The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2078

Chapter 2078: The Silence Has Weight

The Ten Thousand Origin Realms hung suspended in the center of Limbo like fragile lanterns in an endless night. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

With the changes sweeping Existence, the power of Limbo had begun to contract, and at the center of it was the Origin Realms. Except for Primordials at the fourth layer of their Origin, who could barely sense this force, no others could.

And this was because Eos had been deliberately hiding the heavens from even the Primordials, because the power of End was so total and corrupting that if they came in contact with it, they would be corrupted, and chaos and destruction would spread all across his realms.

There would be no need for armies or Primordials to attack the Origin Realms, the knowledge that a sentient force of Extinction was enough to destroy all of his children, because Eos knew that End offered more than the end of all things; it gave power, but that power had a great price that could not be understood until it was too late.

Enoch, a Luminious, arguably the most powerful Luminious to be born, had fallen to the power of End. What could mere mortals do?

So with the intervention of Eos, the defiant light of the Origin Realms still burned steadily, and even the overwhelming power of extinction that surrounded it could not dim its light; it was almost as if it was feeding the light of Origin.

However, on this day Eos sensed something different... something had arrived over his Origin Realms.

It did not descend. Descent implies direction, mass, and intent. This presence simply was.

Eos’s eyes tightened when he sensed the power of End for the first time, and he closed his eyes so that he could capture all of its flavors.

To his senses, it was like the thickening of absence that settled like an oil slick on still water. No sound accompanied its arrival, no ripple in the void, no shadow cast by absent light.

In a fraction of a moment, Eos’s eyes flew open when he confirmed that his senses had not deceived him. He pressed his hands over his beating heart, and he caught the sound of his heartbeat in his palm, and he released it.

This sound instantly travelled all throughout the Origin Realms, and the beautiful aurora that framed the boundary between the Origin Realms and the outer desolation of Limbo simply stopped moving.

Colors froze mid-shimmer, then bled slowly toward gray. Everything took the shade of black and white, leaving only Eos in colors. He had not just frozen the entire Origin Realms in time and space, but in all nine dimensions.

This unique application of Origin was only possible because at the moment, Eos controlled nearly a thousand new concepts of Origin, and he could make miracles, still, he hoped that this miracles would be enough, because... End had come.

With this awareness that this force had descended into Existence, knowledge began to pour into Eos’s mind, and even though he knew that this was corruption, he had to accept this knowledge, else he would not be able to comprehend what was happening.

End did not have a form, nor a voice; he could not even sense any pressure. That was the wrong way to think of the force of End, because it was the cessation of continuation itself.

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