A Raging God Returns
Copyright© 2025 by Hunter Johnson
Chapter 7: The Proposal
Science Fantasy Sex Story: Chapter 7: The Proposal - An aspiring priest’s world shatters when a ruthless celestial power arrives. The Paradigm enforces its anti-religious agenda, culling the guilty and banning God, using mysterious cubes. Brendan Murphy is offered salvation aboard their starship, but only if he endures ancient trials designed to break minds and shatter souls. Is this the path to ultimate transcendence, or merely a sophisticated end?
Caution: This Science Fantasy Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Fiction Military Science Fiction Extra Sensory Perception
The hospital, one of five on the ship, had an impressive atrium filled with art-works. The walls were blocks of gray rock filled with intricate carvings. A dragon, the size of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, moved in a complex dance on a central podium. “The Dragon is the symbol of medicine in the Paradigm,” said Michael, leading them through an oval door. The stone door disappeared as they approached.
The cardinal walked slightly ahead of them. Ashlyn’s heels clacked on the stone floor and echoed in the passageway. A lizard with cerulean skin, wearing a box on his head, approached Michael while carrying a small metallic cube. Michael and the lizard towered over him and stood looking at each other. Finally, the reptile led them to a room with twenty upright, inverted, transparent test tubes extending three meters into the air.
The lizard beckoned Ashlyn and ushered her onto a complex symbol etched into the stone.
Ashlyn disappeared. One of the nearby test tubes lifted into the air and turned horizontally. Brendan peered at the tube. He couldn’t see Ashlyn inside.
The lizard hissed softly to herself as she repeated the procedure with David and Brendan.
Brendan stumbled and pitched forward. Michael caught and steadied him. Seconds later, Ashlyn and David returned. The lizard steadied Ashlyn while Michael helped David. “That is your second experience of transporter technology. Most find it discombobulating the first time you leave the tubes.”
“I heard some gobbledygook before I left the test tube goodie,” said Brendan.
Michael laughed. “That is the language of the Paradigm.”
“Do we have any medical problems?” Ashlyn asked.
“You had breast cancer partly treated by your modified immune system. The medical treatment bed fixes most problems quickly and improves you considerably. Your mother is also at risk, Ashlyn, but she will not succumb to the illness. Few, if anyone, on Earth, will die of chronic disease or cancer in the future.”
“Doctors won’t have much to do,” said David.
Michael shook his head. “The Paradigm knows it must work hard to keep its many beings healthy. As we improve and develop, so do the scale and scope of our problems. Life never gets easier. Accidents happen, and people hurt each other.”
“How did you talk with the doctor?” Asked Ashlyn.
“I speak telepathically. Dr. Silicaa Shrissk is a Kremp. They can’t make all the sounds of our language. I find her hard to understand, so we speak telepathically.”
“What did the medical machine do?” Ashlyn asked.
“I am not a doctor, so I can only explain what I know at a layman’s level. It examines every gene. If it is abnormal, it fixes it. It then ensures you have reached your optimal physical development. If not, it switches on the gene systems to ensure you become the best you can be. It then checks your physical state and fixes everything it finds is not functioning optimally. Finally, it evaluates your mental function and sets right anything not working. It also gave you an AI that will help you recall and assist you in learning and problem-solving. Those on Earth must connect to an AI that will help them learn. It does not augment their function as much as your AI will. If you want to learn how to use your AI, think of an AI tutorial.”
“It also watches us and kills us if we don’t behave,” said Brendan.
“Big brother is alive and well in the Paradigm. We learn to live with its advantages and disadvantages. Come, let’s head for my quarters. We’ll have a snack and discuss what I will propose. You must eat and drink after going through the tube. Your body must replace what it needs after the machine works on you.”
“We will take ten thousand people from Earth, primarily top scientists. We will educate them and return them to Earth in fifty years. We will take another ten thousand promising young people who will spend fifty years improving themselves on the ship. This is your opportunity.”
“Michael, what do you mean improving ourselves?” Brendan asked.
“When we returned previously, we taught the leaders how to leap ahead, but they were primitives and struggled. We will teach you to transcend your current levels of thought, and we want to teach you how to advance your society. We teach the tried and true methods that provide the foundation for our most significant advances. Shamans embraced the ideas during the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras. Indigenous peoples practice our teachings, particularly in the Americas. Unfortunately, many religious power brokers withheld the knowledge and techniques we provided, lost big chunks, and distorted the remainder. Many of us worked to preserve the way ahead, yet the religious leaders thwarted us at every turn. The religions hardened and rigidified into their current forms and remained in the past. That is why the Paradigm regards most religious belief systems as a curse.”
“Why is it a curse?” Brendan asked, his face suffused and clenching his fists.
“Let me give you a simple example. We took the young Jesus and hundreds of others from India, China, and elsewhere. We educated them for twenty years and sent them back. They learned everything about us and why we wanted them to learn how to progress civilization. We did everything we could to tell them we were not Gods. He and others insisted we were Gods. Jesus spoke of himself as a son of ‘God.’ You all know what happened.”
Michael laughed, then coughed. “Do you want to know how the notion of the holy ghost arose? Jesus had a communicator, and he used to talk with his teachers and mentor. He didn’t realize some of his followers saw him talk with ‘God.’”
Michael shook his head. “Jesus saw his mentor like a father. His mentor was a hundred thousand years old when he met Jesus. Jesus called him father out of respect for him.”
“You talk about Jesus in the present tense; is he alive?” Brendan asked, his eyes wide.
“Yes, we wouldn’t leave him on the cross. He lives somewhere in the Paradigm as does Buddha and several other exceptional people from Earth.”
“That is unbelievable!” Brendan exclaimed.
“Do not mention anything about Jesus or the others when you’re back on Earth,” said Michael before continuing. “As time passed after the death of Jesus, Christianity formed and then rigidified and later split into several cults. The Paradigm was unhappy about what was done in the name of religion and remains unhappy about the church’s behavior. That is not strong enough. The religions enraged those who run the seeding program on Earth.”
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