The Evangelism of Silence
But all of this was nothing more than futile thrashing in the end.
They knew full well they couldn't defeat the current me—couldn't even face me without certain loss.
Proof lay in the entities that had just charged at me moments ago.
To me, they meant nothing.
Yet by their standards, those had been formidable in mental fortitude—
upper-tier existences among the Strange Zombies.
A last-ditch bid to pass on faint hope, perhaps.
Or just petty pride to die looking cool.
I glanced sidelong at the remaining Strange Zombies, who hadn't dared charge boldly.
"Ughhh..."
They trembled.
Trembled.
Terror gripped them as they scanned blindly for my invisible form, unsure even where to look for the slightest reassurance.
Then, in that instant—
I descended my physical human vessel into the immaterial realm.
"Looking for me? Your superiors threw away their lives to protect you."
"Hiiik!!!!"
My voice— that thrilling timbre from before— vibrated the entire immaterial realm as it erupted from my body.
They shrieked at terror made manifest, fleeing in blind panic.
"Th-the... great prophet!!!"
"R-run... run away!!!!"
"Uwaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"You think you can 'escape here' and survive? Dead wrong."
"Insisting on witnessing reality's collapse. I wonder—are you the fools, or did your superiors have communication issues? Or both?"
"Whatever you choose, the conclusion's the same."
Deliberately, I let them flee into the material realm without instant annihilation.
Of course, letting them go didn't mean I wouldn't pursue.
Material Realm
Ziiiiiing
The portal linking immaterial and material realms sealed shut.
In cosmic space, I sneered at the surviving Strange Zombies.
"Trash like you doesn't even warrant the effort of flailing wildly in emotional frenzy."
I clenched my right fist, raised it high—
then slammed it down.
Kuuuung
Even in the vacuum of space, hydrogen atomic nuclei shattered at the quark level, unleashing a colossal roar.
I'd cracked spacetime itself, triggering a spacetime quake.
Craaaack
"Huaak!!!!"
The rift tore straight through, bisecting their torsos.
Swoosh
Grip
I extended my right hand, clenched once—
telekinetically crushing their throats.
Kwaaaak
"Aaaak....!!! "
"Kek!!"
"Kek!!!"
"Kek!!!!"
Kwaaaak
"Kuwoooor..."
"Pathetic. Ignite."
Whoosh
"Uwaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Spontaneous combustion erupted within them, incinerating every nerve.
It lit the universe in radiant splendor, pulsing, shining, burning, vibrating, writhing to their myriad thoughts.
Their emotions exploded unbound from their cores.
Swoosh
Snap
I watched, then thrust my left hand skyward, summoning lightning to grasp—
hurling it forth in blinding blaze, obliterating hundreds of thousands instantly.
Their bodies burst under the bolt, triggering nuclear fission.
Kugugugugugwang
Flash
Kwagugugugugwang
Gazing coldly upon them, I positioned my hand at my waist, clenched—
cosmic absolute zero obeyed, morphing into stormwinds honed to razor edges, slamming them like sledges tipped with massive spikes.
Splak
Splaaak
Splaaak
Splak
Splak
"Kweeeek!!!"
"Kraaaaaak!!!!!"
"Puwoooor...!!! "
Ziiing
Kwaguguguguguguguga
Simultaneously, I fired heat vision at them—not mere laser or flame, but ultra-short-wavelength gamma rays.
Invisible to the eye, pure kinetic energy preceded the heat's bloom.
Pop
Pooop
Pooooop
Poooong
Marrow, blood, flesh exploded like water balloons; remnants fountained skyward.
Shoooooo
Splurt
Splurt
Splurt
Splurt
Seething, boiling in agony—
then evaporating, centrifuging into vapor.
Shazazazak
"Kuhuhuhuuk......"
"Do I seem like I'm doing this to erase joy or pain? It's neither fun nor torment for me."
"Those who invoke such things are parasites clinging to life by blaming others, unable to shed their own emotions."
"But you lot treat quantum mechanics like primitives handle fire... We'll see how far you get. Use that hive mind well."
Kugugugugu
"Ueeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!!"
Authority from my neural core struck their hearts, seizing, grinding—
staining their white glow black.
"Of course, if you escape unscathed. Right? Your kind cares for the species' survival, not individual lives."
"Humans would weep at this sight."
Pooooong
Their cores imploded inward; crowns bent, brains swelled grotesquely—
then detonated in death.
"Your exceptional genes will be preserved nicely. I'll wait atop the highest perch, unmoving."
"What you see alive is that; when all your eyes close, only your endless stupidity and misery remain."
Whirrr
Kwagugugugugugugwang
Weeeee
Ziiiiiiing
Simultaneously, I unleashed cosmic thunder and end-of-universe heat vision, pinpointing their prior timeline and planetary traces for strikes.
Obviously, they'd strangelet-contaminated every path—no reason not to.
I had to clean it all, or new Strange Zombies would spawn endlessly from the remnants.
And at the end, as always, silence reigned.
Not ordinary quiet, but my superpower incarnate.
"Thrashing to the end, eh? I don't care what you do—especially if it targets me directly."
"You're all equally foolish, frail, weak, complacent to me. Your thoughts' sparks will gutter before my peace, leaving only silence."
Shoooooo
Where silence spread, spacetime warped utterly; subspatial gates formed in chains.
Twisted-timeline Strange Zombies froze amid time-stopped rigidity.
"Your numbers are infinite—that's why you can never reverse defeat."
"New ideas come from the few, never your 'great minds.' Death, disease, rage, murder, fraud, excess, despair—you can't erase them."
"Try borrowing that power from its true controller."
Wuuuung
Shooooook
Everything around me literally ceased to exist.
No permission even for the concept of silence.
Free will, communal bonds, aspirations, resolve, capability—all annihilated.
"Those rejecting quiet silence seek bloody catharsis from external stimuli. I need no such pretense."
"Problems are mere trifles I erase at will. Get it now? I never fight fair from the start."
"So be content I lack the vile hobby of one-sided eternal silencing from the shadows."
I accelerated each cell's time into rotational frenzy, sparking frictional inferno—
telekinetically gathered, crushed them into liquid.
Gooooooo
Hurled the mass at near-lightspeed into cosmic void.
Piuuuung
Kwaaaang
Kugugugugugugugugugugu
Superheated plasma met near-absolute zero—exploding massively, flash-freezing.
"Mpemba effect. Liquids superheat-frozen faster than cooler ones. Same for you."
"Thrash harder. It'll silence you quicker. Chant your delusions of victory in agony."
"That's your endgame."
Behind me, cruel twilight fell; all sound vanished at my will.
"Handled. If Philias wields darkness with ego, I wield silence with ego."
"Cleas has oblivion with ego, Meline blessing with ego."
"Time to step forward more firmly. Philias sets the mood, but it's still lacking for me."
"I'll pin all blame on him this time. Payment: your lives."