Part 29: Time And Space

I knew how to fly in barren space without having to worry about gravity. Since we were little Voids, Prism showed us how to do that along with performing and coordinating attacks up to groups of fours. Sapphirion launched me towards The Imperceptible to heighten my speed. He then followed suit using his arms to boost himself after me.

When I swung my axe at The Imperceptible, it turned into a colorful fractal of different realities. It was harder to hit as I had expected, but the move it used was undeniably out of my control. During the descent, I could hear its voice crowding the space we were in.

“You have made the grave mistake of testing the greatest force of all. I am undefeated and above all omnipotence. Nothing can defeat an Imperceptible.”

As it said this, we suddenly ended up back in the third dimension on the planet called Tartropolatté. Both of us had landed on top of one of its exotic flowers called a Syruphium where an entire settlement had been built above the plant’s receptacles. They were almost as tall as the fuchsia-colored clouds which were snowing icy cold sugar flakes. In this universe, their solar system’s sun was the shape of a heart.

“This place of all things. I nearly forgot about this world when I was in my youth,” Sapphirion pointed out.

The same was true for us guardians, unfortunately. In our younger phases, Prism had us visit every world in our Omniverse and we were tested to know each one before we became what we are now. Passing this gregarious assessment spanned 12,907 phases before I knew all of them, including their summative histories without fail. It featured questions that would make the human brain melt of boredom and information overload since it required a raw super-intelligence of sorts.

“This Imperceptible took us out of The Infinite Dimension it seems, but why?”

An all-encompassing voice caused where we were to shake reality out of proportion like it was nothing.

“The Infinite Dimension exists inside every other one. There is no way you will escape past it. My control exceeds all thought of what you believed you are. You are not prepared for what is coming.”

Without warning, legions upon legions of monstrous flying ethereal glowing entities came out of the atmosphere to structure a whole anonymous deity for The Imperceptible to manifest its actions through.

“What out of The Void’s creation is that?” asked a stunned Sapphirion.

I myself wasn’t sure, but it definitely tore a hole in space-time.

“Your Omniverse will die. You being here however, that will be first,” it said to us, almost as if it was enjoying the prospect of this idea.

“You are insane! What more madness needs to be shown before you realize desecration will reward you nothing in return?” I shouted in anger.

“Perhaps you haven’t considered what I am creating right now. You can only dream of reaching my level for ages to come. What I’ve done changes it all forever. You cannot fathom being at the helm of creation. It is beyond you.”

Oh, so that was the plan revealed? Why hide this for such a long time? It didn’t make sense for this Imperceptible to be doing it now. Of course, there was that notion of being everywhere all at once which Sapphirion and Spessarion had theorized about. Now was not the time to question its logic. This very strange deity, it could bend and distort both The Lucid Light and Lucid Darkness with ease. I wasn’t fond of how easy it would be for The Imperceptible to do this.

“It won’t matter what you try to do, you are playing in my space now. Not even a challenge. Besides that, I have one more thing to tell you, Amethion.”

“What exactly are you trying to bluff about? You yourself don’t know what’s possible beyond you.”

“Still trying to fight a pointless battle in which the tides of your reality are already in my favor? I’ve already won. After all, it is not the creator that makes the stories. It is the stories that make the creator. And I… Am… Every… Story.”

In a mere second, I started to hear a sound I recognized on the spot from prior battles. A particular dissipated whistling noise that used to be quite shorter than the one that was going on currently. I looked to my side to find Sapphirion fading away from existence without a trace. No. This couldn’t be happening now. And yet… It was. I tried to get a headstart against the amalgamation that The Imperceptible created. Flying head to head with more fractal eldritch abominations that nearly swallowed my Time Axe with ease. No matter how fast my swinging was, they caved in around me. Crowding my view, no matter which direction I traveled. It came to a point where I could see I was trapped.

The noise became unbearably louder as my form became shrouded in a numbing pain of nothingness.

“Goodbye Amethion. Your entire existence has expired.”