Katherine stiffened at the realization that a full-grown man NAKED man was directly above her, his body merely centimeters apart from hers. The man in question had clustered red hair spattered across his chest, the trail ended above his protruding beer belly, which covered his dangling length.
The stranger who looked about forty-five or older strummed his index finger against her cheek and curled his moist lips into a wide grin.
"Kekeke!" He ran his tongue across his lower lip, "You're quite beautiful for two hundred Vito, I struck a good bargain with you." The stranger remarked with lustful eyes.
Bargain? Katherine didn't know where she was at the moment, but she was well aware that this man had every intention of having his way with her.
"Hey! Let me go!" She protested, struggling against him, she tried to crawl away, but he pinned her arms over her head and pressed her body against the bed employing his weight.
"You insolent slave! How dare you try to run away?!" He angrily raised his voice to her, his tone sent a shiver down Katherine's spine, fear gripped her at the possibility of what would happen if she disobeyed.
The stranger spared no second and reached for her white strings attached blouse, "I own you now, so everything about you is mine!" He declared right before ripping her shirt, freeing her breasts.
"Kekeke!" He cackled and lowered his round sweaty body, droplets of sweat rained down on her skin. Considering the room was tiny and windowless, it made sense why he was exuding so many fluids.
But Katherine was still very much disgusted.
"I don't want to! I don't belong to anyone! Let me go you disgusting pig!" She cursed then fearlessly spat at his face, showing off her defiance.
"Bitch!" The stranger curled his free hand into a fist and landed a tight blow to her abdomen. Katherine's eyes widened and she curled her back in pain, for some reason, she felt far weaker than in her last body.
Not satisfied, he raised Katherine's upper body by the hair and slapped her hard across the face. Bringing her eyes to meet his he said, "I am a nobleman, a lowly wretch like you has no right to touch me. Furthermore, I am your master! How dare you defy me?!" He tossed her body against the bed like a ragdoll and reached for his clothes tossed beside him.
His hands reached for his belt, "I'm just going to have to train you properly!" He yelled and raised the belt over his head, intentionally aiming for her chest, in a place where the wounds weren't visible.
Kathrine bucked her hips and tossed around trying to get away. A strong breeze from outside slapped the roof, drowning out the sound of her pained whimpers.
And, just as the belt landed on her chest leaving its red mark across her breasts, a deafening silence followed. In the blink of an eye, before Katherine could let out a pained cry, the left wall was shattered into pieces, and a heavy reddish brown brick came flying at the nobleman's head and severed it from his neck!
Katherine let out an ear-splitting screech as she watched the stranger's head hit the wall and land next to his brown boots.
There was no time to question what had just happened because barely seconds later, a large worm-like creature covered with its skeleton inside out crawled into the room. Katherine covered her mouth in a gasp, as she watched the bony creature munch on the nobleman's decapitated head.
Its body was long, too long to fit it all into the little room. Katherine's eyes darted to his black button-down coat. Despite being pissed scared, her jittery hands nabbed his coat! She silently crawled out of the bed, careful not to make a sound.
And when the creature wasn't looking, she ran through the opening it had made, taking cautious steps, avoiding the spiky bones shooting out from it.
When Katherine was far enough, she stopped tiptoeing and ran! Her heart kept pounding, but her feet knew better than to stick around and take her chances with that monster. The area was an open field, and it was night, hence she used the cover of darkness to make her escape, navigating through the grasslands by the moonlight.
Katherine didn't stop running until she found herself a cave, a quiet cave with droplets of water dripping from its ceiling.
"Torches?" Kathrine noted, noticing the lit torches hanging on each side of the cave, numbering up to six.
She thought to herself that some people must've been camping here, but got scared off by that thing that attacked her earlier. As she wandered deep into the cave, she noticed its unique shape and its size, unconsciously, she compared it to that of the worm-like monster that attacked her earlier.
Was this its nest? Could she even call it a nest?
She got her answer when she reached the heart of the cave. There, the pungent scent of blood and carcass overwhelmed her, and the sight in front of her nearly made her throw up.
"Oh heavens…" she gasped and covered her mouth, she shook her head slightly from side to side in disbelief as her blistered feet took cautious steps away from the large bone-like nest.
But it wasn't the nest that frightened her, but rather what was in the nest.
Sitting in the nest, were mutilated corpses, numbering up to seven, some missing a limb, another its leg, and two were headless, just like the nobleman from earlier. Considering the texture of the blood, she safely assumed that they hadn't died for more than half a day.
Perhaps, they were the ignorant people who camped out in this cave.
Katherine's fingers tugged tightly onto the coat, she could've been just like them if she hadn't run away when she did. Just standing and gawking here could land her dead any moment.
Still drowned by shock, she voiced out, "Just where the hell am I?" She asked without expecting an answer.
{Congratulations! You have successfully downloaded the game data and can now play!}
A holographic screen appeared before her eyes, and a computerized android voice sounded in her head.
'You mean I wasn't already a player?' Kathrine couldn't help but quake at the reality that she would've just lost her life before she became a registered player in the game!
Swiftly, the words on the screen changed, now displaying a short welcome note.
{Welcome player 0002 to the wonderful, nail-biting, thrilling world of Diabolical Quest!}