Corpse Eater
Asher raised his arms and crossed them in front of him, he knew what was coming before it arrived, maybe Vulcan was right and he had strong instincts because as he raised his arms he immediately started to channel the energy in his body into his arms to strength them, but as soon as his arms were raised
BANG!
He felt as if he was hit by a truck, his bones made cracking noises from the impact and as the shock from the blow traveled through his body, his body left the ground as he instantly flew backwards.
BANG!
Another loud sound came as Asher was sent flying, crashed into the wall 10 meters behind him. His mind was rattled from both the initial attack and the impact from crashing into the wall, his vision was blurred, his body was numb from pain and blood was running down the corner of his mouth, all that only lasted for a second, his vision became clear again and the pain rushed throughout his body as he struggled to stand using the wall as support, but before he could stand a dark shadow stood in front of him, Asher’s body shivered, he raised his head to look at the face of the sleeping beast, he only caught a glimpse of it’s cold red eyes before its massive clawed hand descended onto him and enclosed on his head lifting him in the air.
It exerted its strength as it attempted to crush Asher’s head, he could hear his skull cracking slowly as if it was a boiled egg being cracked open, the pain was excoriating, he wanted to cry out and scream but the sounds were muffled by the massive hand that easily eclipsed his entire head.
Asher summoned “Blue Moon” from his ring; his only thoughts were to quickly escape the monsters grasp so he stabbed out at the monsters arm with the long dagger in hopes of forcing its hand open, but sensing the danger from the dagger, the monster waved his hand and flung Asher towards the direction it was originally sleeping.
BAM!
As Asher flew through the air once more he collided with one of the pillars sending blood flying out of Asher’s mouth, but the collision did not stop him only slowed him down as he crashed heavily onto the ground and slide forward a few more meters before finally coming to a stop, his only saving grace was the fact that before he collided with the pillar he circulated the energy in his body protecting him from the full force of the impact.
Asher made a sorry sight; blood ran down from his head and out of his mouth, his clothes were in ruin from the consecutive blows he had received, he reached out for “Blue Moon” which lay close to him, tightly gripping onto its handle, he clenched his teeth as he tried to get up again, but he could only manage to push himself up a little before he fell back to the ground, his breathing was ragged and shallow, he knew he could not stay where he was, only death awaited him, so he gathered his strength once more and then slowly rolled onto his stomach before he proceeded to once again try and push himself up, this time he managed to push himself onto his knees but he was still bent over on all fours, a sudden violent tremor ran through his body as he coughed violently vomiting up a large amount of blood. After the coughing fit stopped he circulated his energy and gathered strength once more and tried to control his breathing as he tried to stand up, but before he could succeed
BANG!
Another loud bang echoed in the underground garage as Asher was once again mercilessly struck and sent flying by the monster. This time the strike was much more devastating than before as he did not have enough time to fully circulate his energy, Asher could hear his rib cage snapping under the blow and a tremor ran through his body as more blood explosively exited his body through his mouth and he once more was sent flying through the air.
BOOM!
An explosive sound could be heard as Asher flew an unknown distance and violently crashed into what seemed like a massive metal door.
Asher slide down from the door slowly and landed on his feet before slowly dropping onto one of his knees. He was getting beaten like a rag doll and the whole time he did not even have enough time to scream out in pain let alone react to the monstrous attacks that had fell on him, his vision was blurred to the point where it would go black for a split second before going back to being blurred, his head was muddled, he beaten to the point of stupidity he could not even feel fear at this point in time, his whole body was in such intense pain he could not even tell what hurt the most, now even breathing was painful.
While Asher was being treated like a rag doll, inside his consciousness several pairs of eyes were watching the situation unfold.
“Should we help him?”
Came the old grizzled voice of Vulcan
“If he can’t even overcome one of the lowest life forms, then he might as well die here, it would be a lot more merciful than what awaits outside”
Kana answered Vulcan in an indifferent manner
“sigh”
Vulcan released a heavy sigh, in truth Vulcan was rather fond of Asher and he wanted to see him continue on, but seeing the devastating battle, the hopes for Asher’s survival was slim and he knew what Kana said was true, the world had severally changed from its former self and while it was changing Asher was inside the mini dimension created by the book, years had flown by unannounced to Asher, he was now officially thrown into the midst of the chaos like a new born, while others had time to grow and change with the world Asher had none of that, if he failed to adapt quickly enough, he would be eaten alive.
Vulcan knew from the beginning that the sleeping beast was a creature known as a “Corpse Eater” it was a monster evolved from a zombie. When zombies no longer have a fresh source of food, they will eventually commit acts of cannibalism and after a zombie has eaten enough of its own kind, it becomes a creature known as a Corpse Eater, Corpse Eaters are not high on the food chain, they were actually extremely weak and slow, but because Asher was just that much weaker and slower than it, he was now getting beaten senseless.
Vulcan turned and looked at the others who were also watching, but none of them made any move or even showed any hints of wanting to help Asher in his predicament, Vulcan could only sigh once again and mutter in a low voice
“Good luck kid”
Asher lifted his head and watched as the beast approached him slowly, glaring at him with its red eyes, a hint of amusement could be seen in its eyes, Asher knew that it was just toying with him; otherwise with the strength and speed that it had demonstrated so far it could have easily killed him. As Asher slowly stood up on unsteady legs, he lifted “Blue Moon” in front of him, holding it in a defensive stance, in truth he had no idea what he could do to get himself out of his current situation, the pain he was feeling could only hinder his bodies movements not to mention with his broken ribs just standing right now was sending waves of unhindered pain gushing throughout his body, right now Asher was struggling not only to stay standing but also to keep himself from falling unconscious, he had coughed up a large amount of blood and was continuously bleed from his head, the blood loss was slowly starting to affect him his face was pale from both the blood loss and the horror of his helpless situation, his sweat was pouring down from him continuously as his whole body was grew stiffer and colder by each passing second.
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Seeing his actions the beast paused for a second and stared at him, after a few seconds it released a light chuckle that sounded like the horrors one could only hear in their nightmares, its red eyes turned into a crescent shape as it was obviously more amused than what it was previously, then suddenly it moved as it charged forward towards Asher.
Asher lowered was panicked, he no longer knew what to do, he felt fear unlike anything he had ever experienced before, he had no escape, he had no idea of how to fight the monster charging at him currently, his body would not listen to him as he screamed on the inside
“MOVE YOU IDIOT, MOVE OR YOUR GOING TO DIE!”
All he could do was watch helplessly as he saw his death approach him.
The monster raised its leg and sent out a destructive kick aiming for Asher sternum, seeing the devastating kick approach Asher moved all the remainder of energy within his body to his sternum
BOOM!
Asher was struck by the kick he was sent flying through the metal door, he crashed into the ramp that led both into and out of the underground garage and skidded along the ground until he had reached the end of the ramp.
As Asher came to a stop the whole world went black, Asher had lost his consciousness from the kick. In a world of darkness he laid there silently floating through the void, his eyes had lost their focus
“so is this how you’re going to go…silently without putting up a fight taking it like a little bitch”
A voice sounded out in the endless dark void.
“HAHAHA WHAT A JOKE! You’re acting like this is the first time you’ve taken a beating before”
The voice shouted out again.
“Remember when you were young… when those neighbourhood kids had jumped you and tried to steal your bike, how old were you like 6? And there was what like 5-7 of them, they fucked you up good, broke your arm and knocked out your tooth”
Asher laid in the darkness silently listening to the voice.
“What did your loving father say to you then…what was it? Oh yea that’s right, “you were weak so you lost what I have painstakingly worked to get you” He then took away everything he had given you, saying “you were too weak to protect what’s yours letting you keep them will just be a waste, someone else is just going to take it away from you” remember what he said after that? “you are too weak to be my son” remember that shit, hearing your father say you are too weak that hurt more than the beating those like shits gave you didn’t it, what did you swear too yourself that day, what did you promise yourself?”
As the voice kept on talking a strange light flickered in Asher’s eyes
“You said you’d never be weak again, that no one would ever take anything away from you, even if it’s that piece of shit father, but no I guess you forgot because ever since then all you’ve been doing is constantly losing everything over and over again and now your weakness is going to cost you your pathetic life!”
“Fuck you…fuck you, fuck him, fuck those fuckers in that fucking book, fuck that fuckary out there and fuck this fucking world!”
Asher cursed loudly into the void as the life returned to his eyes, the miserable pale face he had on before had now contorted into rage.
“Good finally there you are…rage hahaha, rage, rage against this world, rage against everything in it, this world wants you dead so are you just going to lay there and accept it?...No? GOOD NOW GET UP AND KILL!”
As the voice finished echoing the world of darkness vanished in an instant as he regained his conscious he was laying on his back looking up at the sky, the pain he felt was still there, his head still felt shaky, he was tired and exhausted, but he tighten his grip on “Blue Moon” which was still in his hand and slowly rolled over pushing himself until he was on all fours.
Seeing Asher still alive and moving the corpse eater frowned, it was no longer amused, the prey it wanted to die was surprisingly not dead was still moving, it was very displeased by this, it stepped through the hole that was in the metal door and locked its gaze onto Asher, it was tired of this little game and decided to make sure this time Asher was thoroughly dead. Without hesitating further it charged once again towards Asher.
Asher saw it charging him again, was he scared? Of course he was, but so what…would he just stay still and serve himself up to the monster before him? Asher’s narrowed his gaze and watch the monster approach him, all of a sudden it no longer seemed as fast as before, it no longer seemed as terrifying, it was like any other creature, all he had to do was cut it in half.
The creature had now crossed half the distance, then using its powerful muscles it leaped into the air, its mouth wide open, exposing its fang like teeth, to make sure Asher was dead this time, it was going to just bite his head off, then slowly devouring the rest of his body.
Seeing the beast jump into the air Asher couldn’t be happier, this was the chance he wanted, the monster was power and fast but so what, in the air it was nothing more than an open target. Asher watched as it was in the air descending on him, his heart beat slowed down, his ragged breathing became steady, his mind became fluid like water, his stiff body loosened up, his muscles tightened and his knuckles became white from how hard he was clutching onto “Blue Moon”.
Asher slowly breathed out as the corpse eater had finally arrived into his attack range, his body then finally snapped into action, using all his strength Asher pushed himself off the ground spinning his body horizontally, bringing “Blue Moon” around in a circle using all his strength he hacked down onto the head of the corpse eater, the corpse eater couldn’t do anything as it saw the blade approaching, it couldn’t dodge, Asher’s movements were to sudden it didn’t have enough time to fully process what just happened let alone even think of defending itself, it could only look on as the blade fell onto it, it didn’t have enough time to feel any pain before its vision went dark, it was divided into two halves from the head down.
Authors notes:
First of all i'd like to say thank you to all those that have read and are currently reading this series, this is the first series I have ever written, so I know that currently I am not the best author out there and have a lot to work on, but seeing the increasing views, followers, favorites and my first ever rating have honestly further help to inspire me to push myself to become better so that I can improve on the quality of my writing with each chapter I release, if you have any advice on what I can do to improve on my writing please do no hesitate to leave a comment, let me know what you like and what you don't like, thank you everyone, your support by reading these chapters mean a great deal to me so once again thank you (Q_Q).