Pov Vecna:
"(I believed I could do everything with my intelligence, with such capable and trustworthy people around , with the help of Hajak, which was the best tool we created.)" ()
"(My motto has always been that if there's no solution to a problem, then I should invent a solution... there's no such thing as impossible in science, only a lack of knowledge.)" ()
"(The naivety of those days, even with everything I know now, if I could go back to those days, I would have done everything the sa. I don't like being below anyone, and being an Ascendant was sothing I built for myself.)" ()
I've always been self-centered and excessively proud. Being below others was unthinkable to . The social hierarchy based on jobs ant nothing to . I saw everyone as equal, with only a few slightly above or below, and even then always in the sa bracket, that is, until that day.
"(Wait... sothing's not right...)" ()
I started to pay attention to my surroundings. The cave where I was was covered in streams of the Law. My body was being continually torn apart and rebuilt. I could also feel the power of the Curse slowly perating my cells.
My body and Soul were in tornt, and my future would be to serve before one of the worst Entities known. I should be trying to think of a way out of this situation, no matter how impossible it seed.
"(Why am I thinking about the past now?)" ()
"(Why am I having these mories now of all the monts?)" ()
"(I've studied cases where desperate, regretful, or emotionally unstable people cling to old mories... but I wouldn't degrade myself to despair, and emotions have always been subdued by my rationality. The re fact that I would regret sothing is laughable...)" ()
"(Then how do I... wait!!)" ()
I looked in my mind. My consciousness shouldn't be in such a stable state. The power of an Entity goes beyond all the studies I've ever conducted on the subject. Even though it's outside my scope of understanding, I'm sure of one thing: the power of the Entity's independent Concept would certainly work on my consciousness. There would be no escape like I'm doing now.
I stopped looking at my body and Soul, then focused on the strange energy invading them, shaping everything as it pleased. This was the power of the Concept of the Curse. Because it's within my body and Soul, my perception can follow its movents like it never could in any other situation.
"(Is it avoiding my consciousness...?)" ()
The power of the Concept was avoiding my consciousness, and looking closely, there seed to be sothing deep within my Soul. The Existential Spark was being affected by the power of the Concept of the Curse, but there was another power present, the Anomalous power of Creation. It was acting differently and seed to guide the power of the Concept through the Existential Spark, isolating it almost harmlessly.
"(The Anomalous power shouldn't be able to accomplish this...)" ()
"(Wait... the technique I'm using to seal my consciousness also uses Anomalous power.)" ()
I tried to control this Anomalous power. All Ascendants possess this power within themselves, but it's only used as a vessel for our Laws. None of us actively use it, as its function disrupts the Laws. Using it in conjunction with the power of the Law is extrely risky. I even had my doubts when I created this technique.
"(Why can't I control it...?)" ()
"(If I'm not controlling it, then who is!? Who's playing with my mind?!!!)" ()
This ti I was enraged. I didn't like being manipulated by others. The unfavorable deal I made with the Curse Entity is one thing, but having my mind toyed with like this without having the slightest idea is unthinkable!
It was clear now, I wasn't the one who activated the technique, I wasn't the one who controlled the Anomalous power, and I wasn't the one who pulled those mories to recall the past, I was recalling the past because those mories were pulled in front of .
"(Finally realized Vecna...)" (????)
"(Who are you!?)" ()
"(You know ... you've t ... once...)" (????)
"(Why are you here? Why ss with my mind!?)" ()
"(I didn't expect you to rember... after all, everything happened as I predicted... maybe a little more destructive...)" (????)
"(...)" ()
I didn't know who it was; the voice was distorted. I couldn't understand the tone of voice, I couldn't grasp whether the voice was female or male, I couldn't distinguish an age either; it was a complete mystery. I didn't even know how my consciousness was receiving this voice, I didn't feel any kind of connection with my consciousness.
"(How about we return to your mories...?)" (????)
Snap
"What is this?" ()
Suddenly she snapped her fingers and everything changed. I could no longer sense my surroundings, I couldn't feel my body, I couldn't feel my Soul, even all the tornt I'd felt before vanished.
I looked at my hands, which were stained with blood. All around was darkness, along with a mist that spread a chill through . I felt as if sothing was watching behind the mist, but I couldn't tell from where.
My body was the sa as always, but my clothes were nowhere to be seen. I could see beyond the bloodstains; there were black marks that were slowly taking root everywhere.
I could feel my entire body, I could see, I could hear the sound of my feet moving in the icy waters, I could feel the cold around . My senses were working, even my voice was normal.
"Why are you doing this?" ()
"How are you doing this?" ()
"Huhuhuhu..." (????)
"..." ()
"(She...? How do I know she's... a woman...?)" ()
Her laughter was coming from every direction. I still didn't understand what was happening, but after the initial surprise, I had my mind back in control. I wouldn't lose my cool so easily again. Thanks to having my head on straight, I realized I was ignoring sothing, sothing I didn't understand myself: the reason I knew she was a woman even though I couldn't distinguish her gender from her voice.
I tried to understand where this certainty ca from, but I couldn't. I've always been soone who seeks facts and truth; being certain of sothing without understanding the reason was unnerving. That's when I realized she did it on purpose. Maybe she's a woman and was just trying to make lose my cool again.
"(I need to understand what's going on?)" ()
"Don't you have a na? Or are you scared?" ()
"How sweet~..." (????)
"!!!" ()
Suddenly I feel a hand gently pulling my chin to the side, a soft voice coming from my ear. It was still distorted, but the feminine form speaking was unmistakable. As soon as I turned around, I saw no one and narrowed my eyes, unfazed.
"Are you going to keep playing these gas?" ()
"If you don't want to tell who you are? Then at least tell why you're here?" ()
"Hmmm~~..." (????)
"You're so slow... is it because of the Curse...?" (????)
"(Where is she? Her voice cos from everywhere, I feel her eyes on , and there always seem to be figures hidden in the mist, hidden in the darkness.)" ()
"You're an Entity, you can only be an Entity." ()
"(What does she want from ? Why dare she go against the Curse Entity now?)" ()
"Then why do all this and be afraid to show up?" ()
"As self-absorbed as ever... but still not asking the right questions..." (????)
"..." ()
In my mind, I replay everything I've heard since that voice spoke to my consciousness, as well as everything I've seen since things beca strange inside .
"You said I know you?" ()
"Yes~..." (???)
"You said to bring back my mories... do you want to make rember you?" ()
"It seems your genius hasn't completely faded." (????)
I kept feeling like sothing was wrong; that voice was very neutral, but I didn't understand what this Entity wanted from . There was no way I could forget soone with that level of power.
"Why do you want to rember you?" ()
"Finally, a correct question." (????)
"I want to see you wallow in the grave you dug yourself~." (????)
"..." ()
I felt like she was behind , her mouth right next to my ear, whispering those words full of malice. But at the sa ti, I was certain that if I turned away, no one would be there. I did so anyway, and I found myself staring at a silent waterfall, a beautiful stream of water where my mory was reflected.
It was once again that room full of scattered papers and a malnourished scientist panicking over his discovery. That was in the most disturbing mont I can rember, the only mont I felt true despair and almost lost myself in that irrational feeling.
"Why do you want to do this to ?" ()
"Why... not...?" (????)
Snap
She snaps her fingers again, and I beco an observer inside my mory. The darkness disappears, the fog becos dim, and all my senses disappear again, leaving only my mind focused on the mory unearthing before .
"(I don't know what you're trying to achieve with this, but I'll find out.)" ()
I wasn't shaken by what she was doing to . With every word, every action, every power she revealed, I learned more about her through these interactions. Sooner or later, I'd find out about her.
"This information is all correct... the data matches... the simulations only confirm the sa fact... all the calculations seem correct no matter how much I redo them..." ()
Beat
Rwaanh
Baamm!
"DAMN YOU!!!" ()
"DAMN!!!!" ()
"[Doctor Vecna, what should be the next course of action for this research?]" (Hajak)
"Hajak... there is no next course of action... there is no hope... we are all going to die... everything will be destroyed... everything I've created will be destroyed... everything I've achieved will be destroyed... there is nothing to do..." ()
"[Doctor Vecna, do you need any further assistance?]" (Hajak)
"The universe is crumbling..." ()
I was in total and complete despair. The scale of my discovery was beyond my knowledge at the ti; it was the end of everything for . I didn't know other universes existed, I knew nothing of what I know now, so the only solution was the inevitable end that was approaching all too quickly.
"(Why is this the most vivid mory in your mind...?)" (????)
"(Only when you are at your lowest does the will to Ascend higher shine through, it was on that day that the first step was taken.)" ()
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