Tumultuous Events (3—Last Part)

Ciemnosc looked at the young man before him, his face deadpan, while his left hand, on the other hand, was slowly lifted to the switch on the corner of the wall to his left. Ciemnosc's index and middle finger then sandwiched the switch that seemed to be squeaky clean, his pinky and ring finger's knuckles against the wall to support his hand. Ciemnosc suddenly turned the upped switch down.

Click-STEP STEP STEP-.

As soon as Ciemnosc turned the switch down, with a click, everything became pitch dark once more. And this time it was also something that Ciemnosc couldn’t see through - except for a pair of brightly white balls where the young man’s mostly black eyes were. They also didn’t remain 2 meters away. And instead became just 1 cm away from Ciemnosc’s nose, which was also the exact same distance he made to not enter the room, only 1 cm away from a different outcome…

“!...” And Ciemnosc was now going to turn the switch on. He had been watching the bright ass white big eyes now for a while. And though they were that weird and unnatural, they oozed of incredible life and intelligence, giving him an uncanny valley-most absurdly impossible to believe sensation right at his cerebellum.

But just then, Ciemnosc stopped his left index and middle finger from switching the dark red light on, whereas the pair of big, bright eyes started trembling; urging, imploring, and trying to sabotage Ciemnosc’s mind so that they would get the dark red light turned on again, so that it could devour him.

“...” But just then, Ciemnosc didn’t, and instead, took a moment to ponder. While he pondered, for just a few seconds, he even closened his nose towards the pitch black room 0.5 centimeters, simply to gaze closer and more intently at the bright white eyes. Whereas Ciemnosc then saw shadowy hands appear just 0.2 cm away from even his hair that waited for a little bit more of him to get close, infinitely reaching out to Ciemnosc nanometer by nanometer and in the dozens. They were clearly not going to allow Ciemnosc to escape once they got a grip on him.

Hrrrrwaaaaaaaahh~.

“Don’t look at me, don’t look at me, don’t look at me, dooon’t look at me… look at me, uhu…?” With Ciemnosc closing his eyes, the ‘young man’ before him, or rather, the big bright eyes before him - spoke to Ciemnosc as soon as his eyelids remained closed for 3 seconds; exactly.

And it wasn’t even a male voice but a little girl’s voice that spoke to Ciemnosc, one that seemed to want to sound like an adult woman to hence gain a unique charm of her own. It did not end there, but continued, “Why aren’t you opening your eyes? Why don’t you open your eyes? Why Ciemnosc, why…? Why Ciemnosc why…?”

“!” Ciemnosc had a tiny reaction to his name being spoken. He was sure his heart was beating wild now, for real now. And with the obvious changes to his body, the little girl’s voice spoke some more. “Ciemnooooosc, ssshhh…ciemnossssc… HRRUUGHUUWAARRLLLLLLL~!!!”

Click. Whshaaaaa~.

“!!!” Just as the ethereal, soothing, and seemingly longing voice of the little girl was changed to a guttural, otherworldly, alien, and high pitched towards the end-kind of sound coming from a monster’s ‘mouth’, Ciemnosc turned the switch up and opened his eyes to see the young man’s body whose color changed to crimson, viscous red and whose eyes were still bright white under the dark red lights. His eyes were going back to being almost fully black. But his entire head had enlarged to almost encompass the entire small interconnecting room in-between many other halls.

It had become cracked and looked broken, and its whole mouth was open, ready to engulf Ciemnosc in its mouth and crush him with just its flesh alone. But it shrunk back to a human’s size when Ciemnosc opened his eyes and turned the light on.

“...” Ciemnosc continued to have the very same deadpan expression on his face from before. He looked at the red humanoid thing that was slowly becoming human again, seemingly so. Before suddenly turning off again, loud steps followed as a pair of bright eyes appeared before him within the pitch black room, squinting even at this time around as if it was glad that Ciemnosc got it to return.

But doing the same as before, closing his eyes and opening them as he turned the light on, the red thing appeared 2 meters away from him once more. It looked at Ciemnosc like he was hopelessly watching murder, mayhem, and destruction occur before his very own eyes. Until Ciemnosc turned the switch off yet again under the red thing’s half-bright and half-black eyes.

Over time, Ciemnosc turned on and off the switch, closing his eyes every time before switching on while the red thing always appeared after the bright white eyes made their appearance. After testing and testing lots of times, the humanoid red thing seemed to give up as it no longer appeared at one time and, instead, what appeared were dozens of corpses all lined up together as if they were a small crowd waiting for a bus to come so that they could get into it.

Ciemnosc was of course not going to test it again, for he felt that he was pushing it if he did it just once more and only halfway there - who is to say that he wouldn’t turn the whole mansion pitch black next and that the switch would disappear similar to entering another dimension?

Step.

As such, with the red thing not appearing anymore and those corpses that belonged to disciples of both sides lined up together, Ciemnosc noncommittally made his way towards the other side of the hall, leading to the western north wing of the mansion for who knew what atrocities awaited him if he went to any other hall than the ‘real’ ones that the mansion seemed to show.

Wrlk, shlck shlck- pat.

“!?” Ciemnosc suddenly stopped as he went through the corpses of dozens of recently stolen bodies from the outside, as even their outfits barely began warming up from a very cold touch the moment they appeared in the small room. But just now, he had to tilt his head to the right as he felt his right cheek being patted under his waist.

“...” But he kept moving forward after a little bit, his eyes looking dull as he did and the room failing to get any kind of reaction from him. Once again, he felt his body touched. His left thigh was grabbed tightly by a slightly obese man in a gray uniform and with a fedora. The outfit left Ciemnosc speechless…but only that. He continued to move forward.

There were more and more limbs, hands, mouths, and even nice, round asses from possibly cute looking females back when they were alive that kept on obstructing his body. However, none of them actually impaired his movement, they only grabbed at him, and after a few steps, some would let go of him naturally as if they were dead and had no strength to grip at all. While others would persevere on keeping their ‘grip’ on Ciemnosc until a few steps more.

A few smiley faces of little kids that were 4 times the size of his head appeared quite a few times when he was getting closer and closer to the other end of the room, while the feeling of being hugged by a kid, them embracing his whole legs and their faces up to his upper thigh at the sides made Ciemnosc look down, only to barely see his own chest with a load of corpses swinging themselves at him as if they were the sea creating waves and he a clam.

“...” But that last feeling got even weirder as Ciemnosc, who felt their heads against his body, began feeling them ‘decompose’ right then and there. He could feel how their skin revolted and either slid down their faces or upwards, their hair moving along and then their skeletons, which would rapidly decay and have holes formed here and there with worms eating all around, also touching Ciemnosc as they moved around the white bones but didn’t go for his body at least.

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Step- step.

“...” At last, Ciemnosc seemed to have made his way out of the small room. He didn’t look back because he wasn’t a dumbfuck and instead looked up ahead to walk forwards and ignored the feeling of having a huge head right behind his head, blowing air through its nostrils on his left shoulder, side of his neck, and ear that also seemed to ethereally hum towards the back of his head from time to time.

Step, step step, step.

As he was walking, he was soon to walk by a staircase, but from where he suddenly heard footsteps of someone coming down from it just as he was 17 meters away from it.

Hidden 10 casually showed up coming down with his right hand in his pocket and saw Hidden 1, but looking behind Hidden 1, Hidden 10 nodded towards the soon-to-die fellow and turned around in the opposite direction Hidden 1 came from, almost beginning to run away.

“...” Ciemnosc looked at the obviously affected Hidden 10 and waited, waited, and waited on the same spot 17 meters away from the staircase, in the middle of the 200 meters long hallway…

Step, step, step, step, step!

Hidden 10 came rushing back towards the long hallway from the corner of it. He looked at Ciemnosc and ignored him after just a look before going up the stairs again. As soon as Hidden 10 was halfway through the staircase, a huge thing popped out from the corner of the long hallway.

It was about 10 meters tall, with a candle, long tea jar-like body, and small legs not even a tenth of its height of a simply black colored crayon-like substance that moved flawlessly and smoothly. It had, however, a pair of vicious arms which were of the same kind of substance as that of the legs but that had 3 meters wide manus overall with each one having 3 claws 2 meters long.

STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP…

The lid of the tall thing was opening up and down, a 4 meters wide tongue that would shrink down to half a meter over and over again as it hopped around with its legs, which was seemingly the only way for it to walk or that it knew how to - seemed to be smiling cutely and silly which was so extraordinarily terrifying like a pedophile predator thinking he got a brand new prey in the flesh.

“...!” Ciemnosc closed his eyes again, trying not to think in the slightest. He closed them tight before opening them as the stomps that were moving towards the stairs halted midway.

“...” Opening his eyes once more, Ciemnosc saw the backside of the tall candle monster, it began to be engulfed in a black crayon-like substance as it slowly disappeared from Ciemnosc’s point of view due to the angle, which was like a blind spot. But Ciemnosc still remained unmoving. he didn’t even know how that huge, heavy thing went up the stairs, let alone how it would go downstairs.

STOMP- creaaaaaaaaaaaaaackcckcckk-ckkkk- ckk.

There was another heavy stomp, and following it was the sound of something being dragged over the walls, which in turn was the candle-like monster that was peeking out of the blind spot that Ciemnosc lost sight of it, it took the monster a couple of tens of seconds before it peeked out its ‘lid-head’ from said blind spot.

“...” Ciemnosc kept silent and thoughtless, only letting air go down his nostrils. Meanwhile, the candle-like monster slowly stepped down the stairs, not making any sound. Ciemnosc didn’t move anymore as well, and he kept watching as the utterly superficial sight of the huge, heavy thing made no sound yet it agilely moved its body around with its lid still ‘attached’ to where it had peeked its head out from.

Its legs moved its body down the stairs. Once it finally reached the bottom of the floor, it slowly dragged its lid over the ceiling, very slowly…so slowly…that it was painful to watch compared to the smoothness from just now. But even the dragged-on lid of the monster on the ceiling made no sound until it finally aligned itself vertically with its feet and heavily thumped down onto the floor.

STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP…!!

Ciemnosc remained rooted on the spot as the monster began trotting in his direction! But its trotting was 3 times any Link Consolidation Realm cultivator’s speed. It was extremely fast for such a small place. And it immediately reached Ciemnosc’s…side!

It went right past him as Ciemnosc had his back slightly slouched. He looked back only to find a young male more than 100 meters behind him looking at the monster coming up at him in utter horror. Meanwhile, a bit farther behind, Ciemnosc saw the red thing look at him as the switch turned itself down. The red thing was also a bit closer to the wall with the switch.

And each time the small room went dark, it would move 1 millimeter closer to hide behind the wall of the switch, which basically would mean a free meal for anyone unaware. This just happened just as the young man wearing the Moribund Yearning Cult’s robe tried to run down a staircase. From it many heads rolled down which left him paralyzed; on the other hand, a casually run-walking young teenager went into the small room, and just as it was in the middle and saw Ciemnosc, then the monster and his fellow believer - the switch was clicked with the red thing already behind the wall.

Once the dark red light went back on, a femur flew out in rotating motions from the dark still in the small room and fell on its floor once it was illuminated dark red again. The bright eyes receding to mostly black looked at Ciemnosc. It showed contentedness as if thanking Ciemnosc for teaching him this. But Ciemnosc maintained a blank state of mind like he was a veggie.

It then began turning the switch on and off, up and down. Ciemnosc was even able to clearly hear it. Each time it went dark, the red thing would show its bright eyes on any random place and height. It even once made Ciemnosc feel that everything around him instantly turned pitch black, and its white bright eyes turned as large as everywhere Ciemnosc could see.

Without realizing it, the candle-like monster had already devoured the young man nearby, closer to the small room, only its left arm could be seen at the left of the candle’s lid with its thumb pointing at the small room and the candle with its back facing Ciemnosc. But then, another random person came up to the small room but stopped seeing the light switch on and off nonstop.

The candle, which was beginning to rotate its body to ‘stare’ face to face with Ciemnosc stopped, immediately materializing into the mind of the other young man as it then brusquely turned around and rushed to the small room and to the other long hall on all fours and thrashing its body around nonstop.

When it crossed through the small room, the candle-like monster threw the red thing on the ground and furthermore kicked it to the side subsequently with its thrashing around. Before long, the candle-like monster appeared before the young man at the other end of the small room, who tried to look directly at Ciemnosc, trembling and sweaty but maintaining his ground; he seemed to think like Ciemnosc which made the latter feel like finding a pal.

But, slowly, the young man was covered from head to the chest by the candle-like monster as Ciemnosc watched his head and upper chest disappear…because he turned around and made a run for it right away!!

STEP STEP STEP STEP- thud- roll roll roll, tad!

But just as Ciemnosc turned around and was only 20 meters or so away from the end of the hallway, there was now an extra small kitchen-freezer-like room with a very small door frame where just a wall was supposed to be there instead.

And so, the contents of what was going on inside that duo purpose room made Ciemnosc directly fall off as he tripped, rolled, and stopped just 3 meters away from the door frame.

From the outside, just 3 meters away, Ciemnosc could see a very large and wide, robust and fat being-specimen with pale-rosy skin and dried up dark-rosy wheels here and there; constant. It was carrying a young girl’s corpse with her body missing from her hips to the top of her head in its right manus and a skewer with fresh, eyeless fresh heads with genitals stuffed inside them.

In front of it, a cute, chubby girl was looking up, seemingly at the corner of the ceiling. She seemed to have been looking around the kitchen as soon as she found it, hiding from any other place that seemed worse than this one since it had light at the very least. Yet, she was now chaotically dumbfounded as a mouth 2 meters wide began lowering itself towards her body and to the floor.

The lips of that wide mouth were from the same being holding a lot of meat, naturally. But they were even larger than the entire robust body build that it had, thick lips with a diameter of 40 cm or so and of a black-blue-purple color, with teeth that appeared to be hair instead within its mouth - turning solid and flaccid like hair did but covered with viscous shit-colored green liquid.

The last thing that cute, chubby girl did was to look at Ciemnosc, then far behind Ciemnosc, before her face was covered by the thing’s crudely thick lips and teeth - whereas unlike with the candle-like monster, liters of blood became coming down for each centimeter the mouth moved closer to the floor.

“Agh,” Ciemnosc looked behind him while still on the ground, the pedo-like candle monster now rushing at him, thrashing around even more and faster than before, almost as fast as a Phrenic Realm cultivator. He stood up and casually said after he saw the small door frame's door close on its own and a very small eye compared to even a baby on the being-specimen look at him ‘awkwardly’. “You know what? Fuck you. You’re annoying. Come chase your momma, bye!”

Step step step step step step step!!

With that, ignoring the candle monster and cursing ‘fuck you’, ‘bitch’, and ‘beautiful’ to the most ugliest of things he saw on the way, Ciemnosc rushed the shit down the next hallway before turning to the right - where he saw Hidden 2’s skin layered on the wooden black well-like floor of the mansion, its eyes rolling around as it appeared to be 2d.

“Ah, so it is downstairs,” Ciemnosc said out loud, causing Hidden 2 to turn its paper thin, 2d eyeballs at him and cry once more. It was kinda cute. But Ciemnosc was looking 1.3 meters up ahead where a trapdoor was closed yet not locked. Cold air that chilled even ice itself came out from it without the slightest of effects - but it didn’t do anything to Ciemnosc as he came close to it.

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