The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 22 Brahma Studies Keila’s Mind and is Reminded of Rangda.

Brahma was meditating in his meditation chamber 30 kilometres from the Divine Palace where Yahweh had ruptured the portal to Earth thousands of years prior. He was in deep meditation and was at peace, as deep meditation was the only state where his hunger and thirst weren’t tormenting him.  Brahma tried to access Keila’s mind and found that he struggled to connect to her. He had been struggling to access it for the last few weeks. Although it could be because the insertion of a god chip in Keila’s brain had changed her neural pattern, Brahma knew that was not the reason. Most of his Zetan peers had god microchips installed since their prior Godhood on Earth, and he could communicate with them precisely as the God chip and the Zetan innate telepathy worked on completely different wavelengths. 

Brahma thought of other reasons why he struggled to connect with Keila. The distance from her could be one reason. He was 30 kilometres away from the heavenly palace, and since distances were compressed in the Divine Dimension, this was the equivalent of being 3 billion kilometres away from Keila in the regular universe. He shrugged off the idea as implausible. He had connected easily with Keila in the past from this location, and before the destruction of Zetani, the planet of Zetans, his predecessors were able to communicate telepathically with each other light-years away. 3 billion kilometres were only 3 light hours and wouldn’t be a limiting factor.  

He started thinking about Rangda again. It was a bittersweet feeling. Being one of the greatest Zetans, he had many concubines, and she had been one of his favourites.

The fact that prominent males had many concubines was one of the great paradoxes of the Zetan civilisation. While Zetans were close to asexual compared to humans and thus had a prolonged reproduction rate, having many beautiful females in his cohort was the best way for a prominent Zetan to show his status to his peers. As the Zetans were governed through a utilitarian mind, facilitated by the Zeto crystals, money and individual ownership were irrelevant to them. Instead, clarity of thoughts and pureness of the genome was their fundamental values, and by binding many women to prominent Zetan men, they increased the odds of improving their genome as species.

Brahma had saved the life of Rangda, after the fateful day, when the Xenos had managed to penetrate the core of Zetan territory and blew up the star that the Zetan’s homeworld Zetani was orbiting around. The explosion was so powerful that it created the massive supernova in the centre of the Milky Way obliterating hundreds of star systems and permanently marking the end to the Zetan civilisation. The few Zetans who had survived the blast were the ones that were in the Divine Dimension and the ones on distant, isolated worlds. The ones’ stuck in the Divine Dimension were stuck in the timelessness, condemned to immortality continually suffering from hunger and thirst, while the ones on the isolated world degenerated as species, with Zeto crystals no longer around to unite them.

Zeus and Odin had found Rangda alive and well in the Divine Dimension on the same day that their homeworld and most of their civilisation was destroyed by the Xenos. While they had never been able to prove Rangda’s betrayal, the circumstantial evidence was strong enough. Rangda had been the commander responsible for protecting the Zetans home star system, and during her watch, a Xeno crew had managed to stay close to the Zetani star for long enough to manipulate its energies into a complete collapse prompting a colossal supernova explosion. Zeus and Odin had intended to instantly kill Rangda for her crimes, but Brahma, who had strong feelings for Rangda had intervened and requested that she should live and be given a chance to defend herself. The others had no interest in listening to Rangda’s defence, but they had decided to let her live forever, in solitude in a specially designed inescapable prison.

Brahma could feel Rangda’s presence. But he knew it shouldn’t be possible. The prison for Rangda was built of a material that would stop her ability to telepathically connect with anyone. And yet he could sense her stronger than he had for thousands of years. What to do? He considered contacting Zeus and the others, but he decided against it. His relationship with the other Zetan leaders had deteriorated, and they would not be motivated to travel the 50,000 kilometres to Rangda’s prison to make sure she was still locked up. They would also question his motives for going there.  

Brahma made up his mind. He left a note to anyone looking for him stating that he would be gone for a while. Brahma thought for himself how long the trip would take. He would have to walk the entire way since the Zetans were out of fuel for the spaceships they had in The Divine Dimension. Walking 50,000 kilometres would feel like walking for several years, but due to the time divergence between The Divine Dimension and the normal dimension, it would only take a couple of months in regular dimension time. Brahma took up a high-powered binocular that had a maximum of 1000x magnification. He faced in the direction of the Rangda’s prison and could barely see a minuscule dot, but he knew it was there.  As the Divine Dimension was a flat featureless and endless plane, he could theoretically see things very far away. In practice, Brahma was limited by his senses and the level of magnification that his equipment could provide.

Brahma took a deep breath in and started walking. He knew that hunger and thirst would torment him during the walk, but he walked steadily forth. He knew what he needed to do.