63 Face to face. (1/2)
”Although I don't want to admit it, with my bloodline scattered it is at least manageable...”
Accompanied by roaring winds and blazing scenery, Su Min transversed the sky over a haze of gold. A spectacular view of piercing mountains and frothed clouds whistled past and through him, yet he took no time to gasp at its beauty as a sudden solemn light lit in his eyes.
”It's alive?”
A trace of uncertainty flashed, then with a boom, Su Min accelerated to his absolute limit.
...
...
”Hey, if you want to blame someone, blame that beast! If he would've NEVER existed none of this wouldn't have happened!! Right?!”
Madness glistened like two ghostly lanterns in those disfigured pupils of the shadow. To the boy, though, they were disgusting eyes that induced despair and pitiful confusion.
He, collapsing onto the dirt floor, mumbled.
”So quick... I thought I saved her...? Yet, in the next moment, I drove her further down the hole of despair? I thought misfortune comes in pairs, and that's with fortune, not more misfortune..!!”
”...”
A deathly light of anger began to seeth, burn... He kneeled on the ground, and as if he was looking at someone far away, he began to kowtow.
”I had good intentions... Good intentions... Instead, you will not only end up dying, but everyone else will die... Die because of my naive thoughts in believing in something stupid.”
*CRACKLE*
As the boy was kowtowing a startling array of disastrous smacks parted the clouds in the sky as that previously slow golden figure hastened! Shockwave after shockwave expanded with a whistling whoosh of steamed air, right past the boy's ear...
The dark nearly humanoid blackness in front of the boy panicked for a second as visible anxiety shone in its eyes. However, like a rat cornered by a cat, it quivered with resoluteness and pounced on the dull boy.
*PSST*
”GAHHH!!”
The kid's eyes quivered before, like someone had inked his eyes, a crimson replaced those one glistening white eyes.
”DAMN YOU!!”
With multiple spasms and bulging veins, the kid stammered to a half kneeling pose and roared to the top of his lungs. A wretched air arose around him as his eyes shimmer began to fade into pitch darkness.
Pain wreaked throughout his joins and muscles as his mind ruptured into eventual insanity. Yet even through these last dregs he still fought with that burning fire of rage and unwillingness!
Pulsing black wisps began to form around the boy as his body rotted. A snort was the only response from the kid's immense unwillingness to let the creature take control.
”Even if you transcended the plain of a mere first stage and reach that beasts level you still wouldn't be able to fight back! A lamp without oil is the same as a sun without energy! They will still both produce no light, no matter how persistent you are!”
Its voice contained a visible madness, one that was ready to give its life away! As such, and due to its origin, a dumbfounding aura began to radiate from it that made the boy cough out a tide of blood. It was like innumerable mountains were weighing on his mind!
”NO..!!!!”
Haziness started to cloud the boy's pupils and a murky feeling strutted itself into his soul. It was a strange and uncomfortable feeling, one that was all too similar to Su Mins. It was one of fatigue, but also a spectral wave that somehow strengthened his will beyond what it should achieve...
”Ah, just like the beast... It must be a defensive reaction, that haziness, right? He was able to form such a great amount of it, an amount that was capable of fighting against us for a bit... But how unfortunate, because what you have formed is only a tiny amount and nowhere near enough to stop this!”