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Chapter 6 - The Flames Burn Bright (6): Plague

"I'm different. I'm better. I'm superhuman! Rahhhh!!" Moon said and the weird noise he made at the end flabbergasted Adam as he reeled back.

"Haha! come over here and get to digging, I need some new shit." Moon said as his left upper arm kept pulsating and started to ooze even more green stuff from the large wound.

As the two players scraped their nails trudging through the ground eventually Adam scratched what seemed to be wood and a splinter immediately slid in between his nail.

As soon as he noticed he slowly stood up, found a tree and bashed his head into it to muffle his scream.

"I don't recommend that after just getting a concussion, Adam." Moon said.

"Oh and we hit wood! Nice. What's wrong with you?" Moon asked as he cleared the rest of the soil that was covered in worms and little insects off the rotting coffin and opened it up with ease.

"Nothing." Adam said as he carefully used his teeth to take out the splinter as his neck tensed up and caused his head to reel back in pain.

"WA-HOOOOOOOO!!!" Moon yelled out in an elated tone as he held up a dagger to the sky.

"What is wrong with you!?" Adam asked, replicating Moon's tone with a frown on his face as he fought to hold back tears.

"Flattering. But I found a Plague Weapon!!" Moon replied while jumping around because of it.

Adam stared at the weapon and a SystemPanel appeared with it.

「Plague Doctors First Dagger.

Durability: 10,000/12,500

Description: A weapon forged by Corrupted Plague doctors with the essence of the herbs and roots that repelled most diseases and encased in the hide of the corpse severely affected Plague Victim. Perfect against both Plague Class Demons of lower Tiers, pathogen-based afflictions and perfect for spreading similar Pathogen-based Afflictions.」

Adam then stared into the coffin and saw the almost perfectly preserved body of a lady with long blonde hair and skin that was glistening in some sort of substance, probably what was preserving her corpse, she was decorated with dull looking jewelry that all had similar Descriptions and had a few weapons around her body and on top of her.

He couldn't see much in the System Panel that appeared other than.

「Beatrice's Corpse

Stay away from Lady Beatrice…」

"Moon, can you see that?" Adam asked Moon as he rummaged and pulled out different weapons.

"What?" Moon asked as he continued to pull weapons out.

Adam tried to look at the little pile of swords, spears, daggers and little axes that Moon had made but the glare of the multiple green panels all popping out at the same time almost burnt his eyes out and he

simply winced and looked away.

'Could he really not see what I can?' Adam asked himself and slowly started to think of other possibilities. "Could this be a cheat?" Adam asked under his breath but his line of thought was interrupted by Moon.

"What the hell is your dumbass mumbling about?" Moon asked as he spun the Plague dagger around on his index finger.

"N-Nothing." Adam replied as he squatted and tried to reach for the cover to the coffin as Moon was done. He felt uneasy staring at the corpse after he saw that warning.

"Oh, ok. What weapon do you fancy anyway, Jester? You look like you'd be a more Semi-ranged kinda player. So, like a Spear?" Moon asked as he kicked open the coffin that Adam was trying to close and gestured to Adam to move her body out.

"No, no. I'm not used to weapons at all." Adam said as he slowly stepped back and acted like he didn't see Moons Gesture.

"Ahh, so you are virgin?" Moon said weirdly with a strange smile on his face.

"What!?" Adam wondered how he came to such a conclusion until he realized what Moon meant and reeled back in utter disgust.

"You're one of those Sword Blokes, ain't you? Sure. Here." Moon said as he tossed a slightly rusted blade at Adam.

Moon got into the coffin, stepping directly on the corpse and used his feet to move her legs out of the way as he pulled out a bunch of fabrics and seemed to be thinking about stripping Beatrice of her Jewellry and Clothes too.

"The rest can't be used by us. But then again, we might encounter and scout a woman… But then again, am I really ready to carry all of this." Moon thought then came to the conclusion of leaving the unusable items.

He rummaged through the Fabric he got and a frown took over his face as he grumbled under his breath.

"I need a Seamster to get any good use out of this!!" Moon groaned as he picked up a piece of the fabric and used the dagger to rip out a good amount of it and tied it around his naked body.

"Adam, Lets leave." Moon said as he packed the rest of the weapons in the rest of the fabric and whipped it around his back and tied it down like a massive strap pack and immediately sprinted out.

Adam had absolutely no time to focus on the System Panel of the Fabric but the second Adam had ran out, he ran right back in.

"Dont mind me, I'll just sit right the fuck back down." Moon said as he immediately seemed to hide and then a swarm of the demonic rodents flooded past the open crevice to the Grave yard.

While that was happening, Adam noticed the oozing wound on Moons hand started to glow even brighter and Moon seemed to be enduring some unbearable pain as his facial movements and cadence switched.

Moon immediately tore off a piece of the Fabric and tied it to the wound and made sure to cover it tightly while gesturing with his head telling adam to duck or hide.

Adam immediately sprinted towards the exit and pressed his back against the trees and squatted down just like Moon on the opposite end.

Immediately after he could feel a malicious presence. The stampede of Rodents kept going, blocking the entirety of the entrance causing a subtle rumbling of the ground beneath them as they trudged relentlessly through the muddy terrain.

Adam wondered what caused this Malicious Ambience and attempted to peek out the opening but Moon widened his eyes in fear as he clenched his teeth to his tongue and used his hands to gesture as he whispered "Stay down stay down."

"El tonto. Nos has matado, Stupid!" Moon exclaimed under his breath in what seemed to be spanish.

From the crevice crawled a slender, tall figure, with long black hair that slithered across the ground like a long bunch of wet strings and eyes held open by stitches with two large chains holding down his thin slender arms down due to simple gravity.

This thing was like a Skeleton, it had absolutely no muscle mass and was just a tall beast. Its large open eyes had a subtle green flame dancing far inside of it.

[Hmm. I swear I sensed a Disciple of the Plague in here? Must've been the game glitching. I'm not meant to be here anyway.] The slender beast said looking around from the opening where it stood as its rats swarmed past still and a few hopped off and stuck by his feet as if curious about what he was looking around for.

Adam instantly reeled back into the collection of trees that made up what was supposed to be like a wall. He turned around and searched for even the smallest opening for him to slip through to hide better but the trees were too tightly packed together.

"Why does the fear feel this real?" Adam asked. But unfortunately for him he thought out loud involuntarily.

[Because it is real.] The Devilish creature replied as it bent its back and turned its neck in an abnormal angle to look directly into Adam's eyes.

Moon was on the other end, he put his dagger in between his teeth and clenched his teeth hard as he shook his head in frustration, he was about to have a break down because of this blue jester.

Adam was faced with the very existence that "Science" Had disproved existed decades ago. When he was a child he had watched simulations in classrooms telling him how the supernatural didn't exist, how there is no god but the god man has made themselves into, how all of this belief had died out in the early 2040's. But a demon was right in front of him!

[Your filthy kind has been punished to be here. I just couldn't wait, I know a lot of you are pros, too many of you may survive the first few mild scenarios, so I want to take care of that. You all are really dying, I am really killing all of you, you all are REALLY in hell, I am ReALLy a Demon, and you are rEaLLy Damned souls, this is ReALLY your reality. DID YOU EXPECT YOUR FEAR TO BE FAKE? I AM EXTRA REAL.] The Demon continued as it slowly got closer to Adam, a wide smile grew on its face as its razor-sharp

teeth gleamed and spewed green mucous all over the floor as he bit into his own lip grinning that hard.

Adam held up the Sword that Moon gave him as he turned his face away from the beast trying to avoid the putrid odor of the devils teeth.

[Ooooh, I'm so scared.] The Demon said sarcastically as it stepped back and its weirdly twisted body twisted even more, its spine snapping backwards and spinning around a full 720 degrees to exaggerate his movements.

As it spun around it caught sight of Moon frantically looking around for a place to escape from.

[This is a Safe zone-] The demon said to Moon, as if telling him to relax knowing that it couldn't harm them here.

Adam took advantage of the situation and held his blade with all of his strength, the words of the Demon sinking into his head, as he swung the sword with all his might at the Demon, cutting straight through one of its arms.

'Estupido, Estupido, Estupido!' Moon thought to himself frustrated.

[Oh, you can hurt me in safe zones-] The demon said as it slithered out of it and returned to standing near the entrance.

[I cant waste time on you two-] it said as it jumped back into the swarm of rodents and left.

Moon exhaled loudly and exclaimed, yelling out random curses in his mother tongue to Adam.

"Estupido. Why can't noobs just... Oh my fucking God!" He said finally and laid down on the floor, trying to catch his breath.

While Adam was having a violent realization.

"This isn't a game." Adam said to himself, as images of the System Panel that was atop the head of the Devil kept replaying in his head.

「Resheph: HELL PLAGUE HELL PLAGUE HELL

Description: STAY AWAY STAY AWAY」