The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2013

Chapter 2013: New Variable

Eos looked around Limbo; he could feel that something had changed in the last hundred thousand years. It was as if the corruption inside Limbo was growing, but Eos knew that this was not the truth; instead, the corruption was being concentrated.

Eos did not just buy time for himself, but he also bought time for the forces of End, and they would ensure that the Origin Realms were so tightly surrounded that it would be impossible for anyone to escape them when the battle began.

It may appear as if he was free at the moment, but Eos was not; his responsibilities tied him tighter than any chains, and the Ancient Primordials knew that he would never abandon the Origin Realms and flee. One reason was that the Origin Realms were far too important. Rowan had achieved a miracle with their creation, and it was unknown if this miracle could be repeated.

If there was no longer any choice left, if Eos detonated all of the Origin Realms, it would surely lead to the death of all his enemies and everyone he protected alongside them. The Ancient Primordials knew he would not take this step, but as long as the option was still on the table, this made it a resource that Eos could not abandon, and so they knew he would not abandon the Origin Realm and flee. They were gathering all the corruption in Limbo to be concentrated around these Realms.

This would take a long time; Limbo was a massive place, and a few million years would have to pass before all of these preparations were completed. Barely a hundred thousand years had gone by, and he was already seeing the effects of this change.

Leading Eva, he took her to a seemingly random location in Limbo. Eva looked around in confusion. There were no broken realms here or the remnants of a battle; it was just empty space that stretched for as far as the eye could see.

She looked at Eos for feedback and caught him staring at a random spot in space, folded between two different dimensional plates. Following his eyes, Eva looked deeper at that spot, and she noticed a crack in space-time.

"Let’s go in," Eos said, and, filled with curiosity, Eva followed him and entered the tear in space time. She had been expecting to see a grand realm or a lost treasure of the past; instead, they entered a fairly small room with only an open closet inside.

In that closet, born from a single, crystallized tear shed by a minor immortal fleeing the destruction of her world, was a single, flawless orchid made of starlight. It had no reason to exist. It served no purpose. It was just... beautiful. And it was alive.

Next to it, etched on the wall by a finger, was a single rune. It meant "Remember."

Something inside Eva’s chest squeezed, and she did not know when she began to cry. Eos saw this and remained silent because he knew that this place would deeply affect Eva more than him.

In the past, he had seen a vision of Eva as a child, born at a time when the Primordials had not fully shattered Eosah’s reality with their hunger. When the battle began, she had been taken by the Celestials and remade to become a Creator, but before then, she was born from a blue grass, and she had fled for a long time before she was captured and changed into a new being.

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