A Sigh From The Endless Universe...

 

 

 

Criii-crrriicr-cri-crish!

The Shadow Lord's eyes trembled, not moving around or something, but merely trembling on their spot and while still not being able to move in the slightest. Yun Beishang arched his back slightly upwards for a little bit, his bones cracking and his mind liberating itself, as he then took out some air from his lung before raising his right eyebrow and looking up at the creepy eyes of Shadow Lord. "You're not puffing away into extermination, why? Because you used 'Darkness Within' and tried to do something funny along with that? Mm, true be told, I had nothing to defend against it, not even while my strongest, main Hidden Stat was at full work; it was an amazing job indeed."

As the immense, circular shadowy eyes and its sockets continued to give Yun Beishang a stare of sorts amidst the whole trembling, Yun Beishang also didn’t stop talking as his tone even turned somewhat snarky. “The reason why the Darkness Within can be used by you is not due to anything else but your Race, isn’t it? Overlords do some to have some kind of interesting Bloodline requirements, ah.”

“However,” Yun Beishang then relaxed his right wrist, began turning it and doing some exercises for one’s wrist as he went on. “It is exactly that because you don’t know what kind of ‘skill’ it is that you weren’t able to overcome your imminent death against me. It is also because of this reason that you got it all reversed and even lost, didn’t you?”

“Hei,” snorting derisively just a tad, Yun Beishang even smirked furthermore with the left corners of his mouth as he began raising his right fist into the air and aiming it at the Shadow Lord’s under chin. “Don’t tell me you didn’t even know that ‘Darkness Within’ isn’t even a ‘skill’ that is dependent on power, but purely on oneself? You could even get a being killed with it, you know?”

Shadow Lord: “!!?!”

“Don’t tell me… that the reason you didn’t use it against any of the God Race was because they told you that it wouldn’t work on them? But you also didn’t use it on Mother because you knew that it wouldn’t work? Hm? Eeh?” Yun Beishang, as if the Shadow Lord was minimal and just before him, lowered his head and looked at his front as if he was directly mocking the Shadow Lord.

Crrcr-crcrrish! Crr-sshj-crrrirri-crrrrssiiiicrr-crr!!

From the Shadow Lord’s huge ass head up above, his eyes began crazily moving yet again, faster and more creepily than before but also much more with emotion, nothing at all like the eyes of someone who was already dead; or dying.

“Well, that’s your problem, I don’t really care.” Yun Beishang withdrew his snarky expressions and tone in his voice, turning indifferent and casual in his tone of voice as he spoke furthermore. “Going back to the matter of you having resemblance with myself, with my Bloodline and the like; now I kind of get it, you are like a failure of an imitation. I can’t put it in words but… is like you were an experiment, and Krayeke just happened to find you before deciding to make your little family ‘king’.”

“A pity… that that king had now felled himself and his own family, there is not really a way for me to know if you even have blood, or shadowy blood, all around your shadowy body. But what I do can know, and not just guess is that…” Yun Beishang made a dramatic, on purpose pause, his right arm slowly bending over as it came down and his right fist was becoming tighter and more formidable for each moment that passed by.

“...you are the reason for many things happening, faulty bitch of the God Race lap’s dancing dog!!”

Vwgsh~-FWOOOOOOOOOOSHHH-PAM!!!!!!!!!

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCKK~~~!!!!

Without keeping on playing in the slightest, Yun Beishang directly sent his right fist upwards once again, yet with an indisputable killing speed and motion all at once for the sake of only two things in yet one notion. To kill off the Forced Fallen Shadow Lord, and to destroy all in their surroundings as he did with even Rosey and Lioness running into his White Space by becoming white flashes of light and being sent right above the top of his head.

At the same time, Yun Beishang’s fist that was definitely not capable at all of reaching the Shadow Lord’s lower abdomen, let alone his lower chin. Sent upwards a starry purple energy that emanated from his knuckles and tightened fingers into a fist, a beautiful, tragic stream of smoke as if it came from it and reached all the way up to the lower chin of the Shadow Lord.

But even before reaching the Shadow Lord’s lower chin from below and not touching nor making the slightest bit of contacts of the starry purple smoke to any of the Shadow Lord’s shadowy self, the entirety of their surroundings began changing at an impossible, drastic, wonderful yet melancholic, forlorn and self-derisive speed and degree respectively.

The entire endless yet seemingly non existent Black room, conformed by the main shadowy color among the 5 that Yun Beishang got to experience; suddenly had its skies, walls and underneath be painted with enormous spots of a fearful, powerful purple that couldn’t be stopped from ‘contaminating’ all what the Black room consisted of.

As for the Shadow Lord, once his lower chin was reached by the starry purple energy in the form of smoke, his whole head was uplifted as his entire shadowy neck turned into just about nothing right at the moment that his body was hit by it. The previous bar HP of 0/2,000,000,000 had now completely disappeared and only his destroying self was all that anyone could see.

His neck might have disappeared all at once, but the rest of his body did not, not even his other frail limbs that could regenerate on their own with just time passing and his shadowy body still being. The moment his head was uplifted, cracks in the size of a household were directly showing from all over it, and even its eyes ‘exploded’ in starry purple all the same in just an instant.

With even more energy smoke of the starry purple color coming out from his eyes, his limbs began to have either their palms or soles totally broken and ended for good as they cracked with larger but thinner cracks in just a few moments as the Shadow Lord’s body was seemingly sent flying by Yun Beishang’s ‘exotic’ uppercut punch.

His torso and his back were already rupturing from the inside out, and as the world seemed to go slow mode to an irritable degree, the entire upper body of the Shadow Lord was slowly becoming large pieces of shadowy chunks left and right as well as above and down. Meanwhile, the Shadow Lord’s head was now getting even more destroyed by Yun Beishang’s Destructive Essence, as the latter’s voice continued to ring out as if time had not stopped at all.

“You know, Black or ‘darkness’; none of them are bad, or good. It’s not like they have an affinity, it’s now like one has to be some way or another when being a master or made of any. But it was you, Shadow ‘Lord’, that made not just the God Race want to bully you, take advantage of you, trick you, kill you and humiliate you. But also Main Kingdom itself; Mother.”

“It wasn’t the power within you that made you so… ‘evil’. Nor wicked, spineless, cowardly and much less devious. It was just you yourself, there was just no reason for you to openly dance on their laps, but without even being asked, you gave yourself fully to them. Now, that makes it even worse for those 4 whom you even projected and turned into puppets of… ‘nothingness’, or something.”

“But I don’t pity you all, you’re-how many millions old now? And yet you acted like a tiny little 17 year old stupid little girl with thoughts of fame and money in your head and crotch, hell, that doesn’t even happen so often in my world anymore. Nah, the only get taken away forcefully because of power and repressed traumas, I guess…”

Yun Beishang, who was still in the same position and with his feet still as if standing on something when there was just nothing and only that fearful, creepy and powerful purple remained, covering what was the entire Black room from before into a Purple room of sorts. Looked up at the sky where nothing was visible before ultimately saying in a low, almost whispering tone. “...just like what you did to your ‘subordinates’.”

“...” Yun Beishang then lowered his head, his eyes seemingly looking through endless terrain as he locked his eyes onto 4 bulbs of different colors and made out of energy entirely. Crimson, Black, White and Gray; those were their colors, and each of them was moving upwards as if an angel had come down to take the peoples’ souls back to dear heaven.

Vrrrb-Prr!

But Yun Beishang, who was just now so far away from it, suddenly disappeared from the spot as his eyes shined an impossible powerful and no longer ‘light’ violet glint and godliness within themselves. Right after, Yun Beishang’s body appeared right where the 4 bulbs of colors were trying to make their way out, up and to a ‘well deserving’ true death.

“W-??” However, just as Yun Beishang was going to open his mouth to speak up to them and as the bulbs themselves began trembling as they came to a halt, he noticed a shadowy smoke that he couldn’t neither see nor see thru before falling from the air onto the ‘floor’ in this all Purple room with no roof/ceiling, walls nor floor; exactly at the same level that Yun Beishang’s feet were ‘standing’ on.

Plop!

Falling on the ground, Yun Beishang saw a body that was, at first glance, neither a woman’s nor man. ‘They’ had a pale, silvery-like even, almost; skin and their chest bare while their lower body had some kind of totally old and tainted-by-time like pants. It was rather more efficient to call them coverings than clothes, however, as it even seemed to have been made out of their skin.

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But from their head, having a platinum and blond color as well as medium long hair length for ordinary male hairstyles, the most obvious sign that defined their sex to be a male was his bare chest that was fully flat and with the pectorals that only someone without breasts could have. Yun Beishang wasn’t going to intervene in nature and search what those ‘pants’ were covering, of course.

Looking at the fallen lifeless body and at the mostly Black blood but that was obviously from a past that used to have only purple blood instead, and was now ⅕ purple as streams of his blood came out from his eyes as if those were the only injuries he had to himself and in his entire being; Yun Beishang got a feeling of seeing himself from the past.

‘If… if… … …would that also have been me?’ Though the thought inside Yun Beishang’s head right now was ultimately extremely conflictive, his face was calm, and tilting his head to the left, he looked at the true body of the Shadow Lord without sighing or breathing a bit more than necessary out of instinct before returning hi gaze upwards to look at the bulbs of energy.

“...why did you even choose to follow him in the first place?” With the crimson, black, white and gray bulbs remaining on the same spot as before in midair, they rotated and twinkled as much as they could for as their own deaths were so near by. When Yun Beishang’s words were heard out through the entire Purple space, the bulbs became immobile and stagnant on the spot; still in midair.

“Huh… I see.” Said Yun Beishang, but nothing was actually said, and even if the bulbs made of energy were able to speak, or at least of communication of any sort…they would still not know how to respond. From what Yun Beishang actually saw while within the ‘Darkness Within’ employed by the ignorant, cowardly and brainless Shadow Lord; between these 4 and the one laying on the floor motionlessly, they were just a group of lovers who followed him.

And even though their ‘reason’ to have ultimately chosen to pledge dog-loyalty to the Gods, or to have followed their Overlord could be counted to be the slightest bit ‘glorious’ and ‘righteous’, in Yun Beishang’s eyes…it was like a social media bunch crying out loud for losing their jobs or cellphones/Insomas while there is quiet people dying of the most ‘curable’ predicaments in his modern world.

What could someone who was even capable of reaching a ‘Godhood’ and become an actual Godly being could be offered to be tempted? If people can fall to beauty, riches and power; what can an Overlord fall in temptation to? For whatever the true general answer could opt to be, the answer for these was their devoutness to each other, yet… all of them, ending like this…it was just insensate.

At which point did it happen, when did the Shadow Lord begin targeting his own love? Or…did he even plan to? Was he tricked even then, and ended up tragically doing the same to those other 4 what he did to countless trillions of lives within his Penumbral Citadel, his own home as well?

Even if Yun Beishang did not care about their past, he wouldn’t avoid himself from comparing himself to this kind of occasion. Though Yun Beishang was far away from the situation that the Shadow Lord drowned himself and his lovers like this, he was still moving on and keeping on living for the sake of his own family, his lovers, in-laws… and now his children too.

Yet, it only took sweet ol’ Yun Beishang a mere moment to raise his head once again and look up at the bulbs of lights that were glimmering hard and constantly as if being anxious from the insanely abundance of Destructive Essence around them, and from which they were totally ignorant of but seemed capable of knowing what it could do to them all in their current state before achieving true death…

…for Yun Beishang to open his mouth and say in an indifferent voice. “I could say a few things and ‘try’ to be chivalrous at sharing my own thoughts and goals, but…I could never, just simply… care about any of you. Oh? You want to leave? That’s fine, you can leave if you want.”

…twliwing~...

Though the energy bulbs were still anxious and afraid of extinction, that the Evil God was speaking in an acrimonious demeanor right before their deathbeds forced them to remain as ‘calm’ as they could until he finished speaking. To their luck, it was rather fast even though it hurt their everything that was left on this state of theirs, and his last few words were even better! Their freedom was given and they could run away at last, without thinking about it much, they began ascending once more.

“...”

Whoosh~~!!

TIINNNGGG~~!!

Yun Beishang suddenly raised his own body up into the air, his wings came out from his back as his body was seemingly beginning to turn starry purple while, on the other hand, the corpse of the Shadow Lord on the Purple ‘floor’ was beginning to turn into a wrinkled corpse instead as it was being enshrouded more and more by the Purple of the room.

Suddenly, a huge cauldron with a diameter of simply 10 cm and 30 cm tall appeared on Yun Beishang’s left hand, while his right hand was relaxing in repose instead. And with the huge cauldron that seemed to be a toy turned into an oversized toy in a moment, the bulbs high up in the air seemed terrified to an unknown degree.

Seemingly, in response to the act of Yun Beishang taking out the unknown cauldron, they ‘turned’ to face down at him and were berating glimmering with their last ounce of life, seemingly as if saying ‘what are you doing? You promised us to leave!!’; to which Yun Beishang could understand very well thanks to this Intent hidden stat, ah.

“You can leave, you can leave. I just won’t let you!! What is the hurdle in understanding that?” Yun Beishang responded with his savageness showing not only from his tone and glaring eyes, but even his teeth showed as he spoke, which looked like nothing more but a ravenous carnivore with the intention to gobble up all he could see until he either turned blind or there was nothing else to see at all.

…And so, it happened. The 4 bulbs of different colors were dragged into the cauldron’s little mouth and eaten by the latter, becoming who knows what and for who knows how long; until Yun Beishang decided to work with what he caught. Their lives and consciousness, however, even a tiny wisp left of them, was completely gone and turned into extinction.

Even if they were betrayed and decided to live once again in an unknown future, abandoning the fate of the Shadow Lord and lover of being extinct, Yun Beishang couldn't care any less as he directly took the vestiges of these Sacred Protectors and stored them… for the time being…

FWUMP…PUUUUUM~!!!! WHOOOSH WHOOOSH WHOOOOOSH~~!!!

After gobbling down those vestiges, Yun Beishang took a last look at the sternum of the Shadow Lord that was all wrinkled and with even the bones twisting and retracting in size as the fearful purple began overwhelming his entire corpse, what was left of it after a while. Yun Beishang then flapped his precious Unparalleled Projections and directly flew in a certain direction.

Instead of going simply high up, like the bulbs that were of no more at all or like the Wonder Region’s Sacred Protectors who wanted to become extinct out of guilt and the consumed remaining souls who wanted to be free, return to their homeland and witness one last time before saying silently saying goodbye for their life of torment as well.

Yun Beishang, instead, flew at the same speed of 304%, but with his body seemingly blinking in and out of existence just like he had seen the shadowy hands long ago do when he was saving Rosey. And at some point, a starry purple twirl and tornado-like ‘portal’ appeared 200 meters in front of him, with its center being fully colored by a powerful, undeniable and imperious violet.

Crossing through it, Yun Beishang amply disappeared from the Purple room altogether; the Purple room that, after so many millions and millions of years, had finally gone back to ‘be’ and could enjoy existing without being restrained, corrupted or tainted by its own Master… For a few minutes and moments before being no more, just a little bit more of time, and a long overdue rest will come to ‘it’.

When Yun Beishang went away and disappeared from the Purple room, faces from all over it began to appear, no longer insanely terrified and inferior to his presence; that of the Evil God and… his Bloodline. They then, slowly, stepped towards the corpse of the Shadow Lord, a single type of glance being shared by all these faces who were slowly given bodies by the Purple room’s substance itself.

Slowly, as well; each of these faces that had no facial definitions to speak of beyond that of front hair, eye sockets, a hollow nose and tightly closed lips all made of that purple color from the room itself began to slightly crouch down at the Shadow Lord’s corpse.

 

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