Layla had maybe spent around a day, climbing her way up the well, but it didn't seem to work, and slowly, she got exhausted pulling herself up every time, so she let herself fall down the infinite welt again.
'Atleast I got some light from the Oil Lamp...'
Well, as Fate wanted it, the occasional flickers of the Oil Lamp stopped right after she thought about that.
'Oh common !'
Layla continued falling aimlessly, being stuck in the air for multiple hours.
'Oh god, this is so fucking boring. This well doesn't even make sense ! Doesn't make sense ... Am I under a mind spell ?
Layla, think .. what happened before i fell into the well? The Watcher pushed me with a physical shadow ... it likes to prank and always watches.'
"I know you're out there ! Get me out !"
But nothing happened.
'Isn't he supposed to be my "friend" ?'
Layla manifested her sword again and held it against her neck.
"I'll kill myself if you don't get me out of here."
Again, nothing.
'Oh god, please. I hope I'm not wrong.'
"I'm not joking."
Layla pushed the blade of her sword further, making herself bleed slightly, but yet again, nothing happened.
She started to sweat while pushing even further, and slowly it was getting dangerous.
'Please don't let me be wrong. I know it's pranking me.'
As Layla pressed even further, more blood splashing out of her neck, everything around her suddenly started to crack before shining white.
It seemed like reality itself was getting destroyed, the space around her behind, before she found herself outside of the well again, sitting on black grass.
'Puh, I knew i could trust my "Friend".'
Layla stood up with a groan and looked back into the well. This time, there was no true darkness, but just a normal well, a torn of page inside of it.
'I think I'll never trust wells again.'
She reached down and picked the last page up before reading it.
Chapter 777: New Beginnings
"A normal, human girl had found herself in the dark Cathedral, which was built for Unknowns. She had a fragment of the first Unknown inside of her and had longed for the truth.
Her objective was to find all the pages of the unholy book, Unknown Writings. While in the Cathedral, she had also befriended the first Shadow.
In the end, she had found exactly 776 chapters but there was one left. She searched and searched but just couldn't find it inside of the Cathedral, so she left it and went on a small journey.
Outside, everything was black, smeared in ink and grime, as she made her way to a small and abandoned village.
She fell into an infinite well and when she escaped, she had found the last chapter to the book.
After reading it, she had decided to make her way back to the Cathedral and meet her fate.'
'Is this chapter about me ? It's name is New Beginnings and it exactly described what I did. But wait, the last part hasn't happened yet.
Is that the future ? Does it want me to go back to the Cathedral and meet my "fate" ?
I guess I should do that then.'
And so, Layla decided to make her way back to the Cathedral, which took longer than she wanted to since the the ground was literally made out of ink and a weird grime.
After she arrived, she went through the large main door and then was back inside of the main hall.
'So what am I supposed to do now ? It said that I would meet my "fate"'
Suddenly she felt something in her makeshift bag moving. It was the book and all of its chapters, trying to get out off it.
As Layla opened her bag, every page and the book started glowing blue and flying back to the Altar, where Layla had first found the book.
The book sat down on it while all of the pages whirled around in the air, still shining blue.
Page after page, the chapters started flying into the book with insane speeds, and after a while, it suddenly stopped.
[You have received a Memory ...]
Memories: [Unknown Whisper], [Unknown Writings]
[Unknown Writings]
Type: Unknown
Rank: Unknown
Tier: Unknown
Description: [A book, that hides the unknown truth inside of it].
Attributes: [Indestructible]
Attribute Description: "Under no circumstances can this Memory be destroyed."
'So I got the book as a Memory ? Theres not much use for it but cool, I guess. Maybe I can read read from it to my future kids.'
Suddenly, Layla heard a sound tho she really couldn't describe. It was loud and quiet at the same time. High pitched but also low, infront of her but also behind her.
And that sound came from a Creature that appeared infront of the Altar, just like that, without any reason at all.
Just like the sound, the creature was weird and indescribable again. It was a cube but also a ball at the same time. It existed in the first, the second and the third dimension but also kinda in none. It was dark but also light and it kinda shivered.
In one second, they stood infront of each other, and in the next one, Layla was dead.
Everything went dark.
[You have died]
'Huh ?'
But suddenly, Layla and whatever that Creature was, stood infront of eachother again. And in the next second, she was dead again.
[You have died]
[You have died]
[You have died]
This continued for a while till Layla's eyes slightly adjusted to the movements of whatever that being was.
Right when she revived, she instantly dodged to the left and the creature ran past her, right through the spot she stood a fraction before.
It was absurdly fast, so fast that Layla pretty much had no way to react.
And then, she died again.
[You have died]
When she revived, she found herself at the first position again, the one she dodged from last life.
And then, she died again.
[You have died]
Layla had no time to think, but she knew that this was a game of Memory. The Creature always did the same thing and when Layla died, she would reset to the first "Point".
This meant that that she needed to memorize its movements with after each death and dodge accordingly.
She reviv-
'Left.'
'Right'
[You have died]
'Left'
'Left'
'Left'
[You have died]
'Left'
'Left'
'Right'
'Right'
[You have died]
This continued for a very long time.
Sometimes she needed to go left, sometimes right. When both didn't work, she either needed to go back, jump or move diagonally
'Left'
'Left'
'Right'
'Left'
'Jump'
'Top right'
'Back'
'Jump'
'Fuck, I forgot'
[You have died.]
This continued for a very long time and it slowly started damaging Layla's psyche. She doesn'tknow how long she had spend here, maybe days, maybe even weeks.
She had completly memorized around 200 Steps but she didn't know what to do, how to kill the Creature, how to win.
'Left'
'Left'
'Right'
'Left'
'Jump'
'Top right'
'Back'
'Jump'
...
'Turn around and duck'
'Roll to the left while moving your foot up to avoid it'
'Jump on the wall and then away'
...
[You have died.]
[Attention ... You have reached 1.000.000 deaths. You will be given a tip.
Tip: Creature dies after 100 connections against anything.]
Layla didn't have much time to think since she revived after that, but she had already formed a plan. She needed to make the Creature run against the wall, 100 times.
'Left'
'Left'
'Dash to wall'
'Dodge last second'
'Impact, 1'
'Rig-'
[You have died]
Layla slowly became even crazier but maybe that craziness was what she needed. She didn't know how her brain was still working, but she knew that this wasn't healthy.
[impact, 37]
'Jump'
[You have died]
She needed to forget all of the combinations she had memorized for the past weeks and learn new ones. She went crazy, fell into despair as she memorized everything again.
That bastard was too fast, too strong. Layla couldn't react but only randomly try, then die till she dodged, and the memorize it for the next try.
And so, another few weeks passed.
'Left'
'Jump'
'Cube thing speedblitzes under you.'
'Impact 100'
And then, the Creature suddenly lighted up and shattered into shards.
[You have slain an Unknown Unknown, Unknown]
Layla just fell down, her eyes emotionless and dead.
She wasn't even really happy. She didn't know why she always revived after each death but her theory was that it was a kind of mind attack or something.
She had maybe died two million, no, three million times ? Her human brain somehow still worked functionally but this defenitely would leave scars on her.
She probably needed therapy.
[Wake up, Layla! Your nightmare is over.]
[Prepare for appraisal...]
——-Author's Notes——-
Words: 1476
So her Nightmare is finally done, except for the appraisal, I guess.
I'm not sure if y'all enjoyed the last fight since it's kinda special and weird but I had fun writing it.
I have some really cool plans for Layla in the appraisal so be excited !
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