Eldritch Creature's Guide

Chapter 294 The Gift from the Void

For some time, Samiel studied the Sealing Ward that was over the entrance to the cave, which was blocking anyone from entering. It seemed that the Sealing Ward was pretty old, like very old, and was in a poor state, which was a bonus point for him. 

"One or two hits would do the job..."

Samiel muttered as he thought and conjured trident through the Winter Rule and congregated some bits of the Void Energy on the blades of the ice construct end.

Now that he had entirely evolved into the creature of the Void and became Principality Eldritch Angel, he was able to control some limited amount of the Void Energy.

Even though the amount he could control was abysmal, due to the volatility and state of the Void Energy, it tremendously increased his combat prowess to a ridiculous degree.

If he used it at the right time, he was confident to take out even pinnacle Gold-Tier Professionals with several Masteries, as long as he hit them first. They would have no means of getting themselves rid of the Void Energy. 

Grabbing the ice trident, he then smashed the weapon that contained some of the Void Energy against the Sealing Ward, which broke into countless pieces under the first clash. 

Clearly incapable of withstanding such overwhelming power, because the power of Void was something that even the most powerful Legendaries would be wary of to a great degree due to how dangerous and destructive it was.

"Here we can go..."

After destroying the Sealing Ward, he dispersed the ice trident because the ice construct was also heavily damaged from being forced to host the Void Energy, which would be impossible to use in any further potential combat.

Then he entered the dark cave, though the darkness itself wasn't much of a problem for him, as he had basically night vision that he obtained upon his evolution to the Principality Eldritch Angel.

Due to that, it wasn't hard for him to continue advancing further and further into the depths of the cave, which was a bit surprising because there was only one way to the cave.

Samiel originally expected some inter-cavern system or anything in those lines, but there was only one way to the one end.

This was either purposely chosen due to this structure, or it was manually created to hide something or store something.

Either way, he didn't really dwell upon the fact, but he continued going deeper and deeper into the cave until he arrived at something that could be described as the end of the road for him.

At the end of more than half an hour-long journey to the depths of the underground, he was standing in a vast underground-shaped dome. This was all he needed to know that this place was manually created, coupled with other indicators that he noticed during the path; he was right.

Somebody created this place.

Judging from the state of the stone pillars that were all around the massive dome, it was a pretty long time ago because they were all falling apart one by one.

Everything was filled with ruins and rubble, though there were no remains of civilizations of any kind.

It was just a bunch of stone, ruins, dust, and maybe some ash or whatever it was.

The only interesting thing that was more or like eye-catching was a huge altar in the middle of the entire underground dome that was surrounded by several huge pillars made from black stone. 

All five pillars that surrounded the altar were inscribed with some kind of runes that Samiel wasn't able to identify, but he could sense their power and also their purpose, as they were sealing runes and suppressing runes.

Their target was whatever what was in the stone coffin that was on the top of the altar, and considering the fact that the stone coffin was relatively small, Samiel was curious about what was being sealed there. 

"Probably some kind of object or whatever..."

He then went in front of the altar, as he, at first, studied the altar a bit, noticing it was covered by the same runic matrix, as the entire place was one huge inscription that was covering the entire area. 

"Someone really wanted for whatever is hidden here to remain hidden... they even used sacrificial runes... the most interesting thing."

While he didn't know the purpose of all runes that were used in the inscriptions around the stone pillars and the altar, he could recognize the purpose of a few of them as they were sacrificial runes.

Something that he knew very well because he used them many times during his life, so he was able to spot and recognize them with a single glance.

"Though... large parts are missing, probably damaged due to the passage of time in combination with the falling rocks from the collapsing dome. Without that, I would need to spend more energy to bring this thing down entirely..."

He knew that this place must be old, at least a few tens of thousands of years, but due to the abundant Magic and superior craftsmanship, the place managed to withstand the passage of time splendidly. 

At least as much as it could get.

Even then, the time still took its tax and large parts of the runic matrix were destroyed, which allowed Samiel to rather easily destroy the remaining parts of the inscriptions as he just used the Void Energy and let it do its wonder.

The very moment the Void Energy got into the inscriptions, it started corrupting down everything and breaking down all of the runes, with the stone and metal being turned into nothingness as it was destroyed by the power of the Void.

When the runes that were sealing whatever was in the small stone coffin were destroyed, he came up to the stone coffin and gently pushed off the huge stone plate that was covering it. 

As the stone plate fell down and shattered into countless pieces, it gave Samiel sight to the thing that was being sealed and protected here, or rather, protecting the outside world from the thing sealed here. 

The strong stench of the Void burst off from the small stone coffin, as Samiel was able to see what was inside. 

"Egg... though a bit more disgusting looking egg... of Eldritch and Void origin..."

He muttered as he saw an obscuredly-looking egg that was covered in some kind of ectoplasmic coat, all slimy and disgusting... 

Though the aura of the Void was undeniable in this one because it was very strong, especially now that all of the Wards and Runes that were sealing and suppressing this thing were effectively destroyed. 

Even he, as the Principality Eldritch Angel, got some sort of connection to the Egg because it felt very familiar for some reason. 

"I know to not touch suspicious-looking things... but..."

As he muttered quietly, he took off one of his gloves and slowly touched the slimy surface of the Egg.

The very moment he touched the surface of the Egg, he felt like thousands of thunderbolts strode through his body and the Egg itself started pulsating with life; a beating sound could be heard from it.

He felt that his Mana was being drained at a tremendous pace and went towards the Egg, together with some of his Lifeforce and even part of his very own Soul was split off and assimilated by the Egg. 

This presented enormous pain to him because having your very own Soul being split even by the smallest margin was not something that anyone could withstand.

At the same time, Samiel also got a vision, or more precisely, a part of his genetic memory was activated upon contact with the Egg. 

This was another piece of news that he discovered right now, that upon his evolution to the Principality Eldritch Angel, he obtained genetic memory. A genetic memory that contained a tremendously huge information bank but was activated only when the right input was inserted. 

For a mere moment, thousands of images flashed through his mind of an enormous creature that looked like a bug, towering over even the biggest mountains of the countless worlds of the Material Plane was devouring the entire worlds.

Billions upon billions of smaller bugs were swarming the entire world, no matter they were the Lower Worlds, Middle Worlds, High Worlds, and even attacking some of the Principality Worlds for resources.

Like a swarm of locus moving from one target to another, devouring everything in their path, not leaving even a single life behind them or even a single soul.

They were the eater of the entire Worlds and the doom of the entire civilization, born from the deepest and coldest parts of the Void.

The Worldeater Race.