It was all light.
This time, it was all light.
There was no darkness, just pure white, wherever i looked.
I was floating in space, beneath was nothing but a sea of light.
Looking around me, everything was the same: just white.
I don't know how long it has been like this.
For some reason, i Don't feel cold.
I don't feel hunger, i feel nothing.
I felt satisfied and light, I felt the shackles and chains that were wrapped around my limbs, disappear.
It would be more accurate to call it satisfaction.
I dont know why i felt satisfied.
Its as if all my desires were peeled away.
This is when a humming sound invaded my senses.
Along the humming sound, a stoic voice spoke.
'don't forget the light.
The light exist everywhere- even in darkness, it will find away.
Even if you are underground, it will reach you.
Because light exist within you.
Within you, the world was created.'
For some reason i felt calm, i didn't feel fear, its as if i have already been here, heard it already.
Closing my eyes, i still can see the light but soon enough, that light started to fade.
Darkness creeped on the corners of my eyelids. I tried to scream but my voice wouldn't come out.
The fear i felt before, came.
The satisfaction i felt, disappeared.
I felt hollow once again.
The darkness, filled my eye sight.
I tried to open my eyes couple of times and qhen i did, there was no light.
Then at one point, the space started to shatter, falling down like broken glass.
The darkness fell down, i found myself, in dark room.
Laying on the floor, i looked ahead of me.
There was nothing but a tiny torch giving light to my vision.
There was concealed entry.
Beyond i cant see clearly what laid beyond it.
The torch was hanging on the wall.
Once again, i felt something weighing down on my limbs, they were the chains, wrapped around my limbs.
I closed my eyes once again, asking myself when this hell is gonna end obviously, no answer came.
Then i hear noises coming frkm outside, the noises felt like growling.
The growling interwined with noises of someone groaining and the noises of metal clashing on each other.
I got up from the floor, i hurled towards the concealed entry.
'finally there was someone out-'
I felt hope, i felt that i may have escaped and i got excited but soon that excitement faded after witnessing the sight before me.
Yozrasef's eyes lost their glow, turning hollow.
It was a massacre.
Ironically like him. They were all trying to survive.
But for some reason, they were killing each other.
For what? Yozrasef didnt know.
Yozrasef took a step forward.
His gaze was lovked with the scenery before him.
Obscuring his full attention due to that, he tripped over the chains of his right leg as he was coming out, falling over from the highest floor of the entire place.
He tumbled through the air as he fell.
Due to his shock, he couldn't scream.
Looking underneath him, yozrasef found himself falling over a mountain of corpses.
Yozrasef crashed onto the mountain of corpses, landing on his back.
He fell on bloated stomach of dead corpse, it cushioned his fall.
Groaning in pain, yozrased tried to get up, he flet nauseous due to the fall, 100 meters fall is by no means, easy one survive.
The smell of death-rotten flesh qnd decay overwhelmed his senses.
He slid down the mountain, started to threw up, obviously nothing came out since he hasn't eaten anything in days.
Kneeling down, groaning and cursing inside his head.
'fuck'
His body now was covered in blood, rotten flesh clung to his skin.
Yozrasef blood pressure surged high as he scanned his surroundings.
His eyes dilated scanning the whole structure of the place, he couldn't see the end of the place.
The torchlight illuminated the jagged-rockish-land and the burning corpses.
He could discern that this entire place is the size of a town.
Caves were carved in forming a concealed entry on the stone walls.
They were two meters in height and six metere in wide-cave-like room he got out of.
Three floors.
One hundred rooms.
Stairs connected each room.
The structure felt like they were underground.
On the ground, the rockish-land,
Humans crowded the land, their number seemed to be in the 90s.
The smell of blood, burning flesh entered the nostrils of yozrasef, causing his face to twist in disgust.
Suddenly out of no where yozrasef felt gaze on his back.
Instinctively, he felt threat, not just a gaze.
Yozrasef rolled over the ground to the side and as he did, an axe slammed on the floor where he was kneeling.
It was a man, his golden eyes glinted with bloodlust.
"Well- i didn't think you would dodge that"
The man stated with astonishment visible on his face.
" My name is sabu-its not like you will need to know it after death"
The man sneered as he spoke sarcastically.
" I didnt see you among the participants-..right, you are the quiet type, right?"
Tha man said, tiny laugh escaped his mouth.
Yozrasef's face still was twisted in disgust, the foul stench of rotten corpses filled his nostrils, he could handle it but the situation he was in was critical for him to think about such a thing.
But he tried to get a grip on himself, right now, he is about to be killed, he cant get distracted.
Right now, this is his life.
He needs to survive no matter what until he can figure this place out and why he is here.
Yozrasef took a deep breath to clear his mind, the man in front of himm seemed pretty strong.
His axe cratered the ground with single strike.
But soon enough those thoughts were caught off when sabu stepped towards yozrasef.
The man was holding his axe with two hands, swinging it right and left while studying yozrasef.
Witnessing the sight of the man approaching him from the distance between them.
His gaze sweeped the distance between him and the man as it did, a thought occurred to him.
'the man is bigger than me in size and his strength is obviously far better than me, i cant fight him head on, i will get crushed but if-'
Yozrasef unsheathed his dagger, then untied the chains that are wrapped on his right hand, the shackle still was attached to chains.
'so the only possible thing is for me to attack from distance'
Witnessing the sudden change of yozrasef demeanor, the man became interested but soon realization dawned upon him, understanding what yozrasef was doing.
Yozrasef wrapped the chain around the dagger handle locking it together with the shackle simultaneously the man charged at yozrasef again but this time he didnt charge head on, the minute yozrasef's eyes and his eyes locked in, the guy disappeared from yozrasef's eyes.
Yozrasef couldn't feel his presence so he came to one conclusion.
The man jumped.
'up!'
Yozrasef floundered on the floor to the opposite side.
The man jumped 3 meters, his axe struck the ground.
Causing another crater but this time it was bigger one.
Dust filled the air.
But through that dust, crimson eyes glew.
The man turned his gaze left and right, trying to catch a glimpse of the man and thats when he felt it.
But it was too late.
As he was turning to the left, trying to see why. His sensors were screaming.
His eyes widened, dagger sliced its way through space rowards him, the dagger was shot directly to the man's neck.
The dagger stabbed the man in the neck.
Blood gushed out and before the man could even hold onto the dagger, it was pulled back by the chain it was wrapped with.
Vanishing through the cloud of dust as it was clearing out.
The man fell on his back, losing his strength due to him bleeding heavily, the stab was deep.
His gaze was locked on the approaching man that stabbed him in the neck.
His black hai4 which reached behind his ears, mixed with shade color of red.
His white skin pale as if untouched by the sun, seemed to absorb the torchlight, rather than reflect it.
The crimson eyes that are shinning like two bloody moons.
His face that is twisted in disgust and sadness.
"Fucking bastard-" the man said as his life left his body, leaving behind nothing but corpse.
Yozrased once again fell down to his knees.
Breathing heavily, sweat was pouring down, coughing due to the dust still in the air.
Hie turned around him, feeling gazes on him.
The gazes of the survivors turned away from yozrasef the minute he looked back at them.
Yozrased pulled tightly on the dagger, he wrapped the chains on his right wrist.
Gripping tightly on the handle of the dagger with his right hand, he straightened his back before getting up.
He looked a head of him in defensive stance.
Their gazes turned back to one another, their eyes, gleaming with fury, anger and description were expressions that were visible on most, but there were afew that stood out among them.
A guy with expressionless face just like yozrasef's, his eyes were hollow as if they were devoid of any emotion, his black hair shone under the torchlight, giving it silk-like-texture, two daggers held between his two hands, the tip of the blade of the dagger could be seen that it has been rusted.
Rusted by the blood of the people he has killed.
A girl with white sheet wrapped around her eyes, holding her sword tightly with two hands, her brown hair fluttered in the air as she moved, the blade of her straight sword was covered in blood, the blood glowed reflecting the light of the burning corpses she was surrounded with.
Another guy with brown hair, his green eyes glew like emerald, he was surrounded by 4 survivors, all locked on him, it seemed as they teamed up against him, feeling thats would be the onky way way to survive against him.
The guy hed two swords with both of his hands, his feet would blury everytume he moved.
Everytime he moved, his opponents would get wounds and slashes forming on their body, its as if he was toying with his opponents.
Yozrasef had chill run down his spine, seeing the guy smirking as he swung his swords, left and right ending each of his opponents in the span of a second.
Another guy caught yozrasef attention,
He was standing in the middle of the room, his blonde hair reached down his shoulders, his brown eyes were burning with fury and thrill, excitement and bloodthirsty smirk were visible on his face.
He didnt carry any weapon, just his bare hands- well they were enough to shatter the skulls of his opponents.
The build of this man was huge, his height approximately was 6ft, his shirtless body was covered in scars, weins bulging all over his hands, tracing back to his muscles that that could be seen through the white sheet that he wore over his body.
On side note,
They were many others that were like them but they all stood out the most for their ability to take on enemies.
All of their ages could be from 18 to 21 except for that huge man, his age could be in his 30s.
The only thing, they had in common.
They all worw a white sheet that would cover their entire body, except for the huge guy.
Even yozrasef woke up wearing the same one.
Silenece continued between them, they were all becoming weary of one another.
The tension intensified, sweat was pouring down on their forehead.
Except for the guy in the middle of the room, he couldnt stop laughing.
Thats when a voice caught everyone attention, cutting off the tension in the air.
"Well, thats enough"
The voice state stoically.
From the direction of the voice, the voice came from the ceiling above but was it truly ceiling?
It was all darkness that it was hard to see through it.
The deepness of the darkness, made yozrasef gulp instinctively.
Through the darkness, the entity made his entrance, floating mid air, descanding the space like a stair case.
It was a female, her eyes shone in purple hue, her skin was smooth as marble as if she was sculpted, her dark hair fluttered in the space despite that there was no strong wind for it to do that, she wore a dark rope that was knitted with golden threads, golden belt wrapped around her waist, the belt carried a sheathed sword.
Yozrasef's eyes flickered once he witnessed the attire of the woman, it reminded him of the clothe of the guards, but this time there was no armors on her body.
The minute his eyes flickered.
The crimson color of his pupil, attracted the attention of the descanding woman
Feeling the gaze,
Yozrasef felt heavy preasure, pressing on his shoulders as his entire being is being crushed by a mountain, he tried to stand still but he couldn't and so he fell on his knees.
His gaze turned back on the ground.
Sweat pouring down his body.
Breathing heavily as he felt the pressure fade once a again.
The other survivors, witnessing that sight, couldn't help but feel petty for that weak.
some sneered in mockery.
Some ignored the sight, being skeptical on it.
some still locked their gazes on this woman.
The woman turned her gaze back to the land, her eye scanned the whole place, her face was devoid of any emotion, she stopped descanding the space, floating in the middle of the room, she spoke.
"Thats enough for today, the survivors of today, all passed"
she announced, her voice carried no subtle emotion.
" During the previous days,
inside your caves,
there was nothing but just a torch,
there was no food either.
Since yall passed and survived another day,
each one of yall will be rewarded accordingly, based on your needs, food will be given as the main reward everything is an addition-"she paused for moment before continuing
" Welcome to the underworld.
welcome to the true abyss.
yall can Call me kheru"
She stated and with that, kheru started to ascend back to the bottomless darkness which is supposed to be the ceiling.
As kheru vanished through the darkness.
once again, silence fell on the entire battlefield.
Everyone turned their gazes back on each other, the tension is building up in the air again, they cant be sure if one of them will take the first step or back down.
Thats when, the 6ft huge man spoke.
"Alright~ alright~ lads lets take it easy, shall we?"
The man spoke in cheeky manner attracting everyone's attention.
" How about we do something fun ?- right?- well i will take the silence as a yes"
Pausing for a second taking a breif look at everyone's gaze.
" Well, lets introduce ourselves, my name is sekhm" sekhm stated, still speaking in his cheeky like tone.
But unfortunately he was met with noting but silence.
His gaze turned from left to right, meeting the gazes of every survivor that stood out earlier.
But they all turned their gazes away from him, ignoring his presence as if it held no means in their eyes.
And obviously, the girl with sheet covering her eyes was clueless about the gazes.
she stood clueslessly.
her head was pointed in the opposite direction of everyone, literally exposing her back to everyone.
A few seconds passed, someone out of the crowd spoke.
"Well im peh" the man carried a bow in his hand but the weird part, he had no arrows which made it kinda ridiculous.
From peh, everyone started to speaking, the tension started to break among the group but afew decided to stay silent and among them was yozrasef.
"Well, what about you over there?" Sekhm's voice echoed into the distance his voice was loud enough to cut everyone off from their speech.
Those who became interested in knowing who was the question directed to, turned their head towards were sekhm's gaze was, and obviously it was yozrasef.
The glow of sekhm's eyes reflected by the light of the torch and under his gaze, yozrasef gulped but obviously his internal turmoil wasnt visible on his now expressionless face.
But yozrasef said nothing, he decided to stay silent even when he was asked directly.
'fuck-! Why me of all people!?'
turning his gaze far into bottomless darkness in attempt to shake off the man's gaze.
"Huh? What the hell is his problem?- is he some kind of special?" Sekhm asked with abit of mockery carried in his voice, some met his comment with a light laugh, some sneered while their gazes remaind on yozrasef for a second.
Some ignored the scene and minded their business, some started to take step back returning to their caves.
the tension has waned and some couldn't feel any threat.
Except for one person.
Yozrasef started to take a step back, turning around climbing up the stairs towards his cave.
But obviously to the clueless yozrasef, all these caves, looked the same.
he entered different cave to the one he was in.
He was too focused on his internal thoughts to even realize that.
He still felt threatened, he felt if he continued to stand there, his life would be taken away from him immediately, since all them in yozrasef's eyes seemed like bloodthirsty killers, especially sekhm.
But thats when yozrasef felt like hypocrite.
'i also killed someone, as form of surviving and self defense..im no different than them, right?'
Yozrasef body shivered as the scene of him smashing the guards head plays in his head, the scene of him stabbing the guy in the neck earlier, played right after.
Regret, guilt and disgust weighed deeply on him.
He still couldn't shake off this heavy feeling, this feeling of guilt weighs heavy on his conscious.
And for some reason the chains on his body felt heavier than usual.
Yozrasef entered the cave, he noticed something interesting which is as long as he is outside cave, he would see nothing inside, despite the enterence being visible.
He would see nothing but darkness untill he steps inside the cave.
his gaze sweeped through the entire room and his eyes sparkled.
The room completely changed.
from rocky structure, into ceramic wall and ceramic floor.
Food and water was on the wooden table in the middle of the room.
each wall had a torch hang on it.
His stomach growled.
hearing the noise, yozrasef decided to eat right away.
yozrasef grabbed his plate and sat on the wooden bed.
The plate had large peace of beef yozrasef placed the plate on the bed amd started eating- well it was more like devouring.
He hasnt eaten anything for days.
after an hour, yozrasef finished his plate and drank his water.
Yozrasef layed his back on the wooden bed, he felt tired.
He closed his eyes.
finally, he felt like he could rest.
Darkness and silence creeped on his senses and finally he slept.