章節 8: Convergence
A few minutes earlier, when Mark was still in the tank.
[...Resisting the modifications is futile, it will only quicken our death.] "Mark" spoke in a nonchalant voice.
'So...you're saying we should just accept it?' Mark asked sarcastically, but the reply he received made him flabbergasted.
[Exactly.]
...Mark remained silent, he was now absolutely sure that his counterpart was a maniac who liked to court death.
[I'm not saying this for no reason.] "Mark" added in a serious tone.
'Then what are you planning exactly?'
[We don't have time to go over the details. You can know that we're going to have to absorb the 2 remnants.]
"Mark" paused for a second before he spoke again, his voice sounded firm and steady:
[I'll take care of The Corrupted remnants, The Divine will be up to you.]
'...And then what?'
"Mark" remained silent as if he was deciding his next word. After a little while more, he answered succinctly:
[...Then we're going to commit suicide.]
'...What!!??'
Mark was stupefied by his counterpart's words, he couldn't believe what he just heard.
He asked again to make sure that didn't hear anything wrong:
'Excuse me, did I mishear something? You want us to commit suicide!?'
'Didn't you say that we can avoid death if I follow your plan?'
"Mark" answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world:
[...I only said that we can avoid an absolute death with no return. I never said anything about not dying.]
'How's that any different?' Mark angrily retorted.
[You'll naturally understand the details soon enough, for now, let's just trust your counterpart's words] "Mark" didn't say anything else after that as he remained silent.
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Back to the present, in the dark boundless void that seemed to stretch infinitely.
Mark and his counterpart silently stared at the 2 figures battling each other.
The two seemed equal at first, but the figure represented The Corrupted remnants that started to slowly but surely gain advantages over The Divine remnants.
This was quite alarming considering how there was only one Corrupted remnant coming from the Surpassed creature but the Divine remnants actually came from two Surpassed humans.
After a while, Mark turned his head to look at his counterpart, he asked grimly:
"Are we doing it or not?"
[...Before we start, I want to clarify something.] "Mark" turned to him and suddenly said in a serious voice.
Seeing that he was silent, Mark nodded his head for him to continue.
[Once we do this, there will be no turning back. So if you want to give up, I respect your choice.]
He paused for 2 seconds, then spoke:
[Our life has been nothing but damnation, we can give up on this painful life if we want to. After all, we don't need to suffer like this.]
Mark stared at his counterpart, then let out a small chuckle as he said:
"Hehe, we do resemble each other after all."
"Mark" raised his brow at Mark's remark, seemingly confused.
The latter saw this and didn't say anything else about the matter but instead nodded his head, his voice full of determination:
"What do we have to lose anyway? Go big or go home."
"Mark" lifted a corner of his lips slightly, his eyes gleamed with faint approval and recognition:
[Very well, then we shall begin.]
With that said, they turned around to face the 2 figures who were still battling each other, but by now The Corrupted had already overwhelmed The Divine remnants.
The two sucked in a deep breath, then they opened their mouths and spoke at the same time, their voices strangely loud and reverberating across the space clearly:
[I am here!]
"I am here!"
The 2 figures that were still clashing against each other suddenly stopped, they turned both their "heads" looking intensively at Marks' direction.
Although the 2 figures didn't have any facial features, Marks could still feel the insatiable pangs of hunger and insanity coming from the remnants.
The two remnants practically flew at Marks and directly entered their bodies.
Mark received The Divine remnants while his counterpart got The Corrupted remnants.
Both of them slowly brought their hands to their heads as their faces turned bright red and veins started bulging all over themselves.
Marks' eyes turned bloodshot as they looked at each other, trying to suppress the scorching pain within them.
Mark clenched his right fist while "Mark" clenched his left fist so tightly that it almost bled.
The two slowly walked towards each other and in prior agreement, they raised their clenched hands high up and made a punching motion to the other person.
Splash!
Their hands directly pierced the other's chests as they coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Argh!"
[Argh!]
As their sanity started slipping away, Mark noticed out of the corner of his eyes, a gigantic figure appeared from the dark void.
It had millions of eyes and mouths that constantly moved around until it focused on two of them. It flashed disgusting smiles and its eyes shone mysterious red lights, at the same time the bracelets in their hands also started to glow the same red lights.
Mark witnessed this as his and his counterpart's bodies dissolved into specks of white light and he completely lost consciousness.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"No, no, no, no!!!!"
A dark-skinned old man wearing a lab coat and having small round glasses roared madly in anger and indignation.
His eyes moved madly between the person in the large chemical tank in front of him and the monitor displaying the person's heartbeat.
The monitor indicated a flat line that stayed unmoving for a long time before the old man smashed the monitor into pieces.
"No! I've wasted so much effort into you, I believed that you are the perfect candidate, why did you die!?"
The old man was clearly John. A few minutes ago, his experiment to make Mark become someone who wields both powers of The Divine and The Corrupted was going well.
Suddenly, all of Mark's life signals disappeared and John's 3 days of hard work were turned into bubbles.
He naturally felt extremely angry and shameful because he firmly believed that this experiment would turn out well and he would create the perfect being, the best of both worlds.
While he was thinking about where did he make a mistake, a rumbling sound echoed and a few minutes later, the door to the room suddenly sprang open as a bulky man wearing a military uniform rushed in.
He breathed heavily due to the fact he was running earlier. After a few seconds, he looked at John with panic in his eyes as he said:
"Doctor! We are under attack!!"
John's eyes widened at the man's words as he asked again for confirmation:
"Attack? Here? How is it possible, this is a government's secret base!!?"
"I don't know how sir!" The soldier said while panicking." But our troops must have been discovered by the enemies."
"Fuck! There's no time to panic, how's the situation?" John asked in a hurry.
"Our side is losing sir, the enemy's firepower and manpower are vastly superior to us."
"...We need to escape sir." The soldier said after he caught his breath a little.
John looked back at the chemical tank where Mark's body resided with regrets. After a moment, he ran to a corner of the room and pulled out a few explosives.
He placed them all over the room and said to the soldier:
"Tell our troops to retreat immediately and also try to destroy everything with explosives before they leave."
"Yes sir!" The two quickly moved out of the room where Mark resided.
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