88 Whose Mind Is Weak? (1/2)

Baptism Chambers

Using my ability to manipulate time and space I isolated this chamber from the outside worlds flow of time, doing so allowed the few hundred million wives of mine to spend time with me as we all bathed inside the living metal. During this time we found out the living metal here was a lot more intelligent than King Shanler had said, turns out the living metal is an entire race of symbiotic creatures.

This race began to speak to me and my wives about cooperation, but soon they stopped speaking to my wives and turned their attention towards me alone.

They desired a host whose body could house all of them all 5 hundred quintillion of them, this number alone was those of them inside the chambers pool. I struggled to think of the amount of them throughout plant Har, lucky for them I do have the ability to house them the only problem with that is they will match the undying voices from those I destroyed in my rage from the previous reality.

With that in mind I knew that I could handle the mental test of theirs, and they will soon find out their numbers will only add a sizable chunk to the mess that is within my mind.

”We will test your ability to possess multiple thoughts and personalities, most go insane due to the sheer number of additional voices inside their head besides their own. We will push you to the very limits of insanity, so do not blame us for destroying your mind, if you wish to back out now would be the time. We have searched for a host for an eternity, the few who could handle the mental stress at first would only collapse as our numbers multiplied. Bringing us from one planet to another until we came to this world and merged with this worlds metal.

Even after we strengthened their bodies and minds without limit our abilities to aid do not compare to us after we merged with the living metal. So we believe you should be able to endure long enough, after we will be able to continuously remold your body to endure us permanently, so long as you do not die an instant death that is.

The metal was a ferocious beast that ate all life on this world it was hell until we arrived and tamed it,along with taming it we took away its intelligence and forced it to serve as this planets protection. Protecting the many lives it once treated as it's prey and with that, life on this world developed rapidly becoming what it is today. And although this is a good thing we have yet to find a host that could house all of us, the select few among those who could last under our test were limited to only merging with a single one of us.

So young 'God' do you truly wish to undergo our test? we have already done as you have suggested and each selected one of your wives to merge with. But this only aids those few hundred million the rest of us hope that you will not let us down!” Said a voice that changed from sounding male to female, from young to old, to that of a wise sage to that of a savage.

The many voices alone would cause one to give up and retreat but these mangled together voices that merged together as they spoke reminded me of the time when my madness started to break me down.

Fighting with the voices in my head telling me to die to regret to feel all the pain I caused tried to and succeeding in crushing me with guilt, even if I had regained a bit of sanity in the end the smallest of slips sent me into a uncontrollable rage. Lucky enough for Lilly nothing I did could harm her or the empty Void that became the old realities fusing them to become one. Looking up at the ever changing shapes in front of me, the two of us stare at each other in the empty space within my mind. Below us a clear never ending stretch of water was the only thing within this space in my mind, this water looked to be calm but once you took a look under the calm surface of the water only a turbulent hell awaited.

The living metal could feel the multitude of emotions and hatred under the surface and could not hold back its curiosity and so, they dived deep into the seemingly calm water.

The living metal had long forgotten the name it once had as a race, they were called to many things lived for too long and abandoned that long forgotten name. They now would always go by whatever their current host would call them, be it monster or otherwise they no longer cared. Looking deep into the mess of scenes below they saw the births and deaths of numerous creatures, the death of Planets and Stars, the complete and utter destruction of an entire realm followed by the destruction of every realm.

At the end of everything they were now living the lives of these long dead races, unable to escape from the memories of the countless creatures they could only watch and wait for the end to come.

While they lived those lives they came to understand that these creatures were those that came from the reality that once was, they found out that they were nothing but a spec in the universe. And the creature they wanted as a host was none other than the one who ended the old reality, then with its own power recreated it before entering a neverending slumber.