The End

The end was near.

He would die, that was a certainty, but he wanted to just do one last act of defiance towards the universe for dooming him to this fate.

He would not remember who exactly he was, but hopefully neither will his enemies. They really went to great lenghts to ensure he would die, using a drop of the Chaos Dissolution Poison.

Before he desolved, he grabbed his affinities and ripped them out of his being, silently enduring the unbearable pain that brought upon him

Space, Time, Life, Death. The world's foundational affinities

Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light, Darkness. The natural affinities.

The Dreaming, The Spirit, The Emotions, The Desires and etc. The spiritual affinities.

Weapons, Yin-Yang, Fate, The Mind, The Body and etc. The unique affinities.

And lastly, Void and Arcane affinities. Progenitors of existence and magic. Although he was forcefully given these affinities and in minute amounts, their individual strength is equal to the combination of all his other affinities that he had cultivated for millennia. That goes to show how powerful such affinities are.

Having separated the affinities, even if only an insignificant fragment of what he had mastered, he began the final step in the plan.

He brought out the last piece of his soul that was untouched by the poison that sought to destroy him, that he separated before this ordeal happened. And so he set the affinities to spin around the piece of his soul before he threw it as far as he could.

Now he was ready to disappear, He cut the last strand of connection he had with the soul fragment, allowing it to eventually become a new being completely independent of him, and then he erased all his remaining memories, body and soul to ensure the fragment's safety and that it would not be tracked either by the Chaos Dissolution Poison or his pursuers.

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After some time, three figures appeared near where he died. Before confirming his demise and just as quickly leaving.