How had this even happened ?
How had he been defeated this easily, so quickly that even he, himself, could barely even entirely remember how it went down, that it felt as if he had just been instantly restrained and then.. what had been done to him anyways ?
Was it the light of dominion, perhaps because he didn't yet know how to truly use it, was it aura, was it intent.. well, let's first think about what was going on right now, that was Leyk's priority..
Leyk felt himself falling, but he didn't feel his everything falling, he felt the air, but he didn't feel it everywhere, and neither was he certain if he was even still complete, with all bodily par-
Oh...
He had been beheaded, hadn't he ?
Why was he so calm ?
No.. no... when he thought about it again, that truly did make sense, after all even when one froze to death, dying of hyperthermia, one had moments of warmth where one often let go of the last pieces of cloth protecting the body, no good sign for sure, but also calmness and a residue that could be interpreted as the body giving up, though it is basically just the heart shutting down and slowing itself from what Leyk had been able to infer, mostly through his own theories as he hadn't really been all that interested in biology, though that was just a small fact he had one day planned to share with friends, though the two he had made he had lost just as quick-
Oh, right!
Leyk wanted to think about how it had been possible, why the difference between his aura and the aura of that monster called Vexxen had been so tremendous in the end, including the light of dominion.
Actually, as his head turned a few times in the air, led by the speed of the endlessly high tower and even greater fall that was bombarding him with powerful wind, he already had a few ideas in his head, mainly leading to a single conclusion that his subconsciousness, Cades, if that was even still HIS very own subconsciousness, something he really wasn't certain about anymore, had already managed to convey to him, one of the ways to choose the light of dominion...
The way of becoming one with the subconsciousness and controlling it.
During his entire fight with Vexxen they had been completely under control, both of themselves, their mana, the surrounding, even Leyk himself, it had been humiliating, but also exciting and quite profitable when it came to his own growth and chance for recreation of it all.
What if Vexxen had truly been calculating everything, what if he had been so obsessed with the two holy numbers, which he had referred to as one and zero, something and nothing, that he was incapable of thinking normally, lowly descending into madness and gaining the power to move perfectly calculated, causing his very mana and aura to become geometrical, precise... just like bismuth, just like the light that had moved against him before, just as what he had seen from him.
Then... Cades had said that they would be more effective than that because they could freely work together instead of a single being being in control, so why had they lost this time, why had they been defeated, they being Cads and Leyk, or perhaps, Leyk and Cades, or Leydes, that sounded interesting, kind of like a couples name, but personally he found it quite fitting.
Huh... why had he just thought of a couples name... was the blood loss that should've normally already started to kill him, or killed him very much some time be-ag-before.. oh.. he was starting to lose consciousness after.. actually how long had it been... a few seconds, it had to have been ten at least, though his thoughts did feel as if they had slowed down...
He had once read that the head could survive and be theoretically saved using magic up to thirty seconds after being decapitated, the consciousness only retained for about twelve seconds, leading to the famous ehetrian phrase one uttered before a execution where one was to be beheaded and said their last words to their wife.
"I shall blink for you one last time so you can awake me on the other side"
Oh... right... his loss...
Had it been because Cades hadn't fully arrived yet, hadn't taught him how to use the light of dominion, and if that was the case, could he gain all that skill and power for himself?
Yes, you can..
Ah...
That was Cades, wasn't it...
He was distant, very light, almost inaudible, perhaps only there because he wasn't where he should normally be, that being in a normal state, sitting atop his own neck, situated right where a person could look him in the eyes that had now most likely rolled back into the skull, exposing the white he would love to keep protected using his eyelids, something impossible as the wind was fighting against him, starting to torment him even more, though his sensory abilities had almost vanished by now, leaving only a faint shade of themselves behind to mock Leyk.
Hmm....
So Cades himself had already confirmed that part....
Then that was probably right, he would definitely grow much stronger with the light of dominion than without, though it was weird that he had only begun meeting opponents, or rather, an opponent with the ability to use that light of dominion after he had begun to hear about it within his own, or rather, former subconsciousne-
Oh, what was that pain, why was he even still feeling pain, shouldn't he be dying already, and what was that liquid leaving his eyes, powerful and stinking, smelling like rotten egg- no, like chocolate, like... hmm... was his sense of smell also impacted or why did the smell constantly change, perhaps to the degree that he was smelling the familiar smell of the air itself, a smell one normally never acknowledged and changed it within his mind to smell terrible...
Oh, that reminded him, had he been falling for eighteen seconds now ?
What was the equation for the falling speed of a falling object again, he should probably distract himself while he was falling, so why not calculate that already...
It should be about ten meters every square second, with eighteen seconds having passed it should be about... 180 meters a second, mayhaps, he was failing to link the entire meaning of it all.. why had he even.. actually.. who even wa-
Yes, he was Cades, why was he Ley-
He was Leyk...
"......."
Then Leyk Kirgun died.