge beam in the place of impact to form, it would begin to send shockwaves, finally exploding, causing the tsunami to evaporate into smitherines. However, he was hit with two beams out of the hands that as said before, defined logic, they both however again, surpassed dimensionality barrier, causing for CA to scream in pain, as he turned, slicing down both hands that shot at him, as Ribborn would send an inexpected punch with one of the hands, being felt as he was sliced through with Scythe, another unexpected trick from CA.

" ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 🕈︎⚐︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ 👌︎☜︎💧︎❄︎ 💣︎☜︎📪︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 💧︎☜︎☜︎💣︎ 💧︎❄︎☼︎⚐︎☠︎☝︎📬︎ ☝︎⚐︎⚐︎👎︎ ☜︎☠︎⚐︎🕆︎☝︎☟︎📬︎" - Said Ribborn as Mark's vision would worsen again, some of the hands around Ribborn would start glowing in green as some of the hands grabbed Nous-Suprimas, throwing them one by one at Mark, or turning them into compact unicodes that would begin to float out of hand's middle with great speeds, some of these unicodes would have different properties, a bomb unicode would of course, cause an explosion, a snowflake caused stopping of time, cross caused a beam a repelling barrier to create, skull would mean conclusion of death upon touching, all made out of said structure.

CA would now land down delivering a punch to to the ground, causing his own, green fire to create, that he sent off into the hand, causing it to receive damage, as it turned it's color to blue for a moment, more and more fire would be sent to the hand until it got destroyed, the symbols collapsed, yet couple more hands would begin doing the exact same action, now however, CA's fire seemed to stop dealing damage to some overtime.

"They. . .adapted? The fuck?" - Mark said to himself, but he had no time to think for long as dozens of hands would form into fists flying up towards him, Mark surrounded himself with crystals that would turn into large rods that broke down all the hands nearby apart.

CA felt as his power is slowly flowing out, he uses a lot of his power he didn't have time to train for longer periods of time, he felt greatly as his stamina decreased with each new repell, with each try to kill Ribborn, with each 'INVULNERABLE' message after the hit, with each sound.

Irasis in the meanwhile had a battle in manipulation with Voyager, both manipulated CODE and dimensions, trying to finally change the outcome of this fight, until started to use their stronger and stronger capabilities, suddenly Nous-Suprimas were affected.

Both Voyager and Irasis were covered in scratches and dust, both feeling as the fight got more intense.

"You catch up to the tempo, interesting." - Said Voyager, as suddenly around Irasis, files would appear, creating a strong barrier out of what Voyager could possibly, make, you could compare it in strength to Elector. Voyager then used this situation to appear nearby CA that was fighting with Ribborn.

"That's it, the show's over." - Said Skeleton a bone would appear behind CA, however, Voyager was hit instead with the Scythe as the bone completely missed.

Irasis would follow right after, breaking the barrier with it's tentacles, to Voyager to stop him and Ribborn, however, Ribborn's hands woud appear near Irasis, both hitting at the same time would break the drill apart and cause Irasis body to shake once hit by the fists.

Irasis would divide it's body into two, it created it's avatar that appeared next to CA, hitting Voyager in the stomach as he was also hit with the Scythe.

"F1GHT. . .STR0NG, W4RRIOR." - Said Irasis to the human, Mark nodded. It's avatar would grab Voyager with hair, throwing him on the ground couple times until Voyager brought up Irasis, causing him to deliver a blow that would throw Irasis' avatar into Ribborn, that would now grab it and tear it apart with it's hands, the original Irasis saw this obviously, while in the middle of stopping Ribborn, causing another part of it's body to appear, near Mark, helping him escape from Voyager's grasp. Voyager and Ribborn would now combine their attacks, blasters, hands, insignias and hand symbols, everything darkened as ground would corrupt and illogicality was in it's prime, CA noticed as Ribborn's aura has increased strongly since.

". . .What the actual. . . . .fuck." - Said CA coughing up blood as he repelled another blaster and another file from Voyager.

Voyager would look at CA.

"Sometimes, Patreons inform you of different possibilities." - Said the skeleton he was about to punch CA again by getting closer, but was hit both by a Scythe, and then also by Irasis in the back of his skeleton with full force, it's body withered away collapsing into concepts that dissappeared on the ground.

However, Ribborn's expression has not changed, Irasis was now confused, after all, Voyager has just been killed, what is there left for Ribborn? However, once Ribborn's aura increased again, and it's hands would create an essence, so strong in fact that by just the feeling Irasis knew it was far stronger than what Voyager could do, this essence was grabbed and stretched by him like a rubber band. Vessel of Voyager materialized back from nothingness, this was accompanied by a sudden flash and a bang, causing colors to desaturate heavily for a moment as the desaturated shockwave made it's way through the entire structure, that now as non-existant, this Mainframe was completely obliterated moments after a fight broke out between CA and Ribborn. Now there was just the pure space, their fight went so far to the point that they tore their way through the Nous-Suprimas even towards the Directives themselves.

Voyager was once again infront of them, with now ever-so-strong Ribborn. Irasis has now realized that this truely is a fight on time, sooner or later someone will collapse and lose, what mattered is no longer killing Voyager, he could always just come back, the only way to 'win' this fight would be to defeat Ribborn, and then escaping from Voyager, but looking at Ribborn's increasing strength it has to be done now.

The 'cosmic rubber band' that Ribborn made was now combined by him, mashing it into a soaked up and slowly-collapsing blaster that while breaking apart charged it's beam at CA. The beam would flow as Irasis appeared infront of the attack, creating a shield that could surpass Nous-Suprima, in hopes of stopping the attack and reflecting it back as Irasis could ascend the shield towards her strength power. However, just as the shield was created, the beam tore it apart before Irasis even had time to repell it, the beam tore through Irasis' body and biomass causing it to tear apart and break.

Mark viewed this as he merely dodged the beam that now tore itself through everything it was, piercing through the Centre as some of them beam parts reflected.

". . .How many chances will I get? How much time I have left...?" - Said CA looking directly into eyes of Ribborn.

"Whatever I do...it simply makes you stronger...the essence I give of...is just like yours..whatever action I take will just...make it worse." - He continued as Ribborn's fist would slam into Irasis body, a strong and furious screetch was made throughout the Singularity sector, causing another fracture inside the Centre, from what it seemed like, it was the call for reinforcements, as Irasis created out of it's own biomass sharp-ended limbs that would begin to quickly hit Ribborn from all the front, causing his body to slowly bend in amounts of hits being delivered, then suddenly, all the hands gained holes, in which all of them had an orange orb that began flashing until all the hands that hit Irasis would explode causing yet another shake, dozens of error coded biomass just dissappeared infront of CA as Irasis would throw itself at Ribborn, while trying to push off Voyager, that now teleported infront of Mark.

"Scared of actions? That's right, you've lost. There is possibly only couple things you could do in this very situation, I presume you will just unleash your attacks on me in desperation, right? To try and still achieve anything? Or perhaps you will try to reason with yourself? I do not know, this time. You see. . ." - Said Voyager as he would start walking around Mark.

"Your power is an interesting one, I can't really know what you are, where you come from, I don't know your past, present. . .you are just a mystery I somehow cannot access. Yet, from what I can see it's not some sort of weird plot-armor or a retrospective continuity. And now I finally understood. You are simply. . .a byproduct of greater power, and with simply welding this power, I could use it to become unpredictable at any point in my existance, just simply by harvesting your aura. So, I have an option for you.." - Continued the skeleton as he faced him with Voyager's hand holding plotlines and timelines existing inside Vessel World.

"My proposition is that, you will simply yield to me all your power, and in return I will give you a normal life, in which you will forget everything that happen here, you will be able to live a happy life without anyone disturbing you, ever, and you will not need to carry on this stress and pain. But however, as I said, I can only do that if you give all your power to me." - Said Voyager, watching CA's expression changing to a far sadder and confused, as he looked around stressfully.

"I don't have any true alignments, I don't care who you will live as, or what you will do, as long as that power will become mine, so, what's your decision?" - Said Skeleton looking at him emotionlessly. Voyager did not seem to really care what would happen afterwards, he imagined that once he would gather the power, he could simply erase all memories from the human, returning him back to some random timeline or a plotline.

"I. . .I mean. . .it sounds like a right decision really, there is nothing wrong with it, and I won't have to carry on the stress...however, if in all other possible outcomes I am dead like Ribborn said, what's the point of not trying? If this is my chance to become my best possible outcome, then so be it, you know? I can die, I guess. But it wouldn't be any different to how I would die before I could even reach anything. My conclusion is the same, always." - Said Mark holding his Scythe tightly as Voyager simply shrugged to this answer, looking around the place as Irasis was still trying to kill Ribborn, he was however unphased, hitting Irasis with similiar strength, the entire fight slowly devolved into a fist fight between the remaining biomass and Ribborn.

"Kinda expected that, you still are trying to sound like a Main Character, even though you talked with yourself beforehand that you aren't. But also it seems to me that it is truely your only chance of achieving anything. So. . be it." - Said Voyager as around him dozens of bones would appear along with couple files that connected themselves with CODE, causing them to turn into a Glaive that the skeleton then ascended beyond couple Nous-Suprimas that were above his own domain.

"It's just the most viable version, another point I could say is that your ass doesn't seem trustworthy even in the slightest, you will just take my power away and leave me to death." - Said Mark, as his scythe would begin to tear a hole in the reality they find themselves in, suddenly, a portal appeared near them, as through them went two more skeletons, both coated in hoodies that approached Ribborn.

"I see. . ." - Voyager said as he noticed one of the strings appearing from the hoodie of one skeleton that grabbed Ribborn's hand, suddenly, Voyager grabbed it through the CODE phasing, even though he was far away from them, he threw the string towards himself causing the skeleton to end up nearby him.

"Interrupting my scene? Ah, so usual." - Said Voyager dropping him down on the ground.

"Y- you fuck#@ 3R!" - Said M!Error as he tried to stand up, next to him, another skeleton appeared pushing him to the right side as Voyager was hit with couple of bones that would hit him, he suddenly was then hit with a beam from M!Error's eye that led him to collapse for a second, yet no scratch was seen on his body.

"Pathetic. . .trying to help? I should've seen that coming, a hivemind." - He slowly stood up kicking M!Fatal in his stomach as he then grabbed him by the throat, throwing him at Error as both would teleport further away.

"HAHA4#@HAHAH#)%)HAHA! W- WH4T AN 1DIOT! Y0U D0N't kn0w whAt's c0m1ng for y0u." - Said M!Fatal Error as he looked at the other skeleton briefy, Irasis eyes would glow so strong that all were blinded for a moment, suddenly, infront of Voyager there was just one, tall being, covered by the shadows, his body was covered in dozens of strings and codes, however, the foundamental body seemed to be far stronger, exceeding code and anything else, Voyager exactly knew what Irasis did.

"Fusion, smart. . .smart. Manipulation of everything infected by code makes more sense now eh?" - Said Voyager facing yet another threat, 'KERNEL ERROR'. Those part of the fusion were quite confused at first, but next they slowly understood their surroundings, their job was quite easy, to keep CA away from Voyager when Irasis is battling and unable to help.

"Already knew this, but okay. . .How about I play your game then?" - Said Voyager as inside of his hand, appeared the codes contained below D3, grabbing it all likes a dice, he threw it up in the air as his exclamation mark in his eye began to flash, next to KERNEL appeared a colossal being composed out of CODE that was made to be self-replicating, it began to slowly grow until a certain potential, there were files that made it's entire body, but suddenly were given new meaning, as all files were ascended, they no longer were files now, as they surpassed the Mirrors themselves, they instead now became solid material that was yet still covered in CODE and files.

"Holy fuck, what are we even supposed to do now?! I didn't sign up for this bullshit, I thought we just were meant to stop him" - Said M!Error without any glitches inside his voice.

"Me neither, but honestly, I'd give anything to punch this nerd's face up, send him down for interfering!" - Said M!Fatal as Kernel would slowly make it's way towards the golem.

Mark used this moment to leap at the skeleton, with his Scythe risen up, as he now made another dent in reality, this time it hit the head of Voyager that began spinning for a second until it returned to it's original place, Voyager didn't move for a moment, until he quickly spun with his fist aimed right at Mark's face, that pushed the human back a little, now, with Glaive still in hand, he swung it left and right creating couple slashes, he then rose one of his hands manipulating the slashes, one hit Mark as he tried to move to the left side, the second hit him in the leg, suddenly one of CA's eyes would glow as he jumped up in the air avoiding next slashes coming in him, Ribborn's aura began to rise again.

"You are making it worse for yourself." - Continued Voyager that now bolted onwards surprisingly thrusting his weapon at Mark, he would however now crouch avoiding the thrust, another, and another attack delivered, all avoided by Mark, Ribborn's aura however became even more strong, again.

"One. . .two. . .three." - Voyager would attack three more times until the ground shook and from it bones grew out that tried to pierce through Mark, he however, avoided it by jumping up, Scythe would begin to glow.

"One, two, three!" - Said Mark making two slashes that both missed.

"You forgot about the third one." - Said Voyager, until he looked up, he noticed that a huge beam was coming his way, the one that covered the area around them.

"Oh, there you go." - Said Voyager teleporting away from the beam, suddenly some of his essence would drop down on the ground, he was hit? But how? As aura of his 'ally' began to glow again, he already knew.

"You can try how much you want, it's futile, my proposition is still up." - Said Voyager as he grabbed the Scythe along with CA that was behind him, punching him down on the ground, causing CA's skull to crack as his neck broke apart.

"ARGH! AHHH!" - Yelled Mark when his entire skeletal structure wobbled as he fell on the ground.

Ribborn in the meanwhile was repelling attacks faster and faster, his hands began to fill in the entire place as more and more would continuosly try to take down Irasis, Irasis was now filled with anger as it really well knew that CA's actions were simply increasing the power of its enemy.

Irasis would have to strike right now, Ribborn was slowly rising to its complete power, it could not let this happen, Irasis now decided to unleash its special attack that it kept hidden for the fight, suddenly, it's body would begin to form into even more of an undescribed phenomenon that began to spin in surreal ways and meanings, creating a floating monstrosity that formed it's hair and tentacles into solid blades working similiary to BOOLS, in code, bools are used to tell if something is false or true, this logic however can be also used outside of CODE, which is what Irasis did.

It's blades would begin to hit Ribborn at once, sending him flying through Centre that he slammed through landing in unknown place inside Singularity sector, Irasis would simply form into a fluid that transported itself through Nous-Suprima and The Centre.

In the meanwhile, Kernel Error and Voyager's golem would begin a clash, Kernel would try to reach it's hands towards Voyager to attack him, yet for every action, golem responded accordingly, stopping the fusion from reaching it's foe.

"FUCK, YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME MAN! This damn shitter is stopping us, beat him up!" - Said M!Error as he tried to deliver a punch in Golem's face, yet it simply ducked down avoiding the attack.

"SHUT UP MAN! CONCENTRATE YOUR ASS ON AT LEAST ONE DARN THING YOU IDIOT. JUMP ON HIM! THEN HE WON't BE ABLE TO DO SHIT." - Said Fatal concentrated on first destroying the enemy that stops them from doing anything.

Suddenly, Kernel would rise it's fist, and slowly make it's way towards golem, golem would also rise it's fist and charged it up at Kernel, both hits happened at the exact same moment, causing both bodies to shake, Golem's pieces made out of code collapsed erasing completely, leaving only his material foundations, and similiar thing happened to Kernel once they were hit, the body's error codes collapsed one by one until only it's foundations were revealed.

Both would begin to send in fists faster and faster until Kernel would begin to crouch, jumping up and leaping on the Golem, causing said golem to fall down as Kernel released barrage of punches that finally lead to Golem's skull destruction, Golem's body fell apart as Kernel stood up causing shockwave that threw Voyager on the ground.

"FUCK YEAH! WE DID IT! HAHA. . .Now it's time for pure destruction to unleash, ahh man, BEAT HIM UP!" - Said M!Error, Fatal simply nodded as Kernel rose their fist, slamming it down on the ground into Voyager that teleported next to CA.

The fist delivered punched the ground causing another shockwave to unleash that threw the Voyager up in the air, CA then appeared ontop of Voyager.

"Three. . ." - Said CA as he made a slash that hit Voyager into the ground back again. He slowly would stand up with his hand, suddenly, he showed the hand towards CA, that caused him to close his eyes in pain, afterwards a beam was created that send him off on the ground, yet Voyager was hit again as CA fell, and again, and again, Mark did not give up, and now decided to give it his all, use the inexpectancy of his to simply deal blows that would be nearly unavoidable. Voyager was hit in the back of his head, in his face.

"So that's where the three is, alright, here is mine four." - Said Voyager as he punched into the air, hitting CA in the face as he moved next to him. He didn't expect the punch to hit, this is when the hit actually happened, as the unexpected happened.

"Ah! I get it now! It makes sense. . ." - Said Voyager as he looked up at Kernel, just in time as fragments of CODE and dimensions would fly around Voyager trying to hit him, he simply created a shield which he used to repell every possibility of being hit as he sent of a shockwave composed out of Elector's Nous Suprimas that completely shattered Kernel's foundation in half.

"FUCK! FUCK! WE ARE FALLIN! THIS DAMN IDIOT IS LUCKY! MAN! DO SOMETHING! MOVE HIM UP TO HIM!" - Said M!Error yelling to fatal.

". . .I- Al1right.." - As the Kernel was sliced, so was apart of body of Fatal that slowly began falling out of fusion.

". . ." - M!Error swiftly took control of the fusion, moving using hands, pulling Kernel towards Voyager as Kernel grabbed Voyager with his hands, crusing him with his hands, the body didn't budge, yet CA used this opportunity to appear next to Voyager, sending a punch that led Voyager's head to recoiling.

"MY FOUR UP AHEAD!" - He said as the Scythe pierced through Voyager's neck.

Suddenly, the body started to disassemble again, exploding loudly, this very explosion caused fusion to disassemble, CA however avoided the explosion, using again, his inexpectancy.

Next to the destroyed fusion, colors desaturated again as the shockwave was created, Voyager came back, again.

"I suppose you are quite strong, mortal. You remind me of Michael, the one that screwed up his life twice. Polyanyr is the causation, maybe you are too?" - Said Voyager as bones appeared next to him, floating.

CA slowly uncovered his face from dust, looking at the skeleton infront of him.

". . . Who is he?" - Said CA, appearing next to Voyager, as he rose his Scythe again, this time his veins again began to glow in green.

"Creator of all mortals, traitor of deities. He dissappeared one day. Anyways. . .that's not important now, I will give you one last chance, this right now, to give up your powers." - Said Voyager as he rosed his weapon up again.

"No, I am done answering your questions or disagreeing to your damn plan. Some things have to go away, don't you agree?" - Said CA as his aura increased drastically, leading to an explosion of his aura that covered him, causing it to light up as his body would regenerate itself quickly, this was the moment when Mark yelled loudly as his aura would increase.

. . .

Irasis was stabbing Ribborn over and over, the blades sharper than one could imagine, piercing through Ribborn's body one by one, until a figure appeared nearby them.

"C- C0M3 0N, SH0W IT 4LL Y0U H4VE!" - Said Irasis as it would now stab the creature again, suddenly however it noticed as the figure next to them would light up it's dozens of lights, it was Absolute Solver , or rather his avatar again, back with a job and task to do, a perfect opportunity one would say.

Irasis quickly threw Ribborn's stabbed vessel into Absolute Solver as it quickly created a concentrated beam out of all BOOL blades that were connected to each other, leading to an explosion that caused Absolute Solver's avatar to fall over and collapse as it would begin to stand up, suddenly however, far bigger, and stronger fists appeared that were breaking apart everything in their way, the actual Absolute Solver, not his avatar nor lesser form. Irasis was not ready to currently face him due to the fact that it's already fighting with Ribborn, this was the moment to retreat from the situation.

Irasis would first watch as Ribborn used it's inexpectancy to create fists that always hit Irasis, causing it's body to lessen and lessen, Irasis knew that destroying Ribborn here and now was impossible due to AS' help, as Absolute Solver's fist reached towards Irasis, grabbing the remaining biomass of it, an explosion would occur, so strong that Ribborn was blown back into the depths of lesser, Mirrorical Singularity sector, so strong that part of the Centre that was touched with the explosion was erased completely, all the fists of AS were now erased, as the small remaining part of biomass of Irasis would now float away through the Singularity back towards Mark.

. . .

Voyager re-constructed again, this was the fifth body, CA got quite strong since their beginning of an encounter, furiously slamming his fists and dodging attacks of Voyager, and with the help of M!Error that woke up from fusion, it meant that Voyager will have to try quite hard.

"Great, you're showing some potential-" - Voyager was hit with the fist of Mark into his face, causing skeleton's head to set on green fire that started to deconstruct his head.

"Sure. . .Good one." - Said Voyager, his body reconstructing again, something was deeply wrong with this, Voyager stopped even fighting, letting Mark's outrage completely obliterate him over and over, did he give up?

"You're planning something, aren't you?" - CA said to Voyager, looking into his emotionless face, CA's hair would blow by the air of remaining Vessel World.

"I am surprised that MPU is still standing, maybe it's far enough, or NOW just recreated it. Anyways, there would be no fun if I would tell you right ahead." - Said Voyager, getting his head blown up by the green flame again as CA used almost all of his power on destroying vessels over and over.

"Alright. . .You won." - Said Voyager, as suddenly dozens of all killed Vessels re-constructed, and ran into CA, exploding into him with the explosion as great as Voyager could get it to.

"Oops! I didn't expect it." - Said Voyager as he watched Mark fall on the ground with his entire face blown and body burnt down, Error grabbed him by the strings throwing him on the ground.

"It's over, your attacks don't matter." - Said Voyager as he grabbed Error by the strings.

"SHU- SHUT TH3 FUCK UP! 1 W#@# 1LL 3ND YOU F0R TH4T 4NOMALY." - Said Error as Mark began to slowly stand up.

"Oh?" - Said Voyager, noticing parts of determination inside of CA.

"Oh, that's interesting, so you do have some sort of plot armor!" - Voyager said as he threw his Glaive at CA, however, he dodged it. A hole would break through whatever was left, showing a small piece of biomass moving through the ground towards Mark, the human smiled.

"Not really a plot armor, it's just determination, but you like to call things your way. . .cough..." - CA's body would still hold on, while it felt like he was falling apart.

"A strong amounts of determination!" - Said Voyager as he watched both of them teleport away, he then looked at M!Error that already took Fatal away, strings still remaining on Voyager's body as the portal closed.

"That was. . .something. This performance was incredible, I am sure Patreons like it, but, it's not enough." - Said the skeleton as he removed the strings from his body, looking around the nothingness of a mainframe.

"I am glad I created beings just for this job. That doesn't matter now however. I wanna see how this will unleash, this mortal has some potential. Perhaps I could use him a different way." - Said the skeleton echoing into space of Vessel World.

That was it from the fight, nothing left but pure silence as things slowly began to return to it's norm, The Dice began to fixing the major issues, just like with many other, different fights that inflicted damage on the structures.

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LOCATION: The Unknown Space, Singularity sector.

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Mark woke up from the ground, his body now a little regenerated,as he saw a humanoid biomass form working on something.

"That's it? She didn't even fucking care enough to explain to me her goal? I risked my fucking life for. . .her to fucking mess around with files. Man, I am slowly losing my hope." - Said Mark, again, looking over some of the wounds that still were there.

"She deployed some sort of entity instead of straight up telling me, well, anything really! Like god damn, that's annoying as fuck, and that skeleton guy. . .No idea who that was but, he was damn strong. . .I have no idea if I would've survived longer if not for. . .Eh. It really doesn't matter now, if she doesn't want to explain this shit, neither I am going to try and help her anymore." - Said Mark, quite angry and at the same time dumbfounded.

"I need to finally figure out what I really want to achieve before it's too late. . .come on. I don't want to become worthless, like these that lack any goal in existance or life, I want to. . .do everything in my possibility. I don't want to be just the only version that did anything, I want to be the only version that did something. . .something greater. but just hoping for something won't do anything. I gotta get to work, unlike those that sit and do nothing." - Said Mark as he looked around himself, in complete silence, watching as the creature next to him was changing something around itself.

Fights start and end, conflicts begin and loosen, relations change, the cycles continue.

## ACT IV: "Show must go on."

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LOCATION: Sleepers' Palace, and NOW, Intellect Sector.

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Through the chaotic NOW, of all things, a place of pure anarchical liminality and unknown exists an inner realm known as Sleepers' Palace. Created by an enigmatic figure known as 'Masquerade'. This very being is not much known to anyone, but is often times said to be in corellation with the embodiment of FATE. This realm, while above conceptually by NOW, remains unseen by many that inhabit this sector. There are little to no people that have been there, and the deities that state to have been 'there' often times went crazy after a while, or unalived themselves once present to whatever they found. For some this remains a legend, but for others it remains a possibility, whatever it has to be after all, whatever that structure holds, has to be somewhat connected to what FATE is doing, at least from what legends state, sightings of those that were able to find that place. Some actively believe that Masquerade is simply a construct made to scare deities that unfolded themselves too far into NOW, for them to go back. After all, after NOW there is presumed to be just the Dice, and afterwards the Ring.

However, while people are conflicted wether or not these statements are true, the unfolding truth goes far. Sleepers' Palace is the domain of a deity known as the embodiment of control and manipulation, thus exists on a cooperative plane with FATE, also known as Fajar. Fajar is a deity that seemingly creates fate of each being, their ultimate fatum that they come to, as long as they are not above him or on his level, as creatures beyond FATE are in a never-ending state of unfinished conclusion that shapes by itself, as if the fatum didn't exist for them, as if conclusion could be shaped with pure actions and desires.

However, the truth for those weaker than FATE is certain, while they shape, and make their way through all the obstacles, their ultimate conclusion is written. This is where Masquerade comes in, he is the one to coordinate, control, and make everyone's way to that fate after it is created, controlling their ultimate conclusion in the end, but of course, there are always exceptions, such as Hoplites or beings that have certain sorceries or auras that avoid direct FATE involvement, such as inexpectancy, these, can exist just like beings beyond fate, without certain fatum unleashed at them. But how does Masquerade lead beings to their fatum? Well, each being in his grasp is being created with a mask, this mask is immaterially and transparently hidden for anyone to experience, feel, to see, as long as they are just below him, being able to control properties of the mask, and thus it's host completely. This also allows Masquerade to easily take control of anyone in his grasp, using his red strings to move beings to their own fate, ultimately taking control of the character similiary to the puppet. These strings aswell are invisible in the way that Masquerade made it, leading to him being able to freely lead anyone to the fate chosen. However, Masquerade, as the embodiment of control and manipulation wishes that he will himself decide the fate of everyone, this is where a kind of sporadical, mental conflict between them comes in. From time to time, Masquerade will try to trick Fajar into one of his deals, plans, trying to manipulate him into giving up his power, because - as obvious as it might seem, Masquerade with both embodiments inside of him could easily take control of anyone around him and do anything he ever wished, instead of simply leading them to a point already created.

Masquerade sometimes due to this, is able to trick Fajar into smaller deals, that lead him to being capable of still controling someones body off the fatum, and manipulating their existance for some time until the manipulated contract ends, this lead Masquerade to creating a throughly corrupted system of hierarchy between some beings, that caused dozens of outbreaks of wars, inequality, death, and of course, destruction, for him however it is pure etertainment, something he was originally created for after all.

Now, the Sleepers' Palace is obviously Masquerade's domain in which he chooses to remain. It is a small, ball palace that within it's walls has unknowingly infinite amounts of masks, each representing one beings he controls over, the amount of masks is certainly an ineffable number that would go beyond Rectangle Theory for sure if observed. All these masks have different colors, designs, drawings on them, representing life of each, all of them are connected with red strings that cover the entire wall along with masks, these strings ultimately lead to a throne on which Masquerade remains. Next to his throne resides his beloved weapon the Jøre, and an envisioned mask that Masquerade created, letting him observe any event inside any sector at any given moment.

The ground is covered in abstract valueble resources, different for each being, in the palace there is a huge hall that has within itself dozens of tables, chairs, with very richful decorations around, waiting for a ball to happen at any given time.

Not much is known what Masquerade is readying up for, and what sort of ball he has in mind, but it is surely coming quite near.

Currently, after manipulating Fajar into a deal in which he could end any life he wanted, Masquerade would ready up his strings, searching for a person he'd like to cease existing.

"Nooow, there is some fun! Haha." - Said Masquerade as he grabbed couple of strings closed on three masks, he pulled them together killing off three deities of his choice. All of them were apart of a clan inside Intellect sector that Masquerade disliked as it was about pure freedom of choice. All these three deities were leaders, and that's all he needed.

"I will leave a letter!" - Said Masquerade as one of the masks turned into a letter that fell next to dead vessels of killed deities, covered in surreal essence.

Once sitting on his throne, Masquerade began to look around his own palace, amused by an act he is starting.

"I am already in love with this. . .and Fajar will soon come here for a meeting haha!" - Said Masquerade as he stood up from this throne, wandering around his Palace with his strings pulling over masks and tossing them around.

Suddenly, creature came to a stop, sitting down on one of the seats that was infront of a table, this table, as supposed had two chairs.

The abstract constructs that were holding Masquerade together (imaginary cubes) would move slightly along with it's body, taking different routes as everything came to a sudden stop when the door opened, infront of Masquerade was a chaotical yet similiar being, Fajar.

Fajar simply looked over at the entity already sitting infront of the chair, so he decided to sit along, on the other side. Both looked into each other in silence for a brief moment, until Masquerade decided to speak.

"Soooo! How's your role been going?" - Said the embodiment of control as there appeared to be some sort of board game on the table.

". . .What do you think? Everything goes as normal, one would think nothing could ever go wrong, yet it does. Hah." - Said Fajar as he finally put his hand on the board game, taking the red side, while Masquerade took the blue side of the board game.

"Right...Right! Normal...but fun really, eh? Creation of conclusion has to be really exciting!" - Said Masquerade as he began to move his units from the blue side towards red side on the board game.

"Is it? I believe it's more of a curse than anything, having the mind to create and think of any conclusion, it's stressful and mind-boggling." - Said Fajar as he moved couple units to blue side, taking down couple Masquerade's units in the board game.

"No! Of course not! Why would that mind-boggle you? After all, it's just a game, like the one we play right now! Do you care for these units falling down? No! Of course you don't! But you don't also want to do a silly move with them! That's why you have meee to do this for youu. . .however-" - Said Masquerade as he counter-attacked, taking down a few Fajar's unit before his turn was already gone.

"If it really is a curse, then perhaps maybe I should take it? You wouldn't have to feel all this stress, and mind-boggle all the time!" - Continued the Jester.

"Heh. . .good joke, Jester. I am not that naive to get into your trap like last time, I won't lend anything to you." - Said Fajar as he moved couple units forward.

"But, about the 'game'. I feel like it's more of a real creation than just a game. These pieces...units are not a thinking mass, but just a material - while those we take care of are highly aware of their surroundings. You cannot compare this game to what's happening outside of it." - FATE continued, slowly turning the tide of the board game as the red side would slowly get upperhand.

"Really? It just depends on how you view it, Fajar! For example, if I viewed this piece...and said that you know, it is aware because it can move to directions I tell them, then for that you can do pretty much anything! For those that live in our 'little game' however, they are very similiar to these pieces - sure, they do make some decisions...but who leads them do it? Us! Just like in this game! It's all very, very similiar, you can't deny it!" - Said Masquerade as his move suddenly changed, taking couple units at once, the tide has been turned once more in the board game.

"Uh. . .Not really? Surely these pieces think less than those we take control of. Maybe not as much as I originally thought but, my point remains." - Responded Fate with new tactic in mind, gathering his units together.

"Hmm. . .denial! You slowly start to understand, and that is alright my fellow! It's fine to admit to a mistake. . .sometimes, you gotta do things different way. . maybe way that would include treating everyone beside boundaries?" - Said the Jester as his another move continued to make the blue side dominant.

"No. I know where this is going, I am not getting trapped by this type of a deal, I already know the formula for this one. Good job, try. . .again." - Said Fajar as all the gathered units he sent off forward, finishing off the unsuspecting blue pieces. The game is over, red side won.

"Haha! What type of deal? Didn't mean to sound like it, you know me, haha. Buttt, what are you planning to do with this situation. . .the fun that is unleashing into the Intellect sector!" - Said Masquerade looking directly at Fajar afterwards, trying to remain calm after almost losing his mind as he lost in the board game against FATE.

"Probably some type of it, you know exactly which one. About what I will do inside Intellect sector, will remain to my own interest that I will inform you afterwards, but I am pretty sure that this time we will depopulate areas. We will extend wars inside clans to make them fight for longer, I cannot go too extreme as you know it." - Said Fajar looking around.

"I will gladlyyyy help. . .and perhaps, if you will be out of ideas, you can always ask me for advice, because from what I heard, you are still re-choicing fatums!" - Said the Jester as he looked around his own Palace in silence for a moment.

"Hah, I wouldn't say re-choicing. It's more of an 'update' if you will. Some need to die, some need to dissappear for the stage to continue. I don't need your advice, you can use it on your own." - Said Fajar as he looked around the Palace yet again, noticing all the masks, all decorations and furnitures that were here.

"Ehhhh, whatever! Have it on your own then, but if something fucks up then don't ask me for help!" - Said Jester as he stood up, and looked around.

Fajar also stood up, shook Jester's hand, and looked towards the exit.

"I believe I should be going now, farewell until next time." - Said FATE as he exited through the door, dissappearing completely as it closed back again.

"Ughhh, he is no fun!" - Said Masquerade as he stood up from the chair, throwing the board game aside as he looked around his palace.

"But I still have that last deal with killing! It's soo deepingly annoying that I can't get Fajar into doing something extreme for once! Like, these little changes are boring! I just wish he wouldn't be stuck to that 'oath' and his weird way of thinking, there is little things to influence really, too much freedom for them...way too much! If that was up to me they would all do as I say! But look at it! They can do everything in their lifes! The only thing we influence is their damn conclusion! Ugh. . .Fajar is such a naive goober, giving all the choices to his puppets, that's not how stage should be!" - Said elaborately Masquerade while punching the table furiously until at one moment he stopped.

"I can't win with him in a battle, he is too good at the damn board game! But perhaps a sort of bet could do, yeah. . . a bet that would solve my all issues! Delving him more and more into his own demise into giving me all his power. That would be exciting really!" - Continued Jester as he gently put his hand under his own inexistant chin, thinking about possible things that could be done.

"But for now. . . I could check in on the Dice, and then maybe pull out one of the parts of it, last moment it happened was quite an intriguing play, I could use it then to get rid of lurkers inside NOW, I don't want them nearby my Palace." - He said as his fingers flicked, causing a small hole to open through which Jester went. Masquerade found himself ontop of the Dice, apart of further existance with "axises" all around it.

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LOCATION: The Dice, Intellect sector.

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"Last time I was there some petty Hoplites tried to stop me, but now due to the last clan fight they had, almost losing their primary member I am sure they wont have a chance of interviening." - Said Masquerade as the strings would surround a piece of the dice, mask would land on it, creating out of it a sort of substance that Masquerade used while pulling strings towards himself. Suddenly the Dice piece fell out completely.

The piece taken however wasn't much 'big', it was in fact quite 'small'. It was of course done by Jester on purpose so that no one will notice such small detail. Afterwards Masquerade appeared around his Palace, walking around with dice piece in his strings floating within his body.

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LOCATION: Sleepers' Palace, and NOW, Intellect Sector.

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"Ahh. . .time to get rid of those that try to know things they shouldn't! Another one to enjoy the ball!" - said Masquerade as he swung his strings that all suddenly turning purple.

"Haha! Ah I wanted to do this for so LONG!" - said jester happily as now the dice piece within him started to change colors until he swung his strings up, catching one of the unsuspecting deities that crossed through NOW.

"Another brave one. . .How about?" - The piece flashed as the strings transported information into being that was caught, causing it to turn into a mindless shell of it's previous self, exisiting as a vessel body without no conciousness that began to turn gray.

"Haha! The wonders of Dice! Power so strong, but has to be kept hidden." - Said Masquerade as the strings detached from lifeless deity that collapsed on the ground.

"Alright, how about.." - Some strings would grab the lifeless vessel, turning it apart into the river of NOW, as his body was cloned and conciousness settled inside the Palace.

"Ahh..I love this! But I have to make sure it will not be taken away, the danger." - Said Jester as he now slowly walked inside the Palace, grabbing the Dice part from inside his body, he places it firmly inside his pocket realm instead. After inserting his new-found power source into a safe realm he began to walk around his Palace.

"Alright, after this long, long work, I believe it's time to begin our ball!" - Continued jester as he flicked his fingers, couple doors would open as from them controlled vessels walked out, hiding their face in masks, all of them had humanoid shapes, and as Masquerade's eye on the first mask began to flash for a brief moment, humanoids began to move around the place and dance to the music that just now began playing.

"Wonderful!" - He began clapping as he walked through the ball with dozens of beings that began to walk around. As jester began creating his own imagined visions throughout the entire Palace, different by each, envisioning greater scenarios that Masquerade wishes of as he made his way up the stairs to the stage slowly, a smoke would appear on the stage, a vastly colorful one, out of it, Masquerade walked out looking around at all the guests.

"Welcome back to our greatest ball! The palace of all kinds you could imagine! My dearly enslaved visitors, you will easily enjoy every single attraction that there is inside of my great domain. I hope everyone is ready to start their newly discovered adventure! As much as you'd wish for it, there is no escape, so treat yourself right till the end of the cellebrations!" - said Jester as he welcomed everyone in, these beings were as obvious as it might be, fully enslaved by Masquerade and were thus used for him as a way to entertain himself inside his own domain, giving them emotions and different roles, as if it was all a show made by him. These moments could be easily called the most joyous for jester.

"Play and pretend! The world of fantasy of our dear Palace starts!" - Said Jester with his wicked voice.

And thus the ball has started. The party of the enslaved, the nonsensical celebration for host's wishes and entertainment. It went for long. The ball became more chaotic and live, as those enslaved cherished their moments, understanding the supreme position of where they are, and what's their point. They all learned throughout the ball that their lives were nothing more than a mere lie, and for curiosity of knowing, for entering NOW just to understand it - they are stuck here forever, 'punished' as entertainment for the jester. As some of the beings said, their curiosity was not worth it, that knowledge that they now posess will haunt them forever as everything became completely different since then. Everyone has their point destinied, all wishes and hopes don't make sense, once you are born, your conclusion is already set. First, the ball of course was full of curious beings, the ball became more chaotic, as said before, people started to understand that this is their only place that they will be able to talk to others alike. But as all passed, the ball became slower. . .some beings became more and more invisible, as if they were fading, some already dissappeared, ball became sadder, many were sitting on the porch of Palace, enjoying their last moments, reflecting on their memories and what they had experienced in their abstract 'past'.

"I didn't wanna enter inside NOW. . .but I was pressured by my pears, I tried to achieve something, but I guess I was not worth coming back. Now, I guess I am stuck here forever until I eventually dissappear from existance, or land anywhere else to wishes of that jester." - Said one of the creatures, the other one responded quite quickly as follows:

"I get you. . .yknow, I just wanted to experience something new, escape the brutality of Dhour, in my region wars were constant, and I couldn't with my own powers keep my family. . .so I decided to. . risk it all. I guess they will never see me again, hah."

After a while, another being responded, this time, one that has stood up from the porch looking around the NOW this last time as it was already fading.

"Yeah. . .I mean, I think it's kinda better we end up this way. After all, living in a lie was not my thing. Always trying to prove that things were not as they were, but see, after all I was right. . .All of them laughed at me, but the truth is just as imagined it. And now, I am nothing more than a puppet, but less of a puppet than I was before." - He said before closing his eyes.

"Remember me, at least for a moment. . .please." - His body entirely faded, and his soul avatar, from a whitely-red color (meaning puppet of the Masquerade) to complete nothingness as the memories of him began to fade - these beings were given 'fake', irrelevant for this realm soul avatars to show their last moments and indicate that all of them are held by Masquerade.

"Ugh. . .this is too harsh man, I didn't do anything, I just tried to find a way out of this madness! Why was I even fucking born man?! What was the darn point! A damn mortal, left for his own fucking life! All these days, all these years I've dedicated myself to this. . .goal, all the time I was thinking that maybe I am the one...the special...person that would change corse of action. But I guess I was just naive idiot. . .Before I dissappear. . .I guess I gotta say my last words. . .uh. There is no way out, everyone is fucked up the same way, and so should we accept our conclusion." - Said the mortal closing his eyes as he dissappeared into nothingness.

"How. . .did a mortal get here in the first place?- It doesn't matter but, I wish I remembered his name," - Another one soul dissappeared.

"I always tried to impress others, you know? With this 'party' I at least got to remember how it was before my whole concentration became war, and war, and damn wars! Everywhere I was...was war, I was always fighting, always improving, but I guess I didn't improve enough to stand against him. My life lost it's meaning long ago, I was no one more than...just a shell of a being, no personality, no character, I just. . .wanted to be best, just like other people, and I guess that's what happens to those that try too hard, haha. What I will say is. . .that sword I used. . .wasn't even mine in the first place." - Said the being after he closed his eyes, another soul was sent ablaze and dissappeared.

"So, I guess it's just the two of us left, eh? Anything important to say? Yknow, you can trust me, there is nothing left for us anyways." - Said the being.

"Oh yeah. My name is uh. . .Hir, I tried to stand up against RAGNAROK while he tried to bash down Celestiality's loyality, I was crushed into smitherines, but at least I served well. . .a royal guard." - Said Hir.

"Oh god. . .not him. I heard a lot about his past and what he has been doing, but I guess you at least served well till your last days, my. . .'past' as some from mortal realm would call it were uh, more boring and uninteresting. Also, my name is Kon but you can also call me Kona. I. . .yknow was a traveller, or rather not just traveller, I generally sold goods throughout Intellect, yknow, had to await ascension somehow, and perhaps get something good in exchange you know? I manage to interest some clan members and you know, them being my first customers I kinda leaned towards them but when Hoplites interviened inside, I was really confused. They got bashed off by another clan the name I don't remember, something along the name of 'Realms of Jackal', but the name might be wrong. Well, when they took over, they forced me to go find them new possibilities of gaining power, they ascended me to be able to access surreal layers and threw me in, not knowing that it was surely not enough. When I was close, I noticed I was not able to comprehand most places and then I was attacked, I don't even know how, and. . .here I am." - Said Kon.

"Kon, that's damn sad to hear man, I feel bad for you. Yknow, you were a simple one, didn't need much in your life to be happy, just a wrong person at the wrong damn time. Honestly when I heard your story, it's way more inspiring than mine, like, god damn you are an interesting individual. I wish I could talk with you more about it, but yknow, maybe we could perhaps go on a last walk before we dissappear too? I think this freak will be entertained by our muffling." - Said Hir as he looked around.

"Eh. . .I don't agree, I wasn't interesting, but well I agree with the fact I was an idiot getting myself into wrong places at wrong moments. It's funny how we use these. . .words, while knowing we aren't really apart of them. As if we aren't just gods, but somewhat we have something of mortals, as if we weren't that distinct as we think. Anyways, sure, we can walk, why not." - Said Kon as he stood up.

"So, we going?" - Kon said after a while, awaiting, he slowly turned his face back, noticing that. . .the person was now gone.

". . .I guess we won't. Messiah, have us in your heart." - Said for the last time Kon as he kneeled down, closing his eyes, the body turned into nothingness along with the soul, the ball was now over.

Jester walked out of his own Palace noticing as everyone has already faded away.

"It was nice to see some relatable feelings here and there! Ah, these actions! Drama! Feelings, memories! Ahhh! That's purely wonderful! I haven't felt anything like that for so long! They have entertained me well!" - Said Masquerade as he closed the door for the Palace.

"Yet, their lifes deserved for what they tried to reach! Now, it's time to go to NOW itself, let's hope that someone lurks there already! Show must go on!" - Said jester as he dissappeared in NOW.

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LOCATION: The Liminal Forest, NOW, Intellect sector

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The Forest was one of the structures inside NOW that remained mostly untouched by meanings, however was still purely surreal as many things were out of place, illogical, but at the same time very nostalgic. There were trees around the place, this was one of the most often found place where beings lurk or enter through as it at first seems quite safe, until you realize that the Liminal Forest get's flooded with concepts from time to time, leading to a deathly substance to flow there from time to time.

This was the place of choice where Masquerade appeared at, looking briefly around, there seemed to be no one close.

"Alright, seems like no sillyheads try to settle themselves here." - Said Masquerade, holding the Jøre in his left hand floating around, one of his arms extended to grab the tree, pulling himself up ontop of it.

"Yup! No one in sight! Damn it, but perhaps. . .no no. . .not near the river, we already were there! What about. . .Oh, the bridge! The town. . .how was it called? Zaroostia? Oh yeah, zaroostia definitely! Or. . .perhaps eden?" - Said Jester, extending his arm and lags so that he could easily manouver through the forest, in the end jump up so high he landed up at the new location.

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LOCATION: Zaroostia, NOW, Intellect sector

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Zaroostia was. . . a town, town was very much corrupted with surrealism, and left with many unknowing features that break typical logic of understanding or perceiving. Some beings used to live there but after Masquerade's hunts many have migrated. This place now remains a ghost town of sorts, left out and lonely, but at the same time purely weird as the visions of 'time' were emplaced there such as non-sensical abstract clocks that did not work as obvious as it might seem, stretches of lines and many different, other things along with it.

Masquerade landed here, checking by each house if it was still left uninhabited. The search was futile, no one was there.

"God damn it! Not here either. . .then to the bridge!" - Said Masquerade as he walked slowly towards the bridge that is infront of Zaroostia.

Nothing was there either, under bridge was of course liquified concepts of substances that didn't make a single sense, and on them were growing hugely emplaced mashrooms that acted like trees past the bridge.

"Alright, time to head to eden then." - Said Masquerade as he slowly walked past the bridge, the other side led to the eden, another town inside NOW.

As Masquerade passed through the beauty and strangeness of the Bridge, he of course noticed similiar mushrooms, this time, they all had colorful eyes on their top that looked around calmly, along with these big mushrooms, were smaller ones that emited an abstract concept of 'fluoresent light'.

Through these, were also different forms of grass that was even more surreal than the town Masquerade visited before, differently colored, with different imaginary looks. As Masquerade approached eden, he found himself in the middle of that mushroom forest that he walked through, in the middle of it was, as said, eden, which means the town itself is surrounded by said forest.

As Masquerade approached it, one could notice planely basic buildings that seemed to be similiar to ancient Greece architecture.

Here everything was dark, surrounded by artistical and abstract fake imagery of 'light' which it truely wasn't. It was like a color pallette changing and not really any laws working, just like anything else contained inside structures of Intellect sector or Metaphysical side of Singularity sector.

Anywho, Masquerade came to a stop, looking around at Eden, Eden was a town that was inhabited, but by beings molded somehow inside NOW or Surreal Layers that exist here, these people Masquerade is not fan of, but cannot take them down as they are not actively searching for further truth, and they were created in their designated structure they inhabit, instead, Masquerade's both masks began to slightly abstractfully glow as he entirely became invisible, travelling through Eden, searching for a being out of ordinary boundaries of NOW, no one seemingly was out of ordinary, so Masquerade sighed, teleporting himself away near one of the bigger mushrooms, making himself visible as he noticed lightning hitting the bridge, causing it to abruptly change colors.

"Not Zaroostia, Eden or the bridge. . .Last place to check for today time! I don't want to waste my precious non-existant time! Pff- I love saying this sentence!" - Said Masquerade as he dissappeared to go to the last structure of his visiting inside NOW, humbled mountains.

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LOCATION: Humbled Mountains, NOW, Intellect sector

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Humbled Mountains were, of course as name says, abstract vision of mountains that correlate to NOW's surrealism. Many exist with different meanings and some look like they shouldn't, some look like memories of someone, some are retracted, some don't have anything 'on' them.

"Hmm. . .perhaps they made some settlement near them!" - Said Masquerade walking around these mountains, seeing the nonsensical snow changing it's properties and dissappearing as if the drawing was removed.

"I like to call. . .NOW drawings! Or anything in particular, I mean if there is no logical laws working inside these structures, it's as if I was inside a drawing! Yknow, no meaning at all, light, physics, time, space, uh, travelling! I mean all of it is kind of like a drawing, not an actual thing. And I mean, drawing just fits to this description. Light isn't really light, it's just something that shows it as such, and that's what I love! Shows will be so much more unique if I utilize some of these ideas of NOW!" - Said Masquerade as he briefly looked around, there was then again, no one, his hunt was unsuccessful today.

"I guess they learned from last time! Well, less moments wasted for me! No 'time' for rest, it's 'time' to go back! Show must go on. . .Show. . .must go on!" - Said Masquerade, having couple of new plans on NOW in mind, with different envisions, plans to overtake Fajar, and perhaps interviene in some way inside Dhour for his own. . .influence? Who knows what he has in his mind.

But what is certain for sure. . .is that the Show. . .must go on. No 'time' to stop, haha, no 'future' to waste, a funny way of saying, eh? Perhaps one will find the Show first before their premise ends, hopeful but lastly gone, False and Truth await watching, flower withers with it's own scars, weigh of crimes of the 'universe'.

## ACT V: "The lessons and further."

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LOCATION: GRAPH's Office, Enormity, Singularity sector.

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Duell's unfortunate battle resulted in many questions, proposition was sent by one being who works for Directives, proposition for conversation, and it was no one else than Detective GRAPH.

Duell wanted to really talk about this issue to someone, and GRAPH seemed like a person that could give him answer to couple questions.

After a while, he appeared around the Enormity, there, there was a section through Enormity dedicated to members of Directives and some camps around it.

There was a specific office that Duell was told to go to. As the deity of war approached the door, it opened infront of him as a new face greeted him.

"<::> Hello, DUELL. Come inside, take a seat. <::>" - said GRAPH as he lowered his cap to his eyes as he sat himself infront of Duell.

"Alright. . . We are here to talk about that being I saw?" - said Duell as he took a seat infront of GRAPH while looking around the small but fairly comfy office.

"<::> That is right. You can call me GRAPH, or by my role - Detective. I brought you because of the recent incident and it's corellations to Directives' actions and it's connections to other different events as you might know <::>" - Said GRAPH in his non-combatant voice as he grabbed his PDA on his hand, creating a hologram which through he began noting.

"Will...my voice be recorded or something? I've heard of these things in movies." - said Duell

"<::> Well, for a kid without parents or mortal ones it seems surprising to me you know what movies are. But, no, I won't record any of this, however I will have to note this conversation in the protocol. <::>" - Said GRAPH

"Right. . .Also, about these movies- I uh, had to entertain myself somehow you know? When I was not that energetic.." - said Duell

"<::> Fair enough, I won't question that further but, let's maybe come back to the topic we were about to converse on. Marauder, because this is as you might know the enigmatic being that from time to time invades the sectors, attacking us through different reasons unknown or unseen, some said that he can shapeshift and can take many forms, this means that he could be anywhere at any point in time. Whether this is true or not, is unknown but I presume that through your experiences we could come to some sort of conclusion of what it can do. <::>" - Said GRAPH as he stood up, looking around the dozens of papers scattered around his own office, grabbing couple documents.

"Uh. . .alright." - Said Duell as he held his hands together while sitting, looking around nervously.

"So. . .I saw him only once, and it was nearby Celestiality, I actually wanted to get revenge on him, and one of the beings there. . .I think he was called 'Pyrus' knew the way to battle him, at least from what he stated. I knew that I had to get my revenge on him killing my father. . .however once I got there I noticed one of your guys was laying on the ground, almost dead, what's up with him now?" - Said Duell while this time facing Detective.

"<::> It was one of the leaders of Directives, PURSUANT. Hoplites found him along with the guy you talked about. . .They sent PURSUANT off to us after a short investigation program along with Pyrus. I've got to talk with them for some time, and from what I know, Marauder started his attack from Vessel World in which he completely destroyed incoming squads of Directives, afterwards he decided to retreat but PURSUANT wanted to catch up to him, however as you would expect, this ended with him almost dead through the encounter, now, the only missing puzzle in this story is what happened afterwards, because PURSUANT doesn't remember nothing much other than catching up to Marauder, so this leaves you, Duell, what happened there, inside Celestiality? <::>" - Asked GRAPH sitting on his chair now as he looked over the office looking at the document.

"Uh. . .Alright so, basically after I and Pyrus walked inside Celestiality, Celestial Sea to be completely sure, we saw PURSUANT beaten up and laying on the ground, we saw HIM. . . His body was long, skinny, and deformed. . .his smile seemed to echo through the entire place as we saw him. When we stood up to fight against him, I remember he could easily hold us off, I was fighting...very vigorously, I tried to destroy him, but even with my full angsty mind I couldn't take him down. . .I remember he yelled or something along the lines, and a lot of stuff went down, I am not sure what but some say it was something alike 'Surreal Layers', no idea what that is, but I am pretty sure it had to be something solid, in the end he put me inside of...this weird cold place, trying to tell me something that it is all futile. . .I remember him trying to say something about my father but I cannot remember what really. That's pretty much all I remember- oh and he also had uh. . .different forms?" - Said Duell as he now began thinking about the entire encounter.

"<::> Oh, that's intriguing really. So, what this means is he can shapeshift, and it's what he does often, because from what Pyrus told me, he looked completely different to what you're describing him in the beginning. Other than that, Hoplites did some investigation as I said before, they travelled through the place using various harnessed by them sorceries to try and find out an answer about what happened to Mytos, travelled to find different deities. . .and I think I have a certain theory. Can you tell me who was really important to Mytos, your father? <::>" - Said GRAPH

"Uh. . .someone important. . - yeah, certainly, his family. . .and from what I know my 'mother', yet I am not sure how she looks like or who she is. . .I was never introduced to her or anything, I remember Mytos telling me that she uh, left us?" - Said Duell, with his expression changing to a definitely sadder one.

"<::> Oh, your 'mother'? She left him. . .and then later on he dissappeared. . . <::>" - GRAPH began noting some of the informations on his PDA.

"Yeah, I mean. . .you think it has something to do with her?" - Said Duell thinking about all this.

"<::> Yeah, I certainly do. I think that this might be just the only reason as to why he dissappeared. My theory throughout this entire situation is becoming more relevant, however there remains primary question, to know if it was really the case, we need to know who was your mother exactly, do you remember anything that Mytos told you about her? <::>" - Said GRAPH while looking deep into his documents.

"Oh, uh. . .I mean, maybe? Hold on. . .I remember Mytos told me that for 'her' didn't matter anyone uh...yknow she created. He was really angry at her, very angry. I remember that uh, he said something that it was a mistake? Couple 'days' after that incident he dissappeared without a trace." - Said Duell.

"<::> . . . I think I might have bad news for you. Because from what it looks like, my theory seems to come together. Now, I want just the last question out of you currently, do you think who could do it? Did you, throughout your childhood notice anything that could explain to you what happened? Or rather, do you remember what happened shortly before he dissappeared? <::>" - Continued GRAPH, while becoming more concerned with the case.

"Hm...from what I remember Mytos really regretted this relationship with my mother, and I think at one point he attacked her or something, because from what I know he had some sort of veins. . .like these transparent ones on his sword, while he was cursing her, I hope this helps." - Said Duell, this is the last thing he much remember of happening until Mytos certainly dissappeared.

"<::> . . . <::>" - Graph patiently began noting it all on PDA, it took couple solid minutes before GRAPH would eventually begin to speak.

"<::> Listen, my original theory was that Twilight, the embodiment of Life might've have been corellated with Mytos, and from what it seems like, it was certainly the case, the veins you talked about, the curses, her behavior, it all seems to come together. My theory goes as follows: Mytos met with Twilight, Twilight manipulated him into a relationship from which you were created. And afterwards Life decided that once Mytos was completely useless, she would make a deal with Marauder, informing him of Mytos weak points, or anything really that would let him take down Mytos with ease. Life is. . .really fitting to the entire image, you see, she is careless, she only wants to create more life, over and over, and I presume having your children as the embodiment of war would be more probable to manipulate than an already 'old' deity that knew everything that was happening around him. . .<::>" - Said GRAPH while looking at his notes.

"W- What. . .no...this can't be. So I was created. . .by Life, for Mytos to become useless. . .for him to die so that she can easily manipulate everyone around. . .this explains why I am so mentally weak. . .I cannot believe this is real. . .NO...NO IT CAN'T BE FUCKING REAL!" - Said Duell almost punching the table.

"<::> Calm down, caaalm down. There is nothing you can do about this entire situation, so the best action you can do right now is calm down with me. . .and we will resolve this issue. <::>" - Said GRAPH

"What is there to resolve man?! Mytos is most likely dead, and it's because of that fucking bitch!" - Said Duell as he looked around.

"<::> Hey! Listen, it's just a theory, I am not sure about this, that's why we will send expeditionary forces that Hoplites will ascend for us to get inside Life's domain to get information out of her. If this gets confirmed, I guess we know who let's Marauder into this world, maybe. <::>" - Said GRAPH while disabling his PDA now.

"Right. . .but once it's fucking confirmed I am going there myself . . . But uh, you are right- it's not worth it to spill all my anger here, I will save it for someone else." - Said Duell as he looked up at GRAPH.

"<::> This might break the entire theme, but I will be real with you upfront - there is not much I, or Directives can do about this issu., Life is far stronger than me, or the leaders of Directives, and I doubt Hoplites will punish her, you know, they are currently in a fairly broken and corrupted state, I also doubt they will actually ascend our units, there is much unknown about our contact with them. But what I can assure you about personally is that I am here to help you with this issue, cause I damn want this fucker (Marauder) dead, just as much as you want it to happen. <::>" - said GRAPH

"Right, I know nothing is for certain, good that you said that to me otherwise I would just be filled with false hope. Anyways, do you still think that we will be able to confirm this theory?" - said Duell

"<::> Yeah, I will make sure to check if the theory is right, but I am quite sure it has to be her, who knows, maybe Hoplites knew about this issue and didn't do anything about it? This might also be the case. . .Hold on. <::>" - Said GRAPH as he clicked couple times on PDA, and began typing something through.

"<::> Alright, Hoplites stated that they will not let our units through, and that they will resolve this issue. . .from what information I've gotten from them now, it seems like Life is not letting them enter through, and that she is not inside her domain. They ended investigation there. <::>" - said GRAPH

"They probably don't have even enough Hoplites ready for actions, most are as you suggested occupied by other issues, and as you said. . .I doubt they will resolve this issue with this shitty response they gave, even if they tried to tell you it's otherwise. They might have even lied, who knows." - said Duell.

"<::> Well, if that's so really, then there is nothing I can, or Directives can do about it. My condolences, but I guess you will have to really resolve this issue yourself. Don't worry though, I will help you, when I will find any more important information, I will contact you, alright? <::>" - said GRAPH as he laid down his papers and turned off his PDA.

"Right. . .thank you for this talk anyways, it really opened eyes for me on couple things. . .also, do you think Marauder has any reason to doing any of this?" - said Duell

"<::> Perhaps, one always has some reason, but I think it is something deeper than we think, he always finds different excuses and forms to attack, which might mean he is somewhat of something else than we think, not an outsider perhaps as we used to think. I will try to prepare our Pantheon for his another comeback, maybe some will finally understand that working together is the key. <::>" - said GRAPH

"<::> Now, I will try to contact with head leaders of Directives to try and get Hoplites to investigate inside her domain this time. Maybe they will have some sort of you know 'space' for operations. <::>" - said GRAPH as he stood up now, and rose his head towards Duell.

"<::> It was nice having this talk with you, see you next time, Farewell Duell. And if something really wrong happens, contact me, I will try to help you out from there. <::>" - said GRAPH.

Duell stood up and shook his hand.

"Thank you. . .as I said. And I will try to contact you whenever I get anymore information about this issue too." - said Duell. In Duell's inventory, appeared PDA.

"<::> Use it to contact me, farewell then again. <::>" - said GRAPH.

"Farewell." - Said Duell as he exited through the doors of the office.

The lessons happen once one tries to understand the true conclusion and meaning of other's actions, further happens when you use these lessons to take action yourself.