Dead
"Everyone, everything, this world, this sky, every single one of them was dead". As I sat on a mountain of corpses beneath me, my gaze was locked on the sky above me and this land. The horizon and my field of vision were filled by the sharp cut and deep dark purple hued sky, which was devoid of any signs of life. It couldn't be emphasized enough that some deity had cut Heaven with its sword. As I am an insect like being who could just watch with admiration and fear, my eyes were showing admiration but no emotion like fear. Some glimmers of stars appeared, with their light casting onto the blood-dyed red land. As the smell of blood entered my nostrils, I stood on the corpses with the support of my hand. I walked down them. As an Ancient Demon emerged and slaughtered everyone and everything that this world had to offer. Even the heaven was split in half, and the land was dyed red. I took a final glance at the corpses, their limbs torn apart and their organs gushing out of their flesh, eyes which had no life in them, many didn't even have a full body remaining. Those bodies were not of some beasts, but were of,
Humans.
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'A bright dark blue light which looked blue but didn't feel like it as my eyes themselves could not comprehend the color of it. It travelled in a circular motion as it gathered on one spot, it felt like it was calling me in itself.'
- "The gate is closing, and someone is coming out. As you can see on your screens, the gate is closing and someone is coming out. It has been cleared.
- "The A Rank gate is finally closing huh."-
- "We can finally go home after this long service of working hour, with no fucking shifts,"-
- "Haha, don't be so upset, as your senior I will take you all for some drinks for your hard work,"-
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I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me, similar to the disorientation one experiences after embarking on a long journey for the first time or the lightheadedness that comes with summer sickness. The surrounding space spun slightly, and I struggled to maintain my balance. It was as if my body was caught in a state of confusion, unable to adjust to the sudden shift in equilibrium. The dizziness persisted, making me feel unsteady and disoriented, much like the discombobulation that accompanies unfamiliar surroundings or the onset of a seasonal illness. I felt the urge to vomit, but I stopped it somehow. Travelling through the gates made me feel like my body was crushed and dismantled and rejoined together. It felt as if my body was split apart atom by atom, dismantled and rejoined after every of these gate teleportations.
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The gate was formed in the middle of crowded street due to which many had come to witness this magical happenings. It hasn been almost 6 months since the world took a complete turn where magic like things happened everywhere around the world and today I have come here to take interview of the first Hunter collaboration raid team. With an opportunity like this I could definitely get a promotion hehe, " Alright, Vincy are you ready. Huh, vincy, vincy!, VINCY!! Don't go around dazing and ask the questions or have you already forgotten your job".
"Ah, I'm sorry". The gate had closed and a man whose skin was pale white, eyes brown and black which was hard to differentiate in, his body wasn't well built but plain, slim. He wore a black jogger like an army uniform with a plain black t-shirt. His boots were long reaching his knee with some small black spikes with some marking on it, they were perhaps made of magic.A black thin overcoat covered his entire attire only stopping at his knees, the arms of his coat were mostly torned, his hair were pure black which looked rough, spreading across on his face they weren't curly but had some curls on the end looking like horns.He looked like a Demon, standing above the humans and all the life in this world, that's what I felt as that man walked out through the Gate. I felt inferiority and weakness of my own by just looking at that man. I struggled through the crowd to ask the questions to the man in front and all the 26 people who entered the Gate, "Sir, what was the gate based on? What did it look li— ". Hmm, in a mumbled tone, "Where are the rest of people?".
-What, why is the gate closing?, where are the rest?-
-Why is no one else coming out?-
-Who is this person-
-Isn't this a B Ranked person on the Evaluation List-
who came out?"--
-The Gate has closed. This person is the sole survivor, reach out to The General.
-Are you fucking kidding me? All those 8 S Rank, 12 A Rank, 5 B Rank are all gone.--
"Dead"
"They are all dead"
-What? what-what-WHAT! is this? Some fantasy movie, manhwa or something where you will emerge all alone, what are you, some hiding S Rank who killed them all or something-
-I bet he has some hidden cheat power. Based on my all knowledge, he is the hidden super strong F Class Hunter like in other manhwa's and films.-
-Maybe he....killed them.-
The sky was completely crystal blue with sunlight falling on my face. I had known the reactions of the people but I still struggled to what to reply when, I looked at them, their expression were filled with fear of the loss of S Rank with a solemn expression but feeling quite....interesting at what the situation had turned into, I replied with a faint smile and a sarcastic tone, "A bunch of gold spoons, silver spoons, bronze spoons, S Rank, and A Rank Hunters, who have never fought once in their lovely, pleasant life, are thrown in front of some beasts who have fought their whole life, iron disciplined, hardened into them. What did you expect?. Some protagonists of movie or novel would come and clear everything off the floor with their supernaturally powered dick smashing and thrashing all the beasts within their dick vicinity, huh? And then they would come out of the dungeon, having saved everyone, and would wink at you all and you all would go ahhhh! and then fall dead from joy". Sigh! With a serious, cold tone feeling more fun which was hard to describe. I said," You wanna know how they died? 4 S Rank died by a D Rank Magical Beast called Neoura, it looked like a marged animal with a lion face with deer horns on his head, it's legs were like of horse but it's body was the size of a wold with a lizard tail. Another 6 A Rank Died by another D Rank Beast Neoura, which is supposed to be the weakest in the whole Gate and the 5 B Rank let's not talk about them. Other, 3 S Rank went numb from seeing blood and others dying. Remaining 2 A Rank, they were killed by the collision of the attacks. The remaining S Rank and 2 A Rank Soldiers were the one who helped this dungeon to even clear, and they all died while protecting others or what was left of them. The Boss was killed by the S Rank and A Rank co-operation meanwhile the other A Rank soldier and I protected them from the assault of the other Magical Beasts. The remaining ones or whoever was left, also got killed by the fodder level beasts"
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Everyone was stunned listening to the sarcastic tone of the sole survior. Many opened their mouths to speak but shut them before they could speak anything. At the same time the army had come to escort the sole survior to provide him rest and see to his injuries but it was probably going to be more of an interrogation.
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-Leave the space, he has just cleared the dungeon, he needs to be escorted-
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Inside a small room, a meeting had been going from some time to take action on the current loss of the 1st nationwide Hunter collaboration party which was also named as Team/Raid Werdty.
Around the round table were 6 seats with 6 important members of the nation seating and discussing on the future prospects of what action was going to be taken by them as being the specially elected team during the world wide crisis of magical interference within the physical realm of their world.
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"25"
"That's how many are dead. I told you all endlessly that this was a mad man's play. Now, look at what has happened 8 S Rank are dead and 6 of them were from other nations, leaving aside the A and B Rank, just the deaths of these S Ranks.... What are we even going to reply to the other Nations that, Yes! Your Hunters or Ascenders or whatever they are going to be named they are all dead. Oh! You want them back or you want us to pay for their deaths. Hmmm, Would you like our ass with or without oil, huh!".
"BEHAVE YOURSELF!, Ander, aka, Chief Commander of Defence Force. You are sitting in front of the 'President', Even his adopted child was inside that raid and he was also killed".
'Zarloss, he was the second in command of the President. He looked young with mid 20's maybe 26 having brown eyes with a green tint inside them he wore a well fit black suit. If I had to explain in one way he was the ideal kind of a guy for girls, also the reason why many didn't liked him. Ofcourse , can't forget his sugarcoated words he spoke everytime in front of President, he was well built not like the President who had sharp face with deep reddish brown eyes with his overbuilt body, he was almost 8 feet in height.
-"Oh! Yeah, so what. It's not like I'm saying something wrong, the President gave the command to throw some untrained children into the warfield, now he needs to pay the consequences. He needs to at least give up his position".-
'Cough'
"No, you're right. I definitely need to pay for the consequences of my actions.My dear friend.... Ander."
'Huh'
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Swoosh
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Thud
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'Huh, Why am I Falli-'
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Plop
Silence
The whole world had gone silent at that moment. Everyone, Everything had stopped when the head slipped from the body and rolled on the ground. It was calm like a silent ocean but as the calm before the upcoming disaster.
At the next moment, the silence was broken as a hoarse, rough, cold and deep, with killing intent overflowing inside it a voice surrounded the room.
"Now, then if anyone has any problems left they should come forward....Hmmm, I see no one then, I will be continuing. Today I'm filled with sadness. As I've not only lost my adopted son but also lost my job. From now on, my Second-in-Command, Zarloss, will take the role of the President and I will become the first Head of the Hunter Association, which will be created after this accident. Even though the Hunter is not the name given yet, but let's go with the public for now. And tell the media that the Dungeon Rank was actually tempered by 'Ander'. His motives were not known but he attacked me and was killed by the Soldiers guarding us. Well then, Zarloss, how does it feel to be the....President".
'His elbows were on the table, his hands were curled up into a two handed loose fist, under his chins which supported his face. He had not moved an inch, neither his smiling expression had changed from start to the finish nor a single strand of his hairs moved even when the head had fallen in the ground, the headless body, still sitting on chair covering it whole with its blood. My body was tense. I was filled with fear and anxiety, holding my urge to vomit I replied, "I-It feels g-great Sir!".
"Good, my....loyal subject."
'The only thing still left inside me was finally,'
'DEAD.'