Rot and Redemption

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At the end of it all, you’ve made a choice. We’ve all made choices; but these ones brought you here.

No longer are you trapped in a prison of your own design, but you now are trapped by the consequences of your own actions. Fight against it all you may, there is no escape this time.

Worlds are falling, dying, and disappearing. Will you do nothing but watch as your fellow conscious beings are slaughtered by that which call themselves gods?

Fight.

Fight against them and redeem yourself. Redeem yourself for the final time.

It ends here.

Prologue: A Wake-Up Call

With my new reality laid bare before me, I knew that I was in for something big. Sometimes I would struggle with accepting facts shown in front of me plainly, and other times I would underthink something extremely complex.

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This would appear to be both right now.

I accepted the demon’s offer when they asked if I wanted to become a demon. I thought, hey, why not accept his offer? It’ll be the right thing to do. I can just go off and kill some demons, just like we both want.

Then why is it so complicated?

Some demons can be killed, others can’t. There appears to be some kind of ‘threshold’ where they become immortal or something. It made sense so far, but why the demon at the bottom of those hellish floors couldn’t just raise me to that level of power confused me.

It was something about ‘impossible’ and ‘stop acting like a child’.

Honestly, fair points. This was just a lot different from what I was expecting once I made it to the bottom. What happened before this point was something straight out of a horror novel. It is something I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemies, not even some of the demons that exist here.

It’s over now though. There is no more horror to go through, at least by definition. I was moving up in the world, moving on to bigger and better things! Rather, I hoped so at least, it would make the decision to become some undying being a bit lighter in my mind.

Where do I go from here, and where does it end?

I guess I just keep doing what I’ve always done; I just keep walking forwards until I find my goal. I’ve never been one to think too hard about the more complex stuff, even to a fault, but why start now? Though, having the objective of killing all demons is vague and could take a very, very long time.

Then I still have Ophelia to consider. She basically straight up said that she was a demon when I went back into my own past, if that was even real. I do have reason to believe it is based on a few factors, but the whole thing is just strange. I can guarantee it involves time travel in one way or another. I hate paradoxes.

That brings me to the final point… when and where does it end? Will I be happy once I kill every demon, will I even be the good guy anymore? At what point is it not fair to kill all the demons, I’m sure there are a few that align closer to good, just like I hope to.

I can’t predict it, so I’ll think about it later.

For now, I had to figure out how I was going to walk forwards. I was going to have to figure out how to find other demons, how to actually stop them from destroying worlds. Actually, I was going to have to figure out how exactly they manage to destroy worlds.

I got basic descriptions while I was still in the floors, but I can’t for the life of me put it all together yet. Perhaps one day I’ll understand the reason for it all. Why I ended up here, and where I’ll go from there. For now, I’m just going to live life one step at a time.