noveltune Chapter 162 Devil Ritual, Voices, and Lake
Chapter 162 Devil Ritual, Voices, and Lake
"Argh! Haa! Ngh!"
Kiernan inched his feet closer to the top, but his body was shaking, and the blood dripped off his body like a slow, steady rain.
His vision started to seem hazy, and he could feel his strength fading.
'Is this my limit? Please, since when did I become this pathetic?'
'Ha! Ha! Ha!'
He suddenly started to hear laughter.
When he looked around, he couldn't tell where the laughter was coming from. He was the only one here.
'How pathetic of you, Kiernan!'
In the air, three faces appeared. They were obscure and just circled around Kiernan like vultures. They smiled and laughed, clearly enjoying Kiernan's pain.
"Who?" Kiernan frowned.
'Already forgotten us, you bastard?' The three faces said. 'You killed us, remember?'
"I've killed many people." Kiernan said. "You must be more specific than that!"
'We are the ones you betrayed.'
"..." Kiernan frowned. "Michael, Samuel, and Isaac."
'Bingo! You're catching on!'
"Haha!" Kiernan laughed and pushed himself up the hill. "I betrayed you? Only one of us was going to survive—that's the point of the Devil Ritual!"
'Four of us were like brothers. We could've fought the creators of Devil Ritual and escaped, but you decided to betray us and then killed us!'
"I only made the first move. I saw the look in your guys eyes. All of you planned to betray each other for the reward—after all, you all came willingly to the Devil Ritual to become the strongest.
"I didn't believe in your talks about friendship and working together—I knew how that would've ended if I decided to help you guys!"
'Your thirst for power corrupted you. All you wanted was to become the strongest. It didn't matter how many you betrayed, killed, and sacrificed along the way!
'You're a horrible person, Kiernan, and there will come a time when you will be punished. You already escaped death once. You think you deserve reincarnation?
'You should be burning in the flames of hell instead!'
"Fuck off!" Kiernan shouted. "You three are dead, and I am busy!"
The three faces laughed mockingly and then disappeared into thin air, but their laughter still lingered like a haunting memory.
It was starting to get really hard for him to breathe!
'Come on!'
Kiernan raised his fist and punched at the tentacle, but the octopus didn't even flinch. It kept dragging him down like a delicious meal.
'About to die?' Another voice entered his mind. 'You are the champion of the Devil Ritual, yet you're about to die to an overgrown octopus, haha!'
'The dead sure like to bitch and moan!' Kiernan gritted his teeth and raised his fist high. 'Just keep watching!'
The tentacle brought him all the way to the octopus—the octopus stared down on him with its eternally creepy gaze.
'Iron Smash!'
Kiernan punched through the water and squarely hit the octopus in the eye.
The octopus flinched, and the tentacle recoiled in pain, accidentally letting go of Kiernan.
Kiernan immediately started swimming back up to the surface, but the angered octopus swam after him and moved its tentacles over to him.
'Iron Smash!'
Kiernan punched the tentacles away and then saw that the octopus wasn't going to back off easily.
'Fuck it. Broken arm, fine!'
His right arm started twisting and turning like a drill, and then, he punched through the water with the force of a jackhammer and punched the octopus straight in the face.
'Hyperion's Smash!'
The powerful punch sent the octopus back down to the depths of the lake.
Kiernan panicked, quickly kicked his legs against the water, and then returned back to the surface. He immediately took a greedy breath of air.
If he stayed in the water much longer, he would've passed out!
He then felt a crazy amount of pain, and when he turned to look at his right arm, it was completely broken—purple in color, twisted, and jagged.
Kiernan pushed through the pain, swam to the end of the lake, and climbed up. There was only ten meters between him and the exit of the cave.
'Finally...'
However, then a strange sound came.
BANG!
"?!"