Chapter 43: Set Up

  —the cool atmosphere filled up the hall. The yellowish light from mutable shapes on the wall shone. In the middle of the hall, Osparious sat on the chair, and his left elbow was the placeholder. It held his chin, and he was sitting with his torso being tilted to the left. His right arm was placed on the right edge, and his fingers were tickling the material in harmony.

  ~~?

  He sensed and perceived.

  Osparious: “He had retrieved his memories back…”

  He pushed the edges to get up from his other throne. The white outfit that covered his arms and legs. Besides, his outfit had itself a hood, which could be used to cover the head. The golden threads were weaved to his rainbow color rhombus crystal that was attached in the middle of his chest. The sounds of footsteps kept ringing. He was walking toward the portal that had the sound of souls wandering. It was a dark portal. Then, Osparious tacked his index and middle finger to make a sound. He looked up at the huge chandelier in an alternate hall that he was temporarily staying in. Invisible circular wavelengths appeared out from the tacking, topping on the original with another one. There was nothing happening. It was an action that Osparious did to trigger something. His environs were constant, nothing was accompanied. His thobe fluttered gently, owing to the gusts of wind from the portal.

  Osparious: “The one who conquers. The one who leads. The one who excels. Fixed and amendments, which one will take hold?”

  Finally, he stepped through the portal that he initially created. A lingering sound left resembling the sound of a vacuum for 1 second and disappeared with no trace.

  ***

  Gods: “...”

  They received a signal that was unmistakably from their father. They were astonished initially, then they started to perceive the signal through some wavelength collector inside them, a power that was given from their father similar to telepathy. It was just a few hours, and their father started to give out signals to emphasize the danger upcoming. “Strange” they thought.

  However, the signal wasn’t about that. It was a signal that mentioned the planet their father depicted in that sensical wavelength. An image of a seemingly droughtful and mountainous place, but it still had trees. Yellowish ground and average mountains mingle as a scene that was totally ordinary, since almost every civilization illustrated the same. They questioned what could be the metaphor of this scene that their father hinted at them?

  [Between the resourceful and monotone. What would conquer another?]

  The quintuplets were drooled. They still didn’t get it. Of course, they would choose the resourceful over the monotone. Why would they choose the limited one? However, they still had some contemplates of the other. Monotone isn’t completely bad, it could declare efficiency and comply easily. The slackness of it is the limited resources given, which is only focusing on one mechanism that could work well rather than concentrating on a not well-known one. The difference was notched out, but what their father wanted was a more holistic version of his vision.

  [This planet is where the prototype would be born. The one who could replace and customize the way of things.]

  It had been only one day. Their father sent them the signal frantically. Surely, this was something that needed to be taken into account. The five gods stood in a hall that was horrendous. The room consisted of countless light blue transparent dots floating around. In front of them were multiple displays that were also transparent and light blue. Words and symbols were implied. However, they were written in different languages that cannot be understood. With their super powers, the gods can interpret them into wavelengths and translate them inside their minds. The words were shown, owing to the gods’ civilizations that they found interesting. Their father told them to spread the seeds through these machine-like displays. They had been working on that ever since the gods found that miracles were only bringing suffering. Meanwhile, Osparious found his newest way to incorporate everything; it was the experiment he was talking about, the five gods thought. They were mindlessly completing his objectives, but rather they didn’t know much about the whole story behind. Brilliantly, the gods got the statistics of the emotions increment of the seeds. It was better than ever, after Osparious started to inform his new methodology.

  Somehow, everything was getting more serious and attentive than ever. Since Julia and Katze’s arrival, they had headed downward into the well of mixed negative emotions that they had never experienced before. Because, they’re not from holiness’s possession nor they had the qualifications to enter their realm. It all started with the ‘experiment’ that Osparious informed at the hall. Probably, their father had been thinking of a broadening future, whereas something would be the final determination of how everything should be taken or placed or organized in the flawless order.

  The prototype…The leading one…The monarch…The tyrant…

  If it belonged to that category, surely it was about determining the best holder for how everything would be working out. If it was their father’s plan all along, then it must be the best one between them, Katze and Julia’s side. However, they weren’t sure of that.

  [My sons. I don’t want to take this mystery further. I’ve been wanting to see which philosophy could work perfectly with my seeds.]

  God #1: “Philosophy? What is it about?”

  God #4: “Is it relevant to the seeds that those started to form when they were in middle age?”

  God #3: “That’s right. Seemingly, father wants us to do something for his favour.”

  The blue dots started to flow around as trails. They flowed continuously at a fast pace. The room at that time was engulfed with blue trails that moved in a detour. Assumingly, that was the sudden change that tells them something has happened to the seeds overall. However, the statistical blue bar showed none, and it was rather still at peace.

  God #5: “Something is wrong with the movement!”

  That’s right. The change was the movement halted among every civilizations. That was involved with time stop, which is the only ability that Osparious acquired. Their father was being serious, he was really meaning something about this interference. Still, they didn’t think their father would do this just for the experiment to be commenced.

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  [That wasn’t my activation. It was someone else,]

  The latter would be the clue of this perplexity. The five gods continued perceiving the signal from their father.

  [This is due to the time stop activation. However, I wasn’t the one who did it. Who else can do it?]

  They thought of different possibilities. They scrutinized which one among them was the sabotaging one. Excluding Osparious from their black list, because he already explained his reasoning, and it was likely nonsensical to stop the whole movement, in other terms development of the seeds. The five gods were always going side by side, they assured that they were absolutely not hostile. Thus, the only remaining suspects were Katze and Julia. Julia had her authority that wasn’t witnessed in action by the five gods, so they were unconsciously being cautious of her. On the other side, Katze remained his right eye closed shut; the awakening of his right eye is barely known. Osparious was the one who gave him his authority, so he must know what power lay within that right eye,

  [I only gave Katze the manifestation in magic particle energy, owing to the pledging system’s energy vacuum. His energy level after that started to rise and flow within him once again. Hence, his left eye color changed to a yellowish one, whilst his right eye was closed shut for some reason. I also wonder what could lay inside that eye. Because of the pledging system, my examination ability cannot inspect him.]

  Katze and Julia’s ability was unknown. They were really on one side and vice versa. This seemed like Osparious already foreseen this, and he would likely set things up for a great battle that will happen between them and Katze’s side. They wondered if Julia was actually on Katze’s side. However, they suddenly recalled the ‘duty’ Julia and Katze had to commit, and it was guaranteed that they must be hostile toward them once they regained their memories. That would be the worst scenario. Since they hadn’t known each other well, whilst they were still in amnesia without forming a corporation. If they regained their memories of the duty and started to form a rebellion, they would have to stop that, no matter what.

  But frantically, that was the reality that they had to bear.

  [Katze had retrieved his memories of the duty he had to commit. The wavelength I chipped in him has been transferring with high frequency as of now. More importantly, his right eye had opened. The ability in his right eye…has the ability to freeze time.]

  Their father had an omnipresent sight ability that allowed him to look from any angle from the entire domain. He must be watching Katze and Julia’s afar with his god-like ability. Then, it must be it. The doubts they had toward two irrelevant beings had been proved to be correct. About the experiment, they somehow figured out that the world needed to be randomized and logical based. This was their philosophy, but they didn’t know Katze and Julia’s philosophy and what they were trying to stop them from. How fortunate, the seeds kept getting better and better. Some still suffered, but mostly started to be in order. The subjugation they got, what would it be?

  He froze everything, except everyone in this realm. This was due to the realm’s nullification, and it cannot be broken and imported concept on it. Basically, this realm was untouchable. It was enough for Katze to start his revolution, despite invading into holiness and gods.

  [I ask thee one more time. Between the resourceful and monotone, what would be better?]

  Once again asserted, Osparious stated this last time. A punch line that determined the final discretion of the gods, which are Osparious’ creations, whether they would follow his intuition and vision, over the other two unknown guests. The five gods thought about the doubts they imposed on their father, because they were thinking of Osparious trying to bring calamity on his own. However, their father’s plan was to see which philosophy was superior, in other terms, trying to prove their father’s philosophy was correct. Probably, the atmosphere that time was really filled with irritation, the anger and bizarreness they felt toward the new. They wanted to eliminate the danger, the irritation that caused them to be anxious…

  Anxious? Were they feeling that?

  The five gods: “We must eliminate Katze and Julia.”

  They were assured. They wanted to eliminate both of them out of their realm. Those two people were like the pests that needed to be eliminated by using pest killer spray, if not intercepted, they would suck their blood and bother them.

  The gods: “We choose the resourceful. We will follow your path.”

  [An army is already in reinforcement.]

  The gods: “An army?”

  Suddenly, the doors from the room opened themselves. There were six main entrances leading into this horrendous room. A bunch of whites moved in, they were wearing a white outfit that covered their whole body and limbs. There was a hood for each, and they wore it on to cover their face. In the middle, there was a crystal in rhombus shape, shone variously.

  [They all possessed minor powers. But, they could put up a holding fight. You could let them get into the battle first.]

  God #4: “This much?”

  God #2: “We must be the ones to fight first. We must not let anyone die because of this.”

  [They devoted themselves. I’ll let them reincarnate and have better opportunities. My creations will be what I want to do with them.]

  God #3: “But it’s against moralities…”

  [That idea was among my implantation. Don’t worry, everything will turn out fine.]

  They had no doubts about their father’s omnipotent ability. It was a bit against the philosophy they gods had to pursue. However, Osparious was the one to determine what he would do with his creations. The gods didn’t have a slight shift in their final decision. Therefore, everything had been set up. That planet their father showed was where the battle would take place, but how can they bring them to that place now? They were still inside the mansion, but it was such a matrix that they couldn’t find both of them in one day.

  [I’ve created a seed…]

  What about it?

  [This seed would be our assistant…for that purpose.]

  Someone would do that for them, meaning that the seed father mentioned would be the one to bring both Katze and Julia to that planet. They grasped that conclusion. The whites aside them stood still, waiting for orders. Surely, they would be in charge of that army.

  [They are called royal guards. They’re beneath you all pretty much. You can just call them your supplements.]

  Finally, among the royal guards, there was a blonde hair boy at the teen age. He was grieving his teeth. A shadowy area covered his face due to the hood, leaving his cheeks and mouth revealed, an expression of tantrum could be implied. He blended within the crowd of whites.

  The boy(?): “I’ll meet you again, Julia. Why are you going so far into this?”

  The words fled into the air without being recognized or heard by anyone, but striving to the goal that he must pursue.

  * * *

  I walked through rooms that were pretty normal. Some of them could be said as living room, bathroom, eating room or a blank room. They all had one similar characteristic, was that the rooms were immaculately large. And as of that time, I was walking toward the door of the spacious empty room. Fortunately, the rooms had something bright lightening the way for me.

  I finally reached the door. I twisted the doorknob and gently pushed it forward.

  “What is this place?”

  An aquarium, but not getting blocked by the glass. The blue transparent water flowed consecutively. There were corals, rocks and other incarnations from the sea imitated completely as a real aquarium. I felt like I was inside an aquarium, and I could interact with the species if I wanted. A fish was swimming toward me at that time. I tried to catch it with my hand, but it magically went through my hand. Seemingly, that couldn’t be interacted with, because this counterfeit of an aquarium was just an image.

  ?: “Fascinating, huh?”

  I heard a voice loud and clear, surely it must be a man’s voice. There were fishes and small creatures flowing along together in front of me. That scene concealed the upper body and showed only the lower body of the individual.

  ?: “Some worlds have such wonderful things. Don’t you think so?”

  “Who are you?”

  The blocking moved and showed an individual. A blonde-hair person wore a thick white outfit that the upper thobe sprawled down to his ankles. The middle had two yellowish lines drawing from the collar to the end of the thobe. The white outfit hid his limbs well, but only his face was shown flesh. In the middle of the chest, there was a magenta crystal in rhombus shape attached. The shadowy area from his face was shown due to the hood covering his head. He was having an ironic smile. Slowly, he raised his head; magenta eyes were the only captivating things from him. Also, he was emanating a dangerous aura that made me sweated.

  ?: “Let’s have a bit of fun, shall we?”

  He let out his hostility and his malicious intentions. Thus, a battle was inevitable.

  ***