Decades more passed after the day Di Qi began radiating his own flame-like whispers of the Great Old Ones.
The Mysterious Lord had already asked Yog-Sothoth and Hastur, who had experience with subordinates.
They both said this was normal.
Only cycles spanning such long stretches of time could give the Great Old One's Rule that detached sense of time.
"But it should be almost time, shouldn't it?"
Kregya stood on a fragment of a shattered celestial body suspended in the air. Some inexplicable force held this rock, over a hundred kilometers across, aloft.
Its surface was faintly yet distinctly divided into three sections.
One was an unremarkable-looking space in all directions, made resplendent by a silvery-white halo.
Another was a completely molten layer of magma, constantly giving off billowing heat and scorching temperatures.
And in the middle stood a throne, entirely transformed into purple crystal, looking like the heart of some enormous gemstone mine!
These belonged to Yog-Sothoth, Kregya, and the Mysterious Lord, respectively.
The other Great Old Ones all had plenty to do. They were busy preparing for what this alliance intended to undertake!
As for Violet Thornflower, who had always been inseparable from the Mysterious Lord, she was not with him this time.
Shub-Niggurath had taken her away to study and comprehend the existence of shadow power.
Shub-Niggurath, who had once controlled the authority of the dark night, was personally teaching her!
This was so that, once they reclaimed the authority of the dark night that Shub-Niggurath had secretly tossed away from the Dark Dweller Nygotha, Violet Thornflower could take control of it and wield it more smoothly.
"Your sense of it should be a little more accurate, but I think it's almost time too."
The Mysterious Lord sat casually on his crystal throne. Besides the annihilation law,