The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2120

Chapter 2120: The War At The Dawn of Ending (3)

Everything they were learning did not seem like knowledge that a Primordial was supposed to know, and yet, it seemed to them that this was the crowning point of their travels to the farthest reaches of time... almost as if the knowledge they were acquiring here was the reason they were born in the first place.

Memorizing three of the true names for these unfathomable beings was beyond what any of them could presently handle, but they had been working together for an impossible length of time, and their cooperation had gone beyond what any Primordial group in the past had been able to grasp, and now they could fuse their Origin into a state where the sum of its parts was greater than they could ever anticipate.

This was the unknown path that these three Primordials had found to breach the fifth layer of their Origin, but they were always unconsciously rejecting this path. If they were to follow this path to the end, the three Primordials would ultimately fuse to become one individual, and a new Origin Force would be born that would lead straight to its fifth layer.

Even though it was not spoken aloud, they all knew that they would all strive to work on their Origin Force, hoping to push it towards the fifth layer, but if the war begins, then the three of them would push any individuality aside, and fuse together to create the second fifth layer Origin Entity... only a power like this would be able to help Eos fight for Existence.

Now, in order for them to be able to record the names of these individuals, they unhesitatingly began a preliminary fusion of their Origin Forces. It was not a permanent step, but what any of them could not do apart, they would be able to accomplish together.

Their bodies fused together in a flash of prsimatic light, but the true complex fusion of Origin was a process that was mostly silent and obscure, and while this fusion did not create a singel central shape, as the three Primordials now resembled a mass of glowing ooze, their consciousness had multiplied almost exponentially in strength and they were able to peer through the weight of the massive presence in front of them to understand their nature.

It was weird that these three Primordials never remembered what it was like when they fused together after they had separated, and the memory only returned when they performed a fusion. Almost as if the secrets of the fifth layer of Origin were hidden away from them in their unaltered state.

Nevertheless, with the power gained from this half-fusion, the true name of the fourth presence was recorded,

«QA-DUM BA-ŠA-KIN... GAN-ZU ŠA LA IŠ-ŠA-KAN.

GAN-UM la e-pe-ri... la ti-ti...

ba-ḫu-lu-um QA-BU-UM-ḫūšu ša la i-ba-šu.

ḪŪL-UM-MU te-nu-uḫ

ZI-IG KŪL-RA.»

"The One Who Tends the Garden of Unborn Possibilities, whose garden was not planted in soil but in the fertile darkness of what-might-never-be."

They were able to hold the fourth name inside them with relative ease, and they pushed for the fifth name, which grudgingly gave up its secrets to their gaze.

«QA-DUM BA-ŠA-ME’-UM... ŠA ŠI-GI ŠA MA-WU-TU KÙK-KA-BU.

UZ-NU-UM la ḫa-ša-šu... la er-ṣe-ti...

ba-ḫu-lu-um QA-LA-MU kosmiku-šīlaḫ.

ḪŪL-UM ra-ḫi-mu ba-ḫar-ra.»

"The One Who Listens to the Screams of Dead Stars, whose ears were made of cosmic silence and whose compassion had long since been burned away by the cries it had absorbed."

Five names were pushing the boundaries of what they could hold by their temporary fusion, and there was a chance they might become permanently fused as one if they continued to record more of these names, but they took the plunge after a brief moment of hesitation, and slowly but surely, the sixth and final true name fell into their possession.

«QA-DUM BA-ḪATAM... ŠA DA-LA-PU ENU AḪAR-RU.

"You will close my eye. But you cannot close what my eye has seen."

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