Temporal Pearls

And when Seth looked at the Tome Of Silence cover page, everything became dark. He was still inside the last layer of bubble Guardian but it was as if he wasn't, he was in the dark but he could see the domain and what was happening.

He wasn't killed by the Tome but that wasn't his worst fear. What came next made him truly grasped why it was called Tome Of Silence.

Crunch!

Munch!

Munch!

The new creature was bitten and it was chewed. Seth screamed, he felt the sound of flesh being pierced by sharp teeth and the bones being crushed with immeasurable bite force and now they were being shredded in the most inhuman way possible.

The noise bypasses his mental fortitude and pure white stone will and reached the depth of his spirit, his spirit has been shredded by it.

AHHHhhh!

A blood curdling scream was enough to induce killing desire in the heart of man to escape Seth's mouth.

Munch!

Munch!

The evil chewing melody intensified with glee as it relished both the flesh and Seth scream sonata happening at the same time.

Crunch!

A new biting melody reached Seth and his screaming changed tone becoming very low but with high pitch, if there was a glass it would have shattered it.

Munch!

Munch!

Seth's body convulsed, bending becoming like a C as his scream intensified in different directions until his lungs were dried of air and he became silent for only a moment before he bent and took a deep breath before the new form of agony erupted again.

One minute earlier.

Blood Warlock was in the tent, guiding his soldier battling the monster he trapped in the Sanctuary when his attention snapped elsewhere and he grimaced.

The people around including his son, Crimson Silk, tremble seeing his reaction. They know how formidable their master was and anything that can shake him like this was enough to terrorize them till the end of time.

"A portion of him, one of the Core Avatar, has engaged with Red Canvas!"

"What?" Crimson's Silk panicked as he asked.

"How did it bypass our defenses?" A general, named Zabuza, frowned and inquired

"Did it plan to resurrect there or did it plan to feed on the boy!" A woman, Red Moon Witch asked. She had tried to feed on Red Canvas but she was overwhelmed due to poor planning.

Blood Warlock didn't answer them but opened his palm and a dot of red light appeared, everyone around shifted away by a meter. Fear written on their face.

"Son, follow this star. It will lead you to them!"

"Annihilating the Core is the only option, my Lord. We can't afford to show mercy just because you like the boy!" Zabuza angrily shouted.

The Warlock looked at his strongest general and said, "Protect my son then. The star will act accordingly. If utter annihilation is the solution then so be it. But do not act, you are only to observe!"

Both the red star and the two people vanished and appeared several hundred meters away from the Coral Domain.

Underground Valley.

Rena was busy testing her powers when she heard a distant scream, she looked around but didn't find the source but felt it come from within her.

She brought out one of her rabbits and she saw he was the one screaming as if in pain and her heart fell. She pulled the Sibling Link Book and wrote, [Zero where are you?]

There was instant replay, "I'm ….!" He trailed.

"I thought you were helping him avoid those hunters!" She inquired agitated.

"Sister, he avoided them himself but then suddenly a red domain emerged and …and… my silver eye Raven won't allow me to look. Whatever danger was happening inside was greater than me by vast merging!"

She and her brother have decided to aid Seth secretly. Zero with his ability to make people confused about roads has followed the Blue Soldiers but it wasn't needed as Seth's use of Painting Decoy did the trick but the boy still followed Seth to escort him from the air but then this happened.

"Whatever is happening, Seth is being tortured!"

She said with tears uncontrollably coming out of her eyes.

***

A tentacle with steel scales raptured from within the bleeding humanoid, forming an armed creature. Then from the shadow of that single tentacle sprout many of them, in hundreds then in thousands, encompassing the whole domain.

They all moved in unison to trapped whatever that was munching on them while the real tentacle vanished and hid within many.

Crunch!

Munch!

Munch!

"AhhhhhHhhhhh"

Seth held his head, his eyes had expanded and about to pop out, his veins were like red rope that wiggled and then raptured from around his body.

There were notifications coming and going but he can't even know what he was doing let alone read some damn thing.

The shadow tentacles were bitten off and the real one collapsed dead.

The Maw doesn't care of reality or not, as long as it represents something or come from something or part of something, it feeds, it devours it including the essence.

From the tentacle remnants come another monster, a giant lizard hand, emitting red fire that began to scorch everything within the domain and when it touched the ground, it melted becoming akin to lava.

Seth was in too much pain due to listening to the vile chewing as he would have noticed that his Stone Heart Lava Scripture was ignited and because of that he was able to regain a sense of self.

He gleaned that he was within a Phantom Maw, that was a giant mouth with saw-like teeth. It floated back and forth like a shadow within the mist, its true feature was hidden only by the vile munching that was ever present.

Seth noticed the lizard with a long 200 hundred meters tail that ended with a whip of fire coming out.

The Maw swam toward it but the lizard that had a 20 meter long neck and a head with tongue of fire vanished in sparks and appeared above the Maw.

But, coming close…

Crunch!

Munch!

Munch!

The torture continued…

***

"What is happening?" Crimson Silk asked. He can't see a thing, his eyes ability won't allow him to look.

But the General has a scowl, he can see the myriad creatures that were appearing but they also seemed to be suddenly losing part of themselves.

He looked up at the dot of red light, he felt a chill down his spine but looked down at the domain. 'What on earth was fighting the Avatar?'

He pondered, but he felt he really didn't want to know. Experience tales at empire

***

It felt like eternity, and just a second, Seth screams never seize unless he was taking in breath.

His throat has long been broken, his eyes bleeding as well as his skin.

In a bout of sanity he sought solace in destroying his ear drums to have a respite. His hand moved and with small staff he attacked his ears one after the other.

Immediately, Seth's bones cracked, his skin tore and his brain began to boil, and the scream seized.

Seth stood straight, his head bent backward and his face was in silent scream with his mouth wide agape.

Deep beyond the realm of the physical, at the confinement of intangible, Seth avatar spirit was in scream that spread for kilometres.

General Zabuza, Crimson Silk, Zero and two other humans that were hidden all have their minds blanked away.

Zero that was above ground with his dragon wings spread, fell down unknowingly.

Gawee creatures with their uncanny senses began to run away as they felt something amiss.

~pulse~

A powerful but imperceptible force emitted by Seth.

~First Might!

The Great Maw was forcefully returned back into the Tome Of Silence and Seth fell to the ground, still awake, his eyes almost bursting out.

The First Might seeped into his body making him not be destroyed completely, and he then began to heal faster than normal.

His bones mended and his torn muscles healed, the only thing that remained was the ringing in his head.

Seth violently sat, like a madman waking up in a strange location.

His head veered toward the monster. It was a remnant of another human creature, this time it was a woman, naked, with a pregnant stomach, but its upper half was bitten off.

Just above the wound was a smooth orb that contained Myriad Energy. Each representing a different monster it contained.

The mist and coral has grown due to feeding on the remains of monsters The Great Maw devoured.

A wave of pressure from the orb and remnants of the pregnant humanoid creature hit Seth and he smiles. That was paradise.

He sprang up uncontrollably as he staggered toward it. His face contained a grin and warped happiness of seeing a solution, a salvation away from the torture he was subjected to.

He didn't mind being consumed, he didn't mind being transformed, heck he loved it, he needed it beyond everything now.

The pressure that was pressing on him was a massage on his body that soothed his broken mind. Oh, Seth loved it, as the pressure pressed on him it helped him forget the agony.

Oh, the vile agony, a pain on the physical and the mental realm.