A middle-aged man who had been evidently malnourished had his head bowed as he knelt in a dark and damp cave underground. His skin sticking to his bones as though he did not have any muscles, and yet, he was able to lift up his head to look up at the damp ceilling, a crazed look emerged on his pale face.
As though possessed, he stood up like a puppet moving to a puppeteer's strings. He lifted both his hands and closed each into a tight fist, before extending them forwards in a spiralling motion, his torn black clothes fluttering from the sudden and swift motion.
"With this sealed artefact, I summon-" his words were cut-off by the freezing of the literal air itself. Then, multiple abilities were utilised, not on the man, but rather another far more acrobatic man near the exit of the cave.
Along with the abilities that solidified the air itself, the second man's body was split into countless pale worms before a flood of ash and black tentacles encircled and captured almost every single worm, trapping them eternally in a seal. The sources of these abilities soon revealed themselves to be 5 individuals of differing clothing and stature, but all working for organisations with similar goals.
However, one incredibly small worm, almost too small for the eye to even see, managed to wriggle its way past these adversaries and into the body of the muted skinny man. The tiny worm dove into the skin at the foot of the man, unable to dive further deeper due to the lack of proper flesh, but continued wriggling along the bones, stretching the skin around itself.
Moments later, the man who had stopped moving due to the thickening of the air, and then turned limp due to the elimination of the connection that kept him moving, but did not fall due to the thick air around it, suddenly regained the ability to move as the worm merged with the puppet entirely.
The man's closed lips suddenly parted, but this motion was hidden by the fact that the man was facing away from the group of 5 individuals. And yet, the raspy words that came out of its mouth caused all 5 to flinch in shock and rush to action.
"-the 8 Spoked Infinite Wheel Divine General Mahoraga!"
Their actions, no matter how swift, were ultimately too late as the words were fully spoken and the puppet collapsed to the ground, its bones unable to be held together any longer as its puppeteer's control had vanished.
"No!" The younger female of the group shouted as she immediately opened the stop-watch in her hand causing all the black liquid tentacles to rapidly rush into it and formed the hands of the watch.
As this was happening, a bald man opened an urn and rapidly summoned back the ashes and hair into it along with the worms they had captured.
Both these individuals, as well as the other three had not stopped and immediately ran, using whatever sealed artefacts of escape they had with them to leave the underground catacombs of the city as quickly as possible. They knew what failure in stopping the ritual meant, and running was all they could do.
Meanwhile, behind the fallen puppet of a man, a white cocoon slowly grew out for the ground with a silent hum of threads emerging through rocks.
Once fully emerged, it rapidly hardened, turning from a translucent white to a ivory white as steam rapidly escaped the threads which formed the cocoon.
*Crack*
The tall cocoon cracked as chunks fell off, within a few seconds of the hardening process being completed, before all the cocoon exploded in every direction with intense speed, fracturing the rock walls and ceiling it impacted.
*Bang*
What remained in its original space was a white abomination. It had two wings in place of each of its eyes and its head extended to form a tail-like protrusion. It lacked lips, a nose, ears, eyebrows, and even hair, only having a large mouth on its face in a grinning expression.
'Finally…'
However, its thoughts came to a stop as they vanished, the creature now unsure of what it had been thinking of until that moment.
*Creak*
*Thump*
The golden floating helm with glowing balls at its ends suddenly creaked and turned 1/8th of a full rotation as the creature twisted its head to the side while observing a worm rapidly transform in front of it.
The ringed worm quickly turned into a human in formal attire with a western style to it…
The thought once again vanishing from the creature's mind as the man put on a crystal monocle and smiled genuinely at the creature.
*Creak*
*Thump*
The helm spun once again, completing another eighth of a full rotation, but the creature seemed oblivious of this fact.
"What are you?" the man spoke up first while observing the creature with a curious glance.
'I am-'
*Creak*
*Thump*
"Divine General Mahoraga? I already knew that when the unfortunate lad tried to use this even more unfortunate lad to summon you. This does not answer my question."
'I am-'
*Creak*
*Thump*
Huffing in annoyance, the creature who towered over the man at 8ft tall and 4ft wide at its shoulders, lunged at the man with its hand to swat away the annoying fly-
*Creak*
*Thump*
It stopped for another moment, confused, but even more annoyed as it tried agai-
*Creak*
*Thump*
*Creak*
*Thump*
*Creak*
*Thump*
With an entire revolution of the wheel complete, the creature huffed as it took in a deep breath, and released a roar that blasted away everything in its vicinity.
"Oh?" The man raised an eyebrow as he could no longer steal the thoughts of the creature. He had only been able to understand that the creature was called Divine General Mahoraga, and he was somewhat of a cursed creature… whatever that was meant to be.
"Unfortunately, our time together was not meant to be… till next time~" he bowed while the wave of air reached him.
And now, he could no longer gain more information this way, which made him even more curious as his fragile body was flung backwards into the stone wall behind him, shattering into nothingness as a lifeless worm fell to the ground and dissolved into nothingness.
Meanwhile, multiple individuals appeared, one of them pulling out a giant two-handed sword of rotting flesh and swinging it at the creature without hesitation.
*Bang*
The sword was unable to break through the defences of the creature, but it did not need to as the effect of the sword rapidly took action, eating away at the white flesh of the creature and turning it necrotic and black.
Another figure pulled out a strange emblem the shone with a resplendent darkness that silenced everything, turning the world eternally dark.
The last figure who had appeared with blood-red gloves in each hand closed his eyes in a silent prayer before thrusting the sword into the heard of the creature. This time, it managed to penetrate the thick skin of the creature, only to stop 4 centimetres in.
*Creak*
*Thump*