Chapter 3, Adam King
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His figure was hard to describe, nearly impossible in fact. The two could hardly understand what they were looking at.
Standing before them was an amalgamation of emotion, concepts, and physicality. They could perceive the fact the creature had a physical form, but they could not understand where it ended or where it began...
It was like... They were staring ahead, at a perfectly clean glass wall. They could just barely tell there was something there, but it took all their might!
"Allow me to introduce myself." A voice spoke from the humanoid, yet endless creature.
"I am Lokreum. The Creator, the All-Father, whatever name you might wish to call me." He said while waving his hands in the air. A small burst of fireworks sprouted above the chess table, surprising the two.
"Beautiful isn't it." The strange entity whispered.
"Anyway, I was beyond the boundaries of the realities and came across this unique realm."
"Who would've thought you two would use an entire plane to hold a chess game..." It chuckled, making the two look at it with a nervous smile.
"Ah, we've actually been battling it out for eons, just to see who gets to create and rule our reality, how funny is that." The more open of the two beings, The Sister, said, earning a chuckle from the whole group.
"After all, two all-powerful beings can't rule one plane!" Brother added.
The Sister nodded in agreement and turned to Lokreum, the entity.
"Exactly, so why are you two here?" Lokreum asked seriously, confusing the two ancient beings.
"Sister, strangely enough, your power is more potent than your counterparts, so you can govern this place. As for you, Brother, I'll give you a brand new reality. You can both stop this never ending torturous game of chess." Lokreum exuded the aura of someone that was smiling, and looked towards the two for a sign of approval.
"You can create Realities?" The Sister asked, but quickly cut herself off.
"Of course you can. You are the father of everything, it would be a shame if you couldn't do something as small as this." She finished with a small smile.
Lokreum chuckled, touching the two on the shoulders.
"So what is it? Will you be fine with moving to another space and creating your own realm? I'll even create a tether between your homes, but it'd be best if you could create something to govern it in dire situations." He said.
"I'm fine with this." The Brother spoke, looking towards his sister.
"I agree." She answered with a carefree attitude.
"Then so be it." Lokreum spoke rather loudly, gripping The Brother's shoulders a little harder and letting go of The Sister.
The two shifted places within existence, appearing outside of the vast reality they were previously in.
Instantly, The Brother started to quiver, all of his power draining from his body as he felt helpless for the first time since his birth.
After all, he had just left his birthplace and he was ingrained in the workings of the dimension, making him and the Reality one in the same.
Lokreum raised one of his hands and created a Reality right in front of The Brother's weak eyes.
He quickly tossed him inside of it and hardwired him into the fabrics of the reality.
This action instantly made him Omnipresent once again, along with the addition of nigh-omnipotence.
"This is my gift to you!" Lokreum said, forming a law, and gifting him with the physiology of what he considered a True God.
Now, the brother had undeniable power and authority within his realm. He could do whatever he wished, he would take no damage, and he would endlessly live. Unless he decided against it of course.
It was a simple ability he created using his authority as reality itself.
The Brother was now equipped with the Taboo Law of the True God! A nearly unmatched law that Lokreum doubted many would ever have.
"Goodbye my child." Lokreum waved before opening a hole into The Sister's world.
Looking through it, he made eye contact with the middle aged woman, his words ringing endlessly throughout her ears.
"I hope you use this opportunity to create a great multiverse, I'll be back to check on it every once in a while."
"Y-Yes father."
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He arrived in the skies above a world and something went wrong immediately.
The instant he appeared, his fluctuating mass threw gravity off course. He was too dense for the universe to handle, and subsequently, his body transformed into an infinitesimal black hole.
"Oops." Lokreum spoke, reversing everything that had just occurred. He stopped the laws of the universe from imprinting their will on him and looked down towards the world.
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Despite blocking out the laws, Lokreum's pure, and boundless kreus formed a fierce storm within the atmosphere of the planet beneath him.
Unluckily for the town that had been hit by an abrupt thunder storm, Lokreum was too entranced by it's beauty to stop it's rampant destruction.
He slowly floated down, making himself unable to be seen by any normal human.
Surprisingly, the world he was in was strikingly similar to where he came from.
In fact, it was easy to tell the world was a parallel.
There was a lack of anything supernatural. The laws were set rather hard on being completely understandable.
Well, except for a few exceptions, such as the creature he was flying towards.
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In a grave yard stood two young adults.
One stood inside a dug up grave, relentlessly stabbing the rotting corpse that laid inside.
"Jeez Tommy..." The other who stood outside the grave said.
"This guy really messed you up, didn't he..." Tommy, the one who was inside the grave finally stopped driving the iron rod into the dead body, and jumped out of the grave.
He swiftly walked over to a bucket of gasoline off to the side making his friend follow behind him.
As he knelt down on the ground to pick up the gasoline, a stray lightning bolt struck the metal rod lodged inside of the corpse, the impact sending the two flying.
Looking back at the grave the two were surprised, but once again, the corpse was struck by lightning.
Although this time something else happened.
The corpse was seemingly reanimated, lying in the grave as its skin was eaten away at by maggots. It's eyes darted around before locking onto the sky way above it.
In its mind, only a thought surfacing.
'Scared...'
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Lokreum looked down into the grave, staring right into the eyes of the cursed being.
'Hmm.' He hummed to himself, going into thought.
He had stepped into this place by complete coincidence, and he couldn't have predicted finding such a strange existence.
"Supernatural strength, durability, stealth, senses, and tracking. Along with insane regeneration, resurrection, teleportation, pain immunity, self-sustenance, unlimited stamina, and demonic physiology..." Lokreum muttered, gliding down towards the cursed undead.
"Innate abilities born from powerful Laws and unique soul." Unlike most creatures that would need the Law of Life, Reincarnation or Recreation, this strange creature could revive naturally!
An ability imprinted into the beings kreus, allowing it to function without the usage of Law energies.
So, as long as this existence had even a sliver of kreus left, he would infinitely resurrect!
"You can even possess others... Your kreus grows stronger with each death, and you'll forever come back to life..."
"You surprisingly have little intelligence despite having high kreus, as your brain was born even smaller than a dinosaurs. When you were born you were already mentally disabled yet with your first death the lack of oxygen made you even dumber." He said in a voice only the undead could hear.
One of the boys was currently trying to remove the metal rod from its body but it didn't seem to care.
"You thirsted to avenge the death of your parents as you watched them get murdered right in front of you... When taking your first life you found you enjoyed it and couldn't stop."
"All of this happened, merely because your family dabbled in Taboo Laws." Lokreum said with pity as he watched the scene unfolding before him.
The undead rose from his grave and murdered the young man that was disturbing his chaotic slumber.
"I'll take care of this for you." Lokreum said, erasing the mind and soul of the other boy, who was on the verge of escaping.
Hearing his words, it didn't take long for the undead to remember the being that had made it feel afraid, and it turned to find it once more.
Lokreum landed right in front of the demon, looking down at it even though it stood at almost 7 feet.
"Greetings, Adam King."
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Lokreum was currently enjoying the joy of experimentation in an incredibly technologically advanced lab. A 7 foot tall undead killer relentlessly beating a metal wall that displayed his output of damage off to the side.
He had taken the killer from his home and rebuilt his timeline, effectively creating a copy of him and letting his timeline play out like it was supposed to.
Lokreum had given this Undead higher intelligence, and allowed him to grow further.
Ever since he had watched the chess match between The Sister and The Brother, he had decided on creating a game of sorts.
Although this game would be quite unorthodox, that was the fun of it.
He had come up with the magnificent idea of having realms clash.
He would gather a few clusters of universal filaments and pit them against each other in a apocalyptic situation.
He had yet to decided on the prize but he didn't really care about them anyway. He only wanted to see how beings from different planes would fight.
He wanted to see the beauty of fighting! The art of war!
If a mindless killing machine were to fight with a loving child who truly held more power, how would the battle play out?
Would the child win because of sheer strength and abilities, or would it's mind be too weak to fight back and would it lose?
Despite being able to easily calculate the outcome, theoretical probability and reality were two different things.
After all, he found seeing things happen through experimentation much more enjoyable then just knowing the outcome.
*BOOM*
He stopped examining the growth of a new Undead embryo and looked over towards the original Adam King.
The wall he had beat was dented quite a bit.
"Good, good." Lokreum said, getting out of his seat, letting the essence of time alter the wall, returning it to its previous state. The metal he had used to create the wall was called Vorhinium, which was even stronger than the adamantine that could be found in The Sister's realm.
Thanks to the time difference between realms, The Sister's universe had grown greatly and was already on its second cycle if he could recall correctly.
"You're growing nicely." Lokreum said with awe. Adam had only died 18 times yet his abilities had grown even more.
His regeneration speed had increased too, which made death even harder, but when he does die, he resurrects relatively quickly and becomes almost immune to death the way he died previously.
This act of never ending evolution intrigued Lokreum, making him wonder how it truly even worked.
A being that only thinks of killing, having the ability to constantly grow from battles is surely an interesting combo.
Glancing over the creature before him once more, he couldn't help but think that he was a cheat code. His only weakness was his incapability to speak clearly...
'If you evolve from each death and become nigh-invulnerable to that specific way of death after revival...' Lokreum thought, standing up and moving in front of Adam.
He walked towards him, phasing through his body and standing still inside of him.
With a click, Lokreum stopped his intangibility and caused Adam to fall apart from the inside, effectively, killing him.
"Immune to intangibility now?" He asked, looking at the limp body that was a puddle of sludge on the ground, slowly rebuilding itself on a molecular level.
"Eh." Adam grunted, pushing itself off the ground as it continued to grow.
It took a few seconds, but he finally stood at his normal height again, which was approximately 2.5 meters.
Lokreum once more stepped forward and phased through him, making sure to not use his omnipotence but just the power of laws.
Contrary to his predictions, instead of Adam just taking no damage, he took no damage while instead Lokreum took the damage.
"Hmm." He hummed.
He took a step and arrived outside of Adam's body, not being truly affected whatsoever.
"Successful." He said, pulling out a notepad and scribbling things down.
"You're now immune to death by burning, drowning, having your heart removed, blood loss, mental overload, being destroyed from the inside, and many other things." Lokreum said, earning a nod from Adam.
"We may now go back to your world and you can finish what you started."
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