Chapter 72
“The smell of death.” Part 3
It wasn’t until the morning of the next day that a neighbor found the three bodies lying in the kitchen and called the police.
After so much crying, Kalysto had fallen fast asleep over her mother’s cold corpse. And when she awoke, she was at the police station, where a social worker took the silent, traumatized girl to an orphanage. Where she lived until she came of age.
And while Kalysto only wanted to run away from the painful memory just recovered, the darkness that slept inside her rejoiced at her pain.
Tears flooded the saintess’s face as the air seemed to grow scarce in her lungs.
If only I had gotten rid of “that thing” sooner, maybe my mother would still be alive. She berated herself.
And it was that pain mixed with guilt, hatred and despair that fueled her darkness, which smiled with delight as it sensed her weakness.
But Kalysto, she didn’t even think about it. And as the darkness enveloped her vision again, she could only think that it was too late to save her mother’s life.
Suddenly, the darkness began to dissipate, and she was an adult again, sitting on an expensive carpet. And as a silent tear ran down her cheek, the cries of the merchant reached her ears as she watched intently all around her in complete silence, in an attempt to adjust to her new surroundings.
“Guards! Guards! Get rid of that damn thing!” The elf shouted as he pointed at her and two other elves in shining armor entered the room in alarm. Seeing the body of their boss’ strong bodyguard on the floor in front of the saintess, they drew their swords. “What are you waiting for? An invitation? Kill her! Now!”
Kalysto blinked in confusion at the sudden change in her surroundings and the pain, still fresh from the loss of her mother, along with the fear and disgust at the contact, still burned within her.
Immediately, both guards ran towards her, but one of them, the one on the right, reached her in less than a second.
And without being aware of it, her left hand was raised without her consent. Tentacles of black mana materialized in the shape of a spear, easily piercing the two bodies of the newcomers.
What the fuck was that? Kalysto’s eyes widened in surprise at the sight. And she immediately looked at her left hand with some fear as the merchant’s screams of terror were not long in waiting.
Her breathing quickened as fear began to rise in her gut and when she tried to lower her left arm, still outstretched, nothing happened.
She had lost control of her arm completely.
What on earth? Her face paled and out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw a lock of her stray hair much darker than normal.
And as her heart began to beat wildly against her chest, the black tentacles jerked back and forth, overturning furniture, smashing chandeliers and destroying shelves full of books.
No, not the books!
“Persephone, stop it!”
“Ha ha ha ha! Why should I stop now?” The voice that came from her lips was different from hers. Taking Kalysto by surprise.
“ You don’t have to damage the books!” Kalysto shouted, alarmed at the thought of losing the chance to get her hands on them.
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“What?”
“There could be information that would be useful to me in them! Who knows how many secrets there are hidden there?” That and she no longer had access to the internet where she could read anything she wanted with her kindle account.
Kalysto could almost see Persephone’s eyes roll as a growl left her lips. And even as the tentacles stopped bothering the books, they began to break the windows instead.
“Monster! It’s a bloody monster! Guards! Guards!” shouted the merchant.
Why doesn’t he just shut up? Can’t he see that I’m in the middle of an important negotiation? Kalysto thought with annoyance. Trying to find something in the wreckage with which she could save the large collection of books, and solve the mystery of how to regain access to her system so she could escape from there and save the books in her inventory.
Not necessarily in that order.
But the man kept shouting, attracting the attention of more guards.
“Shut up!” Kalysto shouted, and it was only a few seconds later that she realized that no sound had come from her lips.
What on earth? Then the fear she had forgotten about when she was alarmed at the thought of losing access to such a vast collection of books came back to her.
Kalysto tried to move her head to look at her left hand, but this time, her head did not move. And fear once again burned within her.
Persephone? she shouted in her mind, but no one answered her. Hello?
“Ezhil Purification!” She tried to shout as she tried to move her right hand, directing it to her left, but neither her body nor her magic responded to her call.
Five armed guards entered the room as one of the black tentacles cut the rope binding her legs. Kalysto’s body stood up with a sinister smile on her lips as she moved her head from side to side, rattling her neck and pulling her shoulders back, after letting out a long sigh of pleasure.
She almost looked like a cat stretching as the bones in her back tracheated.
“Guards! Kill that damned monster at once!” shouted the merchant as soon as he saw the guards.
“Shut the hell up! Your voice is annoying!” Although the words came out of Kalysto’s mouth, it was not she who uttered them. Immediately five black tentacles destroyed the comfortable sofa on which the merchant was lying, and pierced his body. The next second, the body of the saintess turned to the newcomers and smiled at them, showing her teeth. “So where were we?”
The guards stepped back in fright as another group of ten demi-humans with their ears sticking out over their heads and furry tails sticking out of their butts, appeared in the rear.
And though they outnumbered her, the fear was obvious in their eyes.
This time, seven black tentacles shot out of her right hand, their tips turned into powerful spikes that pierced half of the guards in a single blow, along with the thick wall behind them.
“Persephone, enough! There’s no need to kill them all! We just have to find a way to escape!” Kalysto shouted, but again no sound came from her lips.
“You be quiet! The adults are busy cleaning up the garbage!” She answered her, and her head turned to the right, as if she was talking to someone standing right next to her.
But I’m an adult too! Kalysto wanted to complain, but she knew it wasn’t the right time for that.
“Persephone, stop!” She tried to insist, knowing it was in vain, but she needed to buy time while she thought of a plan. ”What we need is to find a way out of here!”
“Be quiet at once! I’m busy!” Her body replied, turning her head to the right again, as if she was talking to an imaginary figure.
The guards were even more frightened at the sight, and taking advantage of her moment of distraction, they fled in panic. Giving the alarm to everyone in their path and announcing that a powerful enemy had launched an ambush against them.
An alarm sounded throughout the building, and several horns blared in the distance, announcing an invasion.
“Oh! You see what you cause by distracting me!” She scolded her as if she were a little girl. Then, she turned to where the corpses of the guards lay and where one of them, whose legs were shaking too much as he tried to lift the only survivor of her earlier attack, lay. They were both terrified to see that the talk to herself was over and tried to escape. “Why are you running? There’s no need to do such a thing... I’m going to catch up with you anyway and kill you all." She assured them with conviction without wiping the sinister smile off her face as she destroyed the rest of the wall with another tentacle. And killed the two elusive guards.
Kalysto screamed at the top of her lungs, trying to regain control of herself. But no matter what she tried, her body kept moving forward, walking over the remains of the wall she had collapsed and the corpses of the guards.
She screamed again, but no sound came from her lips. She couldn’t even wipe away the annoying smirk that was plastered on her face.
“See? Now there’s a way out!” a voice that was not hers answered. As a whole army of soldiers advanced towards her from both sides of the corridor that led to the destroyed room she had just exited.
And for the second time in her life, Kalysto again lost total control of her body as darkness devoured her consciousness completely.