assistirfilmes Chapter 42: Ch40. Young man with a scythe
Chapter 42: Ch40. Young man with a scythe
Chapter 42: Ch40. Young man with a scythe
Sarissa stood there, catatonic, unable to process what had just transpired before her, while her mom, dad, and siblings voiced their last, agonizing screeches, before falling silent, forever.
She died right after that, with the Goblins swarming over her and eating her alive. However, she did not feel any pain this time, completely numb to anything around her.
The girl woke up in her bed, screaming her heart out, but no one came to her rescue, since the rest of her family was out that night.
"Ah... Ah... Ah... It can't be... It just can't..." She whispered to herself. "IT CAN'T BE!" She lashed out at her room.
For the first time in, not even the gods knew how long, Sarissa broke down and cried.
She cried so much that her nose bled and her head rang with an everlasting migraine, and she only stopped crying when there was nothing more left to cry. When she had fully accepted that, after having lost track of how many turns she had lived, her family's death was a fixed point, a canon event in history.
Something that even she could not change, no matter how powerful she became.
When day broke, she left home and prepared for what was to come. She analyzed her meager inventory, and found a remote dumpster where she could train her [Mad Fire], finding out, later on that day, that she could only control the skill when she had emptied her heart of each and every emotion that could bewilder her flame.
Sarissa ate, drank and slept in that dumpster, patiently waiting for when the countdown to the new year would reach zero, and the system window that announced the end of the world as she knew it appeared in the sky.
'Level twenty... Let's see what I can do with what I gathered up until now...' She thought to herself as she approached the square.
"FIVE... FOUR... THREE... TWO... ONE... HAPPY NEW-"
The crowd's chanting was immediately silenced when the system window appeared, but Sarissa was ready. The screams were muffled to her ears, and the red that painted the streets felt familiar, almost comfortable as the girl dominated the monsters around her, stealing each and every kill she could.
This time, however, it did not matter if she was earning double the experience points per kill due to her [Achievement], she did not seem to be anywhere near leveling up, and so, she kept on killing and killing, numb to anything around her that had not to do with the monsters.@@@@
For the first few days, she kept searching, quietly amused at the fact that a weak player like him was still alive and kicking. However, after a few more days, she started to ignore it.
Maybe, he was just another fixed point that she could not change. But why was his face like that? Why couldn't she see it?
She kept playing. Killing and leveling up.
Leveling up and killing.
Two months went by in the blink of an eye. It was then when the young man reappeared from the shadows, whatever sewer he had hid himself. The only thing was that, no matter how Sarissa looked at him, although his features were still unrecognizable...
He was different.
He had leveled up, and become powerful enough to exude a presence that could crush even her.
Carrying a black scythe that looked like something that came straight out of a nightmare, he walked straight, holding himself with poise, wearing a black top hat and an exquisite suit in mismatched shades of red, a bowtie, trousers, and a creepy mask that made him look like a character straight out of an adult, dark cartoon.
However, something felt off about him.
It was not only his presence, but something more subtle and eerie. Something in the way he walked and did not seem to pay attention to anywhere in particular, the mask's glowing eyes scanning everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
'Why am I so certain that it's even him?' She frowned ever so slightly, paying close attention to him from her distance, squinting her eyes in a hint of annoyance.
He stopped in the middle of the street, bustling with players coming and going and, completely out of the blue, raised his scythe. Immediately after, some kind of portal appeared in front of him.
And all hell broke loose.