Finale (Part I) A future in the dark
Lost?
How could it be lost?
We can't lose to that monster even if we die!
I wanted to say all these words, but the endless fear of the ancient gods made me stuck them in my throat.
I could feel that the old man wanted to say something more to me, but with the sound of chewing, he gradually lost his voice.
As if it had never appeared, it disappeared completely.
"Ancient ...... You...... Are you alright......." I trembled, and it took almost all my courage to speak, but my voice was still so thin that only I could hear it: "You should be fine.......
After asking these few words, I patiently waited for a response.
But I couldn't hear anything other than the cacophony of chewing from above......
After I don't know how long, the chewing sound above my head gradually stopped, and the whispering sound that had been heard before came unhurriedly.
It's not far from me...... Now it's my turn to die, isn't it.......
I trembled and clutched the token that the old man had given me.
But I couldn't find any sense of security in this token, and I could only be shrouded in fear from beginning to end......
Soon, the nightmarish body of the ancient gods came into my eyes unhurriedly.
It must have seen me, and all its eyes stopped moving, staring at where I was, staring at it.
The ancient god seemed to float down, and without making a sound as it moved, it fell lightly to the ground, and its strange body, which was as soft as liquid, completely suppressed most of my body.
In that moment, I saw death, I saw the end of the world, I saw everything I never wanted to see......
"Wake up......"
I prayed quietly, my body shaking violently, the feeling of being completely enveloped in fear was more torturous than waiting for death.
The sound of the heart beating from the depths of the earth is getting louder and louder, and the frequency is gradually increasing, but there is still no strange sight.
Marvel...... If there really is a miracle in this world....... Then let me see you now!!
"Goo."
I had heard this strange sound of water in the mouths of some low-level creatures of the past, but I didn't expect to hear it in the mouths of the ancient gods......
Before I could react otherwise, my right leg fell into a state of dissolution, and little by little it was absorbed by the body of the ancient god......
I'm sure it's a feeling that's even more difficult to accept than death.
"Don't you sleep!!"
I almost shouted at the top of my voice, despair and fear tormenting my nerves, and with the last hope, I screamed at the crimson crust on the ground, "Wake up!! The Old Gods are here!! If you don't wake up, you won't have a chance!! ”
"Wake up!!"
I yelled frantically, exerting all my strength, pulling a hand from under the ancient god's body and patting it on the ground with all my might, trying to wake up the sleeping will of the world.
In fact, I don't know what the so-called will is.
Is it a special life? Or something else?
I don't care, I don't care at all...... As long as it can appear at this time....... Even if you can't save me, you can save this world and protect yourself!
As it turned out, my cries didn't work a miracle, and I couldn't wake them up when the old gods dissolved my limbs, leaving only my torso unabsorbed.
"Lost....... How could we possibly lose ......."
I looked at the ancient gods with a dull expression, no fear, no nervousness, and the tone of my voice seemed lifeless, as if I was talking to myself.
"We are the children of this world...... We are part of this world...... You old alien planters...... What qualifications do you have to encroach on this world......."
The old gods seemed to understand me, and muttered a strange sound of water in their mouths.
Feeling the growing hostility in it, I knew my time was running out....... Strangely, I didn't feel fear at this time, on the contrary, I felt an indescribable sense of relief when I was greeted with death.
"Finally dying......"
As I spoke, my sluggish expression became a little lighter, revealing an unnatural smile.
"Bang."
A dull heartbeat suddenly came from under my body, and the crimson crust of the earth, which had been still still, also trembled at this moment.
Not only did I notice this strange phenomenon, but even the ancient gods were taken aback by this moving crust.
But what I never expected was that the ancient gods had no fear of this crust, but instead had a kind of craving for food, and with a sticky wriggling sound, a tentacle full of eyeballs suddenly stretched out from its body and plunged into this crust almost without hindrance.......
It may be that this slightly soft crust is like an egg shell, not even hard.
The tentacles soon stretched out, and I don't dare to say how long they stretched, but what I could see alone was hundreds of meters.
At this time, I suddenly remembered what the ancient people had said before, that if the ancient gods want to go further, if they want to sublimate their lives, if they want to make themselves stronger, they must devour some powerful energy.
If nothing else, where is the most powerful force in our world?
Come to think of it, isn't it in the crimson crust beneath me.......
The ancient gods were very excited, and I could intuitively feel this emotion, and the tentacles that it had reached into the earth's crust also turned from black to red, and a dazzling red light lit up.
But after a few seconds, its excitement vanished, and it turned to a kind of doubt.
Before it could figure out what was going on, the tentacle stiffened suddenly, as if something under the earth's crust was tugging at its tentacle, and it pulled it violently.......
With a loud bang, the ancient god's huge body had completely fallen and fell heavily to the ground.
Since my legs had been dissolved by it, all that was left of my torso was now exposed, unpressed by the Old Gods.
If this bastard is allowed to hold it down, maybe someone like me, who died once, will really have to die again......
The temperature of the ground is rising rapidly, and the light emitted by the crimson crust is becoming more and more dazzling.
The ancient god was howling, its body writhing wildly, and countless black waters flowed out of it, spreading wildly into the earth's crust........
But the more it did, the warmer the ground became, and the heartbeat I had heard before became louder and louder.......
A lot of magma-like liquid poured out of the cracks in the earth's crust, eroding the flesh of the ancient gods at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It must have hurt, and outsiders like me who were watching it felt pain for it.
Hearing the sizzling sound of frying and burning, I looked at the ancient god and saw that its eyeballs bulged out and its crazy howl became louder and louder.
The energy in the ancient gods is rebelling against the magma, and the magma that spreads to it is receding.......
I can see that this is a contest between two energies.
Both sides are eroding each other's bodies, but at the same time they are resisting the other's incursions.
This situation is not the best...... Because the more I look at it, the more I feel that the current situation is dangerous......
The ancient god has been dragged into the earth's crust by an invisible energy, directly into half of his body, and the black slime secreted from his body has also stained the crimson magma beneath me at an extremely fast speed.
With the terrible howl of the ancient gods, the earth's crust also trembled wildly, and the heartbeat sound emitted by the world itself also became like thunder and explosion, and the rhythm of the bang was fast.
An aura of destruction that unhurriedly spreads from the place where the ancient gods meet the crimson magma.
I don't know why, but I always felt that the smell gave me the feeling that a bomb was about to explode......
I've already died once, and I don't feel any ....... if I die a second time I just hope that the ancient gods don't fight too hard with the energy of the underground, and if they play too hard, I have no doubt that all the creatures in this world will come to an end because of their war......
As the ground shook more and more violently, I tilted my head sideways and looked under the crust.
I saw a lot of white light extending from the ground, like a ribbon, scattered around the ancient gods.
That kind of white light was extremely pure, and it didn't feel dazzling at all, but the black light that gradually emanated from the ancient gods' body was not so pure, and there were other things in it, and there were blue-purple things like electric light flickering in it.
The old gods were howling frantically, as if they were in pain, but also because of anger, and the ground shook so much that it was no exaggeration to say that the sky was shaking.
This is the final moment.......