Arc 75 - The Nameless One (Part 2)

Nazar wandered around in the darkness once more.

“Tch.”

He clicked his tongue and found that the sound in this world was back.

“I wonder what the next trail will be about.”

Nazar stopped moving and looked up, even if nothing was different.

Two new people appeared before Nazar.

They looked around in confusion and when they saw each other, they kissed.

“I missed you, dear,” the man said.

“Me too,” the woman replied.

Nazar saw that and he looked like he was about to vomit.

“I thought we both died,” the woman said.

“But did you get him?”

“Yes, I did. That explosion should have filled him with extra nanites.”

They both looked at Nazar and then each other.

“Are the instructions in your head too?” the man asked.

“Yes.”

They kissed once more and then faced Nazar.

“Hello, son.”

They both said it in unison.

“Hello there, shit-for-parents?”

(Is that even a phrase?)

Nazar smiled.

Before they could say anything, he moved at supersonic speed and chopped into pieces.

However, the appeared again, less than a second later.

The avatar showed up once more and stole Nazar’s powers.

Nazar just sighed.

“Go ahead and kill me,” Nazar said as he let his arms loose. “Be done with it… or else I will kill you over and over and over again until I am bored of it.”

They both laughed.

“Shall we kill him now?”

“Nah, let’s have a fun reunion right now and then we will kill him.”

As they said that, the area around them transformed. It transformed into a lab. It was a small lab that had a small bed in it and high-tech equipment.

“Ooh. This is where he was born, right, dear?” The man said.

“Yeah. It brings back memories.”

The lab was then transformed into a house. They were right now in a room that resembled a living room. The living room had an old TV, two sofas, a tea table, and a small flower in the corner of the room.

“This was where he showed his strength for the first time, right, dear?” The woman said.

“I remember him picking up that TV,” the man said as he pointed toward the massive old TV.

“But we did notice his energies when he was first born.”

“True.”

(It took so much effort and time to remove these memories.)

The setting was then changed into something else. It resembles a dining room.

“Let’s have a family dinner, son,” the man said.

As the two of them sat down, food appeared. And Nazar just sat down with them.

Two other people appeared. Nazar’s older brother, who died when he was still a newborn baby. His sister appeared too. Nazar could not see their eyes. Or their full face, for that matter. Their hair covered most of their faces.

The food appeared before them. There was turkey, steak, and fried chicken.

“I heard you like chicken a lot.” The woman said.

Nazar rolled his eyes.

Nazar picked up the knife and stabbed his mother in the eye. He then picked up another knife and stabbed her in her left temple.

He then picked up another knife stabbed his father in his right temple.

All of this happened in less than 10 seconds.

They both looked at him while blood was coming out of their temples.

“Now, that was very rude, son,” the woman said.

“Can we have a nice dinner together? For once?” the man said.

“Can you just kill me already?” Nazar said.

“Nooo. Let’s have a dinner first.”

They picked out the knives from their bodies and started eating with it.

Nazar sighed.

“I can’t kill you without my powers, so...”

Nazar stabbed his own temple on after a few minutes of suffering, he ‘died’. And then he was ‘revived’ after a few seconds.

He was about to shoot towards them, but an avatar stole his powers.

He sat down and took a deep breath.

He just placed his head down on the table and then started banging his head on the table.

“Nazar, you are making a lot of noise,” the woman said.

“Shut the fuck up. You are just an illusion.”

“No, they are not. I have resurrected them.” the Nameless One said.

Nazar looked around and everything was frozen.

“I don’t use mere illusions to break you.”

Nazar lightly laughed.

“I have only cared about a few things in the whole universe and you have taken them away from me. I don’t know, if that did not break me, then nothing will.”

“We will see.”

The Nameless One vanished and the scene before Nazar restarted once more.

“Don’t be rude to your mother,” the man said.

Nazar looked at him blankly and then laughed.

(Laughing without emotions is kind of hard.)

His ‘family’ sat around the table and ate while Nazar just placed his head on the table.

“Once I am done with this fake God, I will recreate everything, including all of you.”

The scene before Nazar stopped once more.

“Ooooh. Is that so?”

“Yes. I will kill you. Whether it takes me millions of years or billions of years.”

The Nameless One clapped his hands.

“I am looking forward to it, abomination.”

The Nameless One vanished once more and the scene resumed.

“Tch. That guy is pissing me off.”

After a few minutes, Nazar’s parent finished ‘eating’.

“I wish to god that our family stays like this.” The man said.

Nazar burst into laughter.

“Seriously? You guys were licking a demon’s boots until yesterday and now you are praying to a god? If you ever see him, tell him I said ‘hi’.”

As Nazar said, he stood up and stabbed his mother and then his father with the knife. Over and over again. But every time they ‘died’, they came back after a second.

Nazar then stabbed himself.

As soon as he did that, an avatar showed up.

As soon as Nazar was ‘revived’, the avatar tried to touch him, but Nazar touched the avatar before it touched him.

Nazar smiled and the avatar vanished.

“Did you know, every time I absorb your avatar, I am basically removing a chunk of your power?”

Everything turned black. Nazar’s ‘siblings’ vanished and his parents were standing a little away from him.

“I know that. It’s quite unfortunate.”

The scene became different. This time it was a bigger house. A house Nazar know about. It was the house where Aria went to when her reality warping went out of control.

It was not just Nazar and his parents this time, it was an older version of Aria and everyone else in his family.

He sighed.

“Oh, it’s Nazar. The family’s special person,” his aunt said.

Nazar looked at her and shot her with his heat vision. It went through her and a massive hole appeared in her upper torso.

She then reappeared once more.

“Happy birthday, Nazar!” They all said unison.

“It’s not even 22nd of May,” Nazar said as he sighed.

“This is what your life could have been if you were not special.” The Nameless One whispered in his ear. “Maybe, except for the shooting them with heat vision.”

Nazar sighed.

The Nameless One touched him and his power was gone… or was it?

Instead of killing himself, Nazar’s face was ripped in half with a smile.

“Ah. You stupid God. Your tricks will no longer work on me.”

Nazar sounded cold. Colder than he has ever sounded.

“What?”

“I allowed you to kill me hundreds of times over because I was gathering data. You cannot steal my power anymore. Unless I want you to.”

(Please, just buy this for a few hours. I am just negating your touch and absorbing your energies, instead of the other way around.)

“Hmph. Then I will make you do that. You would want to give your power to me.”

“I know what you will do and I am sure I will allow you to take my power but don’t count on it.”

The Nameless One was no longer hiding. He appeared before his creation.

Unlike Nazar, he was not wearing all black. He was wearing a skin-tight suit that was dark blue. It had a golden belt. And had golden strips here and there. And a dark red cape with it.

“What are you? Superboy Prime knock-off?”

The Nameless One did not pay heed to his comment.

“You are an interesting creature. Very interesting. Just like Lucifer told me.”

Nazar did not even look surprised when the Nameless One mentioned Lucifer. This made the Nameless One confused.

“Are you not surprised?”

“No. Why would I be? It was so obvious from the start. I mean, if no one saw through it, then they are very dumb. Coming here to help me? Appearing as a low-class angel? Give me a break.”

“You really are smart. Then why do pretend to be dumb?”

Nazar’s ‘family’ was celebrating his ‘birthday’ but Nazar and his God were standing in a corner.

“I am not smart. It is just that this whole thing was super obvious when I found more about you.”

At that moment, Lucifer appeared next to them.

“And that whole angel thing was just so stupid. I took my time the other day and went through everything. I knew that it was Lucifer there. He manipulated the reality to do something, which I still don’t know. I am working on that part.”

“We wanted to unleash the creatures of the Void on you. We wanted you to unleash your full power on those creatures and test your abilities. And also, to become more powerful and fix the problem yourself. And break that promise you made to your sister,” Lucifer said with a smile on his face.

“There is still something else we can do, instead of stealing your power,” the Nameless One said.

“That is right. We are three of the most powerful beings in the whole multiverse. Join us and we will be able to remove the Supreme One.”

“And why would I do that?”

Both Lucifer and the Nameless One did not have an answer to this very obvious question. They looked at one another and then thought.

“We will give you the multiverse back. Everything will be how it was, just before it was destroyed.” The Nameless One said.

Nazar, Lucifer and the Nameless One were no longer in that house. They were somewhere else now. And his parents followed them.

They were now floating above a silver city. The Heaven.

Angels were flying by with their white wings out.

“Pretty good illusion,” Nazar said as he admired the scenery before him.

“We are in Heaven now,” Lucifer said.

“Interesting.”

“We can go anywhere and no one will notice us. I have been inside the multiverse many times but the angels think I have never entered this place,” The Nameless One said.

Both the Nameless One and Lucifer sounded serious, but Nazar couldn’t care less about any of that. Everything he knew was gone. His sister, his mother, his father, his cousin, the woman he might love, his new friends (?), his AI, his world, his universe, everything he ever knew.

“My answer is still no. I am just going to sleep for the next billions of years and then maybe something will happen.”

They were back in that dark place.

“I will have you change your mind,” the Nameless One said as he and Lucifer vanished into thin air.

Nazar’s parents stood before him.

“Know this, son, we always loved you.”

“You are the perfect weapon.”

Nazar moved at supersonic speed and cut them down into pieces.

They appeared mere seconds later.

Nazar did not waste any time. He killed them again.

They were reappeared after a few seconds and Nazar killed them once more.

This continued on for what seemed like hours.

“You will never leave this stage if you don’t let them kill you,” the Nameless One’s names reached Nazar’s ears.

Nazar sighed.

An avatar arrived and touched Nazar. His power was gone once more.

The woman and man smiled as knives appeared in their hands.

They walked closer to Nazar.

As soon as they did, the pushed Nazar and he fell over. It looked like he was laying down. And he was not struggling.

The woman licked the knife and cut of Nazar’s right cheek. Blood started to pour down from Nazar’s face.

She then pointed the knife at Nazar’s eyeball.

“Remember, how we used to cut him up before, dear?”

“I loved those days.”

These are not illusions. These two has been revived by the Nameless One, just like Emily. She was not an illusion or just a being who had the same face. These are beings who are resurrected to achieve their great desires. And to break Nazar and then kill him.

“I wish we get them back.”

The woman then slammed the knife into his eyes and took out his right eye.

The man then did the same to Nazar’s left eye.

Both of his eyeballs were gone, but Nazar could still see. He could see exactly what they were doing to him.

The man and the woman then chopped the eyeballs into pieces and laughed while doing it.

“Tch. Just finish this,” Nazar said. He was not in pain.

The man then cut off his shirt.

Once his shirt was removed, he cut off the skin of his left chest. As he did, Nazar’s heart was completely visible.

After a few minutes, Nazar’s upper torso was missing skin. His muscles and organs were visible, yet Nazar did not struggle in pain.

They slowly started cutting off some of his organs.

“I think we should cut off the organs that will not kill him.”

“Yes, we shall do that.”

After about 30 minutes or so, they finally finished removing his lesser important organs.

“Now, then...”

“...we shall kill him.”

They both held their knives tight and smiled.

“Know this, son...”

“...we always loved you.”

“Tch. Ending each other’s sentences is getting annoying.”

The man and the woman did not reply.

“Before I die, I want to ask a question.”

“Hm? What is it, son?”

“Stop calling me that, you bastard.”

“Okay, you can ask mama, then.”

Nazar sighed. As he did, both the man and the woman could see his organs. They saw the process of sighing. They saw which organs are involved and in which sequence.

“Did I have siblings?”

“Yes. You had an older brother and he died a few days after you were born. And then I got pregnant again, but your sister was dead from the start.”

If Nazar had expressions, his face would have suggested that he was relieved.

The man and the woman then stabbed their knives in Nazar’s heart. And it all became dark.

Nazar was back to normal after a few seconds, but both the man and the woman had vanished.

Nazar stood up and found the Nameless One in front of him.

Nazar let the Nameless One touch him and did not struggle.

“Your next trial awaits you.”

“...”

“Let’s see how quickly you will break.”

“This is not going to break me. I don’t even know what breaking means.”

The Nameless One just vanished into thin air.

Nazar just walked in a random direction.