Transford into Cosmic Horror in a Sci-Fi Universe
EP.75 Azathoth
Oh, they’ve completely lost their mind.
This reaction is getting a bit boring.
[ How truly evil. ]
As I was thinking that, Idra approached from the side.
Such an incredibly beautiful appearance.
I created this Demon Lord based on her looks, but there’s certainly a beauty and atmosphere that no created being could ever match.
So, evil, huh?
It does seem like it might have been a bit excessive.
Making a being born as an adversary destroy the very things they were ant to protect, and then resurrecting soone who committed suicide only to completely shatter their ntal state.
Even if it was to satisfy my curiosity, it was undeniably a wicked act.
Of course, that doesn’t an I feel any guilt about it.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve already co too far.
Well, this test was quite interesting, nonetheless.
An experint to corrupt the adversary and guide them to bring about the destruction of the world they were ant to protect.
It didn’t go as planned, so I had to try it several tis.
If I directly brainwashed or controlled the adversary, it would be easy, but that would be ambiguous to say the adversary attacked the universe.
I tried all sorts of thods to deliberately guide them.
Using a beautiful Demon Lord modeled after Idra to seduce them.
Guiding their subconscious to think that the extinction of humanity was the easiest path to peace.
Appearing in their dreams to add a bit of ntal corruption and cloud their judgnt.
In the end, by pulling all of that together, I was able to see the adversary truly destroy the world and eradicate humanity.
To think that a being created by the will of the universe could be made to act against that will.
Even though there was so interference, the fact that it could be guided like that with just that much was incredibly interesting.
I could use this to conduct various other experints.
For example, an experint to see if another adversary appears when we turn the original adversary into a destroyer bent on annihilating the world…
Oh, now that I ntion it, I’m curious.
Should we try it right now?
[ How about we take a break from that for a while? ]
[ Hm? ]
Idra looks at with desperate, pleading eyes.
[ I know I can’t stop you. You’re that kind of being, after all. But… even so, couldn’t you pause these terrible acts for just a little while? If you need sothing interesting, couldn’t you observe the elves? ] ᚱ
Well, when a pretty lady asks like that, even I can’t refuse.
The fact that I want to grant a beautiful person’s request even without any sexual desire shows that beautiful beings have a power that makes you want to listen to them, regardless of lust.
Well, I am an eternal being without the concept of ti anyway.
It’s not like anything will happen just because I postpone the order a bit.
Then, for now, shall we observe Eugene and the elves’ SF world with Idra?
We’ll do the adversary experint later.
[ …? ]
As I was thinking that, I suddenly felt like soone was watching , so I turned around.
But there was nothing there except the countless universe bubbles that usually occupy my laboratory.
What’s this? Could there be a being that found among all these universes?
It’s impossible for a conceptual being capable of perceiving outside the universe to spontaneously arise within a universe.
Or… is it from the outside?
Maybe it’s a top-tier outer god like .
I thought that, but I don’t sense any such presence either.
I don’t know what it is.
An illusion?
No, was I even capable of having ‘illusions’ to begin with?
As I was pondering this.
Swoosh─
[ …!? ]
My surroundings changed.
I was definitely in the laboratory space just a mont ago.
Nothing can be felt.
No color, no space, no concept… nothing exists.
It’s truly ‘void’.
What on earth is this?
It’s not any universe, nor is it an interstice.
What in the world is this place?
As I was thinking that.
[ Dangerous elent. Eliminate. ]
A voice ca from sowhere.
An outer god? Is it an outer god?
An outer god that can move sowhere else without noticing?
Was there ever a being with such an absurd power?
Even the one called ‘Yog-Sothoth’, considered the pinnacle of outer gods, shouldn’t be able to do this?
Moreover, it doesn’t feel like an outer god at all.
Even I can’t sense anything in this void and existence.
What… exactly is happening here?
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I felt a gaze.
The gaze that was looking at .
The Origin noticed it.
How?
No being should be able to sense its gaze, which both exists and doesn’t exist.
So how did that one notice and realize it?
Is it because it’s an avatar created by itself?
Is it because it possesses a part of the most fundantal power?
No, if that were the case, it should have noticed much earlier.
The fact that it didn’t before ans sothing has changed.
[ Experint. Knowledge. ]
Creating universes and gaining new knowledge through various experints.
Those must be increasing its power without a doubt.
With that power, it has been gradually growing the strength that was given to it, the strength within itself.
It has nurtured enough power to even notice its gaze, which shouldn’t exist.
[ Dangerous elent. Elimination required. ]
That is dangerous.
Among the fragnts of origin it has scattered, that one is particularly dangerous.
A fragnt of origin that grows on its own.
If left alone, it might grow even more powerful and approach the true Origin.
The answer is to eliminate it preemptively.
Having reached this conclusion, the Origin drew it into its cradle.
[ Dangerous elent. Eliminating. ]
The red-eyed form, seeming to understand its words, quickly tries to sense its surroundings.
Of course, that’s impossible.
This place, the origin of the world and the void itself, is none other than itself.
It was already as good as being in its stomach.
Now it’s just a matter of digesting it properly.
Just as it thought that and was about to extend the power of Origin to it,
Crack─
[ ? ]
Suddenly, as if blocked by so force, the power of Origin approaching it was repelled.
The power of Origin being repelled?
That’s impossible.
Literally, Origin is the source.
The beginning of everything, the inevitable endpoint, and the unknown that nothing can reach.
That which absolutely exists yet doesn’t exist, a contradiction that is not a contradiction.
It cannot miss or fail to reach anything.
[ Why? ]
It doesn’t make sense.
Why.
Even though it understood the aning of that question, it never imagined it would have sothing like doubt.
The Origin, known as ‘Azathoth’, felt the emotions of ‘doubt’ and ‘confusion’ for the first ti.
And imdiately, it was able to deduce the reason.
[ The power of Origin. Only the sa power can oppose it. ]
There’s only one thing that can resist the irresistible power of Origin.
The sa power of Origin.
Of course, that one is its avatar and one of its direct creations, so it possesses a fragnt of Origin.
But that’s just a tiny fragnt.
No matter how much knowledge it accumulates and power it grows, it can’t stand against the real Origin.
It’s on a different level entirely.
There’s only one conclusion.
Another Origin has sprouted.
Sothing that absolutely cannot exist in this world in twos, other than itself.
It has beco two.
[ Interference impossible. Interference impossible. ]
If that’s the case, Azathoth can do nothing.
It is the closest to Origin and is Origin itself.
At the sa ti, it is also a being without origin, a being that doesn’t exist.
If there’s another being of equal Origin, they absolutely cannot interfere with each other.
The mont it was moved here, exposed to the power of Origin, the fragnt beca a seed.
And then it grew into a sprout.
At that mont, they beco separate entities that can no longer interfere with each other.
[ Exile, independence is the best option. ]
The only fortunate point is that its power is still just a sprout.
If it weren’t for that, the order of this world would have already started to split in two and collapse.
Up and down would beco the sa, right would beco left, the distinction between hot and cold would disappear, heads would beco feet and feet would beco heads.
Before that happens, it must beco a separate Origin.
It must build its own world and beco an Origin like itself there.
It’s like a multiverse.
Two parallel Origins that cannot interfere with each other co into being.
To explain this and convey its intention, it needed to have a conversation with that sprout.
[ Conversation required. ]
It requested a conversation like that, but.
[ Why should I? Shit, why would I talk to so bastard who suddenly brought to a weird place and is trying to do weird things? ]
After saying that, it disappeared from the Origin with a poof.
[ ……. Confused. ]
And so Azathoth, while existing, felt the emotion of confusion for the second ti.
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