Not dead yet

I was running, running for my life. I didn't know where I was running to but I just know I had to run. On my left shoulder I was carrying a guy with a missing left arm and he was unconscious from blood loss although his shoulder had completely stopped bleeding about 5 minutes ago. Honestly I doubt he was still alive at this point I didn't have time to bandage his arm I was barely even able to save him the holy knight used 「Light Crescent」and nearly killed Marcus after he lost his arm, hell he even nearly killed me as well. I threw Marcus over my left shoulder and I took off running

I ran for a good 10 minutes until I found a building that looked safe enough to rest in but the second I started running towards it an infected jumped out of an alleyway and tackled me to the ground making Marcus unconscious body hit the ground a few feet away from me

"GAH! NO, GET OFF!"

Panicking I kicked at the infecteds face again and again knocking most of his teeth out of his mouth but I still couldn't get him off. As he went to go and bite my leg in a last ditch effort I clapped my hands together and….

「Speed Step」

As time slowed down, no as I sped up I brought both of my knees to my chest and with every bit of strength I had left in my body I kicked the infected in his head turning what resembled a human face into nothing but red mist that painted the road.

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I felt like I was falling, I couldn't see anything I couldn't feel anything and I couldn't hear anything. Things have been like this for what has felt like days the last thing I could remember was losing my arm at this point I'm not sure if that even happened because I still have my left arm. I kept falling and falling being unable to see even my own hand directly in front of my face until finally….light.

I was falling directly towards this light at an alarming speed I could see the light getting closer and close until I passed through it and once I did the whole world seemed to open up. I was falling through the sky however this wasn't a sky I recognized the sky itself had a fiery red tint to it. I passed through the clouds and when I fell through to the other side I seen all types of creatures in the sky with me. Creatures that resembled alligators with deformed wings, floating eyeballs that had wings made of skin as well as flocks of bird like creatures flying in the distance. I kept falling and falling until I eventually hit the ground. When I landed i surprisingly took no damage from the fall at all however I did shatter the ground I landed on. I continued to lay on the ground not moving for about a minute and then when I finally stood up.

"What the hell is this?"

I asked while looking around at my surroundings. This definitely wasn't normal I was on the edge of a cliff that overlooked a giant plain however what I was looking at wasn't a giant green plain of grass no it was the opposite. Fires raged all around burning everything, bodies littered the ground for as far as the eyes could see a burned and dead forest was down the cliff to my right and a giant castle was far in the distance. Looking around beside me there were more bodies some of them were wearing armor, some had weapons and one had a staff of some kind. I picked up one of the swords it looked like just your generic medieval sword but on the hilt there was an engraving of an eagle. I used the sword and cut the sleeve off of my hoodie and used it to tie the scabbard to my waist. I took in a deep breath, the air was thick and heavy and smelled like a decaying corpse all the while I just stood staring out into the open plain of death and fire.