394 The World Descends Into Chaos Part 1
Sometimes I wonder if things happen for a reason. I wonder if it is because of the things I have done in my life that things happen in such a way that I am left without many options. I wonder if it is because of this that I am stuck here now, as I step out of the palace a large beam of light incinerates half of the lower capital, firing straight up into the sky turning night into day as my barrier shatters into dust.
The light was like an anatomic bomb going off as it rose high into the air leaving behind absolute nothingness. There was no shock wave. There was no wind. Only the sound of the shatter of my barrier and the scene of millions of lives disappearing right before my eyes.
What did the people of my empire do to deserve such an end? What did they do to be killed for no reason? The people I worked with for so long at my factories were now gone. Tryu and his sister. The entire east side slums, were gone in the blink of an eye.
I had no bad blood with the undead kingdom. I never once wanted to provoke them. But this was too much. Why? Why were my people dying for no reason? “Why!!!!!!???” I yelled out at the top of my lungs. I couldn’t take this. I couldn’t stand the people I knew dying one after the other for no reason. Is it because of me? Am I a bane to those who are around me? Am I some kind of plague that no matter where I go brings nothing but death and destruction to those I care for? Will my own family be next?
“Heh…. Hahaha!” My mind slowly sank into nothingness. I felt cold, and I felt the world around me slowly descending into darkness. “You dare…. You dare harm my people!? You dare harm the ones I care about!?”
“Faith!” I could hear Diablo calling out my name, but I was in no mood to listen as I shot into the air.
In my mind’s sea, I sat in the white space curled up into a ball. In front of me, smiling away, was another me. “Do you want revenge? Do you want your enemies destroyed? Let me take over, and I will destroy everything that stands in your way.”
“Leave me alone. I will not let you have my body.” I replied, but I could already feel my mind sinking deeper. Through my eyes, below me was a massive hole that was tens of miles wide in all directions, and coming from that huge hole were millions, maybe even billions, of undead. They were flooding out and moving in all directions attacking and murdering everything and everyone they came across.
I waved my hand and cast a barrage of fireballs into the hole, but they were stopped easily by a strong barrier. “Haha!” A familiar laugh came from within the hole. I looked down to see five figures slowly rise up from the hole. Each one with purple lines on their skin. “It’s been a while, my little friend, but hmmm… You are not very strong now, are you?”
“Faith!” Diablo showed up beside me as well as Iena and Freidinia. When Diablo saw the man in the middle of the five people, his brow furrowed: “Azengrade!”
“That it is. I am happy you still remember me. I am the General of the Altorians. It is a pleasure to meet you officially. To think that we would meet so soon, well… Maybe not since I had planned to wait a little longer, but I got word you are using an interesting bit of technology and wanted to check it out for myself. Of course, this is just a lie” Azengrade smiled a toothy grin.
“Why? Why are you killing innocent people!?” I yelled out. I should be attacking. I should be trying to stop these bastards, but I still did not understand they would kill so many.
“Hmmm? Cattle to the cause are nothing more than a means of fulfilling our goals. You see. We only want one thing.” Azengrade slowly raised and pointed his finger at me as he smiled sinisterly. “We want you to die.”
I was confused. I did not understand why he wanted me, of all people, to die. This made no sense since I had never met him before the time in the dungeon. “Me? Why me? What have I done?”
“What have you done?! You do not know!?” Azengrade expression turned cold. “You, of all people, should know what you have done. Because of you…. Because of you….”
“General! Why waste time!? Let’s just kill her now!” Teladeadja cried out as his hands changed into sharp claws.
“I will not let you!” Diablo suddenly shot forward with Freidinia. I wanted to reach out and stop him, but a voice in my head was screaming at me. Screaming so loudly that I couldn’t even think straight.
“Shut up!” I yelled out as I held my head and stumbled backward. The ancient will in my mind was crushing my thoughts.
“Let me out! Let me out! You can not handle them! You will only kill more of your people!” The other me yelled out over and over. My head was pounding. The pain was stopping me from taking any action.
“Shut up! You are in the way!” I yelled out as I shook my head and hit it with my fists. If I could, I would reach in and rip the bitch out of my head!
“Faith.” Iena, who was at my side, called out to me. But as I looked up at her concerned face, I saw it…. A splash of blood and a claw pierced through Iena’s chest.
“Iena!? Iena!?” My eyes went wide as the hand retracted and Iena’s body fell limp into my arms. I turned and looked at Teladeadja, who was standing there licking his bloody claw with a smile on his face. It was then that the world around me turned blood red…..
“Hahahahha! I am finally freee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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