The mont Apexion and Galene walked into the kingdom,
shing!
Their suddenly bodies shrunk once more, becoming six feet tall, and at the sa ti, one of the male creatures clad in ancient white garnts stepped a few ters before them, blocking their path, he gazed at them with a warm smile on his face, and spoke in a welcoming tone,
"Welco to the Valnal, the kingdom of wisdom and thought. You must be here for the wise one's sermon… You ca at the right ti; the sermon will begin in a few hours." As the creature spoke, his ears flapped slightly, like a bird's wings.
Apexion's mind flashed with countless scenarios as he thought about the key words, 'wise one's sermon.' A wise one, soone with great wisdom, and a sermon… an instant later, he replied to the creature in an equally friendly tone, also with a warm smile,
"Yes, I am here for the wise one's sermon…fortunately, I made it in ti or else I would have traveled all that distance for nothing." After Apexion finished speaking, he frowned, for he tried walking forward, only to discover that he couldn't; it was as if the very concept of walking was nullified and sealed.
He thought of sothing, then he gave up.
Suddenly, the creature's smile vanished, and then it spoke in a sowhat nacing tone, "Good, good, I am happy that you are here for the sermons and not sothing else, but..." It paused, then its mouth started to curve upwards in a smile, just like the one from before, only it was sinister, reaching all the way to its ears.
And at that mont, Apexion felt the long-forgotten feeling of all consuming dread. The creature continued,
"Answer this. I am the beginning and the end. At any given mont, I can will all of existence to instantly age and decay, and at the next mont, I can will it to be renewed just the sa. I can be long or short, fast or slow. What am I?!"
After the creature spoke, sothing unforeseen happened; every single creature in the kingdom snapped their heads towards Apexion, their eyes locked onto him, gazing at him with anticipation and darkness.
his body froze, and the feeling of dread he was feeling earlier morphed into sothing greater, fear. Yes, fear, true and absolute instinctive fear; his entire existence scread at him, telling him that he was in the presence of a being so horrifying, a threat so terrifying that not even his main self was safe from it.
His eyes shone as he tried to self-destruct, only to discover that the very concept of self-destruct was gone. After which,
"ANSWER!"
A horrifying voice rang out in his mind, and, crack! The weight of the voice caused small web-like cracks to appear on his body; his glowing crimson blood that could extinguish millions of stars spattered but vanished before it could make contact with the creature or the floor.
'How long has it been since I've been in such a state… It's been so long, since I was a kit, battling the fragnt of a damned one… how fascinating. How wonderful,' he thought as the right side of his mouth curved upwards in a slight grin. After which,
"Ti. Ti is the answer. What you are describing is ti," he answered in a calm tone, for only ti is the beginning and the end; only it rots the world and renews it. Well, he ca up with multiple answers such as life and death, but he chose to go with ti because of the the of this forbidden echo.
The mont they entered, the kingdom was old and broken, then it beca fresh and renewed as if they had traveled between two ti periods, and he was right.
Almost all of the eyes flashed with satisfaction, then looked away from him and the creatures resud doing what they were doing as if nothing had just happened.
"Good, good, I would expect no less from a being such as you… You may enter, oh, and the sermon will be taking place at the very center of the kingdom; that is where the wise one dwells," said the creature in a happy tone, its ears blurred as they flapped at extre speeds.
Apexion's eyes flashed with many thoughts as he felt the concept of walking reappear in his cognition. When suddenly, sothing happened that caused him to be shocked and sowhat disappointed. Galene, she,
"Splat!"
She suddenly exploded into a ss of blood and organs, which vanished before they made contact with him or the ground .
What caused him to be shocked wasn't her exploding, no. It was the fact that he could sense that she was dead, not the ti-out dead, but true death, the one where there was no coming back from.
He could even feel his mories of her becoming dull and blurry; he couldn't rember her na or her face. All he rembered was that he and soone entered the forbidden echo, and that soone was now dead.
He felt disappointnt because he was sure that he had already planned out a sche that involved that soone. 'What was it?' Ah, yes, he wanted to use that soone as a shield inside this forbidden echo, if needed be, and if not, to use that soone as a spy in their organization.
"Go on now, make sure not to be too late; the wise one hates tardiness," urged the creature.
Apexion snapped out of his thoughts and took a deep look at the creature; his starry eyes blazed with abysmal flas. He wanted to see the creature for what it truly was; he wanted to see through the falsehood of this entire echo and gaze upon its truth.
But a second later, his eyes flashed with disappointnt; everything in his eyes was just as it appeared to be.
He then walked forward with a calm expression; as he walked his eyes flashed, and his body healed. Although he failed to see this kingdom for what it truly was, he was certain what type of being this echo belonged to, and that was,
'a terror above the 8th tier.'
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