Chapter 36

My breath came out like a golden rainbow, covering the area in thick magic and pouring into the resentment and desires in the area. Multiple black spots began spinning and absorbing the golden rainbow light and growing before disappearing into the ground, going silent. It stayed like this for a few hours, until the boundary and totem I drew suddenly lit up like a torch and began beaming like a skylight, rocketing towards the bodies above the ground, and dissolving them into ash almost instantly. ”NOOO!” Eain shrieked as he witnessed the destruction of his friends. He was just about to scream and yell at me for their destruction, when he looked down and noticed a very young little girl. “Val? Is that really you?” Walking up to the young girl next to him, he began to cry and apologize to the girl for getting her killed, but was stopped by another group of children. Looking at the group in shock he began to cry again, “You are all here. I’m so sorry.” “I couldn’t save you.”

The group of children looked to Eain and shook their heads attempting to convey he was not responsible for their deaths. Suddenly, a group of older workers showed up next to them. They all looked to be the same ethnicity, and many of them looked disfigured and tortured, with many having organs taken from them. They walked in death like life, bloodied and beaten. More and more of these people showed up, until they reached in the thousands. Many of these people were no older than the previous group of children. Once the final set of people showed up, there were over ten thousand of them. Looking at their cloths they looked to be prisoners and they all had a stamp on them. I would later find out the stamp meant, “Uyghur.” This minority, has been persecuted and tortured because the government doesn’t want the minorities. They would rather place them in internment camps and work them to death or keep them for free labor all their lives and move in more “traditional” Chinese men to the area to take care of the men’s wives and children.

Seeing the pain and tragedy from the group, I couldn’t help but become angry and deeply saddened. Once the whole group appeared, they were rapidly pulled into each other, turning into a solid mass of souls, and began binding with my blood and totem. They then solidified and transformed into an ancient looking stone bench. Examining the bench, I found my totem all over it, along with carvings of injustice and human and animal sacrifices. On the top, next to my totem, was a scene of someone chasing a cloud, but never getting close to catching it, eventually dying in pursuit. Above this carving were the words “Oblate fortuitous”. I could feel a deep sadness coming from the carving, but it didn’t appear to be evil. Looking closer to the bench, I also found a very small, almost imperceptible, carving of a selfless person, bringing an ailing person here in hopes of helping them, and fulfilling their desire to be healthy and helping their family. It showed the person sitting and being infused with something and walking away healthy.

Looking to me, Eain seemed to have the same idea that I did. “Let’s get some people here and see what happens.” Taking to the internet, Eain began making posts for all the big social media sites and began posting videos, going so far to make new accounts for conspiratorial sites. In all the posts, he proceeded to recount how he found an ancient sacrificial alter, that could make your dreams come true if you used it. Waiting for another six hours, the first person who had seen the post and pictures online was curious enough to come out. The man was carrying a duffle bag in his hand and had a cameraman following behind him wearing a, “paranormal hunter” shirt with the first guys face on it. Listening closely we watched him examining the area and setting up like a movie shoot.

Following the GPS in our phones, we made our way towards the supposed, “sacrificial alter” that was found in the middle of nowhere. Zhu Jin doesn’t think it’s actually there, and thinks someone is playing a trick on everyone, getting a boost in followers from the fake content, but watching the video, it was just too odd not to at least check out. Ever since the Giant man came from out of the ocean and dumped sewage on everyone in the world, paranormal and conspiracy theorists have been having a hay day and making a fortune. Pretty much anyone with a long run, “giants are real” type of channel, or an older paranormal channel has been making a fortune, since the big bastard came out from the sea. It only got worse when the second monster was found not a day later on. Except that one is a true demon, devouring and melding with everyone it comes across to grow. It’s even able to make smaller monsters now. That’s some freaky shit man. Hopefully it stays in India, let those bastards deal with it, at least it didn’t go for us Chinese.

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Ever since discovering that the old legends might actually hold some truth to them, the world has been in a panic. I already had a mytube channel online and was just as curious about what is going on in the world right now as anyone else, so when I found the video of the sacrificial alter, I called up my cameraman and headed out to see the truth of it. It’s kind of funny though, a week ago I would have called anyone posting online about the paranormal, occult, or monsters, a maniac, or mentally unstable, but now it seems completely normal and even interesting. We hiked for hours after taking our four by four truck as far as it could go in the wilderness to see this thing, so hopefully it isn’t a prank. Finally making it to the geo tracked spot I felt my mind go numb and began to sweat nervously, after seeing an exceptionally tall…. Man? Standing next to the alter.

The man was massive, he must have been over eight or nine feet tall. He was built like an athlete, burly, despite his immense height. He had bright red hair and was smiling with massive thick bone crunching teeth. Despite his massive size, he appeared completely able and capable, not using knee braces or walking with a limp from the immense weight on his skeleton. In fact, he looked like he could very easily overpower most anything with his height and weight and muscle. Standing still, he stood next to the alter wearing a black hood and cloak. Motioning towards the camera man to start recording I began approaching the man and attempted to communicate with him in mandarin. Surprisingly enough he seemed able to speak and converse with us. “Are you here for a reason sir?” Listening to my question the massive man began to laugh and answered, “Why would the protector of the altar not be around it?”

Feeling a cold spot shooting down my back I spoke again to the massive being. “Are you really the guardian of this place? Isn’t this place the governments land?” As if hearing something funny, the massive man began laughing again, “My protector is much stronger than your government, it is the same as you trying to fight me, it wouldn’t end well.” Watching the massive teeth of the man speaking to us, I looked closer to the man and began to notice some strange things about him. Looking at his massive hands I realized he had an extra finger per hand, and when he opened his mouth I could swear I noticed two massive sets of teeth in his mouth. My nerves began to scream at me to leave the area, but now realizing that this might not be false, I had to know the truth. ”What is your name good sir?” “It is Eain, though there is little point to knowing my name, most of the time you will not see me when you are here, though I will still be around.” The man responded. “Then Eain, would it be ok if we could film your alter and try it out?” Expecting the giant man to protest, we were surprised when he told us he was only there to, “stop the altar from being destroyed or taken, and would not get involved for anything else.”

Setting up the camera for our video, we already had a lot of great shots from our conversation, but I now knew that this could be my big chance. Setting up the shots, we began examining the altar, getting close and touching it. I could feel something being taken from my chest, and sucked into the altar, almost immediately after touching it. Releasing it, I began breathing hard and was sweating like crazy. I felt like I had run a marathon. Looking to the camera I spoke, “There is definitely something strange about the altar. I barely touched it and I feel like I just ran a mile.” Looking at the inscriptions on the stone, I could see different animals and things being sacrificed, attaining wealth, and even everlasting life!

Breathing heavily from the thought of it being true, I grabbed ahold of the bag we had brought with us and looked to the giant asking, “Is there anything we need to do before we make a sacrifice?” “What will happen after?” Grinning and staring at us, Eain spoke, “You can make a sacrifice at any time, but beware your greed and desires. Some dreams are too expensive after all.” Thinking for a moment about the giant man’s words, I decided to at least try it, pulling out the bag and producing a rat. Putting the rat down on the altar, it began trying desperately to get away, but after being on the altar for a full sixty seconds, it collapsed from exhaustion. Pulling out my prepared blade, I cut the rodents head off, letting the blood fall onto the altar, and was amazed by the stone absorbing the blood and body, and even more shocked to see a small golden nugget, being left in the corpses place. Silence enveloped us as we were shocked to see actual gold appearing where the rat corpse was just at. Thinking for a moment, I turned towards Zhu Jin and shouted, “shut off the live stream!”