Chapter 274: The Dark Dimension (1/2)
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The Sect Master of the Ocean Sect recalled how he came to be with the communication of beings from another dimension, it happened roughly 50 years ago.
He had been sleeping over his throne when he suddenly found himself in a dark place, this was a nightmare.
He had been sleeping with frustration lately, without knowing how to breakthrough.
Despite hearing of the legends of the Sages who had all breakthrough into Supreme Gods, he had been trying for hundreds of years, but had yet to reach this stage.
While sleeping another night left exhausted from trying, he found himself inside a nightmarish and darkness-filled place.
In there, countless amorphous beings made of darkness and shadows greeted him, with glowing crimson-red eyes.
However, despite how they were supposedly many, they were something similar to a Hivemind…
Indeed, a Hivemind, they were many beings in one, all of them part of a single entity.
The Sect Master detected this monstrous being as he glared into the skies of this dark landscape.
In there, a massive crimson-red eye, with countless marks of blackness across its red-colored iris looked down on him…
”You… desire… power?”
It spoke three words.
The Sect Master was left speechless by the power of this entity.
It was so strong and majestically overwhelming he couldn't do anything, absolutely nothing!
However, deep down, he really wanted to accept! He wanted power over everything, after all he suffered on his childhood, after all the catastrophes, how the other sects destroyed his village and all those ha had escaped into, all for conquest and resources…! His family dying, everything…! These traumas catapulted him into growing in someone obsessed with power.
He wanted power and more power so he could ultimately destroy all these other sects, avenging his people and ultimately taking over the continent and the world of Azure!
This drive led him to insanity, to the insanity where accepting a deal with an utterly alien begin was totally okay!
”I don't know… what you are or what you want but… if you're genuine… show yourself to me when I wake up!” he said.
”…Understood.”
And when he woke up, a crack in space time opened before his very eyes as countless darkness poured out of it like a sea of miasma.
”W-What?!” asked the Sect Master.
A crimson-red eye glared down on him.
”I am real… But I require… Key…” asked the man.
”What…?! Key? Why can't you come and do this work yourself?” asked the Sect Master.
”Confined… Weakened… I require the Key of this Dimension… So I can regain power… By devouring it.” said the entity.