The second thing that jumped out at him right then, was the memory of the answer both Morpheus and his mother had given him when he asked them their names. Despite using different words, they'd each in their own way said that knowing their names would lead to more trouble than Greg was capable of handling as yet. It was a strange thing to say about a name, but again, Greg hadn't questioned it. With the power differential between them, it wasn't like he had any hope of forcing it out if them. He'd assumed that they meant that if he spoke it and the wrong people heard it, he'd be in danger. After hearing the world serpent use the name he'd come up with, however, Greg couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat as he realized just how much deeper the danger ran. As it was just yesterday, Greg could remember coming up with the name when Morpheus wouldn't give his true name. Greg's thinking had been rather simple. The deity seemed unable to hold any one form for too long. Amorphous, howev

In the end, neither party committed to anything. To beings like them, a decade of sleeping could be considered resting one's eyes. The world serpent was thus unbothered as Morpheus spent almost an hour scouting the city that was apparently at the center of this black zone. As if he had an invisible camera zipping from place to place, the screen he'd conjured had shown various areas of the city. According to the world serpent, she had tweaked the laws of this zone several hundred years back. In that time, the city had grown into the tens of thousands. This was still a rather small figure going by the standards of his former world where cities often held millions of people. Unlike in his former world, however, this city was entirely cut off from the rest of the world and forced to be self-sufficient. That it could sustain such a population was actually impressive. Much as the World serpent had warned them of an eighth or possibly ninth-tier mage., the truth on the ground was far worse

Only chaos and void are laws unto themselves. Everything else is governed by one or more laws," his familiar answered him. "Like the deity you are linked to told you, this black zone is a mix of two laws, space and inevitability. To undo the zone, he plans to condense these two laws into law crystals. As things currently stand, the remnant laws are spread out over a large enough area to match a whole nation. Depending on which law is dominant, one crystal may be larger than the other, but they will generally be about the size of your closed fist once he's done. The world serpent wants the law crystal associated with inevitability," she finally explained what the world serpent was asking for. "Except if we condense the two crystals, we'd be in no position to keep her from taking more than she claims she wants. We'd be lucky if we walked away with our lives," Greg said, unable to help a note of bitterness as he gave voice to the real crisis they faced. Olivia nodded in agreement, ha

When his teacher first introduced his new awakening method Olivia had been impressed enough to call on her true self. This second time, an aura shield cast by Olivia had been his only protection. Unsurprisingly, it was nowhere near enough. When the primordial finally vanished once more and Greg was freed from the paralysis spell Olivia had cast on him, he had not been in control of himself. The common human experience was a rational mind feeling lust. In the time following the primordial's disappearance, Greg had been reduced to nothing but lust, with some fragment of rationality barely attached to it. At the time, his teacher was the one to suffer the fall out of the overwhelming lust. Though, if her moans were anything to go by, 'suffering', wasn't the best word to describe what she had experienced. The only other time that Greg had encountered the true primordial, Morpheus had been in control of his body and had all too easily ignored the primordial's aura of lust. Having already b

Under any other circumstances, Greg would have been curious as to what she meant by captors. At the moment, however, he only had one question that he wanted an answer to. "Tell me, Tera, why did you attack my airship?" He asked. The woman shrugged, the chains that bound her clinking in the process. "I made the best of a bad situation," she replied cryptically. The glare that Greg directed at her as a consequence, however, pushed her to continue. "I was ordered to not only kill Reina, but to ensure that no one on this airship was ever heard from again!" She revealed. "Ordered by whom?" Greg asked. "Master Hashel Zorath," this time she gave a direct answer. Greg didn't need to ask who that was. When implementing Athalia's plan, he'd gone to Raksha to see if he knew anything about the assassin. Luckily, the leonid knew her. It is from that conversation that he learned that Reina belonged to a house surnamed Zorath. The leonid even knew that this particular assassin worked under R