Chapter 501: Announcement (1/2)
Crash!
With nothing to soften my fall from the damned highest point that this entire city reached, my energy was simply too drained and my mind too confused to come up with any sort of action that would cushion my fall.
As my body crashed against the hard tiles of the stone floor of a foothold of the ancestral mountain, I could see the sharp bits of former tiles flying out in all directions as if my body turned into a peculiar shrapnel grenade.
Lying down on my back, I couldn't even be bothered with a huge wave of pain that blocked all my sensory tracks in my mind, still as confused as inspired by the events that I just saw happening when the end of the universe ended up giving birth to another one in my consciousness alone.
Was this entire world just a fraction of a higher being mind?
No, that wouldn't make any sense. While I was in the dying state back in the abyss of chaos, I was unable to even control the basic thing as the flow of time, despite how curious I was about all sorts of events that were happening inside the universe created in my mind.
Just the simple fact that I was brought to this word by an entity that proclaimed itself to be a God were enough to prove that either I was a failure of a God myself, or that being somehow managed to create a proper universe.
Thinking about this, I couldn't help but come back to the stuff that I already learned previously. If what I heard from the golem all the way back in the ancestral land of the first generation of refugees, or what I concluded from that new knowledge myself was true, then this world wasn't created by just a single god, but by an entire group that shared it between themselves as nothing but a grooming ground for their future slave warriors, fighting mindlessly for the cases of entities that didn't really care about them!
But while I couldn't help but immerse myself in my mental debate with my own self about the meaning of everything that I saw on the other side of the border of sanity, it wouldn't change the fact that after proclaiming that I was going to bring up the supremacy challenge up a notch, I ended up plummeting from the skies a few moments later and refusing to move!
Only after circulating the last bit of energy that remained within my core after my unconscious self burned it furiously in order to collect my consciousness back to its normal state, I felt my back-pain alleviating to a manageable degree.
It was at this moment that I realised that rather than everyone being simply dumbfounded and puzzled by the recent event, it was my perception of this world that changed!
As if everything slowed down, when I turned my head to the side, I could see how one of the random spectators of the challenge was tensing up his facial muscles, slowly pushing his lips open in order to let go a terrified scream or something.
Gnashing my teeth, I forced my body to move up. No matter what was going on around me, unless I would stand up, I had no means of even attempting to deal with it!
Millimetre by millimetre, my muscles forced my body to move, raising it from the huge pit that my fall created in formerly even ground. Yet even when I finally returned to a proper, standing position, the entire world around me seemed to move at just a fraction of the speed that it used to.
*Bonger, are you still with me, partner?*
The last time I stupidly put myself at the mercy of the abyss of chaos, Bonger had to shield my mind with its own health, paying the price of a few weeks of absence from my life only to heal back. Considering how short and even minuscule the first exposure of my mind to this lethal force was back then when compared to the recent events, I couldn't help but be worried.
”Somehow, I'm still in one piece. I gotta say, that was a wild ride! I can barely recognise who I have become after all those ages!”