While everyone is asleep at night, curiosity and uneasiness wake the young Yoimiya up from her sleep as she is troubled by something. While she doesn't notice it at the time, a strange aura of darkness surrounds her body as she walks toward the outside, away from Barbosa.
The speed of the wind outside the ship is incredibly great while the clouds rumble with lightning and some rain. Not too far away, in the middle of the ocean, a silhouette floats right in the middle as its body gets randomly illuminated by the light of thunder.
The world outside the comfort of the sleeping cabin is terrifying, yet the young Yoimiya slowly walks toward the blacked-out silhouette until she is right at the ship's edge. Failing to move forward more, she extends her left arm, followed by her right arm, as she murmurs something barely inaudible.
"I am here; I am home, I am here, I am home," The words coming from Yoimiya's mouth make no sense as she continues reaching for the mysterious floating figure until the figure seems to notice them before it vanishes, leaving a weirdly looking Yoimiya perplexed with her eyes completely blacked out and her arms covered in dark looking veins.
The air soon gets a little heavy, followed by the sudden unexplainable death of everyone aboard the ship except Yoimiya, who chuckles and laughs maniacally while looking right at the sky with her blacked-out eyes looking like an endless void of darkness, her veins turning from blue to black all at the same time.
The sky rumbles even harder as the skin of the Witch Princess starts turning dark, followed by the sudden complete destruction of the entire ship thanks to the enormous waves of the ocean crashing against it with tremendous force all of a sudden from all directions.
The ocean, however, does not drown an unconscious Yoimiya as she slowly sinks to the bottom of the sea without needing to breathe. She simply keeps descending hundreds of meters a minute until a couple of minutes later; her feet touch the very deep ocean bottom thousands of meters underwater.
Nothing had ever been able to touch the bottom of the ocean and live before. However, the completely unconscious Yoimiya still moved forward, walking along the bottom of the sea as a big gapping hole at the bottom of the sea palpitates faster the closer Yoimiya gets to the entrance.
{Huuum HUUM HUUUM}
The sound from the gaping hole to the cave at the bottom of the sea makes the noise of a palpitating heart, as if the heart were that of a colossal creature, while the floor emits gray and purple light.
The still sleeping Yoimya keeps walking along the bottom of the sea as big massive water dragons start trying to stop her from entering the cave without success as the entrance repels them.
The cave opens wide for Yoimiya as it pulls her inside, finally waking her up once she gets inside the cave where a big sealed hole sits in the middle. "Where the hell am I?" Yoimiya thinks for herself as she slowly wakes up, trying to make sense of where she is and probably trying to figure out if she is in a dream of sorts.
"I don't remember getting here. What is this place?" Yoimiya thinks while the cave tries to show her the magical seal in the middle of it as a creepy-looking dark substance tries to break itself loose.
[Pespective swap back to first person]
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What the hell happened? Am I in a dream created by that demon again? I doubt it; my mind control resistance would've already kicked in, which, by the looks of things, already did, uh? Why are all my stats on the appraisal screen distorted and suddenly covered in question marks? What the hell is going on?
Name: Nameless
Age: VOID
Race: INVALID
Position: DARK SOVEREIGN
HP: ?????????/?????????
MP: ???????/ ERROR ERROR
SP: ERROR/ERROR
Holy MP: CRITICAL FAILURE
Stamina: ERROR
Speed: ERROR
Strenght: CRITICAL FAILURE
Skills: NULL UNTRACEABLE UNREADABLE DATA INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT EXIST ????????!!!!%*^^*!@%
Information: NULL UNTRACEABLE UNREADABLE DATA INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT EXIST. ???????????????????????
All my skills and stats are gone, and while I do not feel odd, my feeling of running away from this place is increasing as I do not like the looks of that thing in the middle; what the heck is it? The thing trapped underground looked like a weird dark blob moving against the translucent magical seal, smashing itself against it until the seal cracked slightly.
[Inmedate Danger detected, all systems have failed. Crown's corrosion rapidly increasing DANGER DETECTED]
The voice coming from the crown sounds just the same as the world system voice, distorted and weak, almost like talking inside this place was too hard of a task, but then again, I didn't know how to get out, nor did I know how I even got in here in the first place so the only thing I could think of was to just look at the dark blob closer.
For whatever reason, something inside my head feels natural. When I look at the blob, I naturally extend my hand toward it as a hidden memory of my younger self, thinking that this blob seems like the one I used to play with as a child, although more than twenty times its size.
The blob keeps crashing itself against the magical seal while I try to touch it until I feel a dreadful weight on my heart. My body starts sweating profusely once the blob gets insanely close to me in one of its jumps. "You're not supposed to be here yet, little one."
Another voice I recognize from the time I got vetted to be the Witch Princess talks directly to me as I walk back from the seal, finally allowing the Queen's voice to speak even clearer as I try my best to stay awake as I feel exhausted. "I will mark this location for when you're ready to unlock it, but for now, pray to our god Andromeda to get you away from this place, or the darkness consume you."
So this was one of the unknown ports of darkness? That dark blob was the dark power I had been seeking all this time. If that's the case, then the Queen was right. I didn't even know how I got here, but I did not know how to control the power I had just acquired; getting even more now would not be ideal; my mind wouldn't be able to take it.
"What are you waiting for!? Pray now! The darkness is already corroding your mind control resistance, and it hasn't even fused with you yet; Andromeda will get you out of here." The urgency in the Witch Queen's voice is greater than when she encountered the demon that wants my power, which tells me how serious this whole thing is, so I do as she says.
"Great lord of all Witches and my personal lord, please hear my prayers and help me get out of this place alive; please hear my prayers and help me, Lord Andromeda." I continued praying the same way for a couple more seconds until I suddenly teleported to a random shore somewhere, followed by the presence of that silhouette I had seen back then.
"That was a close one, uh? I see that you no longer need the regulator I gave you; your growth is nothing short of impressive. I am sorry I can't do more for you since I am not even supposed to be helping you." The silhouette soon clears up with the moon's light as the god's appearance is nothing short of creepy.
The shape was that of a human, but the features and the face were those of my father from my previous life. "Why do you look like my father?" I ask Andromeda, and they playfully answer. "My divine shape is too powerful and glorious to witness; you would die if I showed you. So I took the shape of your father; I can change it if it bugs you."
"No, it's fine. It just confused me. In any case, I am grateful for all you've done for me; I don't know how I can ever repay you."
"Keep growing at that rate and become the strongest Witch in all existence; that's how you can pay me back. I believe in you; also, try to stay away from Julius; I can't help you if he comes after you again."