It was like a faint crack or a blooming light.
Either description fit exactly what Nn was feeling right now—the feeling as if something had been broken within him, or as if something had been brought to light.
The feeling was faint, but Nn could feel it, and in the next instant, he took a single step forward quickly followed by another.
The pressure on him was nothing short of monumental, yet Nn''s gaze never once left the eyes of the statue before him.
The pressure on him seemed to be doubled as a result, yet Nn didn''t know what or why.
But he simply kept moving forward, a step at a time.
Less than two minutester, Nn''s hands pushed open the door to the 8th room with all of his power.
The door wouldn''t even budge at all even though he was pushing hard, and Nn''s anger reached a new level.
ROOOOOOOOAR
Powerful muscles which he never knew he even had, bulged over his arms, squirming like earthworms in a sprinkle of salt.
"Open!" Nn roared out aloud, and in the next instant—
GRUUUUUM
It was the sound of the door getting forcefully pushed open as Nn stepped forth inside the room, but his face instantly changed when he felt his surroundings disappear and what appeared before him was a void of space containing debris of shattereds and stars.
The area stank of death and chaos, and a mysterious aura that cast intense fear lingered off, causing Nn''s chest to spike up.
One moment he was struggling through the eighth door, but now he was in such a haunting ce.
STEP
STEP
STEP
The sound of footsteps suddenly rang out as Nn froze in shock and slowly turned his back towards where he could feel the sound.
Immediately, his heartbeat spiked uncontrobly.
Right in front of him was a man whose physical features were none other than the one in the statue.
But right now, he was the exact height as Nn, and in his both arms were two gigantic axes, one oozing with a blue me while the other oozed out with dark burning mes.
His body was soaked with blood and cuts, and his emotionless eyes stared at Nn.
In the next instant, Nn''s knee gave in, and he copsed onto his knees.
The figure looked at him from above, and his poker face slowly disappeared, reced by a grin that spread to his ears, as he slowly bent to Nn, their faces just a few inches from each other.
"Be my ve! Oh, you weakling!, and have your life sparred."
In the next instant, the entire world seemed toe to a stop as the singr word buzzed repeatedly in Nn''s head.
''Be my ve!''
''Be my ve!''
''Be my ve!''
''Be my ve!''
''Be my ve!''
''Be my ve!''
"I will be a ve again, like I have always been?" Nn asked dumbly, and even though he was looking at the man''s deep red eyes, he was lost in his own world.
Incredibly slowly, the memories of his past life yed in his head.
The haunting day when his fate was decided, the day his mother dered having no knowledge of who he was whatsoever.
The day he was stered as a ve for 60 years.
The day the realization dawned on him he wouldn''t be able to live until 40 let alone 60.
The day he remembered he would never be free anymore.
He had almost forgotten about those days, or maybe he really was trying to forget those days.
But now everything came sinking into his head once more.
"I should be a ve? Why? Why does it always have to be me? Why should I be cursed with very through two lifetimes? Why!? Why!?
WHY!!? WHYYY!!!"
The thoughts haunted Nn until his lost eyes snapped open in shock, his right crimson-colored eyes brightening up with an intense light, and in the next instant—
BOOOOOOOOOM
A powerful punch sted onto the man''s face, sending him smashing away like a cannon ball before he skidded to a stop, and his shocked eyes stared back at Nn who stood crouched, his left eye oozing out with a crimson red light.
"Kill me if you want! I will never be yours nor anyone''s ve!" he roared out, every word ringing through the copsed void.
And slowly, he watched as the shocked expression on the man''s face slowly withdrew until it was reced by an intense devilish grin.
In the next instant, an axe soared forward towards Nn, and he caught it within his hands.
It was the axe ring with the red mes.
"Then fight for your freedom, even until death!" the man called out, and in the next instant, he shot forward with speed.
Withoutgging behind for a single second, Nn also burst forth with his speed, rapidly approaching the man, and ten meters away, he jumped up into the sky, both hands holding the axe right above his head, and then he shed down with every single bit of energy within him,
"BE GONE!!!!"
A powerful roar followed by two axes shing resounded as the entire void shook, tearing and fracturing to pieces, and in the next instant, Nn found the entire world before him change, and right before him was the ss.
Looking behind him, a truth dawned on him.
He had crossed the entire 20 meters length of the eighth floor and his hands were now on the seventh door...
Without pausing to think about it, Nn''s hands moved and he pressed his hand on the ss, and this time, he was able to lift it open after exerting his strength, and in the next instant, he stepped in.
BOOOOOOOM
Instantly, the ss beneath Nn''s feet shattered into pieces as his body crouched onto the ground, his hands moving straight for the floor yet they stopped ten centimetres away, as veins wriggled all over Nn''s face, making him resemble a demon.
"I will not bow!!!" he roared out to none in particr, and in the next instant, the sound of bones cracking resounded as Nn forcefully rose his back up until finally he was on his feet once more.
Taking a single step forward, the ground beneath him shattered to pieces from the monumental pressure, yet he sessfully took the next and the next and the next, until he arrived at the ss door of the sixth area...