[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

83: R'lyeh 07

This place was beyond the dimensions, beyond all time and space, beyond the end of the universe.

Here, a sea of stars glittered. Wisps of radiance trembled in the darkness like a candle flame in a lantern, swaying but never extinguished.

Few intelligent beings ever reached this place, including evil gods. And evil gods who weren't powerful enough had to abide by the same restrictions.

To be honest, it wasn't that difficult to get here. But you had to pass through the Gates of the Silver Key, then be recognized by the ancient and immortal keepers before you'd be permitted to enter the Ultimate Gate of the Universe.

Beyond the Ultimate Gate, the true body of the Lord of Time and Space stood firmly above the universe, looking down on everything that existed. Nothing could escape his sight.

As it should be.

But this axiom, which was stronger than the three laws of the universe, had just been refuted.

A figure clothed in glowing light slowly walked through the Gates of the Silver Key.

Beyond the gates was a huge stone pedestal, engraved with a dense series of enigmatic magic patterns.

In this place, under the blessing of the Lord of Time and Space, time itself was meaningless. To sit here for a moment was the same as sitting for a century. What significance did it have? Time was meaningless to an evil god. Things that actually were meaningful to them were so rare and few in number they weren't worth mentioning.

All the ancient keepers sitting below the throne stood to pay the greatest homage to the figure.

"Hail to the Lord on his return, under the Great Reign of Yog-Sothoth."

They watched over this place, guarding the gates of eternity and knowledge, but the ancient ones knew they were no more than slaves of the Lord of the Gate.

They dwelled under the reign of Yog-Sothoth, one of the three pillars of the original gods; the Supreme Master of Time and Space; the Lord of the Gate; the great deity of the Trinity of the Gate, the Key, and the Guardian of the Gate; the Opener of the Way.

The gray-haired, golden-eyed evil god didn't give them a single glance. He took one light step and the next moment he appeared before the Ultimate Gate.

Unlike the monolithic pedestal, the Ultimate Gate had no patterns inscribed on it. It was exceptionally simple, flat, and uncomplicated.

It towered over heaven and earth, an endless expanse of a structure stretching further than the eye could see. It was like a giant mantle that stood in front of the final abyss of the universe.

No one had visited this place in many years. Let alone humans, countless intelligent species found it difficult to reach.

The last occurrence could be traced back to the previous century as humans reckoned it. A tiny human, an investigator named Randolph Carter, had pleased the Lord of the Gate, so the Lord granted an exception and allowed the human to pass through the Ultimate Gate and peer into the true nature of the universe behind it.

Unfortunately, Randolph Carter had lost himself in an endless parallel dimension. Whether he lived or died was unknown. However, the Lord of the Gate didn't revoke his reward. Instead, he promised that if the man someday reached the Gates of the Silver Key again, the Lord would grant him the supreme honor of becoming a god of the ancient ones.

'You cannot reach the Gates without the Silver Key.'

The ancient ones were silent. They were well aware of the evil god's malevolent intentions.