NOVEL NEXT Chapter 3: His Nightmare
It's been almost a week and a half since they departed the camp, One could clearly see the troubled looks of 3 awakened eyeing a mundane human laying almost asleep on a makeshift laying aid to transport him to the closest siege capital.
"Zero you don't have much time so listen to me, once you wake up don't forget to call upon your runes and to investigate your surroundings, it's of utmost importance knowing what you are up against."
The sleeping mundane just laid there looking at the sky then talking.
"yeah yeah I know Dale, I'll get this over with as quick as I can and join you guys to get to the capitalll." He said as his words began slurring.
And he soon closed his eyes and they could only watch him with anticipation and then took him up and made their way to the capital.
But to their surprise the sleeping zero was still mildly awake before losing his consciousness, he heard this.
"Alright guys pack up, we have to deliver him alive wether that is post or past nightmare doesn't matter,
We've been promised a giant sum to live our life's without worry, now hurry up! And take out your echoes, we can't let then waste away after all!"
Zero couldve sworn he just heard words of betrayal as he succumbed to the spell.
[Aspirant! Welcome to theNightmare Spell.
Prepare for your first trial.]
Zero dreamt of vast plains made of grass and flowers
It quickly changed scenery to a devasted battlefield with hundred of thousands of humans fighting each other. Many creatures of stone like bodies marching forwards,
Beings incomprehensible to the mind passed by as fast as they appeared.
The scenery changed again as everything blacked out, black as their eye could see, dark. Nothingness.
Until something moved and more started doing the same under a unpleasant dark star radiating slight light close to moonlight.
Then time stopped and resumed at its usual pace.
[Aspirant!Welcome to the Nightmare Spell.Prepare for your first triallllll??×÷+÷=!]
He jolted his eyes open
'What was that at the end there?'
'I never heard of the spell doing such'
He thought worryingly on his predicament.
But all he could see was darkness, utter ..void almost like the sky at nightfall
'I-i should get to my runes maybe it'll help me!' He thought a bit desperate.
Name: Zero
True name: -
Rank: Aspirant
Soul Core: Dormant
Memories: -
Echoes: -
Attributes: [Fated], [Mark of Divinity], [Void Spawn]
Aspect: [Wretched spawn]
Aspect description: [you are a long forgotten existence born of Divinity from inside the void, as time passed you have gained consciousness but your fate is sealed to be used as canon fodder in the doom war.]
He thought long after seeing his runes...he didn't know what to make of it.
There wasn't much going on so he had time to quickly organise his thoughts.
'[Wretched spawn] doesn't really tell me much, born of Divinity in the void? What does that mean? And the doom war? I only heard father talk about it on very rare occasions, where deamons sick of the heavens who distanced themselves from the humans and themselves rose for a rebellion, is that where I am? But why is everything dark' he thought
As he said that he saw something move in the endless encompassing darkness around him.
He quickly prepared a combat stance for what would come at him but..then he could see outlines of the creature that was looking at him with curiosity.
He wondered why he could see it it in general? Wasn't it absolutely dark?
'my Attributes! Right I forgot to check them damnit' he cursed in his mind before quickly calling his runes forth.
[Fated] Attribute Description:
"The strings of fate wrap tightly around you. Unlikely events, both good and bad, are drawn by your presence. There are those who are blessed, and there are those who are cursed... but rarely both."
He cursed under his breath.. is that the reason why he was in this predicament?
Then glanced over to his over two.
[Mark Of Divinity] Attribute Description: " You bear a faint scent
Of Divinity, as though someone briefly touched by it once, a long time ago."]
'..that doesn't tell me anything.' He thought to himself.
[Void Spawn] Attribute Description: " as you are born from the Void you bear a strong scent of ÷#<^, you can see clearly in true darkness and are immune to corr><&×÷+]
'hm...this tells me a bit more but not too much..well I can't expect the spell to lay everything down for me on a silver tablet I suppose 'he chuckled to himself at that thought.
'this certainly explains why I can barely see here but what is this here then? Isn't it dark? Or as it called it true darkness? I wonder, so many question but no anwser' as he thought of this the creature of dark moved closer to him or so he thought as the outlines slowly closed in on him.
As he opened his mouth to question the strange creature
">+<×>&×>+&+>×&!"
He..was in disbelief
'what just happened?'He never heard something more terrible trying to sound like it's communicating.
The creature stopped in it's tracks as if looking at him in relief
'what could be so relieving about sounding like a monster??' he thought
As the creature, now closing in much quicker he was worried but didn't try to act as it could be a threat.
He looked at it right infront of his face or so he thought, he couldn't see his hands nor body.
It started poking him as if wanting something
He didn't quite understand the reason but he poked back and to his terrible shock
[You have slain a dormant devil, Void Spawn]
He watched as it fell apart and scattered to the bottomless ground in horror.
'w-what the spell?! Was it trying to eat Me by just poking me?? Wait a dormant devil? Am I one too? But why was it so weak.'
He quickly looked around and to his shock, there were many of these void spawn while he couldnt see them clearly, he thought that they were eyeing hin hungrily.
'Great I just arrive and not only do I barely know what's going on I also have to deal with dormant devils from the start of my nightmare, this makes me more than just worried' he thought getting a shudder down his spine as he thought of this..or what he presumed to be his spine.
'Better act myself before they do! I'm not sure how many pokes I can survive, as silly as it sounds I've almost died just now' he thought gloomy and yet in a sarcastic way.
[You have slain a dormant devil, Void Spawn]
[You have slain a dormant devil, Void Spawn]
[You have slain a dormant devil, Void Spawn]X17
He wasn't sure about how much time had passed but he was sure it was a lot
'I.. am alive..somehow' he thought to himself
"+÷÷/'~|-" He said in a low voice immediately stopping himself as his own voice send a shiver down his being.
'Did I just kill my siblings?' He thought to himself and also reminding not to talk again.
He wasn't completely wrong about it as he also was a [Void Spawn] but what this entailed he didn't know yet.