At the very mention the 'Lost Tensei Artifact', the 'Skeleton Key,' was slipped into its rightful place in the back of the Weaponmaster's mind; a keyhole fit specifically for the 'Skeleton Key,' itself. It, harboring all of the 'Lost Knowledge and History of the L'sia'; they who were the originators of all of the arcane and magical arts, known commonly as 'Devourists.' The memories flooded of her children and how they were trapped in the Zero World on account of the use of the energy that was derived from the Fae's Creative Energy and the Beast's Spirit Energy, something they called 'Magic'; an incomplete, broken form of energy manipulation that was all they were capable of using at the time due to their broken memories. The reason why is because when it was first used, it consumed the energy of the land too quickly and did not replenish it in a balanced nor proper rate, because it was missing the key components of life in it that had already become 'Lost Knowledge' at the time. Thus, they used the power and through it, eventually disconnected from the Fae when all the 'Creative Energy' or 'Manna' was getting consumed too swiftly by the very 'Magic' they were utilizing in ignorance and/or in selfishness. They, essentially, forgot where the energy came from, but knew that they could use it still, and began to use it for selfish purposes, forgetting that their energy, too, becomes corrupt the more they used it for corrupt reasons; as is its nature. That was how their children, the Devourists, even ended up without any value in the Zero World in the first place.
"Ahhhh, yes..." she said with a raspy, nostalgic remembrance in her voice, "... I remember it well..." This is how and why many of the Witches were hunted down centuries ago, and also how her own descendants found a way to keep themselves alive through the Consciousness and Souls of their children, being passed down and reincarnated in complete and utter secret, since they'd found out the secrets long ago and were afraid to reveal themselves again at the risk of being hunted. Thus, she and her children remained covered, to prevent further destruction as well as promote tolerance and understanding to both parties without them having to meet. Yet, even so, they were unsuccessful in being freed from that realm of darkness; hiding in the shadows of other living beings as if they weren't there for however long it had been. It seemed like lifetimes; especially of watching herself and her husband die.
As the Weaponmaster went through all of the history of the past, that which was unlocked from the Zero World and returned to her as her own body, the Weaponmaster's body lost its form, completely breaking down into nothingness and ambiguity equivalent of the great collection of forgotten thoughts, memories, secrets, feelings and all such other discarded or forgotten things. It would become an entire 'Black Swamp' in and of itself, isolated from any of the others, yet connected to them all in and of itself as all of them as one; 'the Sixth Moon'. It was, so to speak, the embodiment of the 'Zero World'; the 'Dark Womb' of LiGrim and the 'Dark Mind' of Allsgrim together. It was what was known previously on Vescrutia as the 'Ambiguous Chaos', or rather, 'The Forgotten One';
"Ozma."
She cried, calling out the name of the 'Forbidden Spell of the L'sia' on herself; that which induces Absolute Zero as a living entity, which was she, herself, whilst also completely overwriting whatever it was that belonged there before previously, regardless of what it may be. A 'Manual Overwrite' program, only accessible to the 'Creator's Pen,' so to speak, if one would like to think of her this way. Through this, whatever she has taken over, it can be made as 'Absolute Zero,' and become consumed by the Zero World along with herself as herself, and as ruler of the Zero World itself, it always becomes part of her and never the other way around. This was how Eva figured out the power of the Forbidden Spell and began the Consumption of Energy with Chaos, and became the Mother of the Witches. LiGrim, herself, is Primordial Chaos, and her husband is what gives whatever comes out of her body any sort of Value or Power. Without him, whatever she created would only have the power to consume power from others, which is what the Devourists did; starting with her own children, the progenitors of the entire Devourist population. They, who were known by the surname 'L'sia' were the dark shadows of the 'Tensei,' which became Living Shadows that haunted them until all of their qualms in the Dark were resolved.
With her body melting down, no longer sustaining itself as the previous history it was due to her rightful power and memory being restored, the entire existence of what the 'Grand Excalibur' was before would shift along with her will, it being what it is supposed to be and no longer what it remembers itself as. It was a case of a memory lapse in the sense of things not being in order, similarly to how her husband was. Thus, the 'Lost One,' Allsgrim (Who went by both 'Grim,' 'Charon,' 'Hades' and 'Necron' on the planet Vescrutia) and the 'Forbidden One', LiGrim (who went by the name of 'Grimnis,' 'L'sia' and 'Lilith' on Vescrutia) could come together through the 'Forgotten One,' (Who went by 'Xi-Ta,' 'Parace' and 'Ozma' on Vescrutia) the third Primordial Deity that was once brought out of the 'Boundary' by their son 'Grimlock' during his own escape. Therefore, when the two of them merged with the Zero World, they would be able to dip into their memories as the keepers of them and all that is Past.
"Glad to see you finally got me out of that accursed cesspool of forgetfulness..." her witchy voice playfully cackled, "Might have forgotten where we came from, if you didn't, old man..." she continued to cackle heartily, her Consciousness unscrambling, along with all the Archived Memories and Record of the Past, as she came together. She'd become a massive condensation of complete Ambiguous Chaos, where her information could be broken down in any way she saw fit, including to completely erase whatever history she was tied to before and alter it as she saw fit in order to produce events in the future.
"Reminds me of that River of Forgetfulness in the Underworld... Lethe."
She had access to all recorded history of all recorded and unrecorded realms, so she could bring any sort of thing from any sort of history that has already existed into the present or future, with its value and weight in the world assigned by the one who harbors accurate judgment in accordance to the Values already set in place in all other Variables within any other Reality. She was the Record Book and he was the Calculator. If she was accessing the Archives correctly, as she could do at a whim, they already had the River Styx established, as per her husband's instruction when he was under the names of 'Hades' and 'Charon,' when the curse of the Tensei was used to conquer the land belonging to the 'Goddess of Arcadia, Anna'. That must mean that she needed to go establish the 'River of Forgetfulness'when they got back to the Zero World, as well as deal with the 'Tree of Knowledge' whilst they were here in the 'Dream,' which should have been somewhere around here in the Manor.
"Now... My new Physical Form as a Scarecrow, brand new and never before seen..."
"Fresh out of the Darkness, as all of us were promised..."
She was only promised one, and it had to be kept pure, or else it would serve as a corrupting influence to all the two of them were connected to. As the essence of the Zero World slipped into place, it was filled with bright blended color upon its mistress's return to it, something like what a beautiful day would look like once the sunlight touched the cold darkness of nothingness for the first time in all history; a realm that didn't know what light was suddenly being exposed to it and seeing what was all around them and what had been all the time that they simply didn't know about nor could witness, and to the fact that Light existed outside of the Dark world that they lived in, which was made parallel and simultaneously to theirs as an eternal method to always help any darkness to go into the light and vice versa. Mirrors of the Yin and Yang "Good. Pisces is Awake, I see..." she muttered as she casually glanced over what had occurred in Documented History, "Which means, no more living on through my daughters and their daughters, of whom harbored my likeness for quite some time..." She naturally meant those of whom were the Pure Bred L'sia Blood; the last one being Tzita, herself, who had been harboring 'Parace' as well as all of the secrets of the clan for quite some time via the 'Skeleton Key.' Raising her arm from out of the formless abyss that was nothingness robed around her, not unlike those of her world were prone to wearing as their garments (Friday's being a 'Dream Robe' and Despair's being a 'Dimension Robe' and such), a great deal of color and iridescent light would shift into her forming black form, slipping into it as if it were some sort of skin. The energy, the color that belonged to it, its property and its function all swirled within her womb, able to be generated at any given time. Yet, the same should be, too, for the 'Dark Mind' that stood beside her, the first womb for which such creation was to occur. They worked together in terms of their Absolution in order to maintain the Zero World; Allsgrim harboring the 'Absolute Value' and Parace harnessing the 'Absolute Zero', itself. They, alone were those who made up the Zero World, but the others of the 10th are what approved of what came into the Zero World or what decided to go into it. From her hand, a Colorless Book would slip out of her palm, soon absorbing some of her being and filling with color; that which belonged to an event already past for her to review as she saw fit.
"Well, looks as if my own, the Rabbit, is on the move, guiding my Daughter through my own Influence over Her and the Sacred Beast, Itself in the darkness." she said, light pouring over her once completely invisible and presenceless form, filling the empty space that was once her Living Shadow as a lack of Presence and revealing what she looked like in a Physical Form. Allsgrim had jurisdiction over all of the Constellations (that is, the stars that made up each of the 12 Zodiac Signs) and LiGrim had jurisdiction over all the Sacred Beasts that were influenced by them (the 12 Lunar Calendar Zodiac Signs). "Now, with Ancient History all getting sorted out upon our return, I believe we can finish where we left off oh so very long ago, including with our own children..." Grimlock, Grimro and Grimnyzmal, as well as their grandson, 'Grimoire.' "Fortunate that our dear boy, Grimnyzmal, had a child that turned out as a living mechanism for recording history. A manual backup, of sorts. Such a good boy..."
The amorphous pool of color that filled the solidified physical personified embodiment of the Zero World was 'Parace, the Weaponmaster'; the very embodiment of all forms of Energy as One, able to be shifted in any way she saw fit, including in and of herself. It was the progenitor to the ability of 'Transformation,' which many witches used in tandem with guidance from their 'Animal Spirits,' which was how they ended up being able to transform into their 'Familiars' whenever they figured out which animal related to they and their 'Magic.' It was a method of helping them to connect to their 'Fae' and the 'Manna,' but they ended up misusing that, as well, and furthering the development of the 'Devourism' and the 'Magic,' both of which are fueled by 'the Insanity.' Fortunately, she, herself, through her daughter, Eva, helped her sons and brothers to create the 'Instruments' that were able to harness this power and help to consume and purify the souls of the Witches and any who became Tainted along the way. Because her pure, raw power was so easy to corrupt based on the person that was using it, which would also lead to corruption in her own purity, there is now a method to prevent that from occurring, in order to keep her 'river clean' and 'pure' so to speak, which also meant in and of her own body, as well. No unclean things could enter it, and anything that was connected to her that was unclean that wouldn't be cleaned would be disconnected in order to preserve her own Purity.
"It feels good to be clean... In perfect order... And now, with a nice, pure body of my own to keep clean..."
Though her power could only be utilized through the three younger granddaughters, who were now equals and served as siblings to the one revived from the past, when Approval from the Judgemaster, Placement from the Gamemaster and Life through the Willmaster were granted, so too would the power of whatever she and Allsgrim had created. Basically, they could make anything they want and give it any parameters they wanted to, including a Prinny at level 9999, right off the bat. This was how they would keep her Energy Reserves completely clean, regardless of what the Zero World had to take into it.
"You don't think our Zero World has gotten too cluttered whilst we were lost in the darkness all this time, do you?" she inquired as she came to her complete form, no longer lost in forgetfulness from being too far back in history for other beings to remember, including herself. Though, quite honestly, she could have looked it up herself, it wasn't a requirement. Not to mention, she knew nothing of the events that hadn't already happened. Only Allsgrim knew everything that was to come in the Future, and she would only know through him. He recorded the Future, she kept documents of the Past. When it all came together, it became 'Present.' She would hover there beside her partner, of whom even through all this time hadn't forgotten about her and brought her back to remember herself, as well, enjoying the humble silent ambient peace of their return to their rightful place without any sort of chaotic discord from their natural will and way. She was just happy to be alive again. It was scary to be gone for so long and not know if you were going to ever exist again, yet see yourself inside of nonexistence. She didn't want that for her children, nor for anyone unfortunate enough to have been sent to the Zero World on account of their misdeeds.
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