Chapter: 16, Madness Begins
A month later…
In the middle of the eerie waves of the forgotten sea, the dark castle stood, broken and lifeless as if losing all hope but still refusing to surrender to its inevitable fate.
Noir looked at the distant dark waters. Jin was currently at the back, taking a deep rest because of his laziness.
Noir was now creating a new custom ascendant Memory for Cassie. Its attribute was that it can enhance the user's five senses tremendously to the point of not needing vision for a certain AOE. After all, she is now one of his girlfriends, indirectly.
Suddenly, He noticed something changing in the world. He was fateless, so his perception of the world is different. He can easily notice the changes in the world that others will think of as normal.
The Changes made his face scowl. Out there, the corrupted aura around the nightmare creatures became dense and deep as the abyss. They became stronger, more ferocious and more deadly.
They all descended by one rank. Dormant became Awakened, Awakened became fallen, and Fallen became corrupted. Every nightmare creature became stronger.
Jin looked through one of his shadows' perspectives and saw the corrupted creatures transforming in front of them to the great creatures. The great ones became cursed, forcing the shadows to retreat.
Noir also looked through the perspective of Aura. And the view in front of her eyes shocked him.
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In the protection of the soul devourer, their group of four was sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, The Sky darkened and a heavy pressure fell on them. Aura was the first one to wake up and notice the abnormality.
She looked around trying to figure out what's wrong. Suddenly, she noticed the crimson tree touching the sky growing bigger than it was before, within mere minutes, the tree grew more than twice its previous size.
As she looked at the creature's soul, she shuddered at the sudden increase in power. The soul devourer who had fallen before, was now of corrupted rank.
The effect of the mind haze became much more potent and strong. She knew that they cannot stay any longer. Without asking anyone, she quickly used magic to create a boat using the bark of the soul devourer.
After a few moments, the boat was built and Cassie and Nephis were awoken, they were resisting to go with her and tried to forcefully make her forcefully stay, but she used shaping to restrain both of their essence and movements.
Sunny had already gotten the blood weave and was on the way to awake from the mind haze, but this sudden power increase of the corruption already disrupted the story-line.
Aura also had collected all the soul fruit from the previous fallen creature, but the tree now held more of the soul fruit from before and they looked more juicy and potent.
Alas, she doesn't have enough time on her watch to collect them.
Suddenly, something on the corner of her eyes caught her attention. In the place where Sunny was sleeping, a dark aura rose.
Sunny's soul, which was dark and transparent, appeared traces of corruption. Sunny was now corrupted.
But, in the blink of an eye, the corruption faded. Recovering to the same as before, but his soul became stronger and more potent somehow.
Slowly, Sunny opened his eyes, looking around as if he was in an unfamiliar place, completely oblivious to the current situation.
Aura knew something was wrong, but she quickly made all the things float in the air, and placed the boat in the dark waters and placed the unmoving body of the girls and sunny, who didn't show any particular resistance to her powers.
He was in a daze, not doing anything. It was as if he was deeply thinking about something, losing his sense of reality.
Aura quickly manipulated the winds and quickly got away from the crimson tree.
She also created a bubble around them, sealing all of their presence. Everyone was silent, Nephis and Cassie restricted by her magic and sunny… just in a daze.
Seeing the situation, Noir realized what had happened, the story was now going according to a Fan-Fic. The Mad Prince is here…
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In the embrace of eternal darkness, Sunny was lost in a daze. A feeling crept in his heart, He was afraid of something unknown in this somewhat familiar darkness.
A sudden presence appeared before him that brought the feeling of despair with it.
An elegant figure of a woman adorned in onyx and jade skin walked towards him with slow carefree steps, as if nothing in this world could threaten him.
A Crazy smile was placed in her crazy, ruined face, as if destroyed by her own hands in her madness. It made Sunny involuntarily try to step back but to no avail, he was completely paralyzed, trapped in this who knows what place.
A crazy smiling face came in front of her. As if to not care about the situation she said nonchalantly "Don't worry. I will take over and fulfill your wish.
And as if to comfort her she said "I know you hate not being in control, but it is the last choice we have."
Then the spell spoke in Sunny's head
[Your soul is being merged with "The Mad Princess"]
[With this, you are being corrupted]
[-Unknown- from the River of Time intervenes and dispels the Corruption]
With the voice, the crazy figure supposedly mentioned "Mad Princess" let out a painful yelp.
A sudden but immense pain coursed through his body. The supposedly corruption enveloped him, but it quickly dispersed.
Both of them turned into shimmering sparks and started to merge together. The soul fragments swirling around like a tornado in a rampage.
After the entire process was done, a lone figure stood alone in the embrace of the familiar darkness.
Sunny stood there in Silence, Not moving, still processing the new memories intertwining with his current one.
One thing was clear, The Terrifying Mad Princess is now in the past, having all memories of the future.
The remaining journey will be filled with Madness…
END