Chapter 1: (unedited)

Chapter 1💙

On the tallest mountain on the North, where the rivers froze and where no life ever grows, on the said mountain's summit lies the Black Castle.

This Castle was said to be the dwelling of a monster who was waiting, and watching and bidding his time for the time someone comes into his abode and sets him free from the freezing coldness of the mountain.

This Black Castle was also told to house the most wicked of creatures created by a man who once desired to once again meet his beloved but had, in a stroke of bad luck, created instead a monstrosity.

Many wild guesses and conjectures are made about this Black Castle, but one thing is certain.

The Black Castle is a pandemonium no one was able to enter and come back once from.

And in the ice that surrounds the mountain, a warning was written in frozen blood:

'For thee who so thirst to unveil the secrets, for thee who long to see the inside of it, and for thee who yearn the things that lay inside; yee are better off dead, for yer life is not enough to pay for what yee will cause once the one that lays dormant will awaken.'

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"Brrr! It's so fucking cold! Are you even sure we're at the right path?" A woman dressed in leather asked while hugging herself.

"I'm sure we're on the right path...look, we walked past this frozen tree and now we're walking through this rift." Her male companion pointed their location on the map he was holding.

"Then why is this rift so never-ending? Are you even making yourself usefully?! And it's getting colder every second!." She said irritably.

"I don't know! ****!! If you want, take the compass and do it yourself!!."

"You think I don't want to?!!" She snapped. "And what're you shouting back at me for?!! Don't you dare forget that if not because you insisted we take the short way—!!"

"Enough."

It was this moment that their last member, who was keeping silent, spoke.

"We are in the middle of nowhere and you two arguing poses more problem instead of solving our current one." Their last member, a large man with beard, spoke as he took the map from the other man.

The two who are arguing didn't dare continue their arguments albeit they kept glaring at each other.

The bearded man then bit his fingertips and used his blood to mark their path and location on the map as his two companions moved closer in order to scrutinize the map better.

After thinking for a moment, he marked the image of the tree they just passed with a big X.

"While you two are too immersed in your own problems, I noticed that we had passed by this tree a couple of times before." The bearded man said, bringing out the unnoticeable weirdness his two companions have missed.

"Have we? I truly didn't notice it..." His male companion muttered while scratching his head.

"Then this tree...?" The woman pointed at the crossed-out tree on the map.

"I'm guessing that this tree is the core of a formation...or it is the formation itself..."

"That wrong though, a dying tree can't be a core or it won't be able to withstand both natural and unnatural forces."

"That's true," the bearded man agreed. "Which means that the core is beneath the tree."

"Should we dig then?"

"No, we—!!" As the bearded man was about to reply, he realized that something's not right;

His male companion's voice was not that deep, and his female companion's voice is not that screechy...so whose voice had been talking with him?!!

He tensely turned his head to the left only to come face-to-face with a...thing. It was a head, a deformed kind, it has a few clumps of wet hair on it, and it's large mouth was spread out in a wide, eerie grin.

He should activate his soul shield fast, but before he could act it out, his view suddenly changed.

He was suddenly looking at the mottled ground instead of that thing. And no matter how much he tried to move his hands, he still felt nothing.

Only later did it sink in,

I'm done...

As his vision started to blacken, he heard the thing say...

"You were wrong though... That tree is not a core of a formation, hehe it's not even a part of a formation hehe. It's just a normal tree where we bury the bodies hehe heck!! gotta go now or that will get angry hec-heck!!"

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(AL'sN: 💙HAPPY NEW YEAR, Everyone🌠🎐ლ(^o^ლ). 3 hours and 37 minutes to pass and it'll be 2022ಥ‿ಥ... Time is passing and I'm getting older, but I'm still so useless even until today( ≧Д≦)...

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