Chapter 140: You Did Not See This Coming

Elias knew the reason he had been created by his master, and as he returned to his room, he was grateful that he did not see any of his teachers along the way. At this time, he wanted to be alone and slowly think about what was happening.

Commander Yseult had told him that the best time for the Great Houses to have stopped the plan was at the moment the Void Echo had descended, and she was right.

What Elias could not have known was that at the moment he crushed the Void Echo, a beam of power that was invisible to the naked eye but was clearly perceived by Commander Yseult, had erupted into the space, following the path that the Void Echo had used in its descent.

Soon this beam of power disappeared, but the connection that it had created with Elias and the Void was permanent, and because Elias was an Ascendant Candidate with three more Incursions ahead of him, the connection he had with the Void was far stronger than usual.

The Bone Singers were banking on this strong connection to be what would push their plans forward, but they could not have imagined that although their plans were going well, several factors had entered into the mix that were changing the entire dynamics.

There were two important factors that they could not control and anticipate: the first was internal, and the second factor was external.

The Heavenly Canopy was one of the most important structures of mystical art on Trion, and few structures could match it in power and complexity. Except for Ancient beings and mighty Angels, very few people knew of the Heavenly Canopy and its uses.

Half a million years ago, the Bonesingers learnt of the Heavenly Canopy from one of the most powerful angels among their ranks, who was the one to gather the Bonesingers in the first place, but he had been killed by the Greater Houses; yet his influence still remained.

The Heavenly Canopy was carefully guided and monitored by powerful Angels of the Greater Houses, and so they would have easily picked up any tear in the barrier due to how tight the security for this structure was, but there were always loopholes that could be exploited, especially as the Heavenly Canopy grew too large and more laws were added to it that exceeded what the creator of the canopy had designed it for.

With the growth of the Heavenly Canopy over the years, it became impossible for a single Greater House to monitor its reach across the entirety of Trion when the size of the world was placed into the equation, and so the tasks were divided across the Greater Houses of Trion.

There were fourteen Greater Houses, divided into seven Ascendant Houses and seven Calamity Houses, and while the task of the Calamity Houses was to maintain and suppress the Maw, a pathway into Hell itself and the ancient home of the Daemons, the Ascendant Houses were made to suppress the Heavens, the take dominion over the skies of the gods, and that meant the Ascendant Houses were the one who monitored the Heavenly Canopy.

Each Ascendant House was focused on different parts of the Heavenly Canopy, and one of the Ascendant Houses, House Solthar, one of the most powerful of the Greater Houses were responsible for monitoring the portion of the Heavenly Canopy that was at the surface and facing the void.

Stone Monkey, the leader of the Bonesingers due to the fact that he was the strongest also had another duty, which placed him in charge of monitoring the void outside Trion and the moment the descent of the Void Echo that tore a hole through the Heavenly Canopy was detected, Stone Monkey had been in the right position to catch those traces and erase them from the record.

The only reason he could do this was that he had the necessary information to know precisely where the Void Echo would be descending, which had been directly above Elias’s position, and Commander Yseult had shared this information with him.

With the vastness of the Heavenly Canopy, it would have taken at least a twentieth of a second for the tear in the Heavenly Canopy to be detected, but Stone Monkey had acted almost instantaneously, and the alarms that should have been blaring across the entirety of House Solthar were silent.

However, what the Bonesingers did not know was that there was a hidden protocol underneath the Heavenly Canopies that sent all the details of the current state of the Heavenly Canopy to the Ascendant of House Solthar.

This protocol was only known by the head of the Greater Houses and their Ascendants, and was information that even a powerful Angel like Stone Monkey was not aware of. Still, this information about the Heavenly Canopy was not reviewed on a fixed date.

There were times when tens of thousands of years would go by without the Ascendant of Solthar reviewing this record, and in other times, they would be checked every few years, and there were moments when it was checked nearly every day.

Stone Monkey might believe that he had performed the perfect operation, but he and the Bonesingers did not know that their entire operation depended on the whims of the Ascendant of House Solthar, and in a few moments, everything they had been working for could come crashing down.

This was the first uncontrollable factor that was internal, but the second uncontrollable factor was external, and this one was much closer to home than anyone would ever anticipate.

At the moment, Elias was filled with countless memories from the Void Echo that would take him months to years for him to digest, perhaps even decades if he did not allocate enough time to understand all the memories it had poured into his mind.

However, despite this flood of memories, there were a few that stood out, just because of the intense emotion that the Void Echo had been feeling when it experienced those events.

There was a void creature that this Echo feared above all else, and any news it heard about it would cause the Echo to flee deeper into the void just to avoid it. Confrontation meant death, and the only means for survival had always been to run as far away as possible.

Elias had not delved into these memories deeply, but he knew that the creature this Echo feared seemed to have many faces, and it was a devourer of worlds, alongside the fact that it had a void scripture with it, and there were great suspicions that it had multiple scriptures after it had hunted down other Void Echos who held scriptures.

What Elias and the Bonesingers would never know was that the Void Echo that had been defeated by Elias had been running from this creature when it had felt the call of an Incursion. Knowing that its chance for survival would depend on consuming another scripture to bolster its own, the Void Echo had descended into Trion.

Following its death, the connection it had with the void was not severed; instead, it was multiplied, and as Elias was walking into his room to rest after a long day, several small particles the size of grain of sands drifted from the void, and followed the tear in the Heavenly Canopy, tracking the traces that even Commander Yseult could barely detect, they descended towards the City of Stormfall.

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