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Chapter 3 by DykeyBecca DykeyBecca

Who came before you?

The university itself

Hela university is a strange structure, no one monster or even group of monsters has traveled into the deepest darkest depths that you can get to if you know the way. They say that even the gods of old never truly knew the full magnitude of this monstrous monster school, but I shall try my absolute best to describe it's horror with words the best I can.

You see, Hella university is no ordinary structure, it's a dream-fueled-self-expanding-self-replicating divinely made intelligence. Which ones abandoned by its creators has gone out of control which has expanded deep deep into the indescribable Nothingvoid that encapsulates most of existence. But I'm getting ahead of myself, let me describe the different layers of this eldritch building, one as a time.

The first layer is the normal university, it's outer skirts a modern looking university, with dorms and lecture halls, a normal library, and normal non alive architecture, "normal" being used in an extremely loose way here. But once you go a little deeper into the first layer you already find Eldrich influences affecting this existence, let's take the library for instance. At start the library is just that, a library, but once you go deeper into the bibliotheque and start exploring it's infinite knowledge you'll find yourself in a world of infinite shelves and books. After long enough reading and exploring the library you'll start getting lost in the infinitely long corridors and bookshelves, after longer the books will start making less and less sense, but you don't know if it's because the books are utter nonsense or if it's because you're slowly loosing your mind. After long enough you'll get to the point where meaning itself looses meaning, thousandsof lost monsters traverse the infinite halls looking for meaning in any meaning, anything I'm these jumbles of letters you call "words", never finding any.

From here we travel to the second layer, congratulations, most don't pass the first one. The second level is the abandoned layer of the now gone old gods, imagine being a kid in kindergarten, and you've somehow found yourself in the highschool next to you, and while it's twilight, slowly becoming dark outside, noone there but maybe a terrifying huge genitor. Now multiply that feeling of dread by infinity, because it's literally infinite to you, and also the architecture is angry that it's been abandoned and that no-one cares for it. Trying to actively **** you, things destroying themselves and collapsing into themselves once in awhile, having no dreams anymore to feed it. But the deeper and deeper you go the sadder and more dead inside the huge abandoned school gets, too depressed and alone to attempt to destroy or even do anything, and somehow the dead school is more terrifying than the murderous angry one.

If you've somehow survived passing that layer, you'll get to the third one. Being just plains and plains of wilderness getting more and more corrupted and filled with disgusting technologies, horrible fears and creatures replicating eachother infinity, the world becoming a parody of itself over and over and over and over before your eyes... It's like if capitalism was completely unrestricted, even by physics, run by unemotional AIs, and every second a thousand more years of this infinite hellscspe would pass before your eyes.

After this you find the fifth layer, here the one thing your mind still comprehends, time and action itself, become distorted and manipulated, you experience every little movement and change in the cosmos in a singular moment. Or well, the ONLY moment still left, because time is just the experience of movement and change, and when they're all together, this concept you used to call "time" looses all meaning.

In this singular and never ending moment, when the concept of "when" has been eradicated from your mind, the concept of "you" is eroded aswell. All memories loose chronology, all idea of self is completely gone from existence, there are now just a mass of particals that used to "think" it was a unified entity, experiencing all change and all happenings. But most of all the ex-them sees the nothingness that fills everything, from outer space to the space between particles, the nothingness so overwhelming it makes the thing-ness miniscule until it itself seems like nothingness.

And that's it, I do not know what is beyond the point of realising that there is no time or self, yet how to describe it in this mortal language, I hope that you have a good experiencing the illusion of "fun" and "pleasure" that is felt from this existence to the fullest you can. It's infinitely more meaningful than the nothingness that the world truly is.

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