I slowly drifted in the endless expanse of darkness, floating as if I were underwater. I couldn't move my limbs, but they slowly drifted around by themselves. I tried to breathe in but I couldn't even do that, what's even weirder was I thought my heart would be racing with panic but I didn't hear or feel anything.

Where the hell am I? My thoughts are the only sound in the expanse of the darkness, which gives me little to no comfort.

It felt like an infinite amount of time floating just floating there, but for all I know it's been a couple of hours. I tried to think of how I could have gotten here my thoughts of anything before this was cloudy. It was as if this was the only thing I knew. My only reason for existence was to float in this expanse, who knew how big? The only escape I had from this never-ending torture was sleep.

I kept falling in and out of sleep, my dreams were pitch black just like where I was stuck. It was going to drive me insane if there wasn't anything soon. Even a flicker of light would spark something inside of me I knew. Something to keep me from going insane, I couldn't even talk to myself. Even that would be better than this.

I soon accepted my fate of being stuck here for whatever the rest of my life was.

For who knew how long I was just floating there when I saw something. It was distant but I could see something! If I could cry I would, for even something this distant was a relief. Just to know that I wasn't alone in this expanse was amazing. The closer it got though the more I realized that might not be as amazing though. Even from this distance, I could tell something was off from whoever, or whatever this thing was.

As it arrived it looked like a flesh mound, full of puss and oozing liquids coming out of openings from it. If I could throw up I would have at least multiple times by now. As it stopped it rocketed form a couple of dozen feet away from me it said, "Wall of Flesh" and just stood there. After it said that I saw another flash of light and it started to rocket towards me it just stood or floated there whatever it was doing.

The second one while still far away but I could see a insectoid face. It only took a few moments before it got right to where the Wall of Flesh was and stopped staying perfectly still and said "Vrythax, God of Infestation". The things-Vrythax's body looked like a gigantic centipede, but the carapace was as pitch black as the void around me, I could only see it because of the red and violet highlights on it. It had hundreds of thousands of legs on the undersize, and every single one was barbed and coated in a liquid, most likely poison.

And as if on cue a third bright light suddenly popped up and started to barrel towards me. This one was harder to make out from such a distance, it was almost as if it didn't have a clear form or body. I was only able to see it properly when it stopped next to Vrythax and stood perfectly still saying, "Phorymn God of Filth and Corruption". Its body looked like a giant slime ball that was half-dried. It had oozing mass of black sludge rolling down all over it while some parts looked like bones or metal. It also had bloated bubbles all over it, and every time one of them popped it turned hard, and another part of it turned to sludge.

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Suddenly a grotesque voice entered my ears "Mortal we are impressed with your sacrifice, even though it wasn't you who created the parasite." It was the Wall of Flesh speaking. "Even though you weren't even close to replicating the parasite that destroyed your world, you still destroyed everything."

"W-What?" I said suddenly able to move my mouth "What do you mean I destroyed everything?"

"Even though you just piggybacked off of a genius that is now killing many things as we are speaking, you still somehow managed to kill billions." The Wall of Flesh seemed a bit prideful talking about this "genius" that killed everyone I knew.

This time Phorymn spoke its voice sounded like a blob of gelatine with a scream underneath it " And we want you on our side, even if you didn't create something or make something deadly, you still are a threat to many around you".

"You are a promising figure for us, we don't want you going to the light side" This voice sounded almost serpentine but there were mandibles clicking that I knew belonged to Vrythax who was slowly circling me.

"The light side?" I said "What is that? Are you things demons?" I suddenly panicked that I would be enslaved by demons or something.

"No you foolish mortal, didn't you hear us we are gods, just ones that like to kill, "Vrythax said, I could almost see a grin on its insectoid face.

"Now mortal let's quit the small talk and get to the reason why you're here." Wall of Flesh said. "Choose me and I will give you the power to create biological structures that can destroy anything alive. You will be able to grow, shape, and choose what you create, anything you desire, you can make" It said almost like it was a game show host.

"Choose me and you will have the power to create any horror you want, make a nest as big as you want, and kill as many things as you want, your creatures will fight and evolve, and you will even be able to evolve yourself, the only problem you'll run into is the people who want you gone." Vrythax said staring all its eyes straight through me as if it was looking at my soul.

Finally, Phorymn said "If you choose me you can corrupt anything and everything no matter if it's alive or not. You will be able to absorb pure corruption and grow your mass to devour everything in your wake. You will be an unstoppable mass that can destroy anything." It said it as if it was almost bored.

Well, this is a shocker, being stuck in a void with gods offering me powers, it was the first interaction in who knew how long so I decided to choose. It might even get me out of here if I choose, so why not?

I immediately ruled out Phorymn, it was just not my thing to basically eat everything, and also it obviously didn't really care about me or what I chose so that was pretty easy to decide. The last two though forced me to think through really hard. Wall of Flesh I could create basically everything and it would do what I want, but Vrythax would give me an ecosystem to create, in other words, a hive. Which I think is amazing, plus whatever I create can evolve by itself and I can too! I think my choice is pretty clear now.

"I choose Vrythax." I say confident in my choice

"Excellent!" it screeched "My hive shall grow to infest more!

And with that, my world faded to blackness.