Accept destiny.
In the past, although Ethan also wanted to accept it, he actually wanted to find Nyarlathotep in exchange for the love he wanted in exchange for accepting fate as a condition. But now, he really understood what acceptance meant.
In this world, he wants nothing more. There are no relatives, lovers, friends, homes, hopes and ties. He was like a kite with a broken string, and he lost the slightest nostalgia for the ground beneath his feet.
He didn't want to live, and he didn't want to die. Neither sad nor happy. He stood on the top of the dune overlooking the world, but what he saw was a void.
Here is the most appropriate ending.
He closed his eyes and took a long breath. Something in my mind that had been tight was suddenly loosened, as if a door that had been tightly shut was suddenly opened.
It was a double-opening mahogany door, with even classical carvings and brass handles on it, calm and clean.
It was the door to the priest's castle, the door to the depths of his spirit. There, his most fragile and secret subconscious was dormant and surging quietly, like the black sea undulating in the night.
It was at this moment that the seance was completely completed.
Suddenly, something roared from another world, like thunder and lightning, tsunami and landslide. The majesty and heaviness that cannot be described in human language, as if the entire universe was condensed into a singularity of infinite density, which was forcefully and irresistibly stuffed into his consciousness. In an instant, the severe pain of being torn made him scream, but the cry was drowned out by the rolling thunder that swept across the ground.
The magnetic field is chaotic, the stratus clouds are rolling, and the thunder and lightning are interspersed. In the far south Pacific Ocean he could not see, an ancient land that had been submerged for hundreds of millions of years was slowly rising. The vast land, covered with seaweed and fossils from the ocean, is crammed with twisted structures that existed before humankind. From this city of Lalaye, which has been imprisoned for countless years, there is a terrifying roar that will make all human beings go mad, full of ancient anger and cruelty. Huge octopus tentacles that could easily overturn the starship rose from the water, and the raised sea water formed a continuous torrential rain. In the frantic wind, there was a trembling sound of giant wings flapping.
At the same time, over the vast desert on the other side of the earth, the space was terribly distorted, like a torn silk satin, and the scene was suddenly cut off in the middle. The space from another universe is constantly advancing, and in the out-of-control crack, there is a terrifying figure that runs through the sky and the earth. His whole body was wrapped in scorched yellow mist, and it was difficult to see his face clearly. The evil wind from the origin of the universe filled the whole world. The King in Yellow is taking his insane steps towards this unarmed universe. Behind him, countless invisible monsters in the wind are howling, spraying hot acid and viruses into the wind.
A large area of the sky was covered with black flesh that suddenly appeared, and the faintly stirring red blood threads flashed ominously in it. The Goddess of Progeny wrapped half of the earth in her endless flesh, and the black tentacles that fell from the sky dragged and swayed like mycelium, devouring all the uninfected creatures on the ground. Her hunger was unstoppable, and rumbling sighs kept coming from the shivering chunks of flesh, swallowing the whole world into darkness.
The entire earth is surrounded by the vortex of time and space, and huge monsters from countless other worlds protrude their terrifying minions from the cracks. In the desert where Ethan was located, thousands of black insects cheered and raised their heads towards the black sky.
The veil was torn apart, and after that was a picture of emptiness and chaos that human beings could not recognize and understand at all. The stuff that's not just what constitutes churning, betrays endless antiquity and madness. The mass of black flesh descended from the crack and inserted directly into Ethan's mind.
Ethan felt like he was being torn up into the sky, his brain was being crushed to pieces. At the same time, huge and terrifying memory fragments rushed into his mind like a flood of dykes, impacting his memory.
He saw the birth of the universe, the explosion that created everything, the beginning and the end of everything. He saw a chaotic and surging viscous matter, and saw the first particle of life that suddenly became ignorant and began to split. He saw new worlds covered by the ocean, and saw the countless worms swimming in the ocean, wiggling their flagella, twitching their suckers, and devouring each other. He saw ancient cities and civilizations rise and fall, saw grotesque people die in disasters that fell from the sky along with those strange and twisted cities, saw erupting volcanoes, raging hurricanes, and trembling earth.
He also saw those huge extra-dimensional creatures that were older than time. They are like the darkness that envelops the universe, like the endless space and time outside the universe, everywhere, swinging their sticky and fat bodies lazily. They devour everything, and all other order merges within them.
At that moment, he seemed to dissipate as well, and he became a part of mountains, rivers, and black holes of stars. His hands, feet, and body seemed to have disappeared, dissipated with the wind, like spring breeze and rain, everywhere.
But at the same time, he also felt that his consciousness was being devoured a little bit. Without resistance, he opened himself calmly, letting the ultimate chaos, the heart of the universe, gluttonously. He even enjoyed the excruciating pain of his soul being crushed by something as massive as a mountain.
Countless tentacles bloomed behind him, and black lines spread all over his body. Black smoke enveloped his whole body, like an alternative holy light enveloped him.
Suddenly, a dazzling blue light broke through the vortex of time and space and exploded a few kilometers away from Ethan. The faint blue flames instantly swept across all directions like fireworks, and all the black insects screamed and vaporized wherever they went. The blue wave roared and washed away, but it seemed to be blocked by an invisible force before it hit Ethan.
Ethan's body twitched, as if out of control. Black blood gushed out from his seven orifices, and the once gentle green eyes were also shattering little by little.
Not far away, between the heavens and the earth stood an ugly and twisted giant, with flaming red tentacles twisting in the sky. Nyarlathotep growled, whether it was anger or joy.
"Azathoth has come, you are too late!"
In the center of the blue explosion, a space-time gap is forming, from which a quiet to holy blue light is revealed. The gap is getting bigger and bigger, almost across the sky. From that gap, some vague giant shapes loomed.
They are similar in size to the giant monsters that have appeared all over the earth, except that they have a vague shape that is not known whether it is gel, liquid or semi-gas. They come in all shapes and sizes, with some kind of smoke cloud that can be seen but cannot be grasped, as if something is evaporating all the time.
In that fierce mouth, there are thousands of such monsters, all of them seem to be crowded beside the crack. And those monsters that had already appeared on Earth, including Nyarlathotep, roared in anger and strode toward those translucent monsters. Anyone who heard that roar shrank against the wall and shivered, shivering like a child.
But Ethan couldn't feel it, and his consciousness became more and more blurred.
But at this time, something close to a spherical shape with densely packed eyes emerged from that blue space-time crack. Countless pupils were trembling constantly, looking at the surrounding world, but they soon settled on Ethan. on the body.
Ethan recognized it, and after wiping off the mark Tanethel had given him, he had seen it in a dream, and was even nearly crushed to pieces by it.
When Nyarlathotep and two other tentacled monsters swarmed towards the translucent monster with eyes all over the body, several other translucent bodies that looked like wriggling corals also squeezed out. At the moment when the two sides collided, violent explosions and flashes almost razed the entire desert to the ground, and the huge deep pit could not be created even by a nuclear bomb test. All the black humanoids vaporized in this explosion, becoming dust floating in Earth's destabilized atmosphere.
In the endless flashes, explosions, screams and roars, Ethan suddenly saw that the giant monster with eyes all over his body had occupied all the vision in front of him.
Is it... a prelude called Nordens
The core of the universe that was being squeezed into his body seemed impatient and manic, and squeezed into his mind more urgently. When the pain reached its peak, it was numb, and Ethan felt in a trance that he was in a state of half-dreamer and half-awake.
He noticed that between the twitching and blinking eyes, there were two flat tentacle-like things that seemed to wrap something. It protruded the two huge tentacles forward, and the milky white front end slowly opened.
In an instant, Nyarlathotep let out a roar that seemed a little frightened.
His hellish terrifying roar could be heard clearly by satellite even from the Earth Alliance monitoring station a few light-years away. At that time, almost everyone, including those aloof congressmen, were stunned to the ground, and some even urinated. Pants.
But Ethan didn't hear the roar at all, he just stared at the open white front end. On top of the two palm-like fronts, there is a figure.
Tanithel stood naked in that milky white halo, with his eyes closed, as pure and innocent as a newborn baby. He couldn't see any scars on his body, but it was so real and concrete that it wasn't like a phantom.
Then, those beautiful gray eyes slowly opened.
At that moment, Ethan's body trembled violently. He felt that the invisible soul bond, the soul bond that should have been broken, reappeared in his only broken soul as if it had suddenly been reborn. It wasn't the quiver of being enchanted by Nyarlathotep's vision before, but the feeling of being truly tethered, that long-lost, complete feeling.
Ethan couldn't move his entire body, staring at the beautiful but lifeless man who was held in the palm of the Sequence God's hand.
Then, Tanissell looked at him, his expression cracked from calm and hollow, and became vivid a little bit, as if a puppet was suddenly given life. His gray eyes widened, looking at Ethan in disbelief, tears streaming down the corners of his eyes. He stretched his hand forward, staggering as if he was not very good at walking at first, but still struggled forward, as if trying to grab Ethan.
"I... Ethan..." His language was a little awkward, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.
At this moment, at the moment when Tanisel appeared, Ethan's spirit that had been beaten to the ground suddenly reunited for a short time. He heard a disgruntled hiss from the part of Azathoth in him. He also stretched out his hand, trying to get rid of the black mass above his head.
Nordens sent Tanissell forward. Then, Ethan finally caught.
He grabbed the hand that Tanithel held out to him.