Chapter -3

In the private villa of Michael on Earth, 2 years after he assumed his human form and entered hiding

“Gilgamesh, what are your thoughts on my current state?”, asked Michael to a man sitting cross legged on his couch

“Your essence fades as your existence lingers in the world. The only reasonable answer to this is that something is consuming your power at a rate which is beyond anything imaginable”, he replied with a nonchalant tone

“Consuming my powers? But who or what could be doing this?”

“There are various reasons for the consumption of life force. It could be a remnant part of your soul that is leeching off you or an extra-dimensional being is attacking your essence without your knowledge or even your own creations using it to sustain themselves”

“Another being stronger than me!? That’s not possible. It was just the two of us since the beginning. A part of my own soul that I do not know of? That is also highly unlikely since I have never created another like myself. That just leaves Hermathera, it never reacted in this way for such a long time but why now does it need such a large amount of my energy”, he pondered as he was growing weary of being limited to his human form

“I should get going now Michael. I have spent too long in this world and need to move on before the enforcer finds me”, Gilgamesh gets up to leave

“I’ll walk you out”

Gilgamesh the one who cheated death. The immortal human. Forever on the run from the pursuit of Thanatos.

“What does my future hold? I have never been so uncertain in my entire existence as I am now. If he is still alive, he must be hysterical at my plight now that I have no one to turn to. The trans-dimensional anomaly is also getting worse every year without an end in sight. Have I doomed all of us by killing the First”, Michael started to grow more and more anxious as the days pass

At Enki’s school the same day

“Hey, it’s been a while”

“What the fuck are you talking about? We met in the morning. Are you finally going crazy from all the remedials you have been taking after school?”

“You wanna go to the new movie today?”

“Not today, I gotta go home early, got some visitors coming over”

“Dude did you check out the new game that came out yesterday. It’s got the most amazing graphics yet”

“Seriously, lemme check it real quick”

“Ah, youth, it never gets old. I wonder how Shude is doing, is he even alive still”, Enki sat at the headmaster’s table and thought while sipping his tea

“Enki, you’re doing it again. Why don’t you just retire and live peacefully now that our lord has entered his eternal rest”, a woman sat across from him reading a book titled ‘How to make a million dollars for dummies’

“Athena, I see your taste in books is as odd as ever. You already own assets worth over a 100 billion”, he said with a displeased look

“Learning never ends, is one of my principles. No matter what kind of book I read there might always be something new in one of them”

“Well since you’re obviously more knowledgeable than me, tell me what you found out about the anomaly”

“No, it’s futile to think about something that we have no control over. Just let it play out as it is supposed to, without thinking too much”

“There you go again, forcing your ideology onto others. Just tell me the current situation alright”

“Fine, it’s starting to snowball now. Cracks are appearing more often and the instability spreading from them is travelling farther. The appearance of the cracks is still random and we have yet to find one near our galaxy but worry not soon enough they will start to appear like flies on a of pile shit”

“Your analogies are as bad as ever but I get the gist of it. So how long do we have till the eventual collapse and about this other dimension that is crashing into ours, do we have any contact as of now?”

“My guess is about another year or two at a max and we will see a new dimension form from the remnants of these 2 and as for contact from the other dimension, it seems that the dimension we are colliding with is of substantial power but compact in space since even with the few cracks early on, we had creatrues falling into ours, these lesser creatures that have unfortunately dropped from the cracks into our void of space were either highly concentrated with energy or had very large physiques to make up for their lack of internal energy”

“I wonder if our counterparts in this other dimension are friend or foe”

“Don’t jinx it you fool”

At the domain of the gods in Hermathera

“My Queen! The anomaly is getting out of hand we need to come up with countermeasures and fast”, said a being cloaked in purple lightning

“Our clan has already lost 3 young de-ahis to the cracks”, said another with 2 large horns protruding from his shoulders while standing atop a chariot that was being pulled by two of the said de-ahi, massive creatures with six legs and 2 heads with forked tongues and no eyes

“What countermeasures do you suggest?”, asked Lumia sitting high on her throne with a bright light behind her making it almost impossible to look at her without going blind

-silence-

“We cannot control this anomaly. It is beyond my powers and that of the 3 elder gods put together even. I have consulted with Vygil and even made a truce with Obscurian till the anomaly subsides. There is nothing more we can do in this matter than to weather the storm that is coming and hope that not all is lost. Now that our creator is no longer present to guide us, we must remain strong and hope that someday he will return and give us back what we lose now!”, Lumia tried to empower her subjects who are the minor gods in her court and let them feel secure in this hard time

Later that day in a private chamber in the Palace of Lumia

“How bad is it actually?”, Lumia asked with a stressed look on her face

“It is as it seems, turns out my estimate was very optimistic and now we are reaching the point of return. The other dimension that we have collided with seems to be a very large and desolate one, which has almost nothing in it for the majority but some of my watchers that managed to return spoke of celestial bodies floating in the vast nothingness that might host life and also of some creatures that rivaled us in strength that act as sort of protectors to these celestial objects”

“Hostile?”

“Not as of yet”