"Please Elijah... Wake up!"
A soft voice began to travel through Elijah's ears. This voice was slightly distorted, and most definitely ca from a child.
"Who are you?" Elijah didn't question his surroundings. The infinite expanse of darkness adjourned with bright and small stars plastered across what felt like a three dinsional painting. Instead, he was focused on a small woman with still and straight white hair. Her eyes were void of anything life-like and there was not a shred of clothing on her. A blank body — a blank canvas. However, Elijah is not soone who is easily tempted by anything of this sort. In fact, the idea of nudity is a natural concept he enjoys. A feeling of freedom.
"I... I thought you... you rember . I brought you to this world..." Her voice beca dull and filled with sadness.
"Oh, so you are the one who damd to a life of torture. You could've at least explained a couple of things to ! How the hell was I supposed to know this entire world wants to kill !!!" Elijah's voice and tone rose with every sentence.
"I did tell you everything! I told you to save , I told you about the power I gave you, and I told you about the danger of The Void!" The woman started expressing her disbelief and anger.
"You know what. I think you did tell , but sothing must have happened and I forgot. Or maybe you did sothing wrong by bringing to this shit hole of a world..." Elijah said. "How do I get out of here, I just want to escape the kingdom.
The woman sighed and began talking again. "I'm sorry, I suspected that could happen. After you did live for a very long ti. That puny baby brain of yours couldn't handle everything... But hey, now that you are here and alive, how about I explain so things to you?"
"I'm good, I don't want your help. I can tell just by listening to you that you aren't as innocent as you presu I think you are. Send back, or wake up. I have things under control."
"You say all that to after you lost my space affinity? How befitting of a failure..."
"You know, I actually do have so questions. What the hell are you, why did you bring here, and why is the world the way it is? If you answer those, just maybe I will appease your desire to tell everything. Although I doubt you were ever going to tell everything." Elijah thought of an idea and removed his ego. Anger was in his heart and he just wanted to escape, get away from everything related to the Astraea Kingdom.
"Yippee!" The woman jumped and clapped her hands together. To Elijah, they seed too realistic for the place they were in. "First off, I have a na. Esulith. I am a god, one of many. Although technically I am dead and my soul resides in The Void. Secondly, there was a war between the gods that created a hole that spread from one side of this planet to the other. The Void now inhabits that hole."
The woman being a god wasn't so out of the ordinary considering what Elijah has heard so far. However, the war between the gods was sothing that bewildered him. "Why did the gods fight?"
"I was just going to get to that since you are interested. The simple answer is that we were bored and wanted to restart this world. The civilization had beco too stale and slow, and many of the gods had already shown themselves to the public way too many tis. A lot of the gods did not agree, while many of them did."
"So you are saying the gods beca worried about their own status, and went to war to restart a civilization?" Elijah asked while his mind was struggling to process the idiocy. "Do you guys not have any brain cells? Nothing is for you to control!"
"Relax! Everything is under our control! Without us gods, none of you would exist!" The woman paused while Elijah looked away. "Sothing unexpected happened at the end of the war. Our powers... were given to the people of this world. The elents, and our innate abilities. Of all of the worlds I have explored, this has never happened before. But... That is not even the worst part. There is this unnatural elent that was created from corruption lingering inside this world. , as well as the other gods stuck inside The Void call it, "void magic". It absorbs, decays, and tears anything it touches apart. The elents were never ant to be used for anything combat related. In fact, the only reason why we have our innate abilities are for transportation and protecting ourselves from any god bored enough to start killing everyone..."
Elijah's eyes widened in disbelief from not just the powers of the gods given to the people, but from Esulith's ego that he couldn't help but laugh at. Although, your environnt shapes you – so her way of acting would make sense. "Maybe this is a good thing. The ti for the fall of the gods and the rise of the people could be exactly what the universe needs."
"No! Without us causing apocalypses every once in a while, you people would beco too strong for your own good. Wars across the galaxies would be never ending! And eventually... nothing would exist anymore."
While Esulith's point did make complete sense to Elijah, he felt as though it was unfair. But... Life itself was unfair. The truth was Esulith was right about everything. It was necessary to restart life – restart the cycle as the cycle would only exist with the gods. Although, there was nuance within everything. A chance for the cycle to live on its own was possible, but just barely.
But what if Elijah did not care? There was absolutely nothing attaching himself to this world – even if it was earth, but in the distant past or future.
"So why did you bring here? What makes different?" Said Elijah as his eyes twitched. This was the mont of truth, the mont where he would find out why in the hell he was brought to this world filled with ego and lies.
"While it is random, I can choose once I lock onto soone. I saw your entire life you know, from beginning to end. And I decided you would be soone who could be of help." A worried expression was seen on Esulith as if she was waiting for a response of dissatisfaction and anger.
"How depressing. Couldn't you have at least chosen a failure, soone who deserved a second chance. I never wanted a second chance. I was happy with my life!"
"I've been choosing people like that for so ti, and it never seed to work. They all lost themselves in battle. And I fear the sa set of emotions is now inside you as well."
"I think this conversation has gone on enough. However, there is one last thing I want to do." Elijah began to walk closer to Esulith with a straight and tearless face. Her body was underdeveloped in a few different ways. She began to back away Elijah gave her a cold stare, and when his hands grabbed onto her neck, she froze.
"What are you doing?!"
"What makes the gods different from us humans?" Elijah asked in a monotone voice.
"We just live forever!"
"So you can still be killed?"
"... Yes."
Elijah let go calmly. He never enacted any suffocating pressure. But wanted to get the cold hard truth through a threat. After all, Esulith had given part of what makes her, "her". This included the ability to fly and the space affinity that is no longer with him. There was also the fact that this god had likely lost her true body, and her soul was the only thing lingering within this void. However, one question still bugged him. Where was this conversation taking place, and how was she able to communicate with him?
The answer was not sothing he cared about knowing. The only desire of his right now was to reach the Kingdom of Gion, and figure out what the hell he was going to do about his life. Solve the problem with the void, or live on as if it never existed...
"Can you let go from here?"
"I suppose I can. I thought I would've taken a liking to you... First, I think I should probably warn you about the dangers The Void has caused." Esulith paused while looking at Elijah who had a confused expression on his face. "Actually, I'll let you figure that out on your own. I don't even know why I am still talking to soone like you."
Snap*
In the midst of Elijah nonchalantly accepting her gracious act, his shoulders dropped while his eyesight went black.
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