And they soon entered the circle of teleportation that appeared beneath our feet… And then we escaped…
We teleported and appeared near Demon territory and started to think that now we could take a breather.
But our thoughts were wrong.
A portal opened just behind us. The goddess and 'her dog' Abaddon walked out from the portal.
The goddess, who now looked better than before, said, "Did you think, you could escape from me? If I cannot kill you now, because of this universe then I will send you to the prison that you cannot escape from. And once I break free from the universe binding, I will personally kill you."
'Sigh… beings with power, tell their problems, weaknesses, and plans to their weaker enemies.' I exchanged glances with Valmos who stood on my right, whose eyes were saying this.
'Even in this situation… this bat-like b*stered hehe…' looking at him I thought.
"Are you done?" The goddess asked after she saw our interactions.
Without giving us any time, she pointed her hand in our direction.
And I felt my body, my organs, and my soul were being squeezed.
And then the scenery changed.
And we were in the abyss hole. That was created by the goddess. And she gave us a curse of not escaping it.
We ended our lives because we didn't want the goddess to slaughter us and this could also be our last defiance to the goddess.
After our death, our souls didn't enter the reincarnation cycle and hovered in this endless void.
Until…
…
Centuries later, a man founded us.
We thought he was another person who defied the goddess.
But a person who was not even level 1… how did he enter this place? What did he do to anger the goddess?
When he came closer, he went straight to Emyr's body to drink his blood.
And when he was so close to us. We could clearly see who he was. A man with the same features as Chris described. A man with the same story as Chris described.
Yes, he was the brother who Chris was trying to find centuries ago.
…
We made a promise to Chris before we were going to teleport to the goddess's hall.
"If I die here today. And if you find my brother don't tell my brother about me."
We all agreed to it. And are honoring the promise.
…
MC's POV:
"Are you ready, little one?" Emyr asked.
"Yes, and my name is Kayden" I replied.
"Then Kayden, it all starts with you," Emyr said.
It was time, Arthur was finished making the new body for me. It was inside an egg.
He said, "It will take shape according to your soul."
And now it was my turn, that was to die and enter the new body to get out of this place.
I took the medicine that was given to me by Arthur (inside the pouch).
It was a medicine for the dragons when they felt constipated but it was enough to kill me because my body was weak.
As soon as I took the medicine, I started to feel that my chest was burning.
I was not able to breathe properly and my body went weak.
I could hear them saying, "Avenge us…"
Then…
Everything went dark.
…
When I woke up I was outside of that dark hole, in a forest and it was nighttime. I could see the stars.
They looked so pretty.
Finally! I was outside that sh*tty place.
When I looked around I… I was not alone.
Beside me was a young girl around 5.
Her hair was so black that it shone under the sky and looked as if absorbing light. And her black eyes were staring at me creepily.
Startled by her, I asked, "Who are you?"
"…"
She was quiet.
And I was internally shocked because my voice sounded like a child. But I suppressed it and put my guard against her.
"Never trust anyone outside" That was the lesson that Valmos gave me. He said some people can deceive you by age, gender, race, or whatever, and most importantly by words. So never trust anyone.
He said, "When I was in my teenage I would transform into a human child to lure and drink blood."
And because of him, all the other vampires also used this idea and applied it not only to humans but to other races as well.
And because of him no one ever helped a child at night. (Because they were active at night.)
Anyway, my first lesson was never to trust.
So I asked again, "Who are you?"
"…"
She didn't answer this time as well.
If questioning is not working then, "Okay! Nice meeting you! Bye!"
I turned back and ran with all my might and to my surprise I was faster than my peak running condition when I was a human.
Anyway, I ran without looking back.
After running for some time, I stopped.
"Huff! Huff! I guess this should be enough."
Suddenly I felt an arm on my shoulder.
When I looked back I could see the same girl behind me without an expression.
"O-oh we meet again. N-nice view isn't it?"
"…"
She slowly raised both her hands and I was planning to run again in case she used something but to my surprise, she used sign language.
"Follow me," she said using sign language.
"Umm… Where?" I asked.
"…"
She didn't answer and continued walking.
And I was not planning to follow her. So, I ran in the opposite direction of the girl.
But then the girl grabbed my shoulder and dragged me with her.
"Hey! Leave me! Leave me! I don't want to be eaten!" I screamed.
Without listening to me she continued to walk and I also fell quiet after throwing some tantrum because I knew, it wasn't helping.
And after a while, we entered a cave.
"Now sit here like a good boy." She said in sign language as she ruffled my hair.