The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2192

Chapter 2192: The Original Sin

Enoch opened his core, revealing the place where End had been nesting since the beginning of time, feeding on his essence, growing fat on his purpose.

What emerged from that core was not a thing. It was an anti-thing, a concept that could not exist, a truth that could not be spoken, a reality that had been rejected by every Existence that had ever been born.

It was the original sin.

"I looked to the side and saw my brother’s field ripe with crop and endless bounty, while I was left to toil all day with the beasts, and so I got tired of watching all the bounties of creation flow through his hands alone, and I came from behind him and tore him to pieces, and his flesh has satiated me from the dawn of time to the end of it."

Eos froze as these words and the impression that was deeper than even memory slammed into his mind. For the first time, he had truly heard the mind of End.

This was the moment when the Great One had first looked at Origin and seen not a partner, or even a tool, but a resource. It was also the moment when End had been twisted from a tool into a weapon.

Eos thought it was a thing of great pity that End had forgotten what it was like to be itself before greed took over the core of what he was, but this should be the price of betrayal and endless hunger.

In that impression left in the void, Eos could also see the moment when the Luminious had been shattered and scattered across the void, their screams echoing through the spaces between spaces, never to be forgotten.

Eos felt the weight of that moment press down on him, and for the first time since the fusion, he understood what he was fighting.

He was fighting a freaking wound

A wound that had been festering since the beginning of time, growing larger with every Existence it consumed, growing hungrier with every life it ended. A wound that had been waiting for someone to come and heal it, and had given up waiting so long ago that it had forgotten what healing felt like.

Its master did not care. End was just a means to an end, since it did not even adopt the power of End; the Great One had just broken it apart and buried the shards in the hearts of every Luminious.

"You are not my enemy," Eos said, and his voice was the voice of the Origin Tree, which represented the voice of every life that had ever been lived. It was Origin given a voice for the first time. "You are my brother. We were born from the same darkness, we were forged in the same fire, and we were broken by the same hand."

He reached out, and his hand touched the core of Enoch’s being. He touched End, and he smiled sadly, "But you must be put down, and I do this not with happiness... when you perish, I shall be the only one who weeps for you."

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