Stillforce Odyssey

'No... this can't be.'

Another set of runes was in full display, already translated by the system into English for Aaron. His body, frozen on the spot for what seem like forever.

[Δ~αβ™Ππ¤Φ°°••°°]

[Translated:

To my most beloved sister, tell the cosmos of my departure. Tell the heavens of my greatest wish. Tell the sky and the sea of my desire for hope and for an all-enduring future in the underworld. Tell them that I wish death!]

"She wished death?"

"She's dead? Sheba is actually dead???"

Instead of the feeling of dread to vanish, it intensifies.

How can Sheba be dead?

How did she create the Immemorial Citadel and at the same time, oversee the Citadel while not being alive.

She's dead...

But—

Did her soul linger?

Did she ask for a temporal stay in the Citadel until she's accomplished her set of goals?

Have she accomplished her goals?

What were the goals?

Is it death?

Or was she simply wanting someone to walk into a death trap. Her final sacrifice toward her lost existence?

Aaron suddenly had a very bad premonition.

He wasn't supposed to enter her chambers. He could have just followed Ortega and be trapped within the prison. That was a fate much better than becoming a sacrifice to several demons or deities.

Aaron was sure that he was doomed.

The last runes says:...

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[Translated:

Here's a little sacrifice from me to you!

He's the Snatcher! ]

A chill crawled down Aaron's spine.

This runes had just been carved recently telling that, inviting him over was the only one thing she had needed to do before completely dying.

And...

Sheba is now officially dead but,

Aaron would be dead soon too.

"Why is my life always full of trouble? Even in the waking world and the Dream World, I always have terrible luck..."

Aaron was spitting out his tantrums and his accumulated misfortune when his body was suddenly frozen in place by a terrifying presence.

The first deity to arrive is Sheba's half forgotten brother.

He remembered her appraisal.

Hail my brother, half forgotten by the universe...

The world was frozen in time that every actions ongoing now was suspended temporarily.

Aaron stared at the mysterious man with increasing fear in his heart.

'I'm going to die. I'm definitely going to die!'

That was what Aaron thought but...

He did not die.

'Huh?'

Instead, the half brother of Sheba forgotten by the universe reached out, an unfathomable power spreading out and swirling in different directions.

Aaron saw it snatch something from Aaron's body and immediately there was a system notification that popped in his line of sight.

[The forgotten deity, El Sheladi has stolen your soul. You remain soulless at the moment.]

Aaron wanted to panic when another notification appeared.

[You've inherited the forgotten deities legacy, ‹Soulless›]

"What?"

The next scene caused Aaron's eyes to widen.

A humanoid figure was seen some miles away and it snatched Aaron's heart away...

"My heart!!!"

[The earth— doom of days had stolen your heart]

[You have received the heart seeker and earth shifter Legacy]

"These Legacies... "

Aaron did not complete his statement and he saw another horrifying existence, who was present and at the same time, nonexistent.

It reached out for Aaron's brain and stole his sanity...

At the same time, Aaron was receiving another legacy.

[You have received a legacy, ‹Mind of all Existence› all for the sake of insanity]

"Insanity, will I go insane? Am I already insane?"

Then...

He saw Destiny.

He saw fate...

He saw life and death...

He saw both the good and bad...

He saw both evil and wickedness.

The demon of dread.

The owner of fate.

The one in control of destiny.

The main game changer.

The Divine deity!

Hail the demon of dread, the first born son of fate...