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Chapter 5 - Find A Way Out Of This Time Loop.

Stepping into the endless darkness, the room was still as desolate as ever.

The stained windows.

The air still thick with the same-old and weird, frosty coldness.

I inhaled heavily, calming my rapidly beating heart.

I comforted myself as I walked at a rapid pace.

Not too fast and not too slow.

With a focused and determined mind, the coldness seeping into my bones seemed to have reduced in their terrifying strange vigor, and my body no longer froze at the mere thought of the supernatural forces haunting the desolate corners of this house.

A flash of light suddenly erupted right before me, and for a second there.

I thought my heart would jump out of my chest.

'What the fuck was that?'

I questioned no one but myself and perhaps the endless void within.

Breathing heavily, I tightly clenched my hands in an attempt to stop its sonorous trembling.

Right before me.

A few couple of meters away from me.

A door creaked, a grating sound echoing into my ears.

BADDUUMP!!!

BADDUUMP!!!!

My heart thumped violently.

My body trembling violently.

I stood rigid on the spot, the eerie green light reflecting into my eyes.

I took in ragged breaths, a weird frosty coldness seeping into me with each and every intake of the cold air.

I seemed to have been thrown into some sorts of northern region. My body now on the verge of freezing.

I wrapped my hands tightly around myself, the coldness trying to find its way into my body.

My blood seemed to have stopped flowing for a second there, as I gasped for air.

My lungs soon started to burn and freeze at the same time.

A weird mixture that sent tears streaking down my eyes.

…I couldn't breath.

I couldn't gasp.

My heart was slowly failing me.

I stared in horror as I clutched at the hardened cobblestone beneath me.

My heartbeat slowly ceased beating and for a second there.

I thought…no I knew I was really going to die. Again.

I f-elt aggrieved.

Unwilling.

...And just when it seems as though I would be sent to the cold icy depths of death once again.

The freezing coldness. The desolate silence and the weird fiery flames burning through my lungs and blood suddenly came to a stop.

I gasped for breath, taking heavy intakes of air.

For a second there, I finally realized just how precious air is to man.

Without it...Man would be damned.

Glancing around me, I tried to find a logical explanation to the recession of the freezing coldness and the weird fiery flames.

But all I received was the cold whooshing sound of air writhing against my skin.

The chilling coldness moving into my pores.

I shivered slightly, a weird feeling assaulting me.

I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.

...Terribly wrong.

With a rapidly beating heart, I moved towards the source of light- a source of comfort - I hoped.

Each step of mine sent light unheard echoes across the ground. The doors all around me creaked every once in a while. And my heart would ripple against my ribs every time it happened.

Yet I seemed to have grown.

Compared to before, I could now take in my fear. I could now mask, and hide it beneath the icy mask of coldness and stoicness.

Yet I wasn't nearly as perfect as I wanted to be.

My hands still shivered, my bones still froze in place. My eyes still shrank in fear, and my breaths were still as ragged as that of a man who had ran through a continent.

The silence surrounding me stretched forth for even longer, and the coldness latching onto my bones only continued to increase.

My eyes pierced through the endless darkness.

I forced down the unease slowly settling within me as I neared the light.

With a wary gaze, I took deep and heavy steps as I slowly approached the light.

The closer I got to it, the more I realized what it was:

...A fiery green flame flickered before me.

'This flame... I have seen it. But where?'

The thought crept to my mind as I stood rigid on the spot.

Not daring to move an inch further.

The flame flickered, danced, and writhled in the presence of the endless darkness.

The endless shadows staying far away from its domain.

The flame seemed to be docile, calm even.

Yet I felt t-his strange sense of fear. A strange familiarity which I couldn't really place my hands on.

Forcing down my unease, I did what I thought reasonable. I moved towards the chaotic flame. Appearing before the flames, the entire world turned blurry.

And then.

...The green flames suddenly turned into it... into them.

My eyes widened in shock as I finally understood where that strange sense of familiarity was coming from and why it was followed by a tinge sense of death whenever I glanced at the fiery flames.

I tried to move.

But before I could even lift my legs.

An endless darkness suddenly swallowed me whole!

My senses turned dull, and my eyes seemed to have been snuffed out of the very light that powered it up.

I felt a strange explosion occur within the depths of my mind, strange illusory tentacles wriggling their way into my body.

Drilling into my pores, latching onto my bones before finding their way into my bloodstream.

I felt as though my blood was being drawn out of me.

My organs squeezed to paste. Bones crushed beyond what I deemed possible.

My eyes turned bloodshot, scarlet like veins running through my eyes.

My lips trembled, bone chilling screams piercing the air:

"ARRGH!!"

...Tears soon streaked down the corner of my eyes as I waddled on the cold floor. Clutching my stomach.

My hair.

Eyes.

Doing everything I could, to stop the pain, to stop the illusory tentacles moving through my body.

Yet... nothing.

Nothing I did worked!

And if anything, it only increased the pain that gnawed at me.

Clawing at me at a frantic pace.

Finally...I could scream no longer.

My eyes stared at the eerie dark ceiling above me.

I hurriedly gasped for breath as tears streaked down the corner of my eyes.

The pain was too much.

It was becoming unbearable.

I was tired of it.

I want it to stop.

It had to stop…please.

Tears continued to well within the depth of my eyes, blood flowing down the corner of my eyes.

Slowly, I lost the ability to think.

A weird flow of power suddenly slammed onto my mind.

I felt as though i had been struck by a world.

And... that was all it took.

My eyes blacked out completely.

An all familiar darkness overwhelming me in that strange yet familiar warmth.

And what dreaded me the most.

What caused even more blood stained tears to fall from my eyes was that I was going to go through the same pain all over again.

...And perhaps even worse.

I tried to cry.

Tried to scream to the heavens if they did exist.

Yet only blood-riddled coughs escaped my lips.

A bitter expression soon settled on my face as I closed my eyes in resignation to the cold and warm nature of death's eternal embrace.

If this was the end, I would have been happy.

Glad even.

Yet I knew this was only the beginning.

The beginning of something more dreadful and horrifying.

It was the beginning of something more monstrous than I could have ever imagined possible.

And if I don't do anything about it, it would only get even worse.

Slowly, a thought crept into my tortured mind.

...I have to find a way to get out of this time loop.

I have to.

My eyes finally got closed as I fell into a perpetual, never ending darkness.