Ch. 111: Carefree Stroll
years. Something the corpse race isn’t capable of doing, as they prefer raping, and killing all humans, instead of letting some live, like what’s occurring here in this kingdom.
And that's what I've gathered over the past couple of days that we’ve been here on this aboriginal wasteland planet.” The man wearing the suit replied, while looking around at the nearby buildings that occasionally had people of many different skin colors, wearing clothing made out of red grass coming out of them, before going elsewhere. He was also intrigued by the wonders of the planet around him, but didn’t care too much whether those walking by heard his speech. It seemed the people around him didn’t care about being called cannibals.
“That’s right Jaiym, we really should be a bit more cautious. We may not be facing the corpse race on this matter, but we will still need to get rid of the corpse race that may be within this city in the future.” The lady added. Before turning to look at the half naked guy wearing shorts sitting in front of her, on her left.
Seeing the lady look at him, the half naked guy immediately spoke up in anger.“Well, I would prefer if we just look for the leaders of this kingdom, and beat them until they give us the answers we need. But since Jaiym wants us to wait, I’ll go stroll around. Maybe I’ll find out more information about this place. Catch you guys later!” Before getting up from the bundle of red grass that he was sitting on, and walking away from the front of the house. Leaving a slight echo of his baritone voice that demanded respect and obedience, behind.
As he was leaving, the suited man, who was named Jaiym by the young lady, called out to him with a smile. “Rufut, be back before midnight, and make sure not to eat any meat given to you by the residents here. We still have a lot of work to do!”
“Come back soon! This place gives me the creeps brother!” The lady added with a look of anxiety written on her face. It seemed she just couldn’t feel safe on this planet that they were currently in that was covered in creepy plants, and filled with cannibals.
“Don’t worry, sis. I have some investigation to do.” The guy named Rufut replied relaxingly, before walking further away in a carefree manner on the red and purple grassland that had people and buildings all over it. As he walked, each person he passed by couldn’t help but pause and nod at him with a respectful smile, as if they were greeting an emperor. Those ahead of him, even moved aside hurriedly before he came close to them, making his carefree walk through the street that seemed to be getting busier and busier by the minute as the morning slowly turned into noon, a very relaxing and mesmerizing walk.
Within a few minutes, he turned a corner, and disappeared behind a building in the distance.
Ch. 110: Plant-Like Species
Due to the unique nature of her body, her body was capable of purifying deadly, evil, and toxic things in the environment. And strangely these spores seemed to consciously try to avoid her body, as if they were capable of sensing her body’s purifying nature, and were afraid that she’ll cleanse them. Noticing this behavior of theirs made her feel slightly uneasy. The fact that these tiny spores were trying to avoid being purified by her body, tells her that they may not be beneficial for the environment and the people of this world. There may be evil or nefarious reasons why these toxic, but conscious lifeforms are on this planet.
Realizing that the purple, grass looking fungus was a bit too creepy, she couldn’t help but look away from it, otherwise she may try to burn every one of them on the planet to the ground immediately, which wouldn’t be a good thing to do right now.
After looking away, she decided to look at the red grass that also seemed to be made out of another unknown, non-plant species. Looking at it with intense scrutiny, she noticed after a couple of minutes that the red grass looked more and more like fresh blood, that seemed to have been molded into the shape of grass instead of real grass, and it seemed to be strangely capable of producing oxygen too, making her quickly come to the conclusion that it was a beneficial species for the environment, even though the scent coming from it was a slightly bloody odor, that made her feel very creeped out. She couldn’t help but accept the fact that destroying it could harm the people on this planet, due to its oxygen producing nature.
Looking away from the red, grass shaped molds of blood by her feet, she couldn’t help but think to herself. ‘This planet truly is a weird, and creepy place. Not a single plant grows on this planet, but people can still live here because it seems the red, plant-like organism produces oxygen for the people to breathe in, while the spores from the purple, plant-like organism absorb the carbon dioxide that people breathe out, creating a perfect cycle.
Whatever these red and purple species of life are, it’s best to be careful of them in the future. They seem too strange, and creepy.’
“Little sister, I think we may need to investigate more into this matter before we draw our conclusion. If our teleportation into this world didn’t go out of control and sent the team that came with us to different planets, it would’ve been much easier for us to solve our current predicament, by using brute force, but since it did, we should be more cautious. Although cannibalism and the corpse race go together like poop and piss, I don’t believe this is related to the corpse race at all. Something strange is happening within this kingdom that this capital city that we’re in governs, and I think it’s been going on long before the corpse race arrived here.
From what I know, the corpse race behave like terrorists, and only know how to rape, destroy and pillage, whereever they go. While this kingdom that we’re in seems to have been consuming human flesh throughout their entire history, which could be thousands to millions of
Ch. 109: Cannibals?
The man wearing the suit, almost appeared similar to a human statue, instead of a living flesh and blood human, as he sat on that bundle of grass that was being used as a chair. Which always made those walking by them take multiple glances at him, in confusion, as they walked by, before looking away, after realizing that his statue-like appearance may be an illusion.
The other man, sitting on the left of the lady was strangely only wearing blue, worn out shorts, with tiny holes and rips all over it. His torso was completely naked, and free of clothing. He had a serious look on his slightly ugly face, but the aura emanating from his body was that of carefree relaxation, as if he was currently sitting at his own private estate, and not in a foreign world filled with danger. Unlike the lady, he was slightly chubby, with few signs of muscles on his naked torso, as if he had never worked a day in his life.
The most striking trait of this man, was that hidden within the carefree aura emanating from his body, was an aura of dominance, regality and power. This strange aura made the man give out the illusion of an emperor, sitting relaxingly on his throne, as he sat on the red bundle of grass. Even the occasional passerby would unknowingly nod their heads at him in respect, as if they were walking by a great emperor, as they walked by the trio.
Other than the fact that the three people sitting on the chair looked like foreigners, as they were the only ones around them that wore linen-like fabric, instead of clothing made out of bundles of red grass, they really wouldn’t stand out much within a crowd of people, as the aura emanating from them was barely noticeable by most people, and was often disregarded by them as nothing noteworthy, or a mere illusion.
As the three sat facing each other in front of the cone-shaped grass building, with the morning sun glaring down at them, the woman opened her mouth and said with eyes of confusion. “This strange world that we were sent to, keeps getting stranger by the day. We came here as heroes of the Asire Kingdom in order to stop the forces of the corpse race, but why do I feel like this city is stranger than the corpse race itself? Jaiym, Rufut, help me out here. Why do I feel like the people living within this city are cannibals?”
After speaking, feeling anxious she couldn’t help but look at her feet that were surrounded by purple and red grasses, and stare at the grasses with intense scrutiny. Looking at the purple grass for a couple of seconds, she couldn’t help but realize that it may not be grass that she was looking at, but some unknown fungus species that seemed to grow in the shape of grass. She could even see traces of tiny purple spores being released into the air that seemed to absorb the carbon dioxide that she breathed out into the air.
Ch. 108: The Three Young People
At the top of each of these trees were large green bulbs that seemed to enclose something within them. The strangest fact about these trees wasn't their green color that stood out from the red and purple surroundings, but the fact that there were always cone shaped buildings situated next to them in small clusters, as if to protect them from unknown danger.
On this planet, other than the strange trees, was a particularly large cluster of cone-shaped buildings situated in a small corner of its grassland that was over a thousand miles in diameter. These clusters of buildings were made using the red colored grass that covered their surroundings, causing their colors to be red as well.
In front of one particular building within this cluster of buildings, two caucasian looking men and a young lady that looked to be around the age of 18, were sitting on three balls made out of bundles of red grass., which seemed to function as chairs for the three of them to sit on.
The lady, whose skin color was brown, was dressed in a red shirt that had a strange blue colored flower drawn on its front that covered her chest area. She looked fit, and looked to be about 7 feet in height, if she stood up, although she was currently sitting down. Other than her height and fit physique, she seemingly had no other outstanding physical qualities to her, she was neither gorgeous, nor ugly. But there was an aura of confidence exuding from her body, as if she has experienced many things in life, and is confident that she’ll break through all future troubles.
Strangely, as she sat quietly on the chair, every breath she took seemed to make the air around her much more pure and fresh, as if her body was capable of cleansing the air she breathed in, into something pure and free from toxins. Everyone who occasionally walked by the trio, couldn’t help but breathe deeper, in order to inhale the fresh air that she breathed out of her body. The air seemed to clear their minds and bodies, and made them more relaxed and intelligent.
One of the men, sitting opposite her to her right, was wearing an English styled suit and pants that were blue in color. He looked to be about 6 feet in height, if he stood up. On his slightly ugly face, his eyes were sharp, yet relaxed. And he exuded an aura of extreme danger from his body that could make anyone fear him at first glance. Sitting on his chair made of red grass straws, he looked more like a dangerous beast that's currently hiding, waiting for a moment to strike a prey, than a human being sitting on a chair relaxedly.
The strangest part of about this man wasn’t the dangerous aura that leaked out from his body, but the fact that looking closely at his skin, anyone would notice that although his skin appeared supple and soft like a normal human’s, there was also a strange quality to it, that made it look like a stone, chiseled into the shape of human skin.
Chapter 107: A Distant Universe
“I will try my best. Thanks for allowing me to tag along. I’ll bring some of my men along with me on this trip as well, in order to train them, as well as help me investigate more thoroughly.” Mon Dupa added. Looking at the old Trent who had always been known to try his best for the citizens of the city, he could only feel deep respect towards him.
“Now, we should head out of here. The battle earlier was a misunderstanding anyways. Young child, I'll teleport you out of my granddaughter's room, after you go back in. Just wait a minute.” Micas stated. He then looked towards Trent, before giving him a slight nod.
“Goodbye son. As a descendant of the Candle King, I hope you're enjoying your time here in my district, and don't find living in this district too mediocre.
Let us know if you ever require our help during your future investigations. We’ll send you our contact information later today.” Trent said to Mon Dupa after seeing Micas’ nod.
“Thank you. I will let you know if I ever require your assistance.” Mon Dupa responded gratefully, then nodded at both elders. Before closing his eyes, in order to blink, after a feeling of discomfort overwhelmed his eyes.
After opening his eyes, he quickly noticed that he was back inside the small room, filled with moon shaped runes. The little girl was still sleeping on the bed peacefully, without the slightest concern about the outside world.
After two seconds of standing by the bed, before he could examine the room again clearly, he mysteriously vanished from within the room, as if he had teleported elsewhere.
In a distant universe filled with countless stars, galaxies, and planets, there existed one large planet the size of a normal sun. Surrounding this planet was a blue halo of asteroids that revolved around it counter-clockwise. This planet’s surface was strangely covered with over 40% water. As a large ocean occupied less than half the planet, while the other 60% of the planet was a large grassland that was covered in both purple and red colored grasses that were above 14 inches in length. On this large grassland were sparse trees and clusters of strange buildings that seemed to be made using bundles of those red and purple grasses, scattered throughout the massive planet.
The buildings were often cone shaped, looking similar to huts, with grass doors placed on their exteriors, leading to their interiors. The trees, which grew sparsely within this planet looked strangely out of place in this foreign planet covered in red and purple grasses, due to the fact that they were verdant green in color, only about 5 feet in height on average, and had long, bushy vines covered in sharp, and very hard leaves, that seemed to stretch for miles around them.
Chapter 106: A Dangerous Mission
But after a moment of shock and slight trepidation, he gathered his thoughts and said. “I would also like to join in as well. Although I do not know who your daughter is, I'll always be willing to help get rid of the corpse race, and solve the mysteries of her disappearance. I can capture a few, more powerful members of the corpse race for questioning, if I tag along.” As a hero of the city, he felt like it was his duty to protect everyone from harm. Even those not situated directly within the city itself, so he couldn’t help but volunteer.
“Great idea! Although we already have a superhero willing to support our men on this mission, having you join us is truly a blessing. You know how hard it is to get superheroes to leave their comfort zone these days, and venture outside the city on our demand, especially when they also have to investigate the Sweet Phenomenon as well as the other miscellaneous problems plaguing the city.
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I'll notify the Justice Bureau of your request later today. I believe the task force responsible for this mission will start leaving in a couple of days, until all problematic locations have been attended to. Lastly, be prepared to meet those from outside our kingdom on your mission.
This corpse race issue is something that the entire Empire is trying to solve as a whole.” Elder Trent replied to Mon Dupa, who quickly nodded to him in acceptance.
He then turned to Micas and continued. “Micas, you can send some of your men as well. I know you have connections to a lot of sects. We'll definitely need all the help we can get. The corpse race has always been a tricky group of people to deal with, so I'm also starting to believe they could likely be responsible for your daughter's death. Their recent appearance and your daughter's disappearance from years back are too coincidental.”
“Thank you, teacher. I'll let my assistant pick a few men stationed in this city, to accompany your Justice Bureau officers as soon as possible. It's been a while since I've seen my granddaughter, so I wish to spend some time with her, until my men bring back vital information.” Micas replied, with a look of appreciation on his face. His pale white eyes started turning back to their original brown color, after getting Trent's approval.
“Son, I also have a request for you. Please help us investigate the missing persons phenomenon more thoroughly when you have some free time in the future. As you've heard Micas’ daughter Michelle, is a victim of it, and we need all the help we can get. I don't fully believe the corpse race or the Fang Clan are truly involved in her disappearance.
It may be some hidden gang or cult. There's always a new gang or cult starting every year in this city. And it could also be a sect, which is worse. But you can never be too sure” Trent said to Mon Dupa, after listening to Micas’ confirmation.
Chapter 105: A Divine Trueseer
“It's true. I've also been briefed on their illegal activities. It seems they're out looking for sacrifices. Every few hundred years, the corpse race's Ghost Saint Cult always seeks bodies to hunt and defile, in order to create weapons, feed themselves, and rape to start their next generation of children.
In the past they’ve rarely ever come to our city's area, due to its remoteness, and had mostly preyed on other cities within our kingdom. But I guess they must've suffered greatly elsewhere, and decided our small city situated within the outskirts of the kingdom, was a better target this time around than the bigger, and more populated ones located within the inner parts of the kingdom.
My family and the Justice Bureau are already putting together a task force to go into our nearby villages and towns, as well as our off-world colonies, in order to quell their uprising, before they do more dastardly deeds. Strangely, there have also been reports of various anomalies occurring in our off-world colonies that have baffled us for a while now. That’s why these colonies were included in this mission.” Trent answered the two.
“Is that so? You won't mind if I send some of my men along with your task force in order to capture some of these villains right? It's been a while since they started to appear around our two cities, so I'm pretty certain they must be related to my daughter's disappearance.
As you know, my ability to manipulate time doesn’t work in a way that allows me to go back in time at will, otherwise I would’ve gone back to before my daughter died, to rescue her from danger. And although I have the eye sight of the Divine Trueseers, which comes from my Divine Trueseer bloodline, that allows me to see into the past and future, I’ve been strangely incapable of looking directly into the past to investigate what happened to my daughter, no matter how hard I’ve tried, which baffles me.” Micas added in sadness, and defeat. Although he had no means to change the past and save his daughter’s life, he wouldn't sit back and wait, when a clue to his daughter's disappearance was right in front of his eyes.
‘The fabled Divine Trueseer bloodline that the powerful Sval Kingdom’s royal family also has? No wonder he could manipulate time so easily, he’s from the Ancient Meno race, who are all born blind at birth, because their eyes can only see time, and not light and color.
His ability to see normally must mean his bloodline must not be pure, but his eyes that glow white when he uses his will power, is a definite proof of his Trueseer bloodline.
That terrifying bloodline that my father once told me grants its user the ability to defeat a god barehanded, is definitely not something I can handle as I am right now, with just one body.’ Mon Dupa couldn’t help but gasp and think those words to himself, as he looked at the weak and fragile looking Micas sitting directly in front of him, whose legendary bloodline from Mon Dupa’s understanding could give him the power to fight gods, and true celestials alike.
Chapter 104: Micas’ Injury
After his anger erupted, he suddenly started coughing up blood violently, splattering it all over the various delicacies on the table, as well as the grass on the ground. Strangely, the blood that he coughed out was wax-like in texture, and appearance.
Seeing the wax-like blood all over the table, and the still violently coughing Micas, Mon Dupa quickly realized that he had forgotten to remove the wax that he had left within the body of Micas using his will power, during their earlier battle. He then said to Micas in a hurry. “Sorry for my lack of manners. I’ll remove my will power from your body immediately!”
After saying this, he quickly extended his right arm over the table, towards the coughing Micas sitting opposite him. After doing this, plumes of flames, and wax quickly started to escape from within the body of Micas, as well as the blood that he spat on the ground, and table before flying in the air towards Mon Dupa’s extended arm.
Within a couple milliseconds, all the flames and wax in the air covered Mon Dupa’s right arm, before receding within his arms mysteriously, and disappearing from sight, like a bucket of water entering the sea.
After the wax and flames left Micas’ body, he slowly stopped his coughing bout, before raising his head tiredly. Trent, who was watching by the side the entire time couldn’t help but chuckle to himself, before snapping his fingers.
After snapping his fingers, all the blood on the table mysteriously vanished, as if they were all an illusion. Leaving a table filled with perfectly clean plates of delicacies behind.
Looking at the table filled with delicacies, as if he just created a work of art, Trent stated. “It’s fine. Let’s continue our discussion. Micas can handle this small bit of pain.”
“I had completely forgotten the poor state that my body was in due to our discussion. Thanks for your help, young man. I just need a little bit of rest to get over this small issue. We can continue as normal.” Micas added with a smile on his blood covered lips. He then started eating fruits from the table again. The blood covering his lips, and parts of his blue gown mysteriously started to vanish as he ate.
“As you wish. Well, from what I've heard about the corpse race, they've been causing many disturbances lately as well. Many heroes were even dispatched by the Justice Bureau outside the city to help investigate the destruction of many remote towns and villages nearby, which they suspect is likely caused by the corpse race.” Mon Dupa added while monitoring Micas’ old body carefully, hoping he hadn’t caused too much damage to him. Only after a minute of careful observation did his heart relax.
Chapter 103: Angered Micas
If not for a dear priest of Ensieth who was walking towards the city at that time, I'm pretty sure many citizens of our kingdom would've been seriously harmed by him.
Due to his obnoxious and callous behavior, I decided it was best to keep an eye on everyone who followed after him into the city after he entered, in order to make sure he wasn't planning to do more dastardly deeds inside the city.
Out of everyone I monitored, only the group with your granddaughter had something weird happen to them. So I decided to do a more detailed investigation on their whereabouts.
That's how I came to where I am right now. Sorry for my rudeness.” Mon Dupa answered carefully. Hoping the two old men before him would understand his circumstances.
“I see. A deacon of the Fang Clan was responsible for your investigation. They're always going from city to city within our kingdom, doing who knows what and meeting with who knows who.
They’ve been riding on our heads since they came to our kingdom. Now they’re defecating on us, by harming our citizens. They're almost as bad as the corpse race!” Micas replied, after hearing Mon Dupa’s words, with a look of contemplation and anger on his face. He still felt that the Fang Clan was up to no good, and should be removed from the kingdom.
“The Fang Clan have always been known to cause these minor disturbances, but unless they kill our citizens, there's truly nothing we can do about it, child. They're protected by the king of our kingdom, so we can only let them be. We’ve always been trying to pressure the king to rethink our partnership with them, but it seems he won't change his mind any time soon.” Trent replied to Mon Dupa after a moment of thought, with a look of sorrow on his old face. He couldn't help but pity the citizens that had been hurt by the Fang Clan, since they came to the kingdom.
“It seems, these Fang Clan members are going to become the future corpse race if we keep letting them get away with their behavior. Maybe I should monitor their whereabouts in the future.” Mon Dupa muttered, after hearing Trent and Micas’ words. He felt that the city should be doing more to protect its citizens from the Fang Clan.
“Speaking of the corpse race. Didn't they just cause trouble recently, teacher? They've always been the primary suspect of my daughter's disappearance.” Micas asked old man Trent, with his anger rising up again, at the mention of the dreaded corpse race. His eyes, due to his angered state, turned pale white as if he was going blind again. He even stopped eating food from the table in anger.
Chapter 102: At The Peaceful Forest
The ghastly, and terrified faces after drawing close to the lady covered her body from her neck to her feet, as she walked. After fully covering her decaying body, they started to transform again. The ghastly faces quickly morphed into a blue gown that covered up her entire body, from neck to toe. Looking no different from an ordinary linen fabric.
After the ghastly faces transformed into a blue gown, the withered and old lady continued her slow and unsteady steps towards a cave at the side of the mountain. After three days of slow and exhausting steps, she finally entered the cave, before disappearing from sight, as uneven echoes of her shaky steps resounded from within the cave.
A couple days later, somewhere else within the same world, ghastly clouds started congregating over another mountain. It seemed that the Cold Vilkerites situated within this world were currently leaving towards foreign places constantly. Possibly going to cause mayhem wherever they go.
Back at the peaceful forest, where Mon Dupa found himself in, after fighting Micas, a few days prior, the two elders and Mon Dupa continued their discussion.
“Did you say, the Fang Clan?” Elder Trent, asked Mon Dupa. With a slightly raised brow. Mon Dupa mentioning the Fang Clan brought back many unsettling memories to his old mind.
“What did those Fang Clan villains do this time? I won't be surprised if they're responsible for my daughter's disappearance!” Micas asked in slight anger. He had already come to a conclusion in his head, that the villainous Fang Clan was likely responsible for his daughter's disappearance a long time ago, since he had always been suspicious of their appearance within his Sval kingdom. He just didn't have proof yet.
“Don't blame everyone that looks suspicious, Micas! We have diplomatic ties with that clan and are forbidden from harming their members. Besides I'm sure they won't be stupid enough to kill our citizens on our own soil.” Trent couldn’t help but declare to Micas. He knew Micas too well, to not know that he wasn’t afraid of forcefully arresting the Fang Clan member in order to investigate his daughter’s disappearance.
“Well, I guess you have a point there, teacher. Please, young one, let us know what happened with the Fang Clan.” Micas replied, after hearing Trent's words. He then calmed down his slightly angered heart, and kept his suspicions to himself.
“Earlier this morning, while I was on my way back to the city, after coming from my home back at the Candle King Sect. A member of the Fang Clan passed through the gates in the most dastardly way. He allowed his insect to release toxins that harmed everyone waiting by the gates.
Chapter 101: Strange Hair Follicle
After countless faces appeared all over the hair follicle, they started to grow into real flesh and blood faces. Within a couple minutes, an amalgam of life sized faces replaced the hair follicle, and grew into a circular mound the size of a 4 feet tall human body, before slowly morphing into a humanoid shaped mound. The small humanoid shaped mound of faces, had two arms, and legs, as well as a head made out of countless faces, which were all making terrifyingly agonizing expressions.
The humanoid figure that was made up of countless faces, then started to morph again for the second time. This time slowly turning into the naked body of an old and withered lady. The countless faces had somehow strangely transformed into a complete, and smooth, caucasian, human body.
The naked female body that the faces transformed into was also strangely badly decayed, with the skin covering her chest and torso completely gone. Maggots of various shapes and sizes could be seen viciously biting at the remaining decaying flesh and internal organs within her chest and torso.
The arms and legs of the female body were also strangely discolored, emaciated, and were emitting a foul, rotten stench, as if they had already been decaying for weeks, with pieces of gray, decayed skin dangling from various parts of them, exposing the badly decayed flesh and bones underneath.
After taking the shape of the decomposing female body, the female body slowly fell to the edge of the mountain peak, away from the abyss at its center.
After touching the ground, the old and withered, female figure which had completed its transformation, started walking down the mountain in slow and unsteady steps. The strangest thing about the naked figure that was walking down the mountain was that her face had a striking resemblance to the old, withered lady that had just entered the watery portal.
The aged, rotting, and naked figure continued walking down the mountain for a couple of minutes, before the cold, gray mists that flew around the mountain’s peak started to transform as well. The mists flew towards the aged figure as she walked, and quickly transformed into countless ghastly human faces around her body.
The ghastly faces, made out of gray mist, were just as terrifying to watch as the faces that grew from the hair follicle that created the aged lady. Each face looked as if it was moments before its agonizing death. The faces appeared to be terrified of an evil entity that was about to cause their cruel and agonizing death.
Chapter 100: Terrifying Skulls
All these skulls had different, terrifyingly baleful auras emanating from them, with shrill cries escaping their empty mouths, as if they had all died horrifyingly gruesome deaths.
The deafening cries of these floating skulls echoed out powerfully. Spreading thousands of miles around the giant mountain, pushing the sand storms surrounding the mountain away violently.
Thousands of skulls floated to the surface of the lake by the second, until the entire lake’s surface had been filled to the brim with terrifying, crying skulls of various sizes.
Looking at the lake filled with crying skulls, the withered lady smiled, then moved her lifted feet towards the now gray colored lake water.
After stepping into the lake, she whispered. “See? It’s not that hard to be obedient now is it?”
But after her right foot submerged into the lake, the entire lake started to bubble and boil violently. The crying skulls also started to break, as cracks started to appear all over them. Their cries became even more violent and loud as they boiled within the lake, creating even more shockwaves to erupt from the mountain’s peak that caused the entire mountain to start shaking violently.
Ignoring the boiling lake, and the screaming skulls that started to shatter as she approached, she ventured further into the lake. With each step she took, causing the lake to boil even more violently, while the temperature within the lake rose astronomically.
After submerging half her body into the lake, half of the lake’s water had already boiled into gray mist that encircled the mountain’s peak. The various skulls within the lake had also been ground to dust, which then flew along with the gray mist of the boiling lake.
By the time her lithe and withered body had disappeared completely within the lake, the entire lake had already boiled into gray mist. The skulls that had previously littered the surface of the lake, had also been crushed into dust that now flew along with the mist of the boiled lake.
Only a tiny strand of hair from the old lady was left behind, after she disappeared into the lake. That strand of hair floated above the dark abyss at the center of the mountain peak, following the gray mist, for a couple of seconds, before something strange started happening to it.
As the hair follicle gently floated in the mist, it strangely started to morph. Strange human faces started to appear all over the tiny hair follicle. Faces that expressed different terrifying emotions. Some faces seemed to be crying in agony, some seemed to be laughing maniacally, while others seemed to be screaming frantically. Each face looked as if they were moments before their doom, as if something monstrous was about to tear them apart, and devour their remains.
Author's Note:
Sorry for the late update. I've been busy working on a game called Godwrath: Obelisk! that's based in the same world as the current story. Just finished it, recently and finally have the free time to continue uploading more chapters. Although I've written many chapters of this book ahead. I usually go back to re-read them before I post them here in order to do a last proof reading check, which takes a lot of time and effort
Here's a link to the game, I just finished working on if you which to check it out.
Chapter 99: Stay Still!
As he waddled into the lake, the fluids flowing from his eyes and head would constantly drip into the lake below him. Rapidly causing the lake to transform into a blue and black colored, thick and sticky lake that oozed out toxic gasses of various colors from its surface.
From the noxious gasses emitted by the toxic lake, you would occasionally glimpse strange, terrifying, spectral bodies, moving within them, as if cruel and savage ghosts were hiding within the toxic gasses, waiting to prey on anyone who ventures into them.
By the time the toddler had fully submerged into the lake and disappeared from sight, the entire mountain had become enshrouded in a thick layer of noxious gasses of various colors. Turning what was once a large anthill-like mountain into a mysterious, and terrifying cloud filled with creepy spectral creatures that seemed to phase in and out of existence constantly.
The old and withered lady standing within the fog of noxious gasses by the side of the now toxic lake seemed to be unaffected by its fumes. Even the terrifying spectral figures ran away from her in extreme fright, the moment they appeared by her side, as if she was a terrifying devil, waiting to prey on them.
After an hour of patiently waiting by the side of the lake, the gasses finally cleared around the old withered lady, as the lake turned back into its pure blue color.
After seeing the lake cleared up, the lady thought to herself. ‘I guess it’s time to go and supervise their missions. Hopefully we kill, rape, and devour more people this time than the last before the villainous military of the Sval Kingdom catches wind of us.’
She then raised her right bare feet from the ground in preparation to walk into the lake. But as her raised feet started to move closer to the lake, the lake’s water receded backwards quickly, as if it was terrified of her.
Seeing the lake’s water recede as her feet drew closer, angered the old lady. She then whispered in slight anger, as her old and intimidating eyes narrowed slightly while looking at the receded lake. “Stay still!”
The moment her whispers escaped her old, and slightly decaying mouth, filled with brown, decaying teeth, a baleful, gray aura emanated from her body that covered the entire lake. The aura caused the entire lake’s previously blue color to turn gray instantly, as skulls of various sizes started to float from somewhere within the lake towards its surface.
Some of the mysterious skulls looked humanoid, while others were monstrous in size, and were shaped weirdly, as if they were those of foreign monsters. Some skulls were complete, while others were broken and shattered, as if they'd been crushed by a frightening force while they were alive.
Chapter 98: Strange Toddler
After the nasally, aged voice echoed out around the lake, the last person standing behind the lady walked out. This person was only about one and a half feet tall, and had the look of a young male toddler, with small chubby arms and legs, along with a small chubby torso, and small, infant sized blue gown that made him look cute and harmless. His small stature, which was currently waddling forward towards the lake, like a child who just started learning how to walk, was too eerily contrasting to his old and exhausted voice. It was as if an extremely old man had somehow forcefully occupied the body of a young infant.
As he waddled towards the lake, like a child who had just barely learned how to walk, he would occasionally fall on his butt due to misplaced steps, before shakily standing back up again with effort, and continuing on his slow and unsteady steps. It took him a good 15 minutes of slow and unsteady steps, with frequent falls, to make it to the edge of the lake in front of him. He then stood still at the edge of the lake to gaze at its entirety, with an eerie calmness unbelonging to a young infant
His face as he gazed at the lake that he was about to enter, was extremely handsome for a young child, without the slightest sign of decay on it. The only place on his face that had signs of decay were his eyes. Unlike the rest of his face and body which was rosy and beige colored like that of a healthy child, his eyes however, had already decayed beyond recognition.
His eyes have been through so much decay, that his two irises and pupils had already disappeared. Replacing them were large pimples filled with black, and blue liquids that constantly dripped down his handsome, young face, towards the ground beneath him.
The two white eyeballs of his eyes had also already decayed beyond recognition, and had turned into two yellow balls filled with blue and black holes that oozed out thick blue and black fluids constantly, which also dripped down his face, and fell to the ground.
The moment these fluids hit the ground, they would immediately sizzle into a puff of bluish black smoke that would spread into the air around him quickly.
His head, unlike those of regular children, was abnormally large and sparsely covered in brown hair. Strangely covering his abnormally large head, other than his hair, were large, pink colored pimples that would occasionally burst out pinkish fluid towards his surroundings. The fluids upon touching the ground would quickly decay the ground, until it turned black, with black noxious gas escaping from it constantly.
After looking at the lake before him for two long minutes, with a calm gaze that resembled that of a confident serial killer, the young child slowly waddled into the water.
Chapter 97: Cold And Sinister Stride
The young lady had a thin figure, that was about seven feet tall. She towered above the other two beside her, with a dark, yet cold aura emanating from her body that brought a cold chill to the other two by her side.
Each step that the lady took towards the lake, caused a black colored patch of ice to build up underneath her feet, in the shape of her feet. Within each black colored ice patch on the ground, various evil faces with twisted black horns would occasionally appear, looking curiously at the outside world, from within the black ice, before moving to another black ice patch. They seemed to be capable of moving from one black ice patch to another, even though each patch of black ice was never connected. They watched the outside world with their evil gazes, as if they were waiting patiently for prey to come closer.
The moment the lady stepped her bare foot into the lake, the lake started to turn black, starting from where her foot was placed, black ice started to form around her foot, before spreading throughout the entire lake.
By the time her entire body had disappeared into the lake, the entire lake had already turned into a black colored, frozen lake that had creepy, demonic faces with large and intimidating horns, appearing underneath its surface constantly, as if countless evil spectres were hiding deep within the lake, waiting for unsuspecting victims crossing the lake to capture, then torment, and devour.
Occasionally, black ice in the shape of large demonic arms covered in spikes and large sharp claws, would shoot out from the lake towards random locations in the atmosphere as if they were desperately searching for prey to capture, before falling back into the lake and crashing into its frozen surface powerfully like falling meteors, sending shards of black ice flying everywhere.
The two people waiting by the side of the lake could only patiently stand by as the shards of ice crashed into their bodies. Strangely, the shards of ice did no damage to their bodies or clothing, no matter how violently they crashed onto them. The demonic arm shaped ice that shot out from the ice occasionally also strangely seemed to ignore their presence.
Only after more than an hour of this constant chaos, did the lake slowly defrost and turn back into its original blue color, and temperature.
“Zatlan!” Whispered the withered lady again, eerily. After the lake returned to normal.
“Yes, your grace.” Replied a nasally male’s voice, that sounded a bit too old and exhausted to make sense.
Chapter 95: Sinister Old Lady
Looking at the pupils of the withered lady, which were strangely too black in color, as she trekked towards the lake, caused the hearts of countless people watching to beat erratically as fear gripped their minds. Looking at the blue gowned lady, whose lithe and small figure, made her look weak and fragile, the people watching her could only be frightened, as if they were watching the evilest devil walk amongst them. A devil who has taken countless lives in the past, and who still wishes to take countless more lives in the future.
The withered lady, whose face was very old, and corpse-like, but still strangely alluring, was the first to start the trek up the mountain, and was strangely also the last to reach the top of the mountain peak as well. By the time she reached the edge of the lake, with her slightly shaky foot steps, the last droplet of water had just fallen onto the lake’s surface.
After looking at the tiny ripple caused by the last droplet of water on the surface of the lake, the lady then slowly looked at the sky above her, as the ghastly clouds disappeared from her sight.
After a minute of watching the now empty sky with her ghastly, and extremely intimidating eyes. She then looked back at the lake, before saying in the most quiet voice known to man. Words, which were barely a whisper escaped her mouth, scaring everyone who gathered around the now quiet lake as it entered their ears. “We’ve all been through this before, so I won’t bother you with my shallow words.
As always, when we meet other races of humans, we must kill their men, steal their possessions, rape their women, and devour their offspring. Anyone who calls us virtuous Cold Vilkerites, the corpse race, must also be beheaded.”
After stating these words, in a quiet whisper, she then waited a couple eerily silent minutes to gather her evil thoughts, before continuing in the same eerily quiet whisper, that seemed like an evil devil was hissing in the ears of everyone listening. “Now children, enter the portal.”
Hearing her words, the terrified group of people, numbering in the billions, then quickly jumped into the lake before them as if they were desperately escaping her evil grasp, leaving three emaciated people, who were dressed in blue gowns behind, along with the lady.
The three people had at some point in time, situated themselves behind the withered lady, as they stood there humbly with violently pulsating hearts, waiting for her commands in fear and trepidation.
Looking at the lake that was now filled with ripples, from the previous people jumping into it, the withered old lady opened her mouth as more eerie whispers escaped from it. “Now that the children are gone. I’ll now allow you young elders to go to your predestined locations. Remember your missions, and bring back any stragglers.”
Chapter 93: Savage Chant
But before anyone could respond to his previous question, as they stood by and watched him, as if in preparation for his next words, he yelled mightily in a voice that sent shockwaves rippling throughout the lake. “What do we Cold Vilkerites do to their men?”
“Kill!” The group responded loudly! With the entire lake rippling in waves that cascade all over the bodies of the men standing by it.
“What do we do with their possessions?" The leader asked again, this time with an even louder yell, that was valiant and heroic in nature.
“Steal!” The entire group responded even louder than before, their loud and powerful voices causing even more ripples across the lake before them.
“What do we do to their women?” The leader asked again, even louder and more valiant than before. With an aura of heroism and power clearly visible around his body.
“Rape!” The group responded again, even louder and more majestic than before.
“What do we do to their children?” He asked one last time, with his gray gown bellowing violently in the wind that originated from the shockwaves of his valiant and powerful voice.
“Eat!” The group responded with a loud cheer that sent violent waves of water crashing into them before tumbling down the mountain below them.
By the time they were done, their bodies were drenched with water, yet their mood had soared by countless times. With each member of the group looking more valiant and heroic than they were at the beginning.
“And anyone who ever calls us the corpse race? Behead them! Now jump!” The leader yelled angrily, before jumping into the violently tumbling lake in front of him. The rest of the group soon followed after him quickly.
In a span of minutes, the entire group of people had vanished into the lake. Leaving behind only a body of water that was strangely evaporating by the second.
Within an hour, the large lake at the top of the mountain had already disappeared. Looking at the mountain now, no one would ever believe that there was once a large body of water situated at its top.
Chapter 92: Cold Vilkerites
They all looked like lifeless corpses, with sunken, dead-looking eyes, and a weird smell emanating from their bodies that turned the calm edge of the blue lake where they were standing, slightly discolored in a grayish tone. Parts of their faces were already visibly decaying, as tiny pieces of rotting flesh, and peeling skin fell off their faces with their slight body movements. Their chests were also strangely still, as if they didn’t need to breathe at all. Not a single ounce of air entered their nostrils, nor did their chest heave rhythmically up and down, as a sign of breathing.
The most striking feature that this group of people shared in common, wasn’t their corpse-like appearances, but that they were all extremely beautiful. As if a god had spent an inordinate amount of time chiseling every part of their bodies to perfection.
Situated within the group of people that surrounded the lake, was a slightly tall, and feminine looking old man who stood at the edge of the lake, who was currently scanning the entire group with his slightly decaying eyes that had a look of cruelty and violence emanating from them.
This old man, who stood about 6 feet tall, after scanning the group of people numbering in the millions, surrounding the quiet lake before him, started to speak with a voice that sounded deep, baritone, and mellow. “We Cold Vilkerites, over a few hundred thousand years ago, were banished from the main world by the various forces of the wretched Gilagesh Empire like dogs without a home.
They called us the corpse race and punished us for doing what came naturally to us. Our innate desire to kill, rape, and pillage was chastised, and mocked by the heinous villains of the Gilagesh Empire. But today, we'll be going back to that same empire to wreck havoc!
Remember brethrens, since we do not breathe, and our bodies are cold to the touch, you must remember to use your will powers to mimic the bodies of a normal human at all times, until we reach our destination!.
And be prepared to die for our cause as we venture forth on this mission, in order to fight for the future of us Cold Vilkerites!”
He then paused for a minute, as he looked over the lake before him. The others watching him also followed and looked at the quiet lake as well.
“Now before we enter this portal before us, I must ask you, what should we Cold Vilkerites do to anyone who's not a Cold Vilkerite?” The leader asked as his baritone voice echoed around the calm lake.
Chapter 91: A Sinister World
“Great idea. I still need to understand the features of the other rooms in the house.” Lain added, with a look of anticipation on his face.
“I see. Follow me then, and let’s go into the first bedroom on the menu. You may click on the menu that says Bedroom 1 whenever you wish. I believe that should be the bedroom on the left based on this district’s usual housing architecture.” Hui Shi stated, before walking towards the bedroom that was situated on the left side of the living room, as Lain, and Annette followed behind him.
At this point in time, while the trio were exploring the stone house, somewhere in a distant, foreign world, something sinister was brewing.
In this foreign world was a dust filled sky, as well as gigantic, towering mountains as far as the eyes could see. The entire world was desolate, filled with sand storms, dry, and overbearingly cold. The temperature within this world was so cold that any regular human would start to freeze within seconds of entering it.
The world was so desolate and freezing cold, that it seems all signs of life had disappeared from this world ages ago. Even the air within this world had zero oxygen for normal human life to function.
Looking at the countless mountains within this world, you would notice that they looked slightly different from regular mountains created by volcanoes. These mountains instead looked like gigantic ant hills, with hollow openings at their peak, that lead to bottomless abysses below.
On the sides of every mountain in this world from top to bottom, were countless cave holes that seemed to lead to the deep recesses of the mountains, forming weird tunnels within them filled with the unknown.
On one particular mountain in this world, a weird phenomenon was occurring. Unlike the countless mountains surrounding it, this particular mountain’s peak, instead of being hollow at its center, was filled with a large pool of water, creating a lake at its center.
Situated around this large and mysterious lake, that was weirdly calm, even though violent winds tore through its surroundings, was a large group of humans, numbering in the millions, wearing gray gowns, encircling it barefooted.
This group of people came in different shapes and sizes. Some were very tall, while some were very short. Some were abnormally fat, while some were abnormally skinny. Some were male, while some were female. But this group of people also had weird features in common.
Chapter 90: Hero License
“It seems this issue is a very pressing issue for the city. I guess when I become a hero in order to be able to carry my blade legally, I’ll also have to investigate this issue.” Lain said with a look of concern on his face. He truly wished to be able to find the culprit of the missing persons incidents. It troubled him that so many innocent people have gone missing.
“You wish to become a hero? Well that reminds me, I have to get going. Sorry for my intrusion. I still have to get ready to take my younger sister to get her hero license tomorrow. When we last met, I was escorting her back from my sect to the city. She wishes to become a hero like me, and bring glory to our sect like in the olden days.” Mon Dupa stated with a look of exhaustion on his face.
“Why don’t we meet up at the hero license office tomorrow? Since brother Lain wishes to take the license I can help guide him there, and he and your sister can both take the tests together?” Annette stated excitedly. She had always loved recruiting new heroes.
“Sounds like a great idea. I truly need help navigating my way around the city. Thank you sister Annette!” Lain said with a look of appreciation on his face.
“I’ll also tag along as well. It’s been a while since I’ve returned home. Following you two will help me relax before I have to head back to my family in the Holy Myan District.” Hui Shi added. He didn’t feel like heading back to his family, until he had helped Lain fully acclimate to living in Yearning Peace City.
“Well, that’s great. I’ll be heading there by noon tomorrow. I hope to meet you guys there.” Mon Dupa said, after hearing their suggestions.
“Perfect! We’ll meet you there.” Lain replied.
“Enjoy the rest of your night, brother Mon Dupa. I would love to meet your sister tomorrow.” Annette, added with glee.
Hui Shi, who was closer to Mon Dupa, hearing their words, then walked towards the door leading to outside the house, while saying to Mon Dupa. “May Lord Ensieth guide you. Your visit was truly a blessing to us all.” He then opened the door, upon which Mon Dupa walked out of, with his last words echoing in the night. “Thank you brother Hui Shi. May Lord Ensieth guide us all.”
“Well, let’s continue introducing the holographic screens, as well as the other rooms in the house. It’s already very late.” Annette said, with a slight feeling of lethargy building up within her mind, after the fright that she just experienced from Mon Dupa’s strange appearance.