141 - Berus Death

Leaving Mitawas and my God realm had been a hard decision to make mostly because there were more things to make. More worlds to create and more lifeforms to drop. Plus I felt like helping to guide the new netizens of Merrenok.

But, the events of my clash with the Eldritch had done nothing but increase my curiosity for what lay out there.

The 4th wall was ever active keeping the anti-life fragments from encroaching on my creations while moving as the eternal kept the conquest of my still-dark multiverse ongoing.

My need to know had won over mostly because while I was curious I also realized that the god corrupted by whatever had found a way to enter this multiverse. It didn't surprise me since, well Fiarin happened.

But it made me realize how unsafe I still was. Then there was the matter of the Damas and the symbols etched into the floor with the dying breath of the Eldritch.

Things I needed to know and couldn't find while sitting still.

While unsure if there was any way to know the answers it was a certainty that it had to be within my multiverse. After all, it had made me. So where else but lost in its dark holds would the answers I sought be?

So I left. Seeking a needle in a haystack. An impossible cause Berus had said.

It'd been a while since I was last on my own. The dark emptiness of the multiverse loomed before me. My sight only went so far getting useless within the tenebrous darkness wrought in my multiverse.

The journey without any direction turned out to be stupid. Journeying without a Jomungadar sailer was even crazier as I had to float aimlessly in the void of space while waiting to get my divinity to max after every divine movement.

While I was fast it barely was useful in the void that stretched out for who knew how long.

Dropping beads on my path served as markers of sorts both for me and for the army of Eternals sweeping through the multiverse.

By sensing the bead I could open a connection to it that pulled me straight to the bead like a Neverfalls.

It was quite fortunate that gods didn't have to eat or sleep. While doable the actions when neglected had no negative impacts which I was loving.

So when resting I settled on a slab of made earth and just did whatever. Whenever my divinity was completely regenerated I continued. Sometimes I even found packs of anti-life fragments and decimated them in a swing or two. It always felt surreal when happening.

I could still remember when I last fought them. While not impossible, it hadn't been this easy. Now I could clear a large group or pack with just a single strike.

I continued like this for the next few days. Bored with the lack of anything new or activity that wasn't traveling, wiping out fragments without stress, and just resting.

I offset my rest with creating. Though with just small amounts. Bought lots of metals at first stored in my mini space. Since I couldn't use much divinity while resting and didn't need sleep I decided to forge anytime I settled down to rest.

My journey went on this way for the next few months taking me farther than any of the Eternal armies had ever been since the start of the conquest.

It was the fourth month, and just when I was thinking of giving up on finding anything important that I saw it.

Deific sense registered it first. A pool of familiarity tugged at my brain urging me closer. I boosted my speed as I surged forward to the spot.

There was a huge wall of black space that surged in all directions going far into nothing.

[A dimensional wall]

"Not one we created though." Berus and I were confused by the presence of this place. The multiverse should have been empty yet there was a dimensional wall in place. Something put in place by definitely something or someone.

"Can we enter"? My eyes moved from one spot of the dimensional wall to another seeking some sort of entrance. Finding none I touched quite hesitantly the wall.

A ripple spread across the deep black wall of space almost hidden if not for my superior sight. It spread like a wave in all directions before fading out.

[Try pushing through.]

Nodding I raised my palms to press against the wall. Yet they passed through like I just attempted to push against the surface of a body of water.

The wall stopped me once it was up to my wrist and then like a sort of sticky substance tightened unto my palm. My eyes stretched wide as I struggled to pull away, yet my palm was held in place. Then I gasped as the strangest and admittedly scariest event occurred.

The wall through my hands began draining out my divinity into itself. Just like that I watched and felt as half my divinity filled the walls of this space.

Even worse like a sadist, the wall shone brightly almost like it was showing off my divinity to me and rubbing it in.

I was getting alarmed especially when the energy drain didn't halt. The wall kept lighting up as more of my divinity flowed into it. The golden lights streaming in different directions to form symbols and distinctly familiar runes or drawings.

For the first time since I was reincarnated here, I felt powerless. It felt useless trying to get away from this wall as it barely even let me have control over my divinity. It was truly frightening.

Finally, I heard a click and then something heavy and unseen smashed into my brain. The pain it brought was numbing and on a different level from anything had ever experienced. My eyes seized close as my teeth gritted against each other so hard it was a shocker they didn't shatter.

Finally, the pain subsided, how long after I wasn't sure. Not like I thought to check as a new voice sounded in my head. One that made me freeze.

[All-Father Spawn Detected]

It was mine but not mine. While with a bit of my tone it felt lifeless, unlike Berus.

[That wasn't me ]

"I know" I assured as I floated there pondering what in Mondo I had gotten myself into.

[Mental Discrepancy Detected]

[Eliminating Discrepancy]

My eyes widened as the voice came again. I felt a force bearing on me as it wracked me with some sort of energy. My body shivered as I felt it flow into my mind.

[Ahhhhhhh]

Berus's scream brought me out of my observation. Turns out the mental discrepancy was him. I could instantly feel my terror or was it his terror as his life was threatened by the energy? It made no sense since he was me and I was him.

[Stop it Erizos]

Panicked I began thinking of ways to save Berus yet I knew for a fact it was impossible. I barely stopped the wall from grasping my divinity, barely stopped it from entering my mind.

Which meant, there was nothing I could do as I felt a presence erased from my head. Berus screams cut off abruptly as the voice thundered authoritatively in my head.

[Discrepancy Removed]

I could barely move as I felt a part of me fade away. Like losing yourself yet not having lost yourself. It was confusing and strange. Like losing an arm yet still feeling balanced.

I barely registered the next words of the voice my mind in a daze as it announced something, the walls like a quagmire pulling me into it. Yet I remained oblivious even as one thought kept hammering in my head.

Well, more like a scream. A scream for one thing that had stayed with me since the beginning of our time.

'Berus'.

Yet, for the first time in the longest periods of my life as an All-father, silence reigned within my head.