38 Chapter 28 - Who would have guessed

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

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As Giratina quickly and silently took out all life on the planet without the knowledge of the woman in front of me, I decided to sit on her bed and continue another conversation.

"Did you know that out of the fifty eldritch gods that dream, I am the only male?" The smirk on my face couldn't be hidden, as the amount of trolling I was about to do would only make it grow.

"What?! But how does that work?" I got the exact reaction I wanted.

"In the end, the reason you're being dreamed of by someone else is so they can torture you in the worst way possible... Or maybe not." The alarm on her face was comical, but she seemed to calm down a bit as I finished what I was saying.

"You should get to work on those rituals so you can get that kiss." Upon hearing my words, she perked up with more energy than previously.

"Ah, right, only a kiss this time, as you were going beyond what the deal was." I swear I could see her visibly deflate.

My eyes looked out the window as a small yet depressing smile formed on my face. 'Taking things slow like this and living life as if I were in a slice-of-life anime isn't too bad.' The thought was then overtaken by rage forming inside me for being complacent.

After all, that's how most beings die. 'Being a bit complacent and wanting to live in the moment is fine, but staying complacent is something I won't do.' I have no idea who I was trying to comfort or if my words were just for self-confirmation.

I didn't need to stay for the rituals, and in the end, I found myself now walking the quiet streets of the outside world. I found a bench that looked brand new somehow and sat down on it.

I closed my eyes and heard someone sit down next to me. Giratina should have already killed the entire world's population, so whoever this is can't be human.

"Hello?"

"Oh? Humans? While they might seem bad in the end, they all have their rights."

"Nobody is born a slave. From the moment you are born, you are the freest in the universe. Nothing is chaining you down, and you have no obligations."

"In the end, we just have to keep moving forward."

"Keep moving forward until all your enemies are destroyed. Only then can you be free from the chains that hold you down."

"Who are you talking to?" I slowly open my eyes as Giratina, in her humanoid form, appears in front of me.

"What do you mean? I was just talking to this like-minded fellow beside me." I spoke while still looking Giratina in the eye.

"But… There's nobody next to you." She cringed as she spoke, but eventually got it out. My eyes turn to the left, and on the bench next to me, I see... Nothing.

Who was I talking to? For some reason, I don't even think I have a name. Well, it didn't matter anymore. Giratina had sat on the left side of the bench and didn't say anything.

Suddenly I felt a weight on my lap and noticed that Giratina had put her head on my lap.

"What are you doing?"

"Let me enjoy this a little bit longer." Giratina interrupted me with a bit of pleading in her voice.

*Sigh*

"Fine." With the confirmation that I wouldn't try to remove her head from my lap, her smile grew. Sometimes I wondered how my creations would turn out, but seeing Giratina like this, I could only assume the worst.

I started rubbing one of her white horns with my left hand, and with my right, I rubbed her hair. I don't know if Giratina could just be bored, but if she wanted attention from me, then she could have it.

'Could she feel the same way about me as I feel about goth girls?' The thought was then ejected from my mind as I realized how stupid it was.

"Do you want me to destroy the rest of this universe?" Giratina's voice quickly caught my attention, as she still had her eyes closed with a smile on her face.

"You don't have to," I said to her as I looked at the park that had animals still in it but not a single human. "Why? Wouldn't it undermine your goals? Why don't you grab everything?" "Shhhh." I placed my finger on her lips as she tried to continue.

"This is the dream of one of my family members. It could be a niece of mine, and so wouldn't it be rude if I ruined that?" My logic seemed sound to her as she quieted down, and I continued spoiling her.

As I sat there spoiling the origin dragon, laying her head on my lap, I felt the first ritual be complete. The change was so minimal that a normal human wouldn't notice it, yet any god would quickly notice it.

As I sat on the bench, I couldn't help but think about who could've dreamt of this. Was it one of the presences I found hanging around me the first time, or was it someone else?

Fifty different gods could have dreamt of this, and I wouldn't be able to know which one it was. I could ask, but with their pride as gods, they wouldn't even think about fessing up.

I could always add a reward, but then it would make false confessions appear. A kiss might seem like a small reward, but from the only male god, it makes a big difference.

I know I could take all the souls in this universe, but it would not only ruin whoever was dreaming this up but also wouldn't actually wake them up. When they dream, the act of summoning an eldritch god will wake them up, and usually in their dream, they are the ones summoned.

If you kill all intelligent life and don't summon any eldritch god, then they will stay asleep in a dream that is a quiet and soulless nightmare. None of them deserved that. Well, besides my mother, who is actually terrifying.

Who would have guessed that the "Blind Idiot God" was actually blind with razor-sharp teeth? I honestly don't know how my father even found her, as she was like a female praying mantis.

Suddenly, I felt the second ritual be completed, and I sent Giratina back to Nyarla's house in the Crawling Dreams world. Bending space, I appeared right beside the bed in the apartment where the rituals were taking place.

For all the time I spent here, I didn't mind it all that much. The girl in front of me looked exactly as she did the last time she did the rituals. She was currently speaking out the last ritual and was making a record pace.

I walked up to her as she finished speaking. She looked so excited to the point that it looked like she was a puppy, knowing she would get a treat. I once again felt her presence watching me as I took both my hands to each side of her head.

I planted a chaste kiss on her lips as I quickly pulled back. "You took too much last time, so this should balance it out a bit. Also, to the ones watching this, don't you think it's rude to look into private matters?" She seemed angry at first and then confused about who I was talking to, but in the end, she accepted it.

"It doesn't matter to me because I can always get another kiss!" Her cheerfulness broke through as she pointed at me with a smile on her face.

"You are right about that." A small smile formed on my face, and I could say I enjoyed the ups and downs.

But it didn't matter in the end. "See you later, love." I had no reason to say goodbye, as she would always be somewhere, and I could always find her at some point.

Her smile radiated happiness, even with her reality ending. I definitely saved that moment as well. The end came swiftly as reality broke apart under my soul, eventually leaving nothing but me and the now "Crimson Spawn."

I used the marker function to teleport back to Nyarla's house, as I would be leaving this reality without saying goodbye.

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Back in my actual body, I contemplated if using this method would be correct. With the altar, I had to wait for someone to summon an eldritch creature, but if I bent space randomly to send me to a point, I could arrive in a random universe.

The downside would be that I wouldn't have the mark to protect me, but besides that, I could go anywhere. With a smile on my face, I knew I should just jump into the deep end.

"What is Murphy going to do to me? When put up against a law like that there is only one thing to say: Nah, I'd win."

With the confidence of a universe behind me, I bent space to send me into a random universe. I opened my eyes in space and looked at the stars.

Yet, turning around was my biggest mistake. I didn't even hear anything, which means it wasn't there before I started looking around.

In front of my eyes stood one of the beings I knew I couldn't handle. Arceus, otherwise known as God,

"I'm so f*cked." That was the last thing I said before an attack blasted my way. Using space to try and build up infinity, I noticed that his attack went straight through infinity.

It felt like I was hit by an armor-piercing round of a tank as a hole the size of my head appeared directly on my chest.

I tried to block upward as a judgment came from the heavens(?) and blasted me. The beam hurt more than any pain I experienced before, as my arms burned and crumbled.

I couldn't understand how Arceus was hitting me through my defense. But it all made sense as I looked at the way another one of his attacks bypassed my space manipulation.

He would ascend the dimension of his attack and make it unperceivable in the third dimension. By ascending his attacks past the fourth dimension, they could easily bypass my space manipulation.

The attack would go back to being third-dimensional right before hitting me. 'I have to'—I wasn't given time to think as Arceus appeared behind me with a look I could only describe as all-knowing.

His heel tapped the space, and I could see a ripple as I felt a punch land on my body. I couldn't tell from where, but I instantly boosted to my maximum power and activated my crown.

Another punch landed, then ten, fifty, five hundred, fifteen thousand, and I couldn't defend. "Enough." I was done being used as a punching bag, and I activated all of my manipulations at once.

I was built defensively, but I still had some power up my sleeve. I used both Spacial Rend and Roar of Time on Arceus, yet they both did nothing to him. I knew they would do nothing, so I teleported in front of him.

With my perception manipulation, I slowed down my perception of time until nothing was moving. Arceus has instantaneous movement, and because of that, I would need to be faster than instantaneous.

With my power, I grasped an atom and split it apart with Spacial Rend. The resulting implosion would have been monstrous if not for me using space manipulation to shrink the blast radius and quicken the effects with space and time manipulation, respectively.

I used calamity manipulation to make the damage as extensive as possible. I then reversed the time of the atom to before it was spit and used Neutron Star Collapse.

Speeding it up with time manipulation and then allowing the brunt of the damage to hit Arcues with space and calamity manipulation, I sped up my perception to see the damage I did.

I wasn't stupid, and because of that, I was charging for my next attack instead of waiting for an attack to come at me. Arceus stood there without a scratch, like I thought would happen, but there was one move I had yet to try.

I lowered my perception before Arcues could attack. I might not be able to move, but that doesn't mean my power isn't able to be used.

I spun eight neutron star collapses around me as I slowly pulled them together. Getting all of the attacks to merge with time manipulation, quickening the process, and space manipulation allowed me to move somewhat.

'Crimson Collapse' With that thought, the small dot turned a crimson color and engulfed both me and Arceus. When the blast cleared, I saw Arcues with no damage sustained, but I expected this.

I fell over backward as if compelled by some force and felt pain in my chest. Arceus had stabbed his foot straight through me.

A deranged smile formed on my face as I looked at Arceus. "Gotcha!" I said as I grasped onto his foot and summoned another version of me that looked as though it was made of a crimson aura.

This was the ability of "Me and You," and the aura clone also grabbed onto Arcues. I knew he had instantaneous movement, but with both of us teleporting him back, it wouldn't matter.

It didn't matter what he did to try and shake us off, as I used this move for the first time since its creation.

"I"

Both the clone and I started speaking as futuristic lines spread in all directions throughout this galaxy.

"Am"

The lines grew further outward and engulfed the entirety of the supercluster of galaxies we were in.

"Crimson"

The entire universe was engulfed by deep crimson energy. All of the energy rushed back into its maker as it seemed like nothing had happened and everything had gone back to normal.

Until an explosion so massive that it destroyed everything in the observable universe and kept going appeared. It lasted fifteen seconds before disappearing.

I was left with nothing but darkness. A smile graced my face as I knew this ending was a lie. The system notifications of the souls I should have acquired were proof of that, as I haven't seen any new notifications since this battle started.

Suddenly the light was brought back, and I realized it was my explosion as it was traveling in reverse. And when it was done, we were right back to where we started.

Arceus was in front of me with the same all-knowing look as before. It's not that he wasn't taking damage; it was that he kept replacing the avatars when they were destroyed.

'This was truly a hopeless fight. Just like Darkseid and SCP-682, Arceus's true body wasn't here, so he could just create new avatars on the spot.' That was my last thought as I was hit by a fully calm, mind-empowered judgment.

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(#$?#!*#@) x1 -> (#$?#!*#@) x0

Canceling Revive. Activating #$?#!*#@.

[1%]

[9%]

[26%]

[52%]

[73%]

[98%]

[100%]

The concept of freedom is granted.

Treasure… Granted.

Unity… Granted.

Title: Child of the End... Granted.

Title: Bringer of Ruination... Granted.

Title: Bringer of Chaos... Granted.

Title: Bringer of Order... Granted

Title: Bringer of Preservation... Granted.

Title: Prince of Phonk(?) Granted.

Title: The Honored/Crimson One... Granted.

Title: The Idiot Prince... Granted.

Title: Child of the Devourer... Granted.

Title: The Unstable One... Granted.

Domain Expansion: Granted

Crown… Granted.

???… Granted.

Activating the awakening of

▜▛ █▬█ █☰ ❰ ƦƖ █ ▛▚▞▜ ▟▛ ██ ▛▟ ▛ ƦƖ █ ▛▟ ❰ █☰.

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He who shall awaken...

The next chapter is going to be crazy, so I hope you'll enjoy it.

Don't worry about the word limit, as this chapter was over 3,000 words without the inflation being added. It's like 3,600+ words right now. ▛ ƦƖ █ ▛▟ ❰ █☰.

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