..And after several hours, Sho, Litha, Ford, and Nihil continue moving toward the Castle of the Beginning and the End.
Sho thinks a lot and speaks with the Fool expressing to him how sad he was when he disappeared and how happy he was at his return.
Sho sighs and says:
"Well then, now I and Ford and Nihil and Litha are a team by the way are you okay, Ford I mean have you been suffering a lot inside one of the worlds ?"
Ford speaks and says:
"Not at all, only that that entity that was in your place tortured me for countless years but now I am fine do not worry"
Sho wipes his hand over Ford's head smiling at him while Ford feels strange about Sho's behavior.
Nihil approaches Ford while Sho and Litha walk in front, then Nihil looks toward Ford and says:
"You look strong, boy, how old are you by the way, I am Nihil and we are a team now"
Ford looks toward Nihil and speaks to himself saying:
"[What does that entity want from me, I do not actually feel his aura, this means that he is stronger than me, he seems cheerful and active and I do not like that]"
Suddenly Nihil lifts Ford onto his shoulder and looks toward him saying:
"Pleased to meet you, boy, we will become brothers, consider me from now on your big brother, okay ?"
Ford is surprised but does not speak, as he sees everything from above better, and says to himself:
"[Not bad at all indeed, I will use him haha]"
Ford smiles and speaks in a childish voice saying:
"And now run forward"
Nihil runs while Ford smiles and feels that he is in control.
Litha speaks, looking at Sho, and says:
"Although you have now regained your consciousness, by the way, the power of that entity that was in your place, I still feel it coming out of you and it has never lessened, it seems that this has become your normal self, right ?"
Sho is surprised as he thinks and says to himself:
"[The normal form ! It seems that since the Fool returned and became with me again, if I say the name of the Ruler of the Beginning and the End with the intention of transformation I will indeed transform into the second state, does this mean that the golden mist has returned ?]"
Sho speaks and says:
"Yes indeed, this is my new form, the distortions that were on my face have disappeared and I truly feel tremendous power, soon we will ascend to the second layer and reach and explore new horizons"
Sho holds Litha's head then speaks to himself addressing the Fool and says:
"You Fool, is the golden mist still with you ?"
The Fool is surprised by the question while Sho looks at the answer to say the Fool:
"No, I no longer have the golden mist, it has disappeared completely as if it had never existed"
Sho feels some sadness and anger and whispers saying:
"That entity, I that I am, that Fool took that mist from me"
Sho sighs and stops for a moment where he sees a golden feather on the ground with strange words on it, so Sho takes it and reads what is in it where he sees:
"I will wait for you at the Castle of the Beginning and the End, I will take revenge on you, son of the Eternal Night, just wait"
Sho is surprised then whispers saying:
"Eternal Night ? From that divine lady ? I heard about her in the world of demigods, the organization that was in it had the Seer path and the Sailor path and the Fear path and several other paths, they were there in that organization, why does Amon call her my mother ?"
Sho erases the golden feather and Litha approaches him and says:
"What stopped you, is there something ?"
Sho sighs then smiles in Litha's face and lifts her hair from her face saying:
"You look like a beautiful gem with those blue eyes of yours that you hid haha"
Litha speaks and says:
"I told you, show me abilities you have, show you abilities I have one by one haha"
Sho kisses Litha's head while Nihil and Ford play around, as Nihil jumps everywhere while Ford is on top of him on his shoulder.
Litha smiles saying:
"I will always love you and I will always be with you, by the way, what did you do with the three brothers I told you about, Song and Maro and Fang ?"
Sho replies saying:
"Do not worry, I left them at Gorgon Fortress and they are in good condition now and it does not matter what will happen after that"
Everyone continues moving while Sho's features are extremely serious, and they pass Gorgon Fortress in silence, then Sho sighs and says to himself:
"[I killed all the major and minor clan leaders and even all their followers in that competition, even Malina was not left by that entity and it killed her]"
Sho feels strange about the clothes that show his metaphysical abdominal muscles, then says:
"Litha, what do you think of those clothes that literally show my stomach, if I lower a small part of those Chinese pants or something similar, something else will appear"
Litha laughs a light laugh and confirms that the clothes are indeed beautiful, of a strange and beautiful style at the same time, so Sho decides to leave them as they are for now.
And after many illusory hours, Sho orders everyone to stop.
Nihil stands with Ford on top of him and looks toward Sho saying:
"What is it, Lord Shadow ?"
Sho replies and says:
"I feel it, we have reached the boundary region between the Abyss of Fire and the Castle of the Beginning and the End, just one step and we will be there"
Everyone is surprised while Sho's face becomes extremely serious, then he sighs and crosses.
Then everyone crosses behind him and is shocked, where a gray-black castle stands in the middle of huge mountains extending beyond infinity, surrounding the castle from every logically possible existential direction and not kinetic axes with higher dimensions, it is something beyond physics and the concept of dimensions, even the spiritual world itself, the existential directions were something not after, nor a kinetic axis, it was something beyond the concept of dimensions, while the world of gods which is in a higher existence, completely transcendent above everything beneath it, every entity sees the lower worlds as mere imagination.
Sho stands and hears the sound of a beautiful song like nothing else being played with a steady rhythm, while a beautiful waterfall is behind the castle, which is not large at all, and before it are green lands and beautiful flowers with extremely multiple colors.
At that moment Sho orders everyone not to enter the castle with him until he orders them and asks them to go to that beautiful waterfall and sit there.
Litha feels some worry then says:
"Be careful, okay ?"
Sho confirms that he will be fine and asks her to go with the rest of the team and rest a little and listen to that music until he comes.
Litha leaves and Sho brings out the necklace with the blue diamond at its end and repairs the necklace and wears it, then sighs and says:
"Those parts remind me of some games, that music reminds me of a game in the material world called Kingdoms of Amalur, that beautiful and enchanting music, every time I see something it becomes clear to me again that every game, every idea that came into the mind of humans in the material world was in the end a manifestation of a real existence and not just an idea that started by that human, that castle reminds me of the Lord of the chaos in that game"
At that moment Sho approaches the castle where there is a bridge over the air beneath it another huge waterfall and the closer Sho gets the more the music that resembles Grant Kirkhope music grows, making him feel as if he is contemplating himself while inside a video game, then Sho opens the huge castle door to be surprised, as the castle inside is completely different from the outside. Sho sees before him endless stairs above and below and endless doors with random numbers and all kinds of infinities existence inside that castle.!
Sho is extremely surprised and shocked, then he sighs and smiles revealing his fangs and says:
"Well then, let us go to meet the Lord of the Castle"