Chapter 11: The End of the Beginning

‡ In a hotel, overnight ‡

After we returned from the dungeon, I went straight to bed.

- A few hours passed -

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick.

"I knew I shouldn't have eaten those pancakes!

When I got out of bed, my legs buckled and I fell to my knees, feeling weak all over my body.

- What the f-.

Before I could say anything, I was vomiting blood.

* Boohoo * Uh-huh * Whaah * Whaaah * Whaaah *

- That's, uh, uh, bad. Gotta get some, uh, potion.

My vision began to blur, but overcoming myself, I stood up and moved towards a small table with various supplies on it.

As I pointed my left hand to take the potion, I was horrified to see a long overgrown wound on my arm, and a small trickle of blood flowing from it.

* ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪ Drip ♪

That wound healed over ten years ago.

" Okay, we need to calm down and drink the potion.

* Bull * Swallow * * Booooooooooo *

I immediately threw up, the puddle was visibly showing my late dinner and the potion itself.

- What the hell!

My nerves were starting to fray, and for the first time in a long time, I was terrified and hopeless.

"I need help! Yeah, that's right!

- Atys! - I shouted.

I still felt very weak, as if I had heavy weights strapped to my limbs.

Footsteps came from outside the door.

- Atys, hurry up.

The footsteps stopped just outside the door.

It was not a humanoid dragon behind the door, but someone else, and I could sense auras in a way, thanks to my Power, and the creature behind the door was cold, unlike Atys, whose aura was like fire.

" Am I in some kind of horror movie or something? What the hell is this? Could this be a dream?

I've been trying to find some kind of explanation.

"Or maybe it was poisoned and I'm having a bad case of the munchies. That's a possibility.

With a creak and a slow creak, the door began to open, and I hid behind my best defense against any monsters, a blanket.

The creature was still moving slowly towards me as well. Finally reaching me, it stopped. I could still feel the cold, the occasional goosebumps running through my body.

" Maybe... See...

It came into my head, but my body wasn't listening, as if my brain was realizing that it didn't need to do that.

" Why am I acting like a child. I'm almost the strongest right now, I don't think this creature can do anything to me.

With a trembling hand I grabbed the blanket.

" The main thing is not to shit myself.

The blanket flew up and I saw a centipede in front of me, a huge centipede, more than 2 meters high. Its eyes were fixed on me, but the worst part.... It had a pair of human legs!

- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The heaviness I felt was instantly gone. Breaking through the wall, I ran down the street away from this monster that wouldn't stay.

" We need to speed up.

* Boom *

Some building.

Goosebumps ran through my body, but no longer because of the monster, but another discovery. As I ran, I saw that there were those damn centipedes everywhere! But because of their speed, they didn't notice me.

"We need to calm down and cleanse the city of these creatures. But where did they come from? Where did all the people go? All right, that's enough.

I've drawn my swords.

"It's time to get serious.

Suddenly, the creature's paw broke through the wall and pierced my chest.

* Vshih * Bums *

I tried to strike with my sword, but the tough chitinous armor easily deflected the blow.

"Not even a scratch! What kind of cheating is this?!

* Boom *

I collapsed on the floor, bleeding.

"Useless defense! I should have used recovery, I could have easily regenerated the wound now.

Using the Force, I started to slowly get up, but 8 centipedes entered the room....

"Hmm.

- Annihilating Slice!

The two-story house immediately collapsed from the destroying everything - a hurricane.

I began to spin up to the maximum speed I could develop, all the centipedes turned into mincemeat, even the chitinous shell couldn't withstand such a terrifying force.

- One minute later.

Noticing the absence of other creatures, I began to slow down leisurely. Afterward, I decided to look around to get a sense of the current situation.

"Yeah, this is beyond repair.

There was nothing but a semblance of desert for the next dozens, if not hundreds of kilometers.

* Boom *

- At the hotel--

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick.

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Somewhere in dark space, a godlike entity laughed.