Relinquish [& Say Please]

Relinquish [01]

*this story is in a conceptual stage only*

*chapter 1 is a sample*

1022 years later

"Vykin requires your sacrifice, Delilah," Wyn warns me, while walking past since completing her Walk of Devotation.

I nod.

I will not Relinquish to Vykin, even if I am chosen. I don't say it out loud. I wouldn't dare. Even so, there was never a need to speak of secrets, was there? Even in the middle of the High Universe, surrounded by suffocating red nebulai and vaccums of floating sparse dark matter; which I could see.

I was new here, chosen by a lowly Seeker. One day, I'm a Fe-Fish in the ocean. The next? Protector of the Water Dimension, apparently, and next... Overlord Vykin would see me crash in, and wash away.

Upon the most prestige floor of the Vortemm Temple was the Vortemm Lair.

The Walk of Devotation, was only required for the female karmic energy to keep the place pure, secure and stable. Other than that, females were told not to linger.

Overlord Vykin never left his fortified station, and his Council of Vortemm prayed below incessantly, to maintain a strong relationship with the only thing keeping us connected to all this magik; Vortemm Water.

I would be dead soon, by drowning in it, willingly. I know too much.

I make my way there now, hoping it's over swiftly without any pain. Vortemm sacrifices were dead Forever. That is why it was a sacrifice.

You Relinquished your soul. Then you returned as a haunted piece, you transcended dimensions... upwards.

Vykin raised through five dimensions.

No one had made it to the third.

Which meant only Vykin knew what was in the third, fourth and fifth.

I hope I can make it through the first.

"It's a lie," I whisper.

It's all a lie.

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Vykin's stare is upon me the moment I walk through the main corridors, past the pillars around the perimeter of the Pool to the Third, then straight into the water I wade.

When I glance up, his stare is itched into the rock.

"It's Relinquish or Vykin's Chain," Wyn speaks through the air, watching from the Second. I can't see her in the First.

From what I knew, Overlord Vykin conquered the Gifted, so no one could learn to sneak their way into the High Universe. To maintain immortality and power you needed to kill yourself for this monster, and you would... wouldn't you... anything for Vykin.

"What's it like on Dimension Five?" I ask Wyn, though I cannot see her.

"Relinquish to find out."

It was all about the soul at the Crux; when you choose. To Relinquish your life or to Relinquish your will. They were two distinctly different things.

I stare at the stone itching, the gateway to the Overlord.

"I relinquish my free will," I whisper at his face, "I choose the Chain."

"You get a chain and a key," Wyn says, "Are you sure, Delilah?"

"It's a lie," I whisper, "It's all a lie."

"What is a lie?" Wyn whispers back, "He is a Deity, Delilah. Careful with your words."

"He is a Diety? And I am a woman."