Chapter 18

🎭 Bloodfeast's Perspective: The Whispering Death

They ran.

The tunnels stretched endlessly before them, every turn leading deeper into the unknown. Kryger's heartbeat pounded in his ears. He didn't stop. He didn't turn around.

The last time he looked back, the second mage had still been there. Running. Breathing. Alive.

Then the lights had flickered.

A sharp, wet sound.

The last mage footsteps stopped.

The mage's breath came fast and shallow. "This is just a mechanic," he muttered, gripping his staff tighter. "Just—just an effect…"

The dungeon whispered back, as if mocking him.

"Just… just an effect…"

It wasn't an echo. The voice was off. Stretched. Warped.

The mage stopped running. His hands shook. "No… that's not…"

The lights flickered.

A wet, tearing sound.

The mage choked out a single breath—then nothing.

Kryger didn't turn around.

The PK replay system activated. The mages' dying screams, the screams of every victim they had ever killed, now whispered from the walls, as if the tunnel itself was mourning them.

The rogue beside him tripped, a sob breaking from his throat. "T-this isn't real. It's just the dungeon messing with us—"

Another whisper. "Please… no… not my gear…"

The rogue sprinted faster.

They burst through an arched doorway into a massive, open hall. And stopped.

🎭 Raven's Perspective: The Stage is Set

Raven leaned forward, his fingers hovering over the interface. They had arrived.

The Nameless Choir's chamber.

Unlike before, the room wasn't dark. A soft, flickering glow illuminated the interior. Pews lined the walls, seats filled with faceless, unmoving figures.

At the far end, a grand, ruined organ stood against the backdrop of a shattered cathedral. Its pipes were twisted, corroded by time and void magic.

Then, the music began.

Not the usual dissonant chorus that played when players entered this boss room. No—this was something new.

A single, solitary voice began to sing.

It was soft, sorrowful, longing—and yet, something felt wrong.

Then, footsteps echoed behind them.

Silent Warden had arrived.

Raven exhaled, activating the next sequence. "Let's begin the duet."

🎭 Bloodfeast's Perspective: The Song of Madness

The opera's melody wrapped around them, pulling at something deep in their minds.

Kryger clenched his fists. No. It's a trick. Just another dungeon effect.

Then he noticed the rogue beside him was shaking.

"What's wrong with you?! We need to move—"

The rogue didn't respond. His eyes were locked on the pews. On the audience.

"They… They're watching us…"

The figures in the seats did not move. They had no faces, yet unlike the normal boss fight in this dungeon, their face now turns to them.

The rogue's breath hitched as this is not the Veilshade Catacombs they know.

Kryger turned back to the stage.

The Nameless Choir had begun to sing louder.

A single, devastating note ripped through the air.

The moment it hit them, the rogue gasped—his body locked in place.

A pulse of light—Silent Warden's lantern.

The rogue twitched. His lips moved.

And then—he screamed.

Kryger lunged forward, but it was too late.

Silent Warden swung his sword.

The rogue's body collapsed in a spray of blood, his scream vanishing into the song.

🎭 Raven's Perspective: The Duet of Death

"And there goes another one."

Raven increased the volume of the Choir.

The remaining two—Kryger and the last rogue assassin—were running.

But now, the Nameless Choir wasn't just singing. They were mimicking the rogue's last words.

The melody twisted, darkened—turning the dead into part of the music.

As the two remaining players dashed toward the only visible corridor, Raven gave one final command.

Silent Warden dragged his broadsword along the floor, his footsteps slow, steady.

Behind them, the Choir's opera reached its climax.

And the last doorway opened.

To the final boss.

🎭 Bloodfeast's Perspective: The Last Stand

Kryger and the last rogue assassin stumbled into the final chamber.

The vast hall stretched before them, its architecture impossibly shifting—walls that seemed solid one second flickered like an illusion the next. And at the center of it all, Phantom Seer waited.

The specter hovered just above the ground, its fragmented robes twisting as if caught in an invisible current. Its face was a void, shifting between countless blurred memories, never settling on one.

The rogue gritted his teeth, panting. "We… We can do this, right? It's just a boss fight…"

But the Nameless Choir did not stop singing.

Their twisted opera continued, echoing through the room, an unnatural harmony of sorrow and despair.

And Silent Warden's footsteps followed behind them.

Why the two mid boss in here?

Kryger tightened his grip on his shield. "Get ready."

🎭 Raven's Perspective: The Perfect Setting

Raven exhaled slowly, his eyes locked on the screen. The scene was perfect.

The rogue and the tank—two survivors left standing in a fight they couldn't win.

He fine-tuned the settings, ensuring that the Choir's song lingered just slightly out of sync, a half-second delay that made it feel even more unsettling.

Raven's cold gaze shimmered like a statue carved in shadow, reflected faintly on the screen before him.His eyes held no thrill—only the still, patient malice of a hunter watching its prey freeze in terror.They didn't even know they were already dead.

He tapped the panel.

"Start the nightmare."

Then, Phantom Seer moved.

🎭 Bloodfeast's Perspective: Facing the Phantom

Phantom Seer blinked out of existence—then reappeared directly in front of the rogue.

"MOVE!" Kryger shouted.

Too late.

A cold pulse washed over the rogue. Shattered Vision triggered.

The rogue's movements slowed—his perception of time distorted. He tried to dodge, but his body reacted a split second too late.

Phantom Seer's hand phased through his chest.

The rogue gasped. For a moment, it looked like nothing had happened—until his HP bar dropped to one.

He staggered back, hands trembling. "I-I can't move—"

Phantom Seer twisted his grip.

The rogue screamed. His body convulsed violently as if something was being ripped out of him.

Then, the screen flashed red.

[PLAYER ELIMINATED]

The rogue's body collapsed, his eyes blank, his hands twitching as he was forcefully logged out.

Kryger stood alone.

Only one player remained.

Kryger—the tank with little to no damage output, no escape, and no hope.

Raven tapped a command. Silent Warden stepped forward.

The Choir's twisted opera shifted to a lower key in a bloodlust haunting song.

Phantom Seer hovered just inches from Kryger, while behind him, Silent Warden's lantern pulsed, bathing the room in flickering, sickly light.

Then, Nameless Choir's song swelled.

Debuffs stacked. Mind Fog. Slow. Locking Gaze.

Kryger raised his shield.

Three enemies stood before him.

And for the first time, he realized what true fear was.

Kryger forced himself to stand. His shield felt heavier than ever. But he wasn't dead yet.

"Come on, then," he spat, raising his weapon. "Let's see how much of a fight you bastards can—"

The Choir's song changed.

The opera's melody warped, bending into something lower, guttural.

No. That's not just a debuff song.

It was a mocking laughter.

Then, Phantom Seer moved.