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- But I knew better, in part because I could observe events occurring inside of a star and I saw what remained. All that was left of Gilgamesh now was a tiny point—a hole in space, small enough to fit on the head of a needle. A portal, like those I’d seen in other Grimm, but at once smaller and more focused. Black matter seemed to pour from it in clouds that dissolved as quickly as they appeared, my power erasing the new flesh as it tried to emerge, keeping it from consolidating into the shape of anything in particular.
- And yet, at the same time, the portal remained, completely untouched by my flames. I focused on it, trying to Observe it, but I didn’t get anything of value as it seemed to count as part of Gilgamesh—so instead, I analyzed it with my other senses, trying to make sense of it. I’d already noticed that it didn’t have any physical mass, largely because it wasn’t material. It was, after all, a portal; an opening in space that connected two different points. It didn’t burn because there was nothing too burn.
- More interestingly, however, nothing on this side passed through it to touch the other. I was monitoring the heat and energy building up around me and none of it seemed to be flowing towards the ‘opening’—the portal only went one way.
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- Holding out a hand and gathering what power I could spare, I created Longinus and hurled it straight into the sealed portal.
- The space-warping spear met the space-warping portal, a force that could pierce through any defense hurled headlong into something that should have been untouchable, no more than a connection between two distant points—and there was a reaction. I’d known there would be, had seen enough portals working alongside Raven to have a rough feel for the matter now, even if the specifics and mechanics were still beyond me. Even so, this was different than the tests I’d performed with Longinus and Raven’s Semblance, which tended to simply enter one end and promptly terminate both opening.
- Instead, as the two powers touched, space began to twist. Longinus seemed to bend while still remaining straight, the area around the portal shimmering oddly too my senses. The heat around it flowed strangely, drawing away from it and pushing forth in turns, but for an instant nothing else happened.
- But Longinus continued to glow and even as the space around it continued to shift and warp, it continued along its decided path, shearing through the twisted area and then shattering the effect entirely with a massive crash. Longinus slipped straight through the portal, sliding into the opening in space which consumed it entirely.
- A moment later, black fluid burst from both sides of the portal, flying in arcs that reminded me of blood splatters. What had once been closed seemed to have been wrenched open and the walls came tumbling down. More and more of the dark liquid flowed freely from the opening, along with the rising sound that I couldn’t quite describe—a wordless tone I didn’t hear with my ears, but felt, almost like a vibration in my bones—growing louder and louder with each passing second. It was more of the same Grimm matter that the portal had been feeding Gilgamesh to begin with, but if what had come from the portal before was a trickle, than this was a flood, a waterfall of black material.
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