Chapter 92: The Last Drop, Or Be Consumed (1/2)

I started to run, and every step felt easy, like I knew exactly where to step and how. It was relaxing, and I was able to focus on Hero and what would be considered the bigger picture.

<The other ones like me are on different worlds, in different places; that part isn't easy to explain and is unnecessary. We all have the same goal, we raise up heroes or villains; whichever is the prevailer, but I am sure you can assume that not all gods are like me.>

Oh, you mean that the other ones aren't as rude? Just kidding, I'm listening, and that makes sense; keep going; we are almost at Fireden.

<Why do we do this? He told us that we needed to complete this task to move on, and He brought us here from the last worlds.>

I slowed down as I got closer to the Fire Lake crater's edge, but just how many times have you done this?

<four lifetimes ago, one point two billion ascended humans will become energy-based beings and then be offered a choice by Him. Two hundred years in the earth's future, this will happen, and the rest of humanity will be wiped from the earth, but it was inevitable. We set off a chain reaction that charged one two-hundredths of the world's population, and it turned the other hundred and ninety-nine billion into dust. It was us or the planet, and we choose the planet.>

Fine, if I could skip past the idea that humanity was going to be or is annihilated, two hundred billion would make it impossible to sustain. Then what now? What are you doing with me?

<Guiding ones like you to find the right balance. Some are too righteous and end up dying from betrayal because they were too stiff. Some are just the right amount of both sides that we are building towards. All we know is that we have to cultivate a strong champion, but to what end, I am not sure. I have yet to find one that was worthy, and my last one could have destroyed his own world but was still rejected.>

Does that mean that you are looking for someone to fight in an intergalactic tournament? Like that show… Dragon, what's it's nuts? I can't remember, but they had some big tournament; is it going to be something like that?

<I don't know, He hasn't told us anything from the start, but he was here briefly when I arrived. The only thing that happened was that he smiled at me and then disappeared, but he had never appeared at the start of the other four worlds. What that means, I don't know, but I think you might be different. If He is talking to you, then that is a good sign. Earn your Fire Force Pact; listen to Fireden; he is wise.>

I could hear the Fire Elemental coming and the heat rising. I hadn't even realized, but the Hellcat had torched my shorts, and I was mostly naked already.