When my body was helpless, I fell unconscious but before that it looked like a small creature was coming towards me. Looks like I'm going to die again in my mind, that's when my vision started to slowly blacken. I don't know how long I closed my eyes, but when a strange feeling came over me, I suddenly woke up.
"Where am I?"
I woke up in an old wooden house, where all the furniture in this wooden house had rotted with age. Hollow walls, broken floors, and lots of dust and cobwebs that can be seen in the corners of the room. When I looked out of the window, it seemed like there was a road going downhill and it made me think that I was now in an old house on a hill as pictured on the map guide.
"Who brought me here?"
That question makes it hard for me to remember what happened earlier when I closed my eyes but I can't remember. Without thinking I quickly got up from the dusty mattress and started walking looking for a clue in every dark corner of the room. This old house has one bedroom and one main room, besides that there are lots of books scattered in this room.
"It seems the owner of this house lives alone, is he the one who brought me here?"
On the other hand, seeing the condition of an old house like this makes me doubt if the owner of this house still lives in this house, then what is wrong with this house? Soon the moonlight shone from behind the perforated roof and shone on an old book that lay on the table. With curiosity I finally approached the book and touched the dusty cover, but suddenly my hand felt an electric shock until I was shocked while pulling my hand until the book opened by itself.
In the moonlight I read the book,“For those who can see and open this book, you are my successor. You already received the rest of my power the moment you touched this book…”
This book contains like a will written by the owner of this house and a brief description of what happened in this place. This place is the territory of the Vereden kingdom and I am now in the lowest region called Chrondus. The Vereden Kingdom has a King and Queen who have made a deal with the demons of hell by sacrificing all of their people in order to gain eternal power by becoming a Demon King to expand the territory of their kingdom.
This book has hidden knowledge of this place but much of the writing is unreadable because it is covered in ink or blood marks and some of the pages have been torn. Then I read the part that intrigued me. If you want to become strong and make the Demon King weak, you must defeat the 12 dark zodiacs. They were creatures of darkness who had become the strongest sacrifices and became the greatest source of darkness for the current Demon King's power.
Again I found many more pages that were torn and finally I found a page that only describes one creature from the 12 dark zodiacs named Lanasta the Dark Virgo, he is described as a ghost girl with a sad face and a torn mouth. It is said that during her lifetime, this girl suffered from mad princess syndrome and received a lot of torture both mentally and physically until her mouth was torn from screaming in pain, so she was made a victim by her own family.
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Long story short, the author of this book tells that he promised to marry the girl if the war ended but he could not keep that promise because the author lost the war and the girl was eventually made a victim until death. Here I assume if the ghost girl is always sad and hates men maybe because of this. Then at the end of the line there is a sentence if you want to save the girl's ghost then you need to look for her valuables in the Elf's grave which is located north of this hill.
"If this can make her not sad anymore then I will do, ... what is this?"
I'm finally on the last page which contains a message from the author of this book. Three prohibitions that you must obey, firstly, never find out about me, secondly, never approach the black eye family, thirdly, never mention my last name and my last message is to believe the words of the dark creatures that appear in your dreams. The final message made by this author makes me believe that the dark creatures I have met already know about the author of this book.
Kreek!
Suddenly the door behind me opened and I saw a small creature carrying a spear appear in front of me. The little creature was like a dwarf but had green skin with full cuts and pointed ears. His gaze seemed surprised when he saw me and he immediately lowered his body.
“Welcome back M-My Ghost Lord.” he said.
"Do I know you?" I replied.
I feel like I've never known a creature like him or is this the impact of my previously erased memories. Then the creature approached me sniffing and finally it came to its senses.
“You may not be my lord but at first glance you look like him and now i can sense a thin elemental aura from you just like my lord, follow me.”
Unsuspectingly, I finally followed him to the outside. Outside this house I saw a very thick fog circling under the hill and on this hill I saw a big old tree with a hole in the middle like an animal's nest. For some reason this place makes me feel safe, very different from the places I've been before. Finally the creature introduced himself.
"My name is Gob the Goblin shaman who brought you to this place and also Owli the Owl my Lord's pet, come here Owli!" Gob tapped on the trunk of a big old tree and out came a brown owl which immediately perched on Gob's shoulder.
“Before that, thank you for bringing me to this place. My name is Dixen, I am a ghost with no memory.” I say.
"Ah, so that's it. No wonder you're different from the dangerous ghosts of this region… but I'll admit you're brave enough to fight the Mad Princess Ghost that roams down there.” Gob replied.
"You know about her?" I asked.
“Mad Princess Ghost? Of course I know! She always roams under this hill and waits for my Lord to come to fulfill his promise, besides that she has protected this place from strangers who want to enter this place.” Gob replied.
That pretty much explains why she kills if a stranger meets her, on the other hand I want to help her after reading the book I read earlier. I asked Gob for help so he would teach me how to fight or survive in this place and I told Gob if I found a book written by his Lord to help the Mad Princess Ghost. Then Gob also said that the last time he saw his Lord was writing a book and then his Lord disappeared mysteriously.
"I can't really open the book but if that's what my Lord wants then I'll help you." Gob said.
Gob then taught me many ways ranging from exorcising ghosts by lighting lanterns with fairy powder, how to make antidote, then how to fight using weapons or elements that I just got, and in the end Gob gave me a piece of equipment.
“Remember what I said, elements are different from magic that uses spells. Control your breath and don't let negative feelings overwhelm you, use this lantern when passing through fog or if a ghost is coming your way but don't use fairy powder if the ghost doesn't attack you." Gob said.
Finally, Gob gave me a map that describes the Chrondus region and it looks like there are several places written with their names starting from the ghost hill, the Elf graveyard, the corpse lake, and the Chrondus Tower. Now I'm on ghost hill and my destination is Elf's grave located on the north side of this hill. I am very grateful for Gob's help and finally my adventure begins as I descend the hill behind this thick fog and suddenly I hear a whisper that clearly I have heard that voice before.
"Be careful." Whisper sound.
When I turned my head it turned out to be the whispering sound of an Owli the owl who slowly opening its third eye on the forehead of its head. It was the whispering voice that once told me to run away from the clutches of the Mad Princess Ghost the first time I met her.