Living... at what cost...
Tossing the last centipede's head into the portal, Azman completed his transaction with the devil's Home as he finished his drink and the left over meat of the dinosaur. As he was about to walk on his own merry way, a Lazer bullet hit him right in the head. Azman got shot and fell to the ground, motionless, blood pouring out of his bullet wound. Suddenly the tattoo of the infinite ouroboros over his chest started moving, causing the body of the creature to be engulfed by it's own mouth slow and steady as new body keeps emerging from it's head. The eyes of the tattoo starts glowing red as the bullet hole in Azman's head slowly starts to fade away. Azman slowly starts making grunts and moans untill he finally starts screaming out from his mouth as the tattoo keeps moving and the hole in his head disappears. Slowly, he gets up from his position and aims his gun to the direction the bullet arrived from.
"JZ... point out every sons of bitches and auto shoot them all..."
"TARGET ACQUIRED"
8 shots in a second.
"JOB FINISHED...
NOW...
TO AVOID SEARCH..
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CHANGE THE TIME?"
Azman felt something unusual growing at his back, some spots, as he absent mindedly replies,
"yeah... wherever the fuck you want... but first lemme loot those sons of bitches who shot me..."
"We'll be moving to random jump point in T-minus 10 minutes"
"Have it your way... JZ...
as long I can get my account stuffed.."
As he walked towards the corpses, watching their faces, horrified and twisted against their will, as if they looked into the face of the devil right before the bullets penetrated their skulls.
"These fuckers ..." growled Azman as he took a fine look over their corpses.
"Who the fuck ripped their souls apart from their body before the bullets hit them???
and why are the GOD KILLERs trying to fry my ass without a reason???
I'm not trying to play fuckin God... I'm...
just a freaking ravager...
but as they're here...
I have to get all these nasty stuff off them.. they're dead anyways...
JZ... put these items down to the Devil's Home and get the price in a minute... I'm just already tired of this shit"
As JZ finishes all analysation and covers up every bits and crannies from the GOD KILLERS, even their bodies disposed as of some rare species of meat for other species, Azman's time was almost up in this time period.
Soon, JZ gave a small click and spoke,
"T-minus 59 seconds until random time jump"
As Azman came near the last of the bodies to throw him into the portal, he notices the guy contains a tattoo of the infinite ouroboros imprinted on his wrist and his neck, like some kind of a cult's logo. He threw the corpse into the portal, as he looked at his own bare chest for the imprinted tattoo. It didn't feel like a tattoo, but more like scales upon his own skin.
Azman thought to himself,
" when did I even get the tattoo?? doesn't feels like one...
and how did I not die from that shot???
well... not that it fuckin matters...
let's get the party started...."
JZ continues with the countdown, as Azman takes out a closed box, clicks it's head, and it starts releasing small nano robots, covering every bits and parts of Azman untill he was covered in a suit of nanotechnology.
As JZ comes near finishing,
"17....
16...
15...."
Azman speaks,
"Authorization
BLTCH_ NANO_ DEFLECTOR_ ON...
INVISIBILITY_ INDESTRUCTIBILITY_ 100%
GOD SLAYER MODE_ ACTIVATE_"
As these commands finish, Azman is covered with microscopic nanobots slowly rendering him invisible, as they attract the light from the surrounding environment and deflect light as the space in which they're filled in, making Azman disappear in complete isolation.
As JZ nears the end of the countdown, Azman takes a yawn and says,
"hope it's worth working my time... JZ"
as JZ finishes,
"4....
3....
2....
1....
MOVING ON...."
In a fraction of second, Azman travels through what seems like a worm hole for whole 5 seconds. A long, endless tunnel, filled with myriad of colors flow by with symbols and incantations running in every sense of reality. A place, where science meets magic, where reality distorts itself to the most wonderous self it can be seen as. A place which helps millions cross their destined ways, as the Traveller transcends space and time, with creatures unknown making appearances across the walls of this tunnel, as an aquarium of the unknown, as they flow by creating noises never heard. Creatures existing from mythologies, to stories of children, to every heard rumors to ever exist... moved in eternity in that tunnel of beauty, to exist.. to, live.
Azman however, seemed unfazed by the view. Looking at the watch, he counted the 5 seconds as groggily as he could. As the countdown finished, the tunnel came to an end. Azman was standing between luscious forests and mountains.
JZ commanded,
"WE HAVE REACHED OUR RANDOM DESTINATION_
FOUNDATION OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY
TIME- UNKNOWN
PANDORA'S BOX
ITEM TO ACQUIRE_
BOX LEFT OF HOPE_
TIME LEFT UNTILL BOX OPENS_ 28 HOURS_
ALL THE BEST.... son of...(indistinct chattering)... AZMAN..."
Azman looked at the details being unclear, and started to search up the myth of Pandora's box....
It took him around 3 hours to learn about the mythology surrounding the incident.
As he ended his research, he thought up of a plan to pry open up the box in order to get what he needed.
Locating Pandora and her husband Epithemius wasn't much hard. What surprised Azman was that the box was kept in their home unchecked, with Epithemius carrying the keys around him all the time. He followed Pandora as she tried her best to woo her husband into opening the lock of the box. To her dismay, Epithemius was adamant about his decision, and nothing seemed to budge him from his point of view.
18 hours passed by, as Azman kept on watching every attempt of Pandora go in vain.
Finally, Azman came up with a plan.
Changing his attire according to the period, Azman changed his looks of a random vagabond selling street items.
"Are people in this time period gullible enough to accept random things from strangers?
well, it worked at Ravana's time... so it must be easier now.... here it goes...."
Azman reaches near the doors of Pandora's house and reaches to knock the door. Pandora opens up the door with a delightful face, asking him for his business...
Azman proceeds to change his language translator and speak,
" would you wish...
to keep your husband....
happy as you can never think of it to be???
As time says....
nothing satisfies a man, more than the best of the drinks available in this observable universe.... "
Pandora listens to Azman's blabbers with amazement, as he proceeds to pull out a wine specially available at the Devil's Home...
a special elixir...
aged for a 100,000 years.... with mixed in sleeping conduits as strong as to make even a dragon fall asleep....
and hands it over to Pandora, as he keeps on speaking,
" give this... to rest your man with the pleasures of tastes he could never think of.... but be aware...
you must make him drink.... till the last drop, as to fulfill your destiny...
the box....
be ware...."
Says Azman as he squeaks a small laugh under his breath and hands over the bottle to Pandora.
Azman turns invisible and enters their home to see how does his plan turns out. As he watches, Pandora pours a glass of the elixir into Epithemius's Glass and asks him to have a sip. Taking a sip, he suddenly starts shaking his head, falling asleep then and there, as dead as a log, snoring away as loud as a church bell.
Azman looks astonished, tries to hold his breath as to not let out a bursting laughter from his mouth to give his position to Pandora.
"This bitch for real ??? he's just out in a single sip.... and for big talks being related to Gods... what a waste..."
Azman kept looking towards Pandora as she took the keys from Epithemius and kept wandering around the box, moving a step near the box, and yet going back again in hesitation.
"5 MINUTES LEFT UNTIL EXTRACTION"
Read the description in front of Azman's eyes.
Azman clicked on record scenery capture in his helmet.
Becoming impatient, he typed into the screen of JZ,
"VOICE OF THE INNER CONSCIENCE-
COMMAND_ OPEN THE BOX"
As the command was accepted,
a voice started playing in the room, which was heard by Pandora as her own voice.
"OPEN THE BOX... LET IT GO.... YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE... IT WON'T HURT ANYONE..."
"2 MINUTES UNTIL EXTRACTION"
Read the screen on Azman's eyes.
He watched as Pandora opened up the box, and slowly, open up it's lid.
As soon as the lid was lifted, the flap slammed open to release a black ominous aura from within itself, as every form of monsters and bugs known to mankind kept on releasing from the box.
One by one, Azman looked in amazement as the deadly sins took sinister forms inside Pandora's home.
Lust,
Pride,
Envy,
Sloth,
Gluttony,
Wrath...
All took forms as he watched them surround Pandora, as she looked with a horrifying stare towards the box, unaware of their presence.
Azman looked at them, getting irritated, opening up Devil's Home and asking for 7 demonic boxes to lock them in.
One by one, Azman slits the demon's throats with a Demon Slayer knife, and as they lost their physical forms, slow and steady... started to gather up into a cloud of dust together to form an abomination.
Azman let out a sigh..... slowly crackling his fingers up and clicking on one of the demon box.
"You assholes saved me time and apparently.... a shit ton money..." , saying he grinned and threw the box amidst the center.
Slowly, the box started sucking in the demons still in the dust, screams of agony and pain heard as they get dragged inside together.
In a moment, all the demons turned into fodder for Azman's box, slowly closing in and sealing up itself. Picking it up, Azman says in amusement,
"well, you guys are for my personal collection.... I'll take care of you guys myself".
Soon, Azman sees greed slowly emerging and taking shape from thin air. Azman stops and looks at the demon with glimmering eyes, as greed takes on the physical appearance of Azman himself, manifesting right in front of his eyes.
Azman smiles... puts down the demon box and the Demon Slayer knife, as he grins while watching greed create his mirror image.
"you are...
one.... arrogant creature... to break time... and hold on.... to my brothers....
I.... greed will feast upon your soul.... as I watch your....
pathetic life....
fade away... in front of my eyes....
Azman.... Son of....."
Greed suddenly shivers in fear, as he watches Azman slowly walk up towards him.
Azman says with a menacing smile on his face,
"yeah man.... I'm kind of a big fuckin deal... sorry... but I guess you know who turns into fodder..."
Azman slams a punch on greed's face, and seeing the expression of horror on his own face, Azman feels triumphant.
Slamming the demon box on greed's forehead, Azman watches as greed slowly changes back to his own ungodly form, screaming in agony as he sees Azman smile...
"see you in hell"
Azman jokes.
Turning back, he sees the box almost emptying itself out to let every form of hate, crime, diseases, and everything unworldly fly out from the box and release from the open window in Pandora's house.
Soon, the box empties itself to leave Pandora enough time to lock whatever's left inside the box.
"EXTRACTION AVAILABLE"
Popped up on Azman's screen, as he looked upon the box.
Pandora fell in despair, her knees trembling to the point she couldn't stand up anymore. Falling to the ground, she turns around to see the box, only to see it go missing from the table.
Azman jumped out of the open window, as Happy as he could be.
"YOU HAVE ACQUIRED-
BOX OF PANDORA'S HOPE"
Azman smiled as he threw it into the portal.
"JZ.... next random jump in 5 seconds."
Azman felt something grow on his back...
Feathers?
Well, not that it matters...
Azman gets teleported through the portal as he sees around and watches the creatures move in it's beauty....
"I wonder how much do they cost" Azman thought to himself as he went on to his next location.
"WE HAVE REACHED OUR RANDOM DESTINATION" sprung up on Azman's screen.