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"What do you know about your earth Adonis?" Zero voice echoed in the cold central street of Babylona.
"My earth?
There's only one earth right?" Adonis hesitantly answered.
"Debatable but correct. Tell me more, then I'll tell you what I know about your world."
"Earth, simply earth. Humans, elves, beastmen, shuras, annunakis, mayans and gods stuffed into a big blue planet. What else is there to know?" Now Adonis was now at a complete loss at the question. Earlier he imagined this place to be an outer god's secret dimension, now he concluded he was somewhere completely alien. Now Zero and his always clusterfuck questions that never failed to confuse him always.
"Sodom used to be on Earth. Well on the Original one. Just keep that input to yourself, don't ask too much questions."
Adonis then had to increase his pace to block Zero in an effort to reason with him.
"You don't half-hazardaly lore drop and then expect me to be okay with it!!"
Zero had to stop a bit and look at Adonis in mock exhaustion.
"In all my days I didn't expect to meet someone as annoying as you.
Dreamer do you know why you turned to that disgusting monster earlier?"
"You.." Zero heard the imbecile whisper.
He now truly wondered whether he would become actually mad when he remembers, well the switch from pathetic to strong was entertaining.
"Corruption..Corruption..."
"What's that?"
"First would you stop blocking me and let us walk. I'm sure in your heart right now you can feel something..
Death?
Or something worse?
That's the countdown we have.
I pity you That's why I offer you thus a leverage. But we are truly running out of time, and I will not appreciate any more disturbance. Ask as we walk."
Adonis already knew he pushed too far, he stepped aside and followed Zero towards the so called Gomorrah.
"Adonis do you remember the sentence I mentioned at the oasis?"
Adonis glowing face, although with hard to distinguish facial features, Zero could still pick the strangely adorable pout on his face.
'Well we do have the same face' Zero thought narcissistically.
"Nothing?
Okay then, smelt this to your memory
In what ever you do, where ever you go, how high you rise. Remember there is universal rule.
Knowledge begats power, power begats truth, truth beckons corruption and the final resting place for corruption is in her embrace.
-Death-"
"You said it differently tho."
"No I completely finished the statement. You already get the gist probably..
I'm sure genius waste of evore can understand what I'm clamoring at?"
"It sounds like a slur. Anyways knowledge leads to corruption? Then what is corruption?"
"Even that too can lead to corruption." Zero chuckled absurdity of warning someone about something he can't explain exactly what it is to them.
"My guess is what happened to me earlier in the desert was corruption. Right?"
"Correct. Still it was a necessity."
Adonis looked at Zero in confusion. He pondered calmly this time. Apparently something that almost killed him was a necessity? He even wondered whether he was already dead in fact.
"I don't get?"
"Corruption sea..
Sentient life forms already corrupted, become corrupted beasts. In Eona there isn't a larger concentration of lower caste corrupted beast than there."
"So we are going to name drop without saying shit now."
"Yes."
"Mr forerunner. So when will I be able to get all this knowledge?"
"Soon." He said a low piting tone.
'Pity?' Adonis inwardly questioned, not that he wondered. He didn't imagine a more worse case scenario than this.
"So the only reason I survived is that I got corrupted.
Funny..
You did I get corrupted in the first place?"
"That's one of the mysteries that that trouble me." His pace style turned sensual suddenly. Adonis was behind him, so he couldn't see the changes occurring to Zero at the moment. Like he had been possessed by other person, he couldn't see the new glow in his eyes, but what he could see was the divinely artistic tattoo of a starry sky from the back of his neck to down his spine. They were glowing like they where actually stars, another eerily thing was the whispers that seemed to be coming from it. He slowly turned his head back at Adonis.
"I thought is was because of the outer relic, now I see you right now dreamer. I honestly don't know what to think."
"Outer relic you mean the eye?"
"One of the eyes belonging to Yog-Sothoth the ALL IN ONE..
Do not repeat the the name or think about it, just know and let it pass through.
Else you will die."
"Uhmmm okay, where is this Gomorrah place?"
"Sodom the City of Frustration, is divided into quadrants. North Babylona, west Gomorrah, east Perso and south Nadir or part of it rather.
Sodom is ever spanning, reason it's also called the city of frustration."
"Even for me it would be impossible to reach Gomorrah walking, plus the fact this is a locked space."
"Then how are we meant to reach our so-called promised land.." Adonis asked mockingly.
"Remember the gaints imbecile?
Don't tell me you disregarded them all this while?" Zero implored in disappointment.
"Gaints?
What gaints?
Could you for once stop talking in riddles for once, please."
Zero looked up to his left like he was staring at someone in the astral sky, like he was communicating with someone. The looked back towards to Adonis curious.
"Okay sure.
The gaints earlier where manifestations.
Physical manifestations of Sin Fulcrums, a paradise for cultivators of sin.
You see that open space to your left?"
"Yeah?"
"That's one of them child."
"There's nothing there Zero."
"Cause your too weak open your eyes child.
Thank God I have the right tool."
Adonis slowly stepped away, he remembered the earlier pain, he knew that nothing from Zero's tone held promises of anything good. And even if it did, Zero hasn't given him the liberty of trusting his actions. He broke out running like a mad man, he didn't have the balls to wait for the mad man to finish his ramblings.
"Little rat."
Everything collapsed, the orgy sounds, people's voices, his running, everything suddenly lost it's vibrance to the sensual but dreadful voice. Adonis remembered something again, something he keeps forgetting. The mad man was still a god at the end, an incredibly powerful one at that. He had only made to run twenty meters away from the god before he couldn't feel body again.
Adonis bent in the act of running frozen like a strange sculpture. He heard Zero footsteps approaching him from behind again, each footstep was like a needle in his heart. His eyes continued darting everywhere like it was going to do anything to help.
Zero walked to his front and took out a pouch of some strange ash from his bisht. He opened Adonis's eyes and pour it into them.
"A favor.
You're to weak to do what necessary anyways."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"
Adonis screamed in agony as he felt his soul eyes explode into a weird picture. This pain was beyond anything he ever faced, he didn't even have luxury of time to wish for death. To ask for death.
The crimson floating words appeared again above him.
*EYES OF CAIN*
Rank: 1st Chain ◇Sequence 6◇
Aspect: Hallowed Enemy
Class: Cursed Ocular
Authority- Sin, truth, blood, fate and judgment.
Passive abilities:
◇Forsaken Halo.
◇Blood Memory.
◇Slave Eyes Of truth.
◇Future Echoes.
Active abilities: *Stolen*
Flaw: Modified Mark of Cain.
The sudden immobilization wore off after an hour, and Zero relished it unimaginably. I mean he got to enjoy the rats painful wailing and watch his ugly crying face.
Adonis after what seemed like an hour of his eyes getting massaged in liquid fire, he finally saw it.
He finally saw it everywhere...
A massive column of reddish-black miasma reaching the luminous sky. And this was the smallest one apparently, the one at the south...
Something was inside...
What the hell is this...
He now sees...
Who.. No what he is now..