56 Silver Serpen (1/2)

After dying so many times Linri started to understand Udcek's pattern. He could understand his thought process so he developed a strategy. He had to follow it step by step and second by second otherwise he would die a gruesome death.

When he was stumped about the next step of his so-called strategy he would just sit and think. After thinking and trying so many times he had arrived at an answer long ago. He can not kill Udcek no matter what. This was a dead end, the only thing he could do was prolong his survival time and that was it.

Once he confirmed this was impossible his mind birthed a new question. Simply Why?

Why was he trying so hard to kill Udcek? It was impossible so why even try? Was it worth it to suffer this much pain?

He could not answer those questions, simply put he did not know why he was trying so hard. He himself wanted to give up but he could not. He was having an internal conflict and did not even know the reason. This torment, this self-doubt was even more painful than death itself for him.

Ever since childhood he was always in control of his actions, that was thought to him by his father. His thought process was thought by him. 1- Discard your emotions, 2- Asses your situation, 3- Analyse your information, 4- Act on your solution.

Till know thanks to this quality of his, he was always able to do solve his problems. Be it a fight with his girlfriend or a brawl. He manipulated his social standing to become someone unassuming. If he acted on the principles he was thought he could always have his way. That was until now.

Now that he thought along these lines, he came to an answer to why he tried so hard. It must be because of his thought process. Even though he himself wanted to give up his mind did not allow him to. It was almost as if he was preconditioned to act this way like he was brainwashed. He had a problem in front of him and his brain needed to solve it. This was true agony.

He knew it was impossible but he still needed to fight this hopeless battle and he wasn't even given a choice in the matter.

While wallowing in misery Linri was half a second too late in one of his steps and Udcek punch through his chest, pulling out his heart. He looked at the bloody face in front of him. His chest was burning, his body felt cold and his vision started to go dark.

This was his 82nd death.

87th death; He was drowning under the lake while a bunch of skeletons were holding him down. Battered, missing an arm he did not even have the power the fight back.

91st death; Linri lay on the ground without any legs, watching the God of Death as he came to take his life.

99th death; His head was crushed under the enormous force of Udcek's grip.

100th death; A bone spike pierced his eye reaching the brain. Ending his life without any pain.