Lord Shadow

‘And I mean from the VERY beginning of the creation of the Multiverse’ And Azief eyes toward Sith’lenor narrowed.

From the beginning he said.

From the very beginning of the Multiverse. That is an odd word choice

This word caught Azief attention. And it clearly caught the other people attention as well. Oreki look at Sith’lenor however he did not seem shocked.

Hirate and the others also did not seem visibly shocked.

Sith’lenor did not say the very beginning of this story instead he spoke of Multiverse. Then Azief remember Sith’lenor spoke that he guarded the multiverse.

Then he remembers the stories he heard that he once dismissed as myths and folk tales of a different civilizations.

Azief eyebrows furrowed

Azief of course knew what the Multiverse means.

The multitude of Universes that exist.

To be more accurate it is a hypothetical group of multiple universes including the universe in which he lives.

Together these universes comprise everything that exist, the entirety of space, time, matter, energy and the physical laws and constants that describe them.

The different universe within the multiverse is either called parallel universe, other universes or alternate universes

While not many people knew that these once hypothetical matters is no longer hypothetical, all of the people present here inside this bunker knows there are alternate universes out there.

Clearly Azief was not the only one that knows about the barrier between worlds

Hirate look toward Raymond and this did not escape Azief attention.

Then he remembers the inventions of the World Government and Azief suddenly something clicks inside Azief mind.

He only smirks

‘So, that is how’ He said to himself.

Suddenly the leap of technological advancement in the World Government makes sense to Azief.

Azief was not the only one that has been exploiting other worlds.

Azief uses the World Orb to break through the barrier but the World Government might have other ways to travel to other parallel universes.

But there is a reason why Azief did not enter wildly into other Universes or alternate universes. After all he knew the price of doing such things.

He learned it the hard way on Earth two.

Each time one break through; it created a crack in the proverbial walls between their reality and this world reality.

Slowly that crack in that proverbial wall will widen with each breaking through and when it is unable to hold the pressure….then that wall will crumble down.

And then all manners of madness will ensue. Thing will go out of place, places and people will be displaced between the colliding realities until even memories could be replaced.

Reality is actually fragile. Extremely fragile. Azief knows this better than anyone.

‘Heh’ he scoffed.

He looks around the room and he is sure everyone here knows about the existence of the multiverse.

The reason why the great forces of the world knew about the existence of the multiverse is mostly because of the Dimensional Traveler and of course Will escapades that have been investigated by the World Government and the Republic.

Azief look back at Sith’lenor and then his eyes shining he said

‘Please continue’ Sith’lenor then take a deep breath and then he brought out an orb from his war armor sleeve.

The Orb seems to contain images.

He throws it to the middle of the table. The Orb then emanated an aura of Time as it spins and the entire room turns into a projection of the Universe.

‘What?’ Hirate was shocked and almost anyone in the room was startled. Then they looked around them.

And all they could see was the infinite expanse of darkness and stars.

It was like all the people inside the room are floating in nothingness while still sitting in their chair.

‘History Projection Orb’ Sith’lenor said. Then smiling apologetically he said

‘It is easier to tell the story while also seeing it’

He waved his hand

Then all the people inside the room saw a huge planet probably fifteen times larger than Earth or maybe more.

It is full of life, with Great Sea separating continents and huge and tall mountains that reached the blue clouds, with great cities that is full of Orvanians.

On top of the sky is a purple sun shining over the bluish green Orvanians.

‘Orvan’ Azief exclaim in astonishment.

And Sith’lenor nodded.

‘Yes, this is Orvan during the beginning of our civilization’ Then he began his story as the scene dissipated and reform back to show a few Orvanians emanating power of the Laws of the Universe from their entire body watching the stars using a floating telescope-like device.

They seem to be discussing with each other and they have that aura of something very ancient. Azief immediately recognizes this.

It is the same feeling he felt when he found the Eternal Rings

‘It is a Galaxy Scope’ Sith’venar said from behind Sith’lenor.

‘The Old Ones used to use it to watch the life forms that is sprouting all over the Vast Galaxies and calculate their probability of evolving to a higher level of existence.’

Azief could sense pride and awe in Sith’venar tone when he is talking about them

Sith’lenor only smiles slightly hearing Sith’venar telling about the Old Ones. He gestured Sith’venar to stop as it seems like he is about to continue.

Sith’venar blushes slightly and then shut his mouth.

He then begins his story

‘We Orvanians were one of the first few races that exist after the Etherna race in the starry skies’

A scene appeared a superimposed the image of an Etherna with the planet Orvan. The sheer size of an Etherna causes everyone inside the room to pale in the face.

Azief eyes sharpened.

Azief was the only one not shocked among them. He saw the images of an Etherna before. He was scared and shocked too during that time.

To think that such a huge creature existed and conquers the entire Universe

Alsurt showed him the images before and he also saw them in some other ruins of ancient civilizations.

‘Did they still exist? These Etherna’s?’ Hirate ask cautiously as his eyes look at that titanic image.

They were all still floating in space in this projection of the starry skies.

If not for the fact that all of them could still breathe normally and they could still feel the walls of the room, they might even think they were being transported into space.

Sith’lenor smiles and then said

‘Fortunately they were driven into extinction and they no longer exist’

‘Thank God’ Hirate said under his breath.

Raymond also closes his eyes in relief. If there is such a powerful and large race of alien in the Universe, no one would feel at ease.

It also fills Raymond heart with urgency.

‘Earth is not ready’ He thought of it in his mind as he look at Hirate and Hirate nodded. He could read what Raymond was thinking and they both agreed.

Project Genesis is not enough. Azief saw Raymond looking at Hirate and looking at Hirate nodding Azief smirk.

‘They are communicating telepathically’

Sith’lenor continue his story

‘In that time, as the Etherna conquered Universe after Universe, we Orvanians relying on our super intellect hide our entire star system from their eyes using or technologies. Even with their abilities, they could not uncover us’

The scene changed and the crowd could see planets being hurled by these titanic beings like they were some projectile weapons.

The explosion that happened in space defied the laws of physics.

The sight of planet colliding against each other and the gravity pull that these planets produced during when they collided causes everything to distort, space, time, matters and concepts of the Universe, forcing the seams of reality onto a dangerous edge

They also saw some of the Etherna devour planets with their large mouth and crush planet with their bare hands.

And amidst all this great destruction that plagued the Universe, the crowd also saw Orvan disappeared and with it their entire Universe.

The star system of Orvan disappeared without a trace, without a smoke, without any hints whatsoever.

It was like they never existed, overturning the Laws of Space and Time.

Sith’lenor pointed to that area with his finger and then explained.

‘Our planet could not be detected and could not be seen and so we survived the Ethernian onslaught’

Pondering, Raymond then asked.

‘Were you the only races around that time that survives the Etherna onslaught?’ Sith’lenor then answered

‘We were not the only one that survives the slaughtering. But one could say there are not many that survive it. It was a period of great warfare in the Universe. The Deharian race also survives but their bad decision after that caused their entire race being annihilated’

Sith’lenor did not show the Deharian race as he only spoke of it.

The history projection shows the starry skies changed and then the scene reform back showing the reappearance of the star system of Orvan in the galaxy

Sith’lenor then sighed.

‘We survived the onslaught of the Ethernian. And then when the Ethernian was truly being destroyed by the Great Destroyer we appear once more. In that time, it was a golden era for our civilization. We were like a beacon of light in the vast expanse of the darkness of the galaxies.’

Sith’lenor seems to reminisce as his eye seems to look like in a daze.

Then he sighed.

The scene changed and reform to show a towering structure that reaches the blue clouds of Orvan with the purple sun shining over the lands of Orvanians.

‘Our capital planet Orvan was the height of civilization across the galaxy. We guided the primitive civilization all across the Universe to the path of enlightenment and progress’

Then as he hesitates to continue Sith’lenor took a deep breath and then continued.

‘However a few billion years ago, Earth was created’

Then, a scene showing hundreds of billions of stars, concentrated into pancake like shape, containing spiral arms that extend radially outward for tens of thousands of light years.

A tremendous amount of gas and dust were concentrated in the galactic plane and young star was forming around the region where the gas and dust is densest

Azief immediately recognize it.

‘The Milky way galaxy’

Sith’lenor nodded

And then he looked around him and then said

‘This Earth. This small tiny little planet in the middle of nowhere across the galactic scale….yet there is something special about it’

Then he shakes his head.

For a while all the people in the room do not know how to react. They just heard an incredible story.

It is easy to say it is a lie but this alien has no reason to lie to them. After all it is easy to verify if he is lying

They just have to see whether Sithulran is dead or not. Such easily verified truth makes it even harder for the people in the room to believe that Sith’lenor is lying.

But the alternative is equally terrifying

There is story about an ancient race that conquers the Universes, as large as a planet itself and a group of alien thinkers that spread out enlightenment across the galaxies.

A civilization that did not spans a thousand years but trillions of years.

Even a few thousand years could be considered ancient on Earth but compared to the Orvanians who preserve their civilization for trillion of years how could Earth compare?

It is like a thriller sci-fi story.

And the more they know about what lies beyond the stars the more they felt that they are ill equipped to handle it.

They were like frogs that see the sky from the well.

They were at ease before, fighting against each other. But now, they are filled with uncertainty.

Azief was the only few people in the room that keep his eye on the prize.

He did not care about some ancient history about the glorious past of some intelligent alien race or the story of the Conquest of the Etherna.

That is not what he wants to know. From the beginning he heard the story the only thing he wanted to know is why Sith’lenor said that Sithulran could not die.

To be eternal.

That was not what Azief wanted.

But knowing it won’t hurt him wouldn’t it?

‘What about Sithulran?’ Azief heard and see all he needs to about Orvan. What he wants to know is about his enemies.

Sith’lenor nodded and then he continues.

He waved his hand and the scene changed as it shows a great structure with the symbol of a Sun on its door.

The structure is made by something resembling like marble and it shows that the people in this structure are prestigious and powerful in status.

‘Sithulran comes from the House of Rhobos. It is one of the prestigious houses in Orvan’ Sith’lenor said.

‘From when she was young she was an inquisitive child. She was smart and possessing intelligence beyond her peers. She understood more than anyone and knows anything more than anyone’

The image shows an Orvanian child who look entirely different from the adult Sithulran.

‘She was groomed to be one of the Five Seat of Orvan. We Orvanians believes ourselves to be nobler than the Ethernian, more sensible and more smarter than them’

And Sith’lenor scoffed at his own statement.

‘But we made a mistake just like them’

And he bitterly chuckles.

‘The mistake of the Ethernian was not that they rebelled against the Supreme Entity; at least it was not the cause. Like them we believe ourselves superior to other races in intelligence. The difference is they believe in their strength, while we prided ourselves in our intelligence. And thus that leads us to making a mistake. It is hubris. We look at the Universe and thought we know everything there is to know about it while sitting on our High Seat.’

‘Sithulran was as arrogant as much as the High King of Etherna and one could argue she was as smart as them’

And Sith’lenor smiles a bit at that.

‘The Five Seat of Orvan long knew that Earth was special. But none of us understand why and the Five Seat of Orvan was not what you would call the sharing type’ as he chuckles at his own joke.

Then he continued

‘Earth was a primitive planet full of roaming gigantic lizard. I think you called them dinosaurs. We visited Earth during that time and none of us understand the thing that made it special in the eyes of the Five Seats’

But then he added

‘Everyone….but Sithulran. For some reason she got to know why Earth was so special. Like I said, she always knew more than anyone. And maybe that is not entirely a good thing’

‘And did you know? What makes Earth so special? Particularly this Earth?’ Oreki ask from his seat. Below his foot is the projection of the House of Rhobos.

Smiling bitterly Sith’lenor replies

‘Unfortunately I was not privileged to know about it’

Then he continues his story.

‘Since then she was so obsessed with this tiny planet on the middle of nowhere. She researched it, went behind the High Seats and investigated recklessly. And then humans appeared’

He paused for a while but Azief caught an expression of surprise like he let slip something very important.

There must be something that is special about humans that made him nervous when mentioning about the appearance of humans on Earth.

‘And the appearance of humans, it only fuels her obsession. She was determined to find out the truth not only of this Earth but also the Universe’

‘In the time it takes for the roaming lizard of your planets to die out and for the humans to thrive as an agrarian society, Sithulran has managed to create a technology so horrendous that its knowledge has been banned across all Universes.’

Then looking solemn he spoke

‘In our planet long has been foretold that anyone who tries to peer through the Heavenly Secrets of the origins of the universe would cause a great calamity and would be cursed’

Azief was clearly intrigued by this point about what kind of technology and it use that is was so terrible that is banned across the Universe.

He contemplated and he thinks he knows the answer but he ask anyway. Because he remembers how Sith’lenor introduces himself

‘What is the technology?’

Sith’lenor answer

‘It is a technology that pierces the temporal barrier. The device could manipulate the energy that is present in the Universe enabling her device to be able to travel back in time to see the very beginning of time itself’

Azief eyes widened.

Hearing this not only was Azief shocked. All the people inside the room were shocked. How could they not?

To view the beginning of time itself! It is the ultimate question for any researcher. To see how the first universe was created.

Was it truly the Big Bang? Or is entirely different than what human thought?

Hirate eyebrows creased, Raymond seems to be in deep contemplation and Boris closes his eyes as he tries to digest this information.

‘The Beginning of time’ he muttered.

Jean on the other hand his eyes seem to brighten like he found a solution a problem he has long trying to solve.

Boris opens his eyes and look toward Jean and there seems to be a silent understanding between them two.

Azief then remembers that Jean is called the Time Master.

Though Azief never clash with the Republic owing to his relationship with Katarina, he always wondered what kind of abilities Jean has.

To possess the power to control Time….that is a terrifying ability. However this also increases the threat level of Sithulran.

This means that Sithulran probably know about one the greatest secret of the Universe.

And one of them is this….is there really a God? A true god that oversee everything, oversee all creation and death?

Azief heard the term Supreme Entity from Sith’lenor mouth. That is clearly not the Creator or the Destroyer.

From the way Sith’lenor talks about them, there is clearly a division. Who or what is the Supreme Entity?

And what are the Creator and the Destroyer and their role in the scheme of thing? Is their power truly absolute?

And did Sithulran see it all….know it all? Just when Azief was thinking of this question in his mind someone ask Sith’lenor

‘And did she see it?’ Hirate ask.