"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."

as I regained my will, Death returned. It wanted me to make its will again. That action wasn't born of a decision but of instinct. Like an insect that only works on instinct, it saw something compatible and reached out to

a will, dreams, and a goal again,

willing to pay the

eyes. "Are you telling me that Death doesn't have a

and Mortis'

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

eyes quickly moved around as he was calculating at terrifying

the entire administration of

moment, no new tribulations took place,

said. "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 first Cosmos made of Energy? What about the very first lifeform? Who

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 enough Energy together, at some point, life

lifeform has become the will of Energy since it had been the only will

the Opposer said. "However, I won't

of frustration appeared in Orthar's

He didn't answer.

Opposer said as he looked at Gravis and Mortis again. "After I gained an actual personality and will, all the Emotions I should have felt while

Manifestation of Death hadn't changed. I wanted power. I wanted to never

Death, but it

Cosmos with 50% Energy and

a delicate balancing act, but my Cosmos gives me incredible

he said as he looked at Orthar with cold eyes. "Maybe

Mortis

looked evenly at the Opposer. "The guy I failed to kill returned, and he unleashed all his powers. I thought that I had been lucky since the mistake I failed to rectify had given me another opportunity to

of time had passed, but

life, so I did the only thing that

huge part of my Energy

in both of our Cosmoses on the brink of destruction. One more attack and we would

and we went back to regaining our powers, and that's basically how we got here. We are at an arms race, and none of us are

father, and he nodded, confirming that Orthar

had one

to ask you something," Gravis

"What is it?" he

create my mother?"

Silence.

also didn't know the answer, and he

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