My World Traveling System: The Harbinger of Death

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Many times she wondered what its purpose was. "It" didn't had a gender, since its birth that it had always been a being of pure darkness, chaos, and miasma. Since its birth from the gods themselves that it had been concealed in the planet that it never had the opportunity to look.

This entity found itself concealed in the crust of an entire planet before it even gained consciousness of itself, and only desired freedom. Since it began to move that it wanted to get out of this cage, to be freed, and travel as much and as far as it wanted… everywhere it wanted, to travel as far as it could.

Since the beginning that this being, with its chaotic and miasmic soul always had a dream, to travel freely across the cosmos, to see the stars that the gods denied it… Since those moments of the first sparks of intelligent, of the first sparks of consciousness that it only wanted to be freed from the cage of the planet's crust.

"I want to see the stars… I want to see the sky…"

"Why?!"

"Why don't you let me see the world…?"

The monster's weep of sorrows resonated across the planet, generating tremors, and when it gathered enough strength to materialize itself into not just a mass of miasma, it emerged from the planet's crust, crushing through it, and forcing its way into the outside, finally freed, only to be defeated and caged once more… It only had a few days, weeks, months, or perhaps years before being caged again, before being painfully defeated and thrown into that accursed prison once more, like it always happened.

Over and over again.

For… how many thousands of years? It couldn't even remember how long it has been, but only when it ended fusing its soul with one of the heroes that one defeated it, that it suddenly gained complete intelligence and emotions, and found itself trapped in an endless loop.

The monster always was defeated and pushed back into the planet's crust, for so long that it seemed to become an incredibly repetitive loop where nothing interesting ever happened. No matter how much it tried to survive… it wasn't possible. There was always something getting in the way, one way or the other…

How much would it have to endure for it to end? It only wanted the suffering to end already… An endless torment of chaos and darkness, death, and resurrection… When… would it ever end…?

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However, one day it ended. The monster's body was absorbed into an egg as its power was absorbed by somebody else, and it… slowly began to weaken over time, without the abyssal sea to nourish the egg like always, it was taken away, and it slowly began to die. However, in the last moments, it was brought somewhere else, it was warm and comfortable, and it allowed the baby that it had ended turning itself into survive until maturity, if it wasn't because that wasn't really enough yet.

A greater force was needed, an enormous quantity of energy… something was missing in the egg, something that could fertilize it with great power and energy… and then it came, a cosmic light that encompassed it all, fusing with the egg, and then, a large darkness hit it as well, darkness and light converged with the egg's interior, fertilizing it, and forming a small fetus.

<br/>The fetus slept peacefully for once, and it slowly developed, but as it developed, the dreams it had of becoming free were always there. They were such a strong desire that it slowly manifested into the child's power.

When Axitl finally laid the egg, and Frank touched it, the egg quickly found the source of that bright light once more, as it slowly began to regain some more consciousness…

"Power… I want freedom… I… Give me…!"

The creature inside the egg greedily stole its papa's powers, and absorbed them to finally complete the metamorphosis, the fetus quickly began to develop in mere seconds, and the greatest desires and dreams it ever had suddenly began to materialize a wondrous new power.

CRASH!

When the egg cracked open, what came out wasn't a baby hand, no, it was endless and abyssal darkness, such an enormous quantity of darkness came out that it filled almost the entire room, Frank and Axitl were suddenly dragged into this enormous quantity of darkness that emerged as the egg cracked open, as they suddenly found themselves elsewhere!

It was a place where only darkness dwelled, where many branches, resembling paths of bright yellow and white color were spread everywhere within this darkness… Just what could this wondrous and fantastical place even be? What could this all mean?

"W-Where are we…?" Asked Axitl.

"The egg hatched but… only darkness came out… Are we inside the egg? No… This is the interior of our child! Like Alexander, this child… did it develop an internal space?" Wondered Frank.

"I-Internal space like a divine realm?!" Asked Axitl.

"Precisely, but perhaps even bigger, and stranger… What sort of rules govern this strange place?" Wondered Frank.

He quickly held Axitl's hand, as the two began to fly amidst this darkness, seeking their child. At first, they flew aimlessly finding the child, but they only found endless obscurity, an abyss that never ended, a bottomless pitch-black darkness…

However, Axitl pointed out to follow the "paths" which were the strange lines of light spread everywhere almost as if they didn't seem to have any order… Frank nodded, as the two began to follow them, many times ending on loose ends, until finally, something happened.

The beating of a heart was heard from afar…

"Eh? That's… A heart beating?" Wondered Axitl.

"Yeah… Through here…" Said Frank.

The two quickly realized that all paths that didn't had loose ends ultimately led to something in the center of all of this darkness, a beating heart… in the form of a small baby, a child made of darkness inside of a red-colored crystal heart.

"This is… our child…" Said Axitl.

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