Shadow Slave

The next few murals depicted the battles between the six radiant figures and the vague shapes hiding in the darkness of the abyssal void. Sunny found them quite funny... he already knew that the war between the gods and the unknown were waged with weapons like death, time, and space. It had truly been a war beyond human comprehension.

However, the ancient people had drawn the murals according to their human imagination. In them, the gods battled the void creatures with swords, spears... and even fists, from time to time. Imagining a god having a fistfight with a primordial horror was rather comical.

Sunny shook his head.

"It's curious, isn't it? The gods are always said to be the enemies of the void creatures... but really, they are void creatures themselves. Just of a different breed."

Both the unknown and the gods had been born from the void. So, the gods were unknown themselves - primordial beings from before anything remotely human had ever existed. It was just that they were a very special kind of these ancient abominations. A kind that was inherently opposed to the abyss that had spawned them, and everything it represented.

Nephis slowly nodded.

"Indeed. But does it matter?"

Sunny lightly shook his head.

"I guess it doesn't."

Awakened and Nightmare Creatures were also two sides of the same coin. That didn't make them the same.

The three of them continued forward, studying the murals. Eventually, the void creatures seemed to have been defeated, albeit not destroyed. Beaten and diminished, they crouched in a dark corner of the abyss, surrounded by the six radiant figures.

'This is interesting.'

Sunny knew very little about how the war between the gods and the unknown had ended. The description of the drop of ichor only said that the void had been bound... but not how it had happened.

Finally, the three of them stopped in front of the second to last mural. On it, the six radiant figures seemed to be holding a net made from what was left of the golden flame, surrounded by a whirlwind of sparks. They threw the net on the crouching creatures of the void, engulfing them in radiance.

- the black abyss was gone, replaced by forests, plains, rivers,

looked at Cassie expectedly. She had been the one to spend a whole year with the inhabitants of the Nightmare, after all. If

The blind girl sighed.

used their weapons to wrap it around the void. That was how the void was sealed. And... that was also how the world

the last mural, overcome by an

'Wait a second...'

the crouching beings enveloped by a

imagination of their creators. So, if he looked beyond

time and space that the gods had created to use as

the gods had created the world... the universe, rather... by sealing the void in

was how the world had

He shivered.

it mean that everything we know is basically a cage for the abyssal beings of the void? That... that everything is

and Nephis turned to

the blind girl said, her voice strangely

world is what binds it... not the waking world, and not the Dream Realm. More of... existence itself,

to say. What Cassie said sounded terrifying. It was as though he was standing on the surface of a deep, dark ocean, separated

was all

'Damnation...'

bothered by some

if not for one detail. The Spell had put the same story in the description of the drop of Shadow God's blood, which meant that there was at least some truth to this myth, no

'Curses.'

shaky breath and said in an unconvincingly carefree

that's a bit disturbing,

Indeed, it was.

more than that,

raised so