Author's Note: I've been sick for the past few days and am still recovering, so there were a few days when I couldn't post a new chapter. Since I'm recovering well, I don't plan on skipping any more chapters from now on. If everything goes as I hope, at least...
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After that dark creature disappeared, I didn't waste any more time. I never wanted to fight, and my only target was the Universal Core.
With all this resolved, I took advantage of the fact that the thing had escaped to get closer to that damned thing at the center of the universe, which looks less and less like the Universal Core I was told about.
I could also feel a change in the environment, a greater concentration of the Concept of Hatred forming miasma. Just as I was feeling this, people were already following behind me and my Familiars. These were Davoth, followed by two Ascendants: Urd, Lolth, and Sarazar.
