A Force of Reason

Hello to another stupid story I made. Just do whatever in the replies/comments and good luck finding out which work this is from. Not that it is that hard.

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This is the story of Šubši-mašrâ-Šakkan, the author of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi. And the newest incarnation of Angra Mainyu that gained a new sense of perceived evil, the force of Contextual Intersubjectivity.

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A being of light, clad in a feminine form stood suspended in space on giant wings of light. On the opposite stood a being of darkness. It had no wings and stood on a lifeless moon while looking up to the being of light millions of leagues away.


“Azra Ma-ur aurvathana asa hukhta azam huvarshta aesasa aenah...” The being darkness called out into the aether.


“At ajyaiti...” The being of light responded.


“Atha ma xsam” The dark manifest whispered back.


As time stood still, their eyes met and a flicker of movement of was all that was registered by the inhabitants of the fourth planet before the moon disintegrated into glowing dust.


Flashes of light and beams destroyed the inner planets of the star system and even the fourth was not spared as it split into three fragments. The powers of these beings could not be quantified by mortal standards and even the planet-bound gods were no match for either of them.


Countless Deva and Yazad’s flew through space and fought, but even they were not spared in the conflict of opposing ideals. And so they fought and the beings on the sixty planets in the system along with them until three thousand years later where all the planets merged into one titan that is the being of darkness and the red star merged with the being of light to become one with Hvare-khshaeta.


“Jan marak Angra Mainyu -Saoshyant!” The titan star called out with its final attack. And all beings in heaven and hell were brought for this final moment as sacrifice and fuel to the attack that is Creation.


“Jan Marak Ahura Mazda -Zahhak!” The giant Titan covered in molten metal answered in return. Summoning a vacuum collapse within itself that will bring an end to all things in its final desperate bid to bring balance to the universe where good equals hypocrisy that mirrors the evil.


The galaxy collapsed onto itself beyond the speed of infinity and the universe ended with only one victor. The being of light that stood in a bubble of probability where none existed.


The being of light realized its folly and sacrificed most of its power to restart the universe. Unwittingly launching a mote of darkness away from this conceptual reality unto the chaos of oblivion that lies beyond existence and destruction.

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What is evil? The being floating through vacuum probability questioned. Was it the standards set by mortals or something else?


He fought against Ahura Mazda for countless Aeons. Sometimes he won, sometimes he lost. Each time they reincarnated, they became stronger.


This was the sixty-fifth time they came back and that was when he started to question everything when he experienced the life of the outcast noble.


What is the purpose of existence? Why is there a heaven and hell? What makes up everything in this universe and why does it continue to exist?


More questions remained unanswered and he questioned whether there was a more higher power than either than them playing a big joke on all existence.


It’s been a while since he entered this new universe. He sensed no powers beyond the stars and collapsed spaces strewed throughout this universe. This made him wonder if this was the natural state of the universe when no gods interfered in its development.


A few stars further and he hit a red planet, slowing him down from infinite speed and cracking the surface of the planet with molten fire.


Sensing an opportunity, he sacrificed half of his mass and redirected himself to a planet that had liquid water. That was another question that remained unanswered, the origin of mortal and immortal life. But one thing remains consistent, a place that had water is where life could exist.


Boom!


A crater appeared at the mist covered planet with an explosive might and reduced the mountain that once stood here to dust.


A blackened hand armed with talons gripped the glassed surface of the crater and slowly crawled up from the epicenter. Reaching the edge he pulled himself up to face the misty sky, revealing only a torso with two arms and half a head that was diagonally sliced off. Its lower torso only showing crystal ribs and dark smoke.


He opened his one glowing red eye and saw the world for what it was instead of its localized omniscience.


Looking around, he found it particularly strange. Uprooted plants that were harder than rock and creatures that defied his all-seeing eye capabilities. All sharing a distinctive essence.


Seeing enough of the scenery, he crawled through the forest and absorbed the plants and wildlife to incorporate into its own body and start its healing process.


The flora unique essence’s structure allowed it properties that is harder than steel while also being flexible. He also found that the energy conversion structure also scaled better than his own technique that he used to combine all the planets together to form Zahhak the Titan.


Using all of these trait’s and wrapping it all into his divinity, he converted all of his mass to the newly named Titanite. Creating a new complete body that was less light absorbing darkness and more of a dark steel Deva.


Now stepping on his own two feet. He walked the opposite side of the crater where he sensed something peculiar.

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He traveled two leagues to where the sun rises and encountered many strange beings along the way. Swamps filled with restraining tentacles and wolf-like animals that could sprint at fast speeds. All dead at his hands with such an ease that attested to his origin.


Sensing a cave nearby, he entered the cavern and saw ancient cave writing and paintings on the walls. His all-seeing eye could sense the intentions of these writings but he had to meet a person of this planet to really understand the context.


Moving further into the cave, he saw tendrils of seemingly metal taking root at another cave entrance. Or exit in his case. The tendrils were assimilating the walls he noticed, slow as it may be.


Moving out of the cave, he finally saw what he sensed inside here. A city of some kind. Not made of stone or dirt, but a gigantic city made out of a metallic substance that he could not yet identify.


Hearing a cry above him, he watched as more of those strange creatures now in the air started flying towards him. Only to be cut off by spikes of the same metallic substance skewering them one by one.


As they fell onto the ground, tendrils encapsulated them to be presumably absorbed. Almost like his own power, but inferior in speed. By the time those creatures are absorbed, he could have grown to the size of a mountain.


Stepping up to one of the tendrils, he observed as it tried to assimilate his leg but failing due to his divinity coating every essence of his being. Isolating a few fragments from the tendril, he studied its structure. While it lost to the material strength of Titanite and its power conversion. It was far more malleable and could self-replicate and heal without any centralized organs. Not to mention that it could transfer power to more of itself in half a league.


It also was very conducive to math. A relatively new concept dating a few hundred years back when he was human. It had something to do with these lightning conductive channels and nodes running through the material itself.


Replacing his current mass to the newly named Mercurium, the second time this day. He only left his skin and bones alone to remain Titanite. Seeing as it complemented each other when in close proximity.


Stepping onto the Mercurium ground, it didn’t attempt to assimilate him anymore. Nodding to himself, he continued his trek through the Mercurium city.


Moving through the city and climbing stairs and bridges, he wondered who the people were that designed this city. It is alien to his perception and grand in scale for some reason other than housing people. There was nothing but empty hallways and strange pipes and machinery all around the city.


Looking deeper into a building next to him, he touched the wall and used his assimilation and all-seeing eye to figure out the mechanism that gave this building heat, lightning and light. Seeing water being fused and the heat it gave out reminded him of Hvare-khshaeta. The star that fused with his nemesis.


That heat is being used to create pressure that moved ferrous-rock in a pattern. Creating a field of ferrous attraction and repulsion. That field transformed into lightning and moved through the carbon channels he used as mathematical vectors. Only bigger in scale.


And the light produced by those glass containers was created by arcs of lightning suspended in a certain gas. It was pretty ingenious in his eyes and really showed what he missed out by eternally fighting in a mindless conflict.


Replacing his heart to the new power generation system and stopping the usage of his divinity, he found it much better and more efficient. Allowing him more time to regenerate his divinity. Even if it would take thousands of years before he regained his former power.


Stopping his study of the buildings, he moved on and walked through more bridges until he arrived at the biggest building in the center of the city before a giant gate. It was not designed to move on hinges as far as he could tell and relied on a ferrous field to move the metallic gate’s segmented plates to the sides of the gate.


Seeing no discernible way to open the entrance, he simply replicated the ferrous field using his own body and projected it inside the mechanism. Manually opening the gate instead of physically destroying it. It took a lot of energy to move the field that far from his body, but his new Stellar Heart provided enough power to cope.


Moving inside the building revealed more hallways and doors of the same type. Ignoring the doors that had nothing in them as far as he could sense, he moved further into the depths of the structure where he could sense a particular intelligence that he saw before in the Mercurium channels way back when he exited the cave.


He arrived in front of the door that housed this intelligence but noticed that something lied next to it. Something that he wouldn't have expected this far from his home.


Humans


Kneeling in front at one of the humans, he grasped them in his mind’s eye. As while they are long since dead, part of his divinity could infer some information in their minds based on some divine tapestry he could access that lies beyond the physical that was separate from Heaven and Hell.


The humans he easily understood. He took their knowledge and essence to himself and now had the ability to speak this ‘Japanese’ and ‘English’. The rest was not so much human rather than human-like so he took his time deciphering them. After only a few seconds he stopped and roughly understood what this place was. The fear and despair they felt is thick enough to wade in and he felt that they needed closure. But for this, he needed a little help from the being that rested on the other side of the door.

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Seeing the gigantic severed metallic head and torso in front of him really showed the ingenuity of those dead humans and aliens. If he wanted to do the same he would be burning a small amount of divinity to do so. The laws of the universe did not lend itself to great structures without collapsing on itself. Even pyramids with their great base would fall eventually at a certain height.


Shaking his head to those thoughts, he climbed up to the head and accessed the central artificial intelligence core. Still working even though it was split in half. These aliens may have been too rigid to his liking, but he could not fault their construction techniques and overall genius in building this behemoth. He was also thankful for their vocabulary as his own was too limited to truly grasp their knowledge and wisdom.


This weapon was built in the image of its enemy, with a name that reflected it. But he found it too distastefulness and simply renamed this behemoth to Demonbane. With a new form that drew its looks and mechanisms from his own and added in features from one of his most powerful Deva.


So it just looked like himself but with black Ram’s horns. The previous bulky form may have been designed because of their limitations in the past, but he added in his own knowledge of the cells of these creatures outside the city and cracked his divine core in two to make it part of his own body. Creating a vessel that was ten times bigger than its previous form at one thousand three hundred feet and a hundred times more powerful.


The central building had to be sacrificed for it get so large, but it makes up for it by using dynamic frequency wireless communication to act as a central nervous system for the city. Stopping the Nanometal from running out of control in case it evolved beyond its intended parameters.


The communication technology was already there but they obviously didn't expect that the Nanometal would grow so large. Either way, it paves a way for his own path and a way to attack the monster that roamed this land as its presumptuous ruler.


A ruler that will never accept anything but its own arrogant image onto this world. A being that cannot be negotiated with until every last scrap of its ego is annihilated. Which he intends to do. Because he cannot live on this planet without coming into conflict with it.


And these humans showed me a past that was filled with fear and loathing induced by that monster. As an entity that once personified all that is dark and negative, he accepted that part of his being and revolves to end this millennia long curse once and for all to absolve all of his past sins. That is what he has decided.


Turning his head to a certain location inside Demonbane’s head. He found the monster that the humans once feared roaming through the dense misty forest coming straight to him. It was to be expected with his rebuilding of the city. Even now he already gave a command to the city to build massive mass drivers all around the Nanometal structures.


As while the beast only came up below his knees. It showed destructive power beyond its size in the memories of the humans. The electromagnetic thermal emission ray it produced could reduce mountains into rubble while he has his lasers, missiles and rail-guns. All of which produced minimal results during the humans last attack. Its regenerative powers and shielding was too great at that time.


Of course, he had nothing to fear. If all else fails. He had still his divine powers to back him up. He just does not wish to burn hundreds of years of accumulated divinity just to defeat a monster that he could have easily destroyed by regular means.


Taking his first step in this Titan body, the earth shook as thousand of tons impacted the ground. Getting a measure of balance, he slowly walked as gravity permits and deployed his electromagnetic nano deflector cloud. Shrouding him in a darker mist that protects him from any thermal emission rays that he could not dodge.


They were only one mile apart before the monster reacted and fired a blast of charged particles at near light speed at him that got deflected by the nano-cloud into a nearby mountain. Creating an explosion that was on par with the greatest nuclear bomb and melting everything in its nearby vicinity.


Judging the monster’s power to be equal to one of his nemesis’s greatest Yazad. He gained confidence. Lifting one of arms and deploying tendrils of Nanometal, he fired a laser that was powered by millions of fusion reactors that mimicked his Stellar Heart. Creating a ray of focused coherent radiation.


An Exajoule of focused energy landed on the monster and pierced through it over the course of four seconds. Ripping a hole through the side of its neck and creating an equally powerful shockwave blast. Ripping trees from their roots and glassing a region that spanned miles wide.


Seconds passed and the smoke faded. Revealing the monster to be hurt and regenerating. Not giving the monster time to recuperate, he deployed all of his missiles and ordered the city to fire its now finished mass drivers. Firing a one hundred ton tungsten projectile at ten percent the speed of light. Igniting the atmosphere in a continuous explosion and creating nuclear explosions at the end of its minuscule journey.


With all twenty mass drivers firing in tandem, it was possible to reach an equilibrium of one shot per second. He also joined in with his own shoulder mounted rail-guns and arm lasers. Giving the monster no respite and allowing the frustrations of the dead humans to be at rest.


Minutes passed and as the tungsten store reached its limit he stopped his barrage and stood there in silence as he allowed the cloud of radiation and fiery dust to move away. This was more power than the humans could have hoped to bring to bear in the past and he hoped that it will be enough.


But it was not to be. As the smoke cleared and he saw what lies there, he realized that he may have misjudged its defensive power. The monster’s arm lied partially attached and its skin was pockmarked with crystalline craters. Yet it was still alive and healing faster than before.


Another beam of particles fired from its maw and the nano-cloud failed in its function. Allowing ten percent of power to leak through and burn the stomach of Demonbane to the Titanite bones where it stopped.


Seeing no other choice before him, he ran to the monster and landed behind it. Grabbing the tail and flinging the monster over his head and planting it upside down on its head. Grabbing its torso that was the size of his hand, he fired a laser at point blank range and used his divinity to give it more power. Reaching a place where no mortals could attempt to comprehend and burning a hole through the quantum substrate.


As eye blinding light died down and almost everything in a ten-mile radius was nothing more than a crater, it revealed the monsters head trying to charge a particle beam before the light in its eyes dimmed. The reason being that nothing survived beyond its tail and head. Even its regenerative powers that it has could not defy thermodynamics. Matter and energy cannot be created from nothing.


Falling to his knees and extending a tendril to the center of the crater, he absorbed the water that accumulated at its lowest point from multiple rivers. Refueling his fusion reactors and allowing his body to cool down from the intense stress it received.


Boom!


Boom!


Boom!


Sensing a disturbance near a mountain range, he watched as a mountain slid away as the image of the monster he just defeated rose from the ground as a titanic reincarnation. A scan using the database of the artificial intelligence showed this was the actual monster that rampaged twenty thousand years. The enemy he just faced likely being nothing more than its offspring.


Commanding the city to fire its weapons distracted it from looking at his general direction, but it was pointless. A red beam destroyed the city into more than molten metal and it turned to face him once again. Its size made it equal to his mass, but its destructive power was so much than he could currently bear.


Gritting his teeth, he allowed his origin to come to the front and created a shield of divinity. Burning two percent of his divine essence and blocking another particle beam that eclipsed his attack on the offspring.


His eyes glowed in anger and he sprinted to the monster while blocking any beams that came near him with a deflecting shield that only burned one percent of his divinity.


Reaching the monster, it charged up for another attack before being stopped as Demonbane exploded and wrapped around the monster in a prison of divinity. Reflecting any beam it fired to itself even if it sustained minimal damage. As he continuously burned through his divinity he realized there was only one thing he could do.


The prison shrank as much as possible and he burned twenty percent of his divinity to breach its electromagnetic shield and inserted the core that he used to control Demonbane into the wound and used his main power.


The prison shook as muffled roars of pain and defiance rang out inside the sphere. Shock-waves destroyed more mountains as times passes. For hours the screams never ended until it finally died down as the night came.


The prison cracked and shattered as a new form emerged from the conflict of ego. It was still the same appearance of Angra Mainyu. But a lizard’s tail, wings and bull’s horn differentiated him from his other forms. The size was also downsized to just seven feet in height. The mass was the same, but the excess divinity compressed the quantum substrate to its limits to allow for unmatched material defense and power density.


He sacrificed most of his divinity, but in exchange gained a power that relied more on the natural law of the world. He did not know if it was a fair exchange, but he did know that the growth of this form was much faster than accumulating divine essence from the supernatural realm. For that, he could only be thankful.


For now, he resolved mankind’s curse. Their story is over, wherever they may be. Wandering in outer space, looking for a new home. It was not part of his story anymore.

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Walking through the forest, he contacted the underground deposit of Nanometal and ordered them to reclaim the now cooled down molten metallic elements and rebuild. Not into a city, but a ship instead. This planet was far too gone. He could only harvest a small amount of the flora here and leave for another universe. He already recorded a way with his all-seeing eye to travel into Oblivion and will be searching there for civilization instead of wandering around for thousands of years using a warp drive that missed its most important component. A Gematron space-time calculation computer. One of the things that the alien species have brought with to planet Earth and the only thing he has no blueprints on.


Sensing another disturbance, he looked at a tree to his right and pierced right through it with his all-seeing eye. Showing him a humanoid being hiding behind it. It was no human as far as he could tell and he was curious how they have managed to survive with that monster roaming around.


Changing his mass to almost zero using his anti-gravity engine and camouflaging his skin using different pigments he floated behind her and grabbed her shoulder. Startling her as she grabbed a Nanometal arrow and tried to scratch his almost impervious skin.


She walked backward until her back hit the tree and watched him with wary eyes behind her wooden mask. Seeing as this was not gonna go anywhere he changed the structure under the skin on his head and retracted the Titanite into his collar. Revealing a tanned red-eyed raven haired male with fangs for teeth, almost mimicking their appearance without the strange white pigmentation on their skin and hair coloration.


He slowly reached out to her mask and she flinched as he removed it from her head. With his other hand, he reached out to her cheek and he closed his eyes as he read her divine tapestry. Taking their language and general knowledge for his own. Their language had no name, but it was not overly complicated to decipher. Their own telepathic abilities helped him better than the dead corpses of the humans.


Opening his eyes showed the girl's eyes closed in pleasure, leaning into his hand as she also opened her eyes and blushed as she realized her actions.


“My name is Angra Mainyu. What is yours, little one?” He asked.


“M-Miana” She stuttered.


Smiling to assure her, he created a beautiful orchid that he once saw in the east in his previous world and gave it to her. While this planet had much flora, he didn't saw much in the way of beauty. A few flowers here and there, but nothing like the fluorescent multicolored flowers of the Shenza Empire.


She smiled at the gift and put it behind her ear. Grabbing my hand and pulling me towards somewhere.


“Passing crow come. See elders” She explained to him.


He merely followed her. Excited in studying their culture and seeing new perspectives on life. For that is all that is left when you take away what Angra Mainyu was. A force of evil, now a force of curiosity.

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