The Devil's Temptation!

213 The Nightmare

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The sounds of heavy boots stomping through the underground building echoed loudly in the forgotten quiet path. From the look of the place, it appeared to be an abandoned building with several dark tunnels, each leading to different areas of the building, and the owner of those stomping boot sounds was heading into one of those tunnels.

With a chain hanging around his shoulder, and his hand holding a small glass vial in his grasp, Luderick playfully twirled it in his fingers as he headed for the same door he had been visiting for the past few months. The tunnel was cold and dry, and each breath Luderick took led to cold smoke escaping his mouth.

He had succeeded in getting the right amount of blood he needed from that low-life human. He was a bit worried at first since she didn’t fill the bowl to a satisfactory amount, but luckily for him, the ones on the bowl was just enough to make him accomplish the second part of his plan.

Standing before the giant door, the brown double door magically opened for Luderick to step inside. He didn’t even need to lift a finger, as though the door had already gotten acquainted with his presence and he proudly stepped in, the door closing shut behind him.

He had told himself repeatedly that he wouldn’t visit this dead place until he gets Anna’s blood, since coming here would be a waste of use and of course, he didn’t want to annoy whatever he planned on conjuring with too much of his unbearing presence.

Looking at the coffin that rested in the middle of the room, it was already being blanketed in white snow, and a slow, cunning, revealing smirk formed on Luderick’s lips as he took a few steps towards the coffin.

A strange whispering wind softly blew by, as though informing Luderick about something only he was capable of understanding, and his pure black eyes glinted with insanity.

“At last.”

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He stopped in his steps after standing before the coffin, wiping off the snow that rested on the top and letting his fingers run through the coffin board as a look of accomplishment flashed in his eyes. He has been eagerly waiting for this day and it took him a whole month to prepare Anna’s blood for this.

“I brought you a little present.”

He suddenly opened the coffin, causing a strange unpleasant air to escape from the opened coffin, and when he looked inside, his eyes widened slightly at what lay there.

The broken skeleton of someone was placed in the coffin, and it was arranged according to how it should be in the system of a human being. It appeared lifeless, and there was something about the skeleton that called Luderick’s attention to it, that was his main reason for taking the coffin when he escaped Viscarrian.

But what got to Luderick was the weird-looking worms that sheltered themselves inside the eyes and nose of the skull, and it made Luderick’s nose wrinkle in disgust.

“This is an even more horrid sight than I imagined.” He cursed underneath his breath.

Unfortunately, he needed to keep the coffin open for what he plans on doing. He has already wasted too much time with planning his goals and getting Anna’s blood. He can’t possibly afford to waste anymore with this, leaving him with only one option and that was to take the next step now.

Taking a deep breath, Luderick began to utter strange chants under his breath, chants that were barely audible to the ears and as he continued uttering those dark magical chants, strange symbols magically started to round the coffin, lighting it up in a dark purple-ish glow but he didn’t stop.

Opening the vial half-filled with Anna’s blood, he carefully poured the red liquid on the forehead of the skull, and that part where the blood had touched glowed in a strange light that spoke of chaos, unspeakable chaos that would be unleashed to the world, earning a satisfying smile from Luderick.

When he was done chanting, he quickly closed the coffin and used a chain to keep it in place so it doesn’t snap open, and the moment he was done chaining the coffin, the coffin immediately jerked, gaining Luderick’s attention and it stopped.

A few silent seconds passed by, the coffin jerked again, as though whatever was trapped inside was trying to force its way out, and it jerked for the third time, with more violence intended and it stopped.

” Today is not the right day to come out, let’s wait until tomorrow.” He said, before letting out an evil dark chuckle, stepping out of the room and closing the door behind him.

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Meanwhile, Anna who was sound asleep kept tossing on the bed like someone who was having a terrible nightmare.

She turned to the left when disturbing chants began sounding in her head, and she turned the other way in an attempt to get rid of those chants. But it seemed like the more she tried to ignore it, the louder it became like a haunting lullaby.

“Nngh! Go away!” She whispered, instinctively covering her ears and trying to get rid of the strange voices in her head, but all that was to no avail. Vague images flashed before her and what she saw was an unfamiliar dark place, she couldn’t make out where the place was, neither was she familiar with it, but there was something lying in the middle...

It looked like a coffin, or maybe not?? When Anna’s mind abruptly zoomed in on the coffin, there was something inside, or rather someone and when those eyes opened, it glinted in a bloody red.

“Anna!”

A frightening gasp tore from her lips when someone shook her, and her eyes instantly snapped open. Fear gripped her heart and when she turned to the soothing voice that had called out her name and saved her from that nightmare, she found Roshan lying beside her, his brows furrowed into worry as he searched her face.

“Anna?”

He saw the panic that flared in her big eyes as her gaze remained locked on him, it was cold, but his Anna was currently sweating as though she had been battling with something. He didn’t need anyone to tell him that she was having a nightmare, afterall he was the one who woke her up from it.

He proceeded to ask softly, his tone laced with concern, “are you alright?”