Hero of Darkness

Chapter 5: The Reason

SILENCE. ANOTHER TOTAL SILENCE.

Kill the Demon God? What the fuck?! How was Elric going to do it? From what he heard G.O.D. & Kravel say before, even those who came before him and also the Chosen ones of other Gods failed to do so and probably they all died including the previous summon who came before Elric. So how was he supposed to do it? Saving the world sounded good only when it was fictional or somebody else did it. Who would waste their life just so they could brag about it...

Elric looked at the two ultimate beings who were standing in front of him.. His expression was as if they killed his dog. Even Kravel who was even sterner and stone-faced than G.O.D. looking the other way as if he was thinking 'The weather is very nice today'. Both of them were beings who could destroy an entire country with just a wave of their hand but now they were avoiding eye contact with a single human as they felt embarrassed for making such a request.

G.O.D. Finally dared to look at him and asked, "So what do you think? Do you accept our proposal?"

Elric shouted, "No. Nahi. Nay. Nada. Nako. Nie. Ie. Ani. Méiyǒu !!" he refused in all the different languages he knew.

He sat on the imaginary ground and held his head in both of his hands. He felt like dying one more time. He started hurling abuses at the two godly existences in front of him again.

"Fuck you! Fuck your mom! Fuck your sister! Fuck your entire family!" Elric kept rambling as he started cursing G.O.D. & Kravel's 18 generations of ancestors.

Unlike the previous time, both G.O.D. & Kravel didn't exude any killing intent & stood there like little kids who were being scolded by their parents. All they could do was endure with their heads hanging down.

After 10 minutes of rambling & cursing, Elric finally stopped as he was thinking of ways to escape his current predicament.

"What if I don't accept it? You clearly can't make me accept by force & that's why you need my approval." Elric said with a smug face.

But G.O.D. spoke again with a calculative expression on his face. "You're right. We can't transfer your soul into our world without your permission. However, it's not like you have any other choice either. We're currently inside the World Boundary. Look at the dome around us. It's a personal space I created when I summoned the souls from your world. Without it, nothing is supposed to exist in this place." G.O.D. said in a smug tone.

dome? Works for me." Elric said joyfully, that was his main objective for now.

be tied to it forever. You won't be able to leave and you certainly won't die either. You'll be simply bound to this place for the end of time.. Why do you think even a God like me had to create this

to a realization. It all made sense! He looked around his surroundings again and saw that outside the dome, there really was nothing. No light, no land, no water, not even air, nothing. He thought he might cease to exist if he went outside but after hearing G.O.D. explain it, he found it believable. Why would a literal God like God of Darkness need to create a barrier and protect himself from this place? If he

just become part of this place and exist here till this place was destroyed.. Which was simply impossible & wouldn't happen in billions of years to come. And Elric would

current situation. He can't die, and can't leave this place either. The only way out was with G.O.D. sending him to their

not have any

I don't want to be stuck here and wander till the end of time and

we've

Kravel was nodding

looked at both of

me be straight. I don't want to work my ass off just to attempt your task. I mean, Demon God is also a literal God

as he continued. "I and other Gods are beings born out of different aspects of reality and laws of existence in our world. We each have perfect control over the laws from which we were manifested from. And we will continue to exist as long as our world exists. However, Demon God was born out of thousands of years of malice & hatred. He is an unnatural being and something that shouldn't

world and have perfect control over that law. So we can't affect the world or intervene in it directly. We're more like an overseer at this point. And with different species in our world reaching the most prominent time of their civilizations; something like wars for survival, for resources & for the beliefs that were instilled in them by the Gods they've worshipped till now, conflict was bound to occur. The past 5 Thousand years were a testament to its greatest impact in the history of our world. And the Demon

who was a person with actual brains in his

and the other Gods. And will

at Elric in approval of his intellect. "You were able to infer all that just from few words." he nodded and continued. "But that's not all. Since he's an anomaly born out of war, malice & bloodshed inside the whole world. Once he becomes a God like us, he will keep getting stronger till the point none of the 12 Gods can stop him. And unlike us, he won't be bound to follow the laws of reality in our world and will be able to interfere in it directly. He can simply wipe out all the living beings and reach to a height where even us Gods would be nothing but ants

reach a level above the Gods? You're lying." Elric said with

so vast that even we Gods can't completely control or contain it. And since we also represent different Laws of Reality, the world rejects us when we try to combine our powers and treats us like an external being.. Like an Outsider trying to enter your house. We've tried and failed hundreds of times already. And that's why, 3 thousand years ago; we gods made a pact to find a solution to end it. And after decades of research, we found a way... To summon

Why us Humans? Because there must be