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Chapter 608
"That is." Flora said, with the specific tone of someone who is about to be informative. "Why it is called the Dark Realm."She said it with the patient delivery of someone who finds the obvious occasionally worth stating."The Vethara secondary texts, not the primary ones I mentioned before, the secondary compilation, the one that was written by the three-person research team that managed to enter the boundary and return, they spent forty pages on the ecosystem alone." She glanced at the centipede thing and its meal without breaking her stride. "The dark realm doesn't have the concept of a food chain in the way the living world does. It has a food loop. Everything eats everything, eventually. The size hierarchy exists but it is temporary, a large thing eats a small thing, the large thing becomes large enough to be targeted by something larger, the cycle continues until the largest thing dies from something other than predation and everything else in the immediate area participate
Chapter 607: Let's Keep Going
The dark realm had its own ecosystem.That was the thing that hit first, not the cold, not the low light, not the specific quality of the ground under their boots. The ecosystem. The specific, functioning, completely self-sufficient set of things that lived here and ate here and died here and had been doing all three for longer than anyone had been keeping records of it.The spiders came into visibility first.Not one or two,the dense population of them, covering the twisted undergrowth that ran along the base of the dark realm's warped tree equivalents. The trees here were not trees in any form that matched the word, they were the dark realm's version, the things that grew when the growing was shaped by the realm's specific properties. They grew wrong. Not dramatically wrong, wrong in the specific way of something that has been developing according to a set of rules that does not include sunlight or clean water or soil that hasn't been saturated with dark flame aura for generations
Chapter 606
She said.She paused."I admit it.”She said. "That's actually awesome."Asta looked at the group."The cloak neutralizes our presence." He said. "Anything out here, anything that reads aura signatures, anything that tracks by flame,it can't find us. As far as the dark realm is concerned, we're not here."Roderick looked at the landscape.At the hard ground, the structures, the specific quality of the low light."Good.” He said.He said it in the voice he used when things were not good but the thing described was the best available variable in a set of variables that were not good."We are going to need every edge we can get," He said. "To pull this off."He looked at Asta.Asta looked at the structures in the distance.At the Binding Towers, dark against the dark sky.At the specific direction of deeper in, the direction that the hard ground led, the direction the structures were denser in, the direction that was further from the portal and further into the realm.He started wa
Chapter 605
The sky, if it was a sky, if the thing above them qualified as a sky, was the specific dark of something that was not a night sky. Not the darkness of the absence of sunlight but the darkness of a place where sunlight had never been and where the concept of sunlight had never been relevant. It had colors in it, deep, shifting, the specific colors of something that was not lit but was itself luminous in a low, pervasive way.The ground under their feet was hard.Not stone, something that was in the territory of stone but had the specific quality of something that had been stone and had been changed by a long time of being in a place that changed things. The way it sounded under their boots. The way it gives slightly, not the way earth gives but the way something gives when it has been compressed so long that the compression is part of its structure.The smell.Cold and specific and unlike anything that existed on the other side of the portal, the smell of a place that had its own che
Chapter 604
She was already beside him."I see it.”She said, equally quiet.She looked at Cassian.She looked at the situation, at the beast, which had recovered from the arrow's impact and was turning its head back toward the clearing, at Cassian who was waiting for an explanation, at the squad behind him who were in the formation of people who were ready for a variety of outcomes.She stepped forward.She put on the specific expression she wore when she had committed to a thing and was going to do the thing with everything she had."Okay." She said to Cassian."So. Here's where we are."She gestured at the clearing with the open generosity of someone giving a tour."Casual demonic infestation." She said. "Beast came through an unstable portal because someone decided to flare their aura at maximum output right next to an open dark realm breach. Very preventable, honestly. Very avoidable. Didn't happen that way." She paused. "And if you are wondering about the supervisor you sent, your guy,
Chapter 603
The beast's chest expanded.Roderick watched it happen, the specific visible expansion of something filling itself with whatever it was pulling from the clearing, the ambient energy of the space feeding into it the way air feeds into a fire that has found a new source of oxygen. The wounds were gone. All of them, completely, no residual evidence of the combined output that four people had put into it across the last several minutes."It's growing stronger." Roderick said.He said it flatly. The specific flat of someone who has confirmed something they already suspected and is delivering the confirmation without any editorial on top of it.Yuki was looking at it. At the expansion. At the specific quality of the beast's presence that was different from when it had first come through the portal,not different in size, different in density. The specific density of something that has added to itself."Then what?." She said.She looked at Roderick."What are we supposed to do right now?"
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