'Monarch?, isn't this supposed to be the Level in which one's Strength Of Soul is considered a Special Trait? The Trait Called HalfBringer by humans?
...Is This Related to the Masked Demon?,if The assumption that our souls have been connected somehow is correct,it's possible That his Axel Force somehow replaced my own...
I wouldn't say That my willpower had been weak,but Neither would I have assumed that It would be of the highest order...'
' This is a great gift... Since my Engravings are Only Lower Impure,I will face a high amount of resistance when Attempting Ascension,The best way to Deal with this issue is by Using One's Strength Of Soul to forcebly Ascend.
What is my limit from now on?
Could I Reach The Same Level as That Of The Prodigents?,
Well it's possible,but I shouldn't get ahead of myself,I still Have To face much more Dreadful consequences in case An Ascension is Failed.'
' But To think I've Actually Evoked My Soul to The Higher Degree of Soulless Unreverand,This is so sudden...Just A Few Days Ago I Hadn't Expected There to be much of A Chance of Ever Becoming An Unreverand...I wonder what mother will think of this,and Also Love,I can already predict her scolding me For Undergoing Forced Awakening,Echo Will Be Certainly shocked won't she?'
'Sephyr...What will she think of this?,It was just Yesterday That She Left With Those people...'
The Image of a pale skinned girl with Sharp red eyes and Long white hair came to his mind,The Last words She had Told him still Etched in his Soul.
' I have now become an Unreverand before she did... Truly a twist of Fate.'
' ...'
As he was dwelling on his thoughts,Vaal Heard a Commotion Occuring outside, Without Delay,His Figure Shot up and Went in Direction of the Window, Exposing only his Left eye,The youth Analyzed The Gigantic Creature that Cracked Both The Ground and The Air as it walked,The Light rain became unbearably Heavy, Enough That the Raindrops Pierced through Stone,Lightning Strikes Drawn in Blood Flashed Past with thundering Growls,The World Itself seemed as if It was Fading away,Bluring his vision in which Two Suns were present and not just one,The Smaller one having a male Shadow at it's very middle.
The Vessel of The Giant was a pale Gray,The skin looking as Cracked as the Ground,long tentacles made it's hair,The Limbs were similarly Long and each ending in dozens of sharp fingers.
A Minced up Heart Marked it's presence with Loud Heartbeats That Came from The Left Chest,The Fleshy tendrils That Seemed to be eating That heart Apart Twitched frequently, it's veins Protuded Immensely and seemed to be moving Around.
The Eyes Shined a bright Yellow.
And Those very eyes were now... Staring at him?
' How did it suddenly...Is it looking at Myself?'
' What action do I take?'
Before he could truly consider his options,The Cursed Young Man Experienced Something Unexplainable,The Thing Turned It's Head Upwards towards The Sun,And with A Roar So loud It made his ears bleed,The Gray Giant Started pulling The Sun Towards It's Mouth,The more it fell,The Dimmer it Got, until by the time It Reached The Harrowing Maw,The Sun was a tiny Dim light which was Quickly Devoured.
Begetting that cursed Soul of "His",This Eater of The Stars Turned Red in it's entirety, Subsequently,It kept on Walking Steadily until,in a manner which was tout the suit,It's Visage disappeared From The Sight of The young Challenger.
And Taking it's Place in Fate,The Small Figure of a newborn Cried In a War cry of desperation.
It was covered by a shadowy mantle of darkness, leaving only the face exposed to show it's Dark Gray Stone like skin,The Eyes Like two Bright Red Jewels.
' A baby?...No,A Statue?'
Vaal's Wondering was succint,For He Instinctively Felt, Looking At the Small living Statue was Dangerous,Even Hearing It was Dangerous.
The Sharp eyes of A Youth Closed, Long and Skeletal Hands covered his ears,His Figure Shaped itself in a fetal position,and he waited,Seconds,Minutes,Hours...
At some point,again by instinct,Vaal Felt like he could open his eyes,His hands came down to his chest,Feeling His Beating Heart.
He peered outside the house,No longer seeing That Source of Dread,But Instead Seeing Countless Of The Ghouls.
' Hundreds... Thousands?'
' How Do I leave here now?'
'... Let's wait first...'
' That Creature...How Could There be A Being That can Eat An Entire Sun?,And It was no Small Sun,But That Giant One I've never seen before,Even The Paragons Wouldn't Be Able To Achieve Something like That From What I know...At Most,The Paragon of Destruction Might Be Able To Destroy The Planet,Yet That Sun Should be Thousands of times larger...
Why were there even two suns in the first place?How can there be a Shadow...
And most importantly...What was that Harrowing Infant statue?,It Felt even More Demonic Than The Giant...But It also felt Very Different When Compared With The Masked Demon...More... Celestial? Similar to The Eye Of God...
Like a God of Nightmares...'
The Description " God of Nightmares" made him think of a Passage From The Myth of Creation.
' And God Created The World, From The Very center of his being,The Empty Core Of The Almighty.
And When The Son of God Had Perished,His Soul Nurtured The Astral Plane, Changing The Void into a paradise of life.
Everything is alive,Being Constantly Pulled Towards The Core Of The World By The Soul Attractor,The Will of God that wishes to be near his Child.
The Soul Of God's Child Gives life to the Sun,The Sun Gives Life To The World,Light Exists Because Of Life,When there is no life darkness comes.
When Light Explodes Fire Burns, Before Death The Cold is Born,Without Death Ice remains...
I am Shadow yet Not Death,I am Darkness Yet not Rest.
I Have Nothing Left,For Even my Fate has Left.
God of Nightmares I am, Divine yet Unholy...'
'According To The Myth Of Creation,This World was originally shaped as a globe of the World of gods by the Artisan, However,He was not satisfied with his Creation, because of that,The Artisan gave the globe as a gift to his nephew,Each Day,Anitek Would play with the globe, constantly spinning it rapidly.
When Anitek Died,he was still playing with the globe,his body which had repeated the movements so many times, Kept repeating them even after death, Creating the calamities That plague the World every year from a mortal's perspective.
To think that so much of our problems may exist because of the whim's of a dead deity...
I am not a believer,But I Must Say That Whatever That Statue was it certainly seems to fit the description of God of Nightmares...'
' Although all this is based upon That Strange Dream I had...I can't tell for sure what Feeling A God Or Demon would Evoke upon the souls of humans...'
' I don't think I have the luxury to be waiting,This Place has things far beyond my comprehension...The sooner I leave the better, although It's Possible That Great Secrets are hidden and waiting to be discovered, It's Far Too Dangerous To meddle with entities of Such Levels...'
' This Entire situation is odd, Let's see...
Fate Collapses Happen when one moment of someone's Fate Diverts From What was intended, Causing Fate To Become Unstable and Closer to "Dying",And Since Our World Does not have space or time and is only " Existing" because of Fate,If Fate " Dies",The World Disappears, Exorcists Are Responsible for The Prevention of this Apocalypse,Their Task is To Enter The Fate of the Diseased, people who are under the effect of a Fate Collapse,And Perform a Cleansing.
Due To The Influence Of Prophet Aenymon who existed up until 200 years ago and The Fated Peregrines,A Sort of "Zone" is Created Every time Fate Collapses, This Zone Separates The Fate That Diverged from The Rest of Fate, Storing It within The Fate of The Diseased,And within a period of 16 hours, it's Possible for an Exorcist to purge The Collapse and Prevent The Divergent Fate from manifesting in the World.
Although This Zone Does not Prevent Fate From Diverging Completely,Since The Existence of a Fate Collapse in itself will change how people Behave,But At least it will Prevent Fate From Diverging directly Because of The Influence of The Non Men, Meaning It's Easier For Fate to adapt to the Changes.
Because of The Butterfly Effect,That one moment may cause the Separate Zone To Be Considerably Different from The Intended Fate,Yet how could Anything involving My own Fate Cause Beings such as that to appear in the Gray City?
The Ghouls are already an odd occurrence,but the giant and the Statue are just...'
' If Those Things Don't Leave Soon,I Will Have to Make my way through them...'