Chapter 558: Do Not Read
Chapter 278
“Do something!” Desmond yelled, seeing the condition of his students. Things were going well until suddenly Zeus unlocked his power to the maximum and he became strong enough to defeat the headmaster and his power was still on the rise.
At the rate it was going up, his power would soon reach the divine rank and maybe even beyond after that.
“There is nothing to do.” The analyst replied before he added, “The artifact is at full capacity, unless someone in there dies, we cannot send someone in. And even if we do, how are we going to do anything about him?”
Desmond couldn’t reply to the analyst’s questions because he himself had the same questions and no answer to those questions.
He looked at Michelle, hoping to get an answer but she didn’t have one as well. Sirius wasn’t here because he, along with almost every other powerhouse of humanity, had left for the Dungeon of Diamonds.
All things considered, the only answer they had right now was to do nothing. Because they couldn’t do anything. It wasn’t anything alive that was killing them.
It was the artifact, a memory, and destroying that artifact wouldn’t help as well because now the students were also a part of the said memory, and destroying the artifact meant erasing the memory and every other thing along with it.
“They are on their own,” Michelle said which everyone was afraid to say.
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“Now that we’ve established I’m holding your lives in my hands, maybe you’ll answer some of my questions with more motivation now,” Zeus said in a language that no one understood but he wasn’t really hoping for that.
He just wanted to torture them all, letting them know that their lives could be snuffed out at any moment. Live with that burden, the burden of a sword hanging on their necks constantly.
“This obviously isn’t Central Park and you’re obviously not from the Comicon pretending to be wizards from Hogwa*ts,” Zeus said.
‘Central Park? New Yorker?’ Sophien thought inwardly but she still didn’t say a word. She also knew what Zeus was doing, he was snuffing hope and it was working. They were afraid of dying and they knew they could die at any moment now.
Zeus looked at the eyes of everyone present, a shrill fear passing through everyone which he enjoyed. His gaze, however, stopped at Sophien. Her eyes not only held hope, it also held something else. Something he couldn’t quite put his finger on for a while before he realized. It was just that; realization.
“You understand me, don’t you?” Zeus said in his own language. Sophien, on the other hand, panicked, but only inwardly. She kept the same look as everyone on the outside.
But, she did panic inwardly and that caused her heart to race a little.
Zeus smiled as he picked that up and said, “I’m not interested in finding out the details of this place from you. I just need you to relay a message to the others for me.”
As Zeus finished saying that, his feet lifted off the ground and he began to rise slowly up above in the sky. He kept rising until he was at a considerable height and spoke, “Tell them, they’re all going to die.”
A useless message. A message to invoke nothing but more fear into the hearts of everyone but it didn’t matter. He was still going to say that so they could all learn the kind of existence he was before he killed them.
Live with the image of a being that was practically a god for them.
Zeus raised his hand up high in the sky, straight as a pole, electric tendrils on his hands. Soon after, a huge thunderbolt began to form in the sky above his hand.
It kept accumulating and accumulating until it became so colossal that it was the only thing in the sky.
It was then that Zeus turned his gaze to them, all those lost in despair. He smiled, he didn’t know why, but he smiled. He felt amused in that moment.
All fear forgotten.
And that was what felt amazing.
Having no fear. Being somewhere where his father or brother weren’t. He was ecstatic.
‘No one to fear,’ was what he thought.
But, as if nature was playing a sick joke on him, that fear returned right at that moment.
Boomm!!!!!!!
Woosshhh!!!!
A giant explosion that shook the surface of the earth, a shockwave that shook the ones standing on it, and a tremor that shook the foundations of the very earth they were on.
And a pillar of white light.
With an ominous feeling, Zeus turned to the pillar of light and that was when it returned.
Fear had returned.
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“Kughh!!!” An old man fell from the bed and crashed into the table sitting near the bed. Natasha saw the old man, the apostle of darkness, curl over in pain and hurriedly made her way to him.
“What is it, Sir? Are you in pain?” She asked while also applying wood and healing magic to the old man but it didn’t help. It wasn’t that the darkness was conflicting with the power of nature, it was because it wasn’t the typical pain at all.
“My ancestors….” The old man managed to squeeze these words out. Barely, of course, because it was taking him all to say that.
But it helped Natasha figure out what the problem was but it wasn’t good news in the least.
Ancestral problem meant it was a problem with the soul and no one could do anything about a soul. The pain was permanent and it was going to stay that way.
So she began to heal his mind where the pain was. It didn’t help the pain, but it confused the pain which eased the pain a little and brought a little relief along with a soothing sensation.
And using that opportunity, the old man managed to yell, “Archangel!!!” before he passed out of pain.
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The apostle of darkness was lucky he had Natasha to ease off the pain but Astaroth didn’t have the same luxury. He was screaming his lungs out over the pain that was assaulting his soul and his mind and in doing so, assaulting his body.
But he didn’t have the luxury of warning anyone who was worried for him because almost all of them were going through the same feeling. Of course, less intense than Astaroth, but it was still intense enough for them to be in a world of pain.
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Something similar was happening to the vampire race. The pain of their ancestors was being transmitted through their souls to their minds and bodies.
And it was worse for the burned vampire who was lying on the bed, unconscious but his body shook even though his mind was irresponsive.
Even the vampire king wasn’t spared of that pain and was kneeling over his throne, trying to control his throbbing heart that felt like it was about to burst.
And at the same time, in an unknown location in the vampire kingdom, a forest so deep and so dark and lush that no light could enter that place. Just like no light could, no living being or living dead could also enter that place.
In the middle of that forest, where the darkness was the heaviest despite the sun shining on the entire world, was a structure that resembled a tomb.
But vampires didn’t bury their dead. The dead were burned so the vampires didn’t have a tomb. Only those who chose to sleep for the rest of eternity, leaving the living world behind get to have a tomb.
And in such a tomb, in the middle of it, laid a coffin. The coffin was pitch black in color but the power within couldn’t help but express itself to the outsiders.
But today reacting to that colossal power, that power began to materialize at a greater rate. A blood-colored mist began to ooze out from the coffin and the being lying inside began to twitch.
It didn’t wake up.
But it did let the world know of its existence.
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At the same time, Alderman, the leader of the werewolves looked up in the sky. His gaze held the wisdom of long age and no hunger that came with his racial characteristic.
However, the same couldn’t be said for the rest of his race. While they were not in pain because they didn’t have a connection to their ancestors, they were still sensitive to the power that was assaulting the entire world.
“He has returned once again,” Alderman said while looking up at the sky. “The one who cursed our race.”
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“Aahhhh!!!!” in a pristine palace, on a pristine throne, sat an unbelievably gorgeous woman in white clothes. Well, now she was on the floor because she fell down the throne and then the stairs that led to the platform of the throne.
The others in that place, those who were also sitting with her in the court hurriedly made their way to her, worried about her.
Another extremely beautiful woman touched the woman who fell, trying to find the source of her pain which was making her scream but she didn’t find any.
“Veronica, what is the matter?” A man asked but Veronica, the woman shivering didn’t reply.
Her shivering became so intense that her entire body began to shake greatly.
It was only then that she and all those around her realized. She wasn’t in pain.
“He’s back. The monster is back.”
Fear was what she felt.