Lord Shadow

The Demon king suddenly found himself becoming a stone. But he saw himself in a third person perspective.

The sound of the droning still echoes in this space

He saw himself being a stone that is watered down by rainwater for tens of thousands of years before turning into dust. 

The rain falls endlessly from the sky. Balfor feel the water falling onto the stone and somehow with each falling raindrops, he become more and more calm, feeling like he was a stone.

The rain falls even more and Balfor didn’t know who long the rain had fallen and how long had he existed. 

The desert where he is situated at now turned into a lake, the water flowing endlessly filling what used to be a dry land into a fertile land where the grass begins to grows and life blooms.

He is now a stone in a dessert that turned into a lake. But the stone is not as big as it was in the beginning. The stone then breaks and then it turned into dust

And so ended Balfor life as a stone and then like he is being sucked into something Balfor felt his composition changes again and now he become something else.

He then saw himself as raindrops, the same raindrops that crushed that stone into dust. This time, he felt what it was like to become that water.

He falls down and keep falling down, raining down upon a sandy dessert until it turns into a lush land full of green and the area where he rained upon, become a lake that become the source of life for animals and plants

For a moment Balfor even forget that he was a Demon and thought nothing. There were a few times that in his mind, that he thinks of nothing. 

The rain stopped and then another scene appeared and he was once again absorbed into the scene

This time he is becoming an animal. He follows the law of the wild, living mindlessly until he was hunted by some hunter and become the food of some human-like creatures.

Then he became a human. He saw himself hunting an animal and eating it, becoming full after a few weeks of being starved. 

And then realization dawned on him. He was the stone and he was the raindrop. He was the animal and he was the human.

Which one is the beginning of the Karma? Which one comes first? Is the scene reversed, he thought for a moment? He had no physical form in this world.

But he knew he is able to think. 

Was he in the beginning the water and then he crushes that stone and so in another cycle of existence, he was the stone to feel what it was like being crushed? 

But stone and water had no feelings and such it follows the laws of nature.

Then what about the human and the animal?

Was he at first the hunter? 

He eats the meat of that animal and so in another cycle of existence, he became the animal, and become hunted and eaten? But how could that be Karma?

The human is starving so he eats. That is following his nature. As for the animal, what Karma had he incurred? The more he thinks about this the more he become confused and it is slowly filling his mind

In this midst of confusion suddenly, the scene once again changes. He then saw himself as a demon. 

It is a form he is most familiar with. He was torturing some alien creature that he had caught. 

He boiled that alien alive in a metal cauldron as he laughed at that alien cried for help. 

Then the scene changes and he is now an alien creature that was captured by a demonic soldier as he was trying to save his family. 

He was then brought to some demon and was tortured before he was boiled alive and cursing that demon to also felt the pain that he had felt

He could feel his skin melted off from his bones and he screams in such a terrifying screams that it didn’t even sound like a sound anymore. 

He could feel his own brain is being boiled and the pain is unimaginable.

And then the scene changes again

Round and round it goes and he saw all kinds of lives, experiencing it and six lives and six reincarnations passes by in the span of a time of a water falling down from the tip of a leaf to the ground.

The scene then flashed by him extremely fast, like everything was fast forwarded. 

Decades passed by in a second and then millennium and eons passes by, epoch after epochs passes him by in just a matter of few second and all kinds of images flooded his mind, that he had a hard time of keeping up with all of it.

Yet, he knows he had experienced all of it, the emotions that he had accumulated in each lives stay with him, marking him and pushing him deeper into the world where there is no escape from the cycle of existence.

He saw mountain and he saw rivers. 

What he saw are mountains and what he saw is rivers. That is the truth he had gleaned and he believes that this was the ultimate truth

He saw the forest on the mountain and he saw the water with the water flowing and then somehow, he realized that the mountain were not mountains after all, and the rivers were not rivers after all. 

And then after a few thousand more cycles of existences, finally, he saw mountain again as mountains and rivers again as rivers

That is his experience seeing all of these kinds of lives and experiencing these feeling of being washed by the traces of time and reincarnation and rebirths.

His Killing Heart is being dulled by these scenes of reincarnation and rebirths

All of the lives and memories he sees was too vivid that he questioned himself. 

Was he really a Demon? Or was he actually the stone that been rained down for tens of thousands of years? 

Or was he actually the droplet of water from the skies that shower the land and turns a desert into a lake?

Or was he the animals that was running in the forest and got hunted by a human? 

Or was he the human eating that animal? Was he the demon that tortured that alien or was he the alien that was being tortured?

Or was all of that was him?