The forced ascension into higher dimensions had to be stopped. The pyramid ships forming their formation had to be disrupted, and it had to be done quickly.
Amalaga desperately enhanced his reaction speed, stretching time's relativity. He could see that half of T'au had already been pulled into higher-dimensional space. The boundary between high and low dimensions was invisible, but Amalaga knew the process would soon reach him.
0.000001 seconds. Amalaga took out Rys's Page, upon which the True Word "Death" was inscribed.
0.000002 seconds. Amalaga felt the flesh holding the True Word begin to collapse. Pure death started from his hand and spread through his body. No matter how many tons of flesh had been compressed into him, he could not stop the concept of death from spreading.
0.000003 seconds. The Emerald Tablet inscribed with the True Word "Life" was also taken out, and Amalaga used it to offset the damage inflicted by the concept of death. Though Amalaga had not died yet, he was only a step away. The left half of his body was annihilated, while the right half swelled. At the boundary between soulless flesh and pure death lay his stitched-together soul, reviving and dying without end.
0.000004 seconds. Amalaga forcibly spoke the creator's word, the True Word "Death," but he knew he could not pronounce it in full. This thing was far more dangerous than the other True Words, even to its user. If he pronounced it perfectly, then even with the protection of "Life," he would be completely erased by "Death," just like Sister Rys and the Lorn people.
"Dagger."
The word "Death" was split apart. The remaining half of Amalaga's swollen body split in two again. Two separate lumps of flesh uttered two different sounds, cobbling together a crude pronunciation of "Death."
Amalaga's