Chapter 522: The Climax of the Ritual and the Descent of the Gods (Double-Length Chapter for Monthly Votes)

"Don't come near me!"

The bewildered boy suddenly awoke from his sleep.

He turned on the light, sat up in bed, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Ever since encountering that creature in the morning, a terrifying shadow had loomed over him.

Although he had been taken to the gendarmerie after encountering the monster,

the gendarme lady who received him told him that what he experienced was an illusion, that what attacked him was not some humanoid monster but a vicious fugitive.

And she comforted him that everything was normal and that nothing had happened.

The words of that gendarme had a magical power that made him naturally believe what she said.

After that, he went to school and home in a daze.

But he always felt that something was wrong; the shadow that appeared in his dreams every day kept him in constant, twisted fear.

Especially today, this fear had reached a climax.

Just now, he had dreamed that the shadow entered his room, standing behind him.