Power Beyond the Sequences

"What the hell is that thing?"

Edwin swore at the sanity-draining sight on the screen.

The Evernight Goddess fell silent at his reaction.

In Edwin's undisguised horror and revulsion, she found a crucial clue.

Her initial fear had sprung from the terror of the unknown.

Those forms and systems of power lay utterly beyond her understanding, beyond every rule defined by the Sefirah of this world. That was why she had instinctively assumed Edwin's true form was an Outer Deity from beyond the stars.

He had pretended to be from her homeland to lure her into a trap and corrupt or devour her.

But now, that seemed unlikely.

Even the Great Old Ones who wielded Sefirah and had existed since the birth of the universe possessed strange powers that still fell within the bounds of her understanding.

What made Edwin so strange and terrifying belonged to another order entirely...

So that's it...

Edwin quickly calmed down and worked out the reason.

He had formed mental links with his other selves from different worlds, leaving traces of those worlds in his spiritual essence. Under this world's peculiar rules, those traces were naturally exposed while he was in spirit form.

To a native of this world like the Evernight Goddess, that information was incomprehensible.

People could not imagine what they had never seen...

When the mind encountered something it could not comprehend, it automatically "translated" it into the closest form it knew.

When he manifested those powers, he saw Ultraman, Unit-01, and Giant God Bio-Armor as he knew them.

But in a world filled with Mythical Creatures, maddening whispers, and unspeakable things, the closest equivalents were naturally those sanity-draining forms that drove people mad.

"Ahem! This is a misunderstanding..."

Edwin cleared his throat and broke the strange silence.

He began drawing in