There are some things Worst than Death.

We both decide among ourselves that it is better for me to go out and start scouting what is out in the hallway sense I have the highest amount of stamina out of the two of us since we are both around the same speed overall. It also helped that I can try to kill a few enemies to flood information into my Bestiary Skill for us to catalog information for our later use. We even spent almost an hour establishing a small knocking code so we would know who was at the door, we need to protect ourselves from other people with this EXP bonus from killing humans still going on.

Sneaking out turned out to be pitifully easy, no monsters near our door at all. I can see some of those corpse munching Ghouls near the other end of the hallway and I can hear them from around the corner of hallway in front of me but that wasn't my first concern at all.  My first concern was seeing a misty grey wall all the way at the end of the hallway that used to be where the sky-walkway to connect the old wing of the school to the new wing of the school was. I could see the faint outline of what could be white tendrils extending out of it, wriggling about haplessly and harmlessly to the point that I didn't know what to do other than close the Teachers Lounge door and try to ignore it for now sense I have atleast 4 hallways to survey and a whole hell of alot classrooms to peek at for information.

I already can tell that I'm noticeably faster as I dart to the other side of the hallway and put my back to it in almost an instant. The increase is almost reassuring until I remember that if I'm this strong at such a low level, how horrifyingly strong are the higher level monsters going to be. The though brings a shiver down my spine that I quickly suppress before I lean out around the corner of the cold concrete school walls . I eye 7 ghouls quickly before I see another grey fog  wall over where the stairs connecting all the floors are, It seems like we are completely separated from other parts of the school with these fog walls and the fog we saw outside the window earlier that separated the floors of this building.

I deep sigh escapes my chest as I increase my grip on my blade before I step out into the hallway, drawing the attention of 2 ghouls half a classroom away from me comping on a already unrecognizable corpse of a student. They are as slow as the ones in the teacher's lounge were, if not slower so it was almost no problem for me to get the opening hit as they tried to get to their standing position.

-60 Critical Hit

Fatal Blow

My blade swung true, decapitating on of them with ease before it was halfway up. It's friend tries to lunge at me but I back-step into the lockers to open up space between us before snapping a kick to the head of the hunched Ghoul.

-30

The impact of my foot hitting it's skull snaps it head up, disrupting it's forward momentum and sending it stumbling backwards, flailing wildly and uncoordinated. I almost grin at it's unprotected flailing before I lean forward and dash, closing the space between us quickly and my blade bites through it's neck as easily as the other one, sending its head spinning wildly in the air into to lockers.

-60 Critical Hit

Fatal Blow

I take a few steps back and take in my surroundings as the Ghouls body falls limply to the ground, The other 5 Ghouls in the hallway seemed to take note of the fight and started to waddle walk over to my position, growling and snarling at me as they come. They are set on my death but I'm confident in my strength and speed and with this wide hallway there is no way they can touch me. I let them converge almost 10 feet away from me near an open classroom door before I let loose a burst of speed and dash towards the leading Ghoul.

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It only takes 10 minutes to mop up the 5 Ghouls in the hallway. It was a bit of a challenge to maneuver around some of the bodies in the hallways but all in all died easily with one swing to their necks. I take a few minutes to calm myself down and catch my breath  before I start checking classrooms in the hallway as quiet as possible since I don't what might be lurking in those open rooms.

I scrounge around  in a few of the classrooms for anything useful but its mostly just blood and bodies, I even see some hoof prints in some of the floors leading out into the hallway like something large and heavy just stamped around the rooms, tearing people apart before running out somewhere down the hallway. I can only count to me and Sheila's  luck as I realize we avoided something huge breaking apart our safe haven before we could even figure out what the hell was going on. I put my hands together briefly in the middle of the hallway and pray briefly for the souls of my dead fellow students.

In the middle of me praying I hear a the sound of grunting and panting along side a sound I immediately recognize, The sound of Goblins. My body still in panic for only a moment before I flattened myself to a wall and listened for a few more moments as I figure out that the sounds are coming from a classroom about 3 down from the fog wall at the stairway. I work my way slowly down towards it, checking into the classrooms as I pass them only to see them empty of anything living.

I get to the classroom only to see the narrow window on the door  smeared with blood so I bypass that door and nimbly walk myself  to the other door to the classroom as quietly as possible. The smell of sweat and the grunting noises are almost overwhelming as I get to the door and peer inside the room, I can barely see a Goblin grunting and ramming himself at something but It's to far out of range of vision to make out exactly what was happening so I creep slowly into the open room.

And what I see as I take in the full scope of the room, freezes my body in place and a haze clouds my mind. Their were 11 Goblins in the room just grunting and raping female students around the room.

Bile rises up my throat to express it's revulsion and disgust but I fight it down as my mind barely process all of what I witness in front of me. Only a growing anger starts to eat at my mind, gnawing and growing at every glassy eyed girl I see, their life seem to be long gone and the only respite I can think of is I hoped they died quickly and didn't suffer. These thoughts churn and churn in my head until a whimper, a human cry reaches my ears.

My eyes widen as I stare at a pile of 4 goblins writhing on something and I recognize a human arm sticking out of the pile in the corner of the room. My pulse races and the bile wins out as it roars out of my throat, burning its way out onto the floor as rage burns it's way into my heart only to be tempered with a deep and profound sadness hitting my heart right after it. The Goblins don't even notice me at the door throwing up because they are so caught up in their orgy of crushed hopes and shattered dreams.

Again it hits me how lucky me and Sheila have been and how cold I've been about death today, The death of my classmates, killing monsters with my bare hands, did the system change me or was I always this cold to people, this cavalier attitude to violence. I can only chuckle at myself in haze of madness  and anger as the bile stops as there is nothing left to leave my stomach.

I walk into the room and quietly close the door behind me, locking the door as I start laughing softly to myself  and I advance in a haze to the closest Goblin with my blade raised high. The whimpering and crying of the girl in the corner only fuel my madness and anger, I can't control myself as My blade slices deep  into the beast, cutting down through it's shoulder blade, chest plate, ribs, spine, only for my blade to get stuck halfway into its pelvic bone.

-45 Critical Hit

Fatal Blow

It screams out in pain as it's life quickly sprays out of it and it was only then do the Goblins scramble from their despicable task to see their friends blood spray into the air and onto me as I jerk it's body a few times before my blade comes free of its bone

"Guggugugugugug Gua!"

They cry out at me as if they are angry for what I did to their friend as they fumble to pick up their weapons from the floor around them in a panic. I breath deep before I spin and toss my blade at another Goblin at the other side of the room. It panic for only moment  before my blade comes spinning towards it and embeds itself into it's stomach, crumpling it onto itself as it collapses onto the ground.

"9 goblins left."

A calm washes over me as I see some the Goblins run to me in a somewhat staggered charge. So unorganized they are, stumbling over bodies, woman and desks on the floor. I take a deep breath as I dip into an old karate kata stance and set my arms  as the first goblin rushes into my range armed with his blade.

The lead Goblin steps forward into my range and thrusts it's blade toward my chest with confidence but I step diagonal towards it and knock its blade arm wild with my forearm. The blade spinning free opens its body as I pivot and drill my fist into its face, lifting it up off its feet as its face breaks on my fist and its light body goes flying like a broken kite backwards before smashing  into about 5 goblins sending them sprawling all over the floor.

I waste not one moment and dash towards the 1 of the 4 remain goblins but with their poorly made spears zone me out  as the 4 of them thrust at me also in sequence, making me halt my advance and start to bat them away and step backwards a few steps before they catch me with one spear across my shoulder, taking a piece of my shirt and flesh with it. I bite back a scream of pain as I grasp onto the spear before it can pull back and yank it hard, causing it to stumbled forward abruptly. I almost laugh as the spears of it's brothers pierce it's side as it stumbles into their path, it's cries of pain almost calming my fury before I put it out of it's misery with it's own spear, impaling it  through the chest quickly and kicking it's body off it in one smooth move.

The Caracas flies into pile of Goblins getting to their feet, knocking them down as bowling pins as the standing 3 keep pressure on me, advancing and stabbing  wildly to get at me in their anger but with my new spear they can't reach me.  We trade spear jabs back and forth between us for a few seconds before I dash into the fray and slam the spear through  the head of one the Goblins, shattering the handle from the force of the thrust.

The Goblins flinch as their friend dies and the fear becomes real in their eye's once again and they try to create space between us to keep with their spear work but my dash is to fast for them to get back, my hands snap out and grab them both by their throats and haul them off their feet into the air.

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I see 5 other Goblins watch me with hesitation as they get into a makeshift formation arm to arm with spears and short swords in their hands. I can feel the briefest of satisfied smiles spread over my face before I quickly kill it as I choke the life out of the two flailing Goblins I'm holding up in the air, it takes minutes before their fight dies out of them as their life fade out of them and I enjoy every moment of it.

And as last flicker of life drains from them I clench my hands tightly, crushing their brittle spine under my hands to a pulp before letting them fall lifelessly to the floor with a thud. The Goblins didn't even try to fight for them, staring at me like deer caught in the eye's of a predator on Animal Planet. Yes that is what I feel like right now, a predator savoring it's hunt. The realization makes me grin a toothy grin before I slowly lean over to pick up the 2 fallen spears as I keep an eye on them.

As I step harshly and confidently towards the 5 remaining Goblins they flinch out of their stupor and step back in fear. It continues step for step for almost 10 step till I tire of their fear that I kick a chair towards them from the floor, sending it spinning low above the ground toward the Goblins, allowing to follow up behind it with both spears held at the ready.

They barely see it coming, the chair  cracking one of them across the legs and knocking it down and right after two of them impaled through the chest by my spears,

"Grah!"

I let out an almost feral growl as I let go spear and step down on the head of the fallen Goblin, splattering it's head beneath my foot, it's warm blood gushing up my leg as I pivot on whatever is left of skull and spin the back of my fist into the face the closest Goblin causing a sickening crack to ring out and It falls to the ground  harshly with it's neck hanging at a weird angle, leaving only one Goblin left in the room.

I savor it's pain as it tries to run to the door only to get a chair to it's back and both of it's legs broken by my hands before I drag it over to the only living girl I eye, the one who has been whimpering and crying since I've got into this room. I throw the Goblin close to her before breaking both it's arms, hoping she savors it's screams of pain to soothe her pain. I look her over more closely as I break bone by bone of the Goblin, I see her legs bent at terrible angles and that bloody bite marks litter her body all over. I only break the beast faster as it's cries ring out in the room to ease both of us before It Finally break it's neck, silencing the Goblin once and fore all.

With it's filthy death the last Goblin dies and the room becomes silent expect for the sound of my breathing. I stare at the girl for a few moments before lean over and pull her slowly to me, putting her head to my chest and stroking her hair,

"They are all dead. There is nothing alive here but me and you."

My voice is low and a bit tired from the fight but I try to sound reassuring to her, She has been through enough and from the amount of blood I see now on the ground were she was, she might not have much longer to live. I look around the room quickly, looking for anything to fix her legs and stop the bleeding before I hear her voice, its scratchy and smokey but filled with nothing up sadness and resignation.

"Kill me please. I can feel something growing inside me."

The words still my movements and the desolation of those words crack my heart and I can feel the waterworks beginning as hot tears pour down my face. I don't know how to respond, Something is growing inside her?

My hand slides over her bare stomach and I feel a harsh pulse as if angered by me being near it and it cause's me to flinch back in surprise,

"The other's killed themselves when they started to feel the pulses also. I don't want to have an abomination climb out of me, Kill Me Please!"

The pleading in her voice compels me and my hands slowly wrap themselves around her neck, tightening enough for her to know that I intend to follow through with her request. I almost can't see her now through the tears, why did this have to happen. The girl didn't look anyway older than 14. A freshman probably on this floor to see a family member  during homeroom and only 4 hours later for her to be begging for death at the hands of her senior. It is in my musing thoughts that I feel her body tremble harshly and I hear her hiccup a few times before the clear sound of her crying echoes out in the room.

"My name is William Reeves. Are you sure you want this? Maybe we can find someway of killing it early? You don't have to die!"

I try to reason with her, to give her some kind of out, to give myself some kind of out this deed. My words seem to comfort her because I see a smile adorn her face and it is the most breathtakingly beautiful thing I've seen in my short life, and it is the most soul crushing. Before I know it I'm sobbing together with her and that is all that is heard in the room until she speaks one last time.

"My name is Marie Camden. I wish we could have met under different circumstances."

She laughs a weak laugh and I laugh with her and for a moment it the laughter lingers in the air before a sickening crack quiets everything down. Her neck breaks and I hold her close as I see the life fad from her eye's, watching me with a smile on her face. How can she smile in her death like this, I don't understand it and now I am alone in the room when I start to laugh. It's a maniacal laughter that devolves quickly into sobbing over her cradled head. She didn't deserve to die this way, I didn't know her before this hell descend on us but she didn't deserve to die this way. She deserved to die Old and Happy and it with that thought I dawns on me the sheer amount of death that must be happening right now In this school and across whatever remnants of my world.

The realization is like ice water washing over me, stirring something in me as the tears flow and I cry myself numb holding her head to my chest. I feel something grow in my heart, I feel it change in my mind happen. This world cares nothing for us and is full of monsters that prey on misery. This Council Of Worlds, exterminating worlds for what?! A whim? For fun and games?! The anger comes back to me and it's not hot anymore, It's ice cold in my body and chills my soul.

"They must pay. They must die. They Must Die!"

Ding!

New Titled Rewarded

JusticarThese worlds are ruled by The One Golden Rule. It is that Strength is all that matters in the end.

The weak are nothing but ants to be used and crushed on a whim. There is no Justice in these lands.

Your soul objects to this injustice, your fist branded with the will to stand up for what you believe in.

A bright flame burning strong, even if it blazes towards your oblivion.

The time of Monsters and Horrors will come to an end, If your flame can burn long enough and your soul see you through!+10 to all stats

50% resistance to fear

Bonuses may increase as you do actions that fall in line with this title.

I read the title as it pops in front of me numbly before I return my gaze to Marie as she lays in my arms. I stroke her face gently before laying her back on the floor. I take my shirt off and cut it up and cover her nakedness and pray for her soul to find the happiness she didn't get in this world before I gather up my bookbag and blade from the corpse of a Goblin.

Ding!

You have Leveled Up! (x5)

I dismiss this screen quickly, gathering the goblin short swords and blade into my book bag before leaving the classroom, locking the door knob before closing it behind me. My attention now on the hallway see's ghouls wandering back into the area, my battle must have enough noise to attract them to this hallway. They are nothing to me but a nuisance, I need to finish what I came out here for and get back to Sheila, she needs to know that death is not the worst thing that can happen to us out here.

I behead almost 7 of them as I make my way around and down the next hallway, finding nothing but more bodies and Ghouls with some locked doors but what seemed to be clear rooms, no Goblins either. I behead 5 more as I'm lost in that thought as I am about to round the corner to the third main hallway to see something that gets ice cold rage to coil in my body and take the all of my willpower to get not charge into it.

There is an Orgy, male and female students being used at the Behest of the Goblins as it seems they have made a little fort in this hallway using chairs and desks as makeshift walls but I see enough. I grit my teeth before keenly looking over at the area when my eyes come to rest on two different Hobgoblins sitting on a mound of corpses watching their orgy. One is wearing a tattered colorful robe and a staff in its hands and the other one is a bit bigger than the Hobgoblin I killed earlier, It is Solid Black with Red markings all over it's body with small horns.

Hobgoblin Rare Level 22

Hobgoblin Mage Level 18

I immediately label them the leaders in my head, I want to destroy them right now but they are much to strong for me to wade headlong into the glut of Goblins to get to them. I count as many as 35 Goblins in the little Goblin fort, we must plan this out before we strike. We have to get stronger quickly and save these students before they get killed by these monsters.

I move quickly sprint my way back to our teachers lounge and give our secret knock to the door. It flies open almost immediately and I'm pulled into the room harshly before the door is closed and locked behind me. I barely get a chance to take my bookbag off before Sheila hugs my chest tightly. It is then I hear her sobs and I softly hug her back, careful not to irritate spear wounds on my upper chest and shoulders.

"I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry."

I repeat these words to her for a few seconds till she pulls herself together and before she can talk I begin to explain where I've been and what I've seen. I talk and talk and talk and Sheila listens to every word that comes from my mouth. she maneuvers us to the cushion-less couch and sits me down as I talk to her. I see some the last vestiges of innocence the Game World be stripped away from Sheila's eyes. I think it finally hit her that this is life for us now until further notice.

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It was sad to watch.

Ding!

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