At the moment Alex was being pulled by that black liquid into the dark pit, the system reconnected with him and resumed his activity.
They didn't have much chance to save Alex's life and they had to act as fast as possible. So the system activated the cursed doll ability.
[Connection established.]
[The host is in critical condition.]
[Create a pact between the cursed doll and the host.]
[10%,....40%,....60%....80%,...100% agreement was established.]
[Status window.
Name: Cursed doll (Lami)
Ability: Soul Devouring
Level: Newbie
Description: Upgradeable.
Upgrading to the next level requires the sacrifice of 100 fledgling souls.]
Alex was being pulled into the profoundness, an unfamiliar and eerie place.
Where all kinds of emotions rush towards you and trap you in the darkest memory and the worst kind of emotions.
And when you come to your senses, you see that you are in a dead end street and there is no way to go forward and the way back has become a giant of your pain and wants to imprison you in that way forever.
The profoundness are a place where neither life nor death has meaning. A world between existence and inexistence.
Alex was drowning in that boiling black liquid and was slowly being dragged into that endless dark pit.
At the same time, a glowing ball was circling around him like a butterfly, looking for a way to get closer to Alex.
The Night King of the Dead had returned. Alex had not noticed the disappearance of the glowing ball because of running away from the orphanage and fighting with that scary creature.
The Night King of the Dead got in trouble for using his ability to communicate with Alex. That's why it couldn't connect with Alex until the moment he entered the forest.
And now that it had reconnected, it was faced with such a big problem. It couldn't let Alex stay in this situation.
[The night king of the dead was worried.]
[The night king of the dead was attached to a wicker doll.]
[Soul Devourer ability activated.]
[Beep, beep, beep!]
[Error!]
[The cursed doll is in critical condition. Unresponsive.]
After many attempts, the Night King of the Dead could not communicate properly with the cursed doll. This was a very scary situation and could have lose Alex.
The glowing ball tried to get closer to Alex, but a powerful force pushed its back.
At that moment, the bright ball started shaking and its light, which was like a lamp in this darkness, was fading. An ominous energy was emanating, not only its but also the trees that resided in that forest trembled.
[Error! Error!]
[The presence of a powerful energy was detected. Please be careful.]
After the presence of that energy, the blue window turned into blood red and was fading.
That energy was disrupting the presence of the system.
The creature in the profoundness was using the power of its presence at that moment. The creature was sitting on a skeleton throne and there was a lake of blood under its feet. Its long cloak covered its body and its face was indistinct, a crown of black feathers was on its head, and a necklace with a red jewel and a black chain hung around its neck.
And two wolf-like animals with black manes and bloodshot eyes were lying at its feet, the creature raised its hands and words floated in the air and went towards the opening of that black pit.
Unintelligible words, only if you are from the profoundness you will understand its meaning. Those words became an ominous and scary energy that caused all the trees in the forest to fall to the ground and the ground cracked under their feet.
Those wild trees were receiving orders. When they got that order, they moved away from the black pit, the black liquid that covered Alex was slowly disappearing and that pit was closing.
Even the Night King of the Dead was completely shocked by what was happening. But at that moment, the only important issue was Alex, so when the blackness disappeared, it quickly went to Alex.
Alex was not in a good mental state because of that cursed song and had lost his consciousness. Because of that black liquid, all of Alex's clothes were destroyed and his body fell on the ground naked, and even the wicker doll that was in his pocket was severely damaged and half of its body was lost.
Because of this, the King of the Night of the Dead could not use the ability of that doll.
The King of the Night of the Dead, who knew that the situation was an emergency, asked the system to open a portal as soon as possible so that he could take Alex from that place. But it encountered an error message.
[Error!
It is recovering due to system damage, one minute left until the recovery is complete.]
Damn....!
The Night King of the Dead took out a cloak from its storage and covered Alex's naked body with it and moved the wicker doll into its storage so it could heal it later.
Now only the Night King of the Dead was left alone with Alex, who was unconscious. Even though those trees had retreated, this place was still not safe, it had to wait a minute for the system to recover, and it was not known what could happen in that short amount of time.
However, it was not in its original form and looked like a small glowing ball. It couldn't do much with this body. It just had to hope that nothing unexpected happened.
Although this was nothing but a false fantasy. Because those trees did not intend to surrender, they were very angry because their offer was rejected and the profoundness did not accept it.
A stout tree, which seemed bigger than the rest of the trees, was standing in the corner and staring at the glowing ball. It sent its branches towards that glowing ball and wanted to destroy it.
Those branches were twisting and bending and reached that shining ball and wanted to catch it, but that shining ball avoided one by one of those branches without any fear. When the tree saw this, it got very angry and synthesized black air to the outside, the air smelled like a dead body, it was so stinking that it made Alex, who was unconscious, react to it and frowned make a mark on his forehead.
This smelly air caused the shine of that shining ball to decrease and its power to weaken. That air was air from the profoundness that that creature had stored. By letting out that air, the big size of that tree had become a little smaller. It seemed that this made its a little weak.
But at this moment, only one thing was important to the King of the Night of the Dead; Alex's security and buying time to restore the system.
Anyway, it seemed that the trees had no intention of harming Alex, but since they were angry, the glowing ball was the best way to quench their anger. Because of this, their attacks became more and more cruel.
Although the King of the Night of the Dead looked like a small ball and could pass through those branches, but the more it passed, the number of branches increased and the path to pass became narrower for its; as if it is about to fall inside a cage of these cursed branches, and be captured by them.
There was nothing left, it had to resist, there were only 10 seconds left until the system restarted.
That's right, I have to wait 10 seconds.
After all those evasions, it suddenly noticed a different branch among those branches. Although the other branches were also black, the branch that was approaching its looked a little different.
It seems that they had a secret card and now they revealed it!
In the darkness, that branch had a foggy and gray aura around it; An eerie energy was emanatiheng from it. Fighting with those previous branches was like child's play, but this branch that was rapidly approaching it's seemed very dangerous.
The feeling that was coming from it, warned its that it might really disappear.
If such a thing happened, Alex would be trapped in this forest alone. Because if it lost this body, it would have to wait a long time to reconnect, and that would not be in the best interest of Alex and its at all.
Now it was only a matter of time.
Which one would be chosen between good luck and bad luck?
At that critical moment, it suddenly heard a sound, that sound was related to a system. It seemed that luck had chosen them and they could escape from that place.
Ding!
[Recovery done. The portal is opening.]
[Connected to the portal.]
The king of the night of the dead breathed out and said: Finally, we are saved!
Alex's half-souled body turned into particles of light and was pulled into it by the sucking energy of that portal and was saved from that cursed forest.
That shining ball disappeared along with Alex, and that cursed branch could not reach its goal.
And the forest fell into a suffocating silence.