The God of Creation utilized his powers to divide Erebus into Seven Fragments. Gaia heard the sound of her son's soul being torn apart, her eyes crying in agony and despair as she saw her son, which she raised for thousands of years, being treated and hurt so terribly.
Somehow, I also felt such pain… Such agony. Her tears, I felt them. His pain, I felt it… It was as if I was sharing their pain and agony as I looked upon this terrible past. The laughter of the Gods that hated Erebus echoed behind Gaia, only to make things more disgusting.
The God of Creation's eyes glanced down into the world, as his powers sealed Erebus' Seven Fragments, hoping that with time he would die off by losing his energy. He placed a Stake of Judgement in each of his Fragments, his powers incapable of killing him.
The reason why he couldn't kill him wasn't mercy, but Erebus was a being created by the divinity of all Gods, including his… It was an attempt the Gods made to create a powerful god that could contain all their elements, but they considered it a failure, as it transformed into Erebus.
Their combined powers didn't created a divine miracle, but melded into chaos itself, covering the being with pure Miasma, and other powerful, never-seen otherworldly and destructive elements…
Yet… Gaia raised him so well so he could one day become a God like everyone else. It is too painful, way too painful that it ended …
I thought that at least… the gods of this world were good.
But I can tell that not everything is black and white.
Gaia's tears filled the world with rain, for hundreds of years, rain fell over the world, until one day, amidst the morning, plant life began growing everywhere, and life flourished.
I don't know what happened there, I couldn't see any more of the Gods after this vision. But I saw what happened to Erebus. Each of his fragments slowly began waking up in different Eras. Each Fragment was like a piece of his personality and his emotions, and they were all called the same.
The First Fragment, the Demon King of Plagues.
The Second Fragment, the Demon King of Famine.
The Third Fragment, the Demon King of Miasma.
The Fourth Fragment, the Demon King of Death.
The Fifth Fragment, the Demon King of Flood.
The Sixth Fragment, the Demon King of Swarms.
And the Seventh Fragment, the Demon King of The End.
Each time Erebus woke up, he brought chaos around the world, yet there were those that stood to protect humanity and all lives within this world, Heroes rose and fell constantly. Each Demon King rose in windows of thousands of years, bringing new Eras of chaos and destruction.
Until the Seventh Fragment woke up, and not even the Gods were able to do anything against him…
The world… it came to an end.
Then why? Why is the world still alive now when it ended back then?
This world… just what is going on?
I looked at the Demon King of Miasma at my side. The two of us were standing now in a completely white space. His body has been reduced to a small black sludge with a red eye.
He seemed sorrowful as he recalled the past. His arrogant nature was completely gone. It seems as if he had completely given up on fighting back.
He looked back at me while tears flowed from his single eye.
"Kill me… It is what I deserve."
"Since my creation that I was a monster. Mother… was the only person that ever loved me, yet when I hurt her, I knew I couldn't go back."
"I only have faint memories of my other incarnations, but they all shared my pain. This pain that doesn't fade away no matter how hard we try…"
"But why did you brought so much pain to others?"
"It was because… I had gone insane. Vengeful, I hated the world- I still hate it all. The curse of those gods… Must have done a lot to my soul, I feel more at ease now, somehow.. But even then, I cannot blame it all to the curse, I could had stopped things, yet I didn't. It is my fault as well."
"It is good that you can at least understand that… But it is also wrong that you shoulder all the pain by yourself."
I hugged him, his little body squirmed.
"W-What are you doing?!"
"I am trying to give you back what you lost, even if it's only a small remembrance of a past bygone."
"Stop… Get away from me!"
"I won't… I don't want to let you go."
"But why?! I am evil… I've done so many horrendous things, and probably I don't even regret it!"
"Yeah, that's why death would be too merciful, don't you think?"
He looked at me in surprise.
"I want to learn more about the past, and about what happened to this world. Why is it still alive despite having ended? What are the gods now? Are they really the same as before? Why did they disguised this world as a game? I have many questions… And you, you're a lost child.
I cannot let go of you once I saw all of that."
"You're foolish… I am a monster… I only know how to hurt others…"
Suddenly, the white room where we were standing turned into a beautiful and endless garden. Colorful flowers decorated the garden, as the blue sky was decorated by white clouds and the brightness of the sun.
He was surprised by the sudden change, as his eye glanced back at me in confusion, without knowing what I had in store for him.
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