Then he looked at the hieroglyphs, looked at the now open Sarcophagus before finally looking at the latest tutorial prompt.
A look of resignation crawled into his face. He was definitely going to die.
'CREEK'
A light creeking sound rang out in the middle layer of the Inverted pyramid. The sound seemed to drown out everything, even Reed's ring tone .
Everyone in the layer instinctively turned their heads towards the source. It was the golden Sarcophagus that radiated sunlight, or at least it used to. Now what was happening to the Sarcophagus was hard to describe. It seemed like the golden light was getting drawn in. Yes, that was it... all the golden light was being drawn into the disk with an eye symbol on it causing the disk to give out a vibrant golden glow. It looked like they were staring at sunlight.
Although the show with the golden light was cool, what was not was the slowly opening sarcophagus.
Hmm, why was the sarcophagus opening? That's not right...
Those words were the approximate train of thought for most of the group. Silence permeated the area as the researchers and archeologists followed the opening sarcophagus with their eyes. It seemed like it was only Reed who noticed the fact that it was a hand that was opening the sarcophagus .
Before the sarcophagus opened completely, a light 'ding' sound was heard and a red tinted prompt hit each member of the group.
[Do not observe the Divine]
Huh...?
As if on queue, the creeking sound stopped.
Hmm, it seemed like the sarcophagus was now fully open.
Everyone's eyes were immediately draw back to the sarcophagus, the content of the previous prompt not having any effect on them.
I have no idea what these researchers and archeologists were expecting, but the entity housed in the sarcophagus could only be described using one word, terror.
The being was an amalgamation of worms, wings, and eyes. The thing inside was a man sized rat, but unlike Splinter, it was made of translucent maggots . It had 1...2...3...4, four wings, made of eyes. Each eye glowed with green archaic symbols.
As Reed observed the Creature, ZARON, his eyes lost focus, he heard sounds. They sounded like screams and intense murmurs. Whispers and screams of sweet nothingness. Soon, dark red blood began to ooze out of his eyes, ears, and nose.
Then a light 'boom' was heard followed by blood and bits of flesh that flew everywhere.
Hmm, the black skinned man from earlier had just lost his head.
boom
It happened again, someone else had just lost a head ( and life off course, It's kind of a packaged deal ).
The layer soon became a studio of sorts, as symphonys of loud muffled 'boom' sounds were heard, and blood and brain matter rained down like heavenly juices.
It had been about 10 seconds since ZARON'S body had been exposed. Anyway, 80% of the group had already lost their head.
Christopher Reed was now drenched in blood. Some of it was actually his.
'boom' another head left its body and warm red blood fell on Christopher's cheek.
Christopher's eyes seemed to regain slight focus, then the prompt from before hovered back into his vision.
[Do not observe the Divine]
The Divine...
The Divine...
Christopher Reed's eyes seemed to gain more focus, then as if on autopilot, he suddenly looked down. The screams and whispers of maddening nothingness immediately ceased.
Christopher immediately fell on his knees, and thick streams of dark red blood gushed out of his nose . His eyes were bloodshot and a maddening headache immediately assaulted him.
boom
Another one just bit the dust causing brain matter to splash across Christopher Reed's front. The disgusting sight immediately caused him to start vomiting. From his mouth, streams of his lunch as well as blood and bits of what looked like organs all mixed together were expelled uncontrollably.
boom
boom
Two more booms rang out in quick succession, taking out two more people. By this time, only Christopher Reed was left, emptying out his guts.
Funny how the source of all this death and destruction was not even out of the sarcophagus, but almost everyone was dead. ZARON still stood floating in his (also floating ) sarcophagus. His eyes were closed, the eyes on his head that is.
The green light emanating from the walls of the layer soon dimmed by another order of magnitude. Unfortunately, there was no one there to notice it. Of the two beings who were even present, one had ITs eyes closed and the other was coughing and vomiting out his guts in a poll of over 20 people's blood. A crazy scene.
After about 30 seconds, Christopher Reed finally stopped emptying his organs, he had a dead look in his eyes and even though he was no longer vomiting, he didn't look up .
Christopher Reed had just learned a new rule. Rule number 1.
[Do not observe the Divine]
A very simple rule, hopefully he would live long enough to teach others.
Christopher Reed slowly turned around using his hands and feet, not bothering to even stand up. His hand brushed past his vomit, but it was as though he didn't care. After all, he was crawling in a pool of other people's blood. Could it get any worse?
Hmm, just raised a red flag. But let's ignore it.
Christopher Reed tried to make his way to the entrance of this place, but his pace was quite slow, so he eventually decided to stand up.
As Christopher stood up, his back facing the sarcophagus, his eyes met 2 stellar green glowing orbs. The orbs seems to have existence written all over them, words that could only be described as beyond words were seen. Then, there was no then for Christopher as his head spontaneously exploded, blood and bits of brain matter flew everywhere , but they didn't land.
Christopher Reed's blood and brain matter stopped mid flight before covering on itself, recreating Christopher Reed's head.
The head that was now on Christopher Reed's body looked like a jigsaw puzzle made of bones, flesh, and brain matter recreating Christopher Reed's face in an intriguing, yet disturbing way.
ZARON'S gaze remained unchanged as the translucent maggots that made up his visage continued to squirm and move around. Then ZARON'S body became misty and moved towards the — still standing — dead body of Christopher Reed. When the mist merged with Christopher Reed's body, his eye color changed . The white in his eyes were replaced by black, and undescribable symbols adorned the center of each eye.
After that, Christopher Reed's body slowly hovered towards the floating sarcophagus before it reached for the disk with an eye symbol that was radiating thick streams of sunlight. Reed's hand brought the disk towards his face and a voice with a very nice male British accent spoke out.
''' ZARON TO RA, ZARON TO RA....
I'M COMING FOR YOU....'''
As if in response, a few new prompts hit ZARON. They had simple words and read.
[Sun Divine Ra has noticed you...]
[Sun Divine Ra sends a message...]
[Sun Divine Ra: Bring It...]
Christopher Reed's body saw the prompt and a strange smile adorned his messy face as he crushed the Sun Disk...
Chapter 15 -- I'm coming for you...
AN: Woohoo, chapter 15! How was it? I want any and all criticism laid bare in the comment section so I can improve, please 🥺. Also, I won't be posting regularly as I've got other stuff to do.
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