The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1966

Chapter 1966: The Beginning of End

The Luminious were aware that with every passing cycle of birth and rebirth, the forces of destruction that the inhabitants of Existence were calling upon were becoming more terrible.

When Existence was destroyed for the first time, it had been long and protracted, stretching for countless Cosmic Eras, and occurred so slowly that even the Luminious believed at first that this was a natural process of creation and entropy, but from that point forward, they noticed that the power of destruction was growing.

The first time they noticed the power of End was from a Minor God in a small world who wanted power above all. This led him to slaughtering an entire galaxy, and he was hunted down by his fellow gods, beaten to an inch of his life, and instead of being killed, he was thrown into a pit at the edge of Existence, so he could rot for all eternity.

This god lingered at the thinnest edge between life and death, enduring torture that drove him mad countless times over, until the destruction wrought upon Existence became too great, and it led to its destruction once again.

However, when Existence ended, someone still remained, perched in a state where death and life could not find him, and for so many Cosmic Eras, he had been screaming for an end to his suffering, but to no avail; even the ending of Existence did not lead to his demise.

The Luminious in their unchanging realm waited for the rebirth of Existence, but this rebirth never happened in its expected timeline, and they were not overly concerned. There were times when rebirth arrived more slowly, but its arrival was always inevitable.

Still, a significant amount of time passed without change, and this period was so long that it was a hundred times as long as the time there had ever been Existence.

The Luminious could live in stillness for a long time, but even they had their limits, and they could no longer stand to see Existence in the manner that it had become, and so, some of them ventured out into the nothingness to investigate when the rebirth of Existence would come about.

Then they saw him.

This god should have been dead countless times over, but an unknown power maintained his existence. The Luminious learned of the first rule of this power on that day, and that was that it gave as much as it took.

Those who wished to torture this god had inadvently called upon the first rule for the ritual to summon End, and they had wished for this god to suffer for eternity, and as payment, some of them had unknowingly led to the death of their entire Existence, and so this power took the death of Existence and made this god to remain in torment for all perpetuity.

From the beginning of existence until its eventual end, it was unknown if there would ever be any being who suffered as much as this god.

"Free me... Kill me... I beg of you."

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