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When I slept, I felt like my consciousness drifted elsewhere. I found myself in the middle of a world of pure light and heavens. Clouds stretched to as long as my sight could reach. There were countless of floating islands, and ancient temples decorating them. I saw thousands if not millions of winged creatures and people across the heavens. The cold wind was somewhat comforting, but I had little control over my actions. It felt like I couldn't move even if I wanted to.
I directed my gaze into the distance, seeing the largest of all the floating islands, it looked more like a gigantic floating continent. Atop of the floating continent, there was an enormous golden city, and in the middle of that city, a gigantic castle made of gold and heavenly light. Sitting inside of that throne, there was someone, someone made of Eternal Brilliance.
As I gazed into that direction, my surroundings changed immediately. As if I was watching some sort of scene inside a movie. There was someone, a tall, beautiful man with long blonde hair, angelic wings, and wearing a white toga. Surrounding him there were six other Angels similar to him. Their powers channeled into chains. Each one was different from the other. Their expressions varying.
"Michael, you've gone against the Laws of our Lord. And you have dared to defy the Tower's Rules." Someone spoke, an angel with short blonde hair, holding a shining sword pointed at the angel. "Will you explain the reason behind your treason?! Behind your betrayal? Our Lord has given you everything, life, a purpose, power… Yet you reject everything just because you pity the lives of the unworthy?"
"They are not unworthy, Gabriel…" Michael glared into his eyes. Revealing his beautiful silver-colored eyes, full of determination. "They're innocent lives! Innocent souls! Why must you put them through so much pain, through so much suffering, oh Father!" He screamed, not looking at his brother, but at the gigantic Brilliance sitting behind them, over a throne of divine gold.
"…" The entity remained on silence, never speaking, only watching.
"This is his word. The Divine Word of our Lord, of our Father, is ABSOLUTE!" Roared Gabriel. "After everything he has given to you, is this how you repay him, Michael?! By insulting him on his face and screaming at him like a mad dog?!"
"Why are you doing this, father?! Please tell me! Why are you condemning the lives of so many innocents! They might have committed sins, but this doesn't mean they have to be exterminated. You were not like this before… Why? Just why are you killing them all?!" Michael kept fighting the chains. As a lance of light emerged on his hand. "WHY?!"
SLAAASH!
With a mighty attack of light, a tremendous shockwave of divine power was released. It distorted space and time itself, his siblings were sent flying away. They were incapable of fighting against Michael's prowess. His wings released lightning, as he rushed towards his Father.
"Answer me!" He screamed. Yet his father remained still.
A sudden wave of invisible power pushed him down, slamming into the ground. His wings slowly burned by the flames of God. And his entire body broke apart. His bones shattered, he vomited blood, and felt completely powerless as his halo shattered into tiny pieces of glass.
"F-Fa… ther…!" Tears fell from his eyes, regret, sorrow, frustration. I could see all these emotions on his eyes. "Why… Just… why…"
His siblings flew towards him. Chains of Absolute Domination wrapped around him. His entire body slowly being reduced to a sphere of light, sealed completely. Gabriel sighed, looking at the sphere with both anger and frustration. As if he wanted to punish him even more, but that was as much as he could do.
"Michael. You once were our oldest sibling. You were once our strongest. But now, you will be dethroned. And you will become nothing else but a tool for the Tower to prosper." He said. "As Father wishes."
The sphere flew into their Father, who absorbed it and then released a stream of light into the skies, piercing the ceiling. The powers of Michael were absorbed by the Tower. The Angels glanced system-like windows appear in front of them. The sphere of light transformed into a silver-colored cube. And then was fully assimilated as another piece of the Tower.
There was a swirl of emotions taking over my phantasmal heart. I couldn't believe what I saw. But this was most likely something that happened to Michael. How he became the System, everything… But why? Why did I see this dream? Is this thanks to his connection with me?
Or is someone else allowing me to see this information. Another Administrator?
"…"
However, before I could do anything else, The One's brilliant eyes were directed towards me. My entire soul froze. For a moment I thought it was just part of the dream. But it wasn't. He was truly glancing towards me. His silence, his unfathomable power, and his form, which I could not discern made him feel like something completely alien.
Was he even the Monotheistic God I knew about? Just like Michael said… There was something really wrong with him now. Even if I had never seen or meet him before. I could clearly tell. This wasn't normal. He wasn't being himself anymore.
"…!"
His hands lifted, pointing themselves towards me. I tried to fight off against his pressure, against his authority. But it was futile. He dragged me towards him, grasping my soul with his light, and beginning to slowly tighten his gasp.
"Uuurrgh! NO! Stop…! Let me go! ARRGH!"
I screamed in agony as I felt countless cracks appear within my very soul. I was slowly falling to pieces. I didn't know if this pain was just a dream, or if I was truly being killed now, of all times. My instincts flared up, as all my powers emerged one after another. Countless explosions of darkness, poison, death, moonlight, and everything engulfed his hand.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Yet… as the smoke dissipated, he was unscathed, like nothing has ever happened to him.
I was nothing but bacteria against his power.
Crack, crack…!
And my soul, just like that, shattered.
CRAAASH!
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