Re: Killing The Heavens

The first thing I heard was this normal sounding voice, well at least compared to Devi's.

"Ugh, what happened to me? " - I asked unsure where I am and if I am safe here.

"Well, to put it simply, and by 'simply' I mean how on Earth you speak, your soul was sent here to get a cleansing from impurities so that the reincarnation would be easier to bear. But well, it still will be very painful to go through."-Tria stated.

" Cleansing? Impurities? Uggghhh… my head."

"Hmm?? You don't understand? Well, for starters, impurities are, well, impurities. But not those that you found in your tea or drinking water. I'm talking about those that taint your soul, weaken its perception and make it fragile to outside interference. That's basically it about the impurities.

Now about cleansing, basically it's something similar to forging a high-grade sword. By heating the metal up, this time it's your soul, and hammering it with a hammer, and by a hammer, I mean Nirvana Fire and Assimilation Winds and similar things, we'll be able to cleanse your soul, and maybe even improve it."

"Well, we don't have anything to wait for, so let's start.

I still wanted to ask some things but I didn't get a chance. By the time I understood the meaning of her words, I felt myself being plunged into coldest place in existence. The surrounding looked similar to Niflheim from Thor film. Well, you could mistake it, if not for the sea of raging blue flames that threatened to devour you any second. Just when I was thinking of a reason why I'm here, suddenly I plunged into the flames head first. The feel the flames gave me when they touched me was, well, strange is all I can say.

The flames that were burning with lights and colors that you could mistake them for some futuristic neon technology actually did not burn me but rather froze some parts of my soul body. The feeling was so cold that I can't describe it with words. It felt like something from the realm of the living. After what seemed like an eternity and a half, I finally noticed that the frozen parts were the half grey-half white parts of my body that I thought is essential to my being. But when the frozen parts started moving outwards my body, I realized that those grey parts are those impurities that the goddess of reincarnation was talking. And I also want to mention that when those grey blemishes started moving, I felt like something was using every equipment possible to make me feel pain. It screwed, ripped, chewed, burnt, tore and cut. It actually helped to understand that all the torture in my previous life that I experienced was merely child play in front of this feeling. The torment that I felt with all my body finally ended after what felt like centuries.

When the last frozen place exited my body, the freezing feeling that I was feeling all this time disappeared like it was never there.

" Well, finally, your soul got cleansed at least to some degree. Damn, that Karma is going to be indebted to me. But still, why would be willing to do all this just for some slightly bigger ant. I really don't understand women."- Then I heard a voice. Not a sweet one like previous times (except for the God of darkness) but one that literally radiates ancient aura. A voice that perfectly shows just how powerful is the being behind it, and how minuscule you actually are.

But that's it. Before I got any chance to ask any questions, I started to go upwards at breakneck speed. I would not be surprised if I was faster than light at the moment. When I finally started to see where I actually am, and not just some multicolored blurs, I felt a similar but completely different feeling.

While previously I felt cold, now I just wished to go back into those blue flames- the heat and burning sensation that I felt at the moment was hundred times, no, thousand times more painful and unbearable than anything that I experienced previously.

"Concentrate, if you gonna to just curse how it is hurting, you will really perish. Try to feel out your soul and harness the power of Nirvana from flames. Try to destroy those impurities and blemishes with your power, or at least to force them closer to flames."- while I was screaming and cursing how inhumane this torture is, I heard a soothing voice that helped to ease the pain somehow.

I also started to concentrate with all my will to push those leftover black spots that blue flames did not manage to cleanse. While doing all that, I also tried to ignore the pain from being burned alive in probably hottest flames in the universe. After several hours, or maybe years, I don't even know, the fire finally stopped to burn the impurities(because there wasn't any left) along with my body. And just when I thought it was finally over, I heard the sentence that annoyed me to the death.

" Hmmm, good. You managed to pull through that, but… hmmm, ok, let's risk it."- And just when I wanted to curse, I felt the wind blowing against my back. The wind seemed like a breeze and extremely fluffy, but suddenly it started to get stronger, rougher, sharper and so on. The increase in strength was very fast, in just a few seconds I felt like I was being ground by a mill. The worst part was that I noticed the flames being cut and shred apart, finally being extinguished. And while if it was any other flame that was being played around like that it wouldn't be such unbelievable thing, but I had a hunch that these were Nirvana flames. Yes, those Nirvana flames that are said to be able to burn through anything and be nen-extinguishable. And the wind that was also blowing against my body was exactly the thing that was extinguishing these flames.

"Oh, shit" - were the only words that I could muster while seeing the situation. When I awoke from the stupor, the wind already has extinguished all flames and I was the only being in the endless darkness.

After a few more seconds, the wind got so sharp that I was literally being shredded apart. But the worst of all thing was that some psychopath was constantly drenching me in some strange, full of vitality power, that kept my soul from dissipating. I was being shredded apart, then mended together the shredded again. This process was continuing for what seemed the lifetime of a universe. The strangest thing was that from all that pain my mind should have broken apart a long time ago, but some power held it together.

" well, it succeeded, although chances are low. Well, nevermind, as I see that you are already ready, let's send you where you will be able to improve past your limits."

With those words, I managed to understand that I was being dragged into a tunnel of complete darkness, darker than the abyss itself.

Then I remembered --

"HEYYYY!!! Don't YOU DARE TO REINCARNATE ME INTO SOME MON…"

But before I managed to finish my words, I saw a flash of what I can describe just as a time-space continuum and then I blacked out.

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"Muahahaha, I finally succeeded. Now nothing will stop my plan of conquering the world"- these cliche words were what greeted me when my consciousness came back to me to some degree.