Falling into the Abyss

Ethan remained conscious for less than two hours before he fell into a coma again. Tanisiel did not dare to rest and close his eyes, because once he closed his third eye, all the pain he was now bearing would instead transfer to Ethan.

During a Heavenbounder’s pupa period, they were extremely fragile. They needed to stay in a narrow, warm, and safe place to minimize the external stimulation to their body and spirit. During this period of time, the tentacles of people with pure Heavenbounder lineage would grow and wrap them in a strong cocoon, which was their most comfortable and safest harbor. Being forcibly pulled out during this time was likely to cause irreparable damage to their body or mind.

However, Ethan’s power was too strong. When he entered adulthood due to the harp’s music during the Holy Spirit Festival, his sudden burst of power almost destroyed the entire prayer hall. No matter what kind of weapons they used, they could not control him. Many priests and nobles were seriously injured, and some of them even died. They claimed that a pipe’s explosion in the temple had caused the tragedy, but the terrifying scene at that time still made everyone afraid of him.

In order to ensure the success of the ceremony, the head priest Theonile decided to inject Ethan with the God of Order’s egg’s solution to weaken his strength and control him.

In the quiet underground, only the housekeeper came down to deliver food to Tanisiel. For a long time, he suffered from the cold infiltrating into his bone marrow and the pain spreading along the surface of the skin, and he was extremely tired and weak. Theonile came down once and forced Tanisiel to leave. However, due to their soul bond, Tanisiel could maintain the connection between the two even if he was not around. As soon as the head priest left, he quietly returned to the basement.

Ethan would dream, and he would babble in his dream sometimes. Through this spiritual connection, the remnants of his dream would also be conveyed to Tanisiel’s consciousness. Ethan would always dream of his home and his father and mother. In his dreams, he was often a child. Sometimes, he dreamed that his parents had given him a little dog as a birthday present. Sometimes, he dreamed that he went to the amusement park with his father to ride a roller coaster. Sometimes, he dreamed that he was acting out a play, and his parents both were sitting in the audience and applauding him. Sometimes, these dreams would twist into some dark and horrifying scenes during the second half of them, but sometimes they would remain immersed in a warm and soft tone, just like a sunset.

Tanisiel’s childhood was also very lonely. As the only son of the Duke of the Western River, he was likely to be the heir to the throne in the future. He didn’t have to go to school and instead had tutors for all of his courses, so he had no friends. Lusais loved him very much, but he was too busy to return to the castle and could only return once a week. Therefore, on that day, Tanisiel would act as an obedient child and sit by the gates to receive his father. He prepared his favorite tea that was imported from Earth in the tea room and showed him his new paintings. As long as his father praised him, he would act complacent all day.

However, more often, he would lie around the clean castle grounds playing with marbles, go on the internet to play games, or look at the rose sky in a daze. Like Ethan, he would imagine that he and his father were not royal aristocrats but ordinary father and son. They would have breakfast together every morning, go shopping on weekends, and go hiking during holidays. If he failed a school exam, he would be scolded and grounded for being naughty and mischievous. When his teachers came to their home for a visit, he would shiver like other children.

For many children, these things were common and even unavoidable, but he had never experienced them.

However, he still loved his father, just like Ethan. No matter how alienated or indifferent their fathers were to them, they would always want to work harder. They always thought that if they did better, they would be loved more. Being loved more meant that they were valuable people.

If one day the existence of their fathers, whom they regarded as the basis of all meaning in their lives, suddenly wanted to break off their relationships with them or died suddenly, it would cause them to collapse emotionally. Then, they would commit stupid acts like signing a contract with a demon or recklessly trusting someone who was a little nice to them.

“We are very similar,” Tanisiel thought, looking at Ethan, who was not sleeping well. Maybe when he looked at the empty corridor and wanted to cry when he was a child, Ethan was also sad due to the same loneliness at the other end of the universe. If he had known Ethan at that time, he would not have been so lonely.

Three days later, Samuel broke into the castle.

Tanisiel didn’t seem to be too surprised to see him. He was still expressionless when Samuel grabbed him by his collar and lifted him up.

“Let him go! You bastard!” Samuel squeezed these words out between his teeth.

Tanisiel whispered, “I don’t have the key.”

“If you’re locking him here, then why wouldn’t you have it?!”

“The head priest no longer trusts me. He has the key.”

“Damn it!” Samuel scolded and took out a laser gun from his waistband. He snatched it from a guard, so there were not many energy bullets left. Initially, he wanted to save some of its energy, but now it seemed that saving Ethan was more important. The chain was made of some strange alloy, and it took a minute to burn one of them. After all four chains had melted away, its energy was almost exhausted.

Ethan looked at him in a trance, delirious and unable to focus. He seemed unsure of whether he was dreaming or actually seeing Samuel. Samuel reached out with pity and touched the side of his face that was covered in black lines and said in a gentle voice that didn’t seem like him at all, “Don’t be afraid, I’ll bring you away.”

Tanisiel didn’t mean to stop him. He carried Ethan in his arms and prepared to leave, saying, “Wait a minute.”

Samuel thought that he was going to try to stop him. He stared at him with a pair of cold, wolf-like eyes and said impatiently, “Don’t think that I won’t dare to beat your little white face just because Ethan likes you.”

“I have a long-distance private spaceship in my castle that can enter warp drive.” Tanisiel stood up from his chair. “I’ll take you there.”

Samuel’s eyebrows were slightly raised. He was not sure whether he should believe this Eve man. After all, it was him who had brought them to this place in the first place and turned Ethan into his current form.

Tanisiel took the ten-thousand function sphere out of his pocket and changed it into a scepter to support his faltering steps. He walked up to Samuel and said, “Don’t you want to have more hostages with you? I’m just a white-robed priest, but my uncle still dotes on me a lot.”

“What mischief are you up to?!” Samuel stared at him.

Tanisiel shrugged his shoulders, opened his hands, and said with an indifferent tone, “In my present state, are you still afraid of me?”

That hint of provocative weakness made Samuel very unhappy inwardly, but if he took Ethan to escape in this manner, he was afraid he would be caught before he even entered the city. Samuel looked at the priest’s pale face. His eyes were bloodshot, and although the eye on his forehead was open, he didn’t feel the mental pressure that he previously felt. It seemed that Tanisiel had not slept for at least three days.

Samuel then threatened, “if you dare to be dishonest, I can kill you at any time.”

It was in the middle of the night. Most of the servants were asleep, and the housekeeper had been tied up by Samuel and left in the kitchen cupboard. They quickly crossed through the hall, followed the winding corridor into the tower, and took the elevator all the way down.

There was indeed a very wide space under the castle where a long-distance spaceship covered with dust was sleeping quietly. After they entered the spacecraft, the mainframe immediately woke up. When Tanisiel set the route, he chose the Moania galaxy, which was very far away from the Eves’ planet and the Earth Union. It was a very remote but rich and peaceful planetary state. Ethan’s childish smile as he played in a playground in his dream flashed through Tanisiel’s mind when he tapped on the pale gold star in the sky.

At this point, it was fine even if he betrayed his teacher and his faith, and even betrayed the contract he signed with Nyarlathotep.

A voice in his head was screaming at him: Do you want to die?!The crawling chaos will never let you go! There will be no peace for the rest of your life! You’re ruining everything you’ve done for the past 13 years!

However, he closed his ears, refusing to listen to it.

He took one step at a time until he finally arrived at the present. He was only one step away from his father’s resurrection, but he suddenly grew timid.

He always thought that he would not shrink back and be soft-hearted. After all, the God’s chosen son was just a stranger, so he didn’t care about a stranger’s life or death. As long as his father could live, he would do anything.

However, he didn’t expect to come to know the stranger bit by bit, learning his every expression, feeling his every emotion, and hurting due to the pain buried deep in his heart.

He couldn’t part with Ethan.

“The flight route is set. The countdown to take-off is in progress.”

In the middle of the night, a loud bang suddenly resounded in the silent underground of the castle. The mountain cracked open, and a spaceship rose into the crimson night sky, heating up with its beautiful red flame. Shortly after it took off, aircraft secretly hidden in the nearby mountains and forests rose from all directions. It was obvious that they had laid in ambush for a long time.

Tanisiel sighed. Sure enough, Theonile was on guard.

His tutor had seen through him.

The call request signal lit up, flashing with a red light. Tanisiel ignored its existence and quickly crossed the sky filled with pale gold totems. All of a sudden, a layer of pale gold barriers rose around the spaceship, ejecting amazing yet fiery fireworks as the ship soared towards the skies. He seemed to see the expression of his teacher gnashing his teeth.

As he accelerated too fast, Samuel was only able to fasten Ethan’s seat belt in time, and he almost rolled to the other end of the spaceship. He swore that Tanisiel must have done it on purpose, and he secretly stared at the priest who was standing between a circle of golden flashing projections, inwardly recalling the method to operate the aircraft in his mind.

There were more and more aircraft chasing after them. Still, they hadn’t opened fire on their spaceship even after a long time, probably because they were afraid of Tanisiel’s special identity. However, ten minutes later, Theonile’s patience was obviously exhausted, and a bright blue laser beam streaked across the sky and stormed in front of them. Tanisiel’s forehead was sweating as though it was raining, but he forcibly maintained his spirits, commanding the spaceship to twist left and right, as if the spaceship was a nimble swallow shuttling through the storm. The fuselage was hit several times, causing the ship to shake violently and make a loud noise. Fortunately, most of it was absorbed by the outer protective shield, and the damage was not serious.

Tanisiel had always planned his steps carefully, but for the last hour, he did not know what he was doing.

It was an inexplicable impulse, an impulse that forced him to act as such.

“Samuel, take Ethan to the sleeping cabin,” Tanisiel used a calm yet single-mindedly devoted tone to instruct him, “We may have to enter into warp drive ahead of time.”

The author has something to say:

I’ve been working on my project until two or three o’clock in the morning for the past two weeks. Today, I still stayed up until four o’clock in the morning and wrote a chapter. However, I still suggest that my classmates wait until the end of this week to return to catch up with the story. At that time, the updates should be able to return to normal.

In addition, I found that the Weibo account I used since a long time ago can still be used now, so I changed its name: Lianxi Lianxi, author of the melancholic genre. Then I opened a homepage on Lofter, but I didn’t have time to put anything on it. In other words, if you are interested, please follow me and support me financially~~~