That day, the day Benjamin met the Angel of Death draped in a black veil.
—Be careful.
The day when, as a poor errand boy, he had been momentarily blinded by material desire and ended up touching the Oracle’s Milestone.
—I warned you. If you become entangled even once in a tremendous Causality beyond your ability to bear, there will be no turning back afterward.
Just as the angel had warned, Benjamin’s mind was overwhelmed by the enormous flood of information that poured into him all at once.
The sight of a hell filled with raging flames reached toward his soul. Helplessly caught in those merciless hands, Benjamin’s mind could do nothing but drift powerlessly through the depths of a bottomless abyss.
And then came the horrific scenes unfolding before his eyes. Scenes of beings of the abyss, things that human language could never dare describe, swallowing entire human cities. Scenes of pitiful souls trapped in a hell of flames, writhing and screaming in agony.
—Ah… Ah……!
Benjamin realized it.
—We will all become their prey! The civilization humanity has built will collapse in an instant, and our history will fade away like dust, utterly worthless within their infinite span of time!
That day, the concepts of time and space disappeared, and the laws of the real world that had sustained Benjamin collapsed completely.
There was no way the soul of an ordinary human could endure such a shock intact. Amid pain that felt as though his soul were being torn apart, Benjamin’s soul began splitting into fragments.
The bond between body and soul weakened, and Aeon and Bion diverged. Dakion, rapidly expanding its volume to compensate for the separation, was crushed flat and distorted again and again under the…