The Cursed Gamer, Book 3

460: The Figurines of Mystery

Chapter 460: The Figurines of Mystery

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The hyperverse: a cluster of worlds defying all logic, where forgotten drafts and unrealized worlds collided in a dizzying array of what-could-have-beens.

Neji, Eclipsia, and Lady Luck teleported to a corner of this realm, along with the Godmother. They found themselves on a floating piece of a broken world, drifting through this surreal space where disfigured monsters swam the stars.

They found themselves in outer space, surrounded by planets and stars, yet these celestial bodies were just a fraction of the spectacle. It felt like being inside a colossal attic, cluttered with remnants of unfinished stories and unrealized dreams. "Instead of the usual debris and space rocks, fragments of discarded realities floated around them, some no bigger than a town, and others as large as universes, all suspended in a void that hummed with the echoes of lost potential.

Beneath their feet, on the piece of charred land that they stood on, the ground was a mosaic of different landscapes. A stretch of green meadows merged abruptly into a patch of metallic, futuristic cityscape, and then, a piece of dream-like terrain. It was a haphazard patchwork that spoke of many worlds, all started but none finished. It was all weird.

But that wasn't nearly as surprising as the other things around them.

"What the..." Looking up, the sky was a swirling kaleidoscope of colors where stars appeared and vanished randomly. It was a sky unlike any they had ever seen, filled with the promise of wonders and terrors, a testament to the endless possibilities that lay within the minds of creators.

"That's surprising? Look around more." The Godmother snickered at their childish curiosity and said. Eclipsia looked down immediately, her multi-colored eyes shining and shaking.

"What is that...?" Even after the shock of what had happened earlier, Eclipsia, led by Nejire's personality, couldn't help a question. She pointed at the nearest star, a few billion miles away from here.

The creatures here matched the setting's bizarreness. In the large red star in the distance, enormous beings, like patchwork monsters from a child's weirdly overactive imagination, swam in the star as if it was a puddle of water. With her enhanced eyes, Eclipsa could see everything that swam in there.

Some were like dragons made of stars and nebulae, while others were indescribable, shifting and morphing in ways that made her head spin. They were the leftovers of an artwork never finished, existing in a state of perpetual incompleteness.

The air around them was heavy with a sense of creation and dissolution. This was a place where anything seemed possible but nothing ever truly happened. And since this happened on a hyper-cosmic scale, this was, in one word, quite horrific.

"Enough sightseeing, now. Follow me." the Godmother said when Eclipsia was too dazed at the sight. She began to walk and lead the others deeper into this chunk of land.

Throughout this entire exchange, Neji stood silent; as did Lady Luck.

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Neji's mind was busy. He'd have jumped with a fury of questions at Godmother, but his mood didn't allow that leisure. So he just silently followed her.

For what it's worth, she didn't seem to be planning to kill or sacrifice him anymore. At least, for now.

"Hyper-verses can be perilous, especially for younger beings like yourselves."

The Godmother said, leading the way. However, her words fell on deaf ears as Neji, Eclipsia, and Lady Luck were lost in their own thoughts

The landscape continued to warp and shift around them, a surreal tapestry woven from the impossible and the unfinished