Chapter 15 – The True Color of Nacht
Before the Gate of Nacht.
Crows flew off a wood board on the side of the road.
On the board there was something written with blood.
* The Place closes to Hell.
“That is a very welcoming sign!” – Yuki added.
On the way to the town, both had an uneasy feeling inside their hearts.
The entire place felt eerie,
Everything seemed lawless,
Truly a place where only the strong reign.
If you ever enter this town, you will instinctively know that you need to be on guard all the time, because this is a dangerous place.
As they both entered the gate, a vile stench assaulted their senses, thick and suffocating. The air was heavy with decay and the sickly-sweet stench of rotting flesh. Each breath felt as if they were inhaling death itself. Bodies of Humans piled up on the side of the roads, males, females and children alike. Be it poising, murder or something far worse than that, it was a common daily occurrence at the place called closes to hell.
“This is sickening..”
There weren´t any words to describe the scene before them.
As they got further into the town the corpses got less and less and some people appeared as well. That´s if you could call them that, they were the ones closes to death, be it sickness, missing limbs or starvation, every illness imaginable was found here.
The closer you got to the square of the town; the more people lived there.
As we both continued to walk further into Town, we reached it. The inner square of the Town, where the wealthiest lived, the one called the strongest of this place.
“HEY, you there you can´t pass here!”
Two Man ran up to us and shouted out.
“Don´t you know where this is, lowly wretches like yourself can´t come in here.
If you don´t get the hell out here, you will experience something worse than death!”
-These people appear to be very ruthless and have a vulgar personality. But what surprised me the most is their strength, why are they so strong? I could win If I were to fight them, but their strength is close to mine. I would have tuff time against them, and they are only guarding the gate to the inner Town. How strong are the Rulers of this place?
“I´m sorry, we didn´t know. We will turn around immediately.”
“Haaa... It´s good that they let us go, if we didn’t wear these capes covering ourselves and our faces, this might have gone wrong. Especially if they found out you were a Women. I don´t even want to imagine what they would try to do.”
“Thank you”
“Why are you thanking me?
“The idea to wear the capes. It was your idea.”
“No need to thank me for that, stupid.”
He said while slightly patting her head.
“Hmm, I thought you would dodge my hand.”
“Why would I? You are a kind person.”
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“A kind person you say.”
“It would be nice if that is true, but I don´t remember…”
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“Let us find a place to sleep.” – she asked.
“Ehm, I don´t want to ruin your mood, but I don´t think we will find a place to sleep in here.”
“True…”
“And It´s already night, completely dark too.”
“True”
“This was your idea to come here, you know?”
“True”- she said as her voice kept on getting quieter with each world, reflecting on her mistakes.
“You didn´t think this far ahead?”
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“I have an idea, come.” – she said.
As she dragged me to an alley, she started it.
Her aura began leaking out of her body, it had all shades of blue in it, brighter and darker ones.
Just by releasing a very small portion of her aura, she was already creating waves of wind.
-How beautiful this magic is.
For a short moment the energy formed into a small ball in her hand, and it expended again. Creating a barrier that closes them to the outside world.
“We can sleep here”, she said proudly.
-Just how powerful is she to create a separate universe just like that?
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Abyssal Nexus-
I used my abilities and created a sleeping bag for both of us and so we spent the night inside the barrier, waiting for the tomorrow. Or so she thought, the moment she fell asleep, I used my Void manipulation to get through the barrier and so it started. I simply followed my thoughts, without considering the pros and cons of my action.
From the top of a roof, I watched over the town of Nacht.
“It´s big for a city that had been abandoned by the Kingdom. It might even be bigger than the capital city, Eryndor.”
“I should start by collecting some information about this Town first”
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“Before that I should change my clothes.”
With his abilities he created some black ragged clothes, his black hair had some strains of white hair in it, with to of them floating before his face, he made himself a Ponytail and his hair was already long enough to reach his shoulders. The clothes he made himself were a perfect disguise. It made him look like the natives of this place. As the night sky reached its peak, he investigated the whole area he was in and through hearing the native’s convers he was able to learn three details about this hell-like place. First, there three Factions in this place with different Rulers. The last Ruler of this place died 5 years ago for some unknown reason and since then the fight for the Rulers positions over Nacht has yet to be decided. Second, in these last five years the situations in Nacht got much worse compared to Five years ago, when the Rulers battle started, most people couldn´t afford to live anymore. Many people went insane during this time, especially the ones living in the outer city that got affected the most during this time. The whole Town was in a struggle to survive, some had no other choice but to cut off the own limbs to be able to provide food for their child. There were fights over molded bread daily, while the ones living in the inner town didn´t even care and just looked the other way. The Look on their faces as they did scream, filthy wretch. And third the people behind this mess, the ones fighting for the position of Ruler, are Dawn a male with orange hair, he is rumored to use a spear, Noon a female with long dark blue hair, her personally is what you would call a “Bitch” and the third, Dunkel, I wasn´t able to find anything about this person.
* As these people fight in order to gain power, they forgot to look at their surroundings and created a place called “Hell”.
As he lay on the roof of a crumbling house staring into the starry sky, he heard a footstep.
* 2,4,7,….9 people and they are running.
“What is happening?”
He got up a hid himself on the other side of the roof, spying onto the street before him.
-“Catch him at all cost!”
There appeared to be eight people tailing one person, that held something in his hands. The people chasing after that man must be the guards of the inner city. So, why are the pursuing this man?
-Let´s help a little, I got curious!
The pursuers were already behind and almost in reach to strike him down.
“Kill him!!!”
The blade is already reaching for his eyes, and he shuts his eyes, pressing them tightly together.
-Aghhhhhh
“Who are you?
“What are you doing sto-?”
“Huh? The voices disappeared what happened?”
As he slowly opens his eyes, he finds an empty alley before him.
Where did they disappear to?
Although he seemed quite muscular, he was already quite old in his 60s, his short white hair and beard true to his age, his body wore scars of battle all, one especially stood out a scar on his right eye, it seemed to be a vertical slash that cased it. He wore some grey, red ragged clothes that reeked of blood.
He only noticed a dark ominous energy in the air, that disappeared shortly afterward. He flexed his right hand, that was holding onto something and said into the air as he left.
* Whoever did this, may it be a God or Death itself, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
As he turned around a drop of water fell onto the ground before him.
In the Void, at the same time.
“What the hell is this place?”
“Why is it so dark?”
“O-Over there! There is a person.”
The eight guards were within this strange place, overflowing with darkness.
Each of there hearts started beating faster and faster as that person kept coming closer.
That person was in Armor covered in Black flames, behind him a pure black energy, the black energy looked like Lightnings and Thunders. And behind that mask there glowed two purple eyes. Those eyes were dead, they already saw pain beyond imagination.
* As I looked into those dead eyes, I found myself in a state worse than death, it was as if those eyes printed death itself onto me, while watching over me silently as was dried of my life energy.
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At the disappearance scene in Nacht.
The Black mist appeared in the middle of the air and closed itself off. It looked like the starry sky from before.
“That takes care of them,” Kage sighed in a bored manner of speech.
Under his clothes on his arm, there shivered something in dark purple.
“These 10 Rings on my arm, five on each arm, are truly frightening. I was able to drain them completely, not leaving any part of their body behind. I feel already a bit stronger, but every time I use these, my head goes blurry, and I have a hard time focusing.”
-Status window.
A light blue screen appeared before him.
-Unable to use the system due to restrictions.
- Loss of memory
-Loss of ???
“It still didn´t change…”
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I should follow that man from before.
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Minutes later.
-His tracks end here; he must be nearby.
“I didn´t know there was such a forest inside the town. This place is much bigger than I expected.”
A crack of twigs nearby.
Kage swiftly took cover behind a tree and investigated the area where the noise came from.
There he is the man from before. He is running towards a little house in the middle of the forest.
Close to the door to the house he turned around and spoke out loud in a relieved voice.
* Looks like nobody followed me.
As he turned around to face the door, a mysterious energy floated before him in the air. There stood a person leaning his back on the door, staring right into his face with two purple-colored eyes, that were dead beyond help. The moment he noticed him his body wanted to take a step back, but his will remained iron-hard and he confronted him.
* Step aside or you will pay the price. Right now, I´m capable of doing things that are beyond your worst Nightmares ever were.
End of chapter 15--------------------------------------------------------------------To be continued