Galaxias Calendar Year 485607728912, Month 11, Day 12
10 minutes before the Era of Hope
Flame Region, Quadrant C, Universal Coordinates: 833.00082, 2291.70304
“Drain the hope from your souls, my grand mages! Today is the day that we will all fall, to bring about the chance of survival to the next universe!”
Ranks upon ranks of creatures of all shapes and sizes lined the infinite blackness of the spatial sky. All wore silver armour glimmering with golden lining weaved into an unknown language, with only their faces exposed to the grand vacuum. Around them, intricate constructions, glass shapes with many edges and countless lines within that could only have been born of nature surrounded the raging winds that emanated from their presence.
But even this sight, one that could inspire dread in any planet’s civilization, paled before the scintillant orb of pink, liquidated metal floating but a scant few light-seconds away. The immovable blackness of space cracked beneath its weight, revealing white scars amongst its infinite length. Inside, a faint winged figure could be seen, and even the vacuum of space could not dampen the horrid, pained screaming emanating from it. Whatever this creature was doing, it was clearly involuntary.
“We face Master Hope! I know you all greatly respect him and have hope in his power, but keep those thoughts out of your heads! The stronger Master Hope is, the faster we all die!”
“RYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
The ranks of creatures roared in unison, fires of terror in their eyes. They knew in their hearts that this day, they would all die.
Far from this scene, in a grandiose mansion floating through space, there were 6 figures convened around a table. 4 were vaguely humanoid, and the remaining two more closely resembled beasts, a drake and wyvern respectively.
One of the humanoids, 3 metres in height, stocky and masculine with short black hair, yet fragile and graceful with soft pale skin, emblazoned with clearly militaristic badges amongst the traditional robes it wore, spoke out with a grave tone,
“Time, Life and Radiance, Fire, Judgement. Hope’s magic is finally starting to pour out without end. My Galaxias Barrier is about to fall.”
“The Galaxias Barrier is about to fall? But it's meant to be invincible, even I couldn’t break past it when in a quasi-13th state, are you 1000% sure?” This outburst came from the wyvern, whose orange eyes and bright red scales clearly betrayed it as the Fire mentioned earlier.
“Fire, if Infinity has stated as such, it is true. You think the universal king would lie when his kingdom is in jeopardy?" A long, purple-haired humanoid spoke this time, with withered skin and a short stature.
“Let the lass cry out, Time. Our universe is about to crumble regardless. We can’t stop Hope, not anymore.” The dark scaled dragon let out, with a gruff voice and the light of life gone from its eyes.
“We still have our mission given by the Highest Mage, don’t forget. Judgement, you will still help, yes?” On closer inspection, the two remaining humanoids were a single body, one with green hair and the other gold, Life and Radiance.
Infinity spoke out again,
“Time, we cannot delay any longer.”
Time let out a huff, and the active air around them seemed to freeze up.
“This still isn’t a perfect spell, you know. The Highest Mage may be a master of Light magic rather than Time, but even he must understand that I won’t be able to send this message perfectly intact.”
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“They know.”
“Good. Then, let's begin.”
As its speech ended, purple lines began to scatter themselves throughout the sky, covering an incredible distance, as the stagnant air began to even crystallise. The humanoid’s skin clearly began to wither even more with every purple line that appeared. It began to murmur a chant beneath its breath,
“Yel’kæyet, Am Ihul…”
Back in the pink metal orb, the winged man named Hope could barely keep his eyes open as his jaw stretched to almost unnatural lengths to let out screams. Around him, bolts of white flame continuously ate away at the metal.
”I don’t want this, not this, why will my magic not LISTEN!”
With every scream, another thousand thousand bolts of white flame would fire out, and it was but a few moments before the barrier exploded into a brilliant supernova. White cracks spread throughout the universe almost instantly, staining the skies of planets both during day and night, cutting suns in two and wiping whole galaxies off the map.
“Hunio, Yel Umus Vuciro Ama…”
With every word, more and more of the lines began to join together, and the creature began to break down.
“Hurry it up, Time!”
“Yel Gdis, Am Yel Umus…”
“Vuciro Yel’Kæyet…”
“Vuciro!”
At the end of its words, the purple lines all connected together into a tiny mirror as it crumbled into dust, only reflecting Infinity. Life and Radiance flipped their body to face the group,
“Everyone! We can mourn Time later, shatter your seals and keep it running! If this spell ends before our message is complete, we’ll have failed the next world!”
The remaining 4, besides Infinity, had a different type of air emanate from them - Blazing hot air from the Fire, a heavy dark air from Judgement, an air dancing with boundless energy from Life, and a bright air that could be seen with the naked eye flew from Radiance.
As the white cracks infesting the universe pierced the mansion, Infinity stood in front of the mirror.
“This is a message sent with the sacrifice of 10 novemdecillion creatures, who all poured their lives into devising this spell. To the universe of the future, we can only bring you these few words, such that you will not crumble like my Galaxias Kingdom.
In time, you will come to understand magic, Aspects, and the countless races that will span your universe. Many of you will have great power, many more without. There will be countless kingdoms, and countless slaughters. I cannot give specifics, for future-sight is not possible for us. However, I do trust that this message shall reach the one best suited to bring you all to prosperity.
There will come a day where one of the many you trust will betray you, not by their will, but by the circumstances of their birth. For us, it was our poor Hope, and for the ones before us, their Hope. Though we are yet to uncover the truth, simply knowing that your Hope will be the cause of your destruction shall bring you closer than ever before.
Trust in the Highest Mage, he can and will guide you to our realm. Perhaps, in time, one of you may make it to his. Beware the Nullforce, those white cracks surrounding me, and the destruction it can wreak, do not attempt to harvest its power in any way. That is all I can tell you without fraying the fabric of your Infinity.
We wish you luck in our deaths.”
And with a scream that pierced any distance, all the universe went white.