Envy

Shiva is the truest first being and existence from the beginning of the universe.

Not even the concept of time existed before him; he is made up of small particles of the stars, the planets and anything else inside the infinitely expanding body of space.

That is why his body looks like a galaxy; he has always been made up of the same materials as the universe and its planets.

Shiva does not know anything, he just observes everything that is around him, but that is until he started moving towards different directions.

When he thought of moving like the planets ever so slowly, he succeeded and later found out that he could move a lot faster.

From then on, that is where he learned of everything and that is also when the so-called system started.

He does not know how he creates sound because of the vacuum in space, so when he thought of making the sound of his voice, it becomes mechanical, thus, the voice of the system.

He knows he is nothing compared to the infinite systems of world in front and beyond of him, but he also knows that he is the beginning of all the changes in this universe.

After countless trials and failures, Shiva perfected his system, seemingly a completely different entity separate from his own pool of knowledge and wisdom.

He never really named this system, thus, it only knows how to address itself as the system.

Shiva later found out that there are a lot of lives inside the worlds in the massive bodies of land called planets.

However, these planets have no order and rules, monsters pillage villages without any patterns.

Shiva realized how badly governed the worlds are, and it is because there is no one to govern the worlds.

Now, since he wants to act as the observer instead of directly acting himself and feeding the system orders all the time, he picked a certain existence from any of the countless worlds in the entire universe.

There, he heard Mavis' wishes before her death, the system where there are 12 concepts as aspects to follow and govern the worlds.

The 12 aspects are the Forest, Sun, Moon, Death, War, Light, Darkness, Creation, Destruction, Love, Time and Space, and then Underworld.

Mavis' used the system with greatness and order to which greatly amused Shiva while he is spectating in the outside space.

He never expected that among the countless worlds inside the universe, there is an existence that would be able to wield the system to this extent.

The concept of time, which Shiva saw from Mavis is now applied to him, he learned that time flows and exists.

Since time is now a reality for Shiva, he discovered that it flows really slowly, he desperately needs entertainment instead of just spectating what Mavis will do.

Shiva therefore tried imitating Mavis, creating the Dark Clowns out of a source: which is the negative emotions of the different creatures within the worlds.

However, since Shiva is yet to find out how time works exactly, he unknowingly caused the Dark Clowns to exist beyond the limitations of time, therefore making the Dark Clowns exist in every point of time.

Later, these Dark Clowns gained sentience, fueled by negative emotions of creatures and Shiva's desires; they similarly intend to gain entertainment for themselves as well.

Due to this development, time flew for Shiva, spectating now both of the Dark Clowns' movement and Mavis.

He found out that Mavis became greedy for her desires, going as far as to creating a specific planet where her mirrors will live and be nurtured.

These mirrors will also be bound to receive the strongest weapons that use mana as their powers and principles.

This planet turned out to be Terra, where the Heroes and Legendary weapons existed.

Shiva found out the different types of mana, which is something he does not have, but since whatever he thinks of becomes a thing for him as long as there is a basis, he thought of using his concept of nothingness to have a mana type as well.

From then on, the Void mana existed exclusively for Shiva, he felt satisfied because of his creations, not knowing that the Dark Clowns will cause chaos in the worlds.

But this variable is something that could not be controlled by Shiva himself, since he was the source.

This is something that he discovered sooner: the rule is that if he was the creator of a thing or a concept, he would not be able to make it disappear or retract.

Therefore, the Dark Clowns will never disappear anymore even if he wishes them to.

More time progresses, Ancient War happened which is on Terra, there was also the War of the Worlds including hundreds of different planets on a different area in the universe.

Shiva felt a little regretful of using negative emotions as the basis for the Dark Clowns.

Not only those two wars have occurred, other similar scale wars also took place on other parts of the universe.

These wars have one thing in common: they were all instigated and caused by the Dark Clowns.

However, fortunately for Shiva, he found out that an entire group of Dark Clowns was wiped out in a single timeline and a planet.

Even if it is only that particular timeline, the Dark Clowns will not exist anymore in the future of that timeline.

Because of that, he focused again on Terra and the cause of those events.

He discovered a human called Veil, the truest mirror of Mavis, the wielder of the system and titled as the Supreme Being.

Shiva felt envious yet again, Mavis was always a step ahead of him, he was the creator of the system, but he could not make use of it as effectively as Mavis.

Until now, he is still seeking different ways to gain advantage over Mavis, a one-sided competition where he is the only one aware.

Crazy and unusual as it may be, but Shiva has his pride to hold on to.

When Shiva peeked on the whereabouts of Mavis using the system, he found out that she is with the human called Veil, which prompted him to reattempt to make a Legendary weapon of his own.

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Now, this is what happens, he is now paying for the consequences of his greed and prideful decisions.

All he wanted was entertainment and to gain one over Mavis, but he himself, the origin and the end of everything, is now facing his own end.

What did he accomplish besides starting all the changes?

At the end of the day, Mavis was the one who moved his pieces for him; it was all of Mavis' ideals.

Shiva's second time to feel regret is this time: where he is slowly disappearing from existence.

He could not even see the physical form of the Void in the form of a weapon just like how Nightshade created the Umbral Reaver out of their darkness powers.

Nightshade was not even a mirror of Mavis; she was just a lower and weaker form of the strong Dark Clowns.

Before Shiva could completely disappear, he realized that regret is a negative emotion; he remembered of the Dark Clowns' timeless existence.

He then strongly willed that all of the Dark Clowns across every single area in the universe and every timeline that they exist in to invade this specific timeline and space to end both Mavis and Veil.

Shinggggg!!! Crumble!!!

And that was the last creation and will of Shiva, the origin and the end.

Before Veil could open her mouth, she felt that something is approaching with great numbers.

"You!!!" Veil then recognized the new arrivals, Kafka's parallels from different timelines together with the other Dark Clowns' parallels.

"HAHAHAHA seems like the Kafka in this timeline fell under your hands!" One of the Kafka with slightly different attire spoke and laughed maniacally.

Mavis' expression similarly crumpled, she knew how powerful the new arrivals are.

Veil never expected that she will face the Dark Clowns one last time before making her choice on whether to destroy the world or leave it.

Both Mavis and Veil immediately grabbed their swords still levitating up in the air; when they did so, they both sensed the pulsating powers.

This is due to consuming the other Legendary weapons and summoning the Origin Crystal.

Meanwhile, the Dark Clowns did their favorite thing: suicidal attacks to absorb their own kind.

One of the Kafka's exploded even without entering the enemies' range.

The other Dark Clowns followed suit even without moving first, their goal this time is just to combine into the most powerful Dark Clown.

Shooooooook!

Only Kafka remained yet again, gaining all the memories of the other Dark Clowns.