Tome of Paladins : The DawnLight

07. Frozen In Fear

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There is also its fingers that scrammed with black blood.

It made it like its nail are unplugged forcefully from its root where it grown up.

'What the heck is that?' Tori agape, dumbfounded at what he's seeing right now.  He also noticed the smell that he originally found before, is originated from that blue beast.

That antiseptic and citrusy smell, just like strong alcohol mixed with squeezed lemon.

Amidst his thought, the attack from the blue beast in front of him arrived which the latter quickly rolling to the side, following swiftly standing and putting a stance.

Tori then using his bat to hit its side.

*Bang*

The bat in his hands vibrated rapidly which made him gritted his teeth instead, of how numb his hands now, even with the skeleton hands defusing some of its vibrations from the result of hitting something beyond the output force of what he could managed to produced and handle.

Jumping back, he put his left hand to his bag that soon followed with a clacked sound.

When he put his hand out, there's something that seems unfolding until it stopped spreading.

And what revealed is a glove with two buttons at the lower side of his forefinger.

The blue beast roaring, then approaching him ferociously with quick step that crumbled the floor like a puff pastry.

*Roarr…*

*Kraaakk-kraakk-kraaak*

*Kraaakk-kraakk-kraaak*

Arriving at Tori side, the latter then push the button on the left side, that quickly make the bottom of his boot left sole bursting out with fire that quickly put him backing away all the while dodging the hit from it.

*Wooossh*

While hitting the floor where he standing before, it also crushed the few people who lying unconscious there, splattering the floor with gore of meats and bones, along with pieces of what supposed to be entrails, just like pounded tomatoes.

*Splat*

Without even had time to feel pity and sorry for what happens to those guy, Tori who were still in the air again dodged the hit by pushed the right button, which he directed his right sole vertically to the ground.

It made him flipping above the blue beast.

But while still in the air, He spin with the help from the motion until it made him in a position where he can hit the beast with as much power as possible.

He lifted the bat high above while his heart started to pulsating harder and harder which put his eyes red for a moment.

Then with all of his might, he hit it that put the resonance spreading wide on the building.

*Bang*

But Tori eyes again enlarged.

Because there's something there.

Something came out from the back of that blue beast that he noticed was, there's this line like someone cutting open its back, then stitched back with what he noticed as blackened pink string, that he could guess as an artery or a vein of unrecognizable creatures.

It then gaping wide like a jaw of a shark, with the string wiggled like a pink worm out from the soil.

A few paper-thin arms of humans that more like a branch, out blocking his hit that also made the former again, end with numb hands.

*Bang*

"Uhhh."

The arms then trying to grabbed his legs which the latter swiftly pressed both the buttons that made him flying till reaching the second floor.

He then used his arm to grabbed the black iron balusters of the balcony.

His eyes then flying downwards, to be more precise is to the blue beast that now even more of an evil monstrosity, that surely going to chill anyone with its face and arms reaching outside at its back that now squirming around, just like an insatiable snakes that now out looking for its helpless prey.

With sweats that now covering almost his entire back, Tori then wondering if he could even survive all of this now, that took more identical with a nightmare that could be said a little bit too much unpleasant for his now feeble heart.

*Splat*

*Splat*

*Krakk*

While stepping on the bodies of those unfortunate people, it then looking above with its empty eyeballs while the grotesque ears of it are twitching.

The blue beast then put its hands on the ground.

*Krakkk*

Buckling its leg and accumulated the strengths, it then jumped powerfully to Tori on the second floor.

*Bang*

It then resulted with the balusters concaved to the inside that put wonders of how it didn't broke yet.

While Tori who barely managed to dodged it by jumped to the side, then now standing above the rail with both of his feet parallels onto each other, while one hand stabilized himself to make sure he had his grip on the stability where he now standing.

*Grrrrrr*

*Graaaaa*

While gnarling with its face facing Tori, they then exchanged glass that put Tori's heart beaten faster and faster, preparing himself to dodged again until reinforcement arrived with his now drenched back.

'I Just need to stall a little bit longer. They now must had found out the oddity. Damn it, this thing whatever it is really spooked me out.'

Followed shortly by roaring to Tori with its sharped teeths, it then slowly approaching him.

*Krakkk*

*Kraakk*

With each step of it, the floor is broken just like a tofu.

And with each step it took, Tori adrenaline too also peaked up bit by bit like an engine.

But suddenly, it stopped.

While Tori started to get goosebumps that palpitate his entire senses all over his body, just like acidity liquid that put his entire body quivering.

And just like thrown in an ice cave, it put his entire body quivered in freezing cold.

Slowly but surely, he turned his now stiff neck to the side.

Slowly but surely.

Until.

There.

To his horror, there is someone that now looking at him so close to his face, barely inch away.

It put Tori even more quivered.

Of how could it possibly happen, that he didn't even noticed there's someone watching him so close.

With its white coat or a lab coat that the entirety of it full of splashed bloods, that pattern spine-tingling anyone that lay its gaze on it.

He had a long silky black hair, and a face mask that covered half of his pale face that looked drained from the bloods.

But what made Tori horrified is his eyes that had similar conditions with the blue beast.

There's nothing there.

Just black blood that gushing out, seemingly never dry.

But it somehow alive. Wiggled around to fall following the gravity, only to climbed again to the hollow space of his eye sockets.

"Sniff. Sniff. Interesting… You had a smell that I adore so much, but also loath the most… … Igniters." The guy sniffing a few times then said close to Tori face that now frozen from what he never expected could be happen to him.

Fear.

Overwhelming horror that put his body filled with an unpleasant emotion after emotion from the threat that now instead put his mind blanked for a second.

The guy with white coat in front of him also had smell that feels like rotting flesh, but mixed with smell that enchanted it to somewhat addictive.

Like...

The smell of carrion flowers, or known as such as corpse flowers.

Quickly took hold over his senses, Tori then instinctively swinging his black bat to the creeps in front of him.

*Bang*

But it stopped by the latter with only one hand.

Tori trying to took it back, but the guy grasping it tightly that made him started to get desperate of how insane what's happens to him tonight.

"Not so well mannered, I see."

He then tightened his grip on the black bat that put Tori eyes widened. The bat deformed from the guy's grip.

'How…? Impossible.' He thought. Of how the black bat that he recognized made from a mixture of metal that mixed with a little amount of tungsten, could be end up like a piece of wood that full of termites.

It took him quite a while to even managed using it on a fight, since it was quite heavy for his body that was the youngest of all members of The Scavengers.

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Additional info:

The black bat is the essential and the main weapon for all the Night Enforcers.

And with how much it solved the fight, and put terrors to those against it, hence it gotten the name as the Stygian's Hair.

Stygian is other names for styx river. Sty means messy or debauchery. Gian is for God grace, so yeah. God grace to the debaucheries, hehehe.

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