2025-05-09 22:25:23Rhok could feel nothing. He wasn't sure why he could, but he knew he wasn't dead. Not really. He also knew he wasn't alive.
It was a weird sensation. Neither dead nor alive but conscious enough to know this. He flickered his eyes open and saw nothing.
Well, this wasn't surprising to him. It's what he has always imagined death to be. A null endless void that would slowly eat at his soul, he would perish in loneliness for all eternity until his ran mad and slowly faded into nothingness.
'So much for Heaven and Hell,' he thought.
But he felt like doing something, he wasn't sure that he could, but floating around doing nothing didn't suit his persona.
He righted himself up and stood. To his surprise, he was standing. He was still blind enough to not see anything.
He rubbed his eyes furiously and blocked furiously, but nothing. There was no reflective surface or light to bounce off rays of light into his eyes, Thus his blindness.
He took another step forward and was amazed at how firm the ground was. He stomped hard on it, it felt stronger than concrete. More solid than the earth itself.
Regardless, he began walking around aimlessly. Better than floating around like a ball of turd in a toilet.
[WELCOME DEAREST MORTAL.]
“What? Who was that?” Rhok spoke, turning around in a hurry. He still couldn't see anything, but more than ever he felt cautious. As though he were about to be attacked.
His years of experience and instincts kicked in, he crouched to the ground and reached to his shoe to pull out his dagger he always kept there for a good keeping.
It was then, and only then did Rhok realize he was completely naked.
'The fuck?'
This seemed like something the organization would do just to mess with his head. Could I really be alive, or is this all a hallucination?
[OHH THIS IS REAL ALRIGHT.]
'Huh? I never said anything with my mouth.' He thought to himself.
[YOU DON'T NEED TO. I'LL JUST READ YOUR MIND FROM HERE ON OUT.]
'Why?'
[BECAUSE I DON'T TRUST ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT FROM YOUR DAMNED LIPS, RHOK.]
'Busted.' He chuckled a bit. He was surely going to lie just for the sake of lying and whatever was speaking to him certainly knew it.
'So, am I dead?'
[VERY MUCH SO.]
'Can I see you then? I think I'll feel much more comfortable if I can see who I'm talking to.'
Rhok waited for a brief moment.
[IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT HUMANS WERE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR... NAKEDNESS. BUT AS YOU WISH.]
'Shit.'
The lights came on. It blinded Rhok almost instantly, but not in a painful way. His eyes adjusted quickly by no power of his.
[WHAT A LITTLE WIENER…]
Rhok unconsciously covered himself up. 'Do you mind?' he cursed at himself.
Rhok cleared his thoughts and looked around. He tried to understand where he was, but he… couldn't.
The place he stood certainly felt solid, but was also transparent. Completely see through and worse than that. So was everything else.
It was maddening. The more he tried to understand, the more he felt his mind being stretched endlessly. He knew it in the depths of his thoughts.
There was no end to this place. No beginning either. It just went on and on eternally. How could such a place exist?
[THINK TO MUCH AND YOU'LL BREAK YOUR MIND. FOOL.]
Rhok immediately turned to his right, there he was a man of petite stature. His hair was white and long. It flowed out in waves with every movement he took.
Although there were no winds here. But Rhok had come to the conclusion that nothing here made sense. Absolutely nothing.
He was shrouded in a mass of shadows, covering his body from the shoulder down to his thighs. His feet, half way standing, half way dangling. He didn't even bother.
But his face….
He was beautiful. Probably the most beautiful face he had ever come across in his entire life. His eyes were a deep violet. Skin as supple as a baby's bum.
His lips. Damnation his lips. He had never seen such perfect lips in all his life. Was it even a man? Or a woman?
The way the shadows gently wrapped themselves around him. In a way, it revealed parts of his body, yet covering them.
[GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER. GODS, YOU'RE SUCH A MESS. CAN YOU EVEN SURVIVE WHERE YOU'LL BE GOING.]
'Where I'll be going?'
[YES. YOUR SOUL HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIVING. REINCARNATION.]
'What?'
Rhok took a step. He was really dead. The reality of it weighed down on him. He had hoped he could survive. Love long enough to kill those bastards.
Fifty long years they used him. Sucked him of everything he was worth, and finally, they dumped him.
But that only meant that the other retired soldiers had been sent out before him, all faced the same fate.
He sighed. The growing resentment in his heart couldn't be quelled. He didn't blame them, but he hated being used.
He hated not being able to do what he wanted. He yearned for freedom! The one thing he has never gotten.
[BUT THIS TIME. YOU MIGHT BE FREE.]
Rhok looked at the strangely beautiful man, but he wasn't there anymore. He was behind him. Whispering into his ears as he caressed his body.
Rhok couldn't move.
[I FEEL YOUR HATE AND RESENTMENT RHOK. YOU DO A GOOD JOB OF KEEPING IT HIDDEN BUT IT'S USELESS TO HIDE YOUR DESIRES FROM ME.]
Rhok simply sighed. He was tired.
[DO YOU WANT TO LIVE AGAIN?]
“YES!” he said out loud eagerly. He wasn't sure why either, but he didn't want to die. He wanted to live and be free.
He knew dying was anything but freedom. It didn't matter if he couldn't get his revenge at the organization, but if he could get a chance to live again?
He would happily take it.
[SO BE IT, RHOK.]
He embraced Rhok's naked body from behind him. He felt her warmth. His skin rubbed against Rhok's back. How he caressed him so intimately.
Rhok smiled a bit, then pulled away. It was his first time ever being hugged. It didn't feel so bad. But it was from a man, a pretty man but still a man.
Shadows wrapped around them. Sealing the both of them in an endless torrent of darkness. He felt an immense pressure weight down on his soul as something stranger seeped in.
He felt the touch of the man let go. He tried to reach out to him but couldn't.
[MY NAME IS THE ABYSS ENGINE AND WE SHALL MEET AGAIN SOON.]
Then Rhok felt nothing. He saw nothing. He became nothing and from then was something born from him.
Suddenly, he was a light ahead of him. It looked like a path to escape. He heard voices calling out to a crying woman.
Rhok felt himself being pushed unwillingly toward the little hole where the light seeped from.
“You can do this. Push harder!” A feminine voice screamed. A louder agitated scream followed.
'No, no no. It couldn't be. I'm being given birth too?’
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Chapter 14. Tallest Dwarf.
Sitting in front of a fireplace, wearing a long shawl with a hood to hide his face. Rhok held a long stick in hand. He watched the flames dance around freely as they eagerly ate up the wood. Burning everything to cinders.It was almost time.He placed his hands in front of him, embracing the warmth of the fire. Steel daggers hung from his waist, a short sword by his side and throwing knives placed hidden in several pockets.He closed his eyes and spread his shadow sense. More than a dozen, about sixteen people.He felt their shadows as they drew closer to him. Closer to their death. He smiled out of habit, then frowned.A feeling of disgust washed over him. Rhok had no problem being a killer or a hired assassin. But being forced to do it? That was something else entirely, that was how he had lived his past life and how it had ended.He sighed.'Hopefully, I won't mess it up in this life. ' He stood up from the fireplace and walked towards the vault. He knew what lay beyond.Things tha
Chapter 13.Dumb Reasons for Treason.
“Ooh Heavens…" the woman in bed yelped as Rhok abruptly entered the room. To his surprise, Lord Vale didn't stop.He just kept on pounding the poor girl while she tried to get his attention to Rhok. He ignored her and kept on at what he was doing.A sore sight for Rhok.He wished he had knocked instead; things didn't become better as the bed folds fell off, and Lord Vale's bare bum was revealed.Hairy and chubby.Rhok took interest in what he saw, not because he was stimulated. But because he wondered why the Lord's ass jiggled so much.[OOHH MY!]'Shut up, Abyss Engine'[WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO JOIN IN?][IT'S USUALLY DONE AMONGST THE REALMS.]'What the fuck? Who has orgies? In what realms?'He spat in disgust just as the Lord emptied his load into the young lady. He collapsed, looking quite exhausted.Rhok cleared his throat.“You called?” Lord Vale looked at him with a bit of confusion and interest, then his face lit with recognition.“Aahh, you're my bastard”, he said with a smile.
Chapter 12. Bastard Son.
“Keep your back straight, Eiran".“Arms stretch forward and maintain your stance”, a loud voice commanded as a cane struck the back of Rhok.He ignored the pain, rather, he pretended to endure the pain. Five years had passed since the day he made his promise to Aunt Fey. Five years he had waited and trained himself, becoming stronger with every passing season.Though he was still very far off from where he wanted to be, he was strong enough now. He fixed his muscles and made another vertical swing with his training sword.After his Father, Lord Vale, had found out that he had created his own mana core, he ordered that Rhok be sent to be trained to become a knight of some sort.Something about raising the prestige of the Vale family. Rhok couldn't care less. The man who commanded the training was well known amongst the soldiers of the Vale Household. He was a knight, more importantly, an Aura user.Rhok could not understand why he had decided to remain faithful to the Vale family whil
Chapter 11. Mana Forest.
The walk back was lonesome and dark, night creatures moved as it was in their nature to hunt at night.The sounds of predators stalking prey filled the air, the screams of dying animals, the howls of wolves as they claimed their victories. Rhok could hear all of this.But he could not be seen.Steadily, he lurked in the shadows, he walked amongst the monsters, moving with stealth, adept in his way of survival. He couldn't dare let himself be found, a free ticket to the afterlife if he did.It was a mana forest, although this forest that surrounded the Vale Household seemed less dangerous than the others, but it was still dangerous enough.There were classes of beasts that he was unable to handle, and after his ordeal at the cave, he didn't trust himself enough to take on another daring experience.Time moved quickly, but Rhok was faster.Before he could be noticed by any of the mana beasts, he escaped the forest and arrived at his makeshift hut. He saw a torch being swung around at hi
Chapter 10. Domain.
As he watched carefully as the Ogre's and Goblins all escorted the humans out from the cave, they really couldn't believe that the monsters that had once eaten them were the ones letting them go.Rhok, of course, didn't let them see him, but he watched them. The day was growing dimmer, but that never posed as a problem to Rhok The night was his domain. The only concern was his Aunt Fey.He sighed and looked away from the now free prisoners. He hoped they were too shaken to remember the exact location of where they had been held.He still needed to do some more investigations.He walked back to the false wall he had seen earlier, it seemed hollow, as though it was recently built by the monsters he had subjugated.He rapped his knuckles against the wall, indeed it was hollow.He didn't feel the need to use his mana to break it down, rather he called another ogre who stood idly yonder to his left.“You, come here…” Rhok said. The ogre scratched its head but obeyed and came over.“Smash
Chapter 9. Lucky Card.
Its death was instant.As the light faded from the eyes of the Ogre chief, it seemed as though something stirred within the minds of the other monsters at the cave.As though they felt his death, but were pleased by it.The goblins began moving in different directions, without form or an inclination as to wherever they were.They looked confused.And then it clicked to Rhok. It was mind control.He had killed the Chief, freeing them all from the hex he had put them under.[CONGRATULATIONS][YOU HAVE SLAIN THE OGRE CHIEF]'Huh?'[NEW ATTRIBUTE ACQUIRED][ASSIMILATION]'Wait wait, what's going on?'[ASSIMILATION ALLOWS YOU TO PICK A RANDOM SKILL OF THOSE YOU HAVE SLAIN.][WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY IT?]Rhok looked at the system while he hid in the shadows, he was out of mana, weak, drenched in his sweat and had no way of escaping.'Yes, damn it.' He cursed.[ACQUIRING SKILL…][MIND CONTROL. ACQUIRED.][SKILL ALLOWS YOU TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF ANYONE YOU'RE STRONGER THAN. RESISTANCE IS FUTIL
Chapter 8. First Blood.
Before the naked goblins could sense him while they mated with their naked prisoners, Rhok flew into their midst in the blink of an eye.He swirled about slicing the head of one of the goblins and melted into the shadows, before the goblin fell, he appeared again stabbing his daggers into the skull of another.The goblins stood up in a panic, shouting among themselves, looking around them, searching for their killer, but it was useless.Rhok was enraged.He shot out of another's shadow, slicing off both its hands and stabbing its neck from behind.'Three down. Three to go.'He moved with a careful precision which he had learned back in his days as an assassin. The training he was dealt with, the survival programs, his instincts.Everything kicked in.The goblins stopped him and shouted in a tongue known only to them. One screamed at Rhok and had a dagger slammed into its mouth.'Two to go.'One tried grabbing him from behind to crush him.“Disgusting” Rhok mouthed as he melted into th
Chapter 7. Orge's Cave.
In the depths of the cave. Monsters, goblins, and Ogre's alike stumbled about confused. Something moved among them, reaping their lives as though it meant nothing.The thing that haunted them couldn't be seen. Heard. Or felt.It was an unknown, a force they had never had the chance to reckon or understand. Although these monsters had a lick of intelligence, it was barely enough for them to comprehend what was happening about them.And as such, they did what any feral beast would. They ran in confusion.Rhok smiled as he slid out of a small crevice in the wall. He materialized himself and let out a puff of breath. He could see his perspiration.It was damn cold in the cave. Or maybe it was just this section, but he couldn't be too sure. He was running out of time.Rhok spread his senses outward as he had done above the chasm. He needed to know the layout of the cave if he were to kill each and every one of them.He couldn't risk getting Diarrhea. Somehow that scared him more than Mana
Chapter 6. Busted.
He couldn't be stopped by anything, he felt free at the moment. He could feel the wind brushing against his face, whistling past him as he ran at incredible speeds, nearly impossible for someone of his age.Because he had a mana core.Formed very early by the help of the system. To be honest, it had been a glitch. The stupid system was supposed to allow his premature body to grow to a certain limit before pumping him with power.Worst of all, the system hadn't told him how to manage his mana or control it. He had to learn that all on his own. He pushed those thoughts aside.[TARGETS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY.][DON'T GET LOST.]'Bastard.' Rhok cursed. He really wished his could rid himself of the system.Rhok avoided lighted places more because they opposed his attribute but not in the sense that you might think. If anything bright places gave him more of an edge. The brighter the light, the deeper the strength of his shadows, but there were obvious limitations.He didn't want to be spotted
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