Awakening in the Abyss

Phantom Genesis – Chapter 2: Awakening in the Abyss

The darkness was suffocating. Orion could barely move, his body battered from the relentless assault he had endured. His breath came in ragged gasps as he pressed his back against the cold stone wall of the underground ruins. The echoes of approaching footsteps sent a chill down his spine.

"You thought you could escape, didn't you?" A sinister voice cut through the silence.

Orion gritted his teeth, his golden eyes flickering with determination. Neon Dake emerged from the shadows, his silver hair gleaming under the dim torchlight. His lips curled into a smirk as he twirled a dagger between his fingers.

"You're nothing but a failed hunter, Orion. Accept your fate."

Orion clenched his fists. His entire body ached, but his will remained unbroken. He had always fought against the odds, and this time wouldn't be any different.

Neon dashed forward, his movements swift like a phantom. Orion barely managed to dodge the first strike, but the second attack slashed across his shoulder, drawing blood. Pain surged through him, but something inside him refused to let him fall.

The air around him shifted. The shadows in the chamber seemed to writhe and pulse. A deep, otherworldly voice whispered in his mind.

"Do you seek power?"

Orion's vision blurred. His heartbeat slowed, and for a brief moment, time itself seemed to stop. A dark energy coiled around him, seeping into his veins like liquid fire.

"Then... take it."

A sudden surge of strength flooded his body. His wounds stopped bleeding, his muscles felt lighter, stronger. His golden eyes darkened to a haunting obsidian hue. The air around him crackled with unseen force.

Neon took a step back, his confident smirk faltering.

"...What the hell is this?"

Orion exhaled slowly, his voice colder than the abyss itself.

"The beginning of your end."

Before Neon could react, Orion vanished. A blur of darkness, faster than the human eye could track. The next thing Neon knew, he was flying backward, crashing into the stone wall with a sickening crunch. Orion stood before him, his shadow stretching unnaturally across the chamber, flickering like a living entity.

Neon's eyes widened in disbelief. "Impossible..."

Orion flexed his fingers, feeling the raw power coursing through him. For the first time in his life, he wasn't the hunted. He was the predator.

- - -

Neon groaned, trying to push himself up, but his body refused to obey. HDusk baneencts screamed at him—this was no longer the same Orion he had mocked just moments ago.

Orion stepped forward, each movement sending waves of pressure through the air. His newly awakened power pulsed around him, a living shadow that whispered and coiled like a beast finally unleashed.

He raised his hand, and the darkness obeyed. Tendrils of pure shadow slithered from the ground, wrapping around Neon’s limbs, pinning him in place.

Orion’s voice was barely above a whisper, yet it echoed like thunder.

"You were right about one thing, Neon…"

He leaned in, his obsidian eyes glowing with an eerie intensity.

"I was nothing."

The shadows surged.

"But now… I am your nightmare."

- - -

And this was just the beginning.

The thriller was about to come with Orion Dusk bane.....

To Be Continued....

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