(1st PoV Lucia)----------
I keep following him, but then something terrifying appeared. I could sense it, its signature was looks like that 'place' in his mind.
I couldn't move my legs, my body was covered in a sweat as I look to a ripple appeared in front him.
After a few moments it became bigger with size of adult, the ripple started to distorted as a spark of black lightning spreading around the ripple
Then, a fair skinned hand appeared from the ripple. After that a legs with a black stocking and black shoes came out from the ripple.
Not long after that, the figure came out from the portal, it was a girl around 18 with height around 160cm, she has an otherworldly beauty. A long ash-colored hair, fair white skin, a silver colored pupil with black eyes, she also has a perfect body for a girl around her age. She wear a tortilla colored trenchcoat with a black sweater within, and a long skirt with same color.
There she was standing looking at Reo while the ripple gradually disappeared but I know that sometimes her eyes was focused at me.
'No... no..' I familiar with that feeling, the feeling that I would never forget. Even those pest from Pantheon couldn't give me those feeling.
"De...ath.... D....is.. a...pp..ear...."(Death... Disappear) I mumbled unconsciously.
Reo there was standing still, a silence enveloping us, but right now I just want to leave immediately.
"What..." he mumbled, she then chuckled, right now I was trying to leave.
"*Tele- Gahk.." A pitch black chain restrained me. My heartbeat rapidly increased, I couldn't move all my mind was screaming 'disappear'. my breath became ragged.
I stopped then, accepting my fate while reflecting my actions. Smiled bitterly I mumbled.
"Curiosity killed the Cat?" but, that's not the end. A sword was formed in my temporal space, pointing at me in the mid air.
My pupil dilated as I resigned my fate.
"..P-"
Stab-
'It hurt. it hurt. it really hurt. stop. please it hurt. it hurt. it hurt. I'm dying. someone save me. please. hurt. it hurt. it really hurt. stop. so..... painful....' That was my last thought, but the death was I feared wasn't coming, instead the world around me distorted.
The space around me then broken. Reo looks at me, I was frightened, my body was trembling under both of their gaze. That time I realize what exactly it's 'That' thing are.
'It was a primal fear... that was planted deep down within since beginning...'
"Since when...." He asked me, I forced to opened my mouth as I overcame a bit of my fear.
"Unconscious... forest...." I said in a low voice. I was forced myself to calm down but looking at Reo back, I see a cold gaze upon me.
'So suffocating....' I didn't complaint, I now started to disappointed to myself. These events remind me how weak I am, even thought I was standing in the top in this world.
'Ignorance is a bliss... but once you know the truth... you paid the price...'
"Who are you.." He asked. Before I could talk, I see the girl behind Reo Opened her mouth.
"Lucia... A Higher being in this world.... Say Reo.... What are you gonna do with her?" She said with a cold eyes.
I grit my teeth, and started to lowering my head. What will happen to me, I was about to lock my consciousness deep within me. But nothing happened.
As I realize that they are gone to the city. I immediately leave to the forest he came from.
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"Haah... They seem see this world as their picnic garden... at least they didn't do mass massacre... only one tree down and broken boulder...." I sighed, finding nothing in particular. no anomaly or something else, I will just check beast territory in south.
But I stopped, I narrowly looking at the Northwest. As I prepared to see the Three Link, something happen.
Ss-
I widened my eyes, looking at my left cheek that was wounded, a chain flew passing me. I immediately retreated while cancelling my ability.
"*Shield*" A transparent blue barrier covered me. I take a glance toward the weapon for a moment before I tracing back the trajectory.
'Short Blade with a chain.' I clicked my tongue as the surrounding became colder.
Around me was seventeen gray robed figure who suddenly appeared. They all wear a mask with overlapping eyes that looks like a cross.
"Abyssal Garden... so you haven't give up?..." I muttered as I recognized their signature symbol, an overlapping eyes that looks like a cross.
All of them didn't answer and keep silent as they started to take out their weapon. Their weapons was same which was odd, it was a short blade with a chain.
But then my vision was blurry in a moment, I forced myself to entering my focused state.
'Weakening Poison!? and it was potent enough to make me vulnerable!... They really want to kill me.... Moreover all of them was upper echelon who was in disguise...' I stopped my thought as one of them that was in front of me started to throwing the weapon at me, the weapon fly toward me at fast speed.
I hastily started to removing the poison inside me as I closed my eyes to hastened the process while hoping that the shield was durable enough to protect me until the poison gone.
Stab-
I opened my eyes, looking at my abdomen. There, the short sword stabbed me. I was in shock while the poison was 20% done.
"Ho...w..." I mumbled with shaken voice.