I had decided to not tell Evernight about what had happened with Antigonus
Now was not the time for that; in the future, of course, why would I do some cliché things by not telling close allies about something so dangerous?
I also intend to communicate with Antignous, but that too is in the future.
Evernight, trying to find her pathway, said, "Not a single name matches what you told me. How do I find the Darkness pathway?"
I nodded and said, "You will feel it; read all the pathways; that is the best course of action."
I myself was searching for the Doorand Error Pathway, not for sequence 0 but for 1 and 2. I had no choice but to switch to Door or Error.
While Error was easier, Door was the best for LoTM; even the community agreed.
"Sequence 8: Whisper, Sequence 1: Omniscient Eye, Sequence 6: Wind Mage….
Sequence 1: Door of Light"
There it was: the Key of Stars. The name had a similar meaning. What I needed was the ritual.
"Find a continuously rotating, signal-emitting heavy planet; approach it; land on it, and then find a way to establish sufficient mystical connections with it."
"Fuck."
Amanises looked at me a little surprised; I hadn't cursed throughout our journey.
"So even Higher Beings like you curse", I made no attempt to hide my rage
"The fuck do you mean 'higher being'? I was once a human and still am clinging to it like a maggot."
"Jeez," Amanises said.
Ignoring that.
The ritual was a suicide mission. The closest plant with such a connection was Moon. The last thing I wanted was to get a galactic STD from the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
Calming my thoughts a little, I thought
This may be a better opportunity; currently the world barrier is strong enough that if I get infected by her, it won't harm humanity in any shape or form. Using ASG's help, I could probably remove the corruption.
But if I manage to convince her to join me instead, having a pillar is going to be much more beneficial. The question is, why would She even Help me or Join me
Well, I can think of that once I can get the Key of Stars Beyonder characteristics.
I then looked at Amanises and spoke, "Did you finish memorizing?"
Amanises nodded. After my conversations with her, part of her humanity had deteriorated, and thus I had to walk on eggshells a little.
Amanises then said, "While this is all good, there is little to no information about the neighboring pathway; heck, these seem to be arranged rather randomly."
I nodded and said, "There is just one more thing that I wish to check, a conjecture, if you will."
Amanises brightened a little; all this time, I had seemed like a god who knew everything, and since I was testing things out, it made me seem more human, not that she was aware that I was once one.
We walked more towards a dark, viscous pit; this was very much closer to the First Blasphemy Slate.
Looking in it, Amanises and I felt very dizzy, almost to the point of losing control.
I quickly used the Sefirah Castle to control myself and remove any corruption from the two of us.
Amanises looked dead at me and spoke, "Is conjecture going to kill us?"
"I hope not. Guess it's time to fuck around and find out," I retorted, signifying that I was just as clueless as her.
I then made a small ball out of grey fog; this was a conduit, a medium for high convergence of characteristics.
I wanted to check where the Error's other 2 characteristics were since they weren't in the sefirah castle or ASG's body; this was one of the places that they could be in.
While this ball very quickly dissipated and may have already alerted ASG.
I felt a sensation that stemmed from convergence, similar to the one I used to summon the 2 Attendant of Mysteries.
I once again made a similar sphere, this time much denser and much smaller.
Unfortunately, due to my limited status as a Miracle Invoker and just being a King of Angels in Sefirah Castle. I couldn't do this repeatedly.
Summoning the power of sefirot in the outside world was only possible at the level of a king of angels.
I let this sphere simmer in the Chaos Sea; very quickly it boiled off like a water drop on a very hot pan.
But this time, I could pinpoint the exact location of the convergence from other sources; it was most certainly the Worm of Time.
I got up and looked at Amanises and nodded. I said, "It seems my conjecture was indeed correct. What surprised me is how quickly I came to this realization with little to no consequences."
Amanises asked, "And how is that a problem? Shouldn't it be a good thing even?"
I chuckled and said, "That would be true in 'our' world, but not here, where fate and destiny can be changed on the whims of gods. Too many good coincidences mean someone or something is controlling our fate in some shape or form."
Amanises looked a little appalled. "That's quite scary."
Now having confirmed the Worm of Time characteristics, I created a historical void projection of myself and hid my true body in the void of history.
Amanises taunted in a joking manner, "Isn't this like a cheat skill?"
I retorted, "This isn't even half of it; high-sequence spectator beyonder can imagine beyonder characteristics."
Amanises quickly asked, "What can a darkness beyonder do then?"
I closed my eyes, attempting to resurface by using dream divination, and an image quickly surfaced from the pages of the LoTM Wiki.
I then spoke, "End, Eternal End, Death, and Calamity."
Amanises spoke, trying to make sense of what I had just said. "Calamity is misfortune, but what does 'end' symbolize?"
"Darkness itself signifies the end, eternal darkness." As I finished, I dipped my hands in the Chaos Sea.
I quickly grabbed the worm of time characteristics that had surfaced due to attraction from the dense sphere to the surface.
Amanises was almost startled by this sudden action of mine.
As the two characteristics had merged to prevent something, what that something was is still a mystery even to me.
Suddenly, with a sharp pain, all manner of voices and information began to flood my mind.
The Sea of All Things, the Chaos Sea, had begun to deteriorate me as well.
I felt my shadow trying to take over me; my soul had begun to deteriorate at an alarming speed, and I could feel countless eyes looking at me from within my shadows.
If actions weren't taken quickly, I might as well lose control and die.
This was truly a dumb move.
I instinctively removed the void of projection and severed all its connections from me.
Amanises who looked directly at this half-mystery, half-almighty mixing due to sefirots
Also began to show signs of losing control.
Black steam emerged from my body as I gained some control over my body.
After coming back from history, I looked at Amanises and said, "Chant my name; I will summon you up in the fog."
Amanises nodded quickly, realizing the severity of the issue that had cropped up.
Amanises she could tell, was finding out from all that fucking around.
Amanises chanted my honorific name, and I used that as a medium to enter the Sefirah Castle and pull Amanises as well.
Our entire bodies were covered in the grey fog as black corruption was beginning to evaporate under the influence of the grey fog
There I was, sitting on one end of the table, and she was on my right side.
"Damn you, idiot. Had I known you were doing this, I would have left after reading the slate."
I ignored the complaining and regrets sent my way and took a deep breath and continued, "The attempt worked. I now have two Worm of Time characteristics."
Amanises sighed and also looked at the two worms that were in my hand. Now that the situation had calmed down, she, using her own ability, calmed her soul to make sure that she wouldn't lose control again.
"What happened to you there?"
"Corruption from The Primordial God Almighty, it's a good thing both of us are angels; else we would have to fight our shadows."
"Interesting, so that black gunky liquid has the domain of shadow."
I looked at her and said, "Quite the observation." It was obvious that I was pleased; with such a great student, who wouldn't be?
"Anyway, I will give you more information when we go back."
Amanises didn't pry; after gaining a good chunk of information, she had realized that knowledge was power, and gaining knowledge at the wrong time could even lead to death, even for an angel.
I then summoned the Attendant of Mysterious Characteristics.
There was clearly a very strong difference. Amanises asked, "Why are new ones joined together while these are separate?"
I said, "We are about to find that very thing out." And without further wait, I shattered the worm of time's characteristics, and it broke.
Amanises and I watched as they broke into countless lights, but within this light was an oily black drop that had converged.
I quickly used the fog to isolate it, but to my amazement, it was interacting with the fog as well.
God Almighty and Lord of Mysteries are both personalities of the Oldest One, and merging them would result in the essence of the Oldest One in some shape or form.
Yes, this is the most logical answer. Using the Planswalker ability to seal, I temporarily sealed this corruption and let the Worm of Time merge individually.
Amanises had been eagerly watching the merging as well.
Within a couple of moments, the merging had finished, and I touched the characteristics of the Worm of Time and Attendant of Mysteries, and the difference was still very much there.
A major chunk of CW's will was absent from both of the characteristics of Worm of Time.
Like they had been accommodated by several angels for at least 1000 years.
This gave me a great idea: if I do the same thing with these characteristics, I can remain on the fool's pathway and still not lose control.
At least not to the extent that Klein had to deal with since one of the characteristics was fresh.
I looked at Amanises and said, "Once we are out of this place,.
It's best that we leave for the Giant King's Court and have the chat with the Giant King and then leave this continent."
Amanises asked, "Why would you do that? Don't we have to kill Flegeria so that You and I can advance?"
"But that's only when You and I are both stable. While I am not sure, since I haven't had the chat with some of my subjects, if my intuition is to be believed, it's best to move into human territory."
Amanises nodded, realizing that she herself needed a believer to stabilize her own mind.
As both of us left Sefirah Castle, I dropped the two Attendants of Mysteries' characteristics in the Chaos Sea so as to decrease the will of the Celestial Worthy.