Post-Apocalyptic War Pt. IX :: Otherworlds

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With that said, The Tyranophant rose up into the sky, his body losing color and beoming more crystalline. His hair -- which was attached at the end to the reality -- withdrew him into the seams of their universe and caused a great flash once The Tyranophant hit the borderline of the atmosphere. For a moment, the clouds parted in their entirety the same way as they'd done when he'd appeared, though this time, there was a gigantic bluish translucent crystalline figure peering down at them, several planets and celestial bodies in its Eight Arms as it looked at them. This was the Eighth Restriction -- Overlord Tensei.

The face of Overlord Tensei -- nay, the EYE of Overlord Tensei -- dwarfed the entire Lost World. His lower torso was so deep into the space of the universe that it couldn't be seen past the swirling swath of dark matter and dark energy that littered it, making it look like he stood waist-deep in a pool of murky water. His upper torso, which was bare, bore the Eight Arms Of Tabrith that were holding the celestial bodies close to the Lost World, causing it to experience a great deal of electromagnetic disruptions from the different bodies being too close together. The very atmosphere of the Lost World should have been pressurized to the point of nearly being crushed, and the core should have been disturbed to the point of being overreactive. Combined with Pumpkinhead having taken over their two stars and also causing massive natural disasters, this would be a COSMIC disaster that Overlord Tensei would have no mercy about employing.

"This World Will Soon Be No More," his voice bellowed from outer space, "And Your World Will Become Part Of The Veritas." The dimensional structure of the Lost World was already on the border of collapse, and once that happened completely... The Veritas would swoop in. "Daughter Veritas," Overlord Tensei, Ruler of The Veritas called out, "Show The Baby Planet How We Fight. Planetary Style. I Will Handle What Is Universal." It would be a bonding Father-Daughter experience.

From the dimensional rip that Tigen created earlier, which was still slowly eroding the dimension, a large -- but not as large as Overlord Tensei's -- hand would emerge from it swiftly, grabbing hold directly the planet of the Lost World and palming it like a basketball. "Roger, Father," a voice from beyond said, using her fingers from another astronomical hand to widen the tear in the dimension so that she could poke her crystalline blue head through. It was Tinasanti, the Veritas Planet, who stood as the daughter of Overlord Tensei, the Veritas Universe. Her plump lips nearly kissed the Lost World's atmosphere as she passed by, her tribal crystal blue hair twisted and curled into variable assortments. Her eyelids hung low and seductively, like a temptress, but her voice was as innocent as a babe.

"Connection Complete," Tinasanti said, jostling the Lost World in her palm a bit, "Now Proceeding With Planetary Takeover." From Tinasanti's pores came a thick mist -- known as Myst -- which was one of her energy forms that she used to generate her techniques. This energy would consume and convert the natural energy source of the Lost World and transform it into the energy that was only the Myst, whilst also making everything and everyone hallucinate into believing everything was fine whilst they were being poisoned by her foreign energy.

Overlord Tensei was pleased with his daughter's assault, corroding the atmosphere of the Lost World and poisoning it with the Veritas' Myst. "Good Work, My Daughter..." Overlord Tensei's voice bellowed through space, "And Now... My Other Daughter... My 'Lost' Child..." Naturally, he spoke of Karu, The Insanity Incarnate. "Karu. Everyone On The Veritas' End Are Doing Their Part. Yours Has Changed." Overlord Tensei manifested a hand over the Library, where there was a natural accumulation of people that seemed to be important.

"Destroy Them."

Karu was having fun with the battle with the Asstral King and that vampiress, learning to 'Fuck Shit Up' as her father taught her, but she was now instructed to do something different. "Tch. Whatever," she said, abandoning the Freshwater Shore to head to this Library. With a glowing hand, she slashed through the air and cut into the atmosphere, destroying the nature of space and time to create a portal to the other side. It eroded outward for Karu to appear right in the Library, in a crowd.

"Huh, I hate crowds..." Karu muttered to herself, noticing that some sort of technological defense system was activated upon her hostile arrival. Easily dispatched. Karu raised a hand and released a series of emanations of Nature Destruction that would render all of the natural components of the weapon system completely useless and destroyed. Thus, the Library would be completely defenseless and the people of the Library would be at the mercy of Karu. "I'm going to destroy everything in this worthless place and you, too."

As the natural energy of the Veritas ate away at the energy of the Lost World and caused the lot of them to hallucinate into believing that they were still doing the things they did, the Veritas, herself -- Tinasanti -- saw that there was one person that was known as a traitor who had frequently betrayed the trust and love of the people of the Veritas. The one known here as Tamura.

"... You Will Pay For Your Sins Against Us," Tinasanti said, reaching out another one of her astronomical blue hands to grasp the other side of the planet and wrap around where he and his dragon family were. The Dragon Clan -- which Overlord Tensei in all his forms was part of, as the Crystal Dragon; once the Black Dragon -- was powerful, but it was no match for such a universal force like the Veritas in two of its forms: Planetary and Universal. "You Are Suffering," she said to the dragons, who were in the cave. "I Will Keep You Hostage Until The Traitor Comes Out, For You Are His Loved Ones." The Veritas' anger surged through the palm of her hand, raising the temperature of the entire hemisphere it held in its palm to degrees that even the dragons could not withstand. "You Once Loved Me..." That part of the Veritas -- Triere, one of the three sisters of the Royal Family -- was still very much conscious in the whole of Tinasanti, who was comprised of all three sisters combined as one. "Now, I Will Make You And Your Kind Suffer For Hating Us."

Tabitha -- one of the three sisters -- in her independent form outside of Tinasanti was having a blast. "TEEHEEHEEHEEHEE~!!!" Tabitha giggled and cackled, stirring the darkness that was her great body all over the planet's skies. "You Really Think You're Going To Escape Us That Easily? You're Already WELL Within Our Trap, You Little Pests!!" Tabitha's presence continued a vicious onslaught of their resolve, distorting the peerless wonder of their senses into a hellish gash festering with disease.

As the Asstral King tried to remain focused on something tangible, Tabitha continued to mock him and his group as the mock 'Famine' that they spoke of, making them believe in their delusions that they fought a Horseman when in actuality, it was all the Great Darkness, heself. "I Can Speak In A Language You Don't Understand, Too! Hahahaaa!" she would say to his teammates via the wireless communication in their ears.

"????????? Yo--??? ---re??? A... Ass-- ???!!!"

As the Asstral king lowered his hand from his ear, Tabitha made a violent feedback happen in each of their ears that both distorted the words yet also made them come out as clear as day. This noise that they heard was her voice shrieking and then mimicking the Asstral King's voice, itself. It wasn't long before they would feel the tingle of terror rolling down their spines, a sure sign that the Great Darkness was speaking. She watched as he gripped his blade, laughing at him gritting his teeth against his instincts to run.

When the Asstral King marked a path for his teammates to follow, Tabitha, the Great Darkness, would obscure it with her haze, causing it to distort into paths that seemed like they were the same, but led into a different realm entirely. "Your Son Can't Save You," Tabitha said blatantly, swirling her large claw-like finger around the darkness that befuddled and halted the Lost Worlders.

Once he decided to go on the offensive, a blinding darkness overcame him for a moment and that white hot hand of his would turn a cold, dead black. A chill was sent through the heart of the Royal Ass and he would feel the might of hesitation at the power of the Tensei. It was only for but a split second, but it happened all the same, and he would continue in his petty little pursuit of the shadow that was a shadow's shadow in this shadow game of the true Gamemaster.

He came to a sliding halt. He was well within the Great Darkness when her Insanity began to cry out, the likes of which excited his thoughts like atoms, sending his mind into a frenzy -- racing, rushing off the cliffs of madness with ever beat of his heart. There, the blood red eyes glared him down from every which angle, the laughter of the mouths matching his own heart racing in his chest in fear. "And I'm Just Toying With You," Tabitha said as he tried to press on toward the madness... Only to fall deeper into it... All to her calculations and pleasure.

The work of Overlord Tensei's daughters pleased him. They were doing a fine job showing the Lost World what it meant to wage war with the entire Veritas, even from afar. He, however, was here to provide support, mostly, as things were about to change when he next had to make a move. He would ascend the the Ninth Restriction, which would most certainly be their end. If they saw the Tenth, they would no longer have the will to carry on.

Their countdown ended at Ten.

"It Is About Time I Start Using Mudra Of Mine Own," the great cosmic entity spake, releasing one of the planets of the Lost World's solar system and affixing his hand into a sign. "Absolute All..." Overlord Tensei began to say, a single one of his eight hands flickering through a series of mudra that seemed archaic and unknown, "Prime Order." With this attack, it allowed Overlord Tensei to become in absolute control over the Lost World's entire existence and being, giving him power to put life in order from Beginning to End, making anything occur in any way he saw fit with only his word being the final sentence. "You Will All Move To My Word And Command," Overlord Tensei bellowed, "For That Is Why You Still Move At All." With 'Prime Order' in effect, he would set up an entire existence for them and keep them within it from Beginning to End, having control over all of their movements, thoughts, actions, feelings, and anything else in existence until the very ending -- which he, himself, created out of all the material he had; the Lost World, itself.

"Karu," Overlord Tensei mentioned, "You Must Take This Next Order With Tact; Do Not Be Destructive, But Be Cunning. There Is Something I Need Them To Learn, And They Will Not If We Do This By Senseless Destruction." Those were the final words of Overlord Tensei for the moment. The rest was up to his daughter, Karu's discretion. He took hold of the planet he once grasped once again, still binding it in place around the Lost World to continue distorting their electromagnetic frequencies and general space-time configuration.

Karu, in the Library that Overlord Tensei instructed her to go to, sucked her teeth at the mention that she had to be tactful and not destructive. "Huh, whatever..." she muttered under her breath, finishing off with the weak defense system via Nature Destruction. "I guess that means I've gotta use my head a little bit..." That wasn't difficult. She wasn't stupid. She even went a few rounds with her father a few times, giving him some trouble with her skill with Nature Destruction and Heat Sorcery despite the fact that she was severely outmatched. She could do it again for a few little pests.

"Let's see... Everyone else is kinda messing with their heads..." Karu thought. "The mind is part of nature, so..." By conclusion, her Nature Destruction should have been able to mess with their minds... And even their hearts.

She watched them investigate the place, having no clue who she was nor that she was there. She saw them marvel at the collection of knowledge and eons of wisdom. She could tell that the information that was within this Library was something important, and destroying it wasn't just going to be the singularly optimal option. In fact, it was the worst, this time around. "No, I wanna mess with the way they perceive information..." Karu said to herself. "I wanna... Get better at my Nature Destruction... To the point where I'm not just destroying nature, but actually... Destroying nature." She lowered her lids and sighed heavily. "... Whatever, it makes sense."

People were scurrying about.

Continuing on, she witnessed one of them pushing through the crowd. She did not approach her, but let her mind her business. She allowed a few moments to pass before she targeted her. "You. You're important..." She seemed to be the leader of this trashy little group. She wouldn't ever notice Karu, but Karu was going to make it so that whatever she was heading towards was going to be something quite lackluster from what she was intending to find. "Nature Destruction..." Karu muttered, creating a barrier around herself that destroyed certain types of light and disallowed her to be seen. She casually walked behind the girl, then pointed at her back. "Heat Sorcery." The burning will and drive to continue on would heighten in this girl, and she would feel quite the passion. This was to lead her to her dismay.

Before Karu's barrier was permeated, she would move away from the one who would trail behind the group as they further entered the Library. He was taking his time to analyze their surroundings. Karu had to watch out for him. He was calmer than the others... Too calm. Karu could tell that he had originally sensed the slight feeling of restlessness from the young impetuous girl, but simply brushed it aside as minor nerves. Hopefully now it was clear that there was something actually bothering the girl, and that it was Karu's Heat Sorcery at work.

Karu could sense it now. The closer everyone got to the demon girl, the more tense they felt. The feeling that stirred in her chest, a tumultuous rumbling sensation... It was the feeling of approaching conflict. Of the Heat Sorcery Karu applied to her very spirit. The all of them were affected by the Heat Sorcery of Karu, and with the word, "Nature Destruction," they would all find their minds spiraling into a sense of self-destructive tension that would obscure whatever knowledge or wisdom they sought to find from the Library's stocks.

This was only a little of what Karu could do... And she liked seeing the results of it. "So... This is my power..." Karu smirked.

As Karu did as she did, the Veritas continued to contaminate the planet with her energy, which would turn their energy source into the Veritas' energy source, which would power the Tomons, Mechanica, and Chomao infinitely as they tagged along with their respective peoples or continued to invade the planet's surface. She was seriously upset that should couldn't get ahold of the one known as Tamura, for he was cowardly against a greater power than himself, but Tinasanti was aware that he would show his scoundrel face soon enough and face the music. "You Have Abandoned Us," Tinasanti said, creating monsters out of the Myst that she produced from herself to enter the cave that the dragons of Tamura's family were in, "But There Is A Price To Pay For Absence And Negligence Just The Same As There Is For Presence And Participation." Tina had control over the entire Lost World by herself just using two of her eight hands, and she was of astronomical proportions -- the dragons stood no chance. Neither did the rest of the planet.

Tabitha, the Great Darkness, continued to linger about, yawning briefly. "The Guys On My End Aren't Doing Much Of Anything, Father," she said sadly. "They Must Be Scared Stiff." She snickered a bit. "That Is What I'm Best At, Isn't It?" She looked up dreamily to Overlord Tensei, batting her dark eyes, "But Not As Much As you Are, Father Dear~!" This entire assault was his doing, and that should have been terrifying enough. "I Suppose I'll See What They Do, But I'm On Standby Right Now." Tabitha casually, but gracefully flowed up to the sky, letting the darkness below sort itself out as it would in their madness. "Karu, It's All You, Now..."

Karu wasn't surprised when the demon girl let the chorus of gleeful fanfare that carried on outside the window act as her distraction. She hid her feelings with misdirection and bravado, much to Karu's intention when she altered the spirit of the demon girl with Heat Sorcery. She finally answered them, but Karu could see the energy emanating from her heart -- it was not the same as the energy that came from her lips. She may have been good at hiding her own feelings under a well-designed reassuring smile, but she couldn't ignore what Karu had done to her very soul.

"When the time is right..." Karu muttered, still hidden by her light distortion, "... I'll break your heart."

Karu could tell that the demon girl wanted to tell what she felt, but... Karu's 'Nature Destruction' was kicking in and starting to erode the disposition. She spoke not to use any energy at all in the building, but she had no idea that the security defense systems were already dealt with. As it should stay. They needed to be kept well under control so that Karu could destroy them from the inside out -- mind, body, and soul.

The boy looked like he literally had no idea what she was talking about. He probably didn't know a good deal of much of anything, it seemed like, just from looking at him. Karu smirked, knowing that one was going to be the next target of her Nature Destruction. His mind was already something that was going, and with a little push, it would be off the deep end. His interest in information was what was going to drive him into madness, for he'd seek, but not find... As long as Karu was on the job, that is. He had 'questions' all over his face, and though he seemed like the quizzical type, he wasn't looking like much of an intellectual... Just a mound of 'whys?' Something like Karu once was. She couldn't help but feel at least that much. Maybe their backgrounds were similar.

But that was beside the mission right now. She had no time for any type of deeper connection, and as usual, didn't care for them, Karu had existed her entire short life not caring about anyone or anything except her Spider Queen creator and now, just recently, her Father Creator. Her new family was the only thing she needed to care about. Not some... Target she needed to take care of.

Whilst she inspected him examining where the stairs leading to the next floor might be, she had a mind to follow him... Or, at least leave him with a mental note that would keep him from acquiring any real important information. Some Insanity. "Nature..." Karu muttered, pointing her hand at the boy's head as he walked past her and toward the stairs, "... Destruction." At that moment, his mind would begin to decay... Decay into curiosity. His curiosity had to be sated. Did he also feel this anxiousness? Could he too hold such pride in his name? His blood? What if the burden was greater than he? These were the thoughts implanted into him as he made his way to the top of the stairs.

Karu smirked. "You're just a load of questions... And that's all you'll ever be." Heat Sorcery allowed her to see the heat emanating from the body -- in this case, the brain -- when it was active, so Karu could tell that the boy was thinking about puzzling questions... And those questions would destroy his mind, just like Karu was about to destroy that demon girl's spirit she was so desperately trying to keep intact.

Now, the strange, quiet man that trailed behind them all... He would be tricky. He was different from the others... But nowhere near invulnerable. Karu sensed that the man was curious about the boy's resolve... If one could even call it that. That could be useful. But, the man was on the move, and Karu needed to tap both him and that last girl before she could utilize her 'Nature Destruction' to the point she needed to. It was her chance right then as he said he was going to move that Karu had to take to use Nature Destruction upon him. But the man was quick, already disappearing among the crowd. Still... The crowd could be sent into disarray, and a chain reaction could be caused in between them and him.

With a slight wave of the hand and a push to a random person, she sent a wave of Nature Destruction through the souls and minds and bodies of the people in the crowds, creating a domino doppler effect rather quickly and easily so that the man would not be able to escape into the crowd without being effected by the Nature Destruction. His interests in the Library would become warped rather quickly, and in that, so too would his mind when he tried to intake information. That would serve as enough for him.

As for the last girl, who seemed to be the most level-headed of the four, Karu simply needed to cause the other three some turmoil for the last one to become crippled. She was clearly quite empathetic from the way she was engaging with the demon girl, and with that, she would feel everything that went on with everyone when they fell into chaos and insanity at the hand of Karu's 'Nature Destruction'.

"I'm done here..." Karu said lowly, but still wanted to see the chaos unfold. "They're all going to crack up soon enough." Karu chuckled, crossing her arms. "Just tell me when it's time to go. I'm gonna sit here and watch them try to get things done after being under the influence of Nature Destruction." It was a sadistic pleasure, surely, and one that Karu wouldn't be dropping anytime soon.

Overlord Tensei watched as the Lost World was falling to its knees rather quickly and silently, and without much of a struggle, at that. Though it was a bit lackluster, as he was intending to have a grand battle of sorts, he was still pleased that the conquest was on track. "Yes, My Children... Good Work. You Have Done Well. Keep Up The Good Work As I Go On To The Next Restriction." Overlord Tensei knew that it was time to get a little more... Technical with his technique, and a little more literal with his literary work. "From This Point Forth, I Will Be Dealing With These Events From The Digital World -- Nay, From The Cockpit Of The Digital World, For We All Still Rest In The Digital World As We Are Right Now. This World And Our World." Overlord Tensei knew of the beyond, and he understood that everything was written -- it was all made by the highest self, and it was being done through the means of digital prowess.

"I Leave The Rest To You, My Children," Overlord Tensei said as he began to fade away into transparency, and eventually into the depths of space. Only the translucent outlines of his Eight Hands Of God palming the eight planets of the Lost World's solar system would be left of his presence, as he'd passed on to the Ninth Restriction -- a being of pure virtual existence; the Grand Tabrynth.