With the beginning of the Big Bang, countless universes were born. Infinity repeated its endless proliferation, and even now, the universe continues to multiply through infinities raised endlessly to further infinities.
The Multiverse.
It may sound childish, but it is a collection of innumerable universes containing cosmic spaces repeated through infinities raised to infinities, and then raised again eternally beyond comprehension.
Yet beyond those universes existed the [Megaverse], which itself contained Multiverses repeated through infinities upon infinities upon infinities without end.
Such unimaginable [Megaverses], beyond human comprehension, also continued eternally through endless exponential infinities.
Now, a crisis approached every Megaverse.
A destroyer on the scale of those colossal Megaverses sought to annihilate everything.
The destroyer's name was [True].
Calling itself a vanguard, it continued endlessly destroying Megaverses as an executor of destruction.
Lifeforms could never perceive such phenomena. They simply continued their ordinary daily lives until, without warning, everything abruptly ended.
Yet some forms of life noticed the danger and believed something had to be done. However, these events unfolded in realms beyond the reach of living knowledge—outside the boundaries of biology, physics, quantum theory, and mathematics themselves. Life could do nothing against it.
And it was not only mortal life. As countless worlds and lives vanished, even Heaven and Hell—realms not belonging to any Megaverse—began devising countermeasures against the threat.
Heaven.
A divine realm indescribably different from the physical world. There sat the gods. Their forms resembled energy itself, lacking fixed shapes.
And there too gathered the detestable inhabitants of Hell.
For gods and demons, who had fought each other since mythological antiquity, such a gathering was truly unprecedented.
There stood Yahweh, the Olympian gods, the Titans, the Aesir, the Vanir, the Danu gods, the East and West Slavic pantheons, the Heliopolitan gods, the Sumerian gods, the Babylonian gods, the Zoroastrian gods, the Maya gods, the Aztec gods, the Silmaril gods, the Nibelung gods, the Outer Gods, the Elder Gods, the Great Old Ones, the Vedic gods, the Kojiki gods, and the gods of the San-Goreki myths.
Beside them stood demons led by Satan—beings who had opposed gods throughout all ages and civilizations.
Around them, angels and fallen angels watched the conference with such tension that it seemed fighting could erupt at any moment.
The discussion centered on only one issue:
How to stop the destruction caused by [True].
Yet among the gods were those who claimed that if worlds were destroyed, they could simply create them again. Among the demons were those who argued that since they themselves intended to destroy everything eventually, it would be convenient if someone else did it first.
Opinions varied wildly, and no unity could be found.
That was only natural.
These were gods and demons who had warred since before the birth of the universe itself. A single conference now could never resolve such eternal conflict.
Even during this futile meeting, which wasted unimaginable stretches of time, the great vanguard [True] continued annihilating Megaverses in quantities approaching infinity itself—numbers comparable to Graham's Number.
Unable to resolve the situation, the gods and demons agreed on only one thing:
They would seek cooperation from the gods of other Megaverses.
The archangel Michael was chosen as their envoy.
The first destination he visited was a Megaverse inhabited by gods whose gigantic bodies stretched across the great cosmos—beings numbering in unimaginable quantities, each measuring trillions of kilometers in size.
"Michael? How unusual. Rare indeed for one such as you to arrive from another Megaverse."
Michael stood before them in the form of a man from the physical world, with white wings and shining armor.
Against beings so immense they could cover entire universes, even Michael could not perceive their full forms. Yet their magnificent voices echoed throughout space itself.
"My lord believes that all gods and demons must unite against the destruction of the Megaverses. Will you lend us your aid?"
The archangel bowed his head deeply.
The foremost among the countless gods merely laughed lightly.
"If space-time is lost, it can simply be created anew. Why should we protect it?"
At those words, Michael's expression visibly darkened.
"But life exists within your Megaverses as well. Why would you not protect your own children?"
Again the gods answered:
"If they perish, they can simply be remade. Our war against the demons takes priority."
In this world as well, the gods were locked in eternal war with demons.
Michael could only give up and travel onward to the next universe.
There he found gods in human-like forms, led by an elderly deity with a long white beard.
Yet there too, Michael was rejected.
Because life could simply be recreated.
As an angel who had served the gods, Michael could not understand how beings capable of creating life could so easily abandon it.
How many gods and demons had rejected him by now?
Yet even such indifferent attitudes changed once the flames of destruction reached their own existence.
The annihilation of the Megaverses spread into the Heavens of the gods and the Hells of the demons, extending even into dimensions beyond the Megaverses themselves. Gradually, gods and demons alike began to disappear.
Michael descended upon an Earth within a universe nearing destruction.
There, ordinary people still lived ordinary lives.
The archangel silently gazed upon the children abandoned by their gods.
Then he vanished from Earth.
Soon afterward, that Earth, its universe, its Multiverse, and its Megaverse all disappeared.
At last, all gods, demons, and extradimensional beings from every Megaverse gathered together and began their resistance against the destroyer [True].
Watching the countless gods and demons confront the radiant humanoid being known as [True], the archangel Michael realized something.
This battle was not for the sake of life.
"The Nature of Life" End