One thing was common for all of the corpses, they looked like they only had bones and skin on their body. All the bodies seemed like, they had no muscle in their body to begin with. This was the scene that came straight out of the horror movies, Renji had never seen something like this ever before.
'What is this place? Why do they look scared?' Renji questioned himself as he looked around the place, he couldn't imagine how something like this might have happened to the forest that was full of life. The more bizarre thing was when he turned around Renji saw that the hounds didn't even dare to come close to him, it was as if they were scared of this place.
All of the hounds that were following Reji were now waiting for Renji to come out of the weird place not daring to step foot inside. All of them circled the area of about 400 meters, they were very cautious of the area and stood guard there to wait for Renji. They had made Renji their bird, he was now stuck in his cage in the area.
"I need to find something that can heal my wound as soon as possible." Said Renji to himself as he slowly walked toward the human corpses hoping to find some kind of healing potion on their body. He started using a branch as his support to walk, he was getting very weak, and he could barely walk on his own now.
Renji had lost a lot of blood in his body, thankfully the bleeding stopped but the damage to his body was already done. He would die if he didn't find something to heal, he would die if he gets out of the area. Renji was left with no choice, but he still didn't give up hope, he scoured through most of the bodies in hopes of finding some potion.
At the end of the search, all he could get was vials of empty unopened potions, that was not everything that he found though. He found a portal-like thing right at the center of the area, the portal looked as if it was bending the space around it. Renji didn't dare enter the place; he had no idea what might be on the other side.
"Why is that black though?" Renji questioned himself while sitting a few meters away from the portal, he had read about all of the different portals and realms but had never heard of such a portal. Renji was confused as to why his grandma didn't have any record of such a thing. While staring at the portal Renji felt chills from time to time, as the color of the portal was not just black.
Renji felt as if the color of the portal was darkness itself, the more he started at it the more uncomfortable he felt. He just sat there silently as if he was not injured at all, his mind went numb. Some time had passed without him noticing, he suddenly felt a jolt as he heard a growl, he felt someone had jolted him awake. He looked around himself and found that there was no one around him, he had no idea that he had wasted the last bit of time that was left staring at the portal.
"Huh? What this cant happen no no no no no…." Renji frantically started mumbling as he tried to stand up and couldn't. he had no sensation on his legs, he felt as if the world itself was collapsing on him right now.
"No, this can't be the end, I can't just give up I have so much I need to do." Renji said resolutely as he slowly crawled towards the only place he had not entered until now. Being left without an option Renji slowly crawled towards the portal while mumbling I want to live.
"I can't die, no I won't die just like this, I don't want to die in a dump like this." Said the boy as he started to crawl using his hands because he could not feel his legs anymore. His legs were so badly injured that there were even some pieces of flesh missing from them, one could already see parts of his leg's bones. Even in that condition, the boy didn't give up and continued crawling.
Even though he crawled for an hour in that condition, he still couldn't find anything or anyone. The place he was right now looked like some kind of cave, the entire cave had words written on the walls. Some kinds of stones glowed which lit the cave up, without these stones the cave would have been dark and he would not have been able to find his way. The boy just kept following the stones as if he was hoping he would find the exit, but the longer he crawled the more he started to feel like he was going in a circle, but that didn't stop him he continued.
"If you are inside this place please leave immediately, you will not find any treasure in this place. We sealed this place to lock away a wicked being from reemerging, please get out of here if you don't want to be devoured. This place is the THE GRAVE OF THE DAMNED, please do not enter. If this wicked being gets unleashed it will bring calamity.
Hah Hah… What is this place? Why are the walls covered in the forbidden language? Why did they write something like this?" the boy questioned himself as he crawled further into the cave. There were countless words carved into the walls that were just left as a warning for anyone not to enter.
"Hah Hah… Fuck if I care whatever is inside, even if I go out, I won't be able to live, so what is the point in warning. I just want some kind of elixir that can heal me and I'll be out of here. I can't even kill the monster that made me like this so what's the point in returning? I am Renji Ishida I won't accept dying in a dump of a place like this, I'll do whatever to survive." Said Renji to himself as tears welled up in his eyes. He didn't care about the warnings he just wanted to survive.
"Renji so that's your name boy. Ahh how pitiful you look, unfortunately for you this will be your grave if you don't heal yourself in time. From what I can feel your life force is fading quickly, you might not even live for 30 minutes more." A voice suddenly came from somewhere, and Renji felt as if the voice came from behind him.
'A female? Speaking in Forbidden language?' thought Renji.
"Who are you? Where are you?" asked Renji as he looked around him to see if anyone was there.
"Who am I, is not the most important thing boy, the important thing is I can save you, I have been sealed here for eternity." Said the voice.
'Save me? if you could you wouldn't have been sealed in here.' Thought Renji as he scoffed at the voice in his mind.
"I was sealed here for a different reason boy, if you just let me enter your soul, you will gain power and everything that comes with it. All I will ask for is my revenge in return." Said the voice.
'It can read my mind?' thought Renji with a dumbfounded look.
"Yes, boy." Said the voice.