Tierra raised his head and withdrew his gaze from the lower dimensions.
He looked levelly upon the dimension where he resided.
This was the highest dimension of the infinite cosmos, and also the most desolate.
Here, aside from himself, there was a massive cloud of mist that constantly churned and festered. At times, the cloud would gather together, forming horrifying bodily organs, slick black tentacles, mouths dripping with mucus, or twisted stubby legs ending in black hooves that could barely be called "goat" hooves.
There was also a collection of rainbow-colored spheres—balls of light constantly converging, splitting, and exploding. They looked as dazzling as fireworks, yet carried an astonishingly sinister aura.
They were Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth.
The other two pillars.
The "Goddess of Dark Fertility," the "Supreme Mother Goddess," the "Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young," and "The All-in-One," the "Gate of a Thousand Doors."
Tierra had become the new pillar, the new Nyarlathotep, the new Crawling Chaos, the Thousand-Faced God, but—
Where was the original Nyarlathotep?
Tierra looked upward. His gaze broke through countless universes, through the barriers of dimensions, through the boundaries of dreams. Following the connection of his fate, beyond the infinite cosmos, Tierra saw a tiny blue planet, small as a speck of dust—
Earth!
Not Harry Potter's Earth, nor the Earth within the infinite universes inside him!
It was his Earth!
The Earth he had come from, the Earth before he had transmigrated!
Tierra saw that, before he had hatched, a bastard black shadow had placed him upon its throne.
As he took root in the throne, the black shadow gradually dissipated. All chaos and darkness faded away with it, leaving behind only a transparent, empty soul.
That empty soul wore a teasing smile. It easily broke through the seventh dimension, crossed