Chapter 181 - Brand New Day (Part 5)

7th dimensional plane of existence:

One half of the Nameless One was sitting in this dark dimension.

He was all alone.

You see, a long time ago, he separated himself into two halves.

One to conserve their energy and the other to create power sources - Nazars - and increase their power.

While sitting alone in this dark dimension, he saw two glowing eyes.

“Hm?”

Before he could even react, those red glowing eyes moved.

And as it moved, the Nameless One found himself in two halves.

His upper torso and lower torso were separated.

“Ah. Killing you never gets old.”

All of a sudden, he heard a cold voice that was colder than this pitch-black dimension.

“Who--”

Before he could even say anything, he felt a weak impact with his body.

And then he realised what it was.

“My other half?!?!”

“Of course.”

The red glowing eyes shot a beam of red energy towards them.

And then.

They were merged together once more.

“I want to kill you once more. And this time with all the power you have.”

“Wh--”

“Who am I, huh?”

The other person let out a sigh.

All of a sudden, the Nameless One saw two bright white wings. And then he saw a golden halo.

“An angel? In this dimension-- Ah?”

Someone snapped their finger and the dimension was not black anymore. The Nameless One could see clearly now.

He froze in his place once he saw silver metallic wings. And then he saw a shiny metallic silver halo above their head.

“Lucifer?!”

“Yes, me,” the blonde haired and red-eyed angel replied casually.

“And Michael?”

“Yes, me,” the leader of the angel who was an Archangel at the moment replied to the Nameless One happily as he waved his hand.

The Nameless One looked at Lucifer in confusion.

He was supposed to be his ally, but more than that, his wings were white now.

Lucifer smiled.

Two black wings shot out of his back.

“Hm?”

Two more grey demonic wings shot out of his back too.

“What?”

And then on top of that golden halo, a black halo appeared.

The Nameless One scratched his head.

He was not sure what was going on.

He didn’t want to let them know but he could not escape this place at all. He couldn’t place his consciousness in another body either.

As he was surveying his surroundings, he saw a human who looked like him but their hair and eye colour was different.

“Yo,” the white-haired and red-eyed human smiled thinly as he greeted his god. “I am--”

“Nazar…?”

He knew who it was.

And then he remembered something that shouldn’t be possible.

“I see. I am no match for you, my creation. To be honest, I never was.”

“...”

“You have killed me many times. And you are way above me. So...”

Nazar was not sure what he was saying.

“Oh, so you remember too?”

The Nameless One smiled.

“Of course, I do. I didn’t but since you merged us, I do now.”

“Eh?”

“You see… I didn’t remember because I was half and half. But now that I am full, I remember it. It took a few seconds, but I remember all of it.”

“Sigh. Can we get to the killing already, Mr God?” Michael said in an annoyed tone.

A few minutes ago:

Lucifer was in his own dimension.

It was a small dimension created by Lucifer. It was a place where he could be alone and away from everything.

This whole dimension was smaller than a town.

In this place, there was a massive mansion, which was surrounded by a massive grassland with a lot of flowers and trees. That grassland was surrounded by water.

(What just happened? The future… it’s destroyed?)

Lucifer was sitting near the water and he was thinking.

(Who could be behind--)

“Hm?”

He looked back as he realised something.

Someone had entered this dimension.

He was surprised because no one should really know about this place.

Lucifer stood up and saw the man before him.

“Who-- Oh, it’s you.”

“...?”

Nazar's mouth was open wide due to the surprise and confusion.

“What do you want, Nazar?”

“Y-you… How do you--”

“I remember everything.”

“Eh?”

“You see, me, Michael, the Nameless One, Supreme One and a few others are beings who came into existence outside or prior to this existence don’t get affected by such stuff.”

“O-oh?”

“And since you are the new god, you don’t get affected either.”

“I see...”

Nazar went close to Lucifer and touched his forehead with his index finger.

Both of their eyes lit up with blue energy.

“You are free from the Supreme One’s control now.”

“Th-thanks but I probably could have done it myself.”

“I see.”

Nazar’s hand moved and something changed within Lucifer.

“What are you--”

“Angel. Fallen angel. A god. A demon. That is you now, Lucifer. And I need your help.”

After a minute, Lucifer let out a sigh of relief.

This power was more than he had before.

“We need to kill the Nameless One once and for all. Do you want to help me?”

“Sure, why not.”

Nazar felt a little relaxed.

“Now, I am going to need Michael too.”

“Huh?”

In an instant, they were both in Heaven now.

Even time in Heaven was frozen.

“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?”

Nazar let out an airheaded sound once he saw this.

He didn't think that time would be frozen in hell too.

But then all of a sudden, he was attacked by someone from behind.

He was thrown away.

But he managed to regain control in mid-air.

Once he saw who attacked him, he looked both relaxed and scared.

“Michaels?!?!”

“I am going to kill you for killing me in the future.”

“You remember it too?” Nazar said as he frowned.

“Of course, I do. I was a being who was created outside of this existence, so this doesn’t affect me or anyone else like me.”

“O-oh...”

“And Michaels? It’s Michael you dumb human--”

(I am sure I said 'Michael'...) Nazar thought to himself. (Oh wait, I didn't. Eh, who cares.)

Michael was about to attack him again, but Lucifer stood in front of him.

“Oh, if it isn’t the first angel.”

“We need your help.”

Michael looked at Lucifer and Nazar and then laughed.

“Why would I help my enemies?”

“Because he is the God who created everything?”

Michael’s laugh vanished.

"Huh?"

Lucifer sighed and told him what he knew.

While Lucifer was explaining that, Nazar had a proud look on his face, which definitely pissed off Michael.

“Wh-what if he is lying?”

“Do you really think I will believe him like that?”

“Well…”

“I talked with Arosus and then talked with the dragon.”

“Dragon?” Nazar said slowly as he tilted his head in confusion.

“They confirmed it. We went through how he remade it all. It was… extraordinary. And it was him.”

“The dragon, huh?”

Michael thought about it.

“I don’t the dragon that well... but I guess he won’t lie like this.”

“Oi, what are you guys even talking about?”

Michael or Lucifer didn’t even pay attention to Nazar’s questions.

“But he looks different, right?”

Lucifer looked at Nazar when Michael said that.

“Well, I didn’t want to look like the Nameless One anymore, so I changed the colour of my hair and eyes. What’s the big deal?”

“Nothing,” Lucifer said.

Michael cleared his throat and smiled thinly.

“I will help but it will cost.”

“I was expecting that.”

Nazar’s finger twitched and something changed within Michael.

“Wha------------------------------- WHAT?!?!”

“You are in your Archangel form. And your most powerful form.”

“Well, uh, thanks?”

“Now, we are going to kill the second oldest being in existence.”

Lucifer sighed.

“I have a plan,” Nazar looked proud when he said that.

Lucifer frowned.

Michael was enjoying himself so he didn’t care.

Now:

The Nameless One looked at Nazar and smiled.

“I like the change of hair and eyes. It goes very well with your light brown skin.”

“Eh, does it?”

“Ugh. Please tell me you are not blushing,” Michael said as he showed a disgusted expression.

Nazar frantically turned towards Michael.

“O-of course not!!”

“Now, when can I kill him?”

“What are you, the angel of death?”

“...”

The Nameless One signed.

“I see that I fail every chance I get, so I won't try to defend myself. So, you can go ahead and kill me. But let me tell you something.”

Nazar turned once more to face his God.

“You are my successor and you are meant to be a great destroyer. That is your destiny. You cannot escape your destiny.”

“Oh, okay.”

Nazar’s reply with a blank look on his face made the Nameless One freeze in his place a little.

“Do you know why you are called Nazar?”

“Well, my parents were weird.”

“No. It’s because I named you.”

Nazar seemed surprised.

“The oldest Nazar is just a few million years old, but I named him too.”

“Okay…?”

“You see, there was a planet a long, long time ago. In that world, ‘Nazar’ meant ‘hope’. So, when I was creating you, I added this name inside your parent’s head and they named you ‘Nazar’. Because you were my only hope of achieving godhood.”

“So, what? I am Superman now?”

The Nameless One tilted his head to the right a little in confusion.

“Superman? Ah, that’s a good name--”

“Fuck off! That’s copyrighted. Though I don't have enough money to-- Wait, I do have the money… No, wait I don’t anymore because of you, you bitch.”

“I see. So, I messed up your life. So, what?”

“Haaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?!?!”

Nazar shot himself towards the Nameless One but Michael clicked his tongue and kicked the Nameless One in the chest.

He was faster than Nazar.

As he did, the Nameless One was thrown away.

He kept flying in this empty dimension.

Nazar stopped and frowned and Michael just shrugged.

“Sigh. I need to kill him this time. It's going to be my kill this time.”

Nazar’s hand twitched and something changed within the Nameless One.

Yes, he felt his physiology changing.

Nazar had turned him into a human without powers.

In Michael’s hand, an energy beam appeared.

He shot it towards the flying Nameless One.

But.

“I CAN’T ALLOW YOU TO KILL HIM.”

The energy beam was deflected by someone.

And in front of the Nameless One, someone appeared.

It was…

“A FUCKING DRAGON?!?!?!”

Nazar then recalled seeing the same dragon once before.

“Wait, I have seen him before.”

“Ikeiss, the Eternal?”

Lucifer’s body tensed up once he saw him.

“So, what do you want Ikeiss?” Michael asked with a smile on his face.

“MICHAEL,” the dragon looked at Michael.

He then turned around and looked at Lucifer.

“LUCIFER.”

Lucifer has defeated him once before but even he cannot deny that Ikeiss, the Eternal is a powerful foe, so he did not try to attack him.

Ikeiss, the Eternal was a massive white dragon with red eyes.

But right now, he looked smaller than usual. It is because this dimension is not very big.

Nazar looked at it closely and saw something.

But before he could say anything, the dragon spoke.

“YOU CANNOT KILL HIM.”

Michael and Lucifer exchanged confused glances.

“AND I DON’T WANT YOU TO BE HERE. I WISH TO SPEAK WITH THE HUMAN.”

All of a sudden, the two angels vanished into thin air.

The dragon looked at Nazar.

Nazar felt a chill run down his spine.

“AFTER OUR LAST MEETING, I FOUND OUT SOMETHING.”

The Nameless One became unconscious.

He fell down.

“YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DESTROYED EVERYTHING AND THEN RECREATED IT. YOU ARE THE TRUE GOD OF THIS EXISTENCE. BUT ALSO THE GREAT DESTROYER. HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT YOU.”

Nazar frowned.

He was not sure what the dragon was saying.

Arosus had told him the same thing.

“IT MEANS YOU CONTROL EVERYTHING. YOU DIDN’T NEED THE ANGELS’ HELP TO KILL A MERE BEING LIKE THE NAMELESS ONE. SO, WHY DID YOU GET THEIR HELP?”

Nazar thought about it.

Why did he want their help?

Didn’t he kill a more powerful version of the Nameless One by himself?

“I... I just wanted to be sure that he was dead this time. I made a mistake earlier. I thought I had killed him off but he wasn’t dead and it cost me a lot.”

“TIME ERASURE. AN ATTACK THAT BELONGS TO COWARDS AND WEAKLINGS, DON’T YOU AGREE?”

“I guess so...”

“IF YOU TRULY WANTED, YOU CAN BRING IT BACK. JUST TAKE YOUR PLACE AS THE GOD AND BRING IT ALL BACK. WHY DON’T YOU BRING IT BACK?”

“...”

Nazar stopped rejecting himself. He accepted that he was a god.

So, why is he not becoming omnipotent and taking his place as a true god?

“...”

“BECOMING THAT POWERFUL… YOU STILL WANT TO BE HUMAN, DON’T YOU?”

Nazar was not sure how to reply to that.

“ONE DAY YOU WILL TAKE YOUR ROLE, RIGHT?”

Nazar nodded his head without thinking.

“I SEE. THEN THAT’S GREAT. JUST REMEMBER, YOU HAVE DUTIES TO THE WHOLE EXISTENCE. AND SO DO THEY. SO, DON’T KILL THE NAMELESS ONE AND THE SUPREME ONE YET.”

“WHY?!” Nazar shouted as he gritted his teeth.

“YOU EITHER TAKE YOUR PLACE AS THE GOD OR LET THESE TWO ALIVE. YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH.”

“Why?”

“YOU MIGHT NOT BELIEVE IT, BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMEONE AT THE TOP IN ORDER FOR EVERYTHING TO MOVE FORWARD. IN THE OTHER ‘TIME’, THE NAMELESS ONE NEVER DIED TRULY, SO EVERYTHING WAS FINE.”

“....?”

Nazar did not really understand much but he listened.

“WHEN… THEY WERE CREATED, THEY WERE CREATED TO BE LIKE THIS. THERE MUST BE AT LEAST ONE OF THEM AROUND IN ORDER FOR EVERYTHING TO MOVE ON. OR SOMEONE ELSE MUST TAKE THEIR PLACE.”

“I expect a but coming?”

“BUT ONLY ONE PERSON CAN TAKE THEIR PLACE. YOU, THE TRUE GOD OF THIS EXISTENCE.”

Nazar noticed something earlier but he didn't ask the dragon anything.

But now, it was becoming obvious.

“Who...”

What is this dragon?

“Who are you really?”

Why does he know so much?

“Why do you know so much?”

The dragon laughed.

“I AM IKEISS, THE ETERNAL.”

“And we both know that’s bullshit.”

The dragon looked surprised.

“I can see your ‘form’? It’s not your real form, right? I can feel weird energy around it. You are not really a dragon, are you?”

“SIGH.”

Something changed.

Something that cannot be explained.

“BEHOLD MY TRUE FORM.”

Nazar saw it.

He couldn’t explain it.

But it was not a dragon.

“YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SEE MY TRUE FORM.”

Nazar gulped.

“You...”

His throat went dry.

He wasn’t ready for this truth.

“You are...”

“YES, I AM.”

It went back to normal.

“YOU MUST STOP HERE. LET THEM LIVE AND CONTINUE WITH YOUR LIFE. I WON’T LET THEM MESS WITH THIS UNIVERSE. THAT IS YOUR WISH, RIGHT?”

Nazar slowly nodded his head.

“THEY WILL BE STUCK IN ONE PLACE. NOT TO INTERFERE WITH ANYTHING. YOU MAY CONTINUE WITH YOUR LIFE NOW. AND ONCE THE DAY COMES… WHEN THE DAY YOU TAKE YOUR PLACE AS THE GOD, YOU CAN KILL THEM. T==-S--=*-AS=-6S=^-W-&2%[email protected]/SF$S--=-=-=-.......====-.”

“Huh?”

Nazar couldn’t comprehend what the dragon (?) said.

"S^=..¬G?P:]SF="

And then all of a sudden, the dimension went dark.

“What?”

Nazar looked around and couldn’t see him.

He tried tracking the Nameless One and the dragon (?) but didn’t find him.

He used everything he had but couldn’t.

He searched for a long time.

But he couldn't find anything.

So, he gave up and went back to Earth.