Dark cavern of the ancient tomb, depth that lied all the wandering soul across the region of graylink, as the dusk of ice unable to seep deeper across the abyss, two soul wanders echoes throughout chambers, as each step about, with the buzzing of the headset, stepping across the ruin of stone pillars and rocky pathways, it looks of falling debris from bygone era.
A stair that goes deeper to the end, taking the stair that was wide that can fit a crowd from a city walks, a radio chat open.
“Group Beta, this is Josh, your source is nearer, is there any sound over on the trenches stairs? Reply Beta.”
As Lite, who was behind Misha comment
“I don’t hear anything here, just the ringing from my ears.”
Seconds past.
“Right on, Misha, there’s a tracker with her, you are closer now, check your surroundings, the entity counter around you seems to be high, you both have radars and from echo radar, it seems like there's a multitude of entities, cleaning up any entity you meet.”
“You’re objective is you find Miran, she’s not too deep to the abyss city, no worries about context, you got a map on your phone. Go look 'em up. We are overwatching, so make sure to come back healthily.”
Comms stop, as both continue down the pathway that ends from the stairs.
Are those of rotten palaces, as the pathway leading to a road, with houses littler beside the roads inside this huge caverns, with lightly glow streets light of time, as seems they seep power from a cord line, some expedition have been set up, a Safe zone?
Lite clicks a button on the headset, an ai voice can be heard.
“Proxy mode Enable”
Heh, it reminds me of that bluetooth girl you hear on a made in china product, but it’s more high quality and less broken english, I thought my english is bad, but I’m getting pretty good. Now when I think about it, elves, whatever they are, seem pretty good with English, even native level. I wonder if that person I fought was one..
Silent rings, before a voice can be heard from the headset.
“Are you okay?”
Lite looks forward, while walking deeper.
“ I think I'm fine, just not getting used to this gear, so heavy. “
With the silent and discreetly calm pathway.
“Where are you from, I heard you talking with that boy, quite shallow.”
Lite waits for silence before speaking.
“Sorry?”
With her looking behind, with nods on, as they both see is black and white, before she continued
“I heard him talk about a book, he liked to go to a book, a library perhaps? The story he tells reminds me of the old books when I was younger, the story of an adventurer who went to the abyss and lost in a new world. How was your world, where were you from?”
Lite stays silent once more.
“Well, I didn’t really have many interesting things to talk about..”
….. “I was once lived in this region, before this ice, if I remember about it, this ancient city were once habitable, the founder of this area, but because it was deep, the flow are stronger here, so hellspawn decide to breed in this ruins, It’s seems to be the same for this instance.. I always remember my family always talking about how they abduct children and do horrible things if we went too close or too far from home, but that will not happen as the ruin was sealed, well until now, it seems like you guys opened it once more, but it should be safe because that war has ended long ago..”
If she says that more, I will lose my mind, my heart has been unsettling, the only thing that’s helping me to see is this damn goggle, if I lose this, I’m dead. I’ve been through tough times, but not now..
“Well, if I remember correctly, my most fond was my career in the army, where I met a lot of crazy people, they were fun people. Before, I don’t remember much, I don’t believe they made it out, there’s isn’t much interesting about me really”
“Nothing when you’re younger?”
As they’re about enter the hallway catacomb
“I..”
As the hair speeding all around, Lite grip tighten on the rifle, with his hand pushing the safety levers on the AK-12, as he aim on the direction to the right side of him, as with it, a being of dark molten rocks slam from the walls and catapult from it, going at extreme speeds, he press on the trigger, with it pulling the energy to the barrel, air expanding it release a projectile with a blue tracers, on full auto the direction to the airs. With the being at full force, to Lite, with the bullet striking the black and molten red skin of the being of multiple eyes, with the projectile penetrating the being as it came out from behind it.
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With Lite Automatic firing, the kickback causes him to drop to the ground. As on the right of him, a Canine being of molten, with multitude of eyes all around it’s body, the teeth have a windows of eyes, as the tongues with a single huge eyes inside, as it come close, a low pressure felt on opposite of him, with a cold feel on his left shoulder, as a beam of hit suddenly strike it, with a force of incineration, as the beam stop, with a canine, with no face, no neck and half of its body disappears, with the legs suddenly flops on the ground as the muscle ache a little while lying on the cold ground, he saw death.
As he breathe heavily, with him utmost speed pull his radio coms, with Misha trying to get to him,
“We got attacked!!”
Scream echoes through the ancient ruins. Then, a tap was felt on the mask, with a glove covering his visors.
“Quiet Down…”
With her, she switched.
“This is misha, we got ambushed by hounds, we are fined.”
As with her hands slowly moved away from the visors, as Lite can now see with the google screen was not covered by kevlar..
A ping was heard.
“Helcot, on, continued to proceed, reported the echo on Miran position, the echo location is north of you, find her position on the maps, end.”
With his sigh, stepping up to his legs, speaks in local.
“What the fuck was that, and Sorry, I was loud.”
She aims on the dark abyss upfront.
‘It’s fined, you’re the first one to saw it, also, you did not use the lazer, turn it on, you can see the beam from your goggles,”
I, Who is she really? As she reminds me of my commander or something, I wonder why she’s here, I’ll just follow her a bit, she seems to know what the hell is going on now.”
Looking at the dead ridden bodies, it lies there with the molten light now dying slowly, with the surrounding cavern turning dark. As to how I did not see that, they’re extremely fast, I need to focus or I will lose my sanity.
As both continued walking down the path, with pillars all around, the walkway was laid by bricks, with both of them aiming slightly all around, vigilant was first, the end of the hallways, it shows the inner area. vision expands all around, from the small hallway now turns into a giant city, with the end of the cave nowhere to be seens, all around was tower, clocks, an overview of a city of darkness.
As coms ping once more
“Hey, just to let you know, do not separate, this ancient city seems to have a strange property, it’s near infinite or something, everywhere you go it will be endless, do not go too far from the reaching the tape boundaries, it will teleport you to a strange coordinates and just keep you here until you will never be seens, monster keep coming from this endless place.”
If they know that, it must mean someone lost here, a city with near infinite town, city, and what? A whole world underground?
“I don’t wanna ask, but thanks for the info..”
The thoughts lingers, sudden roars echoes all around the structure, in mere seconds, the floors rumbles, something close float from the front of them, ten meter aways as it comes from under them, a being suddenly fly to the high above the cavern, there, with its legs and form remind that of the gymnastics move on the diving school by my friends, as the individual legs raise to the high, with it, a sudden mass of molten sling shots to the skies who follow the same path the being of majesty.
With a beam suddenly zip through from the individual, as the lazer suddenly hitting the being, with multiple legs, as at the end have the shape of hands, feet, with the fingers of those now sharpen blades, it’s black pukish skin with eyes all overs, the shape of a bean in the center a neck outreach the end, with the Boeing face filled with eyes and mouth randomly patch around, it’s sounds that of clicks, which echo terrors all around, with the lazer hitting on the being of terror hits, it’s screech for a split second, with the beam passing through the aching body, moltering the skin and making path for the beam.
With the entity from the sky high now slowly falling on the ruin of cities, same as the individual making a dive, towards ground floors.
The entity drops down, with the slam echoes about, then a com was heard, misha voice on the coms, the ground shakes a little.
“Miran Visible!, we can’t contact her, it seems like she lost her headset.”
As a second past.
“Right, noted, be advised, Seismic waves have been detected in the ancient city. Get back as soon as you can, contact and check up on her. We’ll report this to commands.”
With the stairs that lead to the ground floors beside, lite walking to the stairs, with the step very long by design, with a comm was heard.
“Lite, let’s take a shortcut.”
Shortcut, is there a Lift?
With Lite coming closer to her, she seems a little taller with the boot, with her grabbing.
“Hug me tight, right now, we're going down this way.”
What, wait, what? We are on a ledge, looking down already makes me feel anxious, I don’t see any lift.
As lite looking down on the ledge, the being laying there without a movement, with Misha, hugging him tightly, beforing pushing her leg, causing both of them to fall off the ledge, with Lite suddenly hugging her tightly, as they fall.
“What..”
As they both fall leg first, with lite hugging the plate carrier tightly, with him unable to look down, nor up, his eyes close, blood boiling through the hearts.
With Coms, with her speech calmly on the descending fall.
“Oh Light, by grace by fall shallow min mortal arms with feathers of light.”
Orbs of white light suddenly appear all around them, with it coming closer, as they form all around the legs to both of them, Lite seeing nothing but redness all around. With the sound of heavy wind stop.
The feet, felt a touch, the touch of a surface, with lite opening his eyes, releasing his arm from her body, stepping back from her, heavy breathing can be heard from coms
She. She crazy, she crazy, I, I need to stop, I need to rethink, how I alived?.
As she looked onto him, for a second, with him looking down, panting while his hand on his knee, bending,
You, you fucking scare me for a moment.”
With his hand moving a little, looking up and standing, as the body of masses lay there, with misha on coms.
“Right, I’m Sorry.”
“Let’s just move if the person is there or not.
Walking to the pathway, which in the middle there is a road, with many of empty building, it was made by the same material as the road, like that of sandcastle, where all the place have the same shades, on the trackers, which move to beside the corner of the empty roads, looking beside the small interways, which split from the walkroad, there lied an individual, whos in cloak, as it lays, there, unmoving.
“Is it asleep?”
Walking towards the cloak, where it hides the face, as Lite with the rifle up, slowly approaches the cloak individual. Laying upon the fabric, it was soft, with him slowly lifting it.
It’s a face, a man face, it’s left eyes were gone, as top left of the skull is missing, with worms that scatters all over the dead body, as maggots move around the mouth, eyes and skulls, eating what’s left remain, colour of yellow, they slightly glow on the inside, with Lite mask protecting the smell, but it was not bad, that it smelled like rosemary.
Shit, is he dead?
“Misha, I think he’s dead. Come look”
Huh, He?
A loud roar echoes in the ancient cities, with Misha quickly coming closer, as she looks into the dead face.
As with it, a voice can be heard on the coms, it sounds like that of a female, though it never was the same with misha, does it sound more european.
“Sorry, I lost my headset..”
With both looking up, there stands, with rifle at hand, pointing at them, the rifle with light strips, an modded SKS with grey polymer body, suppressor, scope, grips, with seems to be a cloak, that of white, blue strips, her wear that of western plate carriers.
Right, I’m fined, I’m fined, I. I need to stop thinking about this session… God, help me.
As closing one eye, a sudden voice was heard behind his ears, he was wearing a headset at the time, with a female voice, echoing on the abyss.
“Run.”
With the three now in contact, a comm was placed.
“Group Beta, this is Josh, leave the place, immediately, we are seeing a heavy activity from up here, whatever is going on down there, you need to leave, by command of my order, do it no-”
As the comm suddenly cut short by statics.
Oh fuck.