Chapter 74 - Level 46 - The truth(part_1) (1/2)
Dark has slowly opened his eyes.
The fact that he was able to do that, made him rise sharply.
'How is that possible? I am alive? What's going on?'
He looked around himself. Dark was in some sort of white space with nobody present.
”Where am I?” he asked out loud.
Although god wasn't expecting an answer, one came, seemingly out of nothing:
”Depends on your definition of 'I', don't you think? If you meant body, then it's being conserved in my personal domain. As for your soul, it's being recycled into components by me. You should be more precise with your questions.”
Dark got surprised, but he was able to quickly collect himself and started thinking. After some time, he started asking important questions:
”If my soul is currently being recycled, then how can I keep thinking and even converse?”
”Well, you can't. And if you are speaking about a being that asks a question right now, then that being is just a construct. To be precise you are just a useless remainder of memories and feelings that's left after I stripped all the useless things off your soul. Unsurprisingly for me, your soul was unbelievably old, so what's left was able to form a mindful construct.”
”Well, shit...”
”I'd say that is a precise description of your situation.” said the cold voice.
Despite voice being emotionless, Dark can't help but feel that the voice was making fun of him.
”And who might you be?”
”Define 'you'.”
”The voice that speaks to me.”
”You have a voice speaking inside of your head, huh? I think you might need some psychiatric help, don't you agree?”
Dark was annoyed by this voice, but he couldn't feel any of his power. Moreover, he couldn't feel any connections to his original Universe. So, the voice was probably saying the truth about me being simple a construct.
”Well, 'voice',” Dark highlighted the word and made a conscious pause, before proceeding, ”Can you enlighten me on how exactly did I die and why is my soul being recycled?”
”Hmm... Well you died, because you were killed, duh!”
”...” Dark was seriously irritated, but he knew that he was powerless before the unknown persona.
”As for your soul-related question, wouldn't it be wasteful to let God's soul be simply destroyed. So I will sap out all the energy as well as power out of your soul until nothing's left. Does it answer your question?”
”Sort of. But one question remains. Who are you? And this time can you answer, without making fun of me?”
”Me? Making fun? How rude!”
”...” the only thing Dark did in response to such words, was raising an eyebrow as if saying 'Really now?'.
”Okay, okay. As a typical villain, I will tell you my grandiose plan and all the details on it, except in this story, you are already dead. I am a creature that the God, you were previously, has been hunting for. I think he called me, Athena's progeny.”
”What?!”
”Why are you surprised?”