BXBX NOVEL Chapter 144: The Beginning.
"I can feel the heat of your glory, your presence alone has triggered my ovulation~
I crave to submit to you once more, Sol~!"
"What the fuck is wrong with you, Ikaris?" Dina was staring at Ikaris appalled at what she was openly saying."
"I think, she is in heat...?" Arla mused, staring at Ikaris with envious fascination.
"Can you not sense that overwhelmingly domineering presence?" Ikaris looked around at Dina, sinking to her knees and crawling over to her on all fours. "Does it not drive you mad with lust?" She asked looming over the mage and bringing her face so close there was no space between their noses. "I feel flames welling up inside of me, it is beautiful, Dina."
"N-no, I don't sense anything at all!" Dina shuddered at how Ikaris stared at her, and then caught her shoulders and looked behind her. "No... I do sense something, demonic mana headed our way!"
[Indeed, Saleos; the direct aire of the Demon-Lord is headed directly toward you, but I was told by master Vestic to not be too alarmed as you would be fine, so I decided against immediately telling you]
The system answered Dina. [He will arrive within the next five minutes]
"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
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"Godslayer..." Orion stared at the black hole again, ignoring the system as she floated next to him. "The Godslayer is a myth, a mere memory of an ancient age long past-"
"And yet you are afraid of the implication of his existence." She answered him, and he spun again in an attempt to strike her down, failing when his hand passed through her.
"I'm... Not dead." Sol stood in the middle of a black void where light particles were flying pass him into a deeper nothingness, before him at the entrance he could see distant stars, and the sounds around him were unlike anything he had ever heard before, and then he raised his hand, finding a steady glow coming from his skin.
[M-te ha- ion-] He heard the distorted and heavily unstable voice of the system trying to communicate with him.
"I'm pretty sure I died for real this time, but... what was I doing exactly, why did I die?"
*Kshhh-
The system continued trying to communicate, but nothing was working in this timeless void, she had power over the demonic universe, but this place existed where she could not interfere.
"Where is this exactly-"
"Sol Vestic," He heard Ikaris's voice through the void, and stared at the lights and stars beyond the horizon.
"Ikaris?" He called back, echoing through the black. "Where are you?"
"Have you forgotten who you are?" She asked, and the shook his head and chuckled.
"Never, I could never forget myself, just as I would never forget you." He smiled and clasped his fists. "I... we've been through so much terrible things already-"
"Then, do not forget why you fight." She dictated through the void with a loud and clear voice, and with her tone came flashbacks like waves crashing into him violently.
"Have you made your peace?" The system asked Orion who was still watching the black hole with a frown.
"There is nothing in there." Orion concluded after staring for another minute, turning to leave, but with just a small distance passed the black hole began acting up, the debris and cosmic space dust it had been eating started flying toward it faster than he had seen anything before, and after just a few seconds he had to be forcing himself to fly away as the pull of the deep space phenomena started eating everything, even the very space it realised within, growing larger and larger by the second before it suddenly stopped and disappeared putting an immediate stop to the chaotic gravity fluctuations.
"What?" Orion looked behind him after righting himself and found none other than Sol with his back turned and a shrunken and complete black hole in his palm, naked as the day he was born, aside from his skin having a slight glow his hair had returned to brown again, his Primordial demon-god transformation had been undone completely; he seemed normal.
"This is quite interesting if you ask me." Sol stared at the tiny object floating above his hand. "Hypernova was supposed to be the ultimate attack, there should be nothing that can surpass it right?" He asked, raising his hand and looking around at Orion.
On Sol's chest there was a crest where the ten pointed star had been, it was a simple golden ring that seemed to be alive upon observing it, and his eyes held the same golden rings around his pupil.
"I keep forgetting the vastness of universes and what that truly means, everyone keeps telling me I'm my own universe, and I always failed to understand what to make of such an absurd statement, but I think I've gained a bit of understanding now." Sol opened his mouth and casually swallowed the entity he had been holding.
"A black hole yields more power, it can literally tear a star apart, an exploding star will only feed a black hole no matter how powerful the explosion is, but..." Sol chuckled. "Have you ever heard of something called a Supermassive blackhole?" He stared at the demon-god with his eyes opened wide and his head leaned.
"I just learned about it while I was in there, apparently, a universe is not stationary, and dragging said universe is a force so incredibly dense and powerful it defies all reason, sense and logic, they are also the forces that cause galaxies to remain intact rather than explode and scatter... Isn't that fascinating... O-R-I-O-N?" He chuckled.
"Just because you survived, does not mean you have any power over me!" Orion snapped when his name was mockingly called, spreading his hands wide and summoning several dozen suns from deep space causing a bright light to appear as they all started converging even against his own strength, but right there next to him, Sol held on to his hand and broke his wrist, causing him to lose control over the stars as they all began rapidly colliding into one another.
[Dominion]
Sol raised his hand, and everything stopped moving.
"You do not control the universe, you only live in it." Sol clasped the fist of his free hand and all the stars vanished, reappearing where they originally were.
"It took a moment inside of there to remember why I was in such a state to begin with, but now as I stand here next to you it all makes sense, in the grandest scheme of everything that ever was you are a mere tool for the Void; Her below all else." Sol spoke and with his words he felt the gaze of the entire universe shift to him.
"That isn't to say I no longer hate you, trust me, I'm still as pissed as I could ever be, I'm just extremely unimpressed with what you are now, because I have ascended beyond what the gods and demons are able to perceive and control, I'm on a whole other plain of super reality, this is some seriously trippy shit that I'm just so smitten by I can't make tails of most of it." He looked up at Orion who was staring back at him and screaming inaudibly.
"Are you even listening?" Sol smiled.
"Master Vestic." The system appeared at his side and lowered her head in a bow.
"Hold on there, I need to deal with this creature first." Sol vanished from the system's perception completely, reappearing in a white space with Orion still screaming and unable to use any of his powers.
"Hey there." Sol started walking, conjuring casual clothes over his naked self as his feet slapped against the ground and Orion was dragged helplessly along. "I came to return this thing." He flung the Demon-Lord forward right at the feet of a shadowy entity that quickly took form before him appearing in Jun's image and smiling at him as she looked down at Orion who stared up helplessly.
Unable to move after making eye contact with her.
"You needed not journey all the way to The Beginning like this, Godslayer." She gestured to the clear white emptiness around them.
"I needed to make sure I wasn't losing my shit for real." Sol looked around the vastness and then back at her. "So you are her hm? He gestured to her with a raise of his chin. "The one who started it all?" He asked again, and she slightly kicked Orion idly and chuckled.
"Why ask what you already know, Godslayer?" She asked, and Sol scoffed and stuck his hands in his pockets.
"Well for starters, I want to determine if I'm going to kill l you here or not-"
"You know what I am." She stared at him with a clearly troubled expression.
"Of course, but I want you to say it." Sol narrowed his eyes, watching slippers grow over his feet as he kicked imaginary grass.
"I... am Nothing, Emptiness, Void, Depravation..." She stared at him with a frown as her appearance morphed into Ikaris's likeness.
"I am She who remains below All, trapped here where nothing and everything coexist and do not exist-"
"The beginning."