VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Chapter 264 The old story

"Captain Sera Heru Phanim?"

Victor appeared out of nowhere, and, the moment he saw Sera, a strange expression of disbelief and surprise appeared on his face.

"Is that… you? Captain?"

He was calling her captain for some reason and neither Elio nor Alex understood the reason for that.

"Captain…?"

Sera herself did not know what he was talking about.

She wasn't a captain, she didn't even know who this person was… herself, after looking at him for a moment, and after perceiving the strange stench of this old looking person, her eyes suddenly sharpened.

"A demon?!"

With her eyes wide and her Golden energy fluctuating, she was almost about to ambush him and attack him in a way that would have made him drop his guard and get injured in an instant.

But, then…

-Oooooooooooong!

A light came out of her hand, and with that light, the relic that she held, her unique item came out as well.

"The Key of Potential… yes. That's definitely one of THEIR presents. But, why do you have it? What about Gabriel?"

"Gabriel…? Who's-."

Your next chapter awaits on empire

She was going to ask that question, however, the moment Sir Victor mentioned that name, the key that had come out of her hand started glowing and, as soon as that happened, the intense light almost blinded everyone present in that room including Sera herself.

-Oooooooooooooong!

Then… Sera remembered something important. Something that made up the entirety of her, something from such a distant past that she didn't even know that something like that had happened to her.

"The time you talk about… Captain of the Third Frontal Legion… the time we belonged to had long passed away."

She thought the things that she had remembered about herself when she went through her awakening was most of what she was going to know about herself, but, meeting this person, meeting this certain individual reminded her of something that she could not believe herself.

"We have passed away, just like these feeling moments… and what is left of us, in this moment, is simply a fragment of what used to define us."

Sera sighed deeply, and, looking through these newfound memories made her heart ache a little.

"Master… Miss Alex…"

The key had returned back into her hand, so she looked at her master and the rest of them, and asked them to sit down.

"A long time ago, a time that is now forgotten by the people of this world and this world itself… when the world was still in the process of creation and when Truths were still developing…"

Sera started telling them about a time that perhaps even Alex knew little about.

It was the first time any of her servants had recognised a servant that didn't belong to her.

She was practically seeing something new in all of her years of playing this game, just like what had been happening since the last few days.

She was hearing a story about a time that she had no idea about, a story that was about a war that had taken place in a time which was so far away into the past that even the oldest book she had read had no mention of it.

"The beings that are now known as the Twelve origins, the highest existences that now maintain the Truths that we know of, used to be nothing more than a follower of those truths in their own time."

The oldest of them all, the most ancient of the Origins that achieved the position of an Origin was the origin that governed the beginninglessness of this world, the Anaranbhah.

It stabilized the forces of nature and spirit in the most chaotic world, giving the possibility of a 'beginningless' world that has existed without a beginning, something that was the 'core' for the existence of a world where the rest of the truths could exist and flourish-something very abstract- and yet something that was the truths.

"However, aside from that one Origin, the rest did not have the same start."

The twin truths of Nature and Individual established themselves after eons of constant conflict with one another.

They were only able to define one another after they had understood the underlying Need that they had for one another, the need that not only complimented their existence, it practically gave them both the justification of Coexistence.

Nihility was established amongst the later days of the chaos away from all eyes without any precursor or any omen.

Just like the meaning, it was the Zeroness, or eternal emptiness, not void, but simply the meaninglessness of all existence.

The rest of the truths were established in their own manner, however, neither Sera nor sir Victor, nor Alex, or any sage that was close to 'achieving' truth would know about it all that had happened before the 'creation' of 'their' world.

"At that time, after the initial creations and establishments of the Origins, the need for separation arose…"

After the Origins were established through the pre-existing concepts or the Truths, they needed to divide their work and establish what was needed of them— this world.

"To do that though, no peaceful discussion was necessary."

Since they were talking about the omnipotent, practically omnipresent beings of what was present in that world, to make a decision, they did not resort to what is now known as 'peaceful' means.

"There weren't 12 at the beginning, but eighteen… and of them, only nine had remained."

In a battle of these ultimate beings, many were destroyed, many were born and rose to the position same as them as well, and, some who stumbled upon the unexplored paths, the Truths, the concepts which had existed ever since the creation of this world, gained the same powers as these beings.

"The angels were the spearheads of Nature and Individual, the Duelists that existed on one spectrum, the Demons were on the other spectrum, with the purity of the world, the same as the Spirit beings that now exist in a completely different Realm."

The evil beings from the dark realm were on the other spectrum, the fairies were the spearheads of Preservation, not of purity as they are perceived in this age.

"Humans on the other hand… did not exist at that time."

There were witches, one of the closest relatives of the humans, the spearheads of Vedas, but neither Humans, nor Elves, nor Orcs, nor dwarves existed at that time.

"The strongest force of them all… belonged to Pralaya and Nyaya and as their vanguards, stood the Dragons, the ultimate powers of this world and what was created to go against them, the rest of the divine beings that we now know as Divine Beasts."

Be it a phoenix; a divine creature that believes to have been born from nature; the turtle that holds a world on its shell; the snake that wraps around the universe… nearly every divine beast that the world of today knows about, had been derived from the beings which were created in order to establish the foundation of this world.

From an orderless, dissonant, egoless, natureless, formless, wisdomless, timeless… from a 'world' which neither had any Representation of pure or impure, or any way to remember, a world which was born of a beginningless origin, had both equilibrium and nihilism… what they were seeing right now was born.

"And We, right now, are part of that."

It was complicated enough that Misha had given up on understanding most of it, same with Miss Rin and the little ones, but to Alex and Elio who individually understood these things in their own way… this was some real spicy stuff.

"After we died, the fragments of our beings were made into cards which were scattered all across time and space, leaving where we'd end up completely to the Abstract fate."

They weren't supposed to have these memories, but she did get these memories under the special circumstances.

And, now that she had told them all these, she felt a little relieved for some reason.

-Ooooooooooooooong!

Alas, not everyone liked what she had told them.

[Ding!]

This information shouldn't have existed in the first place, so, the fact that someone had revealed it to someone that didn't have the qualifications to know about all these meant there would be consequences.

[The quest information has been updated.]

Though, in this case, the consequences were a little… unexpected.