Tumultuous Events (1)

Hidden 8 went to the driver's door and told Hidden 11 without batting an eye, "Hey, Hidden 11, let me drive, hurry!"

"Oh, right." Hidden 11 nodded and opened the door. His face was about to come out from the door frame when Hidden 2 looked at them and so annoyingly with a slightly high pitched tone, spoke out, "No! I didn't say Hidden 11 had to move. Hidden 11, stay there, and as for you Hidden 8, to the back."

"But Hidden 11 is much worse than I am at driving. He only dared to drive now because it was just to move the car around here!" Hidden 8 insisted, but Hidden 2 looked back at him with bloodshot eyes, wrinkling eyebrows, and with an 'oh really' face. "I see. Since you are all the worst of the worst, then let Hidden 13 take your place. He is a very good driver. Hidden 11, to the back now!"

“Uh, I-...yes.” Exasperated, Hidden 11 took a look at the back before looking back at Hidden 2, and then finally acquiesced. But Hidden 8 on the other hand was annoyed and provoked as hell, yet, he still went over to the back of the car while Hidden 2 let one from his team become the driver right now.

With Hidden 1 not being told to get in even after 10 other Hiddens were already inside, team 1 being completely left to be the last to board it, Ciemnosc looked at Hidden Cap, with his arms having cuts opening the view into his body; muscle and bone visible and there were even some veins that protruded out of his skin and were stuck to it around his arm.

Seeing the kind of unique injury, Ciemnosc frowned, tilted his head to the left, and analyzed slowly. Meanwhile, his turn had already come, as the very last one of them all, and he proceeded to walk towards and into the car while pondering. ‘Those are the effects from their tools, method of cultivation, or some sort of skill? Mm, Moribund Yearning Cult is weird.’

“Everyone’s ready!...” Hidden 2 shouted after taking a look inside the car. He was already thinking of how the hell was he to explain these things to the sect. It was tragic but not the worst at the very least. But then, he saw Hidden Cap making a kind of ‘bonfire’ with the car’s parts. He wanted to come out of the car and pull him in, even sending his upper body outside the window and looking at Hidden Cap from tens of meters away.

“...Go.” Hidden 2 could barely say this once he went back to his seat, as he looked despondent, to say the least, as he became depressed, and those at the back could feel for him while Hidden 12 rested on Hidden 1’s lap with a mantle covering her back and shoulders. She looked pitiful, but she also had a face filled with calmness as she rested her eyes and seemed to be dreaming of well and nice thingies with Ciemnosc in her life.

Trckrr~.

The car was then started as the car was driven out of the central camp in just a few seconds, even running over some things here and there without caring about what they were touching, Hidden 13 was just driving full up ahead and fully stepping on the pedal.

…After a few minutes, Hidden 2 looked back to what seemed to be the real, actual, and final goodbye to Hidden Cap, whose current life or death was still unknown and that worst of all, Hidden 2 himself couldn’t know.

…ka-BOOOOOOM~...

Just as Hidden 2 wondered, from the large, very long hill they had camped just now, a gigantic set of orange colored mini clouds rose to the higher up altitude visible as of now. Directly illuminating everything 2 kilometers around it, the car was already outside such a range long ago, but Hidden 2, as he incredulously looked at the at least half a kilometer wide explosion, seemed to be fully shining off from that orange as he went back to his seat only a few minutes later.

“Uuuh- huhhh, uwuuhh…” Sobbing in his seat, Hidden 2 made even Hidden 13 feel awkward and weirded out as he drove the car, while those in the back directly grimaced at the prospect of their one and only remaining leader being like this, but at least they left the danger zone and were back to safety.

In half an hour or so, they’d be within the towns’ territories, and by then with the large explosion being noticed by the towns, they were sure to meet the towns’ people before even arriving at any town itself.

“There are enemies coming!!” Hidden 10 suddenly shouted after looking down at his legs for a long time. On his lap was a device mimicking a tablet but with the properties of an array. This array was one where it could basically be used for detecting, but it was so weak, that it was barely used. Only when in vehicles was it ever worth any use of it, like right now.

“How many-” - “How maany~?!” Ciemnosc was asking already when Hidden 2 suddenly said and agitatedly screamed, repeating Hidden 1’s words with a dragged out voice that couldn’t be any more unnatural.

“Dozens! My god, how are there so many?!” Hidden 10 answered, commenting on his own, and looking at the screen on his lap while the car went through many forests that were around a few hundred of square meters big to the sides of the road. He suddenly said as panic slowly overcame the rest of the squad. “They are intercepting us! From the right- no, from both flanks! And another 4 from behind that are much faster than us!”

“Fully rush ahead into the wild. We won’t be able to survive if we continue on the road. Oro’s sacrifice would be for nothing then~!!” Hidden 2 screamed, basically screamed shrilly. Facing everyone on the back as Hidden 13 moved into a forest nearby, going full speed and relying on the frontal armor to knock down trees nonstop and advance faster than them.

“Get tools, wahaa, get the tools ready to defend! Hurry~~!!” Hidden 2 said one last time before going back to face the ‘road’ ahead of trees falling down, some animals and even Creatures being rolled over, and even some old houses, which were becoming more and more consistent as they began appearing.

In some of the old houses they ran over with the frontal armor, even from those at the very back of the car, they were able to ‘see’...as if there were people inside of them who looked at them with terror right before being rolled over the car or being slammed over by the frontal armor. However, no blood nor sensations of hitting things other than old, rotten wood and some metal were felt, as even stoves and tanks were felt very well for that matter… Ciemnosc’s eyes shined.

Crrreeesshhhhkk~ crreeshhk!

“Ah! AaAAAaAAAAAaaaaaaagghh!!” Suddenly, Hidden 13 began screaming. His head was accompanied by both his hands as he grabbed…at his ears before directly pulling them off.

“Hidden 13?! What are you doing?! Hidden 13!!” Hidden 2 could only scream out loud while facing directly Hidden 13, who then didn’t just tear his ears away from his safe head. Following after pulling his ears off, Hidden 13 began laughing maniacally, turning so dark red-faced as he looked between the window in front and Hidden 2’s face. His hair was then started to be pulled off by his fingers with really strong grips from them all over his hair.

“Uhh…I propose we drive back.” Ciemnosc suddenly said at this moment, the rest of the people around him were nodding right away as if they could only think of that right now and, were it not that they were being pursued still and inside the car in safety, they would’ve used their numb and senseless legs to turn into a mad run onwards anywhere!

“No! Hidden 13, keep driving! They are going to catch up!!” Each phrase was more defined and emphasized than the previous one as Hidden 2 made ‘dominant’ gestures with his left hand to the back of the car towards Ciemnosc. “!!”

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However, when he looked back at Hidden 13 and saw his dug his eyes out of his sockets little by little as they had seemingly started melting, he felt his hairs stand on its end and his right arm’s hair as if it was being passed over by a large, very large and even somewhat fat hand which had the softest skin and weighed nothing.

“AAH!! Okay, okay! Hidden 8, Hidden 8~!! Get the wheel, get the wheel- AA! Get the wheel, bawbhaayy!!” If Hidden 2 was sobbing before in silence and trying to keep it low, then now he was fully letting it all out, he kicked Hidden 13 over and over to kick him out of the car but the door of the driver’s seat seemed to be able to bend indefinitely as Hidden 13 was kicked on the waist.

The kicks were not little and they should’ve indeed had broken through the door on the other side, but still remained standing there without fully breaking out. On the other hand, Hidden 13’s eyes face lost all teeth, and as his lower body was already against the driver’s seat’s door, his face and neck kept enlarging themselves to lean over Hidden 2 and more specifically towards his face.

“...” - “...” Hidden 8, feeling as weird as everyone else around at the back seeing the unnaturally enlarged neck of Hidden 13 and his head had no eyes nor ears yet finding Hidden 2’s face no matter how much he squirmed around on his co-driver’s seat, looked at Hidden 1 only for him to look back at himself and shake his head while blinking his eyes.

“Aaah~?” Suddenly, with a scream that was dragged out and low in volume, Hidden 2 reacted to the face before him of a bloodless, eyeless, and earless Hidden 13, who then slowly began to have some eyes pop out and grow at the same time from the deepest part of his head. It was as if someone was pushing eyeballs which were deadly fixed in Hidden 2’s eyes as they were being pushed upwards.

And as if Hidden 13’s head was fully vacant and yet a well of darkness at the same time, no brain, meat, brain nor even viscous liquid was visible, only the sight of tiny eyes growing and coming closer to his face amidst the darkness that was visible to see through his eye sockets was all that Hidden 2 had to look at for entire seconds long.

“Get out, don’t make a n-” Hidden 1 stood up from his seat at the back after whispering into Hidden 12’s ear, who then nodded and closed her lips tightly. Ciemnosc then spoke to the rest of the squad, practically now being 13 since Hidden 2… In any case, just as he wanted to speak to the crowd, they were interrupted by the sound of cars already parked outside with their lights on and around them having their doors closed…

Step, step step step!

While thinking of the worst, what remained of the Hidden squad hurried outside, already able to notice a few lights of other vehicles aiming at them. Ciemnosc was the first to come out, and he was 1 meter in front of the right side of the car, while everyone who came out stood behind him and looked around.

“Shit…” Hidden 11 cursed, looking at the many Moribund Yearning Cult believers, almost all at the 10th stage of the Spiritual Condensation Realm and several Link Consolidation Realm; there were about 300 of those around here, and to be fair, it no longer mattered what they saw inside their car just now as this situation cooled their blood but somehow cooled their minds as well.

The Hidden squad was slowly taking weapons and tools out, while the believers around already had them out and were just watching the little animals in their mini, brand new zoo terrified of the big and strong fellow believers that they are.

“Hahaha, look at them! Why are they so terrified? Everyone’s so pale after just seeing us? Haha!” - “Look at some of them. They’d make good puppets to keep until we die, haha!” - “I want the first one that looks like a red haired one, those are the best~!!”

While the Moribund Yearning Cult’s believers were talking out loud and basically yelling, with Hidden 12 hiding behind his back, her frail body no longer trembling when leaning fully against his back, and the Hidden squad looked on all around them to the voices that came from every angle; Ciemnosc squinted his eyes and sank his right eyebrow a bit, even raising the other one a bit as well.

“You guys…don’t know where we are, right?” Ciemnosc’s question suddenly left the believers baffled. They, of course, didn’t. Who would?! They were in the middle of nowhere, close to the borders of two different organizational territories and in between a pair of towns on one side and a large city on the other.

As for Ciemnosc, of course, he did. This was thanks to Grand Elder’s detailed and overly sophisticated map whose contents clicked the moment that Hidden 2 ordered the escape into the many, many woods…

“What are you talking ‘bout, kid?!” - “What’s a retarded wimpy 4th stage doing here? Kill yourself, faggot!” - “You look cute. You’d look cuter when we play with your puppet corpse, though.” - “Hahahaha, oh my goood such a naive perfect little specimen, I want to study how your balls work, darling- ahahahehaeheee!”

Ciemnosc got nothing else but the most obvious contempt and eerie insult from these people, whose visages were somewhat overly obscured by the strong lights of their vehicles; some of 4 wheels, some of 2 wheels, and some of simply 1 wheel.

“Mmn, okay. Now everyone is to put their backs to ea-” Hidden 1 commanded as he stepped a bit backwards and took the sword on his back out, disconnecting it from a ‘u’ shaped hook that had held it with all this long. But a Hidden from team 2 interrupted as he pointed at the co-driver’s seat, “Bullshit, Hidden 1, Paso is still our commander so shut up!!”

“...” Without a doubt, all of team 1 looked back at this Hidden from team 2. While the believers surrounding them went at it again. “KHWUAAHAHAAHAH! So that was your leader? Who brought you to this dead end?” - “Hisss, ahw mawn, I don’t know how to feel. The kid looked cuter than the leader.” - “Mmm, I got it~! Let’s ignore that idiot’s words and treat the little one as the leader, deal?” - “Deal.” - “Deal!” - “Deal!”

Step step step step…

Ciemnosc went over to the car’s co-driver door and opened it. Right away, a body fell down from the car but its nape was grabbed like a cat’s or dog’s skin, as he went back to his spot without letting Hidden 2 fall on the ground, he brought the semi-unconscious teenager to the one Hidden from team 2 who spoke and waved the dead-like delusional Hidden 2.

“Awawbw… Muaschacka… Pflfblarktr…” Hidden 2 had his eyes strangely grow in volume, his hair was falling off on its own and his throat seemed to contain two small balls within it but which he seemed not to mind. And while seeing someone in front of himself, he moved his hands to grab that Hidden’s arms, only for the latter to react strongly as if he was scalded by the cold of Hidden 2’s skin.

“AAH! Shit!” Backing away nonstop, the believers around them became silent for some reason. While the Hidden squad became pale once more without being able to recuperate from the scene before as they were directly reminded of it.

Also, why did the 2 small balls in Hidden 2’s throat seem to roll around whenever a sound was made? For example, they rolled over to ‘face’ the Hidden, who had just now been touched by Hidden 2. Though for Ciemnosc, the coldness that came from Hidden 2 was basically nothing to him, he couldn’t comprehend why but it just didn’t affect him.

“...So, you really don’t know where we are, huh? Then, can you see the mansion over there?” Ciemnosc turned around and looked at the believers around ‘his’ squad. He pointed in a certain direction making not only the believers themselves which they did look around right away, as if Ciemnosc had gained credibility all of a sudden. But also his own squad that didn’t know what he was up to.

“Gasp!” - “Hehh? Since when was that there?” - “Ey! I left some brothers in the car I left just there! Where are they?” - “Did someone just see shadows on that window?” - “I think I saw one of our robes inside. Did they go in? What’s going on?” - “...” - “...”

The believers who were fine just now and only mildly confused began to feel curious… is not a good way. Some of them even took a step backwards while twisting their necks looking at the 200 meters wide mansion and of who knows their length. Some from the Moribund Yearning Cult that were a bit knowledgeable gulped and looked without hope at the mansion’s entrance. While some who were ‘experienced’ stepped back over and over again with clear shock and desperation in their faces, shaking their heads nonstop.

“Enough! Everyone get ready, kill these disciples of the Self-Mutilating Honores Sect, kill them all for they are all yours!!” Finally, a voice that seemed like the leader’s was heard. It surprised Ciemnosc as it wasn’t just from a Link Consolidation Realm cultivator but one at the 10th stage of it!!

“...” Immediately, as if receiving the beacon that they needed the most at the best moment, the believers of the Moribund Yearning Cult calmed down somewhat, their sudden fear and shock turning fury which they channeled at the pawns and walking corpses of the most powerful organization; especially towards that little kid in the middle of them all as they had their backs against each other.

“...Okay now, anyone who dares not listen to my commands, I will kill,” Ciemnosc spoke with a soft tone, one that was many times quieter and even seemed to have become weak. But the sensation he gave to the remaining Hiddens in the squad was a potent, reliable, and knowing one.

No one said anything in return, but they nodded and gulped from time to time so as to not choke when they were in the middle of the incoming battle. Even Hidden 12, who was still affected by earlier took her daggers out and stood beside Ciemnosc, facing a serious and fearsome stance. She and everyone else in the squad seemed fearless to fight more than 300 enemies of the same and higher cultivation base.

Except for Ciemnosc, he looked so calm… ‘Should I go all out or pretend? Ah, forget it, I’ll just go fully out or no one in my squad will survive.’

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