The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2017

Chapter 2017: The White Beast

The Beast of Inevitability resembled a turtle with the tail of a snake. In the war against the Abomination, it had been grievously injured, and if not for the intervention of Eos, the Beast and the remaining Realities it carried would have been devoured by either the Ancient Primordials, Death, or the Abomination.

Limbo had become a very hostile place, and the Beast that was once a hegemon of an entire sector of Limbo found itself adrift in a conspiracy that would have devoured it whole. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

It was a risk bringing the Beast inside his realm, but Eos knew that if he kept it by his side, then he could reduce that risk to almost nothing. Free from the obligation of creating his Incarnation, Eos began to resuscitate the Beast from its frozen state.

With a combination of Time, Space, and Memory, Eos had frozen the Beast into a gem, and he unravelled that gem with a flick of his Will to reveal the Beast.

The turtle that previously had a rough and craggy appearance, like a living mountain, had molted as it healed. Now, its shell and scales were white and appeared as soft as a feather, its snake tail was red like a flame, and was curled on the shell of the turtle.

Eos recalled the words Eosah had said to him when she told him of the existence of this Beast,

"This is Ananke, the Beast of Inevitability. It is the embodiment of causal closure. It ensures that every effect has a cause that is itself within the system. To face it is to have every one of your actions, every thought, traced back to its origin. If it finds a source that is... external... unaccounted for... it does not attack. It simply renders your existence logically invalid. You cease to be a paradox; you become an error message, silently deleted."

Looking at the sleeping form of the Beast, it was hard to imagine it was this powerful and dangerous, and Eos knew that if not for the intervention of Enoch, this Beast would be one of the most powerful pieces on the board.

Its ability simply meant it could deny the existence of everything outside itself, and this was a vulnerability that Enoch had exploited. The Ancient Primordials had no ties to the Realities being protected by the Beast in the Cradle of Enoch, and if they had attacked this Beast before Enoch, then none of their attacks would be able to even scratch its shell.

However, Enoch had corrupted the Realities inside the Cradle from the inside out. The power of the Beast was extremely one-sided; it could not hurt what it protected, and what it protected could hurt it.

This power was extremely interesting, and in the right moment, it could serve as a very important deterrent despite its flaws. Eos may end up using this Beast to protect his Origin Realms, but its flaws were too apparent, and it could easily be used against him if a hidden hand changed a slight directive in the Beast’s objective.

The power of Ananke was not the reason Eos kept the Beast; he wanted knowledge that only it would know.

"Ananke, wake up," Eos whispered, and the turtle shuddered, then slowly opened its eyes. Its blue eyes that sparkled like gems looked almost confused before recognition entered them, followed by grief and pain.

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