I really wish that I would stop becoming unconscious nowadays. I will lose my life someday due to this.
I don't know what happened but, I can feel this sensation of danger all around me.
so I want to leave this place as soon as possible. for now, I want to explore the tower in front of me.
to be honest I don't want to deal with the snake army. fighting just a few them is life-risking. they seem to be leaving this place and the pseudo explosion came from the tower.
the tower is massive, with some very massive gates right in front of me.
they will basically allow a dinosaur inside. they were that large.
the doors are open, thankfully. those aren't doors that a man alone can move. well I am going inside, so wish me luck.
( after a while)
this tower is massive. as soon as I entered the place I saw this map. I did not see the map in a physical sense. it is more of a mental illusion. I think that kind of magic is possible with some very advanced magic. just the energy consumption needed to maintain this magic should be astounding.
but then my speciality is not mental magic, but blood magic. even in blood magic, I am considered only an apprentice, who has barely formed his own totem.
I have yet to cultivate my own blood energy, which I will have to do someday. well, I will reach it someday.
the experience of the last two months has changed me in a fundamental manner. though I still can't sleep properly yet, but I am dealing with matters in a calmer manner.
( after a while )
a voice in my head - excuse me, mister whoever you are. do you mind helping a fellow man? I am stuck in a bit of a predicament here.
me - sure, but where is the guarantee that this is not a trap.
to be honest, I am inclined to trust the voice in my head, but it is as they say ' trust but verify'
a voice in my head - I can't really do anything that would make you trust in me, except for promise.
me - if you are a beast, I am inclined to trust you if you have your word, but you yourself have told me that you are a human.
as abruptly the voice came, it disappeared equally quickly. suddenly a sharp pain appeared in my head as an image appeared in my head. it was the map of this place with a position on it marked. catching my wincing head, I mark down the position on my map.
I am really beginning to hate mental magic. the first time that it was used on me and I still have headaches once in a while even now.
I quickly reach the position marked on the map, which As it turns out is quite next to me.
the place I want to go to is a massive room, filled with blobs of flesh.
I have no other way to describe them. they have this amoeba-like shape and the very center of this room, I see the one who contacted me. a small kid, who was fighting many of these beings. I can say that he is pretty skilled in fighting, but has no experience in it.
while I am not sure if I should be telling this or not myself ( with my experience of just a few months ) I can tell that this kid in front of me was making many of the mistakes I made at the very beginning( the results of which always ended up painful due to miss mist and her sparring)
I slowly make my way into the crowd of blobs, being careful not to touch them. as I had the thought, these beings only have a sense of touch.
I can tell it from the way they are fighting. always taking in an attack then counterattacking.
I quickly but silently made my way to the kid, at least till he noticed. once I confirmed that he saw me, I began tapping on my head. if he did not understand that, well then stuff would be getting problematic. retards do not have the tendency of understanding simple stuff also.
voice in my head - so you have decided to help me in the end. So what do you want to tell me?
me - kid, just stop attacking them and keep dodging. they only have a sense of touch. you attacking them is what is giving your location away to them.
hearing this that guy cut off our connection, as I have to deal with a headache again.
I quickly retreated as the guy in front of me took my advice.
( a few minutes after at the gate. )
me - first of all, who are you and where are we.
little boy- I am known as phantom snow, and we are in the city of madness. may I know what you are called?
me - me, well you can call me nameless for now, I have yet to decide a name for myself.
little boy - what is your age, nameless.
me - fifteen about to be sixteen I guess. well, what has happened to this place. I was just here a few months back.
phantom snow - whatever, it is better if we leave this place. I will tell you what I know about this place on the path.
me - so this place was standing a couple of months ago, what happened to the old men. they should have taken care of whatever. this problem is right.
phantom snow - the old men have abandoned the city long ago. after that we had another....
(after that is a long story, all of which you already know, so if you want to get bored reading it again, it's not my problem. just go back and read it.)
( after a while )
our first goal is to go to the armoury and arm ourselves. well not exactly me as much as the kid next to me.
the kid seems to be trustworthy and after seeing those flesh blobs, I think I can use the extra muscle.
well, those flesh blobs are almost impenetrable, and even when the kid managed to hurt it, it's regeneration is a bit over the top. I am thankful that those things are blind, because if they all were to engage us. let's just say our deaths would not be pleasant to watch.
(after a bit while )
I have never seen an abomination like this. the snake just suddenly dropped in front of us, falling from gods knows where. the snake seemed to be suffering As if something was torturing it.
then the snake sprouted hands all over its body which seemed to die as soon as their host died.
that spooked me completely. I don't know what is happening, the guy next to me believe it is some kind of corruption magic. it seems to be a popular topic among us humans.
no matter what, I would like to leave this place before I sprout arms that will kill me or something worse.
( after a while in the armoury )
to be honest, I am in awe at the stuff that we had in this armoury, I am talking about many kinds of weapons, both magical and normal. if I could I would pick every weapon in this place, but since I don't know how to use almost all the magic weapons of this place. I picked up something called an exploding dagger and a normal bow.
during all this time the little kid picked up a ton of stuff. during our trip to this place, the kid has been speaking a lot of stuff.
while I have been partially tuning him out, I got a general gist of the situation of this place.
we were surrounded by a barrier, a dome-like structure that is also impenetrable. there is a gate but we would be having a load of enemies at the very end. it seems all the snakes were marching to this place. So that meant that if we are to escape this place, the gate is the only option. though we would have to expect a lot of resistance. why, let phantom snow explain phantom snow - as I was saying, the snakes were coming in to attack me. when the corruption wave struck ( he named it himself so don't blame me. ) the snakes all began to grow these protrusions. the protrusions kept expanding, within seconds they ended up becoming what you saw in that room
(anyways, after a few minutes )
pretty soon after leaving, we found the first corrupted one, a snake with two human arms. it could use those arms quite nimbly, managing to catch my exploding dagger which exploded and killed it.
In hindsight that was a dumb move, because it attracts quite a few of the other corrupted ones.
the others were all kind of weird. some of them had eyes all over their body. some had human limbs. the exploding dagger turned out to be pretty useful. it had a summoning feature, so I could get it back after throwing it once. now that I think about, getting more of these daggers would have been a fine idea, but I thought one would be enough since I am a closed range guy. the bow was not very helpful with arrows ending up in a completely different place than I want it to go.
whatever corruption these guys had it is making them dumber, almost brainless.
( after a few minutes )
after a few minutes, we escape the corrupted ones. I would have liked it if we would keep moving, but this kid is exhausted. we are eating outside one of the stone buildings. inside would be safer, but we need a fire.
me - so what is the plan kid, we can't cross through that area very easily. if your numbers are correct we will be facing hundreds of such beings at the gate. just fifteen or so managed to force us into escaping.
phantom snow - I don't know what this corruption is, but it does not seem to affect us, humans. so for now at least we don't need to worry about becoming like those snakes. so we wait, figure out how to get out of that door. if possible kill as many of these corrupted beasts as possible.
me - now that I think about it, wouldn't all the corrupted beasts as you say just escape from the gate, which will they want to stay back. phantom snow - that is because the snakes are fighting some kind of an enemy that wants to enter the city. I have no idea who is it. the snakes were talking about it as they were coming to kill me.
me - you can talk to snakes.
phantom snow - nope, it is more like I can read their mind. it is my ability you see. to form links with the mind of others.
me -you will not read my mind. if I find you poking about my mind, I will kill you. I really hate mind readers.
phantom snow - I can't exactly read your mind, we'll if you give permission, it is an...
I cover the kid's mouth. I can hear something in the sky, the sound of somebody flying in the air.
me - get ready to run kid, to the nearest buildings, we have company above us. go now.
I said pointing to a building next to me. if something is going to attack us from the sky, the least I want to do is fight them in my turf.
when something descends from a high altitude with a high speed it makes a very distinct noise and right now I can hear that noise. something is coming to attack us and with my luck, a flying enemy is right above us.