Falling into the Abyss

accept fate.

Although Ethan wanted to accept it before, he actually wanted to find Nyarlathotep on the condition of accepting his fate in exchange for the lover he wanted.But now, he really understood the meaning of acceptance.

In this world, he wants nothing more.There are no relatives, lovers, friends, homes, hopes and ties.He is like a kite with a broken string, without the slightest attachment to the land under his feet.

He doesn't want to live, and he doesn't care to die.Neither sad nor happy.He stood on the top of the sand dune overlooking the world, but what he saw was nothingness.

Here is the most appropriate ending.

He then closed his eyes and let out a long breath.Something that had been taut in my head suddenly loosened, like a door that had been tightly shut was suddenly opened.

It was a double mahogany door with classical carvings and brass handles, calm and clean.

It was the door to the priest's castle, the door to the depths of his spirit.There, his most fragile and secret subconsciousness is quietly dormant and surging, like the undulating black sea in the night.

It was at this moment that the séance ceremony was completely completed.

Suddenly, something roared from another world, such as thunder and lightning, tsunami and landslides.The majesty and heaviness that cannot be described in human language, as if the entire universe was condensed in a singularity with infinite density, was forcefully and irresistibly stuffed into his consciousness.In an instant, the severe pain of being torn apart caused him to scream out, but that cry was drowned out by the rolling thunder on the flat ground.

The magnetic field is chaotic, the stratus clouds are tumbling, and the thunder and lightning are interspersed.In the distant South Pacific that he couldn't see, an ancient land that had sunk for hundreds of millions of years was slowly rising.The vast landmass of seaweed and fossils is crowded with twisted structures that existed before the birth of man.From the city of R'lyeh, which has been imprisoned for countless years, came a terrifying roar that would drive all human beings mad, full of ancient anger and cruelty.Huge octopus tentacles that could easily overturn the starship rose from the water, and the raised sea water formed a continuous torrential rain.In the frantic wind, there was a shuddering sound of flapping giant wings.

At the same time, above the vast desert on the other side of the earth, a terrible distortion occurred in the space, like a torn silk and satin, and the scene was suddenly cut off in the middle.The space from another universe is constantly advancing, and in the out-of-control crack, stands a terrifying figure that runs through the sky and the earth.His whole body was wrapped in scorched yellow mist, and it was difficult to see his face clearly. The evil wind from the origin of the universe filled the entire heaven and earth.The king in yellow is taking his steps towards the unarmed universe, which brings endless madness. Behind him, countless invisible monsters in the wind are howling, spraying hot acid and viruses into the wind.

The large expanse of sky was covered by black lumps that suddenly appeared, and the faintly pulsating red blood streaks in it occasionally shone ominously.The Mother Goddess wrapped half of the earth in her endless body, and the black tentacles that fell from the sky dragged and swayed like hyphae, devouring all uninfected creatures on the ground.Her hunger could not be suppressed, and rumbling sighs continued to be heard from those trembling pieces of flesh, swallowing the entire world into darkness.

The whole earth is surrounded by space-time vortex, and countless huge monsters from different worlds protrude their terrible minions from the cracks.In the desert where Ethan was, thousands of black bugs cheered and raised their heads towards the black sky.

The scene of that day was torn apart, and after that there was a void and chaos, a picture that humans could not understand at all.The stuff that is not just made of something churned, leaking endless antiquity and madness.The black fleshy thing fell from the crack and directly inserted into Ethan's mind.

Ethan felt himself being torn up into the sky, feeling that his brain was being crushed to pieces bit by bit.At the same time, huge and terrifying memory fragments rushed into his mind like a torrent of broken banks, impacting his memory.

He saw the birth of the universe, the explosion that created everything, the beginning and the end of everything.He saw a viscous matter surging chaotically, and saw the first particle of life that suddenly became ignorant and began to split.He saw fresh worlds covered by oceans one after another, and saw countless worms swimming in the ocean, swinging their flagella, moving their suckers, and devouring each other.He saw the rise and fall of ancient cities and civilizations, and saw grotesque people die in disasters that fell from the sky along with those weird and distorted cities. He saw erupting volcanoes, raging hurricanes, and trembling earth.

He also saw those huge, other-dimensional creatures that were older than time.They are like the darkness that envelops the universe, like the endless space and time beyond the universe, they are everywhere, lazily swinging their sticky and fat bodies.They devour everything, and all orders are integrated in their bodies.

At that moment, he also seemed to dissipate, and he became a part of mountains, rivers, stars and black holes.His hands, feet and body seemed to have disappeared, disintegrating with the wind, like spring rain and dew, everywhere.

But at the same time, he also felt that his consciousness was being torn apart bit by bit.Without any resistance, he opened himself frankly, allowing the ultimate chaos, the heart of the universe, to feast on.He even enjoyed the excruciating pain of his soul being crushed by something as huge as a mountain.

Countless tentacles bloomed behind him, and black lines spread all over his body.Black smoke enveloped his whole body, like a different kind of holy light enveloped him.

Suddenly, a dazzling blue light broke through the vortexes of time and space, and exploded about a few kilometers away from Ethan.The faint blue flames swept across all directions like fireworks in an instant, and the black insects screamed and gasped wherever they went.The blue wave roared and washed away, but it seemed to be blocked by an invisible force before it hit Ethan.

Ethan's body twitched, as if uncontrollable.Black blood gushed out from his seven orifices, and the light in those once gentle green eyes was also shattering little by little.

Not far away, between the sky and the earth stood an ugly and twisted giant, with flaming red tentacles twisting in the sky.Nyarlathotep growled, whether it was anger or joy.

"Azathoth has come, you are too late!"

In the center of the blue explosion, a gap in time and space is forming, from which there is a quiet to holy blue light.The gap is getting bigger and bigger, almost across the sky.From that gap, some indistinct huge shapes appeared faintly.

They are similar in size to those giant monsters that have appeared all over the earth, but they present an indistinct shape that is gelatinous, liquid, or semi-gas.They come in all shapes and sizes, and there is a cloud of smoke that you can see but can't catch around them, as if something has been evaporating.

In Na Lie's mouth, there are tens of thousands of such monsters, and they all seem to be crowded around the gap.And those monsters that have appeared on the earth, including Nyarlathotep, all let out angry roars and strode towards those translucent monsters.Those who heard that roaring sound all huddled by the wall and trembled like a child.

But Ethan couldn't feel this, and his consciousness became more and more blurred.

But at this moment, a nearly spherical thing with densely packed eyes drilled out of the blue space-time crack, countless pupils were trembling constantly, looking at the surrounding world, but it was quickly frozen in Ethan's eyes. body.

Ethan recognized it, and after erasing the mark that Tanithel had given him, he had seen it in a dream, and was almost crushed to pieces by it.

When Nyarlathotep and two other monsters full of tentacles rushed towards the translucent giant with eyes all over, several other translucent bodies that looked like wriggling coral also squeezed out.The moment the two sides collided, the violent explosion and flash almost flattened the entire desert, and the huge deep pit could not be created even by a nuclear bomb test.All the black humanoids were vaporized in the explosion, becoming dust floating in Earth's unstable atmosphere.

In the endless flashes, explosions, screams and roars, Ethan suddenly saw that the giant monster with eyes all over his body had occupied his entire field of vision.

Is it... the preface god named Nodens?

And the core of the universe that was being squeezed into his body seemed a little impatient and manic, and it squeezed into his mind even more urgently.When the pain reached its extreme point, it became numb, and Ethan felt in a trance that he was in a half-dream and half-awake state.

He noticed that between the twitching and blinking eyes, there were two flat tentacles that seemed to enclose something.It protruded those two huge tentacles forward, and the milky white front end slowly opened.

For a moment, Nyarlathotep let out a roar that seemed to be a little frightened.

His hell-like roar of terror was clearly heard by the Earth Alliance monitoring station a few light-years away through satellites. At that time, almost everyone, including those high-ranking congressmen, were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, and some even urinated Pants.

But Ethan didn't hear the roar at all, he just stared at the open white front end.On the front of those two palms, there is a figure.

Tanithel stood naked in the milky white halo, with his eyes closed, as pure and innocent as a newborn baby.No scars can be seen on his body, but it is so real and concrete, so real that it is not like a phantom.

Then, those beautiful gray eyes slowly opened.

At that moment, Ethan's body trembled violently.He felt that the invisible soul bond, the soul bond that should have been broken, reappeared in his only broken soul like a sudden rebirth.It's not the trembling that I felt when I was fascinated by Nyarlathotep's illusion before, but the feeling of being truly chained, the long-lost, complete feeling.

Ethan couldn't move his whole body, and stared at the beautiful but lifeless man who was held in the palm of Xu Shen.

Then, Tanithel looked at him, his expression gradually cracked from calm and emptiness, and became vivid a little bit, as if the puppet was suddenly given life.His gray eyes widened, looking at Ethan as if in disbelief, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.He stretched out his hand forward, staggered a bit as if he couldn't walk, but still struggled forward, as if trying to catch Ethan.

"Y... Ethan..." His language was a bit awkward, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

At this moment, at the moment when Tanisel appeared, Ethan's spirit, which had been slack from the beating, suddenly regrouped briefly.He heard a hiss of displeasure from the part of Azathoth inside him.He also stretched out his hand forward, trying hard to get rid of the control of the black mass above his head.

Nodens sent Tanisel forward.Then, Ethan finally caught it.

He grabbed Tanithel's hand that was reaching out to him.