Eien's Realm

A group of interconnected planes bound together by a complex labyrinth, this is the main bastion of Eien's power. All visitors unless personally brought in by Eien are sent to the Labyrinth as a defensive mechanism. The Labyrinth connects to everything but the Inner Sanctum, Eien's private space. There is no direct access to Eien's Inner Sanctum, only with the correct understanding of the functions of the realm can one find and access it. Supposedly, there are two 'keys' that allow this to become possible.

Anti Logic Labyrinth
A mysterious maze full of traps and enemies, the exact way it works is unknown.

Factory
The place where Eien's technological creations are manufactured and tested.

Biospheres
Areas which appear to be planet sized micro realms can be found throughout the Anti Logic Labyrinth. Eien produces them for experiments regarding souls and life forms. Manufactured with Infinite Finite Spaces.

Sanctus Librarius
A mysterious library within the deeper parts of the Anti Logic Labyrinth. What it contains is unknown, but it appears to be almost endless in size.

Gurin's Dimension
A world contained within a Infinite Finite Space, it is Gurin's current place of residence, as well as the first realm she controls as a goddess.

Vaults
Contained within the lower reaches of the realm, it is the deep dungeon of the Anti Logic Labyrinth. Monsters are at their most powerful, but the most valuable treasures are found here.

Laboratory
Eien's labs, most of his testing and experiments occur here. They have direct access to the Factory, Biospheres, and the Sanctus Librarius.

Inner Sanctum
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The Place That Makes No Sense
D'Ranjo appears from a bolt of lightning in a dully grey metal corridor, with two distant branches up ahead.

D'Ranjo: *looks around in confusion* Uuugghh.

He hears a faint rumble, then a single loud bang inside the wall, and a bump forms about the size of a quarter in the nearby wall.

D'Ranjo: Oh. *takes a deep breath and takes a closer look at the bump*

He hears another sharp bang even louder, and a small hiss of some sort, and the bump gets even more prominent.

D'Ranjo: *gets into his traditional fighting position and waits*

The hiss grows loud and violent, then a piece of shrapnel flies out of the wall and embeds itself in D'Ranjo's skull, as a massive explosion of steam detonates.

D'Ranjo finds himself laying on the floor, his head sore, the incident that happened only seconds ago feels like a dull memory, and the same scene he saw before his 'death' is seen again.

''You can manage to dodge a bullet to the head without even looking, yet a piece of metal finds a way to your skull. Pathetic.''

D'Ranjo: *breathes, and hastily removes the shrapnel out of his head and gets up*

''A true soldier is weary of his surroundings. Whether old or new does not apply as a soldier adapts too. If this were the battlefield you would be mocked greatly. Get up, you fool.''

D'Ranjo: *breathes harder and gets to his feet*

A soldier learns fast or he dies.

He hears two sharp bangs in rapid succession, followed closely by a hiss.

D'Ranjo: *stands ready*

Another explosion of steam goes off, with shrapnel flying at high speed.

D'Ranjo: *dodges by bending backwards*

He is scorched by the cloud of steam, making him fall over.

His scales and aura grow more apparent and his eyes turn into that of a dragon.

''You are not putting enough effort into it! An old cripple could move faster than that! Again!''

The area falls silent for the moment, though very faint rumblings can be heard echoing down throughout the area.

D'Ranjo: *looks around him*

''What will you do D'Ranjo? Simply stand there like unwary prey or are you going to live?''

A sound like a train's horn becomes audible.

''The predator comes, D'Ranjo. What does the prey do when the predator draws near?''

D'Ranjo: *begins to run from the sound*

The two branches in the tunnel get closer.

D'Ranjo: *he takes a right and continues to run*

He comes to a dead end, until he realizes there is a deep pit with a ladder going down.

D'Ranjo: *slides down the ladder*

He smacks right into what appears to be an upside down latch door.

D'Ranjo: *opens the latch door and crawls through it, closing the door behind him*

He comes out into into a vast Savannah.

D'Ranjo: *his eyes widen at the site of his land*

A rumbling from below begins to reach his ears.

D'Ranjo: *continues to run*

The ground erupts just behind him just as a strange metal dragon fashioned somewhat to look like a train bellows forth from the ground, and lets out a train like roar.

D'Ranjo: *turns and looks at it as he is trying the grasp the sheer frightful awesomeness of the sight*

The dragon bellows forth a cloud of toxic coal dust and burning embers.

''This is your home, D'Ranjo. Willl you let it be defiled by such monstrosity only the outsiders could make? Or will you fight this land like you've always have!''

D'Ranjo: *his aura begins to show as his soul rages in anger*

''You are bound to the grounds that gave birth to all life on the Earth! You we're trained to preserve these grounds with your very life! That hasn't changed!''

D'Ranjo: *lets out a dragonic roar*

Now go!

D'Ranjo: *sprouts his wings and flies up towards it*

The dragon blasts D'Ranjo with the cloud, hoping to score a direct hit.

D'Ranjo: *inhales the cloud and right into its mouth*

Once inside, an orange light emits followed by a huge fiery wave of explosion reducing the dragon into piece,which then turn into vapor

D'Ranjo: *lets out another roar*

The dragon's claws swat him from the obscuring cloud caused by the explosion, only part of its right side has been damaged. It opens its mouth to reveal a machine gun.

D'Ranjo: *gets back up and runs towards it*

The dragon opens fire, peppering the area with bullets.

D'Ranjo: *dodges the bullets and stops for a moment and fires a mouth blast at the gun, blowing it up*

''If there's one thing a machine lacks, is intuition. Imagination. Use everything you have at your disposal.''

The dragon roars, then spins, its tail forming a chainsaw which it brings down on D'Ranjo's head.

D'Ranjo: *catches the chainsaw*

How far will you go for your home?

D'Ranjo: *flies into the air and brings the chainsaw through the dragons torso*

The dragon retaliates with a bite to his torso.

D'Ranjo: *throws up blood and yells in agony. He manages to teleport out of the dragon's mouth and onto the ground, groveling in pain*

''Get up, fool! This isn't like the day you died! This is a new day. Don't loose it.''

D'Ranjo: *manages to get to his feet*

The dragon seems pretty damaged as well, though it too is managing to remain functional.

D'Ranjo: *breathes heavily*

How far will you go for your home?

D'Ranjo's aura flares up intensely as he roars to the top of his lungs until his aura completely engulfs him and after a few seconds, his aura lessens until a dragon man is visible.

The dragon's wings become missle launchers.

D'Ranjo: *simply walk towards the dragon, leaving every step he takes ablaze*

The dragon launches the missiles at him.

D'Ranjo: *eyes widen and the missiles blow up right before they could touch him and continues walking.*

The dragon starts shooting blades at him.

The blades strike him in different parts of this body, but the blades melt away.

D'Ranjo: *stops where he is and looks up at the dragon*

It smashes him with a fist.

''The dragon's fist suddenly explodes and D'Ranjo stands there. He then opens his mouth and a spirial mouth blast comes out and obliterates the dragon into mere flakes of embers''

The dragon takes minimal damage, and the fist knocks him back several hundred yards.

D'Ranjo: *runs towards the dragon*

It spews forth molten metal at him.

D'Ranjo turns into a whirlwind of molten metal and flies right towards it with all the molten metal surrounding him as drills straight through the dragon's chest leaving behind the trail of molten metal

The dragon finally collapses into a heap of tarnished metal, though in the center of it, he notes something that looks like a handle in the center.

D'Ranjo: pulls the handle*

A sword comes out of the dragon, it appears to have a technological aspect to it, but is hot with a molten core visible in its translucent blade.

D'Ranjo: *observes the sword* What is this...

''A weapon, genius. ''Eien's voice rings in his head.

Ahead, a volcano, a lake, and a village come into view from a fog D'Ranjo didn't realize was there.

D'Ranjo: *walks towards the village*

As he approaches it, it begins to faintly burn in his mind, as though familiar.

D'Ranjo: *continues making his way to his village despite this feeling getting stronger*

The path to the village eventually becomes more difficult when invisible walls start forming another maze.

D'Ranjo: *sighs* *he starts jogging through the maze*

He starts hearing something like running water.

D'Ranjo: *begins to jog abit faster*

As he turns the corner, he sees a pool of glowing green liquid flowing in his direction.

D'Ranjo: *stands still and puts both hands foreward, making the liquid flow right above him*

The liquid seems to drip down toward him as if it has a mind of its own.

D'Ranjo: *closes his eyes and a few seconds later, the green fluid turns into water*

It suddenly bursts into a shower of acidic rain on him, while recollecting on the ground as many smaller blobs.

D'Ranjo: *takes forth his hand and all of the smaller blobs form into one big ball. He then stretches out his hands and blue glowing chains appear and strike the blob. D'Ranjo pulls the changes and literally drags out the conssiousness out of the monster and tears it apart. He turns the acid into water and drops it*

The blobs ignore his manipulations, and he doesn't feel any conciousness being pulled, and he starts feeling a burning sensation on his skin as they start to swarm.

D'Ranjo: *moves out the way and begins to run*

After a while, he manages to lose the monster, and soon finds a path that leads to the village. However, he feels the air is heavy and still.

D'Ranjo: Hmmm...*slowly reaches his village*

The village looks like it had when he had lived there, but without any of the people.

D'Ranjo: No one is here...I predator must lurk here...*carefully scans around*

Nothing is apparent, but as soon as he steps in the middle of the village, the invisible walls change and become a dome, completely cutting off access to the outside, and locking him in. A hole opens in the roof, and a strange giant missle like object flies out of it and smashes right in front of him, quietly hissing. A Phoenix Emblem is embedded on the front panel, glowing red softly.

D'Ranjo: *slowly scans it with caution*

A fist suddenly smashes the panel open right into D'Ranjo's face, and what looks like an Epsilon comes out, and kicks the container aside, smashing it into a nearby building.

D'Ranjo: *tosses the panel aside* Another one...finally!

The Epsilon remains stationary, though its six mechanical wings unfold.

D'Ranjo: *gets down into a track running position*

The Epsilon remains in a relaxed pose.

D'Ranjo: *flies straight towards the Epsilon with his sword at hand, ready to strike*

The Epsilon flies at him, and just when it looks like it is going to go with a straight punch, it leaps back from his sword swing and smashes D'Ranjo's head with its wing and smashes him into a building. Immediately afterward, six circles of light surround it on the ground, and one speeds in D'Ranjo's direction.

D'Ranjo: *teleports out of the way and appears behind the Epsilon. The tip of his tail is set ablase and tail-whips the Epsilon into a building*

It side steps him and whips out a blade sparking with electricity and cuts off D'Ranjo's tail.

D'Ranjo: *moves his tail out of the way and rushes right for it*

The circle it had made swings around abruptly and D'Ranjo steps in it, and is immediately blasted by fire from heaven.

D'Ranjo: *A red dome of light of surrounds him as the fire encompasses him in flames*

The being pierces through the dome and grabs his face, and at point blank range fires a missle into it.

D'Ranjo: *teleports out of the Epsilon's grasp and reappars behinds it. He has the Epsilon in a choke hold*

The Epsilon rams its elbow into D'Ranjo's chest, and a blade comes out of it, impaling D'Ranjo right next to the heart.

D'Ranjo: *takes his sword and stabs the Epsilon from behind, he twists the sword then pulls it out leaving a molten hole in it's back and all the way to the Epsilon's chest*

"...You shouldn't have done that..." Its voice says in a vaguely familiar tone, as it dies.

D'Ranjo: *breathes heavily* You're right...how can I save lives...if all I can do is take them...

"It's only the life one, while there are many more lives you can free."

D'Ranjo: If I can't save one, I can't save any.

"Enough! I will not stand to here your wallowing! A soldier does not look at the facts of reality, but at possiblities of the presumably impossible. You fight despite the despair of life. You are nothing in comparison to others who are being oppressed and cannot do anything about it. You have a purpose: To free the oppressed or die doing so. That is the only reason you fight and nothing more. Now get going."

The mask on the being comes off, revealing the face of his brother, before flickering in static and disappearing, as suddenly the whole of the village bursts into flames.

''D'Ranjo looks at the burning village and amonst the blaze, he sees a vision of a bearded Afrikaan male weilding a special scythe and as more flames clear, he sees that the man is fighting an Afrikaan woman dual-weilding twin iklwas that he's all too familiar with. At the sight of the woma, his mind instantly begin implode with pain and he falls to his knees.''

In the center of the flames a figure begins forming, and a female chuckle can be heard mixed into the flames.

D'Ranjo: *slowly takes a step back, anticipating the worse*

A female figure takes form from the flames, and begins approaching him, wearing a mask and bearing a scythe.

D'Ranjo: *his eyes teams with hatred at the sheer familiarity of the woman as he simply stares at her, letting his anger fester*

A chuckle emits from the being, as her form takes a more solid appearance, bearing blonde hair and black shadow like armor. The fire still flows about her as though she was one with it.

D'Ranjo: *his eyes soften abit* Hm...You...Are Death?...No one told me Death was a female. Much less had a gender.

Six black feathered wings sprout from the being's back, the gust of wind blows away the flames, revealing only a parched landscape. With the darkness and the flames gone, he sees her skin is composed of obsidian black scales, from her elblows flows a strange energy, and a similar presence, but strangely, much duller than a usual Lambda. Rather than reflecting color in the light, she seems to absorb it.

"Heh, there are more Death Gods than you might imagine..."

D'Ranjo: Is there any need? Isn't the existence of Death itself enough?

The ground beneath her feet begins to blacken and crumble, the infection begins spreading toward him.

"Now... that's a rather pointless question..."

D'Ranjo: Just as pointless as Death Gods.

There is only a chuckle as skeletons begin emerging from the tainted ground, and the taint spreads faster in his direction.

"Man should not question the forces that govern Creation... his role is only one among many countless grains of sand... he doesn't not know how the web connects to him... just as he cannot see the full scope of the Universe, he cannot see beyond his own little isolate world..."

D'Ranjo: Not one being can see beyond creation asied from the one who created it. Even the ones on this world can fully grasp it.

The being only shakes her head as the bones of his people rise up from the ground, and the taint grows dangerously close to him.

D'Ranjo:  My people deserved better than this. To have their bones risen from our mother's never-ending embrace...*sighs*

"The sanctity of the dead means nothing to this world."

D'Ranjo: Why can't hey leave us soldier dead?... *looks towards the ground and sees the darkness closing in on his feet. He flies up*

The taint sprouts up in the form of long ropey tendrils and chases him.

"In a world such as this, there is no respect for what really matters. Life, and Death. Both are sacred. The world needs someone to make the world respect those things again. Such trivial things like man's grudge mean nothing. Nor does your own mean anything."

D'Ranjo: *tries to avoid the dark tendrils as much as he can* Then what is the point of this world if everythin we do, everything we believe means nothing?

A bolt of shadow erupts from her and smashes him into a cliffside. Several more rapidly fire at him after.

D'Ranjo: *after it stops, he reappears right behind her and fires a mouth blast at her*

She deflects him and his attack with a flap of her wings, yawning.

D'Ranjo: *rams himself into her back*

Her scales become long black spikes that easily rip through his body and impale him. The same black taint that was infecting the ground is now spreading inside his body.

"Hmmph." An invisible force repels him.

D'Ranjo: *lets out a sharp yell of pain. He get's back to his feet and he stretches forth his hand and ethereal teal-looking chains wrap around her as he closes his hand into a fist*

The chains as soon as they form begin to decay.

"I possess the power of entropy and death... before my will all of Creation rots."

D'Ranjo: That's what you're lead to believe. *puts both his hands on the ground and an explosion erupts right infront of her, knocking her down*

The explosion does little to nothing, and when the smoke clears, he is hit by an even more powerful mouth blast and sent flying into one of the invisible maze walls, shattering his bones.

D'Ranjo: *yells. He slowly forces himself up to his feet*

His vision starts failing.

D'Ranjo: *is fighting through the immense pain and does his best to keep himself alert. He begins to walk towards her*

Suddenly everything goes black, silent, dead.

"Heh, idiot... thought I'd stop you on your way back for a quick chat... oh, and don't even bother trying to attack me, you're dead." Her voice echoes, even though he can see her ahead in the darkness.

D'Ranjo: *can only hear one final word echo in his head* Weak.

She swings her scythe at him. "Pay attention doltz."

D'Ranjo: *gets to his feet*

"I thought this would be a good time to illistrate something for you. Technically, you can't die. Technically. But you can. But notice how you're not among the angels now either. There's a reason for that."

D'Ranjo: *sigh**he clutches his fist as if he was troubled by something. He lightens his grip* ...What is it?

"Because you exist in an entirely different creation. A different life and death. I believe Gurin tried to tell you that..."

D'Ranjo: What about it then?

"Technically speaking, Gurin and I are your deitys, is what that ultimately means. Your life and rebirth is tied to us. You also have asked, 'why you', right?"

D'Ranjo: Yes...What is it that makes me so different from the countless others that could've undergone all this?

"Why? Because someone has to. There is always a loser, always a winner. The way I look at it is, well, there are infinite possibilities. It's simply those with power who determine which become the reality of the weak."

D'Ranjo: Why are you telling me all this?

"Because the why is not important. It's what you do that matters. Our creator gave us the power of gods, so that we would become gods. We all have roles to play... what's yours?" A flash of light blinds him, and he lays amidst the tall grass once more.

D'Ranjo: *looks around confusingly*

Now only the lake, and the volcano are visible, the location of the village seemingly gone, in its place are mountains. When he tries to walk in that direction, the invisible walls of the maze stop him, leaving him only with the two locations.

D'Ranjo: *head towards the direction of the lake*

The sun appears to be setting on it, causing a meriad of colors.

D'Ranjo: It's just as beautiful as I remember...

He thinks he sees things moving in it for a moment.

D'Ranjo: *stops for a moment and observes*

Something urges him to dive into the water.