After an unknown period, he woke up, Terrified. His head was super heavy every time he moved his head; he felt his head was gonna explode, so he stayed there, lying. Loss of blood, wounds, and hunger made kaidrix very weak. He wanted to eat and drink he had no food. Then his thoughts went astray, and he kept thinking his training with Monarik and his breakthrough in cultivation did not hold a candle to this place. He felt weak and miserable.
He was not even to lift a finger against these monsters, but somehow he managed to survive till now, watching his surroundings, he thought he was in a safe place. Is there a way to survive? This was a really weird day in his life, first so much comfort exploring new places and looking at beautiful scenery, but after he lost track of time, like it was halted for him, especially to explore. kaidrix felt weird, and he felt an unknown danger. The surroundings were all black, but Kaidrix had a spotlit on him, and that was also dim. He could see him, but he was not able to see his surroundings.
He felt he was in a vast space that had no boundaries. And he felt unimaginable fear he he was still lying on the floor, unable to move. He felt there were hordes of monsters watching him with thirsty eyes that wanted to devour his flesh, he was so scared his pupil dilated, showing an extremely tense and alert mental condition. He was extremely vigilant. And yet he was unable to lift a finger, his body was shivering, the hymn was feeding on his fears, and was enjoying it.
It was like kaidrix was in sleep paralysis; he felt heavy and very heavy weight on his chest, which hindered his movements. he felt his neck was bare; he felt the presence on him staring at him full of evil. He felt the intent on his neck that anytime his neck could be bitten, but nobody bites, but a tingling sensation remains on his neck.
Again, kaidrix fell into a deep slumber. In his sleep, kaidrix was still not spared. He felt suffocated. Terrified, alone, he felt Valtor fading away from his memories and the figure of his mother; he felt he was losing precious things, and he felt scared. His presence was getting heavier and heavier. kaidrix was tired of all this; he wanted to end everything. He spoke in a shivering voice Kill me, I don't want you to torture me more. But the presence he felt became more malicious. More aggressive, but there was no killing movement; there was a biting intent on his neck, time to time, kaidrix felt extremely sharp teeth just about to pierce through his neck to his blood vessels, but nothing happened afterward.
He felt everything going blank, he lost consciousness. After some time, he woke up panting heavily. He watched his surroundings. There was no change. kaidrix felt sad and emotional.
Some memories were flashing in front of his eyes: Lumina's beautiful smile, Monarik training him. His father, his mother, whom he vaguely remembered, were all in his head. Two lines of hot tears started rolling from his eyes, these two lines were the only hot thing in this environment that kaidrix felt.
The environment where kaidrix was in can put anyone in a drowsy feeling. Injuries, hunger was a plus point in Kaidrix's current condition, and on top of that, that damn hymn was doing all this, feeding on kaidrix fear, and making him mentally unstable. kaidrix tried to lift his arm, which was heavy. The weight on kaidrix was a big hindrance for him right now. he put all his effort into lifting his arm while shouting, then the same for the second arm, and he managed to lie on his side. Then, with all his strength, he managed to sit on his lap. Panting heavily, he set on his legs, then using all his strength, he tried to stand up he used all the force until he felt his cheek swell and turn red, but managed to stand up. He felt his head dizzy, but he was strong on his feet, so he did not fall. It was extremely difficult to move.
But Kaidrix did not give up; his arms hung from his shoulders to the ground, unable to bend. Kaidrix was bent a little because the weight on his neck and arms was too much, and he started the same training that he had with Monarik. Kaidrix was crying with hunger, fatigue, and unrest. Standing on his two feet made him a little relaxed. The fear that he had in this place was multiplied when he was lying on his back. The presence he felt was still there, observing and smirking, watching the last struggle of his Food.
kaidrix new his fear is being stimulated by someone or something. But he has no idea how to deal with it, so he decided to go all out with his training, and while training, explore this place.
He walked and walked slowly. The light also followed him everywhere, there were some gaps in the ground sometimes, and some things which he could not see, but they existed there later own. He came to two conclusions: either these things are invisible, or something is making his vision see false things. He was helpless on both of his conclusions. he can't solve invisible things and gaps that existed in the place. And if his vision was being obstructed by an illusion, he had no way to disrupt this illusion.
So he kept walking. After some time, he figured out the layout of this place. It seems like the gaps he felt were stairs going up and down, and the invisible things are tables and some weird objects, other than that. This was a hollow room, nothing much inside it, and yes, there was a little altar-type thing in the middle of the room. kaidrix wanted to touch things, but was not able to because of the weight on his body. He tried to go downstairs, but some sort of soft wall-type thing obstructed him from going down, and the same for going up the stairs.
After observing and knowing his surroundings a little, kaidrix felt a little confidence, the boundless void that he was feeling before it went away, and replaced it with a Room. The chill that he was feeling also reduced a little. The only thing that he could do was train his body and explore. He was thirsty and hungry. It was really in a miserable condition. He was attacked by the hymn several times, losing consciousness. kaidrix felt extreme rage after waking up, at he wanted to kill the thing that put him in sleep paralysis.
There was another presence in that tower, which even our dear hymn was oblivious about was observing kaidrix and the hymn, little play, the presence was more interested in kaidrix than our dear hymn, but it seemed like this other presence decided to ignore the current events and wait. Here, kaidrix had only one way to train and train until no power left. After three or two times of training, kaidrix was in extreme dehydration condition; his lips were dry, and he felt his body devoid of heat and devoid of any strength, and this damn hymn happily disturbing his mind and feeding on his fear, kaidrix felt himself broken bit by bit. he felt if he did not done something he might die here.
He has not avenged his father yet, and he did not know the whole truth about his mother; he concluded that his mother might not be dead. But nobody wants to tell him for some reason.
He slowly started resisting the feeling of fear and helplessness, which was constantly bothering him. he closed his eyes and started practicing his spiritual arts, which made him a little better. After one more time practicing body art., spiritual art did not help him much, so he needed actual water and food, unless he wanted to completely give up his body and continue spiritual path. In this world, if you gain something, you lose something. You can not always live in fantasy and keep breaking the rules of reality.
However, Death is the true reality and fact, Death comes to everything: desires, challenges, struggles, emotions, intellect, everything which have a beginning has to die; everything has a starting point, even death itself, it's a cycle beginning after the end. kaidrix also felt his end was near because he was watching stars appear in his eyes, and they started twinkling, his head was cold, his body was cold, and he felt in his veins that there was ice flowing, not blood. Then, slowly, his consciousness faded away. At the end, he felt like every inch of his body was being sliced with swords.
It was extreme pain that his consciousness suffered before completely blacking out after a while. kaidrix felt himself floating. When he opened his eyes, he saw himself lying on the stone floor, devoid of movement. He could see every detail of his body like he were someone else. Then suddenly he came to his senses Am I dead he felt fear, and his breath became heavy. Surprisingly, he was not breathing oxygen but spiritual energy. kaidrix felt light-weighted and in comfort, like he shed his shackles and was finally free. But there was longing inside his heart for his body, sadness engulfed him in his embrace, and kaidrix kept staring at his body in awe.
Then he felt a presence living in kaidrix body. After leaving his body, kaidrix can see this presence very clearly. It was a black being with really refined features. His nails were long, and his teeth were sharp. kaidrix felt this being was made out of black smoke that constantly changed his whole shape. He did not have a fixed face but constantly changed between faces, and it had no legs but fog around its lower parts. After coming out of kaidrix body, he immediately started searching for something if he was looking for something. For a second kaidrix met that beings eyes which were like dark wholes there was no boundaries to their depth creating the illusion of a boundless abbeys which can suck every living being dry of life.
kaidrix felt a chill in his spine, and fear took hold again. The thing which already looking elsewhere suddenly looked were kaidrix was floating. The hymn came rushing towards kaidrix. kaidrix felt extreme danger, so he decided to run. He just ran randomly after some time, he was not able to shake that thing off, so he decided to gamble. He ran towards the stairs and went upstairs. There was a blue thing which seemed to be a wall, but one first glance, kaidrix knew it was some kind of barrier. He was praying in his heart that I would cross it. He was desperate surprisingly was able to cross the barrier.
He felt out of danger, he looked back and saw the barrier was hindering that being's path towards him. He felt easy in his heart, after getting back to his senses, kaidrix figured that the being wanted to eat me, but it could only sense my fear and attack. I think I can't see myself in this form. Kaidrix felt relieved that the barrier did not let that thing inside.
Looking at his surroundings Kaidrix saw himself still on the stairs after climbing some stairs they ended in front of a very ancient door who's construction material where unknown but it felt like some wood, rock, and some sort of metal over all the door still had its shine, there where hammer marks on the doorknob like someone tried hard to break it open but was unsuccessful. kaidrix reached the door when he tried to touch the doorknob, his hand went through it. Kaidrix knew he was dead, so he is now just a spirit who can pass through objects.
So he went through the door, which did not hinder his advancement. This room was filled with books; no matter where you looked, there were only books and book racks. Yes, selling was not covered with books but with a Ceiling Lamp and which was hanging in the middle of the selling. The selling of the room was some kind of dome made out of some special rocks. There was red carpet on the floor which was pretty dusty and some books here and there on the floor the room was pretty spacious in the middle of the room under that big Ceiling Lamp was a round table made out of black wood around that table lays only two chairs middle on that table was a boll made out of some sort of crystal which was cover in carving. Very mysterious.
After looking here and there, kaidrix felt curious to touch that crystal ball, so he tried to touch it, but his hand went through it. He tried it again and again but was not able to pick the crystal ball, felt disappointing kaidrix decided to explore the tower when this thought came to his mind he went towards the door but there was no door the whole room was just a round shape book shells which does not even have a single window or ventilation whole kaidrix was at lost he just entered the door it was right there somewhere... he pause on that thought because after entering this room he looked around and ended there was no door in the heat of the movement he neglected this point.
kaidrix was not worried, he knew nothing can be done now, he is already dead, so there is nothing much he can do, days pass and kaidrix felt bored in this room, he figured out that he can still lift objects with his spiritual energy, so he red many books out of boredom, almost all the books here were about cultivation and human biology, but all related to pseudo scince not actual medical books on earth, kaidrix just red them out of boredom, still these books gave kaidrix a lot of knowledge, which opened a new way of seeing things for kaidrix, not all books were garbage some of them had some good cultivation techniques, and some martial arts techniques. Which further deepened his knowledge.
kaidrix needed some martial skills, alas, he was dead. He felt extreme sorrow and pain in his chest. After some sad movement kaidrix look towards that crystal ball and kept staring at it for a movement he felt like the ball glow and emitted some energy, after that was nothing, kaidrix got an idea and decided to fill the ball with his spiritual energy kaidrix pick the ball and pouring in his spiritual energy the ball became like a hungry beast after a little touch of spiritual energy ball kept sucking energy from kaidrix and the surrounding kaidrix felt his hand were becoming more and more transparent he felt like in few minutes his whole existent is going to be wiped out from this reality.