Tegmine

I left 440 in that security building at the gates , and proceeded to head to the only place where I knew I could get any kind of answers , the only place I could get killed just for entering. Mother. I took one last glance at 440 as I closed the door behind me and began walking to the gates. I opened the closed metal double gates and walked through the space between the two gates, closing the gates behind me so as to not attract any attention before walking off into the dark night.

I walked for hours and hours , my feet hurt, then stopped hurting , all while I just kept walking. Walking through the dark silent meadows I took off my shoes, because they were sweaty . I began walking barefooted through the grassy dark fields. A cricket would chirp here and there, the wind blew filling my lungs while blowing my face and hair with the cold night air as I walked on. After a few more hours I was able to see the medical facility, the pain in my feet had turned to numbness.

I began walking towards the medical facility, but there was something ahead of me in the dark medical building facility silhouette. I couldn't tell what it was but it looked human in shape, luckily under the illumination of the moonlight I wasn't completely blind, but I couldn't completely see either. I began walking towards the dark figure , and the closer I got the more it appeared to be getting further and further away. I walked to where it initially was, but by then it was already far ahead of me . I blinked and it was gone , I frantically began looking around me, atop a meadow hill about a hundred or so metres away to my right , I saw it standing there...this time the wind blew my dreads as I stared at it...my legs felt weak , and I fell to my knees , it was so tall , over seven feet tall, pitch black.

The creature was just a silhouette at this point , I took in a deep breath , then let it out. I got back up onto my feet , "I seek the one whose memory is being erased", I shouted aggressively to the tall silhouette in the distance , a silence filled the space between us as a breeze of wind blew my dreadlocks to the left. Suddenly in a moment, the tall black figure was right In front of me.

Upclose it was more as if it was jet black metallic armoured with some sort of heavy leather cape behind it, I looked all the way up to the tall figure , and saw it was fully encased in jet black metallic armour. The head of the thing was fully encased as well. A black leather cloak-like cape covered its back and shoulders, it was as if for a moment that cape was lengthening and shortening around me , as if it were surrounding me. With a single red glowing flame where the right eye should have been in the helmet... it was nothing like anything I had ever seen in my entire life, and with its single red flaming eye, it was staring down straight at me...

I felt a large cold metallic palm on my face , followed swiftly by long metallic fingers around my head , before I could even figure out what was going on it pulled back it's hand, dragging my body up by my head along with it...I was off the ground in an instant. Then before I knew it I felt the hand pushing me back down while I was midair. Its going to smash my head into the ground with its bare metallic hand, I realised . But as I felt the grass on my neck...I felt my neck and head pass through a strange substance that felt like a liquid , but was completely dry.

Its hand was still over my face and head as we both fell, seeping through the substance, and falling intowhat felt like a freefall. It adjusted its pinky a bit, but it was just enough for me to peek through with my left eye...I saw what can only be described as a dome of black darkness, but I was just falling with it...everything felt numb, nothing felt real. The hand disintegrated along with its owner, and I saw a small closing aperture at the centre of my vision that had in its distance...the stars I was falling away from.

The aperture closed. I continued falling through what I can only describe as an expanse of black darkness, I could feel the wind blowing against my skin. I tried to look around, but there was nothing but black, there was no light. Then I blacked out. I opened my eyes, there was now some visibility of the things around me... but I saw my neck bone piercing through my throat...I feel every last bone that is not in place , every millimetre of pierced skin, I tried to move my hands , but they were broken, elbow bones piercing through my elbow joints...as for my legs , well I couldn't feel them. From what I could feel , I could feel the substance that felt like concrete that I was laying on ,I felt my own blood , for I was laying in a puddle of it. From what I could smell , there were no particular scents , just a cold scentless breeze. From what I could see, was a pitch black sky. I couldn't scream , only blood squirted out of my throat. maybe this is it, I hope I get to see 440 again soon, I thought to myself as everything began to feel dazy and I lost consciousness.

My eyes opened in what I can only describe as a blanket of what felt like dry black sand, there was no pain anywhere in my body...but the pain within my chest of course. I raised my right hand and it went straight through the substance , and the substance began to disintegrate into a scentless black gas that kind of reassembled smoke to a degree. I sat upright and saw what seemed to be an odd building around me, I looked up and saw no roof, I got onto my feet as the last of the substance disintegrated into a black gass that the wind blew away. The floor was white. I saw black marvel round walls , as if I were in a giant black marvel box. I stopped feeling the wind , but my dreadlocks were moving to the right as if a breeze was blowing them to that direction.

Behind me I heard heavy footsteps metres behind me... I turned around but saw nothing, I turned back to the direction I was originally facing and saw it. The black figure from earlier , this time it had a giant black executioner's blade in it's huge right hand. The mighty blade was almost the size of the armoured figure. A cold sweat dripped down my forehead to my chin. I knew there was nowhere to run to , and likewise no way I could possibly escape...the creature's black cape was like a black flame, growing and returning, lengthening and shortening around it as if taunting me, it was like nothing I had ever seen before.

The creature raised its blade, I prepared myself for the worst, but it made its hand into a fist so that the blade would be vertical , blade facing the ground before using it's other hand to grab the rest of the mighty sword's handle. I took a step back , as a strange electric sensation filled the air and black flames were coming from the armour of the creature. With both hands on the handle , it thrust the blade into the floor and a mighty earth quake began as everything began to shake and quake while black flames came forth from the blade and ascended up into the black sky. I looked back down to the creature and the blade and realised that the black flames were coming for me too... I tried to run, but then I was engulfed , I screamed, but instead of burning...I was falling. This time through what felt like heavy air, but the air was black and there was nothing but black mist around me as I fell through whatever it was I was falling through my dreadlocks being pushed upwards by the great wind I was falling through.

I fell for some time ,even my nerves had had enough time to recollect themselves , then suddenly I was on a white stone floor , this time there was no impact, I just appeared there. I looked In front of me and saw a figure wearing a black robe with chains on his hands, he was just a bit taller than me at six feet, I looked around and saw flowers around us , purple myosotis, lillies , white roses and all kinds of flowers in full bloom that filled the ground away from the white stone block we were on.

"Excuse me but where am I?" I asked the figure loudly with great concern and fear trembling in my voice. The figure stood there silent .

"667" it said in a deep masculine voice.

Suddenly he walked closer and I saw a parts of a face. I don't know how I knew , but I knew it was him, 667.

"Where are we, where have you been, what's going on!?" I screamed at him. He walked closer and closer until he laid his hands upon my head and a strong shock went through my brain, I jumped back.

"What was that!?" I asked ,
"I just taught you how to read...and undid the genetic systems that kept your body from maturing." he said in a somber tone.

"What's 'reading'?" I asked him .

He turned around and began walking , but as he began walking a stairway opened under his feet , that he didn't touch the flowers ,and he began going down the stairway. There was an orange light coming from the stairway . I rushed after him, and as I started running down the stairway it was as if the stairway lead to another world as there were orange lights on the walls , wood on the staircase , the scent of coffee...the stairs themselves turned to wood , there were wooden rails somewhere further away. As I walked down the stairway to the wooden base , I saw to my left bookshelves as far as my eyes could see. Rows after rows going on seemingly forever. I turned to my left and saw the rails I saw while I was going down the stairway , there were orange lights on the walls and bookshelves , and strange glass and Crystal lights hanging from the roof. I walked to the wooden rail, the rail went over the perimeter of what at first seemed to be a square opening in the ground. I was near the rail when I noticed it...I went even closer and looked down just to be sure , but there was no mistaking it...there were floors and floors going on and on into the abyss, I looked up and saw the same. I looked closer into some of the book shelves and saw similar structures around them , openings that show the infinite levels of whatever this place was.

"I'm glad you took such an interest in it" I heard 667 say behind me.

"What is this place?" I asked him completely confused as I knew nothing.

"It's a library, well the library I should say , here are all the books ever written beneath the heavens." He said gesturing to the book shelves around us , but I couldn't understand what he was saying as I don't know what 'heavens' , 'library' or 'written' meant . He reached out his hand and a black gassy sand like substance fell out of his hand in the shape of a rectangle , and as the substance fell and disappeared a book appeared in its place in his hand.

"Take it" he said with a smile,

I walked to him and took the book , I opened it and to my surprise I could understand what the scribbles in weird shapes were saying . The book was about literature and it's history, I then say down and began reading it , I now knew what writing, reading literature were.

"This entire place is filled with information, read all you can, time here doesn't move , there is neither rush nor need to make haste" , he said as he vanished into the black vanishing substance. The stairway disappeared along with him . Trapped I began reading; book after book after book after book.

I finally understood what those task masters were saying back then; "disease" , "sex", "rape" , "violence" , "hate". They gave her a sexually transmitted disease when she was younger through molestation , she was strong both physically and mentally. Thus it took the disease all these years to eventually... She went years with an untreated illness, suffering in silence for all those years. Everyday she smiled at me. everyday they ate away at her. I spent what felt like months , learning.

At one point I stumbled upon a book that read "The black elimination of Europe , a full recollection of the great mass genocide.", the title intrigued me to read it...and I was shocked at what I read , it was filled with recollections from survivors of the great mass genocide in which all all Europeans within Europe at the time were killed in cold blood , regardless of; gender , age or race.
"They fell from the air and like devils , they were forced upon all beneath the earth", it read . "They went from house to house, door to door , room to room, hospital to hospital and even school to school killing anyone who dared to live , I saw my own five year old sister get impailed through her door as I hid beneath her bed", were just some of the many horrific recollections , "mountains of human ash and human carion" it described the week after the genocide.

How an entire people was just eliminated by a single organization was astonishing , entire ethnicities lost in a single week , I thought as I read through it all. What felt like many months passed as I was reading , I was fed by a strange coffee cafe that randomly just appeared in various locations of the library, the two women who worked in it never spoke, but never asked for me to pay for anything , and there was always jazz playing. I spent most of my time there. It was one of the only things that kept me sane

Something odd was happening to my body though, I noticed my voice became deeper after what felt like a few weeks , and not just that , my body also gained extra muscle mass. My urinary organ became errect from time to time, eventually after some time I read the process was called puberty, which was odd because I should have had puberty years ago.

I was sitting leaning against a bookshelf when 667 reappeared .

"So you actually came back?" I asked him , but he remained silent.

"How long has it been?" I asked staring him dead in the eye,

"I told you, time doesn't move here , but I'd say it's been atleast a year, if we're counting uncounted time that is." He said sarcastically.

"You've read through all the sections you weren't restricted from entering...nearly millions of books, in just little over a year..." he continued to say with awe in his tone. I knew there were things he didn't want me to know about, that's why even when I tried going to the sections on deep human anatomy, and the sections that were on things written in the distant past, I would go there , then end up where I started , or the direction where I was coming from. The library clearly was able to bend time and space to it's bidding , that's the only way one can explain this place , whether it's sentient or not however , remains still to be seen.

"It's not like I had much to do" I sarcastically responded to 667.

"Zero Zero Zero, come let's leave this old library" , he said to me with a smile as he turned around and began walking away.

"Ah yes , stay here until I turn to dust or leave with you , I love the variety of options you're giving me here 667" I said as I got up, and began walking behind him.

We walked for only a few steps in the library, then the entire space around us changed , suddenly we were back in the black marvel building. I immediately saw the tall creature standing next to 667 a few metres ahead of me.

"What is the meaning of all this!" I shouted to 667

"This is Vladimir , one of the last and first people to have ever been to this place. lost within himself , his body does as this place's keeper commands ...even I don't know why, or what his story is." 667 said soberly while gesturing at the creature I now know as Vladimir. For a moment I stared at him, I had just heard that he was lost within himself and that he was basically gone , but a strong sadness filled me when I stared at him, a sadness that was like a black hole, the pain in my heart...against the solitary sadness I felt from him , I could not compete. I don't know why but as I stared at Vladimir , a tear fell down my right eye, "I know you" my lips and vocal cords said on their own. I shifted my eyes from Vladimir to 667 and noticed 667 staring at me with great intrigue.

"I've been meaning to ask you" I said to 667 in a serious tone ,

"What is it?" He responded asking ,

"What did you do to me? From the very start I should not have survived that fall, and as if that wasn't enough... I'm a 19 year old boy going through puberty for the first time. Whilst everytime I try to recall what you look like my mind erases your image." I asked .

"Well...I guess I couldn't get away with it forever...it's sad because I wanted to have a friend" he said to me with a sad smile and closed eyes. Immediately his robes vanished and I saw his actual face and body for time, he was a skinny white male with a black bob cut wearing a subject uniform with the number 667 on its his shoulder , he was easily around six foot five in height.

"667 is just one of the many names I've gone by throughout the centuries... but it's not my actual name. My actual name is Eliot Prescott , I was born in a city known as Cansas in 2007. My mother was a whore and my father an abusive man who fixed motor machines , dabbled in the mysterious arts, and thought that the best way to ask me how I was doing was by beating me with a belt." He said as I began to see it all before my eyes, he was with me , I could see his younger shorter self, both next to me on my right , and as a child in a corned being beaten by a middle aged man in a room lit only by a fireplace. I was seeing it, no , he was showing it to me.

The Eliot next to me looked up at me, and gave another sad smile. He then looked back to the vision with me and held my right hand with his little right hand , as we both watched his father beat his little body into a bloody pulp.

"He would beat me in the morning, sexually assault me in the evening, then beat me again after he came back from drinking in the middle of the night, and it all started back when I turned ten." He continued to say as I indeed saw his father molesting and beating his little body...blood was coming out of Eliot's wounds, but his father didn't care. He just continued molesting while beating him regardless in that dark fireplace lit room.

"A part of me thought that this was what all little boys went through... afterall I didn't go to school , my mother's whoring rarely kept food on the table , and even when it did my father just drank it all away. I had to learn to survive by eating out of the scraps of our neighbour's trash cans, it was easy because none of them even knew I existed." He said with tears flowing down his little face. I saw him eating garbage out of garbage bins late at night, wearing rags and hiding his face as it was swollen and full of wounds.

"And then one day when I was about your age , I gained the courage to come out of the basement , which was the place I slept, ate ,and was told to never leave. Upon opening the trapdoor... I saw my father's lifeless body hanging by his neck from a rope tied to the staircase that led upstairs. I didn't know how to feel...of course he was a terrible man, and an even worse father. But he was still my father , and the only male figure I had ever had in my entire life till that point." He said while whimpering in tears as we stood there before him and his father's hanging corpse.

"A strange tattoo appeared on my chest , it was a circle with a vertical line in its centre that never touched the circumference. It wasn't big at all, barely even seven centimetres in radius , I think I first noticed it when I was getting dressed for my father's burial the day after he killed himself." He said pointing at the tattoo on his past self's chest with his little hand. Something about the symbol of the tattoo...I didn't know how or from where, but it was strongly...familiar.

"At first I thought it was just a mark, but eventually I came to realise that it not only amplified my ability to produce yen, but it stopped me from aging and or aquiring disease. At a hundred years old I was in the body of a nineteen year old man, I saw cities grow and fall, world war three, all the way up to the second fall of the Berlin wall.

Then one day while I was walking through Venice I entered a cafe , to my surprise there were no other seats available but for one opposite a blond average height man, it was very crowded that day." He said as he smiled while looking down.

"At first I was reluctant to speak with him , heck I even got a book out of my bag to avoid making eye contact , but he laughed ." Elliot Prescott said as we both stared at the two sitting on opposite ends of the round cafe table .

"You know I can tell you're peaking at me through that book mister" the man with the blond hair said,

"I WAS NOT!" Elliot Prescott shouted displaying visible irritation ,

"Well aren't you an uptight one , well hard to blame you considering the state of things out there, who would've thought that someone would actually nuke the whitehouse" The blond man said.

"I know right, it's crazy ,Hmmm, what is your name sir" Eliot asked ,

"My name is Tagashi Teyoko, it's a pleasure to meet you!" The blond man said with a salute at the end as they both burst into laughter ,
"it's a pleasure , my name's Eliot Vernicence" Elliot said.

"But wait...didn't you tell me your surname was Prescott?" I asked the Eliot who was next to me,

"Imagine what all the scientists you read about in all those books would have done to me if they found the documents of a single person that had been active for over eight hundred years." He replied saying with a sad tone,

"I see..." I said softly, realising how they would have dissected him just so they can know how his body works.

The blond man put his hand forward "you know , there's just something about you...can you use yen?" he asked the adult Elliot who was seated opposite him.

Elliot took his hand and they both shaked hands ,

"Yeah, I can use Yen , what? want me to teach you? I noticed you got quite a bit there yourself too you know," Elliot remarked while scratching the back of his head with his left hand and laughing.

"You know, after that moment we both started training together, though I naturally had more to teach him , than he had to teach me...he was basically a genius when it came to utilising yen...eventually we both joined the Italian military due to the hardships of the times especially after the Whitehouse was nuked. When world war 4 broke out we were on the frontlines as part of a special task force tasked with clearing the front lines , I still remember the silly name they gave us 'delta'. We managed to survive world war 4 , well most of us. We were unscaved for the most part that is...It was there where I realised that Tagashi didn't age either..." the little Eliot next to me said as we saw them both sitting on a mountain of corpses talking to one another.

"He explained to me that he was born with such a vast amount of yen that it repaired his body constantly so that his; skin, cells, organs and bones were constantly in perfect shape , and therefore he didn't age. Tagashi learnt yen reinforcement and had enough yen to make it constantly active to
the point where it was a natural bodily function...in essence he achieved immortality through raw power alone." The Elliot next to me said as we saw Tagashi and him training in what seemed to be an areana .

"We lived together for centuries, and then when mankind discovered that there were multiple infinite universes...we were astonished at what this could mean for the future of our civilization, at the time Tagashi and I had built a global empire we named white lotus, it was dedicated to bettering mankind both through brute force, and through global philanthropy...but not everyone agreed." The Eliot next to me said as he held my hand tighter.

"What do you mean?" I asked turning my head looking down to him.

"A coalition of states that consisted largely of European states had clustered together in defiance of us. They called us dictators for taking away power from unfit leaders , when we had nearly eliminated almost every disease known to man and we're constantly feeding billions around the world. They were threatening to have us banned, and disbanded...after years of negotiation , nothing had changed. They threatened our every existence , threatening to have us killed and our bodies examined , as well as disbanding and undoing all of our nearly centuries worth of hard work. There was no other choice." Elliot said with a tear flowing down his right eye as he held my hand tightly.

"And so you killed them all" I said to him.

"Tagashi and I devised a plan, we had well trained soldiers who could use yen to reinforce their physical attributes , as well as some among them who had gone beyond the extra mile and learnt to do superhuman feats such as teleportation, regeneration, and some flight, armies and armies. We realised it was possible for us to create a 'false' Europe , meaning a Europe filled with people who were just cloned illusions of their real counterparts ...and so under the cover of darkness, we attacked. Their defences were nothing to our soldiers , we spilled every last drop of European blood that was on that continent, killing women , men and children indifferently. Tagashi and I added our own yen to that of all our soldiers , with my nearly instant production of yen , and Tagashi's nearly bottomless capacity of yen , we were able to bolster the strength and combat prowess of all of our troops tenfold, they stood no chance." He said as we stared into what I can only describe as mass genocide.

"We slaughtered every last one of them ...running through fields killing children and women, walking through meadows , fathers and sons falling one by one under the gun. By the the end of that week they were all completely gone. And no one knew a thing because of the illusion we placed over the continent so that to everyone outside the continent it would be perceived that everything was normal and ok...or so we thought." he said in a grim tone staring at him and Tagashi standing next to each other as they stared at a pile of burning corpses.

"On September fifth 3007 calls to war were issued against us by literally every other nation in existence...it turns out some survivors made it out of Europe and told the rest of the world of our pitch black sin." He said to me while looking down to his feet,

"What happened then?" I asked , even though I knew the answer.

"We weren't the only ones on earth with yen, you know. Back then a good fifth of the human population had yen as well...we were hunted to near extinction , our soldiers burnt in heeps ,we were constantly running for our lives...until one day I had the idea that it should be possible to write space into space given how there were infinities between all things...and unknowingly I had fallen for it." He said with deep resentment towards himself in his tone.

"Tagashi and I began experimenting with it , taking centimetres of space and making metres of livable space only we could access underneath it. Eventually Tagashi gave away all of his yen reserves and I gave away half my yen production speed in order to do what we both thought was impossible-" he said before I Interrupted him by saying in awe "you created an infinite space within another infinite space that existed in the same time."

"Yes , we called it the world of benevolent mutual bonds , w.o.m.b ..., but what we hadn't realised was that as more of us were being born inside the w.o.m.b, it was causing our underlayer universe to create an imbalance of souls in the normal universe, for unlike the natural universe, this one was artificial. Meaning every atom was made of yen, and as more of us were being born , it was applying pressure onto the natural universe by overloading it, and at that time we didn't know that souls which were filled with life essence , were what kept universes going due to their ability to produce yen, natural energy and other vital energies needed to sustain the natural world. But it was never supposed to be this way... and we were about to find out why." He somberly said im a serious tone .

"What do you mean by 'it was never supposed' ?" I asked him.

"Originally heaven is supposed to keep universes intact and running, but the multiple heinous transgressions of us all caused us to be forsaken , and what came next was all but inevitable...to everyone but us. One evening while we were all sitting in a meadow enjoying our time together...we all felt it like a ringing in our brains , he had arrived in the natural universe, Asmondeus, one of the kings of hell. As if he were walking through a door...he walked into our world, into the centre of sunset boulevard in Hollywood through an aperture that emited screams that filled the entire earth. He as twelve feet tall in his normal form, red and black skin. He opened his mouth "world breaker" he said , then he revealed to us things that we never knew...that a human was just a blind child. A person was comprised of three things, a human had a physical body that was temporary, an elemental soul that processed yen and protected the true soul , and a true soul that was the very essence of a person, life force and power. Asmondeus raised up his right hand, a giant red and black hammer with a long handle manifested, and with both hands he slammed it into the ground. Then everyone's true soul in our entire universe was ripped straight out of their bodies leaving only reminances that stuck to our elemental souls which allowed us to survive the ordeal and continue producing yen. Even where we were it ripped everything to shreds , and caused our entire pocket universe to fall into the normal universe , we all fell from the sky. Some lost their ability to use yen forever , some only lost a majority of their yen capacity...and many died. It did not end there , the entire universe became flat and we saw with our own eyes the stars disappear leaving only the moon in the sky." He said somberly as he wept.

"He filled the atmosphere with true souls thus breaking the fabric of the entire universe as the souls could not produce in the sate that they were in, and they overwhelmed the universe, heaven didn't do anything because you were forsaken." I said

"Not only that, chains came from the ground and dragged every true soul to hell, damning us all to rejoin our true souls should we perish...the entire uinverse was now one continuous starless infinite plain , the sky was now just the sky , I had never seen the sky like that before, there was no space , just infinite blue, the sun that reminded and the moon that remained. I didn't want to die like this. Black flames came from Asmondeus' shadow and out came Asmonius , his shadow. Asmondeus walked back into the aperture from whence he came, and it closed. But the shadow remained , and from it came every other demon shadow , they were pitch black often with red, blue and purple flames .

Against this threat that was seeking to extinguish humanity completely, we had no choice but to work together , those of us who could still use yen weaved another space beneath the corpse of what was left of the world, whilst many of us tried our best to fight off the endless waves of the shadows of demons in the rubble of what was once our world. It took two hundred years , but when the new space was done we called it the world offensive master defensive , the new W.O.M.B. it was here where we trained soldiers." He said.

"But that's not all is it.", I added.

"No , but I wish it was...the shadows of demons were said to be a tenth of the power of normal demons...but they were vastly superior to us in strength , and being broken already , we realised that not all of us could use reinforcement or regeneration, and amongst those who could , not all of them still had or even ever had enough yen to use it to a combat useful degree. Upon this discovery Tagashi, me and the rest of the leaders of humanity were forced to make a difficult decision, to breed transplants and/for soldiers...we weaved a second space into the pocket space that was at the centre of the pocket space. Those who didn't have or couldn't use their yen rebuilt society , and a new society came from outside the second pocket space , and this one de renamed earth , and gave the title of "the womb" to the second pocket space which was now a self sustaining womb that breed soldiers and transplants for soldiers and civilians, and the ones who volunteered to be incharge of it were Tagashi and me ." He explained

"Tagashi grew a fondness for the children , but to solve the population issue so that the womb could sustain itself , we used prostitutes to breed people and bound their elemental souls to the womb, that in death they would simply be assimilated into the womb and keep it going, we called them task masters , and likewise the womb would slowly drain their yen collectively to keep itself going. This was still not enough, and so as a fail safe we made the centre of the womb a giant building that was devoted to not only maintaining and controlling the rest of the womb , but beneath it , we created a human breeding factory in where we bred the soldiers and organ donors. The women we used were predominantly prostitutes and female convicted fellons, and the men varied from taskmasters , to us, and to even other convicted fellons." He went on to explain. My eyes were opened wide, horrified by the atrocities I was hearing and seeing, as I witnessed women and men being made sex slaves and others being made slaves doomed to oblivion.

"Those who became soldiers had a high amount of yen , and those who had low to no amounts of yen became organ donors , the soldiers would be sent to fight the shadows of demons constantly trying to enter our pocket universe , and at times even enter the original universe to seek out things like certain plants and food seeds, but eventually disaster struck..." He said as we saw Tagashi fall to the ground.

"Is...he dying" I asked noticing the seriousness of the situation I was being shown.

"Yeah , he was dying , but luckily...what my father had done for me ...or rather I should say , what my father had done to me was that he made me a key to being able to listen to the barrier. The barrier is the first thing that stops creation from meeting the heavens , it spans for many infinities and within it are many things , many dangerous maddening things...one of which are Yogzgameth who my father invoked to grant me my unique attributes in exchange he went mad and killed himself. Due to this connection I have a link to Yogzgameth, he is known for giving knowledge to all those who cannot handle it ... and so I killed two hundred taskmasters under the veil of night beneath the false stats we made as an illusion of the real ones. I offered them as an offering to Yogzgameth, and indeed he gave Tagashi a new ability , in which Tagashi could live on by passing his elemental soul into the body of someone else ." He said looking at his past self in disgust.

"I did not go mad like my father did after hearing Yogzgameth...worse happened." He said somberly ,

"What did you do?" I asked him trembling from the unspeakable horrors I was witnessing.

"Tagashi began calling himself the father ..., and to my surprise his yen reserves were returned when he was returned. The damage had already been done , Yogzgameth didn't kill me , instead he allowed hell's corruption into the womb. Task masters became lustful , they became murderous , Tagashi was slowly losing his mind." He said to me while crying and shaking.

"I was afraid...Tagashi no longer saw the children as children, but things , and with every new body he inhabited over the years to come...the Tagashi I knew vanished bit by bit. Then one day I had enough of the blood of children on my hands, I told him I was leaving...he refused my exit , apparently he had been getting really close with the world leaders on the outside, and they had decided that they were going to start using babies as blood donors for those who needed it outside the womb.

I was not the man I used to be , but even I couldn't let this happen. And so we fought a mighty battle that shook the womb and parts of the earth, but in the end , it turned out that whenever Tagashi who was now calling himself father took over a body through the ceremony. He also took over that body's abilities , skills and yen reserves...he now had the battle experience of thousands, the yen reserves of thousands and the physical strength of thousands. he used an ability to try and erase me out of existence through some bright light , but luckily I used an old spell I knew that made him forget my existence , due to his strong yen it was going to wear off eventually and the attack Tagashi hit me with would erase me soon." Elliot said to me as we watched their might fight that nearly destroyed both the womb and parts of the earth.

"I used my yen to reverse my age , and my powers as one of the head task masters to write a fake subject number, a fake date of birth , a fake friend who I labeled as 334... and myself 667, and that's how I met you all and we all became friends. I was free for the first time in a long time with 440, an artificial yen being I made known to you all as 334 , 236 and the others. Until I realized that I was slowly disappearing from existence due to Tagashi's attack , and that this was happening because Tagashi was slowly remembering my existence.

At one point Tagashi appeared behind me and almost stabbed me with his giant sword , when I was playing in a meadow alone with 334 back when you were all six, but instead 334 jumped in the way and saved me. Using my already low yen reserves which were even lower after the battle and even lower still because I was constantly keeping my age low without giving my body time to recover. I redid my spell , this time only on Tagashi. 334 was killed , I know it's my fault ...I made an illusion of the illusion I had initially made that was him that was able to trick every physical human body into believing he was really there so no one would get suspicious...but he was never really there to begin with." Eliot said as I fell to my knees watching him and realising that 334 was never real.

"After I narrowly escaped ,I decided to top taking chances and so I made another deal Yogzgameth, that in exchange for the a child , he would give me a realm in which I can be free, but as usual there is a monkey's paw effect with Yogzgameth. I got this realm which is not only infinite , but it's also safe from demons and the shadows of demons, can be connected to any other universe , is made purely of dark matter , which is what happens when you fuse yen with matter , which means you can't be tracked here . All the cost of a child , and never being able to leave, I gave him a boy I had long since seen I think his subject number was 043. I am now just ghost in this place , atleast I have the books and Vladimir who was here before me and to this day I have no idea how he got here." He said . I stared at him shaking my head with tears in my eyes flowing down my face , I feel nothing but resentment and hatred towards him in every fibre of my being.

"I know I can never be forgive for all that I have done, there is no forgiving me." He said to me.

He had unknowingly become like his father ,he who was abused and molested as a child brought forth a system that abused and molested children.

"You became a monster powers greater than the one you feared when you looked at your father" I said to him, he remained silent and in that moment we were back in the black marvel structure.

"Yogzgameth let hell's corruption into the womb and now the taskmasters are killing children , the corruption is incurable and Tagashi has already fallen to it...before long the womb will collapse.

no one can have a true soul since the day Asmondeus came , for he took all the true souls from present to future, leaving only elemental souls within us...elemental souls are hypercharged now given they both produce and process yen and the little life essence we have left. Every single soul trapped within the womb or keeping it going is slowly overcoming the womb's ability to rewrite and repair space, at this rate a billion task masters can't even scratch the surface of what's needed to fix this. And every being, soul creature, pocket universe and structure in the womb will rain down from the sky onto earth when the womb gives in . Because not only is the womb now incapable of handling the energy created by its own population, some souls of the dead from the earth have now started ascending to the womb, only making the womb even more unstable. When the womb gives in , everything will fall into the earth, overwhelming it and causing the mixture of the earth and womb to rain down onto the original universe where the shadows of demons are , thus ending all of existence for humanity as we know it." He said staring at me while standing next to Vladimir ,
"what are you asking of me" I asked barely able to speak after realizing what he was asking of me .

"You need to kill everyone in the womb, but that's not nearly enough, you're going to need to absorb every last bit of yen in it , that way all the souls trapped in the womb would have nothing to grab onto and would simply be dragged to hell , neutralizing the balance of souls and saving humanity." Elliot said while staring me dead in the eye. I felt my body lose all strength , I was hyperventilating...

"Vladimir can't absorb yen, therefore if he did it , the souls trapped within the womb would simply overwhelm the womb and the same catastrophe would occur, leading to the end of humanity aswell. I can't leave here , and even if I could...Tagashi's attack would simply just finish me off the moment I did." Eliot said to me with a sad smile and tears flowing down his cheeks.

I knew there was no way around it , all the books I had read lead to a similar conclusion , he wasn't lying. I had no choice but to agree.

And so I began training in the marvel structure , where he said time moves at half the pace at which it does in the womb , he told me that this effect was so great that in order to speak we were actually using yen reinforcement unconsciously as to be able to speak without talking in slow motion. We built my body for what felt like years doing strength and speed training. I spared with Vladimir for hours and sometimes even days on end without stopping, multiple times. He always went easy on me , or that's what I thought because he never spoke to anyone.

After what felt like ages I had finally mastered yen reinforcement, regeneration and a ton of other things that in all honesty I'm still shocked I can do. I thought to myself as I walked through the halls of the marvel structure, my new black coat was heavy, but the pain in my heart was heavier , I teleported to Eliot .

"I know I keep saying this, but your yen reserves have become something truly frightening...well that and the dead look in your eyes." He said staring at me.

"So you've come to kill me once and for all?" , he said with yellow glowing eyes as he saw me manifesting my executioner's blade behind my back. He doesn't deserve an answer and I won't give him one. I also used yen reinforcement on my eyes and the rest of my body.