Chapter 412: Dreams End 1 (2/2)

It was like the entity was leeching everything away from the world Not just color, but sound as well

"Where is everyone!?" said the Hero, panicked He used his brief e what happened

Like the fleeting color and sound, the people had gone too The greying city was a foreboding symbol of not hope, but apocalypse, of erimaced Were they all dead? Had they just been abducted? Elaine and Krysa - were they okay?

Was this an illusion?

An…illusion?

The Hero fell down to a knee, putting a hand to the side of his head A skull splitting headache crackled through his brain

"Wh-what?" The Hero closed his eyes in pain When he opened the e of Peace

Scarred with graffiti Populated by rats and trash as h these streets were shadowy blurs One of them walked near him

He reached out to it, but the mo hiain

The world had turned a shade rey, ain

"What kind of trick is this!?" said the Hero, raising his shi+eld "My head - you're in my head, aren't you!?"

The Hero could shi+eld every single one of his neurons such that he was utterly immune to any attack that affected his ?

The entity did not respond to the Hero Instead, it just stood there, shi+eld by its side, as if waiting

Waiting for what…the Hero did not know

The Hero blinked It was…snowing?

No Not snowing

Ashes

Ashes were falling frolanced up The sky was no ht, but as if some Godlike force had taken a black ht and beautiful sky

"You-don't think you've won!" said the Hero "Wherever you sent everyone, whatever you did with the breath!"

"Looks like you need some help!" A voice from the sky

From the dark, Adam crashed down, his body encased in metal He stood in between the Hero and the entity

"Adam!" the Hero felt relieved to see an old companion "What happened to Elaine and Krysa!? To everyone!?"

"They told me to help out, so here I a you trouble? You're losing your touch, man Here, I'll show you how this is done!"

Adaed forth, punch cocked back

"Wait, attacks won't work!" began the Hero, but it was too late

Adam punched into the entity' shi+eld

"What the-?" Adaainst the shi+eld

The entity used its free arrasp Adam's face

And then -

He broke down, scattering into cruments

Adam was no more