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Chapter 523

    Chapter 523


    CHAPTER 523


    SANCTUM''S END (X)


    Eldon sat against the side of the carbon-alloyed ship, praying . Though he didn''t believe in a god -- or, rather, the entire concept of religion had been missing from Adur for quite some time -- he had no other avenues of settling down . They were about to take a flight to the sky . Would they live? Die? He didn''t know . Chances are that they would die, struck down by those horrible beams of light .


    na lied on hisp, fast asleep, too exhausted to continue . He patched his wounds haphazardly, but couldn''t focus on the pain . It was too much . Unlike the rich, he had ordinary genes, meaning that he couldn''t live that long . He was already in the twilight of his life, inching toward thest third of it . The wear and tear of endlessbor had deteriorated his body, with today''s events being the nail in the coffin, it seemed .


    --Weakness--Is--Not--Yours


    He was hearing things, atst . He snorted bitterly at himself, closing his eyes . He was tired . Too tired . Inside of him, the desire to slump over and fall asleep burned hot . But he couldn''t . At the very least, he wanted to see how the story would unfold with his own eyes . If death muste, he wanted to at least stare at it .


    We--Will--Give--you--Strength


    There was a storm inside of him, a whirlwind of unstoppable emotions as his mind finally cracked, remembering . He had left her behind, lying asleep in the cold coffin of ss . Biyung . What whipped at him like the holy fire was that he didn''t even think about going to save her . He hadpletely forgotten . His heart, already a furnace about to explode, bled . He loved her -- that was indisputable . Yet, he abandoned her . So quickly . So easily .


    It wasn''t that long ago that she was his entire world . She pulled him up from the vapid holes of emptiness and showed him the light of the living . She was the one who gave him purpose, the one who gave him strength, the one who made him into the man he was today . Yet, he abandoned her -- so quickly . . . so easily .


    You--Can--Protect--Survive--ErgeDid she wake up? Perhaps the system malfunctioned and she woke up . How would she feel? Stuck inside the cold, deste, unknown ce, calling out his name . . . just for him to never arrive . Calling out haplessly until death descended upon her fragile body and mind .


    How terrible was he? Terrible . Too terrible . Despite the fact that he tried to patch his mind by repeating that he saved na and couldn''t help Biyung, it was pointless . Guilt rode him like a wave, bashing against his walls like the ocean against the high cliffs . Each breath was difficult, even agonizing .


    Nothing--Is--Out--Of--Reach


    The voice wouldn''t shut up, but he was in too much distress to care .


    They rose up slowly . Their flight had begun -- a flight that would determine whether they lived or died . But . . . what if they lived? Where would they go? They''d be stranded in open space with limited supplies and no cryo chambers . They''d drift and drift, and they''d still die . Perhaps, in a way, it would have been better if they died on the surface, with the rest .


    Death--Is--Not--Inevitable


    The ship shook due to the resounding shockwave that swept over them . There were no windows inside the wide, living chambers -- just thick, gray-ck walls and flickering lights of the elongated bulbs . The patterns were the same, dull, even, repeating .


    It shook again . And again . The feeling was terrible, as each time he could feel the shake, his heart would freeze for a moment with worry . He somehow moved his lethargic arms over to na and tried to stabilize her as much as possible .


    Destroy--NO-CREATE--Destroy


    His mind was an unwinding mess, his body a shell that wouldn''t listen . He could feel his eyes closing, his mind sinking . And sinking . And sinking .


    The birds chirped, the lonely sound of the flute adjoined, the hazy wind billowing the thin, naked branches . The vast meadow spread, isted from the carcass that was the cityscape . The mountains . Ah, the mountains -- some drowned in green shrubbery and trees, and some naked to the earthly bone . They were beautiful . Everything was beautiful . Breathtaking . Like a song .


    Annihte--PROTECT--Obliterate--DIFFUSE


    The tall grass of green and yellow swayed, droplets of the early-rise dew shining on the surfaces of the stalks . They swayed in unison, creating a beautiful scene that could not be replicated elsewhere . All around him, all he saw was . . . beauty . The sort of beauty that was transcendent . The likes of which no artificial hand could make . Something that grew of itself, bing what it is now . Inspiring . Alluring . Inviting .


    Dissever--GUARD--Consume--ASSIST


    He walked, yet he didn''t . No, he swam -- like a butterfly led by the wind, he swam through the grass, letting it cradle him . Warm . So warm . His wounds eased . His mind settled . His heart calmed . All around he saw peace, unity, beauty transcendent of reality . Here . Yes . Here . This was where he belonged . This was the ce that needed to be his reality .


    Chaos--CHAOS--Chaos--Chaos--INVItes--YOu--


    Something surged from within him, a ck mist of sorts, soundless, wordless, colorless . Flickers danced inside it as it rose from his slumped, tired body, spreading out .


    The world of the swaying grass and the rising mountains shook, startling him . The clear blue sky dimmed, the ashen clouds turning ck and devouring it . Bolts pelted like rain, destroying the mountains . Burning the grass . He wanted to scream in defiance, yet he couldn''t . He had no strength . He was powerless here, just as he was powerless there . Strength . Yes . It was clear to him . Everything was determined through strength .


    CHAOS--Chaos--Chaos--Chaos--Primal


    "I--I--"


    The ck mist epassed the ship whole . The beam of the light headed over like a judgment of death itself, ready to devour it . Everyone made their peace with it, closing their eyes . They would die, dispelled from the world for all eternity . Then, a miracle . The beam descended, but it didn''t destroy . It was consumed . The ship was fine, continuing its flight . It was perfect .


    "Strength . . . "


    Chaos--CH--Chaos--C--Chaos--Helps


    "Help me . . . "


    It--Is--Willed


    "Help me . . . "


    The ck mist streamed urgently, flowing like a rapid into Eldon''s mind . Something inside snapped, the grassed meadow splitting in half like a porcin bowl, shards scattering in the ever-violent wind . He found himself inside the open void, inside the terrible darkness that he could not reconcile .


    There, juxtaposed between nothing and everything, a single structure arose . No, it wasn''t a structure . Yet it wasn''t living either . It was there yet not . Shaped strangely, yet straightforwardly . Eldon couldn''t understand . Couldn''tprehend .


    Hear--Our--Voice


    He heard it, the whispers that trickled through his mind . The darkness before him cleared, and he could finally see . He could see with such rity that he was stunned . He felt boundless strength, power akin to what he never felt before .


    Be the Champion . The Writ . Create Chaos . Consolidate it . Warp it . Unify it . Expel it . Use it to rebuild the Edifice . To restore the order to the Universes . Rebuild the Destroyer, so it may contend against the Creator .


    Eldon shuddered as his vision expanded; it felt as though his spirit left his body, streaming through the vast sky of Adur and into the open Cosmos . His eyes gleamed sideways themselves, beyond the vast nothingness of the void, onto a tiny, almost invisible speck . It rained fire, acid, and molten rock . It was horrible . But, it was to be his home . No, their home . He was not alone . He could not do it alone .


    Yet, soon after, the regret inside of him swelled . Biyung . Despite all this, she was gone . Destion and coldness returned, corrupting his mind once more .


    We--Shall--Restore; Though--Not-Whole; She--Lives


    A tiny speck appeared before his eyes, the size of his fingernail . A bubbly sphere of white surrounded a beautiful, ck-haired woman cradled in a fetal position . A screen suddenly fluttered in front of his eyes, startling him . It was simr to those from Adur, which made it easy to navigate .


    [Biyung''s Soul -- Cosmic Mythical]


    Level: ??


    An iplete Soul, restored by temporarily reversing the tendrils of time and death that had consumed her . Currently in slumber . Needs to be fed in order to be fully restored . A chance of failure still exists .


    0/1,000,000


    Note: We--Are--Chaos--Before--Destroyers


    Eldon stared numbly at the screen and then back at the tiny speck floating above his palm . That . . . is Biyung? He shuddered, tears of joy streaming through his eyes . There was a chance . That was all that mattered to him . There was a chance he would see her brilliant smile once more . There was a chance he would hold her once again . There was a chance they would be a family again .


    He didn''t know why it happened . Why he was chosen . He didn''t understand anything of what had just transpired . But, he didn''t care . na was safe . Biyung could be helped . There was hope, hope for the future that they could not have had on Adur . And, inside, he swore to himself, he would make that future a reality -- even if he had to down his soul in endless sin .
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