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Chapter 165 - Source Origin(15)

Cades didn't even think about what this was, he already knew deep down, really, he just didn't wish to realize it, he wished to get away from the constant feeling of being surveyed, the constant feeling of being small and insignificant, not wort the time of the being she was surrounded with, just like with those top hats that had seemed to be infinitely big, extending towards the dark abyss beyond and illuminating that beneath with their endlessly long glowing tentacles of pure light that had seemed as if they were about to grab Cades, or perhaps that was just a primal fear he had held deep within his heart, a fear that anyone would've held had they seen what Cades had seen, had they seen something that could not be described, beings that had to've been multiple ranks beyond his own, at the very least, he was sure about that.

What he was even more certain of, though, was that these beings he had seen from far above, the countless beings waiting for him beneath his feet, the beings that had seemed just like black dots, though some did have another colour once he began his task of remembering that which his mind was so desperately trying to hide from his memories, something he found just as unnerving as the thought of being surrounded by countless, infinitely more powerful creatures, in the shadow pf five inconceivably huge, arching mountains that reminded Cades of a hand once he began to really think, reminded Cades exactly of the thing that he thought this place to be, a gigantic, infinitely great hand, with countless ridges and countless layers, all far too great for Cades to see, a hand of a living being, a being whose hand sent out heat, a being whose hand moved up and down, though Cades would've been far too small to even realize that, after all, even planets moved, but, just like with this hand that seemed to have it's own gravity as the arching mountains were undoubtably greater than any mountain he could've ever conceived, this hand was so great it could've perhaps even held the entirety of ehetria within it's grasp, or at least Cades could not stop himself from thinking that, though, he did desperately try to stop himself.

Perhaps because of that gigantic hand, that inconceivable being that could've easily destroyed ehetria had it wished to, that could've been able to perhaps rip apart the very fabrics of reality in this dimension had it even remotely begun moving, perhaps because of all that, all that which his brain simply refused to acknowledge, only noting it as some kind of pale pinkish world of dead but warm flesh, he was so interested and intend on looking at the now gigantic monsters surrounding him, his head first rushing to his right as to assess the first of the three monsters that he knew to be especially close to him, inwardly praying that none of them would wish to kill him, because he very much knew, in the deepest parts of his very soul, that he would be ripped into pieces if those that were now watching him even just thought about him dying, that he would die if they even just wished for him to die, he didn't want to acknowledge them either, but he did wish for them to be here, for them to be real, much more than he wished for this place to be alive, so, perhaps because of that, his very mind was forcing his soul to look at the being to his right instead of looking at the terrain around here, no, around everywhere.

There stood a being that made his heart run, not to scream, but perhaps even just through sheer longing, there was a being that stood tall, it's blackish feet consisting of four-fingered claw-like hands, it's legs consisting of a good dozen joints each that resulted in it standing high enough to make his neck hurt as he tried to look up at the one eye that was held in a hand, right between two fingers, similarly to how he had been holding the active stones all this time, looking down at him with pupils of silver, dripping tears of silverish gold, be it that the gold was very subtle, barely the littlest undertone.

It was sleek and black, countless muscles moving under the exceedingly thin and paper-like legs, seemingly replacing all bones, as if this being did not have bones, as if it was just a mass of muscles that assumed the role of bones, as if the muscles were more than enough to hold it all up, and it did hold something up, aside from the hand, it had a middle part, a stomach, a tail, it had a body as well, not just legs and the eye.

On the legs that more so resembled fractured stilts held together by good will, there was a huge, oval body with a kind of stone monument situated atop, a monument that resembled an inconceivably huge pedestal for something much, much, greater, something Cades could not even begin to imagine, something he knew should bring even that inconceivably powerful being to it's limits, something that was perhaps as big as a small moon from the scale at which things had been moving lately, after all, everything in this realm consisted of inconceivably huge things, every little thing, Cades was almost certain of that, could rip him apart, every weak thing, he was certain of that, was much, much bigger than him, because the smallest and littlest in this place, that was Cades.

And that very Cades was now looking at one such being, be it that this one seemed powerful, even for this place that was riddled with such beings, as he looked at the being that resembled a hybrid between a spider and a giraffe, it's neck replaced by a blackish goo-like ehetrian arm, it's aforementioned hand holding an eye that Cades knew to be even bigger than his old home, so big that he was not even sure how to measure the entire creature, and as he looked at it, feeling the realization of the terrain creeping up on him once more, he turned his head once more, looking to his left this time and spraining his muscles in the process, resulting in a short pain that quickly lessened, something that made him curse himself as he realized that it was him who had brought himself to this place, after all, he had opened the door.

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