1 End of a Myth, Start of a Tale
I chuckled.
"So, this is it, huh?"
I couldn't help myself but find the situation I found myself in hilarious.
"After all I did, after all I achieved, after all I have done."
I started laughing from the top of my lungs. I laughed as if I just turned crazy.
No.
I did turn crazy.
"What was the point of all of this? Why did I work my butt off, just so my universe can be erased by a cheap Sans copy, that glitches all over the place!"
In my rage, I even tried to use my powers that were meant to protect others, for destruction, well if there wasn't one problem.
"Where the fuck even am I!"
I felt frustrated, which is funny, because I wasn't meant to feel anything at all, not anymore anyways.
I chuckled, reminiscing about how it all came to this, at first a little smile flashed on my face, because despite everything, it was still me that did all this.
"Turning into an absolute goddess, visiting different alternate universes, pacifying everything, from Fell AU's to Horror AU's to bleak outlook universes where all hope was basically lost. I saved each and every single one of them, everything I could see, after each universe I got stronger, gained more power. I rivaled beings that I thought I could have never reached as long as I was conscious. I was about to be the deemed the embodiment of peace herself in the multiverse, but- but..."
Suddenly, once again, pure undiluted rage overtook me. Despite having no emotions, I knew that I am supposed to be angry, from a logical standpoint, feigning emotions isn't something difficult, if you have experienced them once.
So, I knew, I was angry, even if my body, my soul, didn't emit so much as a gram of anger, I WAS angry.
"ERROR! I WILL FIND YOU AND SHOVE ONE OF INK'S PAINTBRUSHES SO FAR UP YOU INEXISTANT BUTT THAT IT WILL BECOME YOUR NEW SPINE!"
Was what I shouted into the nothingness and I really wanted to do that, but I knew it was hopeless.
After all, I just fought him and I barely stood even a chance, especially the blue threads he used to tear apart the fabric of reality of my universe.
"Sigh, I almost made my universe a true utopia, not one of the dystopian utopias, but a true, genuine one. No conflicts, but the chance to live life, striving for your dreams, without taking away someone else's opportunities."
All I did, was for the sake for true happiness for my universe, but now, it's all over.
All these millennia, which were probably millennia of millennia, all that time I gave away for the sake of salvation, it's all gone now, reduced to a complete waste of my time.
Quite honestly? I am upset right now. Everything I worked for is now nothing but a memory that is slowly, ever so unnoticeable, fading away. I am upset, very upset.
All is gone, reduced to atoms. No, even more than that, atoms are something, everything is gone, reduced to nothing, literal non-existence, every trace of existence of it, is not anymore.
Now that my universe is gone, I am floating in this, this...
"WHERE IN THE NAME OF THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THIS MULTIVERSE EVEN IS THIS!"
There were no words to describe the place I found myself in.
It was neither black or white, so it couldn't be possibly the void or the anti-void, was what should be the conclusion I should pull out of this, but the place I was in WAS somehow in fact black and white, despite not being just mentioned shades.
There was also the problem that apparently every color in existence was here too, yet at the same time not.
It was absolute chaos, yet there was harmony in this big picture. It was ugly to look at, yet it was like a painting of absolute beauty, it didn't have a form, yet I could see all states of matter in it, from plasma to Bose Einstein condensate.
It seemed as if it was primordial. No, maybe it was even beyond that.
"Well, if I had to describe this. I thought I just turned insane, but this place here just punched me in the face, started laughing at me and told me that I am in fact, still sane. Fufu, I even feel how my sanity deteriorates with each breathing second I am here."
I think I should count myself lucky for not having a body anymore.
Oh? I didn't mention that? I thought I did, didn't I mention how much Error's threads hurt?
Well, they also tore my physical body apart. No, they could even easily crush souls with just a flick of his finger.
But the reason why I am still here, is because I blinded him with the power of my soul itself.
I ran away.
Once again, I chuckled. I would have started blaming myself now, if it weren't for the fact that Error only started focusing on me after most of my universe was gone.
By the time I ran away, all hope for it was already lost.
So, now I am here, in this situation.
Thinking about it, I started to get unnerved, or that is how I should have reacted, but I can't. Why should I?
Should I be scared of the fact that I am going to be a floating consciousness, drifting through eternity with absolutely nothing to do?
Excuse me, but you just heard my situation. Why the ever-living crap should I worry about myself after everything that happened?
I couldn't care less!
Also, with the location I found myself in, there is absolutely no point in even worrying!
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After serious contemplation and a shit ton of time passing, I realized I had a serious problem.
"I am bored beyond human understanding."
Maybe I could start worrying about myself and the situation I found myself in.
With what I currently can do, which is absolutely nothing. Breaking my head over a situation I had no control over and can absolutely change nothing about, is probably a good way to pass time, maybe I can come up with a way to solve the predicament I am in.
...
Scratch that, I just did that for a while and I concluded that it was boring and absolutely pointless, I learned nothing new what I already didn't know.
It was still worth it though.
"Well, to summarize the mess I am in:
1. I am in a place that even the mind of someone with late Soul Tier 7 couldn't comprehend.
2. I am a consciousness floating in aforementioned space without a physical body.
3. I have neither a solution nor a plan to resolve the mess I found myself in.
4. I have nothing to do.
5. I am bored.
...wow."
I am completely screwed, aren't I?
"Sigh, just what I needed after overcoming all the hardships to make my universe the perfect living place. Problems I had WHEN MY UNIVERSE STILL EXISTED!"
Once again, I breathed out in exhaustion.
I tried, I really tried my best, but why should I continue to mull over things like that?
Why should I be mulling over things for so long, when they are gone, when there is nothing left, when there is nothing to continue, it was pointless.
My entire existence now, is pointless. Why should I continue existing, when all I worked for, when my entire universe, is gone?
I chuckled, because despite everything, everything I have done, everything I have lost to reach this point.
I am still the same old me, pointlessly overcomplicating things sometimes, perfectionist, putting my nose into other people's businesses.
Then I remembered something Undyne once nerded out on about her anime.
I chuckled.
"Well, even if I wished to die, I can't. Maybe, I should just eventually stop thinking. But what kind of evil twist is it for the hero to have an end like that of a villain."
Yes, stop thinking, that would probably make more sense for everyone involved here, which is just me.
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Don't worry, it's not as if I didn't notice you all, my dear reader, but you wouldn't want to read something that has no progress, right?
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"Muh, Fate, don't you think it is boring in the last time?"
"Destiny, stop acting like a spoiled child and just come along. We have an important job to do.
Meanwhile, in a completely different corner of the omniverse, two goddesses were patrolling to find souls to reincarnate, to fill their work quota.
"Fate, today is so tiring! We have been warping to everywhere, but we still didn't find anything worthwhile all this time and even if we did, there were already some of our colleagues. Muh, why do we have so many rules to follow! Why can't we just steal the souls away from under their noses! I am so tired of my job! I want a vacation!"
Suddenly, Destiny got slapped at the back of her head by Fate, who looked very dissatisfied.
"Listen here, you sad excuse of my partner. We have an honorable job to fulfill here in this omniverse. That is reincarnating souls that drifted in between the gaps of universes. Now, Destiny, imagine you were one of these souls, forever destined to be drifting in insanity, never meant to be reincarnated. Our job is to find these souls and give them a new place to be reborn. Our responsibility is guiding the lost souls on a new path, in a literal sense. So, stop whining and keep your damn eyes open."
Hearing her partner say this, Destiny started to pout.
"How strait laced of you, Fate. You have it easy to say, you love doing your job and are proud of it! Sigh, meanwhile, I hate using my power too much for too long. Really, sometimes I think having a territory to overview is better than walking in between the borders of existence to look for souls that somehow ended up here."
Fate was a bit speechless as she saw the usually bubbly Destiny talk like that. Despite everything, they were still partners, some even considered them to be one and the same.
"Look, Destiny. I am also tired of doing all of this, but at the end the more people work on this, the better it is. Destiny, I know how much you want to take a break from all this tedious business, but you have to understand that there is a need to uphold a certain order in the omniverse. If we don't do this, who knows how many more gods that act out of their own interest are going to corrupt these souls. Because there are gaps that are nobodies jurisdiction, our job is so important."
Suddenly, Fate felt how her forehead suddenly just got flicked, surprised at the action of her partner, Fate started to blink in confusion.
"Idiot, as if I didn't know how important our job is, but at the end of the day, I am fed up with this! I don't care how important it is what we do, but we deserve a break! No matter how competent we are, it's unreasonable to ask us to work at our best forever! Fate, what I am asking is simple."
Destiny pointed at Fate's chest and glared at her, she gulped in anticipation the moment Destiny did that.
"Get promoted already. If you do that, we two will finally get a vacation."
Hearing this, Fate considerably calmed down and her partner suddenly felt a lot less intimidating.
"Hoh? You think it's easy for me to get promoted in this situation?"
Fate grabbed her partners wrist, conjured a wall behind her, before forcefully slamming her against it.
"Ow, Fate. Why did you do this..."
Destiny immediately shut up the moment she saw the angry (read demonic) face her partner showed.
"Listen here you spoiled brat. For me to get promoted, it would be necessary to either work another 3-dimensional eternity or to find a special soul. So, quit joking and continue working, or should I give you another lesson?"
At the same time Fate said that, she pulled Destinies dress up to caress her leg, but she didn't let herself get fooled.
The moment she would give in to her and her temptations, would be the moment she would stop being so gentle and move on with a full-blown lecture about responsibility, reason, consciousness, and not being overbearing and to keep your requests reasonable.
Destiny remembered the last lecture she got, and her spine shivered.
"Wait, it's just a special soul! How difficult can it be!"
But she shouldn't have said that. After she did, Fate's face somehow turned a level angrier (read more demonic).
"Just a special soul?"
Fate just sighed and just extended the wall to an entire classroom, with Destiny sitting in the middle seat of the front row.
She breathed out in relief, at least she'll just get a gentle lecture.
"Now listen. There are only two kinds of special souls in the omniverse, one being the absolute hero soul and the other the void returning soul, now tell me, what are the conditions for these kinds of souls."
"Yes, me! It's simple, the absolute hero soul is a soul that has gained a net-positive of 9.999.999 units of positive karma, with at most 0,1% of the total amount of karma being tainted with negative karma, which is basically almost impossible for a normal soul to do, simply because at that point, having done so many good deeds is akin to being a holy saint, getting deified at this point would be normal and you might as well ascend to godhood and further, like us. However, the difficulty doesn't particularly lie in that, what is actually difficult is to stay on the right path for so long. Gathering so much karma is impossible for one life, the average amount of total karma gained in a single setting would be around 1000 to 2000, and that is putting it well already. No, an absolute hero doesn't gather that amount of karma in a single life, but during the course of several life's, refusing to ascend to godhood at this point. If it would run perfectly, the fastest way to be an 'absolute hero' would be during the course of nine to six lives, saving their ENTIRE universe from doom."
Fate nodded at her partners response, she might have been bubbly, but at the end she was still competent.
"A good short summary, leaving out all the minor details. Well, and what about the other kind of soul?"
"Well, void returning soul, as in void returning. That kind of soul is even rarer than the other kind of special soul. Not much is known about that kind of soul, simply because it's just a theoretical concept, even for us, but if I had to summarize it shortly. It's a soul that has no karma at all, which is impossible, because karma is gained the moment you interact with something. The concept of Karma is the concept of the choices you have made along your live, no matter when and where, you will always have done something. Having no Karma is akin to not existing, simply said, return to the void and be nothing. Getting a void returning soul..."
Destiny just shrugged.
"...it's impossible, there is no reason for me to break my head over something like that. It's a theory, it's something made up, so the workers don't complain that just one condition is unreasonable, nothing more, nothing less."
Fate nodded at her answers. They were good enough, for now.
"Well, explained Destiny, I have nothing to complain about. Now get some head pats."
"Fate, that's so sweet of you, you don't- EEEKKKK!
Suddenly Fate slammed her hand on Destiny's table, that the entire newly created room shook.
"Now, tell me. Why am I angry at you when the condition for a special soul is so easily explained!"
"It's because in the entire omniverse, there had been only 31 observed cases of a special soul, all of them being absolute heroes one's, that might sound better initially, because it isn't a case of just one in forever, but looking at the bigger picture, a full-counted hand in binary system is nothing in the grand scheme of things that is everything!"
The two were looking at each other in silence after destiny said that. She was now cowering in fetal position in her seat, hoping that the lecture would be finally over.
They weren't.
"Now that we have covered the basics of why I am angry at your unreasonable demand, let's continue with the meat and potatoes of the lecture!".
"NOOOOOO!"
This continued on for a while, until Fate finally managed to vent her anger and her childish partner.
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