"Had Sasrir not come, this could've been tricky." Truman eyed Lilith's increasingly cold demeanor, reaching into the air.
A lady in a dark robe was pulled from the mists of history.
At the same moment, Amanises, far at the Giant King's Court's outskirts, squinted, scanned her surroundings, and entered a state of secrecy.
The next second, the goddess emerging from the historical mist gleamed with wisdom in her eyes.
Glancing at Lilith, locked in standoff with Sasrir, she instantly grasped everything.
"Secrecy!"
The goddess's form blurred and expanded, enveloping the region.
Truman tapped the Book of Dreams, and dreamlike phosphorescence erupted, amplifying the secrecy.
This already potent ability crossed a threshold, erasing everything like a sketch under an eraser.
In that secret world, Truman and the goddess stood side by side, facing surging chaotic shadows and a moonlight galaxy.
"This is an ancient god's power?" Both sides showed restraint, not breaching the secrecy, yet their intricate abilities dazzled Truman.
"It won't take long," the goddess said softly.
Truman nodded. Lilith's lack of immediate resistance when the goddess veiled everything in secrecy spoke volumes.
Perhaps Amanises's presence made Lilith realize this was a broader front than she'd imagined, sparking thoughts of joining.
"Let there be light!" Sasrir's chant echoed the Ancient Sun God's, blazing sunlight bursting from a chaotic sea.
The red moon hung high, casting moonlight.
Lilith's pride and madness faded, her gaze cautiously fixed on the Blasphemy Slate in Sasrir's hands.
"Divine pathways? Mother, Moon?!" Lilith's expression shifted, but Sasrir timely obscured the slate's key details, a red glint flashing in her eyes.
The goddess's eyes flickered, glancing puzzled at Truman.
"That's the perk of knowledge monopoly," Truman sighed, opening the Book of Dreams. Dreamlike phosphorescence began manifesting knowledge of the Darkness, Death, and Warrior pathways.
Unlike Sasrir, Truman offered complete knowledge.
Silence fell as the two goddesses reconstructed their understanding of the world.
"So it is…" The goddess's eyes trembled, then closed, letting all return to stillness.
The sequence knowledge shook both goddesses profoundly, allowing them to reassess themselves and plan their futures.
"The sun behind you is such a true god." The Ancient Sun God's existence erased Lilith's doubts about the knowledge's validity.
When that sun blazed in the astral realm, she clearly sensed its stark difference from ancient gods.
It was pure, while ancient gods' characteristics were too muddled, madness inevitable.
"We can cooperate, but you must help me expel excess characteristics," Lilith said, looking at Sasrir, Truman, and the others.
"Hm, I suggest expelling the Moon pathway," Truman said suddenly.
"Why the Moon?" Lilith, now wary of underestimating Truman, asked cautiously.
"Because of that." Truman pointed at the real moon.
Sasrir and Lilith's expressions changed drastically!
Amanises's eyes glinted. She knew the starry sky held issues, but the moon…
"Agreed!" Lilith, perhaps recalling something, feared the implication and consented swiftly.
"You know more than I expected," Sasrir couldn't help but say, turning to Truman.
Only those above Sequence 2, or Sequence 3 Wanderers, knew the starry sky's problems, but pinpointing the moon's influence on Lilith exceeded Sasrir's expectations.
"Naturally." Truman gazed at the three, a basic consensus formed, feeling a strange thrill.
A grand chess game, potentially spanning millennia in the original timeline, was now taking shape under his mediation.
"Hm…" Truman rubbed his chin, dreamlike phosphorescence sparkling in the trio's eyes.
"Everyone, I have an idea…"
Truman grew excited, flipping open the Book of Dreams.
A surge of dreamlike phosphorescence enveloped them. The three looked intrigued but didn't resist.
In the Book of Dreams, endless dreamlike orbs pulsed with torrents of phosphorescence. Truman entered first, and with a thought, the backdrop shifted to a vast starry sky.
With a wave, phosphorescence flared, forming a Starry City, its perimeter lined with hundred-meter stone pillars, as if upholding the cosmos.
At the city's heart stood an infinitely dreamlike palace, every detail exquisitely ornate, encrusted with pearls, diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds.
Yet these were mere dreamlike facades. Within the palace lay beauties at the limits of human imagination.
Abstract and sublime, countless colors danced, pushing perception's boundaries, vast as the cosmos. Each visitor could see their heart's deepest desire.
The endless phosphorescence shimmered as the four arrived.
"Here?!" Lilith's eyes brimmed with enchantment, her beauty rivaling the dreamlike palace itself.
"Uh… ah…" A suppressed, languid moan escaped her, laced with delight. Her radiant gaze fixed on Truman, as if she'd devour him whole.
No metaphor—she meant it literally.
Truman had seen that look before, meeting the goddess for the first time.
"I've never been so clear, as if this is the true me…" Lilith took a long time to calm down.
This was a dreamlike paradise, where madness and coldness melted into serene bliss.
"This place can suppress your primal madness," Truman explained, tapping lightly. An ancient bronze roundtable materialized, with five seats.
"Henceforth, this is the Dream Parliament!"
"God!" One high-backed chair shimmered with an indescribable color, a sea of infinite knowledge.
"Mystery!" Another chair pulsed with unfathomable fate, time, and history, twisted lines sketching a Sefirah Castle above the spirit world.
"Mother!" A third chair gleamed with dark radiance, an aggregate of all feminine forces, faintly revealing a tainted brood nest.
"End!" The fourth chair symbolized the singularity of all things, the cosmic end of gods and Old Days.
(End of Chapter)
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Do You Know:
This book has a lot of spelling errors like Amanysis instead of Amanises, Oikuses instead of Aucuses, Kotal for Kotar, Gohinam for Cohinem, and I will be doing my best to correct those. So, if you spotted some errors please comment to that paragraph so that I could correct them. Arigathanks!