The violet humanoid, formed from the very liquid that coated the endless mirror-like ground, stared at Rei with glowing, emotionless eyes that belied a deeper presence. Its voice was like ripples in water, calm but commanding. It spoke again.
"Did you make me?"
Rei's eyes widened. His heart skipped a beat.
The space he was in didn't follow any logic—no gravity, no temperature, no sense of direction. Purple clouds churned above him in silence, and the liquid below rippled with each breath he took. His thoughts spiraled.
Who is this creature? Where am I? What is this place? What if I can't get out? What if I die here? What if this… thing is hostile?
Rei felt panic swelling inside him like a rising tide. But even as his heart pounded and his limbs tensed with instinctive fear, his face remained still—expressionless. Like a statue. His years of hiding pain, emotion, and weakness made his poker face flawless.
A deep breath. A whispered thought. No. No. I need to calm down. In this world that makes no sense, if I can make even a little sense, then I can control it.
The violet figure stepped forward, its liquid body shifting with unnatural grace. It tilted its head.
"Who do you think you are? Too good to answer me?"
Its voice carried weight now—displeasure. A warning.
Rei didn't flinch. Inside, his mind raced for a decision. It's asking if I'm its creator. Then I must act like one. Assert dominance. If it believes I made it, I must make it believe I'm stronger than it. That it's beneath me. This is all mental. I wasn't physically teleported here, or I'd have my blades. My body isn't here—just my mind. That means I can control this world… if I understand it.
Rei looked at the violet liquid beneath his feet. What happens if I try to steer it?
The moment he thought it, the liquid subtly shifted. It tilted in the direction of his thoughts. A faint smile touched his lips, invisible to the figure.
So I can influence it. Now the question is… who has more control: me, or that thing?
He reached deeper into his focus, felt the opposing presence—stronger, heavier, more connected to this realm than he was. He has… 55% control? No… more. 65%. No—70% at least. That left Rei with 30. Not much. But enough.
The figure took another step. Its voice sharpened like a blade.
"Answer me!!!"
Rei blinked. Right… I need to deal with this mess.
He finally spoke, voice calm and derisive.
"Yeah, yeah, I made you. But honestly, I thought you'd make something better than this place. What's with the weak power radiating here? You call this work? Even babies could create something stronger than this. No, scratch that—an unborn baby is still stronger than you."
His words cut deep. He could see it. The creature's body shivered, not from fear, but rage. The violet liquid rippled violently, responding to its emotions.
With a roar, the humanoid lashed out.
The ground burst with violent spikes of violet liquid—sharp tendrils that surged like harpoons. They pierced Rei from all directions, stabbing into his body.
Rei thought "so it does have emotions and hostile nature. I should not hold back then."
Agonizing pain surged through him, and his body trembled with the weight of it.
But his face?
Still calm. Cold. Unflinching.
Rei gritted his teeth mentally, not physically, and said with a voice sharper than the spikes in his flesh, "Do you really think you can kill me?"
The figure hesitated. "What do you mean…?"
Rei forced a chuckle, as if amused.
"Look at me. I'm not even flinching. Do you really think it's hurting me?"
He could feel it. The shift. The tiny tremble in the creature's certainty. Doubt. He's doubting himself.
Rei focused, using his 30% control to enhance that—his opponent's own doubt. The pain dulled. The spikes retracted. And as they vanished, the figure stepped back in alarm.
"What—? It's impossible… You can control this domain…?"
Rei raised his hand, letting the violet liquid rise and swirl around him. "Better than you."
Then he went further. Deeper. He didn't just feed on the doubt—he enhanced the opponent enough that even the opponents doubts and confusions became reality.
"Look around you," Rei said, voice low and chilling. "You think I'm one… but I am many."
The creature turned, confused. Its form trembled. And then—it saw them.
Dozens of Reis surrounded it. Each a clone, each laughing mockingly. A sea of smirking faces, all aimed at him. All birthed from his own disbelief.
"No," the creature whispered.
But it didn't give up. It melted into the ground, and from the violet sea, five towers rose—each encasing a different Rei clone in shifting liquid glass.
Then the ground shifted.
The clones looked down.
They were standing on its hand.
Rei blinked, truly startled—but he masked it with a laugh. A dark, rumbling laugh that echoed through the towers.
The creature growled. "What are you laughing at?"
Rei pointed to the five towers. "Do you think you've trapped me? Do you really think you can trap me?" His voice dropped lower, a predatory whisper. "Look at the five towers around you. Do they seem… familiar?"
The figure hesitated. Uncertainty swelled. Then he suddenly realized that there were 5 skin colour towers. Rei has enhanced the creature so much that even his minute thinking creates an object.
Then Rei struck again. "Look at the ground where you're standing."
The violet figure glanced down—and flinched.
The ground was no longer violet. It was skin-colored. Human skin.
The figure began to shake.
"You should look behind you," Rei said, his voice gentle now. Icy.
The figure turned slowly—and gasped.
He was standing on Rei's giant palm. Behind him towered Rei's colossal form, face calm but with glowing violet eyes burning like stars in the sky. Rei originally had blue eyes but the figure's perception of him was slowly changing Rei into a more intemidating person.
"No…" the creature said. "It can't be…"
Doubt turned to panic. And Rei fed on it.
"You want to fight me? What a joke."
With a wave of his hand, Rei flicked the creature off his palm like dust. The world below shifted into an endless black pit. The creature screamed as it fell, spiraling down into the void.
"NOOOOO—!"
Because the figure now believed that Rei was more powerful it unknowingly gave it's power to Rei. Rei had gained 60 percent of the control of the domain but for Rei it was not enough.
The figure crashed into black liquid. From the shadows, mirror shards began to fall—raining down like sharp raindrops.
"What… are these?" the violet figure whispered. "No… no…"
One shard landed near it.
And the figure saw its reflection.
"Is this… me?"
Rei's voice returned, layered with echoes. "Did you think I only made you? That is not your reflection."
The reflection grinned—an eerie, knowing smile.
"That is you," Rei said. "Look at him smile. Do you know why he's smiling?"
Dozens of reflections emerged—each grinning. The figure spun around in panic. No matter where it looked, the smiles followed.
"They're smiling," Rei whispered, "because they want to kill you. They want to replace you."
"No… it can't be…" the creature whispered.
But the reflections jumped from the shards, like demons leaping from glass.
They tore into the figure. It screamed. Ran. The world twisted. Fear overtook doubt. Rei's voice boomed across the void:
"You were made to serve me."
And in the distance, dozens—no, hundreds—of violet figures knelt before Rei. Worshiping him.
The real figure staggered. "No… no no no!"
It turned and ran, but Rei filled the void with terrifying illusions—dark creatures, suffocating fog, whispers of worthlessness.
"It's scary, right?" Rei said. "You're afraid. You know why? Because you are an insignificant piece of dust compared to me. Just one of the many. You want this to all be a dream, don't you?"
The violet figure stopped running, breathing heavily.
"Well…" Rei said, his voice now calm again. "I can make that happen."
Just as the figure blinked. The world shifted. Instantly.
The black void vanished. The mirror shards melted away. The endless pit faded.
They stood again at the same place—the beginning. The reflective violet sea. The swirling purple sky. Calm. Empty.
But everything had happened. Rei hadn't undone the horrors—he had simply masked them. The creature believed it was a dream.
But it wasn't. Rei now had 100 percent control of this domain because the figure believed that it was meant to serve him.
Rei strode forward, slow and menacing. Power radiated from him—its own perception of him.
His violet eyes glowed like twin suns. Smoke—violet and thick—rose from his form like fire licking reality itself.
The creature backed away, trembling. "Please… spare me. Spare me…"
Rei stopped in front of it. He lifted one foot and pressed it firmly against the creature's chest, pinning it down.
"If you ever waste my time again…" Rei hissed, voice low and venomous, "I will kill you in such a way that you would never be born again. Do you understand?"
"Yes… I understand… I understand!"
Rei said "Now sent me back to my place before I break this dimension and force my way out"