23 The Coffin

As the bubble turned into light an

Suddenly the ominously murderous aura vanished in thin air like it wasn't even there, to begin with, but without minding that I looked at what I was searching for.

There in the coffin was a lusterless black katana with an equally black onyx handle, a black handle guard, and one-sided sharp Black horns of one pair placed there as I looked at it and inspected it, without touching it I inspected both.

As I saw everything about it and it was as the description says.

The katana also known as the sword of Massacre and the pair of one-sided sharp black horns also known as The Crown of Darkness.

As the descriptions say so after lingering for a few seconds I grabbed the katana in hand it got in my hands just well but it will change also.

As I placed my hand near the tip of the katana and pressed against it blood started to flow from the finger placed there I didn't move and showed as after a split second it was absorbed in the katana and it started to glow fiercely black and then it burst into black fire and black electricity and was absorbed in my body.

It stung a little all over the body but that's it, and I didn't give it much thought either as I lingered for a few seconds staring at the space, and moved to the one-sided pair of Demonic horns.

'Now this is going to be difficult.' I thought as I lingered there for a few seconds before taking out a dagger from my smart bracelet inventory as I made a tiny wound on my finger from which blood started to come.

Without hesitating for what was to come I pressed my thumb against the demonic horn and as it came in contact with it, it suddenly started to become hot and liquefy and started to become one as blood, but ominously black as it started to reverse flow with blood in me and that was like hot magma flowing through my body as I fell to my knees.

"Ugh!"

But I persisted and didn't let the scream come out of my throat as I felt the hot magma travel through my right hand the black vines started to appear in my hand as it traveled through my veins to the shoulder and the neck but I endured that much but now what was to come was out of my reach as the hot magma finally made it's way to the forehead and that was not something I could endure.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

As I started to scream like there was no tomorrow but it didn't last long as the pain finally intensified to the point where it was already hard to be conscious I hold my scream in my throat and persisted as my metallic arm dug into my right hand because of pressing it against the hand, and maybe blood also started to come out of there.

And I felt a wet sensation all over my face as maybe blood started to come out of my orifices.

As I saw my blood start to gather around me like a pond and started to move toward the altar as the coffin and altar also started to liquefy at the touch of Blood I knew something more painful was in its way and it happened the liquefy lusterless magma started to flow towards my body as it slithers across my body to my orifices and started to flow through it forcefully and finally, I lost my conscious at the sheer pain coursing through my body...

"Ugh!"

"Wa..e u...."

'What UGH who?'

"W...k.. up"

As I slowly started to process what was happening.

"Noah Elrod this is not your home wake up."

I heard an emotionless voice calling out my name and at that remark, I opened my eyes instantly at the emotionless remark and at first it was all blurry, I can only see the outline of a tall jet black shadow looking at me as I felt like I was in the presence of a grim reaper virtually but I composed my self and waited for vision to clean as I finally saw the shadow of death, Layla Netyoive was looking down at me with that emotionless eyes.

Then it finally dawned me where I was here to take that relic, and because of unbearable pian I lost consciousness, and by the looks of it how Layla is still standing here having enough time to spare me that glance the time is far from over.

As I looked at her, i lingered at those eyes and finally looked around, where there was no, altar, no coffin, no relics and no blood, all there was empty space in the heart of the weapon section.

But I wasn't surprised at the fact as i expected this and finally i looked at her properly and answered.

"Yes."

As I said that I got up with difficulty because of the strain my body and brain gone through because of the process and started to walk towards her with staggering steps as she saw me coming but I didn't give it another glance and walk past her.

'I hope she hasn't seen anything and even if she has now i do not have the power to even entertain the idea of silencing her....

.,If I go according to the novel then she should have got her relic by now, so what was she doing in the inner spectrum of the vault?'

As my mind lingered at those thoughts, the staggering subsided as I started to walk with emotionless face and aloof steps.

While moving forward I heard the noise of footstep behind me as emotionless and aloof but I didn't give it much thought and opened my smart bracelet to see the time....

It has been 6 to 7 hours since we had entered the vault and there was still way more than half a day left which many will still use for in search of their destiny which maybe already has been written or not will only time will tell.