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To make his symbolism more complete.
And to give the "process" a result.
The gods, who had no concept of death and did not fear it, walked this road forever, and this pure desire and instinct were madness.
Life was an authority, and death was merely another authority. Only things with life feared losing it, but how could higher-dimensional beings existing as eternal wills feel afraid? Unlike human self-comfort, to them, death truly was equivalent to a sleep, long or short, from which they would eventually awaken.
"The Beyonder characteristics of those Three Pathways aren't particularly important. The Sefirah is the core. I want the Prisoner and Devil Pathways, too, and I want the symbolism of the River of Eternal Darkness. Anything that won't make me explode when I eat it is an adjacent pathway of mine. Only then will I be whole!"
"Come help me, too! This is... the closest we've ever been to our destination!"
A strange laugh came from his throat, and the language he spoke was no longer any that existed on Earth.
Amid his heartfelt joy, a soft crack sounded, and a piece of his cheek peeled off, taking some of his eyes with it-the eyes on the fragment looked painted, while the gap revealed an empty interior, like that of a hollow puppet.
He reached out to catch the fragment, thought for a moment, then stuffed it back through the gap.
A wind of decay blew out from behind him, and his harmless disguise was stripped away completely.
Elements of the Material World such as wind, gravity, and water did not exist in the Spirit World, where time and space were also indistinct. Thus, buildings in the Spirit World did not undergo the same changes as those in reality with the passage of