Lord Shadow

Chapter 1926: The Great Flood

”This is the famous story where Gilgamesh comes to the aid of the goddess Inanna and drives away the creatures infesting her huluppu tree. But the tree is not the huluppu tree and her name is not Inanna. Her name is taboo and should not be spoken”

Azief saw Gilgamesh fighting a giant and a bull unlike any other.

When it stopped on the ground, the ground become scorched and all of its fertility was drained.

Wherever it goes it creates mass destruction

When it breathes, one blow of its breath create a ground so large that one hundred men could fall into it and with each successive breathes, it could create large and larger hole.

He saw Gilgamesh and Enkidu uses magic method, working together to slay the bull

Then Azief saw a being covered up with light, the Sun God Shamash. There is many other feats.

Some of them was not in the stories that has been told about Gilgamesh, some of them are present but not the same kind of story

Azief then ask what rule did Gilgamesh broke.

Odin revealed to him that from the moment Earth was created, it was under protection. No other planet have such protection.

From the moment Earth was created, it generated a lot of discourse

Unlike the other planets that evolved naturally, according to the laws and rules of the Omniverse, Earth was special.

In that it was crafted by the One and Only personally.

Yet, this special planet, a small rock in the vast wilderness of the Omniverse, did not possess anything special about it

It was not born with great magical energy nor does it have energy source that could proper its inhabitants to longevity that reach the sky

Other than the fact that the planets around Earth die before Earth was created, leaving Earth to be safe from any external and galactic forces nearby, Earth was just another floating rock in the vast Omniverse

It is not even a large rock. Small when compared to the vastness of the Omniverse. Even smaller than a speck of dust.

Azief of course was puzzled. If that is the case, then why all of these being that now has become myth in his world, descend down to Earth?

Odin did not hide it from him

There is many prophecies about Earth from the moment it was created.

The Angels spoke about it and once under the instigation of a Dark Being

Because of this Dark Being, the Angels questioned the One and Only why would he create a being so imperfect and so filthy?

The answer is simply that He knows better.

One thing is clear.

The One and Only have a plan for Earth.

Most of the other planet in the Omniverse did not have protection. Earth from its conception was protected and blessed.

The Moon, the planets around it was created to shield most of the danger that could endanger earth.

Mars, a planet that once was inhabited by powerful creatures was wiped out before Earth and humans appears.

All to make sure that Mars creatures would not harm Earth.

There is a million ways for things to go wrong for Earth.

One solar flare away from destruction, one feet away from annihilation from some meteors.

All of that, like a fortune that never ceased to amaze, all of these world ending disasters managed to avoid Earth

Magic is there the concentration was not so powerful that it would create a magical civilization

There is also a magic barrier that limit any beings power the moment they enter the Milky Way.

The closer it is to Earth, the more powerful this restriction became. This is blessed planet and the galaxy they are in is not inhabited by any powerful civilization

Some of the lifeform that does exist in the Milky Way galaxy has been destroyed before Earth comes to beings

Their traces was then erased.

And then as Odin tell the story of this world, once again, he went back to the Age of the Dinosaur.

Azief saw the dinosaur and he saw a different civilization that humans have wrongly attributed to them

Yes, the dinosaur have civilizations.

One thing he did not see was how humans appeared.

He wanted to see how humans appeared

Odin simply said to him that the origin of human, the first humans, was a fixed point in time

Not the kind of fixed point in time like the Time Lords ascribe to.

The Fixed Point of Time differs in definition depending on the ability of the civilizations and the way the define these things.

The definition of a Fixed Point of Time for Time Lord and the definition of a Fixed Point of Time for Asgardians are different

What made them different is the ability of this civilization. What the Time Lord could not do, does not mean the Asgardian could not do.

The Time Lords are powerful, but this does not mean that they are the most powerful civilization in the Omniverse.

Every civilization that could tangle and compete with the Time Lords all have their own bag of tricks.

As for the Asgardian, their definition of the Fixed Point in Time is that a point in time where they could not interfere.

This fixed point in time is quite special in that nobody could simply teleport or see what happen in that fixed point of time.

You could turns back time and appear before the creation of humans and you could turn back time and appear in time a few dozen years after the creation of humans

But you could not appear right at the time when human was first created. It is like there is a force preventing any beings from entering that point of time

It was like that point of time was isolated and put in a box.

And this box could not be broken by anyone.

You could either go over it, below it, pass through right or left but could not enter the box itself

Odin said he had tried.

And he could not do it.

No matter how strong and powerful he had become, he could never break that barriers of time space that is fixed to the entire Source Wall

Odin said this is also present in many origin stories of many other living beings.

But if you have enough power, you could see through it.

None was so special that their origin point is tied to the Source Wall.

Odin said that is the beginning of the obsession of other beings towards Earth.

From what Odin said to him, if not for the fact that there is restriction on the power that one could exert on Earth, the War of the Gods that happened five thousand years ago on Earth would be even more tragic

And there would be many more alien civilization descending to Earth

As for going to see humans in the early period, the closer it is to the origin the harder it is for one to stay in that time period and see things in that time period.

The few things that Azief saw is mostly a glimpse but even a glimpse has made him realize that the past is not as primitive as the common historian led the world to believe

However, all of this still did not answer what rule did Gilgamesh broke that Odin said he crossed a line?

Odin explained to him before Gilgamesh there was Utnapishtim.

His real name is something that Odin himself did not know.

Utnapishtim is the name humans on Earth called him and Odin also uses this name

Utnapishtim itself is not really a name...more like a title.

”He Has Found Life” That is the meaning of that name. And in his time, Utnapishtim must have a different name, name that people called him and name that the beings who knows him would call him

Odin asked him, who is Utnapishtim? This is more of a rhetorical question. because Azief could tell that Odin must have known who is Utnapishtim

Still, he answer

Azief knows about a lot of things but Utnapishtim is not one of them.

After all, Azief while he does like reading about history and myths and all that kind of stuff, and while he knew about Gilgamesh, all he knew is superficial knowledge that he browsed in the past

So, Odin told him the story of Utnapishtim.

At least the one that Earth told the world about.

In Earth, he is a legendary king of the ancient city Shuruppal in what is now southern Iraq which is now one of the seven continent under the Seven Great Powers on Earth

And he is prominently known because he is in Gilgamesh flood myth.

Azief eyes narrowed when he heard this and he check his own memories.

There is a lot to sift through and a second later, he finally remembers

”Gilgamesh flood myth” he once read about it. But he only skimmed it.

At that time, he was in a binge of myth researching and he read about Gilgamesh and his flood myth

”He survived the Flood by making a boat, called the Preserver of Life”

Odin nodded

But the boat is not made of timber as the story had said.

Azief could accept that.

After all, from what he had seen, most of the things that the historian thoughts about the past is very different from the real past he had seen

Even more so when dealing with myths.

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