Chapter 15: One Versus One Thousand, No…Ten Thousand or Probably Countless ?

  After I beat Julia, it’s about time that she should do what I have always wanted–which is giving my sister’s coordinates. It’s to know the planet where she’s currently at.

  By determining her coordinates, I’ll be able to teleport to where she is. The technique’s conditions in order to activate are to have the object or individual’s coordinates to teleport. I found that out since I awakened my atomic manipulation ability.

  The vibration began, it was mine, the particles, which are atoms, gathered around Julia’s legs and hands. Some smoke started to become visible from the formation–her legs got frozen, her hands got locked by an icing handcuff. I did this with the purpose of not letting her do something sneaky while I am deciding and considering what to do next.

  The ice particles fused with vivid magma particles I got from the ‘hell’, the fusing ice showed a purple hue because if blue and red fuse together, they obviously would turn into purple. This type of creation is a better version of the freezing of the ice itself. It reminded me of [__] that you can play on a simulator, like the television from Julia’s house I went to before but something that connected to the television and a…controller to start playing. Not going into too much detail. Some [__] need to be crafty, some weapons can be fused with other things to become something stronger. And this time, it’s something that I took inspiration from the vague memorization of the old world.

  “Kinter, You have a teleportation technique.” the figure suddenly spoke with a clear echoing voice.

  The figure knew what necessities are needed for my own duty, it said something that I had thought of before,

  “Yeah I know, I sensed it before you tell me now.”

  “I kinda guessed it right, I can read your mind, and your mind showed me an image of you having thought of something like coordinates in math. Is there any chance that you are a specialty in math? I came late so I don’t really know what’s all about you.”

  “No, I’m just average in math. I’m an overall average student to be honest but…a figure like you know what’s education huh? You came from a civilization, are you?”

  “That’s some scary assumptions from you but I can’t tell whether it was your good intuition or your unconscious mind, I can’t read your unconscious side in your brain.”

  The figure was far-fetched and surprised by the assumptions I made. I didn't really know it was some crazy assumption, I basically guessed randomly, and now it turned out to be something that I got the hang of from the figure.

  “Wasn’t I aware of what I was saying? How could you take unconsciousness as the reason why I had such good assumptions?”

  “Sometimes, people respond to the questions without their consciousness, what I mean was that they answered because of their stimulation that was already there.”

  “But…I clearly explained it consciously. You’re inside my body, shouldn’t you know what I think?”

  “As I told you, I can’t read your unconscious mind. I can only read what is displayed in front of me, such as words or images taken from your active side. However, the downside is that I cannot read your unconscious mind, and…the sudden thoughts popped up in your head and you said along with what you think due to intuition and unconscious mind. That’s the reason why I was wondering between them.”

  It was really academic to me so I didn’t understand and tolerate that psychology stuff. While the figure was explaining, I was just giving “uh huh” and nods to show some credits and made it feel like the figure wasn’t explaining to a wall and disrespectful of not listening to what It said. Because I would stand there frozen. Since I want to enhance the relationship I thought it was necessary to do some movements considered respectful and engaged to the speaker.

  “Or maybe I overreacted, well, there’s no need to hide from you. Um, Yes, I come from a civilization. To pair with civilization, I came from another world.” the figure muttered at first, then it spoke clearly of its origin.

  “So…did your civilization make an incursion to our world? And…the thing you’re doing is making me a vessel, so is it your quest that you need to get into ‘anybody’? A type of attacking mechanism that needs conditions in order to activate? Or is it for something else? Since you called me your monarch, I think there’s some mysterious reason behind it.”

  “Alright alright, you’re sharp as ever Kinter, I still don’t know if it was from your intuition or unconscious mind.”

  “Why do you keep repeating those words? I could understand intuition but what's inside my unconscious mind?”

  “Sometimes, the unconsciousness gets in between. Without consciousness, you barely know what you’ve done. It goes as well for me, since we’re fused, what you can see is what I can see, what you can do is what I can do. However, I can’t bear your feelings, it stopped at reading your mind. And the best way to know how you feel is by depending on the thoughts that you have.”

  Stopped between to give the response a separate one then it went back to its rhythm to explain.

  “Your unconscious mind lays a bunch of memories from your old world, and of course, your memories about me as well. That’s why you’re acting and feeling close to me, isn’t it right, Kinter?”

  “What are you…alright alright, Yes I’d feel close to you, it was as I was speaking to my best friend, it felt free. And, trust me, what I said earlier was from my intuition. Don’t you believe in your monarch's intelligence capabilities?”

  “I’m in between though, since you’re an average student. Depending on your thoughts, I could say…you have the intelligence quotient of a normal person.”

  So I am just an ordinary person with the intelligence of an ordinary person as well. I don’t know why but the sensation inside me was giving me chills, it gave me a factual and standard response. It felt like I was this person before getting my memories erased.

  The inner conversation was continuing without the participation of one person that I needed to get information from.

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  —It was Julia, the blonde-haired girl wearing a hoodie with a crystal object attached between the chests.

  “Kinter” A voice raised from behind me.

  Immediately looking back at her,

  It was Julia’s first word after her defeat.

  “Isn't it about time you should ask me about your sister’s location?”

  “Yup, give me my sister’s coordinates now.”

  Julia was trembling, her reactions said otherwise.

  “Why are you shaking? Something’s wrong with you?”

  Raising her head up, Julia glanced at me with her heterochromia. A look of desperation and sorrow showed on her face.

  Then she said—

  “I apologize to you, Kinter. I can’t do it now.”

  “What do you say? I beat you! Give me what I want now.”

  “Yup, it was true that I’ve claimed my defeat, but…”

  Julia stopped for a second, she breathed in a chunk of air to…probably stay calm before my explosive reactions chances.

  “I lost my ability after…getting defeated by you.”

  “Huh, what do you mean?”

  “If you wish to meet your sister, you must fight and kill the five gods who created this world.”

  “Wait, could they be the ones that…”

  “Right, Kinter. You’re going to face the real powerful ones. This is not going to be easy. They’ve gotten the signal after my loss, they will come back here after two days from a distant universe.”

  “So you are…”

  “I am just an opponent to stop you from getting away.”

  “__”

  Feeling empathy for the girl by looking at her face, she wasn’t devoted to do this. She was just an overthinker who randomly got attention, and got turned into a person with superhuman power. She didn’t wish to become like this but if she does, it was just her intrusive thought, deep inside her heart, she’s just an innocent girl.

  Then, her body suddenly lightened up, parts started to leave like papers getting away from forming a literal idol.

  “Now I am the one who will die, haha. I don’t feel any pain, it’s so nice,”

  Seeing the phenomenon like the old man happening in front of me. And, Julia was just a kid ranging between fourteen or sixteen years old, she was still young to end up like this. I must do something.

  “Embroidered…”

  As I was about to rescue her from shattering away like the old man. The dimension suddenly sucked upward like a vacuum. The image of the environment became white and black. Julia got sucked up with tremendous force, she started to fade quicker than ever.

  No, I won’t let that happen!

  “Embroidered locked!”

  Still, her body wasn’t showing any signs of my effects, her body was continuing to fading away.

  “No! No! NO! DON’T DIE IN FRONT OF ME!”

  Too late, her body completely faded away, what was left was her ashes traveling into nothingness. I cannot hold in but cry, cry for the fate of a soul who was just getting started to know what’s life, just like myself. She mentioned the five gods, right?

  I need to kill them before anyone becomes their next victim, and before they do something to my sister on another planet.

  ***

  A dim light struck toward my eyes, it was telling that I have returned to the world right now. I felt a hard surface through my shoes. The gravity here wasn’t too different from the old world. It kept pushing me down with a rate of ten meters per second squared compared to the Earth, which is nine point eight meters over a second square. How did I feel about that? Because that’s the approximation I made to the reminiscence from the old world.

  The image of a city showed far away from me. But wait…

  Why was this spawn so far away? I think it depended on luck, and this time, my luck wasn’t fortunate enough.

  A wit of sound came closer than ever,

  I immediately looked back, it was a spear. I tilted my head to the right side to dodge it in an instant.

  “Look behind you!”

  “Huh? What’s behind me?”

  I looked back, and from nowhere, an army looking dense in numbers held different weapons. All of them wore the same white cloaks and had a crystal varied in colors attached in the middle of their chests. Then, there were some flying ones, they all had a scepter, I guessed they’re magic users.

  It seems like the ones on the ground are warriors but magic isn’t their specialty while the flying ones are magicians but fighting up close isn’t their specialty. Since I’ve witnessed Julia, I bet this world is a world having magic and authorities. It’s no different from the [__] I played and [__] I watched on television. Since I have atomic manipulation and time reversal, why would I be scared?

  I would probably be scared if it’s someone who has authority. But in front of me at that point, the enemies were just an introduction, no obstacles for things like this.

  A random person flew to me with such speed, I created a gun, a rifle one, and then shot at its head. The person’s head got completely crushed, meat, bones and blood tore out.

  “It looks like you have no communication, huh? Are you guys that type of creatures that just know killing rather than having an actual brain?”

  Just as expected, this was just an introduction. No one responded in return, that means…I guess they’re that type, the creatures that are just for entertainment, usually in the earlier [___] before encountering the final boss. And for that, I just have to kill them all.

  The vibration begun to take place, I created multiple miniguns, rifles, especially rocket launchers to deal with them, because, keeping a distance from them and spraying bullets at them is more convenient and took less energy than jumping in the sea of enemies. I could do that if I want to but I don’t feel it this time.

  My creations started to kill so many already. Even if the flying people tried to reach me, my aimbot would instantly aim at them and give them the taste of steel and copper.

  Boom!

  A large number of warriors flew up in the air, they all died immediately. Each lost one limb, one got their leg boomed, one got their arms boomed. The more unfortunate ones in the middle of the explosion turned into a pile of meat, nothing is left to give a trace of who it is.

  The heat of the guns I created started to transverse to my skin, I created a barrier for my skin to stop its spread. The sweat started to run down my face, telling me that I was too focused.

  It’s starting to get so boring. I mixed the bullets with magma then shot it at them. The magma with antithesis character froze the army , the best thing about it is the magma spread and poured out to cover a large area. Anything stepping on the substance would immediately freeze like the extreme cold if reversing it would become extremely hot. The magma temperature exceeded up more than one thousand degrees celsius, if reversed, It will become minus one thousand degrees celsius.

  “A little of this and a little of that.”

  Dark trails formed around my hand. I mixed them with the bullets then I shot. This time, anything got hit by the bullets would become a small version of a void, anything stepped in will fall down the eternal darkness. While multiple bullets shot at the army, they all started to mix with each other, to create a larger void. Many of them stepped in that darkness and immediately got counted as a kill for me.

  “And…the final touch.”

  Vibration was harder this time, the environment shook so hard because particles were flowing into only one thing. Its steel roundabout formed, a sharp point pointed downward, it was an—atomic bomb.

  “Eat this inspiration from my old world and be gone already! The most destructive weapon ever known in my old world!”

  This was created to wash away the enemies quicker but also,

  “Now let’s see how the city goes.”

  Boom!

  The land immediately got washed by the destructive power of the missile, which is the atomic bomb. I already created myself a protection barrier to evade the radiowave from reaching my existence. The trees got burnt and faded away. The land got itself a massive hole because of the explosion, deep down to one thousand meters. The people who maliciously wanted to kill me didn’t show anymore. Now, it was just a hot atmosphere and the silence.

  “As I expected.”

  The city still remained, it got a golden transparenting wall protection. As expected, this shouldn’t be so easy that left me this easy-going path. A powerful character must stand behind all of this.

  “Hey! I know you’re here! Show yourself and deal with me!”

  While I guarantee that. Another army of whites came up again, this time, it’s more massive and denser than before. The army got itself giants. The warriors seemed to be more powerful and experienced. The flying ones emit a more powerful aura than before. Basically…

  This is the next level of the [__] I usually play on television. As we progress, we meet stronger opponents. And this is the same as that.

  Leaving behind the powerful character, I must eliminate all of them before meeting the real deal.

  “Ready for round two!”

  Then, all of them rushed toward me.

  __

  While KInter was fighting. Someone in the dark was laughing, he held a bracelet that had a crystal. Then, he resumed his observation while a dim of water, fire, electrical spark, wind and soil circled around him.

  And, Is it all he had?