Dead
"Everyone, everything, this world, this sky, every single one of them was dead". As I sat on a mountain of corpses beneath me, my gaze was locked on the sky above me and this land. The horizon and my field of vision were filled by the sharp cut and deep dark purple hued sky, which was devoid of any signs of life. It couldn't be emphasized enough that some deity had cut Heaven with its sword. As I am an insect like being who could just watch with admiration and fear, my eyes were showing admiration but no emotion like fear. Some glimmers of stars appeared, with their light casting onto the blood-dyed red land. As the smell of blood entered my nostrils, I stood on the corpses with the support of my hand. I walked down them. As an Ancient Demon emerged and slaughtered everyone and everything that this world had to offer. Even the heaven was split in half, and the land was dyed red. I took a final glance at the corpses, their limbs torn apart and their organs gushing out of their flesh, eyes which had no life in them, many didn't even have a full body remaining. Those bodies were not of some beasts, but were of humans,
Humans.
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‘A bright dark blue light which looked blue but didn’t feel like it as the eyes themselves could not comprehend the color of it. It travelled in a circular motion as it gathered on one spot, it felt like it was calling me in itself.’
- “The gate is closing, and someone is coming out. As you can see on your screens, the gate is closing and someone is coming out. It has been cleared.
- “The A Rank gate is finally closing huh.”-
- “We can finally go home after this long service of working hour, with no fucking shifts,”-
- “Haha, don’t be so upset, as your senior I will take you all for some drinks for your hard work,”-
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I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me, similar to the disorientation one experiences after embarking on a long journey for the first time or the lightheadedness that comes with summer sickness. The surrounding space spun slightly, and I struggled to maintain my balance. It was as if my body was caught in a state of confusion, unable to adjust to the sudden shift in equilibrium. The dizziness persisted, making me feel unsteady and disoriented, much like the discombobulation that accompanies unfamiliar surroundings or the onset of a seasonal illness. I felt the urge to vomit, but I stopped it somehow. Travelling through the gates made me feel like my body was crushed and dismantled and rejoined together. It felt as if my body was split apart atom by atom, dismantled and rejoined after every of these gate teleportations.
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-Huh, vincy, vincy, VINCY! Don’t go around dazing and ask the questions or have you already forgotten your job.-
“Ah, I’m sorry”. Looking in front I got ready to ask questions as a person walked out of the gate. It was a man whose skin was pale white, eyes brown and black which was hard to differentiate in, his body wasn't well built but plain, slim. He wore a black jogger like an army uniform with a plain black t-shirt. His boots were long reaching his knee with some small black spikes like a looking thing with some marking on it, they were made of magic.A black thin overcoat like Armor covered his entire attire falling until it reached his knees, its arms were mostly torned, his hair looked rough, falling across on his face they weren't curly but had some curls on the end, .He looked like a being above the humans and all the life in this world, that’s what it felt as that man walked out through the Gate. Feeling emotions like inferiority. I struggled through the crowd to ask the questions to the man in front and all the 26 people who entered the Gate, “Sir, what was the gate based on? What did it look li— “. Hmm, in a mumbled tone, “Where are the rest of people?”.
-What, why is the gate closing?, where are the rest?-
-Why is no one else coming out?-
-Who is this person-
-Isn’t this a B Ranked person on the Evaluation List-
who came out?"--
-The Gate has closed. This person is the sole survivor, reach out to The General.
-Are you fucking kidding me? All those 8 S Rank, 12 A Rank, 5 B Rank are all gone.--
“Dead”
“They are all dead”
-What? what-what-WHAT! is this? Some fantasy movie, manhwa or something where you will emerge all alone, what are you, some hiding S Rank who killed them all or something-
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
-I bet he has some hidden cheat power. Based on my all knowledge, he is the hiding super strong F Class Hunter like in other manhwa’s and films.
I looked at them, their expression filled with curiosity but fear of the loss of S Rank with a solemn expression, I replied, “A bunch of gold spoons, silver spoons, bronze spoons, S Rank, and A Rank, who have never fought once in their lovely, pleasant life, are thrown in front of some beasts who have fought their whole life, iron disciplined, hardened into them. What did you expect?. Some protagonists of mahwa, novel would come and clear everything off the floor with their supernaturally powered dick smashing and thrashing all the beasts within their dick vicinity, huh? And then they would come out of the dungeon, having saved everyone, and would wink at you all and you all would go ahhhh! and then fall dead from joy”. Sigh! With a serious, cold tone. I said," You wanna know how they died? 4 S Rank died by a D Rank Magical Beast Neoura, another 6 A Rank Died by another D Rank Beast Neoura, which is supposed to be the weakest in the whole Gate and the 5 B Rank let’s not talk about them. Other, 3 S Rank went numb from seeing blood and others dying. Remaining 2 A Rank they were killed just by the collision of the attacks. The remaining S Rank and 2 A Rank Soldiers were the one who helped this dungeon to even clear, and they all died while protecting others or what was left of them. The Boss was killed by the S Rank and A Rank co-operation meanwhile the other A Rank and I protected them from the assault of other Magical Beasts. The remaining ones or whoever was left, also got killed by the fodder level beasts"
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-Leave the space, he has just cleared the dungeon, he needs to be escorted-
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"25"
"That's how many are dead. I told you all endlessly that this was a mad man's play. Now, look at what has happened 8 S Rank are dead and 6 of them were from other nations, leaving aside the A and B Rank, just the deaths of these S Ranks.... What are we even going to reply to the other Nations that, Yes! Your Hunters or Ascenders or whatever they are going to be named they are all dead. Oh! You want them back or you want us to pay for their deaths. Hmmm, Would you like our ass with or without oil, huh!".
"BEHAVE YOURSELF!, Ander, aka, Chief Commander of Defence Force. You are sitting in front of the 'President', Even his adopted child was inside that raid and he was also killed".
-"Oh! Yeah, so what. It's not like I'm saying something wrong, the President gave the command to throw some untrained children into the warfield, now he needs to pay the consequences. He needs to at least give up his position".-
" 'Cough' No, you're right. I definitely do need to pay the consequences of my Actions."
'Huh'
'Wait, is this real.'
'President is going to give up his authority's
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Swoosh
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Thud
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'Huh, Why am I Falli-'
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Plop
Silence
'It was like the whole world was silent. Everyone, Everything has stopped for the moment. It was calm like a silent ocean but calm before the upcoming disaster.
At the next moment, the whole room was echoing with screams and then a hoarse, rough, cold and deep with killing intent overflowing inside its voice surrounded the room.'
"Now, then if anyone has any problems left they should come forward.Hmmm, I see no one then. Anyways, today I'm filled with sadness. As I've not only lost my adopted son but also lost my job. From now on, my Second-in-Command will take the role of the President and I will become the first Head of the Hunter Association, which will be created after this accident. Even though hunter is not the name given yet, but let's go with the public for now. And tell the media that the Dungeon Rank was actually tempered by 'Ander'. His motives were not known but he attacked me and was killed by the Soldiers guarding us. Well then, Zarloss , how does it feel to be the President".
'His elbows were on the table, his hands were curled up into a two handed loose fist, under his chins supported his face. He had not moved an inch, neither his smiling expression has changed nor a single strand of his hairs moved even when the head had fallen in the ground, the headless body still sitting on chair covering it whole with blood. I was tense filled with fear and anxiety, holding my urge to vomit I replied, "I-It feels g-great Sir!".
"Good, my loyal subject."
'The only thing still left inside was finally,
DEAD.'