Chapter 9: Dark History

"I choose no one." Everyone was shocked after hearing his choice. "Are you sure about that?" Lord asks Michael. "Yes, I would like to become stronger with my strength," Michael says with confidence.

"How pathetic. Do you think you can kill Gods with your strength? You are nothing but a speck of dust." Lord began to laugh after hearing Xerxes being honest. Xerxes stands in front of Michael and tells him, "Don't think that you became powerful after killing a weak lizard. Nebulus is just an ant like you in front of Gods." Xerxes gives Michael a reality check.

Lord was surprised to hear Xerxes talk, as he wasn't a talkative person. Michael was at a loss of words. Seeing him lose his confidence, Zerafyn began to talk, "Michael. We are saying this for your sake. Gods are different from the monsters that you have faced till now. They can destroy countless planets by just blinking their eyes. You are not going to just face Gods but also GodKings. If you want to get your revenge, it's impossible with your strength." Michael began to think.

"The enemies you are going to face are a million times stronger than you. Look at me, I was the most powerful GodKing in existence and look how pathetic I am right now. I was sealed by a weakling and he even killed my ....." Lord says this with a furious look. "I just want to say that, Michael, you should never underestimate your enemy. No matter how weak they are, never underestimate them." (Lord said).

"Can you give me the power that I desire?" Michael asks as he has accepted reality. "Yes of course. Now, choose the GodKing of your choice." (Lord says).

"I will explain our powers to you. (Diablo says) If you choose Xerxes, you will get the power of Demons. He is known as the God of Hell and is the Supreme Ruler of all Demons. If you get his authority, you will be able to control Demons. Not just a hundred but billions of them and when you master his Authority, you will be able to order all the High-Ranking Demons. Next Zerafyn. He is the God of Dragons and controls all the Dragons in existence. He can give you the power of Dragons as they are known for their peerless magic and defense. Just like Xerxes, you can control an army of Dragons. If you master that, you can order the 10 High-Ranking Dragons and if you choose me, I can give you the power to control Darkness. I am the God of Darkness and my Darkness can devour anything including the Divine power that the Gods of Heaven are proud of. You can summon an infinite amount of soldiers If you master my Authority. But there is a catch, if you run out of Z in the middle of battle, the Soldiers of Darkness will be gone. Unlike Demons and Dragons, they don't have a soul so they will disappear the moment you are drained. Now choose, Michael".

Michael thinks for a while, then looks at Lord, and asks, "Is the contract still available?" Lord laughs and says, "Oho, you still remember it, I thought you had forgotten. Yes, it is still on but do you want to turn down their offers?" "As you have told me. I need power, power that is enough to destroy everything in sight. They are powerful as well as their powers but for my revenge, I need more. I want power that will make the Gods Kneel in front of me and you, only you can give me that power, Lord..." Michael said and hearing this Lord's expression changed and he began to laugh menacingly. "Finally someone worthy. You have surprised me, Michael. To tell you the truth, I wanted you to choose me so that I can use you for my revenge but after seeing your greed for power, it reminds me of my old self. I will give you my power, the power that can Annihilate existence." (Lord said). "I had been hearing you say existence but what is that?" (Michael asks). I haven't told you about existence yet. It is an objective reality that I created. When we GodKings were born, there was nothing. Stars, planets, galaxies, life... nothing. Just an endless white space. Only I had the power of creation, so I decided to create the space that you see now, life forms, Gods, Demons, Dragons, everything... I created everything and I named it Existence. Humans didn't know as we had hidden ourselves from them. I didn't let other Gods pass down the real history because nothing good comes from it. The history that I am talking about is full of bloodshed. It happened because of greed and it resulted in an amount of lives lost that we can't even count. There were originally 100 thousand GodKings before the Great War. Even I was shocked to know these many existed but after the war only 10 remained. You must have been told that GodKings were the ones who broke past their limits but it was a lie. We can't tell humans about that, Diablo lied to you as he didn't know that you were going to be chosen as an Avatar." (Lord said). "100 thousand and only 10 remain? What happened in that war for so many of them to perish?" Michael was shocked. "That war happened because I had the power of creation. They were scared of me as I was the strongest of them all and I had the power to break any law and change fate. I made Diablo and a few others who were normal Gods and Demons into a GodKing. So they felt threatened by my power and decided to kill me. It was 1vs100 thousand but to their surprise I wasn't alone. Nine of the GodKings sided with me. Xerxes, Zerafyn, and Diablo were one of them. That War took 1267 years to end. It was complete bloodshed. I killed more than 90 thousand of them alone and they killed the rest of them. Even if they weren't there, I would have killed them all as I am the Supreme One." Lord boasts about himself and Michael was shocked to know the real history.