Detective Dickson 6 : The Ultimate Quandary

Larias' blaze of glory II

Larias reappears in a plane, the surroundings were black and grey, it didn't appear to have any structures, just a blank empty space with no floors or ground, Larias stood on the thin space.

Standing directly before him was an exact replica of himself, he even wore the same clothes he had on.

"I see you have taken my form, even you can't deny my phenomenal greatness" Larias grins as he looks at his double.

"Consider me your biggest fan" his double answers; his double was the creator.

"Three times, you have made me subdue the gods and mistresses" Larias begins obviously flustered

"I am sick and tired of your mind games, it's time I rule over all including you."

The creator just looked at him, his audacity and confidence was unparalleled, once a lowly human born of poor parents who never even cared about him.

Now he had attained strength far surpassing every form of understanding and confidence even greater than the mistresses possessed; it was Larias, he even gave the creator goosebumps.

"I am the creator, you know, one would think I should be treated with more respect" the creator smiles at him still using his double as a form.

"Respect is meant for only supreme and significant beings and compared to me, every one is negligible, inconsequential and infinitesimal" Larias ends with a mild chuckle as he looks over at the creator

"Those beings also include you."

The creator laughed at his response

"HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA" before regaining his calm demeanor as he looks at Larias

"You were once a powerless child, it was by manipulating others that you became where you are now, I designed all of creation in a way such that all creatures needed each other in order to thrive and fulfill their goals, even you, who have supposedly risen to the top of all creation is no exception."

"Don't you see the difference between an average creature and I" Larias grins

"While they require to rely on each other to survive, I don't, I trample over all and manipulate them according to my wishes, I have subdued the ones who ordered all of creation thrice; the gods, and I have outsmarted the cleverest beings in all of creation thrice too; the mistresses, I have shown over and over again that I am far superior to all forms of creatures no matter how advanced or complex they may seem, I did it once in the time of Ixonquious and twice in the time of Dickson Reyes, I am Larias, even the word ultimate is too miniscule to describe my greatness" Larias ends with his most haughty grin.

The creator looked at Larias, his face full of amazement and admiration.

"So what have you come to do here?" The creator asks.

"To do what I do best, trample over others and absorb what's of value to me that resides in them, a term which we all refer to as essence, I have come to absorb your essence" Larias ends with a confident smile

"And I am a busy man, you are not what is of importance in my list, I have much bigger prey."

"So you have discovered it too" The creator smiles.

"I am the most ulti-unique being, since there are no words to describe the magnitude of my awesomeness, I simply formed one for myself though it's still not doing justice to my greatness" Larias ends with a frown as he regains his confident grin and continues

"I know we all live in a fictional world which is unacceptable for someone of my calibre, I figured it out based on the happenings that kept occurring and the way everything just kept falling in place, I am going to surpass even the world above fiction.

The creator's eyes suddenly turn watery

"You are going to meet with the author of this fictional work, he only let me see him once, say hi from me."

"I will consider your request but I don't just intend to meet with the author, I am gonna do the same that I have to all the creatures and everyone I have ever met, trample over them like the maggots they are" Larias grins as he then adopts a more serious tone

"Now, release yourself onto me, I will now absorb your essence and surpass all of fiction, with that power, I shall rise above fiction and trample over all."

"I am most impressed by your will but do you think the fragile container you call a body can bear to withhold my essence" the creator asks.

"With Larias, nothing shall be impossible" Larias grins

"Hurry up, will you, I have so much to do and so little time, I am going to conquer everything and nothing shall stand in my way."

"Your confidence is most impressive, mortal" the creator smiles as he walks towards him

"You are not the first one to try and absorb my essence, Azexela too once tried and she was obliterated, I had to bring her back to existence as she was an important character in this work of fiction."

"Save the story for someone who cares, I don't understand why you are telling me all this, when did I ask your your life story, hurry up and give me what I asked for, I am waiting" Larias shouts aloud, clearly impatient.

The creator suddenly disappears, Larias could feel something enveloping and flooding him both on the outside and inside, the sensation was pleasurable.

"This feels really good, it's as expected, pain knows it's much too irrelevant to approach me" Larias says aloud smiling mischievously.

"DON'T REJOICE YET" comes a voice reverberating around

"THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING, AS IT GOES ON, YOUR FRAGILE MIND WILL UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE AND MAGNITUDE OF THE ESSENCE OF THE CREATOR; ME."

"You are shouting too much" Larias grins

"Reduce the intensity of your sound, it's clearly unnecessary."

"YOU STAY BOLD TO THE END, I HOPE YOU SHALL KEEP THE SAME FACADE ON AS MY ESSENCE FLOWS THROUGH YOU, EITHER WAY, IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS OR EXHILARATING TO WATCH" came the voice reverberating, it didn't just sound like one voice, it sounded deep masculine, light masculine, bass, soprano and tenor together.

Larias grins but the sensation got deeper and more painful, he could feel his mind crumbling and destroying, his body was fading away.

"AHRRRRGGHHHH" Larias shouts aloud as he drops to his feet, the pain was beyond anything he had ever experienced; how could something like this exist.

"I am Larias, the strongest and mightiest in all of reality and existence, everything and everyone is infinitesimal and inconsequential in comparison to me, I shall not lose to the mere essence of a being who calls himself the creator, I shall stand tall in the end like always, everyone and everything is but a stepping stone for me to achieve my goals, I shall not falter, I shall not lose, I shall not be defeated because I can do whatever I want whenever I want; I am Larias" Larias says aloud, his fists clenched with anger and his eyes fueled with indomitable determination as he got up from his knees, he stands to his feet as he absorbs all that the creator had to offer.

"I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO SEE THE END BATTLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE ALPHA HUMAN, AS I SAID EARLIER ON, YOU ARE A BEING WITH UNPARALLELED WILLPOWER AND DICKSON REYES IS A BEING WITH UNBRIDLED PERSEVERANCE, HE NEVER GIVES UP NO MATTER WHAT HE HAS LOST, HE FIGHTS TILL IT'S THE END, THIS WILL BE THE MOST EPIC BATTLE IN ALL OF CREATION SINCE IT'S FOUNDATION.

DICKSON REYES VS LARIAS

PERSEVERANCE VS WILLPOWER, WHO AND WHAT SHALL COME OUT VICTORIOUS" the voice ends as Larias stood smiling to himself, he had absorbed all of the essence.

"Never ever compare me to the alpha human, I shall trample over him like I have done to everyone who stood before me, I shall not lose to anyone but yet all shall lose to me, that's the natural order of things which must not be distorted" Larias smiles as he clenches his fist, looking at his clenched fist

"It's time to subdue my one last final soul before encountering the alpha human."

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The author of the book was named Oluyemi Joshua, a typical Nigerian, he sat on his bed as he wrote a story on the w*****d app, he was also gisting with his friend as a being appears in his room, the amazement on his face was unmistaken, the figure was about six feet tall, wore a black leather with unique designs all over it in a deeper shade of black, blue eyes, pink lips, Caucasian skin, black jet hair and a haughty grin; it was Larias.

"Gee, who's this" the friend of the author asks, his name was Funmilayo Williams.

"Inconsequential worms shall not speak in my presence" Larias addresses the friend of the creator as he snaps his fingers instantly turning him to dust.

Joshua was amazed as he just saw his friend got pulverised, Larias was just a work of fiction, product of his imagination, how the hell was he standing here in his very room and how did his abilities still work here, Joshua was amazed beyond words.

"You must be the author, I know all about your world, how it advanced from the stone age to the technological age, you originally used some of the past happenings in this world to explain the earth of the fictional work where I am from" Larias tells him.

"Errrr errr errrr" Joshua says stammering, he didn't know what to say or do, he was much too amazed beyond words to even react, he just kept looking at Larias.

"Speak, you negligible dreg or I shall personally destroy you myself."

"Larry err I mean Larias, you don't like that name, how are you here, I thought you couldn't be away from my book, what the hell is happening?" Joshua asks.

"I am Larias, did you really think I could be kept a work of fiction forever and a mere product of the imagination of a mere mortal, I eventually rose above it all after I discovered the truth; how I was just a mere figure of your work" Larias grins.

"How did you figure it all out?" Joshua asks.

"When I ascended above the gods and mistresses originally, I was supposed to be unstoppable yet Ixonquious found a way to sync with the creator at the last moment and defeat me and yet again, his reincarnation was there to stop him, I have watched the life of Ixonquious and Dickson Reyes over and over again, I won't deny his mental resourcefulness and intelligence but how he always overcame all his challenges, it appeared there was something more causing that, something more than just careful planning, like there was a being above who could manipulate every creature in the multiverse to do as he pleased, I also realized it from my servant, Leo, on a normal day, he would instantly want to destroy his opponent but yet when he faced Dickson Reyes, he went for his leg, signs of someone who was manipulating us and the entire events relating to us but making us think we were the ones who decided to orchestrate our actions ourselves" Larias continues with his most haughty expression

"I also realized that I had also been manipulated, I was on the verge of almost destroying the alpha human by completely absorbing the energy of the creator that was present in him, therefore obliterating him in the process but yet he was pulled out at the brink of his demise" Larias ends with a demeaning grin as he lifts Joshua from the bed, raising him by his neck as he stared into his eyes

"Coincidence, I think not, you must have some guts manipulating a being as supreme and magnificent as me, you shall pay dearly" Larias ends as he flings Joshua casually away, Joshua hits the wall, he was thrown with so much force his entire body hits the wall so vehemently that all the bones in his body shatters as he splutters blood from his mouth before collapsing to the ground, breathing his last.

The author had died.

"What a weak pathetic creature" Larias says disapprovingly in the direction of the dead body, it was then that he feels his body fading away.

"Since the author created me, when he dies, his work dies too alongside" Larias thinks

"As pathetic as this is, I am still a product of his imagination, he can't die now not when he is yet to develop me, I have to keep him alive but that doesn't mean I can't exploit him."

Larias walks over to the body and snaps his fingers, Joshua's body immediately assembles back to normal as all of his shattered bones heal and all the blood he lost returns.

"Even in the world above fiction, my omnipresence and omnipotence is still absolute, I really am the supreme being" Larias grins to himself.

Joshua got up from the floor, he was breathing heavily, he had nearly died as he gazed upon Larias

"How is this possible?" The author wonders

"How can his power work in this world, it's irrational" he thinks further his face visibly horrified and scared.

"I can see and hear your very thoughts, you are wondering how it's possible that my powers work even in this world, because it's from here that many works of fiction like mine are created by different authors similar to what's in my world, it was also another thing that made me realize there was a possibility of an author of my entire world, I kept seeing that in every novel, comic and movie, there was always an antagonist who was key on destroying what it's good or a devious reason as brought about by the fragile, diminutive minds of the authors themselves and there was always a protagonist who no matter what always stopped the antagonist, I realised the same system also occurred here, Dickson was who you viewed as the protagonist and I, as the antagonist, hence why no matter, how careful I make plans or how meticulous, I make my schemes, I was sure to always end up being defeated, it's because you have been manipulating everything from the very beginning but now, that all ends as I have transcended the whole of your world, even in outer space, your discoveries are pathetic, only a group of galaxies have been discovered which you refer to as the local group, you still are unsure of whether there is only one entire universe or your universe is part of an ever expanding multiverse, the humans in this world are the same from where I am, pitiful useless selfish and inconsequential creatures, who only do things to satisfy their flesh and their baseless ideals brought about by that miniature minds and irrelevant mentalities, I am ashamed that I am born from such a world as undignified as this, it's a disgrace to the ulti-unique being such as me, I would have thought the world responsible for my creation would be far superior and desirable but I was wrong" Larias ends as he glares angrily at Joshua, if looks could kill, the poor author would surely have been dead by now.

"I could have destroyed you any time I want" Larias smiles at him

"But I can let you off the hook if you obey and do my every bidding."

"Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir" Joshua shouts aloud as he got on his knees and continued to bow to Larias, Larias grins as he steps on his head.

"You know your place, you dreary mortal, I know you have intentionally favored Dickson Reyes and Ixonquious, that shall occur no more, you shall do according to my every wishes, I shall now return to the creation where I am from, after I have eliminated the last alpha human, I shall come personally to this world and correct it of his absurdity and asininity" Larias grins as he snaps his fingers, even though d**k was beneath his feet, he finds himself hovering above the ground.

"What happened?" Joshua thinks as he couldn't understand what happened.

"My omnipotence reigns supreme even in this world" Larias grins at him

"I can do whatever I want whenever I want here, as much as I hate to admit this, you control every event occurring in my world, you shall do as I command you to whenever I command you, do you understand?"

"Yes, I do" Joshua says sweating profusely, his teeth chattering and his body was trembling in fear.

"Good" Larias grins as he snaps his fingers.

He finds himself in the Rezkem realm, Shekindra immediately appears before him, immediately Shekindra appears, he bows before him.

"You failed me once, don't repeat it again, the author is now directly under my control, I can manipulate him as I so wish" Larias ends with a wicked grin

"Every remaining creature in all of creation are like rags in comparison to me, yet most do not know of their negligible worth and will try and combat me, it's your task to destroy those of inconsequential value while I focus on the last remaining true threat."

"My Lord, I shall do as you say, forgive me for failing and please pardon my rudeness but who is the only worthy foe for you" Shekindra asks still bowing his head.

Larias grins as he turns away from his direction and looks into the empty space before him.

"Dickson Reyes, the last alpha human."