Chapter Twenty: Miracle and Necromancy
Andrew Walls had already dealt with the countless portals without even casting a spell. At that moment he saw a portal open slowly, a prodigious aura wafting out of it instantly.
Seeing this, Andrew Walls knew that the extraterrestrial being in the dimension behind that portal was no ordinary being. If he had not concentrated his power on the whole country, he feared the aura from the portal would have instantly destroyed it even when the extraterrestrial being had not yet revealed himself! He didn't panic as he had encountered powerful beings like that. Extraterrestrial beings beyond Array 5 could not descend to the mortal realm except through a weak body. There was some kind of law governing the infinite cosmos which prevented that. This was done so that higher dimensional beings would no descend to the world and cause havoc. Their presences alone could destroy lower dimensional planes instantly!
Instead of closing the portal immediately, Andrew Walls decided to go into the portal—to meet the higher dimensional being in his or her own dimension. This way, he would fight whoever was behind the portal and show them that the world of sorcerers could not be messed with—not when an Array eight like him was still the head of the Hands Of Arcane.
As he walked towards the portal, his hue turned transparent and incorporeal. He walked into the portal, transversing into another dimensional plane. His Magical Body wavered as he stepped into the dimensional plane as if he had stepped into a reality which was beyond him.
This world was a bit like the world he came from. It had trees, grasses, mountains and seas. The difference was that the seas stretched boundlessly and infinitely, covered in grey fog which even he couldn't see through. Everything was covered in greyness as if nothing was alive in this world. There were no animals or birds like it was in his world, making this world as silent as a graveyard.
"Finally I have gotten the chance I have been waiting for," a voice resonated across the dimensional place, shaking it. "I have gotten the chance of killing you and absorbing your Magical Body brimming with powerful mana, soul and spirit!"
It was believed that the Magical Body of a sorcerer was also his source of life—the spring through which life flowed into his physical body. The Magical Body was made up of magical essence, soul and spirit of the sorcerer and the source of magic as well as the source of life. Sorcerers who were of the Middle Array had powerful Magical Bodies which could serve as fuels for entire worlds and dimensions much more the Magical Bodies of High Array sorcerers like Andrew Walls who was now an Array eight! Most creatures fed on Magical Bodies as they could serve as fuels to sustain them for longer periods of time.
Andrew Walls knew the reason countless extraterrestrial creatures coveted the human dimension was because it was the one of the core dimensions in the infinite cosmos, brimming with countless energies which have not yet been discovered by the humans. Thus, when accidents happen to the dimensional fabric which separates the human dimension from other dimensions, these greedy creatures would cease the chance to attack the human dimension in order to reap great benefits from it. For most of them, the energies in the human dimension served as ingredients for them to advance and brim with tremendous powers!
The reason Andrew Walls stepped into the portal was because he was very confident of his abilities as an Array eight, Grand Prince of the Theurgy School. Therefore when Andrew Walls heard the voice say that it would absorb his Magical Body, he treated it as a joke and resolved to deal with whatever creature was lurking behind the shadows and had not revealed itself.
Suddenly, the whole dimension trembled with immense prodigiousness. The seas rolled into the endless grey heavens and then splashed all over the dimension with enormity, washing away the trees, grasses and mountains.
Andrew Walls who has resumed his physical state immediately turned incorporeal, the flood of seas phasing through him as he never existed—as if he was a phantasm. For hours, the seas continued splashing till they were finally emptied. Andrew Walls who could see the entire dimension from where he was standing saw an abyss in the location of the seas. The abyss was bottomless and infinite, going on for eternity. By mere looking into it, he felt his Magical Body being attracted towards it.
Then, a gigantic creature with great malevolent and malodorous aura ascended out of the abyss. Its face was grosteque, having no description whatsoever. It had no eyes, nose or mouth—just a head. Atop its head were five horns which were covered with mouths which continued spurting vile words having mephitic auras which were intertwined with each other. Its body was abyssal, covered with countless eyes which were stygian. It had no limbs but countless tentacles which extended from its body, making it a gruesome sight to behold. Its mere presence carried with it a portentousness, puffed up with a cyclopean prodigiosity. It was so monstrous that whoever beheld it or imagined its appearance would die of horror. This was the creature which resided in the dimension, the creature which reeked of the Abyss!
Andrew Walls was very surprised that such a creature still existed within this dimension which was like this. To make matters more confusing, it reeked of the Abyss—the legendary origin of all evil! And to think that such a powerful creature was among those weak creatures trying to enter the human dimension made Andrew Walls to frown. What would it gain with such a power it displayed now? Or it was close it ascending and absorbing the human dimension's infinite energies were a prerequisite to fully ascend? But then, how did the legendary Pit of Abyss end up in this dimension? Was this dimension a node to the Pit of Abyss?
"Fool!" the gruesome mouths on the heads spoke at the same time. "You have no idea about anything—the whole lot of you! Now die!"
Hearing those words, Andrew Walls felt the whole dimension transform into an endless gore of Abyss, filled with corruption and evil. He felt himself descending into the Abyss, his powers slowly being extinguished!
Goddess's Eye!
"Goddess sees everything!"
Andrew Walls spread his hands outwards as if trying to hug the monstrous being.
Crack!
An eye formed in the center of Andrew Walls' forehead, exuding divine and sacred auras. This eye stared at the creature of Abyss, looking at the whole dimension. Its very stare transcended every concept and every 'no' concept, seeing the creature as an infinitely powerless being.
This was one of the most powerful spells in the School Of Theurgy. It was like Blessing of Hellenes which could draw power from the Goddess, causing Paradise to descend around the target and nullifying all powers which the target had. But then, unlike the Blessing of Hellenes, this spell would make sorcerers to develope a third eye in the middle of their foreheads through which the Goddess would cast Her gaze on the target.
The attack of the creature was nullified as it felt the powerful stare erasing the Pit of Abyss! It was defenseless against the spell as all its powers had been nullified and could only watch as it was erased from existence.
"But I was almost comprehending the Third Path of Immortality," it was filled with regret as it was finally erased from existence. "The Pit of Abyss had helped me almost comprehend it."
"Comprehending the Third Path of Immortality? The Pit of Abyss?" Andrew Walls who had heard what the creature had said couldn't help but reveal his surprise. He didn't know what the Third Path of Immortality meant and could only guess it had to do with the creature of Abyss ascending. Then he said, "Thankfully I stopped it."
The eye in his forehead closed slowly as he stared at the spot the Pit of Abyss had been. There was nothing now as it had been destroyed by the Goddess's Eye.
"A node to Abyss?" Andrew Walls couldn't help but ask himself. Getting no answer, he transformed into several spectral creatures and vanished.
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An unknown dimension
Damien Hastle and another extraterrestrial creature fought, causing the dimension to quake and weaken greatly. If the battle had been done in the human dimension, it would have been destroyed.
This extraterrestrial creature was made up of head without any body. The head was putrid and covered with countless hands which wriggled every now and then. These hands has countless eyes covered over them and within these eyes were countless mouths as well. It was such a gruesome and devilish creature!
Boom!
The creature spat out countless vortexes from the countless mouths, the vortexes spreading towards Damien Hastle. The vortexes seemed to suck in everything into them as they spread towards Damien Hastle. Reality, space and time seemed to be sucked into the vortexes as they approached Damien Hastle.
"I never knew you'd still use the same attacks on me, Rhoda," Damien Hastle said with calmness as the vortexes approached him. He knew this extraterrestrial creature very well as they were once friends. It was once a human being and was one of those promising sorcerers in Damien Hastle's time and could have been the current Hands Of Arcane head if the accident hadn't happened. Her name was Rhoda and she had belonged to the School of Thaumaturgy. She and Damien Hastle had started as Mouth Spelling sorcerers but before he knew it, she had advanced to the Middle Array in a year. Her advancement had been so speedy that she caught everyone by surprise! When she became an Array seven, Miracle Mage, she had tried advancing to become an Array eight, Grand Performer. The ritual was going on smoothly then it all became wrong midway. She was transformed into an Array eight monster and wreaked havoc that day. It took several Array seven sorcerers to restrain the monster that day but then they couldn't destroy it as it escaped before the Array eight sorcerers arrived. It was after her escape they realized that she had been secretly worshiping Evil Eye who had corrupted her. Ever since then, no one had been able to find her through the infinite dimensions.
Nature's Descent!
Damien Hastle cast his spell immediately. As the vortexes approached, everywhere transformed into a beautiful garden with beautiful trees. A lake flowed through this garden, clear as crystal. The vortexes were reflected in this lake, the original ones vanishing thereafter while the reflected ones remained in the lake. Several lakes then appeared around Rhoda, the vortexes spinning out of them to swallow her! The powers of the vortexes were amplified by nature and she couldn't defend against it!
Hands of Miracle!
Seeing that she would be sucked into the vortexes and be destroyed, she use one of the Thaumaturgy School spells. As a High Array creature, she was more powerful than Damien Hastle and as such, he wouldn't be able to defend against her attack. Moreover, this wasn't just any attack. It was a magic spell which could manipulate miracles, causing unexpected things to happen. A Middle Array sorcerer like him wouldn't be able to guard against such a High Array attack!
Immediately, Damien Hastle felt his Magical Body being corroded by a force beyond him. This force attacked his Magical Body, draining it!
Smiling, Damien Hastle said, "I couldn't live with the guilt of my friend lurking around as a monster while I am a human. Now that you're dead, I can be rest assured that you've found peace and I can die peacefully as well."
Staring at him, the creature seemed to have recovered memories as she heard those words. Then she said, "Damien Hastle."
Damien Hastle struggled to smile and noddedas he watched her fade from existence. She also nodded as she was finally erased from existence.
Damien Hastle sat down as he felt his Magical Body shattering, his body also fading slowly. Tears trickled down his eyes as he said, "Take care of your mother, Cassio."