Chapter 38: The Netherworld [1] (1/2)
”When you are done take me to see the doctor, and I will give you a painless death…”
Then Dara who had been searching for the second sword finally saw it lodged into the Obun Leader from the back…
Sharp! Shrap! Chrap!
Dara vengefully stomped his way towards the weak Obun Leader, planted his foot on his back, and shoved out the sword;
Shraa!
”Argh!”
The Obun Leader yelped in pain as he began to bleed from his back at a spot where his hands couldn't reach…
Then it was the Obun leader's time to start choking as he looked up to see Dara's crazed expression, and began to get flustered;
”Don't even think about killing me, I bear the mark of Lord Ru…”
The Obun Leader growled as he stretched his left hand towards Dara and opened his palm to reveal some ancient rune which seems to have be burnt into his palm…
But Dara simply ignored all the rubbish the man was muttering and drove the sword right through his heart;
”Ahk!”
The Obun Leader choked in pain, as Dara looked straight into his eyes and watched as life gradually ebbed away from the human-monster…
After the Obun Leader died, Dara buried his sister right there at the cliff as he became lost in thoughts;
Why was his sister the only person that came to his rescue even when they clearly understood that there was no way she could have managed to achieve that alone?
Where are the rest?
Why haven't they showed up yet?
Or could this actually be what the group had planned? But why?
They had not offended anyone and neither have they ever done anything bad that would warrant this?
Dara's thought became really chaotic as he tried to wrap his head around the situation, but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't bring himself to understand…
”Sister… We have been faithful to the village for so long, and this is what they repay us with…”
Dara muttered as he stabbed his sister's glaive into her grave as a signpost, and then turned around to leave… But just as he walked past the Obun Leader's corpse;
”Listen to your sister Little Kid…”
A voice echoed into the area, as Dara stopped in fright, then he looked around, but no matter how much he looked and check, he was only surrounded by corpse, and after stopping for about a minute and seeing nothing out of the ordinary, Dara continued his journey, but then, it happened again;
”~Hu~” The voice sighed;
”Let's see how far you can go within these Dark Lands without cultivation…”
Dara froze once again, but this time, he turned his head as slowly as he could and suddenly looked back, looking to catch the owner of the voice, but despite all that, he could only see corpse everywhere that some Raven-like birds were already feeding on…
He looked towards the Obun Leader as the voice seem to be coming from that direction, and he took two steps forwards, took a small rock and threw it at the Obun Leader's corpse, but he got no reaction of any sort…
Then just as he picked a bigger rock to smash the man's head into a pulp;
”Oi! Ha-ha ha-ha ha!”
The voice scared the living hell out of Dara who fell backwards and saw the massive stone he wanted to use to smash the Obun Leader's head fall on his instead, and that spelt Dara's end;
”Eh? Did I kill him?”
The voice echoed out once again;
”No, I would need to feed on his soul if I am to recover!”
The voice grew agitated and; Boom! An explosion ensued as a massive dark colored formation appear on the chest of the Dead Obun leader…
The formation twisted and turned as it began to spin and gather momentum, instantly a strong wind kicked up in the area as everything around began to surge towards the ancient runic formation, and after about five minutes;
Kacha!
The sound of something unlocking echoed in the area, as a massive dark colored soul of a figure broke out of the seal, and the moment that happened, the always dark sky in this lands went even darker as a white colored lightning bolt as thick as a bucket, fell from the sky;
”Have I been discovered?”
”They are so quick unh?”
”But it seems I still have some time…”
The soul muttered to itself as it looked towards the descending bolt of lightning and jumped out of the Obun Leader's body and towards Dara's corpse, as the lightning descended and blasted the Obun Leader's corpse into smithereens;
”Damn you, Luo!”
The soul cursed at the sky with a loud bellow as it lunged towards Dara's corpse, but just as he was about to enter, he saw a mysterious rune appear on Dara's forehead, and the man blanched in fear, as his level of anxiety rose to new heights;