68. advancing 2

"Ungrateful… so you can still think, and you aren't fully sealed. Why would you reveal such a thing? What schemes are you planning? Why didn't you speak to me directly?"

whispered the humanoid

figure on top of the staircase as he opened his golden eyes and gazed at the chained figure at the center of the column.

His voice was ancient and weak but was still powerful enough to erase countless realms from the universe.

The worm-like being also opened its shimmering red eyes.

He had also known what had happened; he gazed at the figure at the center of the column and spoke in a ancient and mellow tone,

"Yes. We are ungrateful, and for that, we are sorry—sorry more than you will ever know, but you left us no choice. no hope. no salvation…"

"Un-grate-ful."