The Veritas Chapter 8; Diligence

Demon Lord Sloth, realizing that its only hazard to its health was not blocked nor attached so that it would no longer persist, attempted to cut off the progression at the head in whatever direction they were moving at any time with a horde of blob-like mass wiping out the entire area in the direction of progression and taking whatever was present with it. The blocked off path of however many casualties would serve as a great enough mass of an adhesive blockade which anything that should so get involved would be unable to remove itself and also would get further and more deeply involved, thus causing it to coagulate and grow like a cancer until all focus was on the giant blot.

From that point where it stopped and started drawing more things into itself, it also drew more of itself into itself, causing a buildup and a back up like a sewage line, yet all in a rushed manner that caused it to grow instantaneously as swiftly as possible (which was only so fast, even with all the major developments). Eventually, it would swallow up more and more of the area in the spot they attempted to progress, swelling up into a large mountain accumulating as much and as many in the isolated incident as possible in the area of interest.

There was also a powerful attraction that was within that would draw forth even more things into the large ambiguous construct, allowing it a sort of magnetism that stretched it outward more swiftly with a greater momentum. Even so, finding what was attractive took a level of time that only allowed it to occur so fast. Yet, even so, Sloth was attracted to what also was a hazard to it in order to neutralize it completely and keep it from being a hazard any longer, so using all of its built up momentum from running away, it also drew itself closer to the $yndicate member nearly instantaneously with the two repellant forces counteracting and contradicting each other -- both running away and seeking out. The sudden instability caused it to also seek both of those effects that much more swiftly on either end simultaneously, and therefore Sloth's assault was both fierce and violent. It bypassed the other constructs without directly touching them, like a liquid, then suddenly attached to several of them as it neared the $yndicate member before retreating to a safe distance away from him after permeating only so far, still in terror.

When Lord Humility spoke, all of his kind all down the line adhered and began to cycle about themselves, also changing colors like a chameleon and blending into the background, with the $yndicate member along with them because of the refraction of the light serving also as an emanating field of sorts in a higher layer keeping him covered underneath. Whilst he was covered and all of the shapeforms were made translucent and transparent and pretty much virtually invisible and also shifting around like water swirled in a cup, they would carry the $yndicate member in a wave to the next location with stealth, unable to be traced or followed. "Be Silent."

In spite of the stealth applied by the $yndicate, the attraction to them by the Demon Lord Sloth as well as the largeness of its body pressing up against the surface still dragged Sloth along with them wherever they went, attached to them from the exterior, even if the interior was both protected and in motion. By that, alone, Sloth would not only slow them down by sticking to the ground and their exterior, but also be carried along with them no matter where they moved. If they moved, there would always be resistance against them and something connected that was applying it. This would eventually halt them completely and allow for Demon Lord Sloth to consume them fully after binding them.

All of the exterior of Lord Humility that was attached to by Sloth shed and regenerated as an interior wall whilst shifting to a new, clean layer of aqueous flesh that was no longer touching any of Sloth at all. Tracing the inner lining of Sloth, Lord Humility, whilst still invisible, splashed against the walls of the cavernous boundary that was created by Demon Lord Sloth and used the centrifugal force of the shift to sweep into a swirling vacuum spiraling into a point straight up into the air, both drawing in Sloth and drawing up the hidden $yndicate member into the sky with him, still cloaked and blended with reality, unable to be clearly seen within the shifting movement of the wave.

"Hold On Tight," his voice undulated throughout the chamber of fluid air in motion. The trail, which had been cut off by Sloth's motion, needed to be recollected in a different manner. Fortuitously, the static polarities serving as the consciousness moving the large invisible ambiguous clear shapeform were still attracted to the source, which was also still in motion and leaving sediments to be picked up on. This drew Lord Humility to where the Spirit of Diligence had been cast forth from overhead, taking the $yndicate member with him and drawing him to the head where the sentient consciousness was with its powerful magnetism with a rushing current, ensuring they were both very near each other.

There were several flickers seen in the distortion of the air up above and eventually a full layer spreading out only so far before disappearing. In the atmosphere, clouds began to congregate over the area where Sloth accumulated and had been drawn all the way into by both their attraction and the vacuous force left behind during the transition of Lord Humility from a wave of water into the accumulating clouds, which grumbled with frustration. The already conscious accumulation that was what was guiding the $yndicate member also surged through the air with greater radius and expanse once the watery vessels shifted into a different shapeform altogether. Now, instead of simply being that small orb of static electricity being dragged along by the Spirit of Diligence, it was also a large overhead accumulation still being drawn to wherever the Spirit should so have gone by its tail. The entire construct sustained as an enormous condensation of attracting molecules began to formulate droplets of water in the sky shaped roughly like people. They were completely translucent, like souls, but had weight and depth to them, like rain drops, and spattered all over the land.