Noah was standing on a place he was familiar with. The scorched lands burnt until it became dark and flames enrupted from the cracks. No green could be seen sticking out on the plain dead land. The environment was filled with rot and dead stinks and the sky was blood red. Countless upside-down crosses were hanging up with the black chains from the blood red sky like accessories.
"Fuck"
Noah murmured as he looked at the crosses.
There were people attached to it. They were nailed at the stomach, hands and legs not to fall out of the position.
"Ahh"
"Huff"
"Ah"
"Help me"
Countless faint mourns could be heard from them.
They are alive.
No scream but weak mourns.
They did not have enough strength to make loud voices.
Noah started walking forward.
Thud.Thud.
Footsteps could be heard from behind approching Noah.
Noah then turned around and looked at it.
It was a rotting body with no head and left hand.
Some of the intestines were falling out of the stomach. The nastly smell it was giving off could make anyone who smelled it fall ill for at least a month.
"Glu glu glu glu glu glu"
The headless figure was trying to speak. But with no head, he could only bubbled up and boiled the blood pond in the neck.
"No"
But somehow Noah understood what he was saying.
"glu glu glu glu glu"
Boiling sound again.
"...."
This time, he did not reply.
"glu glu glu glu glu glu asdfa faosgfahsgiuahguiah"
The headless figure talked so fast and furious that the blood spilled out of the neck.
The figure walked toward Noah step by step with the unstoppable overflow of blood.
Thud.
It collapsed before it reached Noah. The blood had not stopped spilling yet.
Noah sighed and prepared to continue his walk.
But suddenly something griped his right leg so hard.
"Tsk"
Noah then struggled to shake it off.
Fuck.Fuck.Fuck.Fuck.
The grip did not come off. Rather, it squeezed tighter like it was trying to rip the leg apart.
Thud.Thud.Thud.
A sound from the back. Even though Noah was so busy with the headless figure, he noticed the sound.
He then turned around.
It was a rolling head coming toward Noah.
The head then stopped near Noah with the face facing upward. One of the eyes was bursting out the socket and hanging on the face. Some of the brain pieces were falling out of the hole on the head.
A faint voice came out of the it as the lips started moving,
But the voice was too faint that Noah could not catch that.
He kept observing the head while struggling to get free from the grip.
The voice was getting louder and clear as the time passed.
The stinks of the environment also got stronger.
"Ackkk!!!!!!"
The depressing mourns turned into piercing screams and the body which was attached to the crosses started struggling forcibly. Some of the fleshes of them could not stand the force and started falling apart.
"Where is my..."
The voice of the head could be heard clearer even though the surroundings got nosier.
Noah glanced at the head to catch what it is saying.
"..."
"WHERE IS MY BODY????"
The head flew and came to bite Noah with it's deafthening scream.
"Grr!!"
It bit the hand which was used to block. Blood gushed out like a waterfall from the wounds of both the bite and the grip.
The ground was started to feel soft and sucking Noah in.
Coutless numbers of rotting hands grasped Noah like it was dragging him down to hell together with them.
"Ahh!!!"
Boom.
With the sound of the shaking bed, Noah got up of the dream.
"Huff-huff"
His whole body was soaking wet like he just came out of the bath.
This damned dream again.
Noah started having that dream ever since he became the master of
"No matter how many time I see that, I just can't get used to it"
Noah murmured as he looked outside the window. The environment was still dark and quiet. The sun had not rise yet. Sometimes, the spine-chilling howls of the animals could be heard from far.
I did not even bother to bath.
He thought as he looked at his dress.
"Ackkk!!!!!"
Noah heard the piercing scream of a woman from outside when he started undressing to take the bath.
A woman voice?
Noah then hurridely dressed the cloth he took off and jumped out of the window.
He then headed to the direction where the voice came from.
Whoosh.
He jumped onto the rooftops of the building around the area and ran on top of them.
It is easier to find it from high.
"Ackk!!"
A second scream from the left side.
It is the same voice.
Noah rushed toward that direction.
In the dark alley where everything could barely be seen, a woman was trapped in the corner of the dead end. She was hitting and scratching the wall with her hands and crying for help.
Behind her, a man with a black hat and a black leather jacket was standing.His face could not be seen because of the darkness but his scarlet red eyes were sparkling even in the dark. In the right hand, there were long dark claws about 5 inches attached to each finger.
"Hahahaha"
He laughed as he stroked the claws gently with left hand.
"That kind of face filled with fear and despair really make me excited"
He said in a hissing voice.
"Please,spare me. Please, please, please"
The woman cried and begged while bowing down with her forehead hitting the ground.
"Please. please, please, please. I have my daughter to take care of. Please"
"Hahahahahahahaha"
The guy bursted out laughing as that was the funniest thing he had ever heard in his life.
"Then I will also send your daughter after you"
"No, please, please...."
Hopelessness and despair mixed with anxiety were reflecting on the woman face. The fear for the daughter to share the same fate as her made the face much more disturbing and depressing.
She lost her words and could only cry.
The face covered with tears and mucus from the nose mixed with blood. A wound on the forehead. The body covered with sweats from running. The filthy dust covering the clothes. The crouching figure which was begging desperately for her life and her daughter. The other figure which was having the most fun of his life.
This is a depressing scene.
"Please, please"
"Okay, okay. I will be merciful and end your suffering"
The man said with a mocking grin on his face.
The white smoke came out of the palm on the right hand.
"N-no!!!!..."
The woman let out a scream as she saw that.
That is ice magic. And in a mist from? How is that possible? If he gets stronger, he might have the ability to freeze the whole town to dead without them realizing that they are under attack.
That is the so-called ICE CUTTER.
Thud.
Noah jumped down from the rooftop.
The man stopped the attack and looked at Noah.
The woman's expressions were mixed with relief that someone came to help her and fear that if the saviour dies, she would get killed crueler.
"Wow, some kind of hero has arrived to help a girl. Hahahahahaha" The man said as he laughed.
"..."
"I will give you a chance because I am in a really good mood. I will spare your life if you just forget about this and run away like a bitch from here. Aren't I too generous? Hahahaha"
"..."
Noah took a step forward.
"?"
He started approaching them.
"Oh? You are approaching me? Instead of running away, you come right after me?"
The man also took a step forward and started walking to Noah.
Whoosh.
Then they both charged toward each other with tremendous speed.
"Water blade"
Noah only used the blade-form water which gloved the palms.
Ice cutter also attacked with the deadly claws.
Clank.Clank.Clank.Clank.
In the middle of the quiet night, the sounds of the weapon clashing were breaking the silent.
Noah then found an opportunity to break through the defense of Ice cutter and thrusted the right hand to the heart.
Ice cutter desperately twisted his body to dodge that.
He then leaped backward and regained his stance.
"He is experienced at fighting"
Ice cutter thought.
"Wow, I thought you were just some punk but you are quite strong"
"...."
"No talking huh? You punk"
He screamed as he charged toward Noah.
"Water slashes"
Noah threw four of water slashes aiming at him.
"You think you could defeat me with this?"
"Grr!!"
He swang the right hand so hard.
Whoosh.
All the slashes had been frozen mid air and dropped onto the ground.
What the..
That surprised Noah.
"Ice claws"
White freezing mist came out of the joints of the claws and the tips of the claws were frozen.
Whoosh.
He then flied toward Noah and attacked the head.
Boom.
The speed of was so great that Noah barely dodged the attack by leaning backward a little. Ice cutter flew past Noah because he could not control the speed.
"Hahaha,now what will you do? Run like a dog?"
Ice cutter walked toward Noah slowly.
"No"
Noah took the battle stance with the water blade again to engage.
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