I laid on the cold wood, taking my breath after running for the last hour none stop.
After a few minutes of rest I took a deep breath and tried to think of something but got nothing on my mind.
Looking up, the dark mansion was cutting half the view the rest was the night sky, there were no trees anywhere near this graveyard of a house.
I took another deep breath, then sensed something from one of the windows, I then looked at it just to see the ghost girl staring at me with her glowing eyes, while her ghosty body blended with the dark interior of the mansion.
I shivered and looked away, no one wants to share eye contact with a psychopathic horrific ghost.
*Sigh* in any case I had to find my next move, then I remembered the mysterious book.
As I opened the book, as I thought there were a new page.
Title: [limbo's ambiance]
"In this unholy land, a holocaust stained the innocent hand.
A curse through time a curse through space, after dusk everything inside belongs to this place.
Can do anything but can't leave this encase, to push her away show her, her own face.
Surrounded by the cursed sand, it'll always remember what happened in these grounds."
...whoever wrote this is obsessed with poetry.
In any case there is more to read, most of it is things I already know about this place, like the surrounding empty grounds can affect people going through it through affecting time and space.
More over...What!?
Huh??
"If one of your limbs turns to ghosty matter, it's now in limbo eaten by the ambiance.
The ghost limb can easily attach to any bio-mass closely resembling a limb or even if it doesn't resemble it that much"
So... I can just attach whatever?! The hell !!!
Well, at least there is a solution as ridiculous as it sounds.
But... where can I find a leg?
...wait, oh! OH NO... sigh. I guess I have no other choice but the faceless man that I put down.
But how far is the corpse?
Wait, does dead legs even work?
Sigh... for now I'll just sleep, this cold wood is causing me trouble.
I looked at the sky, the moon is half tonight how beautiful.
For the next few hours I kept moving around trying to sleep, finally after four hours I fell asleep.
As I was sleeping I faced nightmare after nightmare, I went through at least fourth nightmares.
Most of them are about people who died in the mansion, some of those nightmares were too detailed and precise.
Next day as I opened my eyes, as the sun just started rising.
I ate one of the fruits I had in my bag and got ready to leave.
I tried to stand up on my half-legs but a very agonizing pain struck me, I felt it through the flesh and bones.
When I tried to touch the cut part of my leg... it was rather surprising.
I could easily feel the touch of my bones and the sensitive muscles tissues.
It was a weird sensation, after a few seconds I stopped and chose to crawl.
And here again I was going through the empty grounds surrounding the dark mansion.
Unlike the first time, this time my trails didn't exist as if the dirt and dust didn't fly into the air.
Every few meters I look back just to check, it took quite the long time, to the point the I spoke to Ciphr again-
"Hey Ciphr, did you already know what this mansion is?"
The whisperer didn't answer keeping silence.
I spoke to myself- '*sigh*, ohh, is it boring for him, how annoying. He probably knew about the mansion.'
I thought for a while then I spoke-
"Do you think I could use the dead man's legs?"
After a second the cold air whispered to my ears, scary just as always-
"My, my~, why don't you try"
I took a breathe to lift off the horrifying presence.
So he wants me to try? That's no good at all, but I had no other choice eitherway.
Continuing to crawl over the ground was no easy task especially dew to the hard surface and the small stones.
It was obviously going to be agonizing, but I kept going until I reached the woods.
It was hard not to feel extreme fear there, especially with the Cerberus running loose through the woods I had to be fast.
Those woods are really still as silent as ever I'm surprised that there is no birds or small animals! There isn't even bugs except for ants.
As if the all disappeared at some point, anyhow I have to keep going.
Crawling through the woods were way worse dew to sticks and some sharp stones.
After some time I am finally there, I can see the dead body with his chest still open as well as his missing face.
I approached the corpse carefully, as I reached the corpse I made sure that there will be no jump-scare.
Then I took out my knife and put it on his legs, cutting through the flesh was rather messy almost like cutting a tomato.
And cutting through the bones was a nightmare, the bone is simply too annoyingly solid.
I had struggle with them for half an hour until I finally cut it.
Then I took a deep breath and tried to attach them to the rest of my legs, but as I put them I felt sensation for the first time but my happiness was crushed when I suddenly fainted and started seeing visions.
I opened my eyes in a faint and unknown place, when I looked at myself I realized... that I am in the point of view of the soldier, the vision wasn't clear and also blurry.
I looked around and saw other soldiers, as I was checking myself one of the soldiers who seemed to be the captain, call out to me- "MOVE" he shouted.
I followed with the others, we were about a unit of seven including myself.
I asked one of the slow walking soldiers who was behind along side me- "Hey uh... can you remind me why we are here in this... you know, dangerous place"
He looked at me with indifference, it was obvious that I was trying to be slick.
But the soldier said nothing, as if he didn't hear me, thinking back... it's a vision isn't it?
So it is already surprising enough that I am in control not just walking but also watching.
Then about half an hour later a weird sound sounded in the close range, it didn't take long for the unknown attacker to kill the captain.
In fact it was showing off, he killed him in a fraction of a second.
As the beast stood in front of us on fours with the neck of the captain in his jaw...
[End of volume 1: Beyond thə wall]
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