Chapter 18, Here I Go Again

"..." the girl stayed quiet as I stared at her face, "Well If you are not going to talk then you need to sleep." I used illusion magic that would take her mana to use and made her hallucinate some nightmares, her worst memories to be exact. I walked over to the person who was chained to the wooden table and checked them for any injuries.

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Now that I could get a good look at the person, I realized it was a little boy. There were badges on his head with 2 blood spots and blood coming from the back of his pants. The little boy was very quiet, and getting closer I realized he was no longer breathing. I quickly checked his heartbeat and found that it was nearly nonexistent.

I started to panic and use healing magic as fast as I could, leaving only a second to check his heartbeat. A few spells in and his heartbeat was fine but he still wasn't breathing. "Come on kid, you're worrying me." I started CPR while casting more healing spells until his body was fully healed. This only took 4 minutes but it felt like hours. 'I hope he is fine, that could have been fatal damage.'

10 minutes after healing the boy and I started to relax as his condition was not worsening. 'His head should be fine after how much healing magic I pumped into him.' I took off the bandages on his head and was surprised to see ears, fox ears to be exact. 'Ok, I should have expected something like this.' I lifted his body and saw his tail too. 'So were they racist?' Since the tail and ears are not covered in blood, I know that they were freshly regenerated. This means that they were cut off at some point.

5 minutes later, and I decided to take him up and out of here to get him a bath since he is drenched in blood. Before I left I grabbed the clothing of Guy1 and put it on, lucky me as his hood was down before I cut his head off. I wanted a disguise because, 'If there are 2, then there are more.' I picked up the boy and went upstairs to find a place to clean him and my new clothes off.

As I left the fake endless hallway I heard loud marching, I peeked over the rails of the balcony and saw a large group wearing the same red and black robes I stole. 'Out of all the times I could be right, this just had to be one of them.' I watched them as they lined up in front of the large door and split down the middle of the line creating a large pathway To the door, they looked like they were occult members.

I continued to watch, as 4 people came down the path, a swordsman, a wizard, an archer, and a tanker. Their armor was heavily skewed to look like their class. As the 4 went down the path, the occultists off to the side saluted them. And after the 4 stopped before the door, another group came up behind them. The group mainly consisted of malnourished people with occultist wielding spears keeping them in line.

While I was watching, I noticed a small gap in the crowd of occultists near the bottom of the staircase. 'I could fit in there, and I would blend right in.' I picked up the child and used illusion magic to hide and force him to be asleep. "Don't want you to get in any more trouble." I pulled the hoodie over my head and quietly went down the stairs, hiding as I got closer to the spot, only to fully reveal myself when I was where I wanted to be.

Now that I was closer I could tell that the slave-like people in the middle were demi-humans. There was blood coming from any place that could make them look inhuman, some of them were even missing eyes and arms. I got to see what happened when one of them fell over, an occultist would walk over to them and scream, "GET UP!" a few times, if they failed to get up or were unresponsive they were stabbed, lifted, and thrown into a cart full of other dead bodies.

At this point, I was starting to feel sick every time a demihuman was stabbed and thrown, but I held it in as I could not take on/run from every occultist in this room. Once the demihumans were done being escorted into the room, the wizard turned around and lifted its wand creating a translucent purple box around most of the demi-humans. The Wizard then reached into his coat and pulled a second wand out of nowhere and chanted some sort of spell, a blue fireball appeared at the tip of the second wand and flew into the box and exploded. "What…"

The blue fire grew in strength as it used the demihumans as its fuel, leaving nothing but ashes behind. 'Why would th-' my thought was cut off as multiple black figures stood where the demihumans once were. The box shrunk and screams could be heard as the box turned an even darker purple, then the box made its way to the door before stopping.

The wizard made a show of putting his wands away as the box suddenly disappeared leaving a black cube behind. Two mostly black crystals suddenly revealed themselves on both sides of the door as black tendrils came from the box, and made their way to the crystals. 'That's disgusting.' I watched the box slowly shrink as the crystals become blacker. when the crystals were fully black a loud clanking noise could be heard from the door as it opened.

After the door opened the 4 occultists at the front stood at the entrance and started speaking in turns. The swordsman stepped forward and spoke first. "We have gathered here today, to continue our journey to find our God!"

The next to speak was the archer. "The next clue to find our God is just behind this door, this room holds riches of all types, but we are looking for the knowledge of our God!"

Then the wizard. "The prophet led us here, to find our newborn God, so we may raise him to be the most powerful God! He was born in the golden age of magic, so he is still moldable! We must lead our newborn God down the correct, and righteous path. And mold him into the greatest God to ever be born! "

And lastly, the tank spoke. "Our God has blessed us with a miracle today, it's the day we are able to open the door. We, the apostles, will guide you to our God, so that you may be blessed to see him."

After the tank spoke, they all started to speak in unison. "Our God is all-knowing, as he is the greatest magician of all time! Our God is all-powerful as he is the strongest man alive! Our God is all-seeing, as he is the greatest archer! And our God is unwavering, as he is the strongest tank! And We, the 4 apostles, will conquer this world under his new name. May his name strike fear into his foes, For His Name Is John Reyes!"

All of the occultists started to cheer, but I couldn't even make a sound. My ears started to ring as my heart felt like it was in my throat, my insides felt like they were being shredded as everything clicked into place. 'N-no way, there has to be some kind of mistake.' but I knew there was no mistake, after all, they described how I was split, my name, and even that I was young. There was no mistaking, that I was the one they are after.

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