In a dank,silent dungeon ,with a little lamp releasing blood-red light in the right-top corner of an old damp room,stench coming from every where.A young man around 25 years old was tightly bandaged on a cracking chair,unable to budge an inch.
“Eh—?Where am I?”inquired the man curiously as he started to get back of his sense.Trying his best to look around the eerie chamber he was in , inhaled.He seemed just like understood everything , then , he twitched his head a little to make it more comfortable,which was the only part of his body he could move.After a few second of preparation , he gazed at the furthest corner from the lamp, sneered,”I dare you to stop hiding,you coward!” A rustling sound came across , suddenly , a figure with a crimson cloak hanging on his shoulder emerged in the dark shade , with a goggle on his eyes , cackled, and said,”Don’t you think your [inferno eyes] will work on me? Naive! Naive!! Who do you think gave you the power? The god? Hahaha— I thought how clever you were!”
“you mean—” cringed the bandaged man with unease.
“Yes,you’re right!” The cloaked man beamed proudly, “can’t see my eyes right? Can’t burn me therefore right? Listen, it’s not just a normal glasses I’m wearing, it’s a goggle just against you, made against you! Since you’ve got your [inferno eyes] I’ve been preparing. Don’t you think I suppose a heaven competitor like you making that kind of foul is normal? You failed , you failed completely!”
“I failed—No—!!!” The bandaged man shouted, shocked and panicked.
“But as a reward for your outstanding courage,I give you one question to ask me, whatever you ask,I will answer.” Said the cloaked figure with a little appreciation
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The bandaged man,got back from panic ,hesitated for a moment, then asked thoughtfully, “Is there anything you are afraid of or you can’t handle?”
Abruptly,the cloaked man’s face went dark, then substituted with fear, scanned around the small chamber with his eyes. Just at the same time, an emerald green speck of mass appeared in the centre of the room, shrinking , about to explode.
Shivered the figure,answered in a shocked scared voice, “I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you, it’s a secret, and the only weakness of my lord, even if you are going to forget it, you ought not to know, I’m sorry for this.”
“I know it! I know you are just liars!” Roared the bandaged man angrily “It’s just like the world! Full of lies!No one can even get—”
“Enough!”snapped the cloaked,quivering figure, as the green ball-like mass got to its smallest size, and getting scarlet “It’s the time already, I shall end this poor, childish little hero.”
He raised his hand, then tensed, a large , translucent bubble surrounded the bandaged man, who was now disoriented and confused, said “are you not going to kill me?”
“Shut up!” The man bellowed, “Don’t distract me , it’s a delicate sort of slumberor I’m using. Then he muttered to himself “we killed too much—too much! There is no much left.”
As the bubble popped out, the bandaged man was still there, but unconscious, like the soul has been drained out of his body.
simultaneously, the ball-like mass started to disappear. While a rough, deep voice came straight into the cloaked man’s head “Well done! Now refresh his soul and put him back to the competitor’s world. Don’t leave any clues!”
“Yes,my lord.”
“And don’t forget to watch over him, I think some accidents are happening , otherwise he wouldn’t be brave enough to make this attempt.”
“Yes sir.”
“Get ready to face the crisis!”
As the voice ceased, the cloaked man flicked his finger , the lamp in the corner shook, and went off. Then both him and the soulless man vanished in the complete darkness.
