162 Téra (1/2)
The hidden effect of the Fifth Black Art, the 'Final Grace', takes both the caster and the target's minds into a spiritual world where time flows considerably faster.
Karaskan looked at himself and saw that his injuries were gone. The world around him looked like a 'mortal' warzone. It wasn't like a battlefield created by magic. It was a barren land which had suffered mortar and bombardments.
Cartridges on the ground, smoke rising on the horizon, trenches and sandbags, fire and corpses, and a strangely bright sky. Karaskan observed the landscape with a strange expression and looked in front of him, at the man who looked like a normal human in this chaos.
Arima was sitting there, on few sandbags, smoking in his human form. He was staring at Karaskan with an emotionless face. The G.o.d returned his stare with a smile.
Arima sighed and stood up. He walked up to Karaskan and halted right before him ”…First, let me make you understand why you're gonna die today” Arima spoke and punched Karaskan in the ribs. The latter coughed and held his right side as he took a few steps back.
He realized with that strike that this world was special. Both his and Arima's physical abilities were not bigger than a normal human. The punch he received was nothing more than an attack made by a human to hurt another.
He was then hit to the jaw, followed by a kick in the ribs again, a knee in the stomach…Each time, he took a hit, fragments of memory entered his head and were anch.o.r.ed there like they were the only one and true memories he should remember.
When he fell down by a single punch to his face, Karaskan laughed and coughed some blood at the same time ”I…see” He said while covering his eyes ”I understand. That's indeed awful…”
Arima snorted and sat down again ”Since we have time, what was the purpose of those Seeds?”
Karaskan snickered and looked at Arima with oddly serene eyes ”You know, I loved this Original Dimension at first”
”Original Dimension?” Arima frowned.
Karaskan chuckled ”I'm sure you've heard of it by now since you went through a quite peculiar Life Judgment”
Arima raised an eyebrow and Karaskan grinned ”The world is bigger than what we can fathom” He said ”I was there, with Azes, Chronos, Odin, and Gaia at the birth of this Dimension. We were present along with the other G.o.ds from the different planes. I was a regular and normal G.o.d back then”
The Mad G.o.d told with an unperturbed smile. Arima glared at him silently ”I didn't become the 'Mad G.o.d' because I wanted revenge or something. After all, I'm one of the first G.o.ds in this Dimension, for what would I get revenge? I had the highest authority, no one could get me before I get them”
”When was it? That I started to hate this world?” Karaskan straightened his back and looked at Arima with his bloodied face ”Oh, don't misunderstand. I'm quite different from Azes. He's trying to fix things, I just want them to disappear. For me, this world was too ugly, without even taking the G.o.ds into account”
As he was talking, a skeleton appeared from thin air just next to Arima. The two had the exact same height and 'shape'. The skeleton's eyes were burning with a red flame out of anger. Karaskan's smile became wider when he saw this.
”In any case, you asked me why I created the Seeds of Chaos, right?” He continued ”I just gave you my answer. I was still quite young and didn't know how to face the hate I was feeling for this world. Everything was imperfect, even if darkness and light existed while keeping their balance, I only saw ugliness”
”Both sides were incredibly stupid” Karaskan scorned.
”Bad people? What is that? Just kill them. They're worth nothing”
”Good people? How silly is that? They only make things worse”
”Pathetic fear wielded by people who don't understand what it really is. You need despair to make others feel horror”
”n.o.body needs fairness or rules wielded by simpletons. What people want are justice and impartiality”
”Neither of those types of people could do something so simple”
”Whoever decides to become evil needs to understand what it is to be on the dark side of the coin”
”Whoever chooses to be humane needs to know what it is to fight in the light”
”People who kill for a petty reason and others who apprehend rightfully those pitiful criminals don't understand anything”
Karaskan glanced at both Arima and Malum ”I'm sure you know what I'm talking about” He said and Arima showed his agreement without doing anything. Even Malum could only sneer.