Chapter 18 - Overwhelming sorrow.
Immediately hearing what they said, with fright and awe in their tones, he quickly dashed to a place where he would take a ground-traversing vehicle called Volironbolter. As for the one that flew in the air which Hilgamech used to appear in the area where the Brown Lotus Cave was located, was the Hyperidonbolter.
After getting there and immediately paying the driver, who he told the address of where he wanted to go, the Volironbolter instantly started and immediately zoomed off, speeding to the place that Hilgamech gave the address to.
About twenty minutes later, the Volironbolter arrived before the Thellgarr Estate, or more accurately, a really massive hole that was once the grand and magnificent, vast Thellgarr Estate.
"What?!" Hilgamech asked with his eyes fully widened in both shock and horror when he came down from the vehicle and saw the hole that was astoundingly wide and long. This was what he heard the people in groups discussing about. Then he immediately took a Volironbolter to come down here and confirm for himself.
He then immediately turned to face the driver and asked in a stuttering manner, "S-Sir, w-what really happened? Do have any idea of the actual thing that happened?"
"Not really. But I can recount what the others narrated to me, and also what I perceived before going into hiding."
"According to them, a large number of fearsome and majestic, sovereign-looking beings suddenly appeared in the sky. They had emerged from a massive, pitch-black rift that caused frosty cold winds to abruptly descend upon everyone, causing spine-chilling and tingling shivers."
"Then like ghosts or apparitions, they suddenly vanished. However, a few minutes later, the ground began to quake. I mean, the entire earth bearing our whole city began to intensely quiver. It was like doom. It absolutely felt like the end for everyone of us."
"But then, the shaking suddenly stopped, while a massive piece of land bearing an estate-like residence that could be likened for the well-famed, supreme Thellgarr Estate, could be seen floating at a great altitude in the sky."
"Once we witnessed that, it immediately occurred to a lot of us that those fear and terror-invoking phenomenal beings, had actually surfaced in our world with the sole intent of uprooting the Thellgarr Estate from where it was, causing the deep, enormous hole that you see in front of you."
"As for the now-floating, enormous strip of land supporting the colossal estate, it was effortlessly moved into the massive rift using only their seemingly god-like powers."
"Then they ascended into the rift too and vanished, while the city-sized slit that they caused to appear in the sky immediately healed, restoring the sky back to its former appearance." The driver said with a certain look on his face and immediately gazed at Hilgamech who now seemed totally dejected, miserable, severely brokenhearted, spiritless, and exceedingly cheerless.
It was simply like life had left him, like he had no purpose to live or exist anymore.
"Boy, what's wrong? Are you okay?" He asked with a deeply concerned look etched on his face.
Hilgamech subtly nodded.
"Yes, I am. Thank you for your concern. You can leave now." He said, while the driver who after looking at him for sometime, furrowed his brows before nodding his head.
Then he immediately turned the Volironbolter around and shot away, returning back to the garage where they usually parked.
Despondently walking towards the edge of the massive hole that not a single soul could be seen around, seeming like they were tremendously scared or horrified of approaching the hole that was caused to appear by the dread-striking, glorious and magnificent sovereign experts, he sorrowfully looked inside of it and could see how frighteningly deep and dark the hole was.
Then he began to wonder what his uncle had done for the powerful supreme beings that had abruptly surfaced in their world, to suddenly materialize above their estate and brutally tear it off, along with the large piece of land that his uncle's vast estate was solidly built upon.
"What had he done? What did he do?" He continuously asked himself with eyes that inconsolably glistened after having heavy-hearted tears well up in them.
As he continued to ask himself, he couldn't find meaningful answers to the questions he asked deep within him.
At the moment, he was filled with immense sadness that it overflowed. And it was so great that if it were water, it would form a large pool around him which he would definitely sink in, due to the increasing heaviness of his doleful and exceedingly disconsolate heart—a heart that painfully and agonizingly yearned to see his doting and calm, sweet-loving uncle again.
Beside, he now found it really difficult to breathe, seeming like he was encompassed by a thick devilish cloud of bleakness and forlornness that wanted him to forcefully give up the ghost.
His uncle was the only person he knew and could run to for help, or for any other thing that he would require his assistance for. But now, he was gone, taken away by godlike beings that he couldn't tell from what dimensions they had trooped out from.
Once he thought up to here, the only thing he could really infer was that he wouldn't he wouldn't be seeing his affectionate and caring uncle ever again. They were now of different worlds that could be infinitely distant from one another, so he felt with a heavy, downcast heart.
Then immediately, he burst into unstoppable tears. He just couldn't believe he wouldn't be seeing his uncle again. A moment later, lots of lovely and wonderful memories came flooding in, impacting his mind and causing him to grieve harder. This resulted in more tears that entirely wetted his shirt.
Thud!
He suddenly collapsed with a loud thud to the edge of the hole and cried harder, feeling so strongly that there was absolutely nothing again for him in this world. He felt so empty and gloomy that death was the only way out for him.
The only person that was his world—one who he could look up to and endlessly ask for things without being shouted upon, and was really patient with him, had been forcefully taken away from him, carried to another world that he strongly felt he wouldn't be able to find or trace him to. He didn't even have the strength to do so, as he was still a flimsy-prowess cultivator. Also, the wind methodology manual that he studied was in the mansion that had been uprooted away. So, he basically had nothing anymore.
Beside, he couldn't tell if doom would have befallen his uncle. He could have been ruthlessly killed or slaughtered, his body parts nonchalantly disposed off or left to rot at whatever location he was brutally murdered.
Thinking in this tremendously dispiriting and saddening direction, instantly made him feel like a large pitchfork was driven straight through his heart with immense force, causing him more pain, anguish, and overflowing sorrow—sorrow that was simply unending and brutally crushed every sign or flicker of hope that he might get in his heart or mind.
Feeling totally empty—as the world for him was basically over, he suddenly stood to his feet with a certain strong light emitting from his eyes.
Now, he was prepared to jump into the abyssal hole without fright or fear in his eyes. And this was something that previously looking down the hole immensely terrified him, essentially because of how dark and exceedingly deep it was.
Then he took a short sorrowful step and another—like he were a mindless zombie, before suddenly thoughtlessly plunging into the hole, falling at a high velocity to his death...