Origin Of Tir Na Nog

Chapter 10: A Reason For Strength

It's been about a month since I heard from Jordyn "how ya doin?" finally I heard his voice "why didn't you contact me?" my pissed of tone even translated into my telepathy "it turns out you can't reach people on lower planes of existence with telepathy" what? why didn't he mention that

"And in over 100.000 years of life you only learnt this now?" how did he not know this "hey I don't have a photographic memory I forget things to anyways what level are you?" well I guess he has a point "I'm on Novice rank 1 some of my skill s have become more powerful and have some added effects but I still couldn't beat the Reckless Crypt dungeon"

For some reason I knew my own level of strength whenever someone asks me, or I wonder how strong I am I just know, like someone has shoved the answer into my brain, he came back from wherever he went, and started teaching me the best places to level up, and how to use skills creatively.

Soon it only took me 1 second to load a skill, and I was stacking them on top of eachother, then after a few years I became Intermediate rank 1, and then we went to the next plane of existence, and we went on so many adventures,

 Every time we went somewhere new it was always crowded, we must have went to a dozen different parallels atleast, till we finally found a place where we could hunt monsters out in the open, they were strong, the giant horned bear was very hard to kill, after I had some warm up exercise we went to the local instructors to get some skills.

After a bunch of annoying quests we got enough intermediate skills, to beat the Reckless Crypt, after that I had all the beginner, skills then roughly 100 years later, I broke into the advanced class, we got all those skills, along the way we hunted for materials, went on adventures, and saw whole new sights.

The world is ever expanding, sometimes a content or two is added to the world, with new dungeons, monsters, and materials, even if you know where to find something you must first find the key to get it, some keys spent years to find.

During that time I got into Lord rank, then we tried fusing again, flash of light and it worked we were one, both of our physical features were meshed together, and the information and memories in his over 100,000 years of living came rushing in.

He wanted to use fusion to create a new skill, [Parallel Processing] a skill where you split your body in 2, and the soul body goes into the space between 2 parallels, the space between them is rumored to be the entrance to the world of the gods.

He wants to become one, and create a realm where babies can be made, the normal way, we don't have reality bending power, and we can just be happy help eachother out, and not just spend our days in an inevitably pointless pursuit of strength.

His goal is driven by the betrayal of someone he cared for, they mated alot sometimes switching genders, told eachother about themselves, and spent years hunting down artifacts, and gaining strength.

But she got stronger first, and decided to leave him, to go even higher, since he couldn't follow her because he was to weak, he became stronger, however when he got to the plane of existence she was in he found out that his connection with her had been severed, in order for her to get a skill, and your not allowed to be in a party to get the quest.

He searched for years, after awhile he became a GrandMaster, and decided he'd run into her eventually, but he couldn't even remember what she looked like, even when a Millenian changes their gender they have the same shape, and their soul has a distinct feel.

You'll know if you've met someone by looking at them, during those lonely years he felt her soul cross paths with his many times, however couldn't pinpoint who was radiating that power, he'd participate in popular treasure hunts, when new information was about artifact locations were revealed, he'd search for them.

It wasn't about the artifacts, he just hopes that they'll cross paths, after 179 years of searching different parallels, going inbetween planes of existence, and entering new realms, he found her, but when he asked her if she remembered, him she said "not really I don't really bother with remembering the names of every acquaintance I meet" those words woke him up.

What he thought was an unbreakable bond of love was just her using him, he knew then and there that no genuine relationship would ever exist in a world like this, so he vowed to get more powerful, enough to become a god, and create a world were strength doesn't matter, where Millenians were weak enough to have to rely on eachother, and where they felt mortality, and cherished every day instead of not caring how much time has passed.

He more then anyone knew, that even if someone were to become the strongest in the world, and then surpass the level of a god, they still wouldn't find happiness, because strength is meaningless if you don't need it for anything.

His story was sad, but now it's my story because I am both Jordyn and Taylor, I heard a voice in my head, it was Jordyns "so you're just like the rest of them only caring about getting stronger but don't have a goal beyond that?"

He sounded disappointed, when we fused we both saw ourselves in a different light, those 20 seconds till we unfused felt like forever, Jordyn felt my blind admiration for him, and my deep love for him, I felt his disdain for my lack of motivation and goals, I even forgot about the fusion skill, the whole reason we started getting stronger.

I started to hate my narrow minded viewpoint, and wanted to find a reason to get stronger, we both saw eye to eye, however I disagree on where the world should go, I've felt the yearning for strength that he lost, just like him I was becoming stronger to get someone else's approval, but after awhile I started to only want to look cool, and be the strongest, that I lost sight of why I started gaining strength.

Being a part of him made me realize how much I look up to him, and want his approval, I can't wait to be one with him, in those 20 seconds I felt unstoppable, and all my feelings of inferiority just washed away, it felt like his pain and regret over his 179 years of pointless wondering finally washed away, though only for a brief moment. 

                               Let's become gods......