Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 98

Chaos Labyrinthos.

The Eternally Unchanging Labyrinth.

The great shackles of the Minotauros. The prison for a Monster.

Born a monster, Asterios was doomed from the moment King Minos learned of his wife's infidelity. Tormented by the betrayal of his beloved and the treachery of the gods, and blind to his own fault, Minos chose not to execute the monstrous offspring. But instead to gain the retribution that he considered deserved, chose to torture the one named 'The Ruler of Stars' in the worst way possible.

"If he was born as a monster, then he will live as a monster - and as a monster he will die."

Having imprisoned the then young boy in an inescapable labyrinth, Minos doomed him to a monstrous life. To make sure that the monster he hated truly becomes a monster, King Minos sent slaves and criminals into the labyrinth as the only food source. He raised a monster from a child that did not distinguish between animals and people, turning him into a murderer, a cannibal, a beast.

The Labyrinth of the Minotauros remained as the eternal shackles of Asterios. A sign and the symbol of his monstrous nature. A prison in which anyone who entered its domain was destined to wander eternally until the day of their death.

Asterios was destined to know and carry the prison in which he himself died in. As a monster, as a man, and as a child.

The Labyrinth of Despair.

The very essence, the very perception of Asterios, changed the labyrinth. And so the bare walls of stones created by the great Daedalus, now turned into the indestructible barriers of Aterios' own suffering.

Asterios, born of a monster, adopted his legend.

No one leaves the labyrinth, dead or alive.

And therefore, the walls erected by the power of his Noble Phantasm that instantly swallowed the Servants, was by their very essence their doom.

Weakness. Despair. Suffering. Pain. Anger. Madness.

All that Asterios experienced looking at the walls of his prison.

All that, he brought to his enemies.

Each parameter of the enemy dropped by one rank. But, what was much more deadly is the fact that they found themselves trapped in an inescapable maze. The labyrinth that started it all. An unsolvable trap created by Daedalus on the orders of his king.

However, Asterios' labyrinth had a peculiarity that is strange for a Reality Marble that is supposed to represent an ever changing individual.

Asterios' maze was static.

As it was summoned once, so it will always be summoned forth the same way every time. Exits, turns, traps - all this was static and could never change.

For someone who first entered the labyrinth, most likely also their last time, it was an insignificant detail that had little effect on them. If the labyrinth you are trapped in remains static and unchanged each time it's summoned, but you find yourself lost in it without any map or any understanding of it, what difference does it make?

However, even with its unchanging nature, for Asterios the labyrinth remained as a trump card. Indeed, during the days of his imprisonment - he had studied his prison well.

"YOUR TRAP IS NOT!.." - Spartacus had time to exclaim before the mighty ax of Asterios separated his head from the body.

Nobody leaves the maze.