Thrytinium

A charade

That's what my whole life is...

All my life, I've been trying to seek the truth of our existence using science and logic...

But this... This is something none of us could comprehend...

A being of absolute, a perfect being...

To even compare humanity with this horror is something that even I couldn't do...

Stood there in a void are four indescribable beings looking at me. I stood before them and trembled before their sight.

Such a remarkable yet horrifying view to witness.

This is when I, Killigan Everheart, realize that we aren't even worth a single speck of the universe. Humanity is tiny.

I was dead, and now this—what a wonderful afternoon.

I was petrified. I couldn't move. Before, it was a gigantic being with a horn on its head. The minotaur-like entity admitted to being the servant of The Mighty Cosmic. It took me here where my feeble mortal brain couldn't comprehend.

A place devoid of everything, even colors- like- how does that even make sense?!.

When you think about the void, you might imagine yourself in a place full of darkness, but this? This is no darkness since darkness is also considered a color. This place has no whites, no blacks, no grays, or other colors.

This place terrorized me down to my core—a place beyond science.

Suddenly the lady with a perfect face, dazzling and unique hair reflecting the stars in the night sky talks.

"Killigan Everheart, my name is Cosmic. What I am doesn't matter. What matter the most is currently You."

I take three deep breaths and talk confidently yet humbly to the beings.

"What do you mean?"

"You are the reincarnation of Cronos, the living embodiment of time." Says another individual with a face I envied when I stepped into the void.

"Cronos? Cosmic? May I ask the meaning of this absurdity?" I ask. Another one replies, this time is the older man that oozes the aura of intelligence.

"May I enlighten thee with a history lesson, the history of Cronos?" The older man asks me. I answered, full of excitement, because who wouldn't? When you're presented with an opportunity to understand the truth of our existence better.

Would you take it? Only a stupid person would reject.

"YES!" Killigan answered, losing his professional-like posture, quickly regained his position and answered calmer, "I mean yes. I would love to."

"Very well, *clears throat*

Cronos is a being beyond science and magic. A being so old, eternity is considered merely one year, a multi-dimensional being that can shift days to nights, decades to a century, alfa to omega, the beginning to the end, in just one second.

He is also one of us. The pillars of existence exist to operate each of our different functionalities.

He was roaming the vacuumed void. And sometime later, space was created. He named her Cosmic. The two became such a duo searching, wandering for another life form.

About a billion years later, Reality was born, thus making her the third oldest of the pillars. Another billion have passed. Me, Knowledge has been born alongside Power.

Five of us roam the space that Cosmic has created until.. I had made the exact calculation and theorem to create a universe."

"What?!" Killigan interfered while thinking, 'What an escalation.'

"Ehem, may I continue?" Knowledge said. I nodded up and down.

"With the help of the five pillars, Cosmic can gather the force to make the first-ever universe. We named it Thrytinium.

However, we had not expected that the universe's birth would bring forth the taking of another pillar—the pillar of Void.

We have made something out of nothingness that angers The Nothingness or The Void.

Five of us fought the void with all our might, but He was too strong. After deeming our efforts futile, Cronos had an idea. He wanted to sacrifice himself for the sake of the other four pillars.

He sacrificed himself, but before that, He told us that He would be reborn in another universe we created. At first, this sounds absurd even to me. However, we all believed in Him.

After He died, He left us a pocket watch, we felt His presence inside of it, and instantly I know what this is. This is the embodiment of Time itself. With Cronos's passing, time will be obstructed, but with the creation of Time, it will still move on.

I was perplexed because there's no possible way that He made this in such a short period, so we theorized something, and connecting one dot to another, everything made sense.

It turns out He predicted everything even before the creation of the universe, that it is inevitable that He died for the sake of our existence and products.."

I took all of that new knowledge and processed it in my mind. 'I'm Cronos? or at least was Cronos. I'm now Killigan Everheart, a puny human. But.. Now what? Will I take the mantle of Cronos and become Time itself?

And this place is it perhaps-'

"This place.. is it Thrytinium? So, Void has taken over it, huh?" I asked about the four pillars.

"Yes... It was beautiful. It was full of stars and planets that were habitable. This is the place where Cronos died. Hi, I'm Reality. Nice to meet you." Reality said as she took her hand before me, wanting to shake mine.

"Killigan Everheart, nice to meet you. Haha, never have I ever thought that I would meet the Reality itself. This is.. hard to take in." I stepped forward to take her hand and shake it. The others joined in and introduced themselves.

'Welp, this was exciting, but now what?' I thought and hesitantly asked them since it was quite a rude question in my hometown.

"Oh! Yes, this- now we are going to discuss it.." Said Cosmic. I was astonished by her beauty at first and still am. I was about to reply when Knowledge beats me to it.

"I thought you have planned this out, Cosmic." replied Knowledge curiously, and I was as well curious.

"Um- well- I mean- I thought it would be a cool idea but- you know what, never mind.." Cosmic nervously said while fidgeting her fingers as a coping mechanism. At this, we were confused, and all of us wanted to ask her but Reality butt in first.

"What is it, Cosmic?! Please tell me! Pretty please??" She appears in front of Cosmic and shows her puppy eyes. She was adorable. I was even blushing a little but soon regained control of my emotions.

Cosmic herself blushes, "Uh, alright, fine. I was thinking of- you know, reincarnating him? Perhaps???"

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