*Thump* *Thump*
'Ugh'
The hammering and everyday thrashing had became a common practice now.
It took some time for Bane to come in tabs with the situation.
But even after the fifth and sixth time, he could only help himself to get mentally endure it at least. Even though his body was still unable to endure the pain.
But the fifth and sixth time weren't merely the end of it.
'From what I can tell this thing always starts at roughly periodic intervals.'
Bane couldn't help but wonder if being subjected to torture had become his daily life now. Cause he saw no where out of it no matter how much he wished to break free.
But thanks to all of that Bane had gained some rough estimate of his time in prison, assuming that those thrashing did happen at periodic interval of times.
As the days passed by Bane became more aware of certain weird changes around him... it seemed that the space inside the prison was gradually becoming smaller than before?
The change was small everyday, but it was definitely stacking up with every passing day. It was scary to even think about it.
'What the fuck is wrong with this place?'
Bane needed to solve this mystery fast otherwise he would never be able to get out.
He needed to get out not because he wanted to escape from the pain but because he had something he had to do.
The flames of hatred had never once extinguished in his heart. It kept on burning only fiercer and fiercer.
He wanted to consume everything with his hatred alone.
'If I ever find that dragon he is going to fucking die.'
It was an empty oath but he meant it. He might be incomparably weak compared to it but he surely pledged the oath on his very soul.
But unlike him the prison that contained him seemed to be giving up as more time passed. The grudge that it bore was fading away with every passing day.
'How can I put it in words? It feels like it is becoming more and more lifeless than before.'
Bane considered the pain that it had to go through and wondered if that was the cause to break its will.
The only thing connecting the prison together with Bane was their shared grudge and nothing else.
Other than that, the prison was nothing but Bane's enemy.
It had imprisoned him inside of itself.
Thus Bane couldn't feel any pity for it. He didn't care if it dies out as well.
All he wanted to do was get out.
All he wanted to do was to let lose of his hatred and calm down his bleeding heart.
He didn't care for the repercussions. He didn't care for the results.
All he wanted to do was let lose and leave his further actions to his insanity.
Thus. it was only understandable that the dragon would want to entrap him here.
'Wasn't that the very reason it had trapped me in this viscous cage? But damn it all. A way out seemed to bleak!'
Bane was waiting for an opportunity... perhaps some kind of twist of fate. Or perhaps some kind of lax in the defenses.
He had focused himself for such a moment and to give it his all.
He waited and waited for weeks and months patiently for such an opportunity enduring all of the pain that came along with it.
And before long such an opportunity presented itself! HIs patience bore its fruit.
Was it a small break of defenses?
Perhaps it was something like that but Bane saw light for the first time in a while.
'There is an exit. I can finally escape!'
Bane tried to move towards such an exit with all of his might. His all focused demeanor could hardly pass such an opportunity unnoticed.
'Ha, ha finally!'
He could feel some progress as his body moved forward.
The time was perfect too. It would be quite some time before the thrashers come back to pummel him along with the prison again.
But as he moved forward...
'Huh?'
Something really unexpected happened.
Surprisingly the prison that he was entrapped in was trying to push him outside, helping him escape.
'Is this thing normal?'
The prison that had entrapped him for so long was finally staring to push him out of it. Bane couldn't help but be a little suspicious.
Was it some kind of trap?
'Fuck it. I don't care.'
After going through months of assaults' and pain while being stuffed inside a small and suffocating prison, Bane couldn't be possibly sane anymore. Anymore than this and he would literally break.
Any human going through that was bound to be either broken or driven insane.
Or rather the very fact that he had endured divine retribution from the dragon and months of torture even after that proved that he couldn't possibly be human anymore. No human could have come out alive.
Bane effortlessly pushed himself towards the exit not caring about what lied for him in the world beyond. He decided to deal with once he gets out of here.
If he were to be honest with himself there couldn't be possibly anything worse in the world outside compared to the things he had already gone through.
'It's time to reap the fruit of my endurance!'
*Pluck*
"Ack"
As soon as Bane got out the first thing that his ears heard were the grunting of something behind him. It was a shrill voice that had a feminine edge to it.
That wasn't the only thing wrong though.
Bane felt slimy all over his body. Had he checked out his situation he would have realized that he was literally lying on a pool of blood and piss.
But Bane was too shocked to check his own condition. For as soon as he got out the first thing that he saw was...
"Where the hell am I?"
It was goblins... there were goblins everywhere.
But they weren't alone.
There were some humans too... females to be exact.
Some were being eaten out alive by a band of goblins. While others were being mercilessly raped under their collaborative assault.
The smell of rotten flesh and the stench of copulation was permeating in the air.
The situation Bane was in was enough to make him vomit five times already. But thankfully his stomach was completely empty saving him from such a grace.
It was a sight enough to give him nightmares had it been in the past. And yet today it didn't feel that repulsive to the current him.
It was a weird unexplainable kind of feeling. It wasn't tangible enough for him to put it into words. It was like he who always had one moon suddenly woke up to see two.
'I just wanted to get out of my prison. Who would have thought that I would have ended up directly in a goblin's fuck nest?'
Bane looked around in a daze.
The room had only the bare minimum of walls carved out of bamboos and some other types of wood he wasn't much aware of.
There was only a small ventilator... an opening to be exact at the top. But it was certainly not enough to get rid of the thick stench of copulation.
But the ventilator just barely did the job of illuminating up the room giving the goblins enough room to figure out who they were fucking and what they were eating.
But there was something even more bizarre than all of that.
'Why aren't they reacting to me? It's like I am invisible,' so was what Bane thought. But he was too dazed to realize the state he was in.
He was only relying on his sharp monster vision to perceive his senses and hadn't noticed his small silhouette at all.
But a certain shrill yet robotic voice broke him out of his daze.
*User has been born*
*Initializing system*
*Installing dependencies*
*Scanning user directories*
*0....98%, 99%, 100%*
*System initialized*
Staring at the stream of system messages Bane muttered to himself.
"Oh seems like I have just been bor- wait, what the hell?"
But it soon ended up in a scream.
Bane wasn't too concerned about the system really, every living being under the continent of Altaria was granted one upon their birth.
But rather it was the fact that he was reborn was what caused him to shake in shock.
One after the other he was bombarded with such shocking realities that Bane could hardly keep his cool.
He noticed his small green body which was now covered in a slimy mess of blood and piss and all kinds of disgusting fluids.
"Reborn, reborn .... Ha Ha HA Ggireuk! Ggireuk! Ggireuk!"
He began to laugh out aloud not sure how else he was supposed to react.
"That would explain my strong vision in this darkness. Ggireuk."
But this wasn't too bad of a news for him. Sadly, it wasn't great news either.
"So that tyrant dragon gave up on taming me and send me to a bunch of goblins instead? Ggireuk! Ha Ha Ha, can't believe it, its so humorous to be true. Ggireuk."
Bane wasn't sure if he was supposed to be happy or sad with the development, thus the only thing he could do was laugh at his insane situation.
He had been stripped off from everything.
And now he was literally being denied a human body as well.
But his laughter didn't last long. After all it was just a fake one to calm himself down.
His laughter finally disappeared as his eyes refocused in a tinge of red.
"Tch, I absolutely abhor you! No matter what you do, you would never be able to break my will." He breathed a solemn pledge to himself as he clicked his tongue.
He was already stripped off everything... even his humanity. How worse could his situation get beyond this point? There was no longer anything leveraging him anymore.
He had finally gained his freedom. And with that he had left behind everything that held him back.
But unlike what he had thought things weren't so much as over yet.
"Ach!"
A painful moan came from behind him.