Chapter 15: Shadows of the Old Days
The world is as fragmented as a mirror.
The real world is revealed here.
Even a teenager who had a relationship with Sabu Nicolas, at the moment when he faced the reality of the world, he still couldn't help but feel a little creepy.
Meadow in the forest β
Its essence is nothing more than layers of fluffy fungus blankets, the yellowish-brown color combined with the insect-like arthropods, and the wriggling tumbling of almost some kind of mollusk, which makes people feel fear just by looking at it, a fear of the unknown, of something beyond common sense.
And it's not just the grass under your feet that changes, it's the ...... The whole world.
The teacup in his hand turned into a colorful poisonous snake, the tea in the teacup turned into a puddle of mud with a rich stench, and the tea leaves floating on the mud turned into a tiny tentacle with only scales and horns swimming in it.
The lush shade overhead also reveals the truth beneath the surface of beauty, which is ...... Twisted, bloated, and disgusting tentacles that snaked out of the brown cracked earth resembled the rickety figure of an old witch, and on which grew sarcomas that seemed to burst at any moment.
As for Lake Harry in the distance...... No more.
What catches your eye is not the blue light of the lake, which seems to reflect the starry sky, but a turbid, chaotic, and indescribable sea with some kind of turbid, chaotic, and indescribable thing faintly wriggling underneath.
- What the hell is this......
The unspeakable shudder made him clench the short sword in his hand, and only now did he notice that the chaotic thing that should have been in front of him, acting in the name of the fairy of the lake, had disappeared, and there was only an empty place in front of him, a strange arthropod insect that came from nowhere, grew wildly, and came like a wave.
The young Glory One took a step back completely subconsciously.
Then, a voice came from behind him.
"Are you looking for me?"
It was not a female voice, but some kind of hoarse, shrill and piercing sound like the violent rubbing of metal, plural, like a thousand people repeating it together.
Amy turned abruptly, pulled out the broad-bladed thick-ridged heavy sword behind her backhand, and almost at the same time that her eyes touched the faint, vague, as if it did not exist in this world, the nearly one-meter-long heavy sword flew out like a war spear - breaking through the atmosphere, tearing the sound, and with an unstoppable and terrifying power, vowing to smash everything that stood in its way!
but
The inevitable sword missed.
No, it wasn't a failure - the pupils of the glorious man of Hemtika City shrank slightly, and he didn't see any movement of the strange figure, and the standard heavy sword with a wide blade and thick ridge just stopped in the air and suspended in front of it, contrary to the objective law.
"I haven't seen you for a thousand years, Fire Stealer. β
It, or she, or he, said in an emotionless voice, as calmly as if to state a fact that was yet insignificant.
"Who are you......" Amy looked at him without giving an inch, and what appeared in front of him was something similar to a human - with hands and feet, dressed in yellow, and covered with a thick hood, except for the change in voice, it was not substantially different from the "fairy in the lake" seen earlier, but ...... The inhuman nature is so strong that there is a strange feeling that is different from human beings in the whole person, "No, what should it be?"
"I?" The questioning sentence and flat tone, as if a thousand voices spoke at the same time, swarmed into the young man's brain with information far beyond the human brain could process, "It's just a man in yellow." β
"The King of Yellow. β
The book of Al Azif spreads out in the sea of consciousness, the forbidden knowledge flows from the holes, and with the wailing of thousands of worlds and living beings, Amy Ulysses naturally realizes the nature of the person in front of him, and then speaks his true name.
"Hasta. β
An old ruler of the same class as Cthulhu who has been sleeping under the city of Hemtika.
It was the absolute evil that flowed from the Great Source of Chaos.
"Names mean nothing to me," said the King in Yellow, "tell me where you came from, new Fire Stealer. β
"Hasta, I have no intention of encroaching on your domain. Talking to an enemy of this rank was quite a novel experience for the boy, but what really cared to him was the faint egalitarian attitude of the famous King in Yellow - the old ruler was never a good talker, and the reason for this posture was probably due to his own weakness, "Please tell me where my friends are." β
The three people who traveled with them disappeared without a trace at the same time that the false world shattered, and it is unknown whether they were themselves the products of the old rulers, or if they were swallowed by the evil god in front of them who appeared in a humanoid form and did not show its fangs at him for a while.
So, he took the opportunity to ask questions simply and directly, and deliberately said His name.
The name, for Chaos, itself symbolizes order, is a seal.
"Don't get involved in my war with Augustusβ" Hasta didn't answer his question, only warning in a low, hoarse voice, "This game doesn't belong to you. β
Amy pursed her lips.
This game doesn't belong to me?Hasta's feud with Augustus?
There was no simple message in the simple words, but he didn't have time to think about the possible implications at the moment, so he just raised his eyebrows and stared at the evil god in front of him.
"Don't make me repeat the question a second time. β
The young Glory Man did not back down, and even, on the contrary, he appeared quite strong in the conversation.
- Something is wrong.
- Quite wrong.
Amy Ulysses had fought in Cthulhu's dreams against that terrible monster whose mortal barren words could not be described, and he was not ignorant of enemies of this level - if the Hasta in front of him was the real person, then there was no need to lure them into this treacherous world with false words, and it would not give them a chance to struggle against it at all, and the spiritual pollution of its existence alone was enough to make anyone in this dead city become a puppet of madness, a slave of chaos.
But He didn't.
Not even a tentative attack was made.
He had reason to suspect that the king in yellow in front of him was just a phantom, an embodiment of limited power.
Powerful, but not invincible.
"I don't accept threats," Hasta said, but as the Glory One expected, he did not attack, but continued to threaten weakly, "Fire Stealer, this is a final warning, don't intervene in my war with Augustus. β
"If that's your answer. β
Amy calmed down and restrained the last bit of luck in his heart, and the fire of Ana, which had been hidden in his chest, slowly rose, and the weakness that was wrapped around his body like a shackle in the city of death faded, and the power brought by his body several times that of ordinary people exploded in an instant.
- The boy began to gallop.
Then...... Time has also slowed its pace, and in the perception of the Glory, everything is in place, and the world is silent without any sound.
Because, at this moment, the voice has been left behind.
A distance of several meters, more than ten meters, and even tens of meters swept by, and the flames burning in the body continuously supplied the power beyond the mortal world, and the first seal of the short sword dark blood, the sword of the dawn, Lucifer, was opened in the name of Ulysses, and the blazing light flame tore through the darkness and the barrier that mortals could not break through.
In this way, time recovers, and everything in the world flows again.
The fiery sword was at hand, and perhaps Lucifer, who had opened the first stage of the seal, was just a tiny toothpick that would sting him when he had broken the first seal, but it was deadly enough for an avatar or phantom that had splintered in the aftermath of the battle against Augustus.
Therefore, Hasta opened his mouth.
ββThe starry sky hangs upside down here, and the world is turned upside down here.
The young man's sense of space was completely disordered, up and down, left and right, all the words that described the direction lost their meaning at this moment, obviously advancing, approaching, but the distance between him and the king in yellow in front of him was not shortened, but was still further expanding.
Trouble.
The young Glory Man was well aware of the predicament he was facing, but there was no solution for it.
Completely liberate Lucifer?
What are you kidding! Shab Nicholas is far more harmful than the sealed old rulers, how can he put the entire territory of order in danger for his own momentary likes and dislikes!
The idea had just come to mind, and it was strangled in the cradle by Amy.
Not to mention...... Amy Ulysses abruptly halted her steps, and a pale flame burst into her blue eyes, which sprang up behind her, almost completely occupying one of his eyes.
"Drink!"
Subconsciously pronounced the words, and the Glorious One mobilized the power of the flames on his body as much as possible.
More, more, more poured into the dark blood of the dagger.
"Bang-"
The flame of light lit up the dark sky, and the sword of blazing light and flame could no longer be called a sword at this moment, and the whole world was simply and brutally divided into two under the urging of more and more violent forces.
It's a thread, a thread of infinity.
Hasta opened his mouth again, but this time he didn't make a sound, and his heavy hood hung down, obscuring his countenance, and then ...... Almost endless heat erupted in the great hollow in his chest, and the king in yellow was completely engulfed by the surging light of the morning light.
So, with a yellow coat landing, the world returned to peace.
"You'll regret itβ"
After leaving the last sentence, the shadow of the old days left here by Hasta, the king of the yellow coat, completely disappeared into nothingness.