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Fiction the word the encompasses all things that are in the realm of imagination, all that isn't real. But who decides what is real and what is fake. The ones who experience it? The ones who created it? Or those living in it? In the Multiverse reality isn't defined by what is real or what is fake, but instead defined by Probabilities and Possibilities, in an "infinite" Multiverse whether real or fake all things become reality. But even in an infinite multiverse when one knows all even something deemed infinite may become boring.
"It's all so boring!" in a Blank endless white space, a frustrated voice rang out. In her frustration she whips her head around to face her main body causing her Long purple hair with yellow highlights to follow alongside her sudden movement. here stands the creator of this Multiverse and this section of the Omniverse in all her glory, her eyes an ever-changing cacophony of stars, she wears a skintight purple body suit with the upper thigh covered in golden bands, and over her lays a purple overcoat reaching all the way to her feet alongside the collar being lined with fur.
With a small huff she folds her arms while still staring ahead and states "Thanks for the description but I already know what I look like, and this appearance is temporary until I find something I like more"
Looking like an insane person she speaks to nothing while looking at her main body, an ever-changing amalgamation of "information". As the entity that all of existence comes from all the information whether "Reality" or "Fiction", it all comes back to where it originates from. "It" is known by many names to entities that know of "it", GOD, Azathoth, The Nuclear Chaos, The Cold One, The Daemon Sultan, The Akashic Records, The Root, The Heart, The One Who is All, and to certain unfilial children, The Blind Idiot God and more.
"...I'm looking at YOU dumbass! And why are you hyping us up like that, nobody has ever called us like half of those names, like ever." With a face of questioning and Annoyance the Purple haired girl again speaks to her other self.
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The awkward silence seems to ring out into the void, both sides not knowing what to say in the current situation. Slowly the purple themed girl began to look upwards, she stares, seemingly looking at something beyond the "sky" itself.
" It seems the one from the upper layer has finally decided to pay attention to this world." Her once annoyed face was now replaced with Calm seriousness, the once jovial mood gone.
With a grimace and a sigh, she began to speak " I guess it's finally time to start figuring out how to actually do this, we already have a basic plan but haven't tested if it would work or not."
However, before the purple girl can start a feminine disembodied voice states {Before you start, are we not going to speak about the Elephant in the Room?} The voice rings across the voice coming from everywhere but nowhere at the same time.
"What for? They exist at a higher layer of the "Story" than we do, them now looking over this world's Story holds no significance to us, the only thing it changes is that our section of the story might be shared to the others on their layer of the story." She held no true feelings about their story being told, it's not as though she'd be affected in anyway.
{Well, if you think so, no point in dwelling on it. You may continue} with basically what is a voiced shrug the voice quiets back down.
And with a wave of her hand primordial dust a new "Story" was created, the dust condensed into a marble, a baby universe. With a flick of her fingers over the marble time began to flow within the newly formed universe. Stars, planets, Galaxy's, Galaxy clusters, Super clusters. The Universe expanded as time flowed, on and on it goes until true Human civilization finally formed.
" Hm, this is one of the slower ones to form a human civilization, it should still be good enough for this experiment" From Azathoths true body floated a tiny fragment, this fragment was then placed randomly within the now form modern civilization.
This fragment held power the concept of the entity known as Azathoth, however it held no memory, though it may eventually realize its own identity once it gains a true "Connection" to it.
Azathoths eyes flash with excitement as she smiles "It worked! we can no longer see the future this world will take, the "Story" it will create! That means our other plan will work too, I can travel to the other worlds, I can turn off my Omniscience and since I'm there the information won't automatically flow back to the original body, we can finally experience "Stories" firsthand!" Her excitement radiated out like a wave, her mood alone twisted reality, flowers bloomed in a world impossible for them to grow, it was a truly happy moment for her. Though it wasn't a happy moment for another.
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It was her birthday, today was supposed to be her happy, exciting day. her lucky day. Today however, rather than being happy, exciting or lucky was simply strange, though when looked at in hindsight it could've technically been exciting. It was Lyrica's 15th birthday, her long straight black hair with a faint purple tint on the insides and at the ends cascade across her shoulders, her hair has always been naturally completely straight, no frayed ends, no curls, no change to it, it even fully stopped growing just past her shoulders.
It's not as though she hasn't tried either, she influenced by her friends tried get her hair to curl using a curling iron but the moment it curled it would immediately flatten itself back down into being straight again. This goes the same with trying to dye her hair, the dye would stay in for a few hours then just slide out and off her hair.
Today however, as she opened her eyes and felt around with her hands, she realized that her hair was much longer than before. "What the hell…" she speaks softly in surprise. Lyrica startled by what she sees and feels is instantly fully awake and rushes to get to the bathroom, this wasn't normal at all.
In just a few rushed strides Lyrica made it to her bathroom and once she saw herself in the mirror she could help but let out a short gasp. Her once shoulder length hair now extended all the way down past her thighs just above her knees. However, her hair wasn't the only change. Her once dark brown eyes, bordering on black, now turned to a completely unnatural spectacle, her once dark brown Iris's are now a void black color, to look into it is to look into the abyss itself, her pupils once a natural round shape is now in the shape of a shining purple six-point star. [modern_footnote]For the 6-pointed star think Oshi no Ko[/modern_footnote]
Truly she couldn't hold out anymore, the entire situation was just become too much for her. Lyrica screamed. "Lyrica! did something hap-" she had shortly heard her mother start speaking, but before she could finish the world went dark.
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Leaving the newly created universe to develop, Azathoth excitedly started to search through worlds to find the perfect one to start with. "Oh, this one is just perfect, a damsel in distress with no way out, desperate enough to do just about anything to get out of her predicament" she smiled wildly to the point of it becoming unnatural, the moment she found this universe she almost immediately went right in.
{*Cough*} a cough rings out in the white abyss interrupting Azathoths Glee, {Maybe calm down a bit first before jumping right in, you don't want her to get the wrong first impression, right?}
"Sorry Azzy, this is just too exciting, *Huff* Mortal emotions are truly hard to contain sometimes."
With a tone of all smiles the now named Azzy says {Either way, just make sure to have fun. And remember to crystalize the memories so I can experience them as well.}
"Don't worry, no matter how excited I get I won't forget about that. Well, I'll be off" Like glass the world Infront of Azathoth shattered and through to shattered space a crimson haired girl can be seen, though she looks like she's about to have a panic attack.
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Rias really didn't know how it had gotten to this point, blasting the ever-regenerating fire chicken while hearing each of her pieces get retired from the game. For all intents and purposes, they were winning, they had just retired most of Riser's pieces all that was left were his Queen who was in the process of losing to her Queen Akeno, and his Bishop, Ravel Phenex who was also his sister. It was exhilarating, she was finally going to get out of this stupid arranged marriage. But we all can't have nice things.
Out of absolutely nowhere, two of her four remaining pieces were taken out almost simultaneously. Apparently, Riser's queen was able to beat Akeno using the power of Pheonix tears and then take out Kiba right after. Like how is that fair? Instant recovery of not just Injuries but energy as well? To Rias it's completely unfair! even if they are only allowed to use it a couple time per person it's still unfair! It's an instant fix me up with a zenkai boost attached! It was all just so frustrating, she was in pain, just nothing was going her way at all.
"I... I really just wish someone could help me out of this" Her pained voiced echoed a small, whispered wish, And the world delivered. With the sound of Shattering glass, the world paused. The once Kaleidoscopic aurora in the sky turned into a depressing black, the once bright colors of the world now nothing but grayscale. Everything thing, everyone, whether weak or strong was stopped, everyone except Rias Gremory, the one who made the "Wish".
"Your wish has been heard, and I have answered." From behind her Rias hears an Ethereal voice that seems to slightly echo. As this voice is one, she obviously hasn't heard before she instantly flips around in a panic, no matter the beauty of a voice in the supernatural world anything can be dangerous, especially in a situation such as this. As Rias turned around, she notably saw a girl who looks not much older than herself. She has long purple hair that glitters like the light of a dying star, atop her head sticking out of her hair are six small horn like appendages, and a purple overcoat covers her from shoulders to feet. Her beauty while not uncommon in the supernatural world, something else about her just set Rias off, it sent alarm bells within her head while also calming her nerves, not through comfort but through the shear fact that no matter what she does in this situation she wouldn't be able to harm or escape from the purple haired girl.
Calming herself with a deep breath Rias starts "So, I can assume you are the one who caused all this? And you say you are here to answer my wish? Who are you and why?" She knows that even though she doesn't really know the scale of the entity before her and the true intentions they harbor, if they are here to fulfil her wish they likely won't kill her for just asking questions.
The girls once blank expression shifted into a small smile and speaks once more, her voice still Ethereal but no longer with an Echo. "At Least you're smart enough to ask questions first. To answer your questions, I'll simply go in order. Firstly, I was indeed the one who caused the current effect on our environment, I froze the actualization of the concept of "Cause" on this universe, with no cause nothing can happen, though I obviously left you out of that equation. Secondly, I did come here to answer your wish, what was it again? 'I... I really just wish someone could help me out of this' yeah that one, I am here to answer it, though as you stated, I am here to give you an opportunity, not give you a get out of jail free card, you'll still have to do this on your own, though if you loose with what I give you, you simply wouldn't have been worth the effort. And finally, I go by many names but while in this form you may call me Ashtart, you can think of me like those gods in Isekai stories."
The crimson haired girls face changed with the flow of information, but once she heard the words isekai stories her eyes instantly lit up. "Like isekai stories? Does that mean I'll be getting wishes?!" The smile now on her face showed her entire mood.
"Well... No, you won't be getting wishes however you will get the chance to spin this wheel" Instantly ruining the red head's excitement, Ashtart took an arm from under her coat and waved. With the wave of her hand a Giant lottery wheel showed up, the wheel seemed to have millions of words on it all being different items, powers, even entire systems of power on it, it was a gold mine of opportunity, though it all came down to luck.
Rias was kind of confused as she personally hasn't seen a wheel being used in Isekai stories but just looking at the wheel she can tell that the wheel isn't worse than those wishes, at least it she's lucky. "So, it's all up to chance, right? What if I get something that can't help me directly?" The red head was worried as she can see on the wheel several abilities and items that wouldn't really help in her current predicament and some that may even be outright detrimental at least in their initial stage.
"Ah, don't worry about that, as my first "customer" I'll be giving you something a little extra, if you don't get something that benefits you immediately, I'll upgrade your magic power/demonic power, and enhance one of your abilities, you may choose which. Just walk up to the wheel and pull the lever when ready." Putting Rias's worries to rest Ashtart raises her hand once more and points to the lever on the left side of the Wheel.
Taking another deep breath Rias fully puts the anxiety in her heart to rest, dusting herself off she walks to the lever and puts her hands on in a pose ready to pull. Before fully committing, she takes one last glance at Ashtart and seeing the small smile still on her face Rias looks back at the wheel and pulls. The wheel spun fast, much faster than she could realistically see, all the words were a blur to her vision, but as it slowed to a stop, she finally saw what she was going to get. "Vision Bestowal? That can be done with regular magic".
Undenounced to Rias the Purple haired Girls smile widened beyond what the physical form should be capable of and with a whispered voice "Oh this could get so interesting" whipping her face of the twisted expression Ashtart started her explanation "That isn't really what it means, this ability is from the world of Teyvat and what it basically does is allow you to bestow Visions upon people visions refer to a jeweled amulet which allows the user to channel one of the Seven elements, Pyro, Hydro, Anemo, Electro, Dendro, Cryo and Geo. In Its original world it is only bestowed to people known as Allogenes which are people with very strong desires worthy of recognition, well at least in most cases, and when these desires are fulfilled the person who gifted the Vision gains an abundant gift which can range from, increased power to access to different elements and authorities. Visions also are a conduit to achieve Godhood. The ability given to you however is a slightly edited version. Your version allows you to gift visions to anyone you want alongside being able to take back the vision alongside any power the person using it has gained, if you however choose to let the person keep the vision as they gain power you will gain a portion of it overtime, it's a slower method but also the one with the most benefits, and the last change is that it is no longer just the seven elements the vision can correlate with any sort of magic element, though the element type can't be chosen by you it is chosen based on what would suit the one receiving it the best."
Absorbing the information Rias, realized just how useful this could be especially to help power up her peerage. But thinking about it, this isn't something that can help her at this very second. "Oh wait, this can't help me at this very second though, right? So, you'll give me those upgrades, right?"
"Indeed, this doesn't directly help you until you give a vision and take it back, so yes I'll give you the upgrades." With a snap of her fingers Rias's Demonic Power surged, previously her demonic power was at the mid-level of High Class only slightly pushing into peak-levels. Now with nothing but the snap of Ashtart's finger the red head was now in the Mid-levels of Ultimate class. With a voice of casual ease "Now choose what aspect you want upgraded."
Rias looked now at her hands, clenching and unclenching slowly. She felt a lot stronger; her current magical power completely eclipsed her previous amount. But it wasn't just the quantity, the quality of her energy was not several times better than it was previous. It felt heavier but as smooth as silk, truly it was like comparing a handgun to a plasma rifle. 'I don't need more power what I need is control' finishing her contemplation Rias looked up away from her hands back to Ashtart. "I want to upgrade my control over my power."
The Purple haired girl's eyes filled with stars blinked, not once, not twice, not three times but four time before answering, "Wait seriously? Oh wow, I really am sorry I thought you were a lot dumber than you actually are, I thought you'd just ask for an upgrade to your power even though you really don't need it. And for that I apologize. Well good choice." Ashtart hearing Rias's upgrade choice was flabbergasted she really didn't think Rias was smart enough to make any intelligent decision due to her previous memory of this character 'Maybe I only saw the dumb ones?' but with a snap of her hand the red heads control over all her powers was increased to the maximum.
"Well, that's it, if there are no more questions I'll allow cause to start once more and your fight with Riser shall continue. Oh, and Here's the power from the wheel" With a snap of her fingers once more a gold and Purple Thorn Crown fell atop Rias's and once it settled it turned invisible.
Rias in the middle of testing her newfound power and control looks at Ashtart once more. "Just from experiencing this I really don't believe you are just like those gods in Isekai stories, what do you really want from me?"
This time she saw Ashtart's twisted smile, it shook her entire being, alarm bells rang in her head and sweat flowed, "You really are smarter than I expected. Haha, no need to get so antsy I won't harm you unless you disappoint me. Here's what I truly want from you, Grow and become the strongest of the world and entertain me, don't hide in the dark, make a mess of this world and its statuesque. I want to see something worth watching."
Taking a deep breath to calm her pounding heart and shaking legs simply states, "I'll try my best". She didn't truly know how she's going to do it yet but if a being powerful enough to do all of this believes she's capable of any of that then she might as well believe it.
Ashtart once more lets out a small laugh while her smile returns to normal. "Haha, don't worry with just the power of Vision bestowal you'll eventually get enough power to reach the apex of this world, but if you do something that truly impresses me, I'll give you another chance at the wheel. Now Good luck and don't forget, entertain me, I will be watching everything you do." With her final words she slowly vanished from the world, the wheel and the cracks vanished, and the world started to regain its color.
Unclenching her jaw and relaxing her body Rias started to think about what she should do for the continued fight.
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End of First Chapter
{A/N}Well Hello people reading this new and possibly old as you can see, I am indeed alive and yeah it has been a long while since I said this was getting rewritten, I am about to graduate from high school and everything. The reason it took this long is mainly because I had no motivation to do it, I always had a plan for it but just never bothered because it just never had a reason to until recently I was reading a fanfic and something in it just gave the motivation to continue this. The reasons for the rewrite in the first place are that I firstly didn't like how I did it, I didn't like the tone as this story isn't supposed to be THAT dark, and I had no end goal for each world that she watches.
My original story which was mentioned in this is going to be the one with a darker tone to it won't be written at the moment though I just wanted to include this piece of lore to this story, and for anyone who read it can see that I changed a few things on how everything happened which can show that it is also getting rewritten just not right now. ALSO you guys can recommend things for Rias to do in her world, Worlds for the MC to visit and powers to add to the wheel, what power is given is completely random as is based off an actual wheel spin, at the moment I have 60+ stuff in it though some stuff come in bundles like the Drag-Rides from Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut. And one last thing I'd appreciate some feedback on how this is written as these two stories I wrote are my first attempts at writing a fanfic {A/N}