Sam, marvyn and dacre were standing in front of the entrance of ruins of abyss. They were f illed will all kinds of emotions: excitement, confidence, expectation, nervousness, fear. The trio were ready to ready to explore and conquer the ruins of abyss which was filled with unknown dangers.
"The world behind the entrance is completely different from here. It is like a wasteland, full of strange blood thirsty beasts and dangerous traps. Even a single wrong step could cost us our life. Let's be careful. We have the map so, the first part of our journey will be considerably safer. Let's go".
Dacre took out his golden sword,beheader from his spatial ring. It was encased in a golden sheath. With his sword in his left hand, Dacre crossed the entrance and vanished from sight. Marvyn nodded to Sam as he followed behind Dacre. Sam was the only person standing before the entrance.
"Ruins of abyss. I, Sam Desvons, will see for myself what kind of dangerous place are you".
Sam with little Titi on his shoulders took strong yet steady steps towards the entrance and crossed it. However, the instant he had walked past the entrance, Sam felt like he had crossed through some kinds of barrier.
'It feels like there is some kind of natural barrier here. It seems to blocking something from coming outside. But what though? We can come in and go out freely'. Sam thought to himself.
Just as the feeling of crossing the barrier disappeared, Sam felt like his mind was being hit by a tsunami as strange energy were checking his whole body. It was a strange and uncomfortable feeling. Sam staggered backward while his head clutched his head.
"Don't panic and let it be. This place has its own natural law which is different from our Nepmartial continent and swordridge valley. Thus, it is just your body reacting to a new laws of this place. Your body will adapt in a few more seconds".
Dacre's voice sounded out. Like he said, the strange feeling disappeared after a few seconds as his body returned to normal.
"What a strange feeling. It feels like my body is trying to go against the law at first but it was instantly suppressed and forced to adapt to it". Sam commented as he tried to channel his essence energy inside his body and found everything to be normal.
"Of course, your body will not accept the laws here. The law here is biased. Here, death essence energy is the supreme. Unlike outside world where five elemental essence energy is found in the atmosphere as they suppress and complement each other, death essence energy is the only type of essence energy present here. It can suppress all the other types of essence energy". Dacre explained to Sam.
"You mean to say the essence energy that we use will be suppressed if we fought against somebody who uses the death essence energy? Wouldn't we be in a severe disadvantage? " Sam asked again but he was excited rather than being nervous unlike others.
Sam had the world devouring divine body. Thus, he could absorb all kind of essence energy. So if he absorbed the death essence energy and used it to fight here, wouldnot he be like super overpowered.
"Hahaha.... We are the outsiders here. So, ofcourse we will be in a disadvantage. Furthermore, this place doesnot accept the existence of other types of essence energies. Look around, have you noticed other essence energy beside the death essence energy?" Dacre asked Sam.
After hearing Dacre's question, Sam closed his eyes as he spread out his senses but as Dacre had said, he could not feel any other kind of essence energies. "It is like you said. There us no other essence energy except death essence energy". Sam exclaimed.
As Sam looked around, all he was was a world filled with grey, no sunlight, no fresh air, it was all grey. Greyer than black and white movies.
There was no high hills or mountains like he had expected. It was a wasteland, a land filled with vast expanse of black soil as far as his eyes could see. Even the land itself was emitting death essence energy. There was no sign of any kinds of life. All Sam could feel from this place was..... death.
Dissapointed by the sights of this wasteland, he looked up at the sky, it made him even more gloomier. Black clouds loomed high blocking the blue sky. Even the sky here looked grey, no sun,moon or any stars were visible on this grey sky. Sam wouldn't be able to even distinguish day from night if he hadn't known that it was morning in the outside world.
Winds blew occasionally as the black dirt would fly along with the wind. The sound of wind was like something heavy screeching against the ground, rather different to the sweet and peaceful sound it made while blowing the leaves. Everything was....so gloomy. It was like you were seeing everything with half closed eyes.
'Dangerous.. Yeah, right. One could die due to gloominess. Everything feels like death. Clouds, land, everything'.
Sam looked down as he felt concrete surface touching his feet. He was standing on a platform built over the black land. There were strange images inscribes on the surface of this platform, images of strange creatures fighting and other strange symbols whose meaning, Sam didn't know .
The platform was atleast a thousands metres wide as for its end, Sam could only leave it to his imagination. It was like a path that lead into the endless darkness as Sam could see the path leading further into the areas filled with dense death energy energy.
Sam noticed his vision was weaker here. He could usually see as far as few hundreds of meter in the distance but here he found it difficult to see everything within a hundred meters around him. But, he felt his hearing was sharper. There were no living beings around due to which everything was silent here. Sam could even hear Marvyn and Dacre's breathing quite clearly.
"What is up with this place. It is like complete opposite of place I prefer. Its like I the land where I one would be exiled as puniahment". Sam said after observing his surrounding. It was totally like world he would vision when he thought about labour and slavery.
"Brother Sam is right. Thus is the perfect place for retirement. Come follow me, I will you you something that will make it the perfect place to serve it purpose further as a place to exile evil doers".
Marvyn beckoned to Sam while he ran to the edge of the platform. Standing at the edge, he took out a simple sword from his spatial ring. "I will show you something amazing yet bizzarely disturbing". Saying he threw the sword downward.
Sam followed the sword with his eyes. As the sword landed, his expression curiosity to amazement to fright. Because as the sword landed on the black landmass, it started to slowly rust as it slowly decayed and turned into the black soil. The land was capable of decaying iron so easily.
"Are you feeling sacred now? That is only the less dangerous thing here". Dacre walked to Sam's side smiling. He looked at the platform as he continued, "This platform is what amazes me the most. It can easily endure the decaying of this land without taking any damage. Furthermore, I heard that it is the one of the strongest metal".
Sam only noticed it now as tapped the platform with his foot. "Sure, it can endure the decaying. As for it being one of the strongest metal,...". He ended his sentence with a chuckle.
Dacre and Marvyn smiled at Sam as they both only said,"Try it".
With disbelief written over his face, Sam took out his sword which was called 'immortal slaying sword'. He was confident that if he couldn't break the platform, he could deal some damage with his sword.
"My sword is no ordinary weapon. It could even easily cut through the defense of immortals like cutting through tofu. You Gus better brace yourself".He lazily raised his sword his both hands, the he swing it down using his physical strength. Sam's physical strength was no joke. He could even punch hole through iron with his fists alone.
Bang..
The sword hit the platform as spark flew. Sam was jolted back as the strong backlash hit his hand aster striking the platform. He felt pain coursing through his both hands. He looked at the area where he struck as all he could see was a small dent.
"Hmmm.. It might be one of the strongest metal. Even my sword could only create only a dent in it". Surprised by the hardness and durability of the platform, Sam praised it as he turned around.
He saw that Marvyn and Dacre were surprised with eyes as wide as saucers as jaw hung so low that even his fist could fit in their mouth. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR SWORD? ".they asked in the loudest voice he has ever heard them making.
"My sword. I told you, it could even cut immortals. After all, its name is the immortal slaying sword". Sam spoke smiling as he stroke the edges of his sword.
'He is bragging. Bragging for sure'.
marvyn and Dacre thought inside but they ignored his bragging. "Brother Sam has the best sword". They both laughed.
"Now that we have adapted to the surrounding, let move forward". Dacre walked forward while taking the lead. "We need follow this stone path. At the end of the stone path is the real ruins of abyss. But let be careful while travelling through this lath, it is filled with trap formation. One wrong step can activated the formation, so follow behind me. All the traps have been recorded in the map, so we can avoid".
"But let's be as quiet as possible. It will be troublesome if we attract the attention of the beasts living below the black lands. We will be in perilous situation as we can only fight inside the pathway, but they was attack by staying in the black land".
The trio finally started their journey. They sprinted through the platform while trying to make as less noise as possible. Dacre ran forwards while following the map as he ran in strange zigzag pattern. Marvyn and Sam quirky followed behind him.
The trio traveled like silent winds as they moved forward continuously. The further they went, the death essence energy was getting denser and denser. After they covered a few thousand miles through the pathway, the trio all came to abrupt halt.
The trio would heard strange noises through their ears. It was like something was crawling through the ground as the noise was vetting closer and closer.
"It is those damn beasts. They are getting closer. Prepare for battle ".
Dacre had not finished speaking, as Sam and marvyn took their position instantly according to the battle started they had discussed earlier. They were in a triangular formation, each person taking a corner.
Weapons were drawn, as the trio waited for the arrival of the beasts.