Chapter 496: Third Fight: Dan & Gustavo VS Kamei & Orb 7
Chapter 496: Third Fight: Dan & Gustavo VS Kamei & Orb 7
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Everyone looked at Gustavo curiously, intrigued, horrified, and even terrified…
It was but natural to think that of him now, whatever he had become now was truly unnatural by itself, the being he had become… what could it be?
Some smarter people suddenly recalled Shoggoth from within Kuro’s Coffin. Shoggoth was a monster from another Plane of existence, a creature which he had made a contract with and made it into his Familiar.
Although this monster’s presence was truly abyssal and terrifying, compared to the beast in front of them now, this was nothing.
Yet… Kuro could have some insights on this.
And he had just arrived, patched up while being helped by Julia, the two sat down near Frank, Gwendolyn and Axitl also had come back, and Gwendolyn had Alexander sitting over her lap now. Kaguya and Sadako had come back just a few minutes ago and were sitting behind Frank.
“That thing… So this is the power Gustavo has, huh? Interesting… I see, I see how it is.” Said Kuro, while nodding and closing his eyes.
“You know something?” asked Gwendolyn.
“I do, Gwendolyn. This being that Gustav has… It is similar to my Shoggoth. A creature that dwells within the Outer Void Plane, a Plane were the children of Azathoth exist and prosper…” said Kuro.
“T-The what?!” asked Axitl in shock.
“Azathoth, the third pillar of our known Universe, created many children as he slept. Pieces of his own endless grotesque flesh which divided themselves endlessly across his own shadow, the immense and warped body he has possess a shadow, this shadow warped space and time and created the Outer Void Plane, a sea of emptiness where grotesque beings dwell within.” Said Kuro.
“H-How do you know this?” asked Kaguya. Not even she, a demigoddess and granddaughter of a goddess knew about this!
Not even Frank had this knowledge! But why Kuro?
“As an invoker of the unknown, I’ve enlightened my own self with the forbidden knowledge of the Ancient Ones to attain the power to make of Shoggoth a Familiar. But even then, this knowledge is just basic stuff. It only took a 20% of my sanity to learn it after a ritual that took 10 years to complete, where I did not feed nor drank water, nor slept.” Said Kuro.
“M-My lord does some strange rituals sometimes to contact these dark entities…” sighed Julia.
“Such things exist in this world?” wondered Frank, feeling a tad bit shocked.
“Of course they do. Did you think this planet was boring, compared to the countless others you have the ability to visit, world traveler? Did you think that for those that investigate the unknown, there was no such thing as knowing about other worlds? About the outer universe? About the Primordial, or the Planes?” asked Kuro.
Frank squinted his eyes as he looked at Kuro with intrigue.
“Who are you?” he asked.
“…I am merely a Vampire with a lot of curiosity. All children are curious, right? This is a trait I was not able to take away from myself as I became a Vampire at a young age. I am inherently very curious about this. I can assure of you, Frank, Gustavo’s entity originates from here. I can feel it within hits Empty Void Origin Root.” Said Kuro.
“Origin… Root?” asked Frank. He felt intrigued by Kuro’s knowledge, he seemed like a library of things he never knew about!
“Heh, if you feel interested in the occult, you can contact me when everything is over, I don’t mind taking a talented young boy as my disciple.” Said Kuro. Seeing a kid talk like an old man felt a bit weird for Frank, but he couldn’t miss this opportunity.
“Very well, I will take that for granted. Nonetheless… tell me, Kuro, what is he?” asked Frank.
Everyone around Kuro looked at Frank and Kuro intensively, even Clementine and the other Vampires in standby… even Alexander cutely looked at the two!
“You see. Outer Void entities have various Tiers of power. My Shoggoth is a lowly Lower Eldritch Horror Tier being, meanwhile, there are several tiers higher than this, such as Abomination of the Unknown, Eldritch Antiquity… and even more, Outer Gods, they’re greater than all of us in power, and cannot be possibly made into Familiars. But you can make pacts with them and become a Warlock. Of course, you’ll offer your soul to them, each time you call forth their power, your soul will be eaten bit by bit… Outer Gods… what Gustavo has inside of his soul, its similar.” Said Kuro.
RUMBLE!
“But the strange thing is, shouldn’t Gustavo be a warlock then? But he’s not. He was born with this thing inside of him… Due to this, he’s an anomaly amongst anomalies, and possess an infinite potential which Clementine-sama’s father recognized. Even as the old man he is now, he has a large room to grow even bigger and stronger… Just by imagining what kind of being might arise from this battle fills me with excitement.” Said Kuro, a malicious smile emerged on his face, he looked rather insane!
Julia smiled bitterly, as if apologizing to them for her master’s eccentric behavior.
“An Outer God, huh?” wondered Frank, as he began to ponder if it could be possible for him to one day travel to the Outer Void and meet these monstrous entities. Perhaps learning Occultism from Kuro could be a way to do it, even his App Shop lacked anything elated to this, he had to first learn it to find it inside his shop and learn such powers.
FLAAASSSSSHHH!
Gustavo’s entire presence was truly abyssal, but at the same time, empty, filled with nothingness, resembling the void itself, a personification of something nonexistent.
Orb and Kamei looked at the scene in shock, while Dan was also a bit scared…
Gustavo’s consciousness was somewhere else, meanwhile, as he faced a greater darkness and emptiness than anything he had ever faced before. The truest being that had dwelled within him.
“W-Who… what are you?” he asked faintly.
“You have called, and here I am…” it said.
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