CHAPTER 22: ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
"A universe as big as a cup, and yet as small as a grain of rice" – A voice spoke in the darkness.
The voice seemed as old as the world itself, but it seemed to be part of the natural order.
Suddenly out of the darkness a starry sky appeared.
"I don't know who I am, I can only look into the darkness, but she doesn't see me, am I anything...?" - The ancient voice wondered.
"Why can't I know?"
Suddenly from the ancient voice, little by little, a thousand legions began to appear, which rose up against his being, there could easily be millions of troops, each of a different race, exercising a terrifying control over the sky, they launched themselves in a great crusade against the subject with the mask.
Dozens of weapons capable of crushing heaven and earth appeared, even the suns moved going against such a person.
The person with the mask was not afraid, he was more terrified of the idea of not knowing than if what he saw existed, or was something that his mind made up. At last he looked at all the legions, before uttering a few simple words.
"I... I am the Heavenly Devil"
A few simple words, he turned all the legions into mere dust, everything vanished from one moment to the next, even the approaching suns, seemed to turn around as they fled, but in the end they also disappeared into nothingness, when he looked back, nothing existed, when he looked forward, even the ground had disappeared.
The celestial devil or whatever he called himself, breathed a sigh before pointing to the sky.
"ABSOLUTE TRUTH" – A simple word, was marked in this world, the word disappeared fading all over the frame of the night sky. And when the being with the mask looked up to the sky.
The sky was watching him.
The word truth, became the same, when he closed his eyes, he could see how the whole world had become the same.
Suddenly countless beings that looked like the masked person emerged, appeared from everywhere.
"This... it is not the truth I seek, nothing is, and nothing will be." – After saying these words, I walk through the darkness of space itself.
When the sequence of images ended.
Adrián woke up.
"Ha... ha... What was that?" – Adrian woke up as if the dream were a nightmare.
His breathing was affected, as was his gaze, he just didn't know what had happened, but he felt as if everyone could see it, that dream was so real, that he didn't even know if that person was him or not.
Little by little he began to adjust his thoughts.
After a few minutes, he managed to calm down, and remembered the dream he had a while ago.
"What happened?" - he wondered, as he looked around, all the fog had disappeared in a large radius. In fact, the fog or its remains didn't want to get close to Adrian anymore, it was as if even if he wanted to, he wouldn't try again for the rest of his life.
The last thing Adrian could remember was that he was about to die.
But at that moment, the mask seemed to have come to life.
"In the end I shouted something, no, that wasn't me, it was the guy in the mask" – Adrián could vaguely remember, while looking at his shadow.
For some reason, he looked at her, but the next instant he could feel something staring at him, as in his dream.
"The truth" – He told himself, according to all recollections, that such a guy had shown him, he could sense that there was something inside his shadow. No, something was dwelling inside her.
"I can feel it, what does this mean?" – His shadow, even if it wasn't there, could clearly sense that something had formed.
His body was still weak, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity. A lot of memories that weren't hers had been mixed up. I knew that's what I had to do.
"Appears" – He said a simple word, but when he spoke.
Several wisps of mist manifested themselves uniting in a mass, which began to imitate a shocking aura, soon the fog that was not converted, moved away from Adrian, he was very afraid, he could almost feel how his whole being had become a second presence, and that terrified him.
"How can it be possible!" – Adrian said surprised, while looking at the figure made of fog, it was not a person, it was several wisps fused, but it could respond to his thoughts. Just by feeling its aura, he couldn't tell how strong it was, but it terrified him.
For the moment Adrian kept the subject from fog in his shadow, his body was exhausted, he could even feel that his eyes hurt, anything he had done had left him weakened.
At the moment I couldn't continue in this place, I had to rest and then see what I could do.
Now the fog was not trying to stop him and he was able to start getting out easily.
However, at that time. A couple of people ran out of the fog, as if they were fleeing.
Adrian recognized them immediately, they were the parents of that girl who stayed with Apothecary Gu.
The girl ran noisily, while the husband would walk with all his strength, pushing the fog away.
"Save us!" – the woman shouted in a pleading voice. But at that moment Adrian took several steps back, causing only the fog to move away from his surroundings.
Adrián remembered the scene when he found the plants he was looking for, the bodies on the ground, they were not only people who had died from the fog, there were also corpses that were killed.
Now that he saw the couple safe, he could assume that they had something to do with such corpses, so at that moment even if he was injured, he had to quickly walk away.
Adrian did not know them, and in this place, anyone could conspire against anyone, even murder was allowed.
Seeing Adrian walk away, the couple became anxious, even the husband who could no longer stand the powerful fog.
Seeing that they ran out of options, the wife screamed desperately.
"We'll pay you 100 coins if you save us" – When his voice sounded, Adrian stopped his steps.