Somnus was extremely excited to be able to watch such a spectacle. He had intentionally looked for forming overgods in the past by exploring the abyss. It was extremely rare, but not impossible to find. Throughout the countless years of his life, he had found a few.

But he wasn't able to see how they did it. He wasn't able to make heads or tails of the logic behind it. He didn't need to though, he had mastered distortion. His abilities lied in dream, distort, displace.

His law of distortion had put him in a separate league from other gods.

There were things in life that were never born

Universal laws that make up the fabric of reality

Things that have, and will continue to exist perpetually no matter what.

When these things manifest they become original incarnations.

If gods can be seen as the incarnations of laws

Supreme Beings. Overgods can be seen as something on a completely different level.

But even those things are jokes to original incarnations

Nothing but a chip to be eaten

Somnus was a god in the process of becoming an overgod as well.

He had formed a domain

He had formed a true body

He had formed his core abilities for manipulating reality

But he was still a god

If such a thing as a true god existed. If something only a half-step away from overgod was a stage.

Somnus would fit into that category.

There was an issue though

Something that made him very different from Gaia

Somnus came from somewhere

He didn't attain his power from five words

He wasn't Knowledge

While his destiny had become paradoxical

He started off as a mortal

He lived a normal albeit unfortunate life

Gaia had a very different path to power

Somnus's original name was Visdre Mallaichte

He was born in the capital of Scotland

During this period. While it was against the law to body snatch, it wasn't something you were likely to get executed for. There weren't many regulations at all in terms of certificates and qualifications when it came to being a Physician.

Unfortunately, he was ditched at a hospital early on

His name was birthed from the odd writings on the petition form left with him

He was called a freak

He was called a monster

He was abandoned due to a birth defect

His fingers were webbed. Fortunately, the bone was not fused.

He could barely use his hands at all

They didn't treat him

He ended up being raised in a church that also dually served the purposes of an orphanage.

He didn't have very many prospects

But he took an interest in the anatomy of the human body

There wasn't very much research material though

He also wasn't very literate early on

So he didn't change his destiny through reading

His destiny changed through a different type of consumption

He wasn't actually kicked out of the orphanage at 13 years old

He ran away

The nuns and priest thought it was part of some grand plan that he was born the way he was.

They were planning to help him find work

Help him have a proper life

He had spent a lot of his time daydreaming

A lot of time was spent dreaming

Hoping he could one day use his hands

It was very rare to have webbed fingers

Let alone for it to be every single one

He was treated like he was the plague

He was isolated from his peers

So he ran away

He stole to survive

He stole the resources he needed

Years went by this way...

He was planning to operate on himself

But he was stopped by a man at the last moment

A man who was a 'fake' doctor. He was a scammer that had pretended to have graduated from The University of Edinburgh.

He had fooled everyone, even himself.

This was a bit easier back then

He was Doctor Dochas

He told Visdre that he would accept him as an apprentice if he let him operate on him

Visdre saw this as nothing but a miracle. It was hope.

But there was a catch

He had to agree to do three years of work first

His food and housing would be provided on the house by the doctor.

He didn't think much of it. So he agreed readily.

He became a ressurectionist. This had nothing to do with ressurection.

During the day. He would sleep and receive lessons from the man if he wasn't working

But at night...

He would dig up fresh graves

He would haul them to the doctor, for study.

He was even allowed to watch!

The time went by quickly this way

When the time came for the sugery, he had decided against it.

The doctor surprisingly didn't put up a fuss.

Visdre became an Apothecary

He eventually even became a doctor

He didn't know about destiny and things such as that.

But he was born with an Extraordinary destiny

In the womb he was able to consume information and grow his destiny from normal before even being born.

How did he do this?

He did it through dreams

Through a desire to dream

His uniqueness lied in his awareness while unconscious

He was calculating unknowningly before he had even been born

The misfortune the universe had thrown at him had put him in a good position in life

He was well respected and lived a good life

But something was off

Vengeful spirits haunted him

He had always enjoyed the lucidity he had in dreams

He was always aware in his dreams

In his dreams, he was almost unstoppable.

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He was an entirely different person

The spirits were the owners of the bodies that had been cut-open. The ones dissected for study against their will. The ones he had dug up.

Because of his awareness in dreams

He could see them

He could hear them

Sometimes even while awake

He hid such symptoms afraid of what would happen if others were to find out

He didn't wish to become a monster again

But they grew stronger

He became more scared

He reached a tipping point

He had a meltdown

He experienced a realization

He tore the spirits apart in his dreams

He used their bodies to open a gateway to the spirit realm

During the day he was just an old man

He was Doctor Mallaichte

At night however

He was the emperor of the spirit realm

An unstoppable generator of chaos and distortion

His destiny had become perfect

When he retired

He didn't wait to die

He paid some people quite hansomely to be buried alive

He was convinced that this was his destiny

He wondered what would happen to him if he passed away while in the spirit realm

He expected he could stay there forever

When he had begun to feel himself suffocating

When he was starting to lose consciousness

He tried to free himself

His body fundamentally rejected to let him just die

But it was too late

He couldn't even scratch the inside due to his nails being far too deformed

He tried to sleep

But the fear was too much

He wasn't able to die in the spirit realm

He only felt sad that he wasn't able to see what would happen

He died

What he experienced, however, was something different

It was absolutely nothing

But he had a uniquness to him

One he had before he had even been born

The origin of his misfortune

He experienced the abyss

His destiny was eternal

Time passed by weirdly

There was nothing

But he loved it

He studied it

Finally

He was able to dream

His dreams were special

They had been connected to the spirit realm when he was alive

It was like his backyard

There were vengeful spirits, demons, hiveminds; hidden existences in this realm.

They would try to contact you

They would try to stop you

It was very easy to be trapped forever there

It wasn't a good place to be

But it was his home

He wasn't able to break past the chaos or order that surrounded the realm

So instead, he studied the hidden existences within

His destiny was still just eternal

He formed himself a true body

He formed himself a true existence (a domain)

He returned to the abyss

He studied it

He adopted a new name

He became a god

He was no longer Visdre Mallaichte

That person had died too long ago

He was Somnus

He had come to find out the universe was bigger then he had expected

There was more than just the spirit realm

The abyss was something that was outside existence

It was something that simply didn't exist

But he studied and explored it

His destiny had become paradox

Paradoxical Destiny

He began to manipulate nonexistence

He came to find there were many different universes

There were multiverses

The rules were decided by the gods

The universes were housed by them

But the Gods were housed by something else

He began to become sane

Extremely sane

He discovered the condensed version of an existence

He was able to distort a representation of the body of what housed the gods

He had found out about the existence of overgods

He constructed a room in the abyss

These overgods were never meant to be revealed

The representation should never be seen at that level

Through his law of distortion he could see through it

He was seeing things he shouldn't have

He would host a service

He would provide a convenient service for the gods

He explored many overgods

Most didn't react to his presence

He could see his condensed existence as well

It was a grey circle

The loop of distortion

The Law of Distortion

He saw other god's existences as well

But he also came to find out the hard way

That not having your existence anchored is very dangerous

The representation allowed for better manipulation

Being outside of something makes it easier to change that thing

If he removed his loop

If he removed his law

He was removing himself from both existence and non-existence

He went to a place that should never be named

There he saw an incomprehensible number of representations of overgods

They floated about that space like a gust of snowflakes

There was an endless amount

Attached to each one were the gods

Sometimes a few

Sometimes a lot

His body wasn't even able to appear here

He was just a grey circle

This was how he would anchor onto an overgod

If he waited too long

The endless swarm of circles would disperse

They would scatter as if he was the plague

There were things that existed here

The foundation for all things and concepts

They didn't have a destiny like Somnus

They also didn't have No Destiny either

These things seemingly always existed

They were under completely different rules

These 'things' are known as original incarnations

You shouldn't even try to grasp what they are

They do have names though

Life. Death. Pain. Fury. Anger. Wrath. Hope. Hallucination. Creation.

Even Destiny

This is barely a drop in the bucket

If you could think of a concept of something

You would likely find its original incarnation here

But this was not the multiverse

That's a lower level container

This was something you should never interact with

This is something you should never try to comprehend

Somnus loved chaos

He loved the unexpected

He thrived in it

But...

Original Incarnations

He feared them

If you don't find an anchor soon enough after entering this special space

The overgods will naturally disperse leaving you to be singled out

An incarnation by the name of Erase

It would approach him

Everything would shake

This was a different type of fear

He had felt fear when he died as a human

But he had planned that

He knew that if he died as he was

If he died here

He wouldn't even experience abyss

He wouldn't even experience nothing

He would be completely wiped out

No matter what

Every trace

So he tended to avoid that space which should never be named

There is a limit to a paradoxical destiny

It isn't wise to gaze upon original incarnations

He still had to do research

He still grew

He had found some interesting things

He decided to explore that space

He wanted to look directly at an original incarnation

When he gazed upon the body of Destiny

It looked back at him

He was wiped out completely

He was reborn

There was an image in his mind

A screeching sound

"ThAt Is ThE oNly waRnIng"

He had restarted

He killed himself far earlier this time

Quickly building his paradoxical destiny once more.

He became Somnus again

He made sure to avoid gazing at the incarnations while traveling and looking through that space

In his mind he still harbored thoughts

"What makes them better than me?"

"What if I were to become an overgod."

A bigger circle

"Could I get another warning?"

"Could I endure?"

He had attained great fortune from merely looking at Destiny

He became aware of the rules it had set

He needed more of it

His manipulation

His distortion had improved

His domain was taking on true aspects of time

He viewed himself far above those mortals he had grown up with

He was in an entirely different class

He was satisfied with his position

Satisfied until he was sent back in time from merely looking at 'it'.

That kind of power

It made him feel like he was a mortal

How did they attain such power?

His domain was time

His law Distortion

But was it really?

Somnus was enlightened

He turned this enlightenment into an Angel

This angel was his pocket watch

His experience being reborn once again as Visdre

That type of distortion was on another level

He would surpass it!

He needed to become an overgod first

Baby steps

Little did Somnus know...

There was an original incarnation quite interested in him

Knowledge

"You will help me."

Knowledge was upset with not having a destiny

It wasn't even no destiny

Destiny didn't allow it

Balance agreed with her

Knowledge wasn't as powerful as the others.

But it was of necessity in the make-up of everything

It was an essential concept

Knowledge only wanted to use the power of destiny because he had become aware of his situation.

He had realized he was in a book

He wanted to reach out to actual 'reality'.

Knowledge did something very taboo

Something Taboo would even frown upon

He broke some of the rules set by Space

He broke some of the rules set by Time

He was planning to become stronger

So strong that he could go beyond

He needed the help of outsiders though

He knew what he was made of

He understood many truths

So he split his true soul and stripped away all power from it

It was still too powerful

So he just destroyed it a few billion times

Until only the faintest specks remained

Still too powerful

So he destroyed it a few billion more times

It was barely a few words at this point

"That should do it."

"The System"

That was what his true soul had become

It couldn't even be called a true soul at the moment

It was literally just two words now

"Maybe... I should destroy it some more..."

He decided that was enough though

He easily scanned every overgod in existence

Looking for the perfect situation

The others would notice if he went missing

But what if he was able to become an original incarnation again?

What if he doubled his power in an instant

How would the others be any wiser?

He looked back into History

He was not able to interact with Reality

He would bless someone with the curse of knowledge

So they would give birth to his body

He found someone who held a uniqueness a perfect candidate for such a blessing

The mans name was Visdre Mallaichte

It's hard to even interact with the overgods without destroying them entirely

He was about to bless the man with knowledge before he was even born

Unfortunately, Trickery started to feel something off

Prediction also jumped in and held Knowledge down

Judgement showed up and restrained him

"We aren't to mess with them."

Knowledge had been put under watch

All of the original incarnations balanced each other out

If it was just one.

You could do what you wanted

But there were so many rules that they literally dog-piled on each other and wouldn't let anyone mess with the farms.

Knowledge didn't give a shit about the rules

He wasn't satisfied with his place

He was going to go beyond

So he couldn't even use his curse of knowledge

From a mere thought, many things could change

He looked for loopholes and found many

He found a different man

The man's name was Fei Fangbian

Knowledge could change someones entire existence with a mere word

He placed one suggestion in the mind of Fei

"Read."

This almost destroyed that man's universe

The man was a child at the time

Barely a few years old

Barely even knew how to read

But he went to that library the next day as if his life had depended on it.

He had a weird dream...

He had found reading was incredibly fun all of a sudden

It became his favorite hobby

Knowledge had made a plan he found not too shabby

He placed a suggestion in the mind of Visdre as well

This was before he was even born

It was also a single word

"Dream."

Knowledge saw infinite paths and opportunity

He was a being who constantly had legendary thoughts

This plan was only one of them

These words would inspire great change

After a few hours

He saw that Fei had become God of his universe

He then gave him another word

He should be strong enough to handle it

"Gaia"

Immediately Moltzrar was enlightened

He had come up with a legendary plan in an instant

He was planning to become eternal

He would do so through his creation

He would create a paradox

He would go further in destiny

Moltzrar then created Gaia

During the creation process

Knowledge imparted the two words into not the soul of Gaia

Neither the spirit body or existence

Knowledge's words were powerful

He simply sent the words to Gaia before he was created

He sent them through time

Time wasn't paying attention

Focus was trying to get Time to do something

Gaia would be aware of nonexistence

Before he was anything at all

After a few minutes

When Gaia had gotten a little older

He decided to send three words

Since Gaia was himself

He should be able to handle at least three

Those words were

Scope

Object

Global

Knowledge knew this would implant the clue for himself to go beyond

He should handle those words just fine

Those other original incarnations knew Knowledge was smart

But none of them ever expected words could cause such a problem

Not even Plot! or Convenience!

Hell even Thought wouldn't be able to comprehend such planning.

Trickery was fooled

Planning didn't see it coming

Past completely was too slow

Future wasn't even paying attention to Present

Present himself was meditating and couldn't be bothered

Destiny didn't see it coming

Prediction was wrong about Future as well

Judgement didn't really care

He was just there doing his goddamn job

It had been a long time since Somnus had been Visdre

He was now going to finally be able to observe the process of becoming an overgod

Normally it would be hard to observe a sea of consciousness directly like what he was doing

Or even to find a specific overgod he had left

But the forming overgod 'G77' was different

It was easy for him to track him down in the swarms of overgods

Somnus had formed a special connection with Gaia

Gaia had prayed to Somnus in the past for help

When you pray to an existence

Your spirit body will instantly appear in the sky of their true existence

Through the spirit body of Gaia

The green star in his sky

He watched on as the ascension began

This was going to be exciting