Chapter 5: Extorting a God in the Void
"Who are you?" Rainer, seeing that the old man was approaching him, asked cautiously and in a calm tone, but inside he had already drawn his own conclusions.
The old man who arrived in front of Rainer 'sat' cross-legged and began to speak.
"Hmm... Who am I? Huh." The old man repeated as he stroked his beard and pretended to be mysterious.
"Throughout my life I have had many names and nicknames, people have loved me and hated me, but people usually call me... The Mad God, one of the strongest Gods of all." Said the old man with a big smile of pride on his face, it seemed that he liked to be called that.
Listening to him, Rainer gave him an expressionless look.
'This old man is a fool.' He thought as he approached the old man and also sat cross-legged.
"So you are a God huh, nice to meet you, my name is Rainer Evans." Rainer introduced himself and extended his hand for a handshake, he wasn't even impressed that he was in the presence of a God and he wasn't afraid of him either, plus he had already gotten an idea that that might be the case, he wasn't known as 'the smartest person in the world' for nothing.
The Mad God agreed to shake his hand.
'To think that he was so rude a while ago and now he is acting so respectfully towards me.'
'Heh, surely he must be impressed that I'm a God.' The Mad God thought and smiled internally.
"No, no, the pleasure is mine." Said the God with a silly smile on his face as he confirmed his suspicions of Rainer's soul after shaking his hand.
"Do you know what this place is?" Asked Rainer since until this moment he didn't know where he was, also he quickly took his hand out of the Mad God's hand after seeing his creepy smile, Rainer wished he had a hand sanitizer who knows what he did with that dirty hand.
"This place is called the void, in this place is the primordial chaos, it is the place where all the souls come after dying and it is where they all end up being disintegrated by the primordial chaos. It is also the place where all life we know was born from." The Mad God answered while looking at Rainer with a slightly cloudy and heated look, it seemed that he was even salivating.
Rainer didn't pay attention to how the lunatic in front of him looked at him, because he was digesting what he had just heard.
"If this place is where all souls end up disintegrating, how am I still alive?" Rainer asked not finding an answer for himself.
"That's what I wanted us to get to, heh heh heh." The Mad God said excitedly as he got a little closer and pointed his wrinkled finger at Rainer.
Rainer backed away in disgust that the old man would get so close and spray some saliva in his face, but he refrained from spitting at him and kicking him in the face.
"You are someone extraordinary and special, you are a person who was able to survive in a vacuum, something that should be almost impossible."
"But because you were able to survive, your soul has been able to mutate and adapt to the primordial chaos, even though you are currently weak and do not have a strong physical body to be able to control the power of the primordial chaos, if you become my successor I will give you an extraordinary power so that in the future you become very strong and can handle the power of primordial chaos in all its splendor."
"Although there were cases similar to yours a long time ago, because of the danger they represented to life itself and the balance between the Primordial Gods, they all ended up being killed."
"So, to save your life from those ruffians, I ask you to bow down to my mortal and become my successor." He said with a typical child kidnapper smile as he stood up and held out his arm for Rainer to grab.
The Mad God was sure that Rainer would accept, after all although he had said that Rainer could become strong in the future he was also at risk of being killed by the Gods, he thought that by scaring Rainer a little he would accept, after all, the people he is afraid of death and no one wanted to die.
"No thanks, stick your power up your ass and if it's not enough for you, stick your filthy fist too." Rainer told the God, he turned around and started to fly away from the old man.
But a small evil smile hung on his ghostly lips, he could see that the Mad God was desperate, moreover he had already realized the old man's plan to instill fear into him to accept being his successor, and if what the old man said was real he could take advantage of this situation, because the old man seemed to need it.
"E-eh w-wait." The Mad God was surprised at Rainer's resounding rejection and ran after him.
"Did you hear that you are in danger and that many people if they find out you exist will hunt you down until you are dead?" The Mad God asked as he stood in front of Rainer hoping that Rainer hadn't heard that part.
"Yes, I heard it, I'm not deaf, old man." Rainer said in an annoyed tone as he turned around and started to walk away again.
"Stop right there, if you think you can get out of here alive you're wrong." The Mad God threatened and began to radiate strong killing intent.
"If you want to kill me, do it at once, no one will stop you, fagot." Rainer scoffed as he turned around, looking fearlessly into the Mad God's eyes.
What he was doing was completely crazy, but if he was right he could take advantage of God and get out of this place once and for all and if he was wrong he was already prepared for a horrible death, a death he was looking for, because at last he could get out of this hell, dead, but at least he wouldn't be alone anymore. Either way, Rainer would emerge victorious, for better or worse, that remained to be seen.
The Mad God blushed again after hearing Rainer and clenched his teeth in anger.
"Don't think that you are the only one with a soul that has adapted to the primordial chaos, right now I can kill you and search the void and find people with the same condition as you, you better accept my offer, child." Said the Mad God threateningly as he releases all of his killing intent to intimidate him into agreeing to be his successor, after all he didn't have much time left because 'those people' could find him, it was only a matter of time for that to happen.
"Then go ahead, kill me, I suppose there are plenty of guys with my condition and they will gladly accept being your successor." Said Rainer as he goaded him to kill him, after all even though his palms were sweating due to the Mad God's intense killing intent he wasn't afraid of death he was just a little impressed because to have this frightening killing intent the number of people who died at the hands of the Mad God were surely uncontrollable.
The Mad God did nothing and just stared at Rainer with anger, in fact Rainer was his only and best option at this time, because if he wanted to create his perfect being that would have no rival in the future, he would have to be people with the same case and potential of Rainer, something that is practically impossible.
Although it was true that he could get more people with Rainer's condition, finding one was almost impossible, because the void had no beginning or end, he could spend his whole life searching and not find a single person, although it is true that there were people like Rainer, there were only 3 cases which were killed immediately upon learning of their existence due to the danger they represented.
In addition, it is not easy to survive in the void since the primordial chaos disintegrates all the things that end up in this place, if you are a weak soul or a person with a weak body you will end up dead, but there have been cases that even being weak they survive to the void and adapt to it, this would be the case of Rainer.
People who are strong enough like the Gods can survive in the void without any problem, but even if they can survive, that doesn't mean they can handle the primordial chaos.
After all, if someone could handle the primordial chaos, no one could stop that person. At this time, although there were no people who could handle the primordial chaos, most of the Gods knew of the existence of people like Rainer, if they were given enough time to become strong, they could end up handling the primordial chaos, something that none of the Gods would allow, all the Gods had agreed to kill the people who had the potential to handle the primordial chaos.
Interestingly, only deceased souls that end up in the void and survive have the potential to handle the primordial chaos, surviving the void is no easy feat, as soon as it arrives, the souls immediately begin to disintegrate, due to the pain of feeling their souls that they are being destroyed and disintegrating, people just pass out and end up dying, and the few people who don't pass out and seek to survive eventually end up giving up due to the pain and end up dying as well.
The people with an unbreakable will like Rainer, who last and endure pain for millions of years until their souls finish adapting to the primordial chaos, are just the 3 people mentioned above and Rainer.
"Even if I can't kill you because I need you, that doesn't mean I can't force you to obey me." Mad God said with a mad smile as he closed his eyes and began to use his mental powers to force Rainer to submit.
Rainer opened his eyes a little and looked at him angrily when he heard the words force you and obey, they were the words he hated the most because they were the words his father always used against him so that he would end up obeying his orders as if he were a puppet.
Sensing that something was trying to enter his consciousness, he closed his eyes and tried to stop it, but couldn't due to differences in strength. But he didn't have to worry either because he heard a groan of pain from the Mad God.
"Ugh, what the fuck, how can your mind be so unstable and crazy." The Mad God said as he wiped the sweat from his forehead, he was impressed that Rainer's mind was a mess, to have a mind like Rainer's one had to be a madman.
'This guy is a complete psycho, he literally has shit in his head, he couldn't even see his memories, all he could see was his thoughts, which is anime stuff and otaku stuff.' The Mad God thought as he looked at Rainer with a complicated look. He couldn't do anything anymore for Rainer to end up agreeing to be his successor, but maybe...
"Haha, it seems you can't even force me, how desperate are you to make me your successor, old man?" Rainer asked in a teasing tone.
"How about you agree to be my successor, I will give you the ability to create your body from scratch, I will let you reincarnate in a world of your choice, and I will give you my creation, which is a system that adapts to its wearer, this system is the one that will give you the power so that in the future you can be strong enough to wield the power of primordial chaos." Said the Mad God with a slightly uneasy voice and afraid that Rainer would not accept his proposal.
Rainer seemed to be contemplating things and thinking deeply, but he soon broke into a smirk.
"If you want me to agree to be your successor, you will do as I say." Rainer said with a playful smile.
"B-but." The Mad God was speechless and wanted to make Rainer have mercy, but Rainer immediately told him to shut up.
"Shut up you filthy old man, am I talking about, if you want me to be your successor first of all you will give me the abilities that I want, you will give me the system and I want you to find or create a world that I will tell you about later."
"If you think I'll forget about your threats for giving me those things, let me tell you that you're an idiot, don't be confused right now, you need me, I do not need you." Rainer said coldly as he looked into the Mad God's eyes with a dead look.
The Mad God shuddered a little due to Rainer's gaze, his back and butt started to sweat as he saw that Rainer was blackmailing him because he previously wanted to force him to be his successor.
"O-Okay, I'll give you whatever you want." The Mad God ended up reluctantly agreeing.
Rainer smiled triumphantly.
"Well first of all I want you to tell me why you are so desperate for me to be your successor." Rainer asked, curious as to why the Mad God wanted her to be his successor at all costs.
"Sigh, that's because right now the Primordial Gods are looking for me to kill me." The Mad God said with a tired voice.
"What the hell did you do that the Primordial Gods want to kill you and you are so desperate to find a successor?" Rainer asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"It's a long story, but it's like this..." The Mad God began to tell his story.
In short, the Mad God was collecting treasures and many things throughout the multiverse to create the perfect and invincible being, due to his actions he created many enemies who tried to kill him, but none could, that's how the Mad God kept collecting things for his legendary successor until he decided to steal the primordial fire of the Primordial God of Fire for his future successor.
Although he was able to kill the Primordial God of Fire and steal his power, the Mad God in his battle was also injured and ended up descending in rank in the power scale in the multiverse, the other Primordial Gods, upon learning of the death of one of their brothers, they decided to hunt down the Mad God.
And that was how the Mad God had spent all these years running away and hiding from the Primordial Gods, he was so desperate for Rainer to become his successor because it was a matter of time before the Gods would find him and kill him, even though the God Loco was not afraid of death, he did not want to die without first creating the perfect being of his wettest dreams.
"That's just the way it is and here we are now." I finish explaining the Mad God with a sigh because he was talking for a long time.
'Hmm I see, so that's why I was so desperate.' Rainer thought as he looked at the Mad God.
"Well it's your problem, now I want you to give me the 'matter manipulation' ability so I can create my new body." Rainer said without flinching or feeling sorry for the Mad God's situation.
The Mad God could only nod his head and follow all of Rainer's orders from now on, but inside he had already insulted Rainer for being so insensitive.
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Author note: I guess this chapter will have been heavy for you because of the explanations but I hope you understand that this was necessary. Thanks for reading and thanks for those two reviews, they lifted my spirits. 😌
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