When hearing Elijah's description of the vision he just had when the Creeper's hand gripped his hand tightly, everyone became silent.
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The atmosphere became heavy hearing Elijah mentioning he saw a place very similar to hell, him.
When Klaus raised his eyebrow at Elijah about the transformation of the Creeper curiously.
Nod~
"Yeah... I can't fully tell what happened, but I can tell the Creeper was, for some reason, hunted down by a group of people who looked exactly like him before he transformed into a gore monster. When they caught him, they did some ritual and put him in a coffin with a lot of purple liquid boiling at a high temperature, occasionally forming bubbles here and there, and threw him into a deep pit."
With a nod, Elijah, with narrowed eyes, started to explain what he saw in the vision with a serious expression.
This was the first time he had experienced this type of vision, which caught him completely off guard.
"Hell???... Clone???... Coffin???..."
Freya, hearing all this, started to think deeply about what the vision symbolized and why Elijah had a vision when touching it.
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'Interesting, even for me, who has seen the Creeper's trilogy, there is no answer about these mysterious visions and what is the way Gaylen found to kill Creeper once and for all.'
While Jojo was quietly observing and thinking about the Creeper's trilogy he saw in his previous life, the origin, past, and way to defeat the Creeper remained mysterious once and for all.
"Then let me try it."
Alice, who was observing the Creeper's hand, became motionless after being thrown by Klaus to the ground, after giving a heart attack to the dead heart of Elijah.
Chuckle~
"Since I have a gift to see the future through visions, maybe I can connect to the vision more clearly if the same vision happens to me."
Seeing everyone's attention on her, Alice, with a little chuckle and curiosity evident in her eyes, clearly wanted to see the vision.
"No... first, I will try to see if there are no side effects on it."
Jojo, who was near her, shook his head immediately, stating that he wanted to verify that the severed Creeper's hand was safe to have a vision with.
With this, Jojo took a deep sigh and was ready to immerse himself in the vision Elijah had.
He knew to connect with this hand, he needed to give a proper handshake so it could catch his hand tightly after observing Elijah and his memory from his previous life,
where Gaylen helps Sheriff Tashtego to have the same vision she had, in which they found a way to kill the Creeper once and for all.
Without any fear, Jojo took the hand from the ground and gave it a proper handshake so he could connect with it.
Blank~
When the Creeper's hand felt his hand and gripped it tightly, Jojo's mind, for a second, went blank, and when he snapped back, he found himself standing in a landscape that looked dark and eerie.
Vision...
The sky looks red instead of blue, and there are no clouds, sun, or moon in the sky, which looks very clean.
Except for the glimmering stars visible in the sky due to the clear mode.
The land beneath Jojo's feet, where he was standing, had black soil with cracks here and there. The cracks, with their radiant red hue, were hot.
While the rocks and stones were completely white, quite a contrast to normal stones.
When Jojo tried to touch the stone, he succeeded. He picked one up and put it in his pocket after examining it.
"We should catch him?"
Suddenly, Jojo heard a sweet, gentle voice, which sounded very soft, speaking about catching someone.
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With narrowed eyes, Jojo hurried toward the direction where the voice was coming from, slowly and carefully.
He didn't know if he could be found out by whoever was talking.
Even though Jojo was in a vision, since he could touch and take a stone, there was a high chance these people would find him out.
When Jojo arrived at an area where a riverbed of lava was flowing, he saw, on the side of the river, two people who looked extremely identical.
They were wearing gear that looked like guards or low-level soldiers' and were discussing something.
Sigh~
"Don't speak loudly. We need to find that traitor and bring him to His Majesty so we can save our own lives."
Hearing the other soldier beside him speaking a little too loudly, the other soldier hurriedly covered the mouth of the one who was talking.
After looking left and right, the other one spoke slowly in a husky voice.
Meanwhile, Jojo calmly listened to their conversation while leaning behind a large rock near them.
Neither of the guards was paying attention to him.
Thud~ Thud~
While they were about to converse deeper, suddenly another soldier arrived, looking the same as the other two guards.
"We have caught the traitor... when he attempted to run away with the 500 human souls he stole from the collection chamber."
The arriving guard hurriedly shared the news of the traitor being caught, with a huge smile on his face.
Sigh~
Hearing the news of the traitor being caught, the two worried guards let out a sigh of relief, as they had finally been granted some rest.
"Where is he? Because of him, we would have lost our lives."
After calming down a little, both guards' faces morphed into anger as they asked the third guard who had arrived to tell them about the situation.
By listening to the conversation, Jojo could piece together what was happening: somebody had stolen human souls from this group, most probably the Creeper, judging by the description.
Swish~
With a swish, the place and the scene before him changed.
Now Jojo was standing in a large room among the people present there.
The room looked eerie, and the throne, along with the steps leading to it, was made of pure gold, which was glimmering and stealing everyone's attention.
Seeing all this, Jojo concluded that he was now standing in a courtroom where everyone was gathered, probably to judge the traitor.
Now Jojo was clear: they couldn't see him or feel him, and he couldn't touch them no matter how much he tried.
So he concluded that he could only touch non-living things.
All of them present here had the same facial features, like they were clones, and they were not human.
Because all of them had long horns on their heads and large bat-like wings on their backs, Jojo concluded they were demons.
Their eyes were a radiant yellow.
Thud~ Thud~
"Long live... our king Arion."
"Long live... our king Arion."
"Long live... our king Arion."...
When Jojo heard the footsteps of someone approaching, the whole courtroom became pin-drop silent, and the atmosphere grew heavy.
When the door opened, a man who looked exactly like them entered the room with a cold look, except he wore royal attire like a king, and his eyes were red instead of yellow.
By the chanting of the demons around him, Jojo understood that the demon before him was named Arion.
This demon had a striking, otherworldly beauty.
His chiselled, regal face was both alluring and intimidating, with high cheekbones, a sharp jawline, and symmetrical features that exuded an air of dark perfection.
His glowing crimson eyes seemed to pierce the soul, radiating both intelligence and menace.
Arion's horns curved gracefully backwards, polished and smooth, adding a touch of elegance to his demonic visage.
His skin had a sleek, metallic sheen, shimmering in shades of dark silver.
With a cold look, Arion walked to the steps leading to the throne, and with each step, the tension in the air grew heavier.
When Arion reached the throne, he calmly took his rightful seat and gave a hand wave, signalling the guards to bring the traitor in.
Soon the guards dragged in a Creeper who had the same face as the others, while his hands were cuffed and pierced by the spiky handcuffs.
Thud~
After dragging the traitor, the guards made the Creeper kneel before Arion, who was looking at the Creeper with disgust and anger.
"You dare to have greedy thoughts about my precious soul collection. As a soul guard, your job is to protect the storage chamber. But you!!! Dare to eat my souls, which belong to me, and have the audacity to try to escape, taking 500 souls from my precious collection."
With anger rising in each word, Arion roared at the traitor while the traitor shivered, his face turning pale, and he started to beg for mercy.
"Because of that, I lost to a filthy human... losing by the count of 300 human souls in that damn competition."
Boom~
With a loud boom, Arion kicked the ground in frustration, causing the courtroom to tremble.
"Damn... I lost to someone who was once my believer. Now he created his dimension and is harvesting souls... fucking asshole! Now because of you, I need to give him 3000 human souls from my collection. Take him... put a soul curse on him! He needs to feel pain every minute and smell and see his flesh rotting before his eyes. To survive, he can only eat human flesh. If he tries to devour any soul, his body will decay faster. Banish him to the human world."
After giving punches and kicks to the traitor, who was on the verge of collapsing, Arion roared angrily, giving the orders to execute the punishment immediately.
He didn't want to see the Creeper again.
"Mercy... my lord, please have mercy... you are my father... you are my mother, please have mercy on me."
Hearing the punishment, the Creeper's face turned pale.
This was one of the worst punishments for him.
Fufu~
"Father... mother... interesting... okay, I will give you a chance. You need to bring me 23,000 pure human souls at the standard of my personal collection..."
With an amused smirk, Arion spoke with a playful glint on his face.
"Then I..."
Hearing this, the Creeper's face brightened, but before he could sigh in relief, he was interrupted by Arion.
"But... there is a catch. You can only kill 23 humans maximum for every 23 years, for 23 days. After that, you will go into a deep slumber."
Now the smirk on his face widened into a big smile, showcasing all his teeth as he told the Creeper about the catch he had put in place.
With that, the guards dragged the Creeper out of the courtroom.
The scene before Jojo once again changed.
Now he was standing in a dark underground chamber where a few demons were reciting chants in an unknown language while a coffin was at the center.
Inside the coffin, a purple-coloured liquid with bubbles forming here and there indicated it was at a very high temperature.
They pulled the horrified Creeper and put him inside the coffin despite all his struggles and begging.
Immediately, he started screaming.
His body began to change from being handsome to a gore monster, all his hair falling off, leaving him bald.
After closing the coffin, they threw it into the deep dark pit.
Once again, the vision changed.
Now Jojo was standing in a human-world farm field where the Creeper was running from someone who had a sword in his hand that was glowing faintly.
When the Creeper took the aerial route, using the advantage of his wings, the man chasing him threw the sword in a desperate attempt to hit a vital spot.
But the sword only cut his hand, not any vital spot.
Now the vision once again changed.
This time Jojo was standing in an abandoned mansion where a group of cultists was praying to the Creeper, who was sitting on a majestic throne but not moving, with one hand missing.
Vision ended...
With it, Jojo suddenly opened his eyes and looked around to see he was back at Gaylen's farmhouse.
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