Chapter 77: Impact and Revelations (Part 3)

Alexander quickly goes over the conversation with this entity and thought of some inconsistencies. Alexander thought, " The Biggest inconsistency is the absence of force in this dimension. If this entity was the force itself then, this dimension should be overflowing with force not like in the state it is. Force is life energy and everyone alive emits it so how can the emboidment of force itself doesn't give off a single iota of force. She also said that force and life energy are different but if they were really different than I should not have sensed force in my kingdom as my kingdom does not have force.

Moreover, if she doesn't control this dimension then how did she managed to bring me here. This theory about mark is possible but rest is dubious. If the prime versions of the three wanted to end the dieties of force, they will not send weak portions of their power as they would have to fight 3 opponents. Moreover, they would first end the resident threat i.e., the force then, they will fight against each other and if they cannot win against force deity together then they would try to lock it away, until the time, they could end it. Also, how did this entity knew so much about the history of the prime universe?"

Alexander said in a sincere tone, " I cannot conquer this dimension without my body. Is there any way to enter this realm with my body?" Alexander paid closed attention to the entity to see if there was any indication of falsehood.

Force replied, " No one can enter this realm with body. Is there any other way?" Alexander tried to read her facial expression and body language but found nothing suspicious.

Alexander then spoke up, " There can be a way but I am not sure."

Alexander could see that the entity was now paying close attention to him. Alexander maintained a pondering expression and said, " If you submitted to me, maybe after returning to my body, I would be able to sense the connection between us and try to find a way to release you."

Force said, " No!! I will not sacrifice my free will in exchange of my freedom."

Alexander made a confused face and said, " Losing your free will.... Why do you think like this?"

Force replied and said, " I have seen how the beings living on your conquered planets regard you as their everything after the conquest. They also want to fulfill your every order regardless of personal harm. No being thinks bad of you. I will not submit to you."

Alexander, " They regard me as everything because I have changed their lives, made their lives worth living, gave them something that they didn't have before, I gave them hope of a better future. What they were doing before I conquered their planets, they were not truly living, just going through motions, there was no progress instead they were slowly regressing back as corruption increased in society. I stopped the exploitation of the weaker sections of the society. I gave them equal status in society and made them realise that their well being matters to someone, that someone cares about what happens to them. That's the reason that they are loyal to me and ready to fulfill my commands as they know that I work for their upliftment."

Force snorted and said, " Is this what you tell yourself so that you could sleep peacefully? Delusional!!! That's what you are."

Alexander deadpanned, " I don't sleep.....This is taking us nowhere either you submit or return my soul back to my body."

Force did not say anything and fell in thought. Alexander, meanwhile, tried to return to his body. Alexander could sense connection to his body but something was blocking him from entering his body. Alexander did nothing and tried to communicate with his men. Alexander was only able to feel his subjects vaguely. Alexander then, tried to use his powers discretely. Alexander tried to sense is magic and found that he was able to neither access his magic nor the force. Alexander thought, " I don't have access to my magic or the force but there is only one thing I could do now, is to attack this entity with only thing power I have now....spiritual power but I have not tried to access this power till now. Let's see if this will work."

Alexander delved inside his core and tried to sense any power hidden inside him but felt nothing. As Alexander was searching for the power residing his soul. The entity spoke up, " I will agree but on one condition."

Alexander was genuinely surprised and asked, " What condition?"

Force, " We will make a soul pact."

Alexander, " What is that?"

Force, " A pact that binds the soul of the being as collateral, if anyone doesn't fulfill his or her part of the deal then, their soul get destroyed."

Alexander, " How I can know that you are not lying?" Alexander was somehow able to sense that the entity was losing it's patience with him.

Force replied, " You will know in a second." Alexander prepared himself for any sudden attack.

The Force said in a loud voice and said, " I want to initiate a soul pact with this otherwordly being." Alexander waited for any strange signs to appear but nothing happened. Alexander saw a hint of mad fury in the eyes of the entity standing before him. Alexander guessed that her attempt failed and said, " Looks like you cannot form this soul pact thing with me. May be this is because I am not of this world." Force now had a pondering expression and after a few seconds said, " This is possible."

Alexander, " You can submit to me. Nothing will happen to you as you are more powerful than me. The connection between us will be just a means to find you." Alexander wanted to know to what extent this entity knew about him. If she had read his mind then, she should know that once submitted, no one can betray the king. Alexander didn't believe the entity when she had told him that she had read his mind. Alexander had opened his mind only once to the force and that was when he had first opened himself to force in his kingdom. Once he returned to the galaxy, he had only trained his senses in withstanding the onslaught of the stimuli brought by the force.

Alexander had not opened his mind to the force in this world as he had seen the Jedi reading the thoughts of their apparentices or padawans as they are called, when they opened their mind to the force. The force had a suspicious expression on her face and said, " How can I trust you?"

Alexander said in a sincere tone , " Like I trusted you enough to spend so much time with you here and didn't try to leave this place." Alexander could see a mockery hidden in the eyes of the entity standing in front of him like she knew something that he didn't. Alexander had trained under the best spies and psychiatrists of his kingdom so that he could read the people and know their intentions as he would be going alone in many worlds so this was necessary. It was not so easy to fool Alexander now.

The force let out a sigh and said, " I agree... but know this, if this is any trick, I will do everything in my power to kill you." Alexander nodded rapidly while projecting an scared shitless expression. Force nodded would satisfied expression and said, " So, how do I need to submit?"

Alexander answered in an apparent shaky voice, " Yo..u....ne..ed to say...that yo..u sub...submit to Alexander Fortis....and .... ac...ac....acknowledge him as your king."

The force nodded and said, " I submit to Alexander Fortis and acknowledge him as my King." The declaration of Force didn't do anything at first but after a few seconds, a truly massive amount of king's might flowed into Alexander. If the previous amount of King's might was comparable to a pond than the amount that had flowed into Alexander after the entity's submission was was comparable to a sea.

Alexander felt her connecting to him as a subject and knew that he had full command over her. Alexander transferred all the basic knowledge about the king and the kingdom to her and saw that she was quite astonished to know the truth. The Force whispered, " To think that existence is so vast and this world is not equivalent to a dust in the vast existence."

Alexander spoke up in a cold tone, " Now, I want some answers."

The force gulped fearfully and nodded.

Alexander, " What is this place?"

The force looked around in hatred and said, " This is my prison."

Alexander continued his questioning, "What you told me about the fragments was real or not? If it was real then, which fragment build this?"

The force replied, " All of it was true including the location of the fragments. The fragment of the world laws build this place to imprison me."

Alexander , " Why?"

The force said in anger, " It was only a 500 years old when that bastard attacked me. I had tried to put up a fight but was quickly overpowered. When he was going to kill me, he was attacked by the other two fragments and was quite wounded. Apparently, killing and absorbing me would have given them an increased control over this world. I also attacked all three with all my might when they were going to preparing their most powerful attacks to use on each other. I personally think that being the fragments, their thought process was quite slow and they ran on their instincts so they sole focussed on each other. Their attacks rebounded and hurt them instead. The life and death fragments fled as they were hurt more severly while the world fragment build this world to imprison me. I was not able to resist as I was fully spent after unleashing the attack."

Alexander, " If you were imprisoned, how did you know the history of the prime universe and the fate of the fragments?"

The force, " The world fragment left behind a fragment of it's will to monitor me and to maintain this world by my power. The world fragment was quite a bastard. It created this world to imprison me and connected it to my power so that my own power would be the cause of my imprisonment. The will left behind ensured that I didn't try to escape. When the world fragment died, the will left behind started dying, I attacked it and absorbed it to empower myself. I got the memories up to the world fragment's death."

Alexander, " How did the fragments end up in their current state? Why did you not escape from this world?"

The force snorted and said, " The life and death fragments were running for their lives while the world fragment was attacking them from behind. Their fight made quite a disturbance and when they reached the region known as outer rim, they attracted the attention of the last celestial which calls himself ' Father '. He thought the world fragment to be the villain and attacked him while the remaining fragments fled. The fragments moved towards Ossum and Korriban respectively as it was these planets which had a steady supply of power at that time i.e. the ancient jedi order was on Ossum while the sith were on Korriban. The world fragment was killed in the fight and the fragments merged themselves with the planet and entered deep sleep in order to recover. As the sith and Jedi moved away from the respective planets, there is no more steady supply and they are not being able to recover as there is no supply of emotional energy."

Alexander, " Will blowing up the planets kill them?"

The force deadpanned, " They are not that easy to kill. It will further weaken them but they will not die."

Alexander, " Let's not talk about them...Why did you not escape from this world after the will's death?"

The force said in bitter voice, " I was drained off my power very violently which caused my divine seed to shatter and I became a spiritual entity. A spiritual entity cannot remain in physical world for long and has to return to it's afterlife. I bear this world's mark so I will return here but the problem is this world's existence depends on me. The moment I left it, this world will collapse."

Alexander, " So, why did you want me to evict you?"

The force said in sad tone, " I am tired of existing like this so I wanted to roam the galaxy for some time and enjoy it's sites, before end claim me."

Alexander, " How were you able to bring me here?"

The force, " When the will died and I absorbed him, I gained some control over this world. I reduced the amount of power drained from me and also twisted the laws somewhat to allow me to peer outside and bring someone inside for some time. When your soul integrated with your body, it was left defenceless for a moment and I snatched it away. Time moves differently, we have been talking all this time and not a second is passed outside so you will be fine."

Alexander let out a sigh of relief and spoke up, " You said this world would act as an afterlife for my kingdom. How?"

The force, " I lied. This world would act as reservoir of souls which would be able to hold the souls of the beings bearing it's mark. There would be no distinction between the good and bad souls. Believe me, you don't want good and bad souls to mix together so don't get your hopes up."

Alexander thought, " Something is better than nothing. Storing the souls of my subjects I better than outright losing the souls of my subjects."

Alexander, " I am going to conquer this small world. Anything else I should know that you are not purposefully telling me." The force just shook her head in denial.

Alexander let his king's might out and spread it slowly to cover the whole world. The world was basically large room the size of a city with white walls and ceiling. Alexander claimed the whole world as a part of his kingdom and felt himself connecting to the world on an instinctual level. Alexander traced the connection of the world to the force but did not sever it as a new information dump from his king's bloodline had arrived.

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