Chapter 116: You Claim What Cannot Be Claimed

A moment before the last two Lumina Art vanished from the icy table, Elias had felt the void scroll enter into his infinite pool via the runes the Commander had etched on his skin.

It was a bit uncomfortable, like having something big crawling through your veins, but it was just one more discomfort that was just added to the pile of discomforts he was carrying on his shoulders.

However, the moment the scroll entered his Infinite Oceans, it began to transform.

At first, it retained the shape of a scroll, and as if the nature of the infinite void fed its growth like a plant dying in the middle of the desert, suddenly welcoming rain.

The scroll expanded, transforming from something as small as his palm into a massive tablet that was bigger than a mountain. The tablet appeared to be broken from a larger piece, but the emnations of power Elias could feel was so deep, he knew he was hardly feeling a fraction of it, and for that he was glad, because his intuition was screaming at him that if he could feel more than this, total insanity would be the least price he was going to pay.

This massive tablet suddenly seemed to gain great weight, and it began to fall towards his hundred purple pools. When Elias expected the tablet to crash into his pools of Lumina, it unexpectedly stopped, hovering above the pools.

A suction force emerged from this massive tablet that seemed to have been carved out of the void itself, and Elias watched in astonishment as all his Lumina Pools began to vibrate; their smooth mirrorlike surface, which was not shaken by the downpour of Lumina above, was suddenly developing ripples.

Then, as if carried by a massive hand, one of the pools of Lumina was drawn into the air and slammed into the surface of the massive tablet, and it seemed to have become imprinted on the tablet.

Immediately, Elias could feel his consciousness was linked to something that felt cold, vast, and empty. It was a strange sensation, but he could feel that his Lumina Pool on the surface of this tablet was changing, and he could feel a sort of weight he did not know he was holding vanish to be replaced by something… else. Although he could not describe what it was.

All he knew was that anytime he drew in Lumina, it would no longer just enter his pool; they would be passing through the tablet.

Zhul’kathar vor neth’lyss

A whisper from a voice that seemed to belong to the endlessness of the void floated into his mind, and Elias froze in place. Somehow, he was able to understand what it meant, even without the help of the Passenger in his head.

In the hollow between all things, the boundary dissolves

Elias had not totally understood what those meant, when a second Lumina Pool rose up and merged itself on the tablet, and a third and fourth followed behind. With four Lumina pools, upon it, the massive tablet began to grow once more, doubling in size, until its growth stopped, and another round of whispers entered his mind.

Finitu’raa kwe vadis infyn’thraa

Kwe vadis infyn’thraa finit’raa kwe…

The finite shall cradle the infinite, the infinite shall strangle the finite

The finite is the infinite, the infinite is the finite, forever…

All of these words were engrained in Elias’s memory, and he seemed to have began to see a truth about something so vast, he could not understand what it was, but a fish did not need to be taught how to swim, Elias instainctively knew that he should never forget these words and make them a part of him, because it was an impactation.

Four more Lumina Pools rose into the air and were imprinted on the tablet, and another round of growth continued until the tablet dragged two more Lumina Pools onto itself to make it ten total pools, and a feeling of completion filled Elias’s senses.

Looking at the tablet that seemed to now have a faint purple glow deep within it, Elias quickly noticed that the arrangement of the Lumina Pools on the tablet was identical to the marks on his chest, but where there were nine marks on his chest, this tablet held ten.

Looking at the spot where the tenth Lumina pool lay, Elias suddenly had an enlightenment, it was as if everything made sense about how he could hold infinity in a finite container, and yet, this enlightenment felt hollow because he was still missing something.

Null’vorr shal’eth nul’vorr shal’eth

Embrac’tu contrad’ix vor’gath nul’vorr

Hol’low mon’arx vuul’gath

Contayn’thul vuul’gath contayn’thul

Zhul’kathar vor neth’lyss… neth’lyss… neth’lyss…

Nothing devours nothing, nothing births nothing

Embrace the contradiction that is the only truth

The Hollow Monarch claims what cannot be claimed

Contain the uncontainable, contain the uncontainable

In the hollow between all things… between all things… between all things…

Elias felt his will wavering under the waves of these whispers that grew into a scream, and then silence, and a feeling of emptiness because Elias knew that the Scripture was not complete. This was the first scroll, the Scroll of Containment, and he suddenly knew that there were six more scrolls left.

The tablet suddenly vibrated and released tendrils of light that fell towards the Lumina Pools below, and these tendrils covered sixty of the pools of Lumina; it was as if it were claiming it for itself and marking out its territory.

He did not know how he came about this knowledge, but it was instinctive, and Elias wanted to emerge from this space to ask the Commander about the history behind this scroll, when he noticed that the last thirty Lumina Pools were still vibrating.

His actions of opening a passage to link with the Lumina Scripture had been completed, but the passage was still open. So distracted by what he had been witnessing from bonding with the Lumina Scripture that he had forgotten to close this passage.

About to will the passage shut, Elias looked at the ninety pools of Lumina below, and he fell into a deep thought. From the instinctive understanding he had gained from the Scroll of Containment, he knew there were six more Scrolls left, and as the tablet had already taken seventy of his pools, did it mean he had to leave the others empty?

The seed of a radical idea began to bloom inside Elias’s mind, and no matter how he tried to suppress it as madness, he knew he had to try, or he would regret it for the rest of his life. It was unknown if he would ever be able to bond with the seed of any Lumina Art if he surpassed the Fury Forge level.

Elias had not asked the Commander if it was possible to have multiple Lumina Arts, but if he followed her demonstration, it should not be possible. After all, powerful Lumina Arts made changes across the body, even down to the cells, and maybe even deeper than that.

There was no way a single body would be able to hold all of that chaotic rampage inside them from having multiple Lumina Arts, but… what if he could?!

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