Dark Dealing

'Something keeps whispering in my ears since. It all began after the dark deep voice talked to me'

"You wish for power, don't you? Also, who are you really? You look different than usual compfreund that I had witnessed," asks the deep dark voice in the pitch black.

"You mean my yellow color?" Krilo tries to ascertain his question.

"That one too, but it is not what I meant little one. It's your structure, your conscience. Your conscience does not have any of those Lampetia's essences. It is like, you are created from another different matter. The one I had not seen before." The voice sounds confused.

'Does it not know that I am from a different world?'

Krilo is trying to grasp what state he is in for. He can somehow feel his legs, arms, and whole body. However, he can not seem to look at them at all. It is all pitch black no matter where he takes his gaze.

Also, he feels like he is suspended in a body of water. Nowhere to grasp with his invisible hand. Nowhere to stand on with his invisible legs. Floating. Although he can breathe perfectly, which is all that calms him.

"Lampetia?" asks Krilo.

"She who descended from the Upper Realm to replace me as the rightful ruler. She who destroyed the beauty of the darkness that I inhabited. She created her subject for unknown reasons and split her essence. They called her, The Nature."

It suddenly dawned on Krilo that he is talking to an unusual voice. The enemy of humanity long ago, before The Beast Era. "You are The Void itself. What have I done so that you have approached me?"

The dark voice laughs like there is no tomorrow. Along with all the lesser high pitched laughs from Krilo's surroundings. It feels like The Void had not heard the best joke in his entire life. "Have you forgotten? You made a pact with my Principales. Heh, you even wanted to destroy the realm in this world on your wish. Even I cannot ignore such ambition."

Krilo stays silent. He somewhat regretted his guts back then. He wanted to destroy The Voltingen Kingdom, and anyone that had wronged House Regent in the past, including the children of the long reign House Gewjory. But, not with the process of resigning his body into The Void.

"Oh? Hesitating with your wish, eh? Haven't you forget how insignificant you were when wanting to kill yourself back then? Do you want to get back and once again be filled with uselessness?" asks The Void. Krilo can feel his cold and hollow breath in front of him.

Krilo's lip is tight shut.

"Okay you win, lend me your power to avenge, to have the last laugh over them. I don't want to be looked down on."

The Void laughs ominously. "First of all, I will lend you Lamentia's essence so you can take a look at what surrounds you."

Immediately the pitch black changes to that of a space with millions of stars. It is akin to the view of space on his earth. So beautiful, except for the fact that there are many creatures that are flying and floating in space.

Transparent creatures that take the color of the space. They distort the space in the process. So many of them that the space distortion makes Krilo dizzy. He cannot fathom what shape those creatures are other than being transparent.

"It is I, Scotus, the one that should take back my rightful throne. Will lend his power to you." A big smile is hovering on top of him. It then opens up its mouth and reveals many mouths that smile ominously.

Suddenly the space distortion opens their eyes from beneath. They all have dark sclera with red pupils that cast an eerie look on Krilo at once. It's almost like the space is just a sheet that covers the many eyes.

Krilo's mouth opens up in itself and freezes. 'W-what's going on?' That many eyes are sucked into Krilo's mouth at once. Feels like forcefully eating tons of live eel that squirms endlessly in your stomach.

The yellow compfreund wishes to stop but cannot articulate his words properly. He feels like he is eating the whole universe. However, all of it does not make him any fuller. Instead, his hunger craves.

His vision once again becomes pitch black. 'I-is that it?'

A sound wakes him up.

[You are destined to be the strongest]

[To gain level exponentially, the host must do 3 things]

[a. Strike your opponent]

[b. Absorb the natural essence of another compfreund]

[c. Absorb the natural essence of a human or non-humans]

***

All of a sudden he is in a room with a dome like shape on its ceiling. Red pillars and cream marbles. In front of him, some familiar faces. His annoying companion Niva, red drake compfreund Shervo beside him, with Lula standing behind. They all look worried and crying at the same time.

"Where am I?" He looked at the familiar faces of Niva and Lula. Shervo immediately rushes to Krilo's side. Stroking its head gently. "Wow, hey now. Why are you all crying like that?"

Niva hugs his beloved compfreund with an insane speed.

"H-help … I can't breathe!" mumbles Krilo.

"Oh sorry." Niva quickly releases his hug.

"Let me ask again, where is this place?"

"Treasure room of a dungeon. We … we love to see you alright," answers Niva.

"We are worried sick of you. We know you are upset with your current circumstances but things do not solve the way you act like this." Shervo scolds Krilo. "Relax, me and my Lula won't tell your companion that you ran away from home."

Krilo smiles and pats Shervo. She is actually an easy going girl once you know her.

He shoots a sharp look at a person lying near the room entrance and walks toward him. A blonde hair Foxtren that is lifeless with a wound deep in his chest. Blood is drying up from his mouth. But with a smile on his face.