SUBTLE WINDS - The Truth of Creations Witness

[MORTAL PLAINS - TWIN SUNS SOLAR SYSTEM]

Humanoid winged shapes could be seen hurtling down in space while battling amongst themselves. Their destination seemed to be aimed at the beautiful blue and green world. Flames burned around them as they descended from gravity yet none seemed too affected.

Their bodies were tugged around, rocks and floating debris sent at each other. Black goo spat at intervals with some latching onto their targets and others going wide.

Yet as both parties fell the humanoids lacking wings were suddenly repelled from the world. A hidden barrier kept them out as they could only watch their enemies descend on Vaustaris.

"We must warm the others. We have done what we could. Now it's up to those arrogant snubs and mischievous cretins." A female one-eyed being muttered with a look of regret on her face.

"Don't forget to add what it can do." a male spoke.

"Indeed the last thing we need is a black goo sitting Divinas. Their mouths are horrid enough"The female commented.

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[MORTAL PLAINS - UNKNOWN SOLAR SYSTEM.]

A red world with black clouds covering it could be seen floating around a blue star with other rocks or planets. Some were just as red if not more, others just blue or white while the rest a black dead rock.

A ripple could be seen parting the clouds and spreading in all directions. It carried several invincible waves that rolled past the various planets and dead rocks, hit the blue sun, and continued into the vastness of space. The wave could be seen by none except a few who watched it flow through the stars and space meeting worlds and suns in its path.

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[MORTAL PLAINS]

A familiar scene once spotted outside the mortal realms could be seen spreading across the black cosmos. Bright ethereal lights of various colors and sizes. Most appearing in places like celestial bodies others in the black nothing of space. Still others appeared within planets both those capable of life and those not. Those on the brink of death and those already dead and dried up, barely held together by the last vestiges of their will.

To the mortals in Vaustsris where such lights appeared it was like the prelude to more trouble. While the issues with the invading demons had notably been stabilized with the several kingdoms already making headway to defend against them it was still a different matter when nature itself suddenly misbehaved.

The several energies disrupted the rules and laws of Vaustaris' nature and reality. In some places, the rivers could be seen flowing up, and in others, the earth moved in quakes. Lightning storms, volcanic eruptions, and many sorts of upheaval became common as these energies settled in.

It was during these events that a certain black egg cracked open having been exposed to both space energies and something else.

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[UNKNOWN LOCATION ]

HELEN'S POV

I stirred as my mind shivered with the series of system notifications that poured into my head sending shivers of attention down my spine in what I considered an effort to distract me. Yet I ignored them all keeping my will latched onto the eldritch tingle passing over my skin.

I could not be blamed for showing little regard for anything. I had been at this for the past three real-time days. Pushing myself to gain the one skill that u needed to hasten the regrowth of my arm. Though if I was being honest I was in no way motivated to try getting it back faster, not with Culdre.

I exhaled a deep breath following the sensation across my skin. The Elsritch feeling had gotten familiar during the past days that had gone by in this unknown realm. Yet I had not truly unlocked or learned the skill, in fact learning anything would have been near impossible considering the element I desired to learn wad a building block of the universe. This made the element not just powerful but dangerous. Possessing the power to make and unmake, reshape, or reform something as desired. Compared to its utility divinity was a joke. Yet it did not make the latter any weaker as both in equal volumes could stalemate each other.

My eyes opened as a tremble went over me. A heavy weight settling not on my shoulders but over my skin. I gasped as my body seized.

"Good. You found it" I heard him speak though his voice felt like it went through water to get to me. The intent more than the words reaching my hearing.

"Listen closely Warrior one of fire and Brimstone, you are at the entry point of the very tether between creation and destruction. What you feel is the energy, the power that makes it possible." I bent over my body feeling like a stone in water.

"It's weight, its responsibility is what you feel sagging your bones down. For it remembers all. It is neither judge nor jury, just executioner. Just a tool" I frowned as I grit my teeth. A trickle of something liquid dripped from my ears.

"Unlike the Mjolnir, it seeks not worth, just capability, and you creator goddess already showed it" I moaned as the weight forced me down more into a position looking possibly twisted.

"Think Hilde. You beat it once. You defeated Primordial Chaos before, not just once but twice. Think. How?." I felt a palm slam into the ground I sat on.

It sounded easy if I could actually think right now. The weight wasn't just on my body but in my mind. Like a migraine at turbo. Did everything have to be so difficult?

"Focus!" Cole shouted. "Breathe, forget everything else. In here all are meaningless, nothing but Primordial. Focus only on the moments you need. Search for them. Find them. Chaos doesn't search for worth, all are worthy, it doesn't seek honor, honor is for those with the power to grant it. It is a tool, a hammer for a forge, the sword in the hands of a warrior, the flute of a bard, it is the mana of mages." He halted and sighed. "It is witness itself," he whispered this last part yet I heard.

I hate the sound of his voice making it seem like this was a walk in the park. It was easier to battle all my foes than to bear this weight. "No. He said to focus. So focus" I clenched my teeth as I attempted to ignore the pain. Easier said than done.

Yet I tried.

"Remembers, it remembers".

I pushed my awareness into a dark space, forcing my mind to see nothing but darkness. At first, it was hard, at times the pain would make a scene or thought to flash through my mind. The weight on my body, my skin, did not increase nor did it decrease. Slowly I focused on the darkness looking deep into it.

The Abyss didn't waste time staring back.

A sea of white, a tiny orb that was hazy too Look at yet there, spinning as the white fog swirled around it. Outside the fog surrounding was a darkness that was different from the space around. It was like a wave, a torrent of wind, and at the same time like nothing. Sparks of black lightning, no, purple lighting ran within almost unseen.

I watched all this unaware of how I was here, or what I was looking at. The scene felt familiar yet I could not grasp of what.

Then a change came. The hazy little orb once spinning in a clockwise manner began a whole rotation in the same spot. The action stirred the white fog which considerably thickened yet lightened. Thick enough at spots to hold the orb in place while light enough to let the next event happen. The black wave surrounding the fog rushed in like water through a broken dam.

I watched unaware of what facial expression I had, my body unmoving andy eyes unable to do nothing but look right and left. I watched the black matter rush into the orb, watched the orb devour the matter with ravenous hunger. Then I noticed it. The Orb did not just excrete a golden mist. The black matter broke down the orb, something within acting on the black matter as well as the orb to keep it from being erased. With the golden energy produced the black matter was suddenly pushed back.

Then a whole new scene took place. It was like watching several years of evolution and devolution, growth and death on a zooming play. I watched as the black matter broke the golden matter into cells. Watched as the golden energy filled the cells with energy, and watched the cell bloom.

It was like a plant receiving sunlight, like her cells grasping divinity. It was beautiful. Yet horrific as the black entity broke it down. Yet the cells were barely erased as the black matter simply reforged it. Then the golden one latched back onto it refilling it with energy once more. The energy strengthened the cell walls before the black matter broke them down and reforged them. Yet I noted that with reforging the cell was gaining more endurance and more resistance to the breakdown. This was happening at the same speed with trillions of formed cells. As I watched I noted that the black entity was not just forging the cells for nothing.

With each cell broken down and reformed the cells refitted to each other like a chess piece. By the time it had happened over a zillion times, everything had taken shape. I realized now that the white fog had slowly been restrained into the cells as the shaping continued. The amount of energy within was growing dense, its thickness now pressing against the cells. The shape writhed in what must have been pain. Then everything shattered. A bright light that surprisingly didn't affect me exploded from the center of the shape. It spread in all directions at a speed that I could surprisingly follow. I watched chaos, divinity, and aether dance.

Everything was reforged by chaos and aether, given life, energy, or spark by divinity, and then imprinted on again by aether. I stopped looking after noticing all this.

Finally, the process halted leaving me looking back to my body. No, myself, looking and glancing around in an ethereal form or more like staring into nothing.

"Chaos remembers" My self locked eyes with me. Everything bent in distortion.

"Creation's Witness". a tug pulled me out of the dark space and I found myself feeling my body once more. The weight was gone, no it was present just now familiar like the sense I had of my divinity and how I could feel my will like a limb. Chaos had joined my several limbs. My eyes opened.

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Cole floated in the distance patting his almost destroyed robe while smiling sheepishly. He'd barely managed to blink away before the outburst of chaos could touch him. While he was in no way frightened by the meager show of chaos he still did love his robes.

He looked up excitedly just in time to catch the scene. A sigh escaped him as he watched his excitement growing rapidly with each passing second. Seated atop a huge mountaintop, with black clouds gathering overhead, purple lightning flashing like the beat of an out-of-rhythm orchestra, and thick reality distorting waves gathering around her body was Hildelith.

Yet none of this surpassed the moment her eyes flew open. Gone were the blue orbs, they were still there but shadowed over them was the purple and black light that made her sclera and irises glow with a creepy sight. Her arm rose as the palm faced upwards. Cole noted the glimmer of dark purple that coated her skin.

"CHOAS REMEMBERS" her voice while as normal as could be reverberated with the might of a goddess and the aura of a Speaker.

"Step one set" his eyes twinkled even as a set of words appeared before him.

[SER TWO:ACTION]

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I sat where I was after the last of the chaos storm settled. Funnily my mind wasn't acknowledging my new accomplishment or the huge natural event that had been made by simply sensing and interacting with chaos. I was more focused and interested in the words that had appeared to me. It was amongst one of many but it alone had been eye-catching.

The more I looked at it the more I had various thoughts in my mind. Why wasn't primordial chaos something to be learned like the other intents? My mind was quick to answer the question.

Primordial chaos was one of the main four. There was Aether, Divinity, Primordial Chaos, and The Spark as I named it. Each one served a specific function though it was obvious that another could work in place for the one. These were not energies that could be learned from a tome. They were a part of us like a limb or an arm. You didn't get to use a book to learn how to write.

'It makes me like a baby still trying to crawl when it came to Primordial chaos.'I thought. The Spark was like the body system, it was there but I had next to no control over it, for now. But it all brought me back to the main issue. The truth I had gotten from the game was a notification.

[You have reached the end point of a Paradox event]

[Creation's Witness Paradox has been completed]

[+50 Perc ]

[+10,000 MVC]

[+ 100 ORP]

[Creation's Witness completed Paradox has affected your Eye of the Unseen]

[You have tasted •°^°^•°.]

[Eye of the Unseen has been upgraded]

[You have gained Chaos Sense]

[Chaos sight interacting with Feat - Creation's Witness]

[Chaos Sense has evolved to Chaos Sight]