Ch. 21 Forgotten Letter
Sitting down I begin to mix the Marionette hearts with the Mannequin blood. With basically just means I had to dig a hole in the ground drop in a hundred hearts then pour the blood over them and mix till it came out looking a big like clear dough... Placing the see through dough into my inventory I spot a couple forgotten things in my inventory... A necklace and a letter from the guardsmen... Curiously I carefully opened up the letter and was surprised to find it was also addressed to Bjorn... from a different woman who was begging for their daughters sake... It goes on for awhile with this woman trying to guilt trip her baby daddy Bjorn into releasing her daughter and stop torturing her... I already didn't quite like this Bjorn dude but what's he doing torturing his own daughter for... However when the letter ended I became furious... Right there in beautiful hand writing was...
"Please Alice doesn't deserve to be locked up and experimented on like this... Let her go..."
So... Bjorn huh? I do hope to meet him soon. Putting away the letter I looked at the necklace and opened it up to find a very old photo of a familiar little girl holding a familiar teddy bear in a extremely beautiful woman's arms... Smiling I put the necklace on and returned to my vampire hunting. Unaware of the little bat hiding inside my clothes crying for her friend.
It was a strait path to the castle in the distance with the occasional skeleton that I one shot out of existence. Most of them being spell casters. At the door to the castle is a transparent floating figure of a woman... Frowning I realize that's the same woman from the necklace... This Bjorn dude is serious a piece of shit... Shrugging I walk on and approach the floating hollow eyed figure and trying to remember her name in the hopes that I don't have to fight her...
Suddenly the ghastly lady shrieked and charged forward clawing outwards but her movement stopped suddenly as her eyes locked upon the necklace on her targets neck and her eyes became clear at the sound of a voice speaking a name she had long forgotten.
"Eliza, that's enough... You can rest now Alice is free." The transparent figure stared with glistening wet eyes before nodding as her figure slowly faded away. A bright light flashing from her figure into the necklace around my neck as the rust fell off and it took up and beautiful almost silver luster I looked inside and saw the old photo had been perfectly restored... Well I'd assume... I never saw the original one... Closing the necklace I walked to the door and opened it up slowly looking around for any ambushes. After making sure the coast was clear I slipped in and closed the door behind me quietly making my way down the long dark corridor. Reaching a door that a crimson light escape the bottom of that I inched forward and peeked through the crack.
It took a second for my eyes to adjust but I was disgusted by what I saw inside... A mass of many impish demons following the instructs of a decrepit old man as they moved masses of flesh and pieces of corpses around many of the demons slacking off at the side as they found a corpse part that had a nice tight hole they chose to fill... What kind of sick fuck designed this canyon...
Witholding my urge to vomit that was very much just a feeling as I seem to have a rather strong stomach I scanned the room and saw a head fly out of the wall in the corridor I am in shocking me as I jumped back. A ghost woman crawled out of the wall but her eyes seemed to be lit up brightly so I choice not to attack right away and back up a bit from the door was I can talk in a hushed ton.
The ghost follows me back down the hall before I stop and whisper in a hushed tone. "What can I help you with mam?" The ghost woman looks at me strangely before inching closer to my ear and making a bunch of unintelligible grunts and squeeks...
*Quest: Keeping History Buried
Eliminate the disciples of Bjorn the Necromancer
Kill: Sedeic the Enthralled
Kill: Baren the Lustful
Kill: Felis the Bloodthirsty
Kill: Bearik the Wild
Hunt the vampires
Kill: Countess Vella
Kill: Prince Vale
Kill: Duke Parker
Kill: Vred
Save the last innocent soul in this accused place.
Reward: A favor from the goddess of mercy*
That's either the best reward ever or trash... I guess... Depends on what the "Goddess" is willing to do...
"What if I want her to get naked for me?" It was at that point that a hand made of soft white light formed in mid air and slapped my face... No damage was dealt but it stung... Probably should have kept that thought to myself... Guess this goddess of mercy is watching me? K... Whatever...
Seeing that the quest giver had passed on or just left off doing ghost things? I moved on with my life and began to make my way back towards the now ajar door that is being opened where a sickly old man is staring out into the corridor... Kneeling down in the dark corridor right away I don't think the man can see me as he looks around before heading back in and screaming something as a swarm of demons rushed into the hallway...
"Ah... That's your fault Miss Goddess... Whose side are you on here?" No response was given as the demons charged into the corridor and started searching occasionally attacking one another... Looking at the little swarm of buggers I know I can't make my way through via stealth as they are going entirely based on their sense of touch... Despite stealth and sneak being super powerful invisibility wise they don't have any intangibility traits at all. You can still walk right into someone while stealthed. I've heard story of some couples using their sneak/stealth skills to have sex in public places sure someone with high enough stats or the right optical or other sensory type skills could easily find them but those kinda people are usually rare and the people with enough free time to engage in such acts are usually retired or have reached "the final" bottleneck aka the mortality gap. Which is level 100. We aren't given any info on people above level 100 but Affie let it slip one time that people past level 100 aren't on the same continent as everyone else... They go to a continent in the sky... Which sounds dumb but it's a magical world designed inside a game... so it's really what it is... It's totally possible... I asked Affie how she knew once but she was tight lipped about it and swore that she couldn't and wouldn't tell and that I already knew to much. She seemed to imply even speaking about the levels above 100 outside of a private residence could get you killed or cursed or something. Crys interrupted her fear filled warning by just saying I had to wait till I got to the level gap myself then we could all do our level 100 quest line together. So basically I'll have to wait on Anny and Ela otherwise I'd have to breakthrough on my own. Which none of them are capable of. Crys eventually managed to trick me into sharing what my foundational stats were so it's no secret to those two about why I'm so strong... They seemed both seemed to imply that it wasn't that impressive though... They definitely weren't surprised. All I was once I reach level 50 I'll understand why. I do know people get a "class change" quest at level 50 and then again the same quest is what limits people from ever reaching level 100+... So from that information I'd have to assume there's more then one quest that raises foundational stats... Likely three? I don't know I'm just guessing here maybe it's something else entirely?
As regards to the swarm of impish demons, my internal monologue has overshadowed the slaughter... Unlike the glass like figurines and doll people from Alice's quest the little gross red pigs don't have nearly the same defense... So I deal millions of damage per strike insta killing the little demons. After a short while I've worked my way into the now empty room and see the old man standing above a bloody alter casting a spell and before I can enter the room the very space before the alter was ripped in two developing an eye or... maybe a gaping vagina like appearance... Basically just a slit turned into a hole... It's not one of them Galaxy whirl kinda portals... Anyways an army of red fuckerers twice the size of the previous one rushes out of the portal and swarms toward me like a wave on the ocean. The moment I managed to kill wave two wave three was upon me. The waves kept coming and kept getting faster for thirty strait waves... Rushing into the boss room after finally being given a break I can see the original meat locker of a flesh hoarder has been picked clean and even the blood and other fluids I don't want to talk about was cleaned from the floor walls and ceiling making the previous glowing red room someone empty and bluish... The originally sickly old man is now laying on the alter clearly on his last breath as his organs can be see through his skin and his skin is tight against his skeleton... Rushing up not giving this guy any other chance I have my blade down on the bodies neck hard.