Chapter 8: Epilogue

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After waiting for seven days, finally the 17th of March, 3022 arrived and Mark was waiting at the Boeing Interplanetary Space Port. Around him, there were the rest of the hundred people that got to go on the trip, among them was Duckie Dweeb and Dizz 'Nutz. Duckie in particular was looking at Mark with unmasked hatred and Dizz 'Nutz was looking at Duckie and Mark with absolute resolution. He was after all his planets representative this year, and he can't fail to make them proud.

When all the hundred winners of the competition were gathered, someone walks in front of the group and starts explaining what will happen now. "Everyone gathered here today are the top 100 position holders of the competition that finished seven days ago. Everyone knows that you were competing for the chance to enter and live, for a while, on the new planet that formed after Neptune.

"By law, I am required to express my dear congratulations and explain to you all that will happened from this point onward. Once my speech is done, you will be boarded onto a Boeing Interplanetary spacecraft. Once you board, make sure your seatbelts are fastened and secure and that you have an entertainment device with you. In the first hour of the trip, you will be secured to your seat without being able to leave it, over the course of the next 27 hours, you will be allowed to stand and walk around the spacecraft in your assigned locations, once we reach the planet you will need to seat and strap your seatbelt again.

"This will be reminded to you through comms on the ship and visual representation. The number one place holder, you will be led to your private room once on board, and the second and third place holder will be led to a more comfortable location to rest.

"The rules for the trip are: Be all set for security screening, don't block the aisle, put your HoloGlass' on silent, use headphone, no smelly food, keep your articles of clothing on, and DON'T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USE YOUR CULTIVATION WHILE EN ROUTE. Now you can follow me to board."

After she said all that, she turned around and began walking with the group of people following her in an orderly fashion. The group left the building and got on the airfield walking towards a huge spaceship. Everyone looked at the spaceship with awe and amazement. Flying cars and personal spaceships might be a very common thing in this century and era, but people barely get to see massive spaceship like these.

The ship had an extended nose with an airplane feel. It looked bulky and strong. On the bottom of the wings and the ship, there were massive energy turrets attached and ready to fire. The wings of the ship were not very long, but they matched the entire feel of the ship being bulky and carrying massive near-light speed engines. The engines glowed blue and produce a comforting heat but made no noise. Behind the wings extended two tails with a vertical stabilizer and rudder.

Going to the bottom of the ship, the entire group waited for the platform to lower and got on. After everyone was on the ship, they were each led to their personal living spaces for the next 30 or so hours. They spent around 15 minutes here getting everything ready and adjusted, then they were off. With a fizzle, the engines were turned on and they slowly took off the ground and flew through the air to the atmosphere and escaped the planet. It took five minutes to leave the planet.

When we left the planet, the engines turned off and the near light-speed engine turned on, zooming the space craft across the solar system. Over the next 28 or so hours, everyone did their own things, Mark came across Duckie multiple times, but he never did anything. The same thing happened with Dizz 'Nutz but all they did was talk about some things here and there. He was an interesting Martian.

Finally, after 30 hours of nonstop travel, they made it to the planets orbit. Mark is currently in his private room looking at the planet with an interested and excited glint in his eyes. The planet is over 50% smaller than Earth, but it is buzzing with more life and cultivation opportunities than Earth ever will. 25% percent of the planet's surface is covered in water and the rest is land with mountains and other geological marbles to witness.

{Attention all passengers! You are required on deck at this moment! I repeat! You are required on deck at this moment! We are getting ready to enter the atmosphere!}

The comms on the ship thundered throughout the whole ship, as everyone started fast walking towards the deck. Once on deck, they all went to their seats and strapped on their seatbelts and braced for reentry into the massively thick atmosphere. When everyone straps in, a few seconds pass before the ship starts to quietly rattle and squeak. The ship begins to slow down for reentry, and it starts burning brightly at the nose.

The ship begins rattling harder and then… it stops. Just like that. Everything stops and they have smooth sailing once again. Everyone on deck breathed a sigh of relive, except Mark, and begin unstrapping after they were cleared. All spaceships have gravity generators and atmospheric entry stabilizers, so the reason for the rough entry into the planet is the insanely thick atmosphere. That thing could destroy a ten-kilometer big and thick asteroid entering at the speed of sound.

Everyone left the deck to their own quarters and living spaces to collect their things to be able to leave immediately. Once everyone gathered everything that was theirs, they gathered at the ship's hull, ready to get off. Just five minutes later, the hull ramp opened, and they started exiting the ship. Outside, the group saw five people with military attire standing erect like a statue, presumably waiting for them.

"Welcome! During you time on this base, you will live outside of military operations. You are not to interfere with military operations in any way. When you go out to explore, you will be guarded by Shadow Soldiers from unexpected threats, they will also monitor your movements on site. You will follow Lt. Commander Artimus, he will lead you to your quarters on site. You are dismissed!" The person in the middle of five yelled at them before they even got the chance to look at the surroundings. To the left of the five Lieutenant's, one started walking to the left of the spaceship and the rest left to the operations building.

After getting everything setup and customizing their living quarters, everyone left to explore the military base, with supervision of course. The base was quite big for this planet and had a lot of soldiers all running and excising and cultivating. They even saw a couple of groups leaving the base with advanced weapons and bulky armor.

After the first and second day, the group was allowed to leave the base on their own, except the shadow soldiers on their ass. Mark in particular left the first chance that he could officially and started exploring the outside. The grass and vegetation were vibrant green colored, and the plants and trees had various colored plant life.

Going further out, 15 kilometers away from the military base, Mark ran into a human sized red tiger. At first it looked with curiosity at Mark and Mark looked back at it with the same curiosity. Both beings looking at each other with utter calm and silence, but then the tiger jumped at Mark with a massive leap while swinging its claws, reaching him in less than second.

Mark in this less than a second time period calmly walked out of the way and watched as the tiger landed and looked around for him. Finding Mark, the tiger ran towards him with teeth bared and saliva drooping. Mark raised his arms and grabbed the jaw and upper jaw of the tiger and pushed it back flying. The tiger, once it landed, turned towards Mark, and opened its mouth wide, then flames started to spray from it.

The flames were red hot and burned anything in its path, but upon reaching Mark, he just waved his hand and they instead travelled to the side. Seeing as the tiger was running out of moves, Mark moved just a little bit faster than the tiger could see and kneed it in the side of the skull. With the strong hit, the tigers body recoiled and went flying until it hit a tree and stopped.

When it hit the tree, it dropped to the ground and stayed unmoving, seeing this Mark approached it. Once near enough, the tigers body suddenly moved and went to bite Mark's head off, but Mark moved his head out of the way and suddenly stabbed its skull with his hand. Then Mark smiled and took his hand out of the tiger's skull and turned around.

There standing was Duckie Dweeb and a bunch of people from the group.

"I admit, you are strong, but it does not matter how strong you are when we have the advantage." Dweeb smiled while saying this, then raised his hand and all the people around him, which numbered in the 20s, suddenly sprint towards Mark to attack.

Mark with even faster speed basically teleports through the crowd while hitting them in place that will not kill them but will disable them for life and crippled their cultivation. Mark then moves to Dweeb's side and stands there, then he slows his perception of time and watches as all the people dropped to the ground and stopped moving. Dweeb is shocked at the turn of events when he thought that he would finally beat Mark. His maddening hatred of Mark very quickly turns into fear.

Seeing Dweeb turning to fear him, Mark goes to punch him in the head slow enough that his senses could detect it. Sensing something dangerous about to hit him, Dweeb crouches and dodges the punch, then he rolls forwards and stands. Looking at Mark, his fear grows bigger. Slowly, his perception of Mark changes to that of an evil demon.

Dweeb shakes off his fear and goes to run the other way, but Mark is already in front of him. He tries multiple times to flee, but no matter what way he goes Mark is always in front of him.

"You can't escape from me Duckie Dweeb. You will have to fight me to survive." Mark said with a dark and evil tone of voice, while also carrying some convincing affects. Hearing his voice, Dweeb is scared out of his wits and starts screaming, fighting the effects of the compulsion, but eventually gives out.

Dweeb stops screaming and looks at Mark with undisguised hatred, then rushes forwards. They produced to have an epic battle of massive proportions with entire planets destr… just kidding. Dweeb rushes Mark with a battle cry and Mark slaps the living shit out of him. With that done, Mark lowers the perception filter that he placed at the beginning of the battle and changes his body to have a few scars.

With the only acceptable fights in this place done with, Mark explores the entire planet in less than a few seconds and then heads towards the stars. But not before erasing his influence on the planet and universe. He proceeds to explore the entire universe, experiencing a particularity, all the civilizations in the universe have not gotten out of their home solar systems. Something to ask Sublime after the trip.

After exploring the entire universe, Mark goes to Earth one last time and looks at it from above the atmosphere. While looking down, he is reminded of Dweeb and his fears manifesting into demons and thinks. "I wonder what they will do when they find out they are above Heaven itself, and are basically conceptual gods."