Nightmare Mythos

Chapter 111: Final Showdown (5)

"In the name of the Ancient Time of the Past." Cesar coughed out a mouthful of blood from his mouth as he clenched his teeth then continued, "You are incorruptible, indestructible, and unceasing..."

The showers and the blinding purplish emptiness barreling toward them, were about to swallow them whole when Cesar finally uttered the final phrase of the activation sequence.

"Let... the world... freeze,"

The instant he uttered the last word of the spell, mostly everything and everyone stopped.

The purplish showers that were about to fall, the void wave which was about to swallow them whole, everyone's defeated reaction as those attacks were coming to them, even the people on their back who were fighting the Librarian, the Nightmare included, had all come to halt. Stay tuned to mvl

The Keeper of the Void, which continuously remained stalwart in its position, had also been affected under the spell of the Ceased World.

The only one who was able to move in this absence of time was Cesar who was struggling with himself as he convulsed around the place, the Book of Contents at his hand... and the Fabric of Prison Domain that didn't seem to be at least affected by the spell.

Clank—!

"Akhhh...! Khhh...!"

Cesar kept rolling around in desperation while trying to hold the Book of Contents in his hand. Still suffering from Essence Overload, the book greedily sucked the essence out of him that isn't stopping at any moment in time.

Divulging himself into self-torture that was necessary to pull off, Cesar's one of the desperate gamble seemed to be paying off.

After all, the cube seemed to understand the assignment and began targeting the Keeper of the Void.

However, Cesar was on the receiving end of everything, willingly feeding his essence, including the overloaded reserve, into the book.

"Kuhh! Ahkk!"

Unlike Leah who was stale when she was suffering from the overload, Cesar's case was different since he was forcibly accepting the abundance of essence transferring towards him.

He wasn't resisting and just letting it be.

Cedeit, who was watching the cube stretch its chains towards the Keeper through Cesar's eyes while actually knowing it even without the help of his sight, was flabbergasted.

Cesar's thinking process couldn't even be considered human at this point due to the surprises that he kept showing towards him, at least for someone with the status of a human.

Cedeit had only been with Cesar for almost two weeks yet he knew he was the craziest human he had ever met or seen yet.

The ability to judge the situation quickly and act upon it simultaneously to pull off desperate yet calculated gambles that even Cedeit would not even do since he wasn't that kind of person, was very fascinating in his eyes.

"Fascinating, Cesar. You never cease to surprise and entertain me each time,"

Since Cedeit knew he still needed Cesar to get out of the Mansion, he knew what he had to do.

Opening up the way of sharing the abundance of essence that kept surging inside Cesar, Cedeit began to do his own wonders as he was managing the essence Cesar kept receiving non-stop and accepted it towards him.

There, the Book of Contents that greedily takes the abundance of essence from Cesar became hungrier the moment another line of source was connected to it.

It was like trying to continuously drink water without a stop; that was the experience of the Book of Content.

It devoured and kept devouring... and the plain-looking book started to change as well because of it.

Clank—!

The cube continued extending its chains towards the Keeper, who tried to ascertain what was happening as it was able to notice something bad from the outside. The vertical eyes of the creature swerved as complicated yet indescribable numbers and letters were rolling around, replacing its normal eyes.

However, the Keeper's action was broken by the continuous siphoning of essence that the Book of Content was receiving from Cesar which resulted for the Ceased World becoming stronger.

In the Ceased World, where the cube had been diligently at work, it finally completed its task. Fully binding the Nightmare, the cube snapped and transformed into a leviathan, towering easily over the Keeper right in an instant.

It shattered into pieces as maws emerged, devouring the Nightmare. Then the leviathan-sized cube shrank gradually back to its original size, just as it had been before it consumed the Keeper.

Once the absurdness of how the Nightmare was imprisoned, Cesar noticed the Ceased World silence continued to ensue.