In a chaotic space where billions of colors exist together yet at the same time colorless.
Time here is the most clueless thing. Not knowing if it should go forth or move backwards. Sometimes it's just stays stagnant, other times it those everything at the same time.
In the endless emptiness of pure chaos and madness. A single being was visible in this region, he was slowly abstracting into the colorful yet colorless chaos. Losing his mind and existence, permanently becoming part of chaos. His soul's color was green, red and yellow.
Constantly he murmured
"I am Solmen,The great darkmage Solmen Theollius Merlin....descendant of the great archmage Merlin. I shall not surrender"
'how long have I been here?'
'I want to die'
'maybe a couple hundreds year?'
'I don't want to existence anymore'
'kill me, kill me,kill me....'
'i can't even keep my mind intact'
'kill me, kill me,kill me....'
"I am Solmen,The great darkmage Solmen Theollius Merlin....descendant of the great archmage Merlin. I shall not surrender"
'this chaos dimension that doesn't even allow my soul to be destroyed....'
'hahahhahahahahah,karma,karma, karma,hahahhahahahahah,karma,karma'
'will you shout up!!!'
'why?.....why?why?why?why?why?'
'so I can concentrate....'
'concentrate on what? By assimilated into this space'
'no why will I want to be assimila... assimilation?'
"assimilation...."
Suddenly his eyes glowed as he spent his time calculating and observing the assimilation characteristics of the chaotic plains.
He divide his time into learning about 'assimilation' and chanting a self made existential mantra to hold his individuality from the chaos realm.
Constantly new things would be born from the chaos. This things or beings would constantly fight against each other and devour each other to grow stronger. But they never notice his presence,for he was far assimilated into the dimensions. Even this things were part of the dimension so the wouldn't be counted separate from the empty space.
One day a giant chaos slime was in a battle against a chaos creature that has the eldritch shape of a lion, octopus, snake,goat,shark, mountain and maple tree. It's indescribably.
The fought for hundreds of rounds lasting for an untold amount of time.
The slime claimed victory yet it was weakened greatly. It started devouring it's prey...yet at that moment another indescribably ugly thing appeared with beyond perceivable speed and smashed the slime to hundreds of fragments. And it started devouring the slimes prey.
Two slimes smaller parts flew close to Solmenr's soul.
One was very close, around the size of an adult's head. it started moving, considering Solmen's soul empty space wanting to pass through it.
Upon making contact with Solmen's soul. Solmen's soul suddenly lost rationality as he bent over and started devouring the slime's part which started struggling.
After a fierce struggle Solmen managed to devour the chaos slime fragment, afterwards he spent sometime digesting it. It didn't take long maybe a few days from the mortal realm subconscious counting Solmen did.
Once he digested it he notice his abstracting had slown down by twenty percent. As his phantom like form slowly had more lines to them.
Afterwards he spent time meditating his mantra, understanding assimilation and hunting for the smaller fragments of the chaos slime.
He slowly started having form which means the abstractization had finally gain medicine to it's sickness. His individuality had increased greatly upon consuming his third chaos slime fragment. Yet new threat's came to be.
The inherent madness existing within the chaos borne was slowly showing signs of manifestating withing him. Around ten percent.
Two, he had become visible from the surrounding chaos realm,which means his assimilation had reduced and his presence is more visible to the chaos borne.
Lastly he had to be careful of the chaos slime larger fragments. Some are as large as small hill,others the size of blue whales.
This chaos bornes devour each other to gain strength and to not become devoured by their home dimension (abstractization).
All of them are impossible strong. Some make even the king's of races look weak. A dog shape elephant sized beast that had a face with multiple tentacles and a snake for it's tail was so strong it world be able to oppress an adult dragon whom are hailed as king's of magical beast.
Another thing was that he was unable to use magic here....so all he had to do was his soul's physical strength.
Even the first weakened chaos slim fragments he devoured was nearly overpowering him.
And so he 'lived' there hiding, meditating, learning about assimilation and creation of chaos borne, hunting for fragments of defeated chaos beings to strengthen himself.
Chaos didn't only offer beings but also things....like gemstones and precious stones made of rare materials. Sometimes even plants. He had tried devouring the earthen type materials but they were near unbreakable to his weak jaws . The plants themselves are different story, depending on where it's a small one or a large carnivorous one.
He had been fortunate enough to come across a weapon like material that helped him survive.
After what seemed like a over two thousand years,he had finally understand 'assimilation' to what he believed to be basic, and creation or what he decided to call it 'materialization' to basic as well. He started relearning magic
Here there was no wind,earth,fire,water or any other element. All that was present was chaos. The space,time, beings,things and even you yourself are all chaos.
So he started creating a special magic around pure chaos.
Many dark mages and light mage have done studies on the chaos plain. But all of them where simple theories,for chaos was only present when the world was created along with the first beings like the primal giant, the first world tree,the dragon progenitor,the gods and few other long gone ancient beings.
All the chaos magic that existed within the mortal plane were artificial chaos magic created via artificial chaos energy. All of them were based on the fundament of multiple energy types mixing together in either disharmony or harmony or even both.
Yet at the end of the day they would still use either fire,water,earth or air to activate it.
Even the one he used that got him into this place was based on the chaotic energies of the battlefield and was activated view dark energy and fire energy
But he has access to none of those and he has nothing to work with except grit and a desire to push forward. Even without hope.
After another seemingly hundred years. He created his first set of chaos based spells, numbering exactly four.
Chaos bind : created solid binds of chaos that restrained a target for up to five seconds. The effects are reduced if the being is overwhelming stronger than you.
Chaos veil : create a veil from chaos energy that will hid you from the outside world,the smaller the range of the veil the stronger it becomes. The effects are reduced to beings stronger than you,some can outright see through it directly.
Chaos spear : create an spear made of pure chaos energy,this spear is controlled by your will and could divide into smaller version of itself ( chaos arrows). The more you divide it the lesser it's attack become and it's controllibility.
And
Chaos duplicate : create a duplicate of chaos. Hard to maintain and might gain chaotic sentients once it absorbes enough chaos energy. The more chaos energy you supply it the more useful it becomes.
He called them
ZETERRIC ORIGINAL : BASIC
With the new spells he started hunting, mediating, learning and developing.
An untold amount of years later,his chaos madness had already approach eight nine percent but somehow he hadn't become made yet.
And he had develop his original magic,with basic having up to twenty spells and even having advance chaos magic up to seven.
One day he was ambushed by a bear sized chaos borne, he was gravely injured.
And then was when the chaos madness awaked. Uncontrollably he became beastlike fighting against opponents stronger than himself,almost dieing multiple times and killing multiple times.
One day he was so damage that he couldn't move at all. Only then did he gain back a small sliver of sanity.
The time he had spent mad was longer than the time he had spent sane and he was aware throughout his madness.
In this chaotic plane,all the restrictions of the mortal realm were none existant here.
No starvation,no need to sleep,no sacrifice to use magic,no excessive requirement to be made before spell are to be used. In the mortal realm he had to use his own physchic power and energy to activate his spell's but here. He was part of the chaos plane and the chaos plane was part of him, meaning an endless stream of energy and no requirements for mental power consumption as he was simply a soul and not a living being.
'I don't want to existence anymore,what the use of this life? I'm already dead yet I can't even rest'
'how long have I been here?'
"I am Solmen,The great darkmage Solmen Theollius Merlin....descendant of the great archmage Merlin. I shall not surrender" he whispered his mantra, though his mind was barely responding anymore to the mantra
'how long have I been here?maybe I should just let one chaos devour me
'anything but that disgusting feeling of madness'
The more he thought astray the fastest his the dimensions devoured him
'hahahhahahahahah,karma,karma, karma,hahahhahahahahah,karma,karma... I told it's all worth nothing at the end right?this is karma for all the people you have wrong and all the evil you have committed' his conflicted mind created alter ego's that starting psychologically attacking his main ego, reducing his defense even further
'I told you to shout up' his main ego spoke yet it's voice was already muffling
Over half his being had been swallowed by the chaos realm .
Somebody..... anybody help...please
His mouth had been closed by an overwhelming sense of unholy helplessness.
At that moment, a great change appeared in the world.
Something different from the rainbow colored dimension appeared in the 'sky'
A shining white star. It's light attracted the chaotic borne whom swarmed towards it. Yet the closer they get,the light started scattering them into pure chaos energy.
Solmen looked in awe.
He was sure that being of light was a great being.
The star stopped in his face.
This star was humanoid, shining brightly. It's light looked both like dark light and white light at the same time yet separately.
'He' stretched out his arm towards Solmen.
Solmen did not hesitate as he grabbed 'his' arm.
The next moment the light being draw Solmen from the chaos plane. The faster they flied,the brighter he shown as his light made way for them.
Chaos was coming with great force on their tail.
Suddenly crashed into an empty space only for both him and Solmen to be stretched greatly and disappeared from the chaos plane.
—within the mortal realm in a future—
A forty eight years old man was drenched in blood as he carried a sword and looked fiercely at his attackers.
His attackers were human's wearing dark clock's, and some wearing full plate armour.
"Zaphaer Draque,hand over the artifact...this is something the emporer requires for his plans. We have no intention of harming you anymore" — the head knight spoke softly
"Ha....this is something that belongs to me why should I hand it over to a mad tyrant emporer?" Zaphaer snared
"Insulting the emporer will not be tolerated" the head assassin spoke with heavy killing intent.
"Ha..Like I give a fuck" Zaphaer said as he clenched his sword tighter with his only functioning hand.
"I don't even know the so called treasure you fuckers even speak of.... You just want to wipe out the Draque house" Zaphaer said in grudge
"The record's say a man named Draco Slien velsheim was the one that took it after the ancient war of races.....after an untold amount of tracing we discovered that he was the great grandfather of the Draque household progenitor. And you're the last Draque after the fall of the Draque household,it wasn't with the any of the others before they died and it wasn't within the territory of your household" the head knight explain
Looking at them he smirked and said
"Well you're out of luck, I'm not a Draque anymore. I haven't been for a long time now. It's Zaphaer the wanderer now" he said as he knew ,this people have no hunch of resounability
"Afterall,the emporer considered the Draque house a threat,why should he live a member of their blood alive?" He taunted
"We'll just have to take it from your corpse" the head Knight said as he gesture for his subordinates to attack.
"Compressed fire ball" Zaphaer sent three compressed fire ball towards the incoming enemies.
Only one landed blasting away one of the incoming assassin's flying backwards.
The other two were deflect and blocked respectively.
Pairing an incoming assassin's blade as he kicked him in his chin, probably shattering his jaw.
He sidesteped as he dodge an incoming longsword swing from a knight. Using the under of his sword to smash against the softer regions of the armor,then stabbing it from beneath to impale his exposed visual.
He fought and when ever his life was in danger,his necklace world bring out a slightly noticable glow and his percention world enchance .
Allowing him to view the world in slow motion while increasing his speed,it's effects are temporary.
Suddenly the knight commander spoke out
" it's with him,the treasure is with him!" He said raising a bird shaped glass statue that was glowing a three colored lights.
The necklace glow intensified underneath his clothes.
"Then we have no more reason to keep him alive..." The knight said as he move with incredible speed towards Zaphaer.
At the moment he started moving,the necklace glow intensified the more as Zaphaer temporarily saw the world appeared grey as though paused. Yet the knight was moving ever so slightly.
He almost moved before the backlash of the artifact kicked in. As everything resumed speed as normal
Blood flowing from his eyes,ears and mouth.
A dagger piercing his heart. The head assassin had appeared behind his back.
At that moment his life flashed before his eyes,as the head knight arrived and sent an incoming slashed
His mind was drawn to a three memories. Remembering his best days of life,with the mercenaries of earthen hawk's,another with his best friend in his younger and middle ages and finally of the day his grand father gifted him the necklace
"My boy this necklace has a very interesting myth behind it..... "
"What myth grandfather?"
"That a giant bird that travels through the heaven's and earth and a beast that controls plausibility forth against each other in the era of myths...that four hero's slayed the beast's and divided their miraculous body parts with each other, and this necklace is made from the eye and blood of both beast."
" Wow, is that true!?"
"Of course there no way it's true. It's just a junky magic accessory my grandfather gave to me telling me this bullshit story so I'm doing the same to you"
" Doesn't matter I'll still take it"
As he remembered that conversation
The sword connected to his neck and, started decapitating his head.
'if only I had the chance to fix my life,I would have repaid all of your kindness'
His vision slowly disappearanced,and the last thing his decapitated head saw was the necklace disintegrating and the panic of the empires dogs.