Vile Rabbit

my son finished his advancement, and the first thing he did after awakening was,

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!"

He let out a gut-wrenching scream laced with sorrow and self-loathing.

I gazed at him calmly. I could tell that he was losing his sanity bit by bit; I didn't interfere, for this was a test, which he not surprisingly passed.

After a few seconds of screaming, he suddenly slammed his head into the ground, creating a small crater, after which he went silent, then a will exploded from his mind.

He then looked at me with tears flowing from his eyes and hugged my leg.

"I am sorry, Father. I am so sorry for judging you. I didn't know the boundless despair you have endured all your life. Please forgive me. Forgive us, the world!"

Boundless despair? Only if he knew that what he just felt was only ten percent of my selfhatred…

my son spread the method to the world, he made sure to leave warnings; he even went and created a school where people could go and learn how to cope with hatred before they received the method, which helped.

It lessened the number of people who took their own lives the moment after they broke through.

Time passed, and I once again created a new stage, which I called Martial Grand Master. Sadly, no evolution once more. My attribute doubled again.

Time passed, and I created a new stage, called Martial Lord. My life level has evolved, and I could now fly at this stage.

The planet was no longer special to me; I could do anything I wanted, go anywhere I wanted, except for leaving the planet, for there was an impenetrable barrier surrounding it.

Time passed, and I once again created a new stage called Martial King, with no life evolution. Strength tripled.

Time passed once again, and a new stage called Martial Emperor emerged. No evolution, strength doubled. Abilities: Martial Decree and minor space manipulation (teleport to a spot within my will).

Time passed, and I reached Martial Sovereign. Life evolution occurred, strength increased by a hundred times, abilities: stellar travel, sovereign Decree.

Fourth tier.

At this stage, it wouldn't have been a problem for me to shatter a large part of a continent if I went all out.

It was also at this stage that I took the first step off my planet, the stage where it all began, when the gods descended, when the one-million-year war started.

At this stage, I was able to crack the barrier that surrounded the planet, which I did, and took my first step into the cold and dark vacuum.

But little did I know, what I cracked wasn't just a cage; no, it was much greater. It was a shield protecting and isolating us from the monsters that roamed the darkness.

Cracking it was akin to me lighting up a beacon, shining a light on us in the endless darkness, waving to the monsters.

Whom waved back with abyssal draws laced with hunger.

The first one caught me by surprise. I was bathing in the outer edge of the golden star that my planet rotated around when suddenly it showed up an eldritch being of death.

If it hadn't been for the stellar travel ability that allowed me to break down my body into tiny particles of light, which in turn allowed me to accelerate to light speed, I would have died when it caught me by surprise.

Fortunately, this was one of the weak ones, an infant of its kind.

We battled gruesomely and bloodily for days, destroying every asteroid in our way. In the end, I was able to slay it at the cost of being seriously injured.

After devouring its flesh, my advancement sped up, and I was lucky enough to advance twice (to the Runic Martial stage, then to the Runic Martial Lord stage) before its four older kin showed up for revenge.

This battle was grim and apocalyptic. At the end of it, I lost my home world; it was swallowed along with billions of Tol.

Only my son and I survived. Words could not describe his devastation; my self-hatred only grew more endless.

Even though I hated to admit it during that battle, if it hadn't been for the assistance of my son, I would have died.

Left with no other choice, we ventured into the dark and unforgiving void.

After traveling for thousands of years, we finally encountered a civilization centered around technology. They had reached the point where they could travel at light speed, destroy planets, and even gained full control of their home star.

They had conquered over a thousand planets.

They had so much potential that would have been realized if they hadn't ignited my hatred.

They tried to capture me for experimentation; they were extremely envious that I could traveled the vacuum in my bare body, that I could live for tens of thousands of years. They wanted my abilities for their own.

So I rewarded them by drowning their entire civilization in a tidal wave of bottomless hatred.

Their worlds crumbled; their fragile fish-like bodies exploded into a bloody mess even before I made contact.

once again, my son and I ventured into the lonesome vacuum.

We journeyed for tens of thousands of years and came across many civilizations, some barbaric and some technologically advanced.

Soon We concluded that the vacuum was just a chaotic place of evil, death, and gore.

A place filled with extreme xenophobes who followed the motto, "If you are not my kind, you should just die gruesomely."

I have witnessed and done things that would cause the minds of some of the toughest creatures to collapse.

I once came across a civilization that created a planet-sized weapon crafted from countless bloody tripe and intestines that they dug from the bodies of their infants.

I saw a civilization rear another as livestock.

I saw entire worlds dedicated just for breeding; trillions of females and males strung up as baby-making machines.

It was as if the vacuum itself was evil.