While my body on the ground was brutally
raped,
my mind or soul I don't really know how to explain it , was somewhere unknown.
I was transported there immediately after being split in half.
I looked around carefully.
I was surrounded only by darkness.
I couldn't see anything.
Maybe it's hell?
I don't know, but I had a bad feeling about it.
I sighed.
So first the universe messes with me so I don't get laid,
then it lets me get raped,
and now this?
Are we for real?
I've done nothing wrong. 😭
Slowly, I started walking and walking.
It felt like I had been walking for hours.
I even ran,
but I still only saw that endless darkness.
After a while, I gave up and just sat down.
TIMESKIP
I looked into the endless darkness, depressed.
Long ago, the thoughts of escaping this place left me.
I don't know how much time passed, but it felt like hundreds of years since I appeared here.
I accepted that this was probably my personal hell.
I wasn't any kind of saint back on Earth.
This was my punishment.
This is what I told myself every day.
And I believed it.
I didn't feel hunger.
I didn't feel thirst.
I had no sense of time.
I didn't feel my body.
I was alone here.
In endless darkness.
Doesn't that sound like hell?
I mumbled,
"I wonder how Mike is doing..."
Mike and I had been best friends since childhood.
Since the day we were born,
we were always together.
When my parents died because a drunk driver crashed into them while they were coming to pick me up from a sleepover with Mike,
Mike and his parents were there for me.
His parents adopted me, and I took them as my own parents, and they took me as another son.
As I remembered the old times, I felt like crying,
but no tears came.
TIMESKIP
It's strange that I haven't gone insane yet.
I would want to go insane.
At least then I wouldn't suffer.
Why can't I be erased from existence?
Why do I have to suffer?
As I continued thinking about erasing myself and ending my suffering,
in the middle of that endless darkness, a bright light appeared.
I started running, but no matter how hard I ran, I couldn't escape the light.
When the light finally caught up with me,
I felt a pleasant, warm feeling throughout my body, no....throughout my entire soul.
I stood still.
The light covered me completely,
and then... I immediately disappeared?.
I was transported to a throne room.
The room was massive.
Golden pillars,
a golden throne,
everything was gold.
It had such a supernatural atmosphere.
But a huge voice that sent shivers down my back interrupted my thoughts.
"Come closer to me."
Instinctively, out of fear, I stepped closer.
I could see a figure sitting on the golden throne.
He stood up and walked toward me.
I immediately fell to the ground and was forced to kneel.
I couldn't even find my own voice because I was so scared of this obviously divine being in front of me.
The man looked like an old man with a long beard,
like the kind of elder who would tell you stories about adventures from his past.
But I didn't believe any of that.
I felt the power.
I felt it all around us.
And the divine being spoke:
"You are interesting."
"You passed my test."
"No one has managed to stay so long in the abyss without their soul being destroyed."
"But you... your soul it's special."
My mind was completely in overdrive.
A special soul?
Abyss?
Test?
I had so many questions.
But one thing made me start to rebel against the force that made me kneel.
I wanted to kill this being.
This was no god.
A god wouldn't torture me.
This being must be Satan.
"You... you're the one who made me spend who knows how many years in that darkness? YOU... YOU...BASTARD....
I'LL TEAR YOU APART!"
I used all my strength and tried to stand even under the pressure of power.
My anger and hatred won, and I stood up from the ground,
and even though I felt like I was carrying a hundred tons, I took a step toward that being.
The being said,
"Oh? You really are special... but here's how it is."
"I am the King here"
"Kneel..."
As I was about to take another step, the force grew unbelievably stronger, and I was sent back to kneel.
Before I could curse the being, it spoke again.
"Calm down, Aaron Steine.
I know your thoughts.
If you want me to answer your questions and also why you are here, stop resisting."
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
This bastard can read my mind too, damn it all.
The force holding me down disappeared, and a chair and table appeared in front of me.
I sat down, and opposite me sat the being.
I immediately started asking:
"Who are you?
What are you?
Why did you 'test' me?"
The being answered:
"We'll go step by step."
"You can call me Althen."
"I am what you humans call a Nephilim."
"I tested you because from now on you will be my Herald."
I was completely confused.
Nephilim?
Herald?
"Aren't Nephilim children of humans and angels"?
The being, Althen, spoke:
"Yes, I am the child of a human and an angel."
I spoke with anger,
"Seems like you didn't inherit much of the angelic side."
Althen smirked and then replied,
"Actually, I am 99% angel."
"The angelic DNA is quite dominant."
"What are your other questions, Aaron Stein?"
I mumbled and asked,
"What do you mean by me being herald?
I won't do anything like that.
Send me back to my world."
Althen laughed, and I looked at him venomously.
If looks could kill, I would have gutted Althen by now.
Hahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahhahahha
"Alright, I haven't laughed like this since the beginning of time."
"Who said you have a choice, huh?"
"You'll do what I want."
"If you obey me, I will return you to the moment before you died,
and you can go on that date of yours."
Aaron sighed, knowing that bastard wouldn't just send him back.
"What do you want from me?"
Althen answered,
"I gave you a new identity in a new world.
You will spread my name in that world
and obey my orders."
Immediately, Aaron said,
"And then you'll send me back?"
Althen answered,
"You have the promise of an angel."
Aaron asked,
"To which world will you send me?"
Althen smiled,
"To the world of DC."
Aaron looked at him like he was an idiot,
"How am I supposed to survive there with Darkseid roaming around
when I'm just a human?"
Althen answered,
"Don't be afraid."
"You will get help."
He snapped his fingers, and next to him appeared a huge golden wheel.
Thousands of systems were on it,
Systems like
Gacha systems,
Gamer systems,
Copy systems,
and so on and so forth.
Althen spoke again,
"You humans have surprisingly good imagination."
"Now deal with that, mortal."
Aaron slowly stood up from the chair and walked to the wheel.
With all the strength he could gather, he spun the wheel.
The wheel turned and turned.
Aaron saw piles of systems,
but the wheel finally stopped at
Gacha system?
Oh hell no.
I don't think I have enough plot armor for a gacha system to be useful.
The wheel moved a little more and the arrow stopped at template system.
I've read a few stories about template systems.
It's basically a gacha system.
I'm cooked.
Althen spoke,
"As you see, mortal,
fate has decided."
I wanted to ask more questions, but before I could speak, that bastard snapped his fingers, and I vanished.
I woke up on a couch.
I tried to convince myself it was all a bad dream,
but when I looked around,
this was definitely not my apartment.
I sighed and headed to the bathroom.
I started undressing and looking at myself in the mirror when I noticed a symbol on the back of my right hand.
It looked like an eye with wings, and inside the eye were seven swords stuck.
I realized this must be something Althen gave me.
Maybe it gives me access to the template system.
But I didn't care about that now.
I needed a shower.
Back To Althen
Althen sat on his throne when a man stepped out of the shadows of the room.
The man looked like some kind of assassin judging by his clothes.
The man spoke,
"My lord, what if God finds out?
What will happen to us..."
The man trembled at the thought.
Althen spoke without even looking at him,
"Don't worry, Father will never know."