The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss

Chapter 764: New Consciousness

"...Hmmm...ok, ok, ok, I get what you’re saying, but what does that have to do with me? Actually, it’s kinda shitty to treat me like ’top 3’ or whatever the hell you mean by that," I say to the Omnipotent Pandora who came to talk to me.

"I didn’t say it to offend you. It’s simply a fact that you’re the third strongest Pandora. I figured you’d be more responsive if I treated you that way." The moment she says that, I slam my hand on the table.

"If you wanted to piss me off, congratulations. You think I’m scared of you? I’m not scared of your damn title, and I sure as hell wouldn’t be scared of you just because you’re stronger." I snarl at her, and she glances around.

"I wasn’t trying to irritate you. If I wanted to, I’d mention this hole you live in." She says it while gesturing at everything around us. I don’t know how it is for other ’Pandoras,’ but I wiped out all life in my universe.

So in my universe, there’s only me. Even Mama Echidna was killed by me since I wasn’t satisfied.

I knew there were other universes and timelines I could go to, but my interest in that is zero. I prefer my empty universe, something shaped to my tastes. But because of that, my home is built on ruins.

"You’re pretty bold for someone who no longer has system support."

"I do NOT need the system! I don’t need anything!! You want problems with me, don’t you, you big-titted pig? You want me to turn your universe into a bloodbath?!" I stand up, shaking my fist at her.

"Try it, and you’ll cease to exist faster than your ability to process an atom moving through the cosmos." She threatens me as if she wasn’t the one who came to my universe.

"Threats won’t stop me. Keep pissing me off and see if I don’t do exactly what I said. I’m not a coward. I don’t know how the others are, but I do whatever I want." I grab her dress and yank her toward me.

"Get out of here. I don’t care what you want. Aren’t you omnipotent? Do whatever you think is best, but stay out of my business. I’m already being generous by staying isolated in my own universe instead of going off to destroy everyone else’s. Honestly, you should be on your knees thanking me for being so generous."

"..." She grabs my hand and breaks it. Blood drips onto the floor between us.

"Don’t be so arrogant. Your insults won’t make me feel anything, but they will guide you one step closer to death. Of course I can do whatever I want as an omnipotent being, but I’m giving you the chance to do this on your own instead of forcing you."

"If you can’t see the kind opportunity I’m giving you, then I’ll have to force you." When she says that, I start laughing while my arm regenerates.

"Hahaha, it’s funny you think that. Opportunity? What kind of shitty opportunity is there when you broke into my house to give me orders? Fuck, you’re out here wanting to get fucked and you don’t even know how to ask." Her gaze is ice-cold as I pull my hand back.

"H-Huh?!" My body shrinks a little as I feel the same restrictions from the past returning.

"Hey!! What the hell did you do!!" I punch her, but it does nothing.

"I simply returned you to the functional baby stage. The same one you were born in. It means you’re at level 100,000 with your power restricted until you reach the adult stage of our race."

"!!!"

"You can’t do this to me!!!"

"I can, just as I already did. I asked you politely, and it wasn’t even a hard request. I only told you to stop breaking every single thing that existed in this universe, and you kept breaking things."

"Now things seem fairer, don’t they? You’re too weak to break ’that,’ but oh... isn’t it something? You killed ALL living beings in this universe. There’s nothing left for you to fight, kill, or any easy way to level up." I stare at my hands while she speaks in a mocking tone.

"YOU WRETCHED BITCH!!" I leap at her neck, trying to crush her throat, but she easily grabs me by the neck and pulls me away from her.

"Don’t worry, this is a temporary measure. You should be able to recover your power... in about 2 billion years. You’ll have to wait for nature to evolve again, for animals to be born again, for sentient races aware of their own existence to be born and grow, raising the magic level of this universe."

"Since there’s no food for you because you killed everything, you’ll end up stuck in the baby stage for a very long time."

"Of course, you can speed up the recovery of your power by having sex and bearing children with the primitive life forms that emerge. So maybe 1 billion years if you decide to share your genes with this universe."

"You wretched bitch!! YOU FUCKING BITCH!! THIS IS MY UNIVERSE!!"

"Fool. All these universes belong to Oriane, the primordial goddess who created them. You’re just a little rat born in one universe who got too arrogant and stepped out of line."

"Blame your own aggression. You could destroy anything, but ’that’ was made by Oriane, and it wasn’t meant to be broken." She’s talking about the universe ’seed’ that exists in every universe created by Oriane.

A kind of ’reset’ button so life can always be born again even if all life in the universe ends. In other words, it creates the conditions for life to be born anew.

But apparently, it was connected to all the others in other universes, and me destroying the one in this universe was slowing down the function of the others. But since both of them are omnipotent, they could easily fix that mistake without me doing anything.

"This is fucking unfair!! You infantilized me!! You turned me into a baby just because I didn’t want to do some shitty job you could fix instantly!! And you’re even suggesting I have sex with primitive life forms!!?!" My heart fills with fury.

"Exactly that. I could fix it easily, but I didn’t. We’ll see each other again in a few billion years, when you foolishly come to take revenge and I give you an even worse punishment." She disappears while I look at my much smaller body.

"PANDORA!!!!!" I scream for that wretched bitch who just screwed up all the progress I made over so much time.

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"Pandora, was that really necessary?" Oriane asks with a worried expression.

"No."

"...You’re crossing the line. Especially using me as an excuse for that... You should stop limiting yourself right now. You’re showing too many ’emotions.’"

"Don’t be annoying, Oriane. I’m just... testing new waters. You showed me that when you deceived me and let that avatar try to replace me... I just... think it’s fun."

"...Pandora, Omnipotent beings shouldn’t express emotions like that. You’re doing something problematic."

"It’s my power, Oriane. I do whatever I want with it." I pull her by the waist.

"Unless you want to fight me to stop me."

"..." Her eyes go cold.

"...I think—"

"You made a mistake. You made a very big mistake when you left a door open for a being like me to become omnipotent. It took a while, but this balance is something I enjoy." Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence turned me into a being that feels everything all at once.

Because I exist in all states, I end up seeming emotionless, which shapes the ’mind’ of an omnipotent being. But recently, I’ve been testing variations of that — limiting omnipotent consciousness without limiting the power.

It’s made me feel real emotions. As an omnipotent being, even the state of ’superconsciousness’ can’t limit me unless I want it to. And now, I’ve been feeling a little sadistic.

"...I didn’t expect you to create a new perception of your own existence. It wasn’t impossible, but why would someone omnipotent try to have an inferior consciousness while keeping total power?"

"Because I like it. Ah, it’s wonderful to feel this. You’d like it too if you tried..."

"I won’t do that."

"Your loss. Now I’ll get to watch the third strongest Pandora in existence suffer for billions of years. It’ll be... entertaining."

"..." She gives me a little shove.

"Do as you please, Pandora..." There isn’t much she can do, so she just pulls away from me, while I feel like a child who just became aware that everything exists and wants to test where the limits are.

"I wonder what punishment I should give Top 3 when she recovers her powers and comes to try to take revenge..." Sabotaging my own versions seems counterintuitive, but something about torturing a being as powerful as myself is... wonderful.

"Haa... it’s funny that Oriane thinks this is bad... after all... it’s her fault." I never tried to do this, and I didn’t even want to do it. But she asked me to let myself be replaced and cheated to make it happen. So I decided that if she can do that, I can also do something that satisfies me.

"Yes... Oriane, you little fool. You allowed me to wake up like this." Once I finish perfectly balancing personality and absolute power, I’ll see what result comes out of it.