Setting: The Grand Plaza of Greatness in the Empire of "Melngradnia." The Event: The sky is shrouded in artificial red clouds, born from the Emperor's vanity. "Gladius" stands on a balcony overlooking millions, clad in armor forged from ancient dragon bones. His body overflows with terrifying energy that makes the very earth tremble beneath the feet of the people.
Gladius (Screaming with arrogance, his voice echoing throughout the empire): "Look at the sky! I have erased your ancient sun and replaced it with my light! Who among you thought a mortal could reach what I have attained? I am the Sole Ruler! I am the God of this existence! For centuries you bowed to an unseen void, now bow to the one whose power you witness with your own eyes!"
Suddenly, amidst the noise and intimidation, an eerie silence fell, as if existence itself held its breath. On the edge of the balcony, right beside Gladius, Elias and Flora appeared.
Elias (With cold lethality, looking at the crowds with indifference): "What a pathetic sight, Flora. Thousands of slaves bowing to a piece of clay that thinks it owns the heavens."
Flora (Letting out a psychopathic laugh, her eyes fixed on Gladius with a gaze that made him feel minuscule): "Darling, this insect thinks he is a god! Hahaha! Just because he absorbed the power of a pathetic lizard! Tell me, Elias, do you want to erase him with slow agony? Shall we make him die a million different deaths in a single second? Or a trillion years of torture within one second? I will enjoy every second of his screaming!"
Gladius (Taking a step back, consumed by rage): "How dare you breach my protection?! I am the Ruler here! I am the God who decides who lives and who dies! Guards! Crush them!"
The guards advanced, but Elias did not move a muscle. As soon as their arrows touched the air surrounding him, they turned into fine ash, and the guards froze in place like wax statues.
Elias (With total coldness and complete command of the situation): "Ruler? God? How pathetic and foolish. You claim the title of the Creator while you do not even realize you are a mere toy in the hands of those who know the Truth. Your blasphemy has reached a level that makes existence vomit you out."
Gladius (Unleashing a dragon's roar, charging his maximum energy): "I will erase you from history! My power is invincible!"
Elias (Advancing toward him slowly, as gravity collapses around him): "Your power? You brag about the power of a creature (a dragon) before those who manipulate logic and illogic. I will make you feel every ounce of pride you placed in your heart turn into a hell that burns your soul."
Flora (Approaching Elias and placing her hand on his shoulder with immense joy): "Look at his eyes, darling... fear is starting to mix with his pride. Please, don't end it quickly. I want to see their 'god' begging us to erase him from the sheer intensity of the pain."
Continued: "Dismantling the Falsehood"
Elias (Grabbing Gladius by the neck with total coldness, his hand not shaking a single millimeter): "Flora, my dear, you asked for him to feel a million deaths in a second... I have granted your wish. I am activating [Physical Dimensional Multiplicity] on him now."
With a touch from Elias, Gladius's body began to vibrate unnaturally, as if splitting into thousands of transparent versions in the same spot.
Gladius (Trying to scream, but his voice came out as if from a thousand different wells): "W... What... is this?! My bodyyy!"
Flora (Leaning into Gladius's face, tracing his cheek with her nail and cutting him slowly, laughing): "Hahaha! Can you feel it? In this moment, a part of you is burning in a sun, a part is drowning in eternal acid, and a part is being crushed under the pressure of a black hole... A million death scenarios gathering in your cells right now, and all of them are happening within this single second."
Elias (Looking at the kneeling crowds with a mocking smile): "Look, people of Melngradnia, your god cannot even control his own scream. Do you expect him to provide for you? Or protect you?"
Gladius (Collapsing on the balcony floor, vomiting black blood, his eyes turning white from the intensity of the existential pain): "Please... stop... I am... I am just..."
Flora (Interrupting him with a light kick to the face, swaying gracefully): "Oh, have you retreated from divinity so quickly? How disappointing! I thought 'lizard power' would help you last at least two minutes."
Elias (Placing his foot over Gladius's head, pressing slowly as the marble cracked beneath them): "You have corrupted the balance of this world with your claim, and terrified these weaklings in your false name. Flora, what do you think of the (trillion years of torture in a second) offer? Shall we start now, or leave him to beg a little longer for your adoring fans?"
Flora (With eyes gleaming with madness): "Make him beg first, Elias! I want them to hear their 'god' denying himself!"
Gladius (In a voice shattered by pain, addressing the people): "I am... not a god... I am nothing... Have mercy on me, my masters... I am just a mortal!"
The End: "Humiliation and Arrival"
Elias (Standing before the terrified crowds, his voice echoing with power and majesty): "People of Melngradnia! Look at this wreckage you bowed to. Today, the era of lies ends. This being shall rule you no longer. And because I love balance, I will not leave you to chaos... I will give you a ruler who is worthy, a ruler who knows his own worth and yours."
Elias snapped his fingers in the void. Suddenly, reality tore like a shredded curtain, and from the heart of the void emerged a young man in his twenties, radiating a strange, calm presence.
The New Ruler's Appearance: A young man of calm, cold beauty. His hair was a pale blonde, flowing as if spun from faint threads of sunlight, wearing a long black robe that contrasted with his pale skin. But the most terrifying and striking feature was his eyes; his right eye was pure white, reflecting the moonlight, and his left eye was a deep crimson, as if soaked in ancient blood.
As soon as the "shattered" Gladius locked eyes with the young man, his pupils dilated with a terror he hadn't shown even during his torture. Gladius began to tremble violently, trying to crawl backward, pointing his finger at the youth, his eyes speaking of a lethal shock.
Gladius (With a shock visible in his features, whispering words that could barely be understood despite his forced silence): "H... How is this possible?! You?! Impossible... You were... You were finished long ago! How have you returned?!"
The youth with the heterochromatic eyes didn't even look at Gladius. He simply bowed his head slightly to Elias and Flora with profound reverence.
Elias (With a mysterious smile): "Melngradnia is now in your hands... Do not fail the balance."
Flora (Winking at the youth): "Make them scream a little if you get bored."
Elias took Flora's hand, and suddenly they vanished as they had appeared, leaving Gladius to face an ancient nightmare returned to life, and a people who did not know whether to flee or bow to the new ruler who possessed the eyes of life and death.