Chapter 385: The Living Nightmare (2/2)
”The anger in my eyes was immediately replaced with panic. The cries across the hallways were slowly approaching me. I'm weak… I'm no fighter, and I knew I would stand no chance as the simple castle painter. So I did what I thought was best… I ran away as far as I could to the other side as to not get in the way.”
”As I did so, I witnessed brave soldiers and protectors of the castle rush ahead past me with no fear in their eyes. However, the screams of pain that soon followed their advances proved to me that they were no match, and only made me run even faster.”
”However, I could only do so much running before suddenly, I run out of room to go, and the only way out was to either head into the forbidden ground or to break open through the walls.”
”And of course, I initially chose the latter.”
”With all my might, I punched a hole through the tough castle walls, and there I saw a sight that I would never in my life forget, soldered and branded into my mind until my death.”
”The previous calm, relatively empty streets were run rampant, like an ocean of unknown masked beings flooded the entire city. The sky was shattered like glass, and those very same beings fell down from it like pouring rain.”
”However, there was retaliation. In the sky were several demons fighting off the menace, many I recognized as Elite guards and even some of the sins such as Lust, Envy, and even Zerker, Wrath himself. But despite their aid, they could not kill faster than these entities who mowed down civilians like nothing.”
”The energy oozing out from underneath could be only described as a foul abomination that made my very being crawl and gag beyond repair. The faces of the unmasked gremlins were abhorrent. Their skin was of all sizes, a mixture of different pigments, horns growing out of every pore in their bodies like pimples, that along with feathery wings and a golden glow. Some even lacked simple functions such as eyes, ears, and mouths, having horns replaced by them instead. They seemed like primitive beings, in pain every second they breathed who only had destruction in their minds.”
”From above I watched in horror. It was doomsday, like the end of the nether realm as I knew it. The outside world beyond the castle I had tried to escape to was far more unsafe than the very walls.”
”So, I attempted to go the only way I could to survive… Into the forbidden ground where both your necklace and the book of resurrection laid in top security.”
”The only problem was, despite everything that was happening, the area was still heavily guarded at that moment. If anything, the number of guards in the area multiplied to protect. I began to lose hope of survival, the rumbling and screaming across the hallway was increasing and I had nowhere left to escape. But, before ”I attempted to rush into certain death against the castle guards, two figures hooded in black dash directly past me as if I were not even there. And the next time I had blinked, I found the five guards guarding the edge of the forbidden ground on the floor, unconscious but certainly not dead.”
”I couldn't believe my eyes and didn't know what the hell happened. All I knew was that it was my opportunity to flee, and so I took it...”