Rueben soon felt himself diving down into what seemed to be some kind of liquid.
He looked around and swam up, after swimming up into the surface but then, the corpse of the beast that fell with him fell atop.
He got pushed down again and the beast bit his arm, Rueben then stabbed his arm into its mouth and pulled out its spine before trying to swim up.
Then, a large eye opened up on the depth.
Rueben looked at the eye and flinched.
Before he stiffened in terror.
The eye only looked at him, studying him for a moment before it closed. Rueben could feel the entire depth moving and shaking for a while before it stopped entirely.
It took Rueben a while before he felt his throat warned him that he was about to drown. He swam up and coughed out the liquid that went inside his mouth, he then looked around and was shocked by what he saw.
Above him was nets upon nets that carried beasts that had wounds all over its body, raining down rain of blood.
What he was swimming in was also blood red, it was a lake of blood. He looked around for a way to take refuge before feeling the blood lake tremble once again.
"!!!?"
Then his instincts screamed for him to swim away.
He turned around and started swimming.
But then a large mouth suddenly appeared and swallowed him whole.
The being living on the blood lake soon appeared, its large humongous body slowly arose from the lake and soon, it was standing on the lake with its feet like flippers submerged on the lake.
The blood slid down from its large body as it looked up, growling before diving down on the blood lake once again.
Hershey looked at the being and smiled.
"Digest him well."
She then turned her heel and walked away with the doll on her arms.
***
Rueben opened his eyes in a hurry and shot back up, he looked around in the darkness as he felt the ground below him moving.
His eyes narrowed and he began thinking.
"Tsk."
Clicking his tongue, he got up and searched through his pockets before clicking his tongue again in annoyance.
He then started thinking.
He fell down the hole all because of a single doll. Rueben was enraged but that fire in his heart quickly died down as he returned to calmness.
He then bent down and started feeling the ground that he was walking on.
Slimy and smooth.
With little bits of sticky liquid that could become glue if given a chance to dry. He frowned in disgust and started crawling on all fours.
"Where am i? Did i get eaten?"
He wondered as he crawled around. Then, as if the world has hated him, he felt some kind of liquid that dropped from somewhere hit his back.
Tssssss....
"Kuuok!?"
Rueben's eyes widened as he felt his back burn as if fire was directly stabbed through his skin.
Gritting his teeth, he kicked his feet and slid away. Thanks to the flesh that he was stepping in, he managed to slide down without anything to stop him.
Rueben, then touched his back and felt a stinging pain.
'What in the world..?'
He wondered what thing manages to do this before he felt his two feet starting to burn.
"Grk!!"
Surprised, he tried kicking that liquid away but it rose to the air and accurately landed on his face, burning it.
"Argh!!"
He yelped in surprise once again as he felt his face burning.
Then, he felt the flesh he was stepping on move and he slid down into what seemed to be a hole with slimy and gooey liquid sliding down along with him.
Rueben grabbed his face as he fell down.
He then felt something crash into his body.
Feeling his wounds healing for some reason, his vigilance became even more alert as he waited for his eyes to regenerate.
As he waited, he felt the ground beneath him shake as if an earthquake had suddenly happened.
When his eyes regenerated, all he saw was a large eye staring at him from the darkness.
His body froze in terror.
The eye was large enough that its pupil was twice as large as him as a whole, its red blood eyes looked at him so still that his body froze in fear.
[Its quite a surprise.]
Then the being's entire body stretched as if it was rubber, it then melted and slowly formed into a humanoid like creature who stood infront of Rueben.
[A mere ant with a potential to surpass a god.]
It looked human but it was not quite human. It was uncanny to the point that it sent warning bells to Rueben's mind. His instincts were crying loudly for him to run away.
This itself was a surprise because Rueben had never experienced such a thing before, he had never expected that his instinct was telling him to run away.
Rueben was a hunter, he hugged death like a lover his whole life yet it was as if the world itself was rejecting Rueben as a Hunter.
A heavy pressure suppressed his body, unable to move, Rueben felt cold sweat drip down from his back.
The being smiled that does not resemble a smile at all, grabbed a handful of blood from the blood lake.
The blood slowly crystallized, turning into a blood spear. The being smiled and softly said, [Come, fight me. Human. I will use you as my stepping stone to become one of the Greats.]
Rueben looked at the being, then stood up, shaking the feeling of fear, he made a stance.
Even though he knew that he would die if he fought with this being, he wanted to atleast be able to fight for his life.
The being grinned, fully knowing that it could kill Rueben off with a single punch but it chose to play with him instead.
[Those beings above created me without purpose.]
It held the spear and made a stance.
[I do not know why i exist.]
It smiled eerily.
[Yet this intense feeling of just wanting to fight you.]
It then dashed forward and made a stabbing attack, to which Rueben used his hand to parry the blood spear and grabbed it, before punching out with his left hand.
[Its orgasmic!!!!]
The being grinned, revealing teeths upon teeths of all sizes.
Rueben hit ita face, but as if it didn't even matter, there was no signs of its face being damaged at all.
The being then used its hand and stabbed Rueben's eyes with its fingers.