n the beginning, nearly a quintillion years ago now, i decided that i wanted to exist. I became as a patch of space in the middle of a void of nothingness. Only soul and a concept - space. I simply drifted through the inky darkness that was.
Some time later, (i forget how long) i came into contact with the first elemental streams - those of fire, water, earth, air, darkness and light. This is when i first met Aevum. Just like me, he willed himself into life from the void of nothingness, with one distinct difference - whilst i willed myself into space, he willed himself through time - 2 slightly different methods (ok maybe not just 'slightly'). Life as it is most normally considered in the universe involves three things - a soul, mind, and body. When we first came into 'life', there was only soul - unprotected by the fountain that is found in everyone nowadays - which meant that we were exposed to extreme pain from the elemental streams that burned, whipped, froze and crushed us. All of which went into empowering our souls to a ridiculous level.
As a natural response, Aevum and I (still just souls at this point) retaliated, which led to us destroying these elemental streams as at this point they were little more than the elements themselves and did not have concepts like space and time like us. At this point there was no burn or crush, which meant that we eventually overpowered and consumed most of the elemental properties of the streams. Using these we created the soul fountain which resulted in the mind being created. We could finally THINK!!
This might sound like the smallest gain, but to two existences that had only acted on primal urges this was a massive achievement. All that was left was a body and we could finally 'live' in the normal sense. Because of our vastly advanced concepts of space and time, both Aevum and I were forced to create an astral body, which corresponded to our concepts respectively, in order for our minds to not be ripped apart by the pure nature of these concepts.
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This was the beginning of our journey to power - there was nothing else in the void except for the vastly diminished elemental streams, which i admit could of caused the delay of the universe by about 200 quadrillion years and permanently weakened it (which is why it hates us but i refuse to accept that we are in the wrong here), meaning that we had no guidance and no understanding except for the want to rise and escape from this plane of nothingness into a plane of … well … somethingness?
After almost a quintillion years, we had risen through the ranks of heavenly and divine (although Aevum and I could not distinguish between each stage) , and because of the absence of the universe at this point we managed to reach the stage called Z. Z is an interesting stage - limitless, but with limits. There is nothing above Z which limits it but itself has no end, and when reaching Z you are essentially perfect.
Well Tenon, you might ask, if you are so powerful - how on earth did you allow for Aevum and yourself to be sent into the body of a plant, and lose your cultivation? To this i say - SLEEP. I blame it all on Aevum - he was supposed to be woken by me when the universe began or something actually INTERESTING happened (yes i know - it totally was his fault that he didn't automatically wake up and instead trusted me … like come on, even i have to sleep sometimes). Instead, i fell asleep and forgot to wake him - again, all his fault of course - and the universe began. It began … only to find two sleeping eternals sitting right on its doorstep like unwelcome tramps, and unlike any decent person instead of waking us up and giving us a loaf of bread before politely asking us if he could get through, he booted us into two *bodies* in the middle of nowhere. And that is how i woke up on the first day of the universe not to my usual nothingness but to a massive bird swooping down about to eat me.