A humanoid skeleton burning with white flames and covered with lusterless black clothes, his bones turned completely black.
The shroud held a black rifle which also were burning with white flames.
The shroud was slowly crawling through a cave which was tilted downward, this was the last section of the cave before the small room-like cave chamber.
A second later the shroud saw light and as he entered the stone chamber, in a fraction of a second the shroud got tied by a chain multiple loops around his body.
The shroud tried to resist and fight back but the cursed chains were too powerful.
Strained and unable to move, the shroud stopped moving and stood silent, as he was covered with chains.
A human stood up then started walking towards the shroud, he stopped right in front of him.
The man had ragged cloths with a lot of tears and dirt, his physique is athletic with inhuman legs that worked just fine, and a weird gem in the center of his chest.
He was probably taller because of those weird legs, his body shows many marks of injuries but all of them are healed.
His face had a pale skin with an Indian nose shape and a wide smile, his hair was black curly and long, which is why he was always forced to tie it up but unfortunately he couldn't tie his hair now, ever since he entered this unnatural forest.
His eyes were weird and they emanated an oppressive feeling to whoever gaze at them, his absolute white eyes were stained by a black dot that was similar to a pupil which sometimes widen a lot, and the most disturbing thing about those eyes is that they never blink.
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I stared at the restrained shroud with a wide smile, I was happy to put him down but will I be able to?
I got even closer to the dangerous shroud, then I swiftly snatched the burning rifle... which immediately started burning me, NO it was burning my soul.
I looked at the skin of my hand which wasn't burning then at the shroud, with a frown I turned the rifle to aim at the shroud...
I could see where exactly is the core of the shroud is, with one glance I saw that the core was exactly in the head, burning with a black fire.
I just had to endure the burning until the shroud is dead, with a swift motion I aimed the rifle towards the shroud and pulled the trigger immediately.
An explosion happened right in front of me, the head of the shroud was covered from my vision but a second later I saw it...
His skull only got a few cracks, which is good but the pain from the soul burning rifle already started to make my hand numb to any kind of sensation... except for pain.
With a frown I suppressed the pain and then I aimed the rifle at the shroud again and pulled the trigger...
This time the frontal lobe of the shroud was completely destroyed but the core was still fine as expected.
I glanced at the core which looked unreal... exactly like shrouds of limpo, but this time I wasn't blinded by it...
Staring directly at the ever changing patterns and fractals of the shroud, I hoped to keep looking but the pain in my hand kept burning me with more pain not giving me the chance to even think, forcing me to pull the trigger again...
This time the head completely disappeared, with it the white flames also disappeared.
The body is now just a skeleton, but the rifle didn't disappear even though I expected the rifle to disappeared with the shroud, now the rifle is not a special anymore and with no ammo as well.
The chains loosened up and fell to the ground lifeless, from it a ghost emerged which looked as vile as ever.
I turned my head towards her then said-
"Isn't that too... easy?"
She turned her head towards me then said-
"Contracts aren't as cozy as you might think, also you won't be able to use your right hand for a while, you and your crazy ideas"
I looked at my hand and as she said, I couldn't move a finger.
I looked at her then at the skeleton I then looked at the rifle and then back at her, and said-
"We should go now"
- "OK, tie the chains around your body first, to carry it, that way I could possess it anywhere"
I looked at her with confusion then said-
"But you can possess any weapons? Do you seriously expect me to carry a damn metal chain!?"
She didn't reply for a few seconds then said-
"Then which weapon do you want me to possess, mortal.
Switching between weapons isn't exactly possible, I can only curse one weapon"
With a heavy sigh I looked around and then at what's at my disposal, after thought I said-
"If... if you possess the rifle can you give it infinite ammo?"
She stared at me with shock then said-
"I... I.. well, I guess yes, but I can't make it as powerful as much as the shroud did"
- "that's good enough"
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Through the woods walking slowly, a man with ragged cloths and a black lusterless rifle in his left hand, on the rifle is a new mark, white chains now almost engraved into the rifle and wrapped around it.
The man was talking none stop almost arguing, but around him were nobody.
After a while the man stood silent with a shocked expression, his face paled a little.
He wasn't sure of what to do next, but after multiple seconds of standing motionless the man suddenly started running away...
A second later tens of white armored winged humanoid figures were jumping from a tree to a tree with sharp angles in their movements, their movements forward looked like the movements of lightning, because of their speed and the line of movements they followed which was full of sharp edges.