The woman let out a grin as she swiped her two arms to her back, the beast retreated a few meters away as a green and purple light enveloped him. The beast soon cackled as he pushed his hair to the back.
The beast soon stopped laughing as his form stabilised. A green haired man with scales all over his body, three eyes with the third eye on his forehead while there was a long tail on his back, the tail was atleast 10 meters long.
Rueben stared at the being in shock as it smiled at him and winked, "I apologize for that, Hunter, but your help is no longer needed."
It said as the woman's chest swirled.
The being then turned to the woman and threw a box, the woman caught the small box and Axerilites grew on her hands in an insane rate. She looked at the Axerilites before putting her entire hand in her mouth and bit it off.
Then she chewed as the being dashed towards the woman. Frotus and the others went to Sara's side and attempted to rescue her only to stop in their tracks.
Frotus materialized into a solid form as he stared at Hershey standing infront of them, with Sara on her back.
"...Are you truly going to be like this?"
He asked with a sigh as Hershey grabbed Annatella's corpse and opened her mouth.
As soon as she finished eating, she coughed up blood and the blood formed into a clot. Then the blood clot floated up and went to the blood clot near Gwynne.
"Are you finally going to talk to me? After all this time?" She spoke softly as her body deformed.
"...Hershey."
"Silence. I don't care."
"You're losing control."
"What are you waiting for? Come."
"..."
Frotus looked at her in pity before shaking his head.
"I may not have any concepts." He spoke softly as Hershey let out a terrifying howl.
Her body contorted. Mouths stared appearing on her palm as it spoke, "I betrayed motherrrrrr..... I deserve to dieeeee!!"
Her form grew larger as her body grew even more disgusting, her mannequin like body quadrupled, each splitting one part of the other like torn off flesh. Herhair also grew longer and longer.
"But i can still save you, my sister." Then he grabbed into the air and a flintlock appeared, the same flintlock that Rueben and Gwynne had used.
Jun and Jamaica also took out some weapons and held on in each hand before dashing towards Hershey in the blink of an eye.
Hershey, or whatever is left of her, howled as its eyes cried tears of black gooey liquid, centipedes slowly formed from underneath her porcelain skin as it ruptured everything in its path.
Frotus triggered the gun as it shot towards Hershey, who was a shell of her former self as her hands, well, multiple hands raised together to catch the bullet. She didn't quite managed to catch it before it came piercing through her skull.
She let out another howl, but this time, of pain, as the other two hurriedly ran towards Sara, trying to take her out but was stopped when Jamaica all of he sudden, stopped on her tracks and stabbed herself in the eye.
Jun saw this and swiftly went to Sara's side, before he could touch her, Jun also stopped moving, flinching as he moved his weapon to stab his leg.
Frotus gritted his teeth as he grabbed the stabbed mannequin arm that was thrown by Hershey.
"You can't leave her alone! We need to incapacitate my sister first, unless we want her to try and stop us from rescuing Sara!"
The two soon got out of their daze and nodded their heads as Hershey looked at them with a childlike innocence.
The being let out a terrifying cackle in disbelief as it tried to dodge the woman's attacks.
Her method of attacking was by keeping her middle to pinky finger, leaving only the index and thumb, everytime she says the word "Bang", the entire space where she pointed would be sent to oblivion, never to be seen again.
Basically a fuck everything in that particular direction type of ability.
The being smiled as it dodge everytime the woman banged.
The woman smiled as she continued shooting the being as it dodges to the side mutliple times, almost as if he was teleporting.
Rueben just stared at them in shock as he watched the entire scene. Then he looked down to the ground and gritted his teeth.
He was used.
Both literally and figuratively.
Why?
When did the beast get inside his body? Why appear now?
Was it when he lost unconsciousness after being defeated? Back at the beach? Was it that time when the beast hid inside him?
That was probably it. He was wondering why he was still alive. He had thought that the beast wasn't interested in him so it let him go. He was way off the mark.
The beast was using him.
Why?
Was it because he was the most suitable?
From what standard?
He clenched his fist and slammed it to the ground. Then he slammed it again, over and over as he thought.
What was he? Just a tool to progress everything?
He was part of a grand plan from the very beginning. Was it when he met Sara? Was it then that he was included into this?
The dolls, their memories, their words.
Lies, all of them.
Rueben gritted his teeth, before pushing himself up.
He felt a force even more heavier than the last one but he didn't care. He didn't stop. He pushed himself up, slowly.
Was everything a lie?
Sara.
Gwynne.
Were his relationship with them but a lie created to push forward a plot?
If so, what then?
What should he do then?
Cry about it? Complain?
Scream out about how everything is unfair?
Rueben screamed to mask the pain he felt as his entire organs were crushed under the weight of the force.
No.
He had already decided.
No matter what.
He must keep moving forward.
Even if it's slow.
Forward, one step at a time.
He must continue on.
"RAAGHHHH!!!!!"
He promised her, after all.
The woman turned to him abruptly. Then she let out a giggle before pointing at him, then moved her hand down.
As soon as her finger loved down, Rueben also moved down, suppressing everything he had.
He tried to push himself up but found that it was entirely impossible to do. He was shaken, but he soon regained clarity and pushed himself up.
It was heavy. As if a mountain was on his back, pressing all its weight down to him.
The woman only grinned even more as she pointed to the beast, who swiftly dashed towards her with its claws.
"Bang."
The beast dodged to the side before a wing full of scales appeared behind its back, it then stretched its wings and swung it towards the woman, making the scales into projectiles.
The woman then clapped her hands and the scales rapidly deteriorated as a result, as if they were very old, turning to dust.
Frotus grabbed Hershey's hand that was about to hit him and made some hand seals, then he slapped the hand, making it explode.
Hershey screeched in pain but Frotus only made even more hand seals before placing his hand on the ground.
The woman flinched for a moment, before she turned to Frotus and let out a cackle.
[It seems you still need my help, child!] She spoke calmly.
The floor beneath Frotus widened suddenly, to which he grabbed the edges of and pushed his hands together.
Then he pushed his hand on Hershey's direction, making everything in that direction disappear.
Hershey's entire body was enveloped by the distortion of space, nay, erasure of that particular space. The entire space that dissappeared soon adjusted and corrected itself.
A small orb like object appeared from the empty space, it soon fell to the ground with a soft thud and rolled towards Frotus.
Frotus looked at the orb, then picked it up. Then he took out a smooth stick like object and placed the orb on it. A few moments later, the orb dissappeared and the stick like object, a wand changed form.
The beast let out a growl from his sharp grin as the woman smiled at it.
[A beast created from the blood of a million people.] She softly spoke as her head turned to Frotus, who was holding the wand.
The wand was now black in color, far different from the brownish gray from before. He pointed the wand towards her silently.
The woman stared at him, but ignored the wand and turned her head to the beast.
[A beast with the qualification to be a God. If you weren't shackled back at the blood abyss, trapped within my Realm, you might've went through your first Ascension Ritual.]
The beast stared at her silently as it breathed in and out, its humanoid body slowly growing bigger.
"...Ascension Ritual? Not an Apotheosis one? Are you underestimating me?"
The woman smiled when she heard that.
[Do you truly think you can become a "True" God? I apologize but you only have qualifications to be a "God".]
"...What's the difference between a True God and a God?"
The beast remarked as his skin turned red, scaley.
The woman turned to Frotus as his forehead sweated, his legs shaking as if they were tired. Then she turned to the mortal that was pressed down by gravity.
The human had this zealous look, a look she didn't expect for a parasite. But she didn't mind.
[One controls a world, the other controls the world.]
"..."
The beast went silent, it didn't quite understand what she was trying to say.
The woman only smiled as she saw the beast trying to gain more information. She didn't mind, after all, she already knew what they wanted to do.
She turned to Frotus and grabbed the wand. Frotus kneeled down as he let out a gasp of shock. He clenched his chest as he felt his shoulders turn heavy.
The woman looked at the wand for a moment.
[You turned into an Asundered item anyway. You truly are a useless child to the end.]
Then she threw the wand to the floor, near Rueben before spreading her arms wide.
[Its complete.]
She softly spoke.
Rueben stared at the scene as Gwynne's body appeared above them, her skin have already turned blood red as the space distorted around her.
The woman then pointed at Sara, who walked towards her in a daze as Rueben watched.
Screaming internally, he pushed himself, his bones breaking, shattering but still he was pressed down. Gritting his teeth, he reached forward and tried to crawl towards the woman, his eyes burning in fury.
The woman glanced at him.
Then turned to Sara who had already reached her. Sara then collapsed into her arms as the woman caught her.
The entire world turned upside down, distorting the entire space as lights flashed out from everywhere.
Rueben looked on worriedly, as Frotus crawled towards him.
Frotus stared at him and placed his hand on his back, before whispering.
"Its not too late yet." He spoke.