Nightmare Despair

Chapter 27 The Wanderer

"Hee...ha."

The laughter sounded like a broken cassette tape being played on a tape recorder.

The sound was stuttering, eerie, and jarring, as if the windows had lost their soundproofing.

A chill burst forth from Zhou Kai's tailbone, instantly spreading across his entire back.

This...this is...

An overwhelming fear instantly enveloped him, making him forget even his instinct to back away.

My vision began to darken intermittently at the edges, and I felt dizzy and disoriented.

The hilt of his sword was soaked with cold sweat.

A slender, pale, bloodless hand pressed against the French windows, and like a blind person groping, slowly, inch by inch, found the window switch.

It...can open windows?
it.

They're coming in!

Click.

A soft sound accompanied Zhou Kai's increasingly rapid heartbeat.

The floor-to-ceiling windows are open.

call!
Zhou Kai's lips trembled as he managed to exhale a breath of stale air.

Wow!

The pent-up anger seemed to have found an outlet, pelting Zhou Kai's face relentlessly.

The huge raindrops carried a putrid smell.

Zhou Kai, however, glared fiercely with wide eyes!

Squeak... Crack...

The sound of bare feet stepping on the wooden floor rang out, sticky and unpleasant.

The footsteps were erratic and unsteady.

The lamp had run out of oil and gone out, leaving the room pitch black.

Boom!

A pale bolt of lightning struck at that very moment, and the intense light that tore through the night instantly filled the entire room.

In that brief moment of light, less than a second long.

Zhou Kai could see what was in front of him clearly.

The thing was as thin as a bamboo pole, hunched over, with its shoulders almost touching the ceiling.

A huge, rotten head, its original form unrecognizable, was looking down at him from above.

Two grayish-white eyeballs were forced out of their sockets by tangled buds and hung outside.

In the very center of the eyeball are two pupils, each the size of a melon seed.

His pupils were filled with a condescending scrutiny and mockery.

That look in his eyes was like that of a bored person deciding how to crush an ant at their feet.

The absolute oppression from the top of the food chain gave Zhou Kai goosebumps.

The body is gripped by fear.

The slender, pale hand slowly rose and pressed down on Zhou Kai's head.

His palm was almost three times the size of his head.

Zhou Kai remained motionless, as if he had been nailed to the spot.

Boundless despair and fear fermented and churned in his heart, eventually brewing into a fierce rage.

call……

Zhou Kai took a deep breath, the burning anger and adrenaline in his chest instantly giving him control of his body.

The hand paused in mid-air for a moment, then its speed increased dramatically, and it pressed down hard with a whooshing sound!
but!
Wow!
Zhou Kai is even faster after recovering!

He twisted his waist and swung his sword, the heavy two-handed sword drawing a rust-red arc of death in the darkness, striking first despite being behind, fiercely slashing at the pale hand!
He pushed the nearly three-kilogram heavy sword to its limit, and some of the rust on the blade was shaken off by the violent force, revealing the dark metal underneath.

Enveloped in Zhou Kai's anger and murderous intent...

One sword, cleaving through the long night!

Boom!

Another flash of lightning illuminated the room, making it blindingly white.

The sword cleanly and decisively severed the pale hand, then slammed into the fallen screen with a deafening crash.

"Ouch!!!"

The towering monster let out a heart-wrenching scream.

This time, the eerie sound could no longer shake Zhou Kai in the slightest, and his movements did not even pause.

Using his right foot as a pivot, he unleashed a terrifying twisting force, causing the greatsword to trace a massive arc of over 270 degrees in the air!
Bang! !

Pushing the sword to its limit, the first third of the blade was driven deep into the monster's waist, cutting in more than two-thirds of the way!
The monster instantly lost its balance and stumbled, crashing headfirst into the bedroom wall.

Bang!
Zhou Kai stepped on the monster's waist, using the momentum to pull out his sword. Perhaps the blade was too rough, as it was stuck firmly in the monster's bones, and he couldn't pull it out despite his efforts.

"Damn, the strength is still far from enough..."

Zhou Kai's face contorted with rage, and he cursed.

A faint light flashed in his left hand, which was holding the sword, and the blood-stained axe appeared out of thin air.

Clench your hands tightly!

Boom!

Boom!

Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed.

Zhou Kai's manic shadow, like a demon, was projected onto the monster.

Perhaps it was just his imagination, but Zhou Kai actually saw a fleeting glimpse of fear in those pinpoint pupils.

But without the slightest hesitation, he raised the axe high and chopped it down hard on the rotten head!
The heavy axe blade, accompanied by a thunderous thud, slammed into the monster's head.

Its face instantly collapsed inward, and grayish-white brain matter mixed with viscous bodily fluids splattered out like an explosion.

a bit!
Twice!

The axe blades transformed into a raging storm, falling wildly.

Bodily fluids were flying everywhere.

Zhou Kai was like a raging wild beast, unleashing his suppressed fear to the extreme.

Courage is born from the fears that humanity needs to overcome.

The monster's vital signs had already completely dissipated the moment the first axe fell.

"That's all the skill you've got!"

Ten seconds later.

Zhou Kai felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, so he stopped chopping, leaned against the wall, and panted heavily.

He was covered in grayish-white slime, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was a mess from the storm; he looked utterly disheveled.

[Defeat the 'Wanderer' to gain 7 Universal Experience Points]

[Benefiting from the level 1 Mysticism skill, an unexpected gain: a memory]

call……

Zhou Kai let out a long breath, trembling, too lazy to care about the axe that was deeply embedded in his brain.

He staggered to the balcony window.

Let the torrential rain pour down on them, washing away the filth from their heads and faces.

The biting cold made him more lucid than ever before.

I was also more excited than ever before.

Using the occasional silent flashes of lightning on the horizon as a guide, Zhou Kai looked down into the distance from his vantage point.

Beyond the shadowy figures wandering the streets, my gaze fell upon the clock tower in the town center, a corner of the distant lake, and the enormous manor on its shore.

He saw the forests and mountains in the distance beyond the town, and he saw an unimaginably huge hand slowly rising from behind the mountains.

He saw on the other side of the mountain peak, a Gothic building that pierced the clouds, so enormous it seemed like the abode of gods and demons.

This is the first time Zhou Kai has seen a portion of the town of Soraka in its entirety.

"That hand... okay, I just killed a henchman."

The enormous hand instantly extinguished the joy of victory that had just risen in his heart.

At the same time, he noticed that more dark figures seemed to be approaching.

Zhou Kai decisively retreated indoors, closed the French windows, and at the same time drew the heavy curtains on both sides that were surprisingly not rotten.

You have consumed 1 Universal Experience Point.

The oil lamp is fully fueled, but to make its light visible only to you, you need to invest more experience points.

While refilling the oil lamp, Zhou Kai realized that the light was useful to him and also to the monsters, so he had the idea of ​​making the light his own.

The subtitles told him that the idea was feasible... however, at a high cost.

"talk about it later."

"Now, it's time to deal with the spoils."

Zhou Kai turned the oil lamp back on and adjusted the brightness.

He was finally able to observe the monster called "The Wanderer" more closely.

It wore tattered clothes that were completely out of proportion to its size, and its hands and feet were disproportionately thin, like normal human hands that had been stretched and enlarged five or six times.

His body was hunched over, supporting a height of over two and a half meters, but his waist was pitifully thin, only the thickness of an average person.

The most bizarre thing was that enormous head...

Only then did Zhou Kai realize that the monster's teeth were actually two rows of rusty red iron nails driven into its upper and lower jaws...

(End of this chapter)