βCome on! Higher, higher!β Rang out the voice of Nightmare, matron of the Horrorterrors, leader and model of the Nightmare Legions. Her horse form was folded underneath to be ridden, and she appeared as an elderly woman of impossible health, unearthly beauty. The fangs and glaring eyes of her rear guard continued the ascent into the heavens. βFrostmourne!β One of Abaddonβs swords summoned into her hand, and she burst forth into a dimension of ice. cosmic gods were caught in the instantaneous freezing deluge, and she parried the assault of a golem of abstractions and slew one. βTo me!β She yelled, billowing her astral wings inward. The gods were sucked towards her, two of her rear guard tracing up two of them like new spines. A whirl of wind, powers, and symbolic limbs clashed with her Deathmaker blade, and she swept them into decapitations. The two Underbeasts subsumed the remaining bodies into their own, becoming bulkier and more complicated.
She continues onward into the next astral level as it Roke,/ as it broke, a leviathanic enemy sending forth red energy beams from his eyes. It broke the path in front of her and she deflected the shockwave with the flat of her blade, continuing on the expansion of the upper reaches of the Underrealm by seeking his death. βRemain on guard throughout your alien form of life!β She shouted.
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Far down below a thick valve beat. It was covered all over with eldritch information, and veins traveled outwards to find Nightmares to feed. In return there was a flow of information: wherever the Underbeasts were throughout reality, they sent it back to this Nexus, this union of their travel between dimensions.
In an instant, a word -- world shattered, its dimensions congealing in a spiral towards a sphere. Cosmic Galaxy stood outside of it finishing a hand blast, and eyes and teeth grew in the collapsing abyss. The energy of his grin slid around eldritch circuits where an Underbeast was grafted to a rescue spaceship. It hummed with echoes of creation, faint pangs of lost death as alien creatures were left in the wake. A vein reaching it, it twirled around into another dimension where an astral titan was being translated into an Earthlike form, half of its alien limbs turned into two. Still another found for the first time an Underbeast hidden in the mist of an alien civilization, naturally emerging from its information.
The veins pumped back blue, and what came with them was massive bellows beyond the floodgates below the Nexus, the curling notes of monster roars chanting from shimmering signs of their presence. Other Underbeasts were above this, looking towards the beating valve. The Skulls were united in contemplation of the blood.
What came was not only blood but also perceptions. Alien voices continually spread throughout the meta-universe of the Underchoir, one species found after another. βSome say it is the heart of the universe,β said an alien. βOggstarok is the only threat in our land that can deal with this,β said another. βThe tyrant has fallen, but we wonder what will happen when the Underbeast merged with his feast wakes up,β spoke a council.
There was a curiosity about who was responsible for the creatures. There seems to be no trace of him, but they were all aware of him. The only thing that could attract any of their attentions was to speak of him even with no details. Scientific study of their biology shows a central sight of a man βwho is to beβ, whatever it means.
In the meantime they are concerned with another man who does exist, that familiar man who is existence. A swirling three dimensional portal opens up as an evil Titan who refused Christβs authority is shown. His world is swallowed up, and the feast passes to the entire Church throughout reality and other places.
The many highly complex throats and sliding face plates of Underbeasts hummed and sang out in choir, their song like flesh, not so much heard as merging through every form of perception, seeking new forms of perception as always they seek new ways to be, even if they must be individually entirely responsible for their existence.