The Ultimate Gate

The Raven tried to fly away, but Shen Hui grabbed it and held it in his hand.

Shen Hui looked at the Raven, but the Raven tilted its head.

Shen Hui's feelings towards the Raven are very strange, even though it contains a part of his own consciousness.

But just as it provides the shell for the formation of Raven, the underlying mechanisms that sometimes drive Raven behavior remain unknown.

So now, looking at the Raven and asking it a question, Shen Hui had a very strange feeling—that it was a part of him, but not entirely.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that it is related to the Elder Things, to the Shoggoth, and to Yog-Sothoth.

He was born around that time.

He has now also developed a unique sense of independence.

Secondly, Shen Hui has absolute control, because Raven is only a part of his own body.

"So you are an incarnation of Yog-Sothoth, or a manifestation of his power?"

At that moment, the Raven cried out, "I am me, I am you."

Shen Hui sighed helplessly. He clearly remembered when Raven came to find him in the Deep Consciousness World.

His tone of voice was almost normal before, but now he's just a crow mimicking others.

Moreover, at that time, he would take the initiative to find me and open a door to help me release the power of the Creation World and Cthulhu.

Even a creator would struggle to maintain their identity in the Deep Consciousness World, but the Raven seems completely unaffected.

Could it really be because of the presence of Yog-Sothoth's power that the Raven sometimes acts on its own, and it's under Yog-Sothoth's control?

At this moment, the Raven straightened its tilted head, as if it had noticed Shen Hui's confusion, and flapped its wings, trying to break free from his grasp.

Shen Hui simply let go; if he really wanted to leave, he could simply transform into black mist and reform.

The Raven flapped its wings and circled the room a few times before finally hovering in mid-air in front of Shen Hui Shen Hui, looking at him and calling out:

"Open the door."

Shen Hui thought the Raven was pointing to the room door and wanted to fly out to call Shen Hui to open it.

But Shen Hui knew he was wrong, because the next second, the Raven's body surface, including every feather, began to wriggle.

Then its body exploded, from which emerged colorful orbs of light, each the size of a marble and resembling an eye.

The image associated with Yog-Sothoth is also the Raven's original form.

The spheres of light were huddled together, their glow constantly flashing, making them appear as if they were blinking.

The more they squeezed, the tighter they became; some of the light spheres were even deformed.

But then came a series of crisp, bubbling sounds.

"Mwah~ Mwah~"

The orbs of light began to be squeezed into each other's bodies, gradually growing larger.

With the last sphere of light merging in, it has now become a single sphere of light the size of a watermelon.

The colorful light inside is constantly flowing and changing, and upon closer inspection, you can see many layers.

Each ray of light can be magnified countless times, and the light within light can be magnified again, and so on...

Like an infinite set of nesting dolls, this sphere of light contains endless possibilities, like the vast universe.

The remaining sphere of light emitted an increasingly intense glow, and all the colors merged together, converging into a multicolored black.

The light was so bright it was hard to open my eyes, but it lasted for a moment before it began to fade.

When Shen Hui looked at the ball of light again, it had transformed into a door.

A door was only slightly ajar, and in the middle of the door was a keyhole.

Shen Hui's eyes widened in surprise at the sight.

It wasn't just a sense of awe that the Raven could undergo such a transformation, but also something revealed through the slightly ajar crack in the door.

Shen Hui sensed an unparalleled power, but this was only Shen Hui most superficial perception.

What it truly contains is an indescribable feeling, which can only be understood by oneself, yet understanding is so uncertain.

It's like during an exam. You've studied so much, and your grades are usually pretty good, but when you're facing the test paper, you forget everything and your mind goes completely blank.

The only thing Shen Hui was certain of was that there was definitely a world behind the door.

But whether it's one world or many worlds is uncertain, which makes Shen Hui think of the blank Star Core that Raven stole before. Could it have been used here?

But what exactly is this...?

"The One Who Returns All Things to One, One Who Returns One to All Things... If it's related to Yog-Sothoth, then this door could be the Ultimate Gate?!"

Shen Hui suddenly realized that Yog Sothoth's identity, when connected to the current situation, seemed perfectly normal.

Because Yog-Sothoth is the door, Yog-Sothoth is the key, and Yog-Sothoth is the doorkeeper.

As the ruler of space and time, He exists in the future, past, and present, knowing everything, and each space and each point in time is like a door.

From the "First Gate" to the "Gate of Ultimate Extinction," until the ultimate void that transcends all planets, all universes, and all matter.

All of these are intertwined, existing behind the Ultimate Gate.

Behind the Ultimate Gate lies the abyss, the very essence of Yog-Sothoth, and the convergence point of everything; there, you can find everything.

Therefore, by combining the door that appeared before Shen Hui with Yog Sothos's identity as the doorkeeper, Shen Hui seemed to know something.

"Are you opening a door and creating yourself...? No, 'creating' isn't the right word; it's more like you're releasing yourself from another dimension?"

A god who doesn't create himself, but rather creates himself...

Isn't this a bit too mature for her?

Yog Sothos-nii~

Shen Hui didn't know if his guess was right or wrong. The Raven... or rather, the thing that had transformed into a door in front of him, didn't answer him.

And the part of my consciousness within it knew nothing at all.

However, Shen Hui realized that his guess was pretty much correct; the other party's goal was indeed to open the door.

This proactive behavior reminded Shen Hui of the time when Cthulhu's dormant power briefly appeared in the Real World, bringing darkness.

His purpose is to have those trapped in darkness awaken Ghroth, so that the stars may return to their original positions and truly revive.

It seems that if they are deities... they would actively strive to become more powerful.

But I wonder if this is the same in other places, and whether the gods they created are as understanding as their own?