"What happened?" Gravis asked.
"I think I know what happened," Orthar said with a thoughtful expression.
"Enlighten me," the Opposer said evenly.
"You were abandoned," Orthar said.
The Opposer remained silent.
"Death wanted a will, but as a Manifestation of Death, you didn't have a will. Therefore, you couldn't possibly become Death's will," Orthar added.
Gravis' and Mortis' eyes widened in understanding.
Right!
How could someone without a will become the will of something else?
"Correct," the Opposer said evenly. "After trying to make me its will, Death simply receded."
"We were incompatible."
"After realizing that we were incompatible, it simply assimilated me into itself. I would lose my structure and become more Death. Like a drop of fresh water that had been thrown into an ocean, I would dissolve until I was part of the ocean."
"But, then how are you alive?" Gravis asked.
The Opposer's expression became complex.
"Energy interfered," the Opposer said.
Orthar's eyes widened with intensity as he heard that.
He knew what that meant!
"It noticed me, and for whatever reason, it decided to fill me with Energy. My old mind from before I have entered the Gate of Death had fused with the memories I had gained while being the Manifestation of Death."
"Emotions returned to my being. Dreams returned. My will returned. A new personality was formed."
"I was essentially born again."
again. That action wasn't born of a decision but
dreams,
to pay the
"Are you telling
and Mortis' eyes
Opposer answered. "Death doesn't have a will, but someone has already become the will of Energy. That someone has probably noticed what had happened and decided to revive me. I'm not sure if it was out of pity or a different reason, but they decided to recreate my old self and fuse it with
moved around as he was calculating
a moment, the entire administration of the
no new tribulations took place, and no Karmic
"On my journeys, I have seen countless Cosmoses made of Energy, but only an incredible rarity had anything related with Death in them. Even more, I have never seen a
form life without someone directing it. Someone has to manually create the life
the first Cosmos made of Energy? What about
as you, but I know that the inherent destructiveness of Death doesn't allow it to create life on its own. Energy is different in that regard. If you push
will of Energy since it had been
said. "However, I won't talk
Orthar's
He didn't answer.
he looked at Gravis and Mortis again. "After I gained an actual personality and
before I had become the Manifestation of Death hadn't changed. I wanted power. I
tried to make it entirely out of Death, but it was
my Cosmos with 50% Energy and
act, but my Cosmos gives
to this Cosmos to take my revenge," he said as he looked at Orthar with cold eyes. "Maybe he wants to
and Mortis
I thought that I had been lucky since
had passed, but he
for my life, so I did the only thing
my Energy storage to pull him into
basically ended in both of our Cosmoses on the brink of destruction. One more attack and
unspoken agreement to not attack each other, and we went back to regaining our powers, and that's basically how we got here. We are
their father, and he nodded, confirming that Orthar spoke the
had one
I want to ask you
"What is
did you create my mother?" Gravis
Silence.
also didn't know the
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