The Primordial Record novel Chapter 321

Chapter 321 Forbidden Region

Royal Guardsman Piers of the Horush Family fidgeted inside his Power Armor, running another diagnostics again to make sure his helmet was set properly. He was in space and although he was a second circle Dominator and could survive in the void with no problems, this particular section of space was not normal.

This was the area of space where billions had perished and notwithstanding that such a horrifying act happening here that would cause many unnatural side effects in the area, whatever powers that were used to commit this atrocity had left a mark in this area of space that felt utterly disgusting to the senses.

A red haze occupied an area of space stretching for hundreds of light years, and his job alongside many others was to patrol outside it, making sure there was no change in the area and keeping anything that may exist inside contained until higher powers came to check out the situation here.

After every Dominator below the second circle went insane and killed themselves when they approached this area, it was deemed a forbidden zone and elite Guardsmen were posted to the region, yet the second circle Dominators were not safe from whatever forces were inside this place and they had to be rotated every eight hours else their demise was next, most likely due to self injury.

This entire area, unless thoroughly purged by the family heads, would have to be registered as a restricted region, the likes that only third circle Dominators would be able to roam this space, but it would result in great losses for the Empire.

This area of space was a busy route for space travel and linked to more than thirty Empire owned planets, the effects of this area being restricted were destabilizing the entire region, for valuable imports and commercial activities had halted and for numerous worlds who needed these Spatial routes to avoid the high cost of Teleportation, going long without certain goods would lead to civil unrest and many other serious consequences Royal Guardsman Piers would rather not imagine.

As a Guardsman of the Horush Family, his power armor resembled an avian beast that was fitting his personal Incarnation and he had about three more hours before he would need to swap with another Guardsman. It was three hours too long in his opinion.

The time went by in a few blinks of his eye and his rotation appeared, he frowned and scratched his helmet wishing he could push through it and dig his fingers into his eyes, as over the hours the temptation to kill himself had been growing and if he was here any longer, he would summon his Natal Beast to devour him.

A frightening part of his psyche knew he would enjoy that experience, for his death would be the most pleasurable thing he would ever experience in his lifetime, and the temptation to kill himself had never seemed sweeter. What was the use for life when one could experience such a pleasure? Death would be a fair price.

He could not be happier that his replacement came.

This distraction made him not take notice of discrepancies in the features of the Guardsman that should replace him, he just weakly acknowledged his presence and zoomed off to escape the area of influence, while he had a faint premonition that if this area was not cleansed soon, this would be the place he was going to die. _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

If he was in his full mental capacity, he would have immediately noticed the Guardsman who came to replace him was from the Volgim Family when it was supposed to be a Tiberius family Guardsman.