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Isekai'd Into Hell - Chapter - Prologue
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"We've done this hundreds of times, Elias. Just give up." The 14th and final Herrscher, The Herrscher of The End, looked down upon the last human of this branch. The same human she had killed hundreds of times over millennia.
"Fuck you!" Elias shouted, his battered, bleeding body barely hanging on, a weapon in his hand, giving off a bright blue light that, when Elias pulled the trigger, ejected a daunting, powerful blue beam.
The vast emptiness of space was, for a brief moment, pierced by a single blue light. A blue light aimed at the 14th Herrscher.
The recipient only sighed. At this point, she was being influenced by her human vessel, feeling a singular emotion, pity. As with a simple wave of her hand, the beam, which was once approaching her at lightspeed, froze solid. "Why do you still try it? Stars are just Honkai. I am the embodiment of Honkai at this moment. And yet, you make these pointless endeavours."
She blinked apathetically, seeing Elias fall forward; he had run out of everything, strength, will, and energy… also blood.
The 14th Herrscher sighed as from Elias's body, as if she already knew it, a golden light flashed from it, blinding her vision. She already knew what would happen next. "I'll see you in the 1000th loop, Elias." She didn't even try to resist.
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Elias slowly opened his eyes, ones that were once filled with life, now lifeless and monotone. He sat up in his bed, the least bit surprised by the scene. He parted his lips. "Today, we mourn those lost in the first eruption 10 years ago."
["Today, we mourn those lost in the first eruption 10 years ago."] Elias looked to his left, the holoscreen that always turns on when he wakes up, starting the same channel, same broadcast, same words. Every. Single. Time.
Elias just sighed and got up, his eyes landing on the door to the room.
*Knock* *Knock*
He sighed, "And so begins my 1000th loop."
He put his hand up to the keypad next to it, a green light scanned his hand, and the door slid aside. Elias was ready for the same scene he had repeated a thousand times, counting this one. General Grant, his father's best friend, is a man who is like an uncle to Elias, no matter how many loops deep.
Today is when he informs Elias of his parents' passing in an Honkai attack on the planet where they were researching. He had already grown numb to it, but what he, for once, in over thousands of years, expected.
"Elias!" He was tackled to the ground, arms wrapped around his waist, and Elias's eyes went wide in shock, recognising that voice, "M-mom?" His voice cracked. He looked down to see his mother's crying face and his father standing by the door with a relieved look on his face. "H-how…?"
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(A/N): Uhhhh… So yeah, I am writing this, it just took a while with how I had a bunch of IRL stuff going on, on top of some writing issues I had around chapter 23. Yes, I am still writing this. It actually just took a while to set up and decide how to actually do it.
I had many different versions of this story, many going up to around 20 chapters each, but I just never really liked the direction they went in. In this one, Elias was Isekai'd; it's just diluted by his time loops.
Anyway, this is the prologue I want to give you to see if people are still interested in the story, but either way, I will upload it.
Also, it might be short, but that's the point of a prologue.
Ciao