Antonym of Prosaic

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“HAhahahhahahahha!” chokingly echoed anguishing laughter for few minutes, then in second dead silence consumed everything, as if pressing stop button. Slowly raising hand to his head to wipe blood from his eyes, man was laying on the ground, covered completely in red, with some chunks of meat and organs sticking to him. When he wiped his eyes off the blood, he opened them, what he saw was dark poorly illuminated room, too big to be called a room, everything made of stone, no windows only big entrance designed for giants. Room was in state of complete destruction as craters were present everywhere, long slashes on the walls and aftermath of magic attacks left room to look like product of war. Then his eyes fell upon the floor, and impact hit him like a speeding car.

Floor was not seen because of all the blood that covered it, darkish-red almost black because of prolonged exposure to the air. But what was more gruesome than that, was all the bodies and their respective parts scattered all over the room, some were even on the walls and ceiling. Slowly struggling to stand up, man covered in blood and guts leaned his upper body forward in sitting position and saw as horribly damaged eye that was sticking to his hair fell onto his laps. Picking that eye from his laps he opened his mouth to say something but pain opposed it and he closed his mouth. Then he gently placed eye onto the floor with blank expression. Standing up onto his legs he saw as other pieces of flesh fell from him unto the floor and he for minute stared at them without blinking. Then he slowly started walking towards center of the room, every time he stepped on something it would make a mushy sound. When he got to the center of a room he saw at the end of a room half destroyed throne still standing proudly as it did for generations. With unfocused eyes man started walking toward the throne, and stopped midways because of the body that prevented him from going straight. Looking at the body that laid on the ground, he saw a man in the armor, missing both arms, half of face gone with brain matter leaked out. Falling on his knees, man covered in blood with blank expression looked at the corpse, with shallow breathing that seemed to not even be present he stared expressionlessly.

“…..remember you…. told me I had…. destiny on my… side and… you …..were ….jealou..s… of me, you know I wish… I had no…t, ri..ght guys… ” man was speaking in barely audible voice ignoring pain that it cause because of his earlier laughing outburst. Man looked around to see no one, only silence to greet his claim, again he looked at the corpse and with blank expression. After few minutes he started to speak again-

“….remember.. you told me I had de…” and immediately silence again overflowed the room. Man with hazy eyes and blank expression continued to stare at empty space. After ten minutes he said-

“…..you… are righ..t.. I should…. destroy ….that ….crystal…to …finish…out work …to save them….” with hazy eyes man was speaking to a corpse. Slowly standing up, he walks around a corpse and slowly heads towards a throne. Walking slowly and dragging his legs he steps on someone’s liver, looking down to his leg that stepped on something he for few minutes stared there not moving an inch.

“….wer..e am I ….what…. im ….doing… h…ere…” man with hazy eyes looks around and sees throne and next to it is a crystal that is being held by a stand. Looking at a dark-blue crystal that is emanating red aura around it, man stares at it for a five minutes.

“…mission… to save… should… destroy t….everyone…. work hard.. to a..ccomp…lish thi..s right guys…..” man looked around to see no one, with hazy eyes he looked at empty place. Again he stopped moving and gazed nowhere.

“…..wh..ere ..a.m I ….what…” after five minutes he looked around to see a throne and crystal behind him.

“….right sho..uld …des..troy ….cryst….l …guys… ar.. not h..ere will…. the.y.. be… surpri..ed take…. all… glory to my… sel….” slowly he walked towards a crystal that was pulsating from time to time. Standing one meter away from crystal, he looked around.

“…guy.s..not.. he..re?..” man turned toward a crystal and stepped closer. Extending his arm he grabs the crystal in his right hand.

“f…inally …we ac..omplished …what….we d… right… guys it too…k long.. jo….urney..” letting crystal slip from his hand, crystal falls onto metal foundation of a throne and shatters into uncountable number of pieces that immediately come together and form whole crystal a new, without any visual changes to it.

Slowly picking up crystal from the floor, man covered in blood takes piece of paper that is similar to a paper charm with weird symbols on it, and places it on the crystal. After few moments piece of paper is being absorbed into a crystal and crystals starts to shine with intense light. After few moments lights began to extinguish and now white crystal was placed in his hand. Crystal no longer pulsated and gave off red aura; turning his hand upside-down crystal again falls on the metal foundation of a throne. With loud shattering noise that startles bloody man, crystal shatters. Looking at the shattered pieces on the ground, man looks at his red arms that are covered with blood. His body began to slowly tremble and eyes are starting to focus as his sense of smell returning. Suddenly smell of rotten meat, guts and organs hit him in an unstoppable wave of nausea and vomit. Turning around, man sees countless bodies, body parts thrown everywhere, organs and intestines cut open with unimaginable amount of blood covering the whole scene.

“Ga!-a! ….GA!-a!” gasping for air man could not breath, realizing what has happened, hit him so hard that he was unable to breath. Struggling to breathe man passed out from asphyxiation.

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Regaining his consciousness after one hour, he opened his eyes and yelled on top of his lungs. Echo resonated through room and disappeared; slightly shaking man stood up and lifelessly dragged his feet to a man with armor laying on the floor without both of his arms. Falling beside a corpse he starts to howl and roar with sadness and despair, for what seemed to be an eternity.

Man covered completely in a blood was kneeling beside a corpse with his head down. His tears dried up and it seemed his body couldn’t produce them anymore. Staying like that for few hours, with dead eyes he looked at emptiness.

Noticing flies that buzzed on corpse, he broke out of his trance like state.

“You always hated them right, Jack,” said man to a corpse, and started to stand up.

“Don’t worry, I will not let them lay eggs into you for larvae to eat,” with painful expression told man. Picking corpse up from the floor, he moved it to right side of a room and placed it close to a wall.

“Wait a bit…I will get others…” expressed man with a slight smile that could make ones heart bleed with sadness. Saying this he went to search, rummaging through guts and finding body parts, he to his best abilities assembled what he could of his party and friends. There on ground in order laid bodies and their parts. First body was missing an arm, with his right arm being on ground close to him, second body was missing its head, with some parts of stomach, third body was cut in half, horizontally, fourth body was missing whole upper body, fifth body was only an arm and leg without anything, sixth body had a hole through its stomach, seventh body was only ring finger with a ring.

“Sorry, Jack…I could not find your left arm, but on other side… you are more in one piece than the others…,” with tears said man.

“Sorry, Katy…your head… is missing…but…just as ..we…. always were teasing you…. it’s not like you were using it …often..GA!-a!...” he gasped for air that was hard to breath in.

“So..Sorry, Jamy, it’s … it seems that abs that …you worked… so hard on is now ruined…” breathing air, man continued to struggle talking.

“…..George, …..now… when….. your ….whole…… upper….. bo..dy …is gone you should have…. listened to me and not …skipped leg days….” biting his lips spoke man

“Sorry, …Laris,…your whole ….body is…. missing…only arm …and leg are present….its seems that tattooing ….your body at least helped once,…but that tattoo on you face… indeed looked nothing like dragon but more like a weird snake…”

“Piter…its… seems…. like …you ….don’t ..have …to fear ….constipations …… with ….that ….hole….in your …stomach…” breathing slowly man with painful expression struggles to not cry and stop.

“Mike,…the …ri….ring from ..y…the ring..” painfully gasping man looked at the corpses . And with tears said-

“This …punishment…. is a lot harder than it's supposed to be…guys…I..was not supposed… to be only survivor….we all were….supposed to ..survive…..” with face in agony and voice that carried sorrow man talk-

“How …am …I supposed to send …you all, with… joke and …make out partings …happ… if it’s …so painful…and that we agreed that joke should be about our …death…. doesn’t help….it… this punishment for survivors, is too much…” with painful cries he for ten minutes anguished his loss of friends.

After some time, he walked toward first body and took out of his pocket two papers with symbols on them.

“Here, this should clean body out of any parasites,” telling this he placed paper on the body.

“This will keep them out,” he said and placed second piece of paper on the body. After doing that he did same for others. Next he started to make graves, by placing rubble on top of the bodies. After finishing this he looked at seven graves and with every ounce of his power forced smile on his face and said-

“I will never forget you all, I was happy to meet you…and rest well,” sensing that tears will come any second; he quickly turns around and conceals his tears from line of sight of graves.

“As we agreed, survivals have to send dead with smile, I hope you all smiled as well, because if you didn’t then I did all this for nothing.” Saying this he walked towards a center of a room.

Looking around he saw countless monsters and weapons lying around. Walking pass them he saw what he was looking for, body of two meters in height with countless arrows and swords pointing out. Long black hair and body of gray color, his fingers were almost like claws, and rings were on all fingers. Coming closer to a body he looked at hand and saw that he could not take ring out because of his fingers forming more of a knife shape. Taking a sword from the ground, he cut corpse fingers off, and took all the rings. Every ring was black and same shape. Taking blood from the original owner and smearing it on the rings, he infused mana into rings and they started to shine. Rings started to change shape and color and now they were of different shapes and colors, after that he cleared blood of the rings and dropped his own blood on them and infused his mana again. Taking time to carefully remember how they look in their original state, he wore rings and used his mana again on them. Now they changed to simple silver looking rings that can be found everywhere.

Looking at corpse in front of him he saw familiar looking sword, and yanked it out of the corpse. Holding gold-ish colored sword in his right hand, he infused mana into the ring on his right hand, thumb finger. Immediately sword disappeared, following this he went through the room and collected anything of significance, living behind generic weapons; everything he picked up would disappear.

Slowly he started to walk to the exit of a room, leaving only silence behind.