Crimson Apocalypse (3)

All of them rushed at Edward with fury in their eyes, but before they could touch them. The ground beneath them shook as a massive fissure opened up causing the church to fall in, and from the fissure came out large crimson bats that reached the size of a average height of a tiger, and from those fissures were roots that was seeping out toxic blood.

Edward stood up, and walked towards the edge of the fissure and looking down he saw the Lord Father being taken further into the fissure, which held a deep hidden realm of root, crimson, and serpents.

Fire crackled from every dead tree out there, the branches stretched out like skeletal fingers, it reaked of ash and rotting flesh. The servers would coil around the trees as they hissed at each other, and when they noticed Edward they lent out a horrific deafening shriek which could destroy all the buildings in Tundor.

Then from 30 thousand kilometers deep into the fissure waited the Scorched Wyrm for their vessel, and it coiled around a ruined castle made of ash, broken black stone, and was overgrown with the same flesh roots.

All the four trumpets felt the presence of the Scorched Wyrm, and they all felt to their knees in fear of themselves, and the Lord Father. Even after all of this, Edward walked over into the fissure as the roots rushed towards him trying to imprison him.

But as they got closer the roots would slowly burn into ash causing the roots to recoil back into the ruined kingdom. Jensen, and the others arrived to the scene as they felt the horrific burning presence of the Scorched Wyrm.

All of them tried their best not to fall on their knees as the bats, crimson humanoids, serpents, and crimson Abnormalities crawled out of the fissure.

All of those horrific creatures rushed at the four trumpets, Jensen, Kieran, Jiang, Willem, and Leila in a hungered frenzy of freedom.

Over 7 centuries had past since the Botched Wyrm and their spawn had roamed the Earth, a bloody rotting crimson land that they controlled, which today was known before as the Crimson Empire, now known as the Kormathal Republic which held control over Tundor, Moonlit, Sycarius, Peridol, and Balak.

Kieran summoned thousands of water spears which he launched at the horde that rushed towards them. Above them were news helicopters recording the scene as the bats rushed at them, but were killed by Jensen before they reached the helicopters.

The whole continent of Xethos was seeing the horrific incident play out, and all the citizens stayed inside in their homes fearing the Crimson Apocalypse might reach their cities.

Tundor was now a desolate crimson wasteland of flesh roots, Abnormalities, and fire, and all the Wyrm Howl Cult members or what remained of them cheered as their "Paradise" had finally been created, but the Four Trumpets fought, and stood there in fear as they wished for their Lord Father to return.

Within the fissure, Edward walked towards the ruined kingdom he saw with the Rope of False Truths, the same rope that hanged the former king of Khutul. When the beings of that horrific realm would rush at him, they would all burn into ash as he would activate Act 2: Fires of Hubris, the second act of the story of the Hanged King.

A fire that burnt the castle of the King of Khutul, as it even slowly reached him, and his kingdom because of the pure hubris of the king, and the hate, and rage of his people. A fire that would burn two times the heat of the sun, and the land of crimson would slowly turn ash as he walked with an emotionless face.

In his mind, Edward only wanted answers on why the Crimson Abnormalities know about Khutul and its tragic tale, after all the Scorched Wyrm ruled before Khutul was even born.

As the man walked the scorching crimson realm of rotting flesh, and root he was mocked by a being from no origin which followed him ever since he stepped foot Manor Black. "No One" would mock him as he slowly reached the ruined king, and as he got closer the more loud the whispers of "No One"s mocking got.

A cacophony of whispers played inside his head, which would slowly drive a man into insanity, but Edward simply ignored due to the fact he wanted answers so bad that his body moved due to his will. Right now, Edward wasn't thinking, or pondering what he's going to do next but he was focused on what thing only. Answers to Khutul, answers to what was the history before the Dark Ages, and answers to what the 7 Mythical Tales was. Although he knew what they were, he doesn't know where or how they came to be.

Edward wanted answers to what Echoes were, to why Abnormalities were born, to why Xethos was created, and why he and the other Mythical Tales suffered.

Above the fissure was the four trumpets dealing with the horde as well as Jensen, Kieran, Willem, Jiang, and Leila used their maximum forms except for Jiang and Jensen. Willem was in the horrific form of a 20 meter creature mixed with all the different animals of the world while Leila had two half broken horns protruding from her forehead as she had two wings of pink flame that stretched out to 10 feet while Kieran had a storm blue aura that surrounded him.

They were all fighting these creatures as to not allow them to escape into other countries or cities. And from the chaos that was a bloodbath was the leader of the Golden Tooth who stood watching in an alleyway and behind him were the rest of the 13 Tooth.

"Frame the mayor of Tundor, and let no one figure out that the Black Family had to do with this, and make sure that the Golden Tooth remained on top." he ordered.

The 13 Tooth that were with him nodded, and quickly left the alleyway as their leader stood there watching the bloddy scene unfold.

Then a man appeared behind him, that was cloaked in darkness, only his eyes were visible.

"And you, Peter shall be the infamous Lord Father." the man shifted into the Lord Father after hearing the commands of his master.

As the fight went on the same man dressed in a blue suit dashed towards the fissure entering it with no one knowing. 

Feeling the presence of another person enter their domain, the Scorched Wyrm lent out the same horrific shriek from before to scare him away, but the man followed behind Edward who was already at the midpoint of the Scorched Realm while he was still at the lower area.

"Another, brave or stupid soul?" thought Edward as he walked through the Wall of Crimson that bordered the 4th level of the lower area and the 1st level of the middle area.