[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

93: High School Student 01

"These are histories that have happened or will happen in the future." The Lord of Time and Space released the strand of hair and looked over at him, patiently explaining. "If you want to see the history of the past, look back. To see the history of the future, simply look forward."

Zong Yan nodded. He began to search for things he was interested in.

He saw a great number of otherworldly species developing in the axis of time before they were destroyed. There was also a race with huge bodies, like a spinning barrel. Based on their appearance, they were similar in structure to the insects of Earth.

The Elder Things?

Zong Yan had encountered this unique, subordinate-level independent race on R'lyeh. Now he was lucky enough to watch the rise of this species in the timeline. They had an advanced civilization with a clear division of labor and a political system that was similar to socialism.

He couldn't help but feel curious, so he looked back at the earlier sections of the timeline.

Around a billion years ago, the Elder Things had come to Earth. The Elder Things were the first species to discover the value of this aquamarine planet. They built large cities beneath the sea and developed complicated trade systems. They enslaved shoggoths to build their infrastructure.

Later, the great Cthulhu arrived on Earth. He brought with him his own clans, the Deep Ones and the Star-spawn. Cthulhu also established his domain in the sea, which led to a territorial dispute with the Elder Things. R'lyeh and the Elder Things fought a protracted war. In the end, they were enslaved by Cthulhu and settled down in the city of R'lyeh.

But the Elder Things would never give up so meekly, otherwise they wouldn't have been classified by Miskatonic University as an independent race. Later, when the unknown calamity occurred on Earth, the Elder Things probably engaged in various overt or covert actions. After Cthulhu and his clans were sealed in the South Pacific, the Elder Things re-established their own communities.

Unfortunately, even though they'd possessed a mysterious technology capable of creating life when they landed on Earth a billion years ago, time didn't grant them eternal glory. By the 20th century, the Elder Things had long disappeared from Earth, and only the faintest remnants of their ancient cities remained in the untamed mountains of Antarctica. If you were forced to identify the most amazing thing they left behind, it was probably an uncanny gate through time and space located in a certain mountain range in China.

Yog-Sothoth led the young evil god hand-in-hand slowly through the long river of time. Faint images from history flashed by them like smoke and fog. In a flash, Zong Yan saw the end of the long history of the Elder Things and the first stirrings of the Stone Age in which human civilization emerged.

By the time they finally looked away from this fascinating sequence, they'd been walking through the void space for quite a while.

Of course, that was Zong Yan's subjective opinion. They were outside of time, so the duration of this experience wasn't actually part of time's axis. For example, Zong Yan didn't see himself in the timeline.

Speaking of which, he looked back as if he suddenly remembered something.

By now they'd traveled a little distance, so when Zong Yan turned around he could only catch a glimpse.

'In the endless void of the universe, countless evil gods have spawned. Just like this section of the timeline, where a pair of dark green and yellow energies meet. Aside from those two colors, there's nothing else.'

Zong Yan's pupils shrank slightly. The glow in his dark golden eyes slowly dimmed.

He figured that Yog-Sothoth was right.