Yuhe kept walking, taking nice and steady long strides. Sweat was beginning to form and drop down onto his thin eyebrows, sometimes ending up on his deep blue eyes and causing him to blink with a startled expression, he still kept walking. And walking some more.
He held onto the hope that he would see something in the distance, he hoped to see a castle, a flying island, a lone warrior walking just like him, even a monster that would destroy him in mere seconds. He just wanted to know that he wasn't alone. Well he actually wasn't alone, the bright sun kept shining, it's powerful beams only being replaced every night by the cooling moon.
'They must've not gone to war in this world... I wonder who would win if they did.'
Yuhe was letting his mind wonder to whatever he could think of. Recently, he went on a long tangent in his mind about how he wished he just hid from Rebecca, the librarian, and just sneak around and read more books about the lore of the world he was once in.
'That was... four? Days ago?'
Yuhe kept walking.
In those four days and nights he had a few more nightmares about the deity. Actually, he wouldn't call it a nightmare anymore, he used to lie to himself and call it a dream because he could see his happy parents. Knowing deep down that they would soon die horrifically and slowly really dampened his mood everytime. But now that he could fight back, and was getting closer to success, he was no longer dealthy afraid of falling asleep. He had a chance to fight the terror, although it was only a dream.
***
Another day of walking. Another night inside the nightmare.
On the sixth try he got especially close to severing the vein connecting the eye to whatever was still inside the portal. With the knife just barely being stopped by a thick wall of arteries and blood, atleast what he thought was blood.
'Tommorow he's dead, I'm certain of it.'
Honestly, if Yuhe didnt kill it by tomorrow then he doesn't know what would happen. His physical body was already extremely frail and weak from not eatting for almost a week, and although he mentality was above average, it wasn't indestructible.
He was starting to slip.
But what else could Yuhe do, other than continue to walk towards the now rising sun. Everyday he saw it rise and fall. Yuhe was trying to mimic the sun and stars of the sky, although he wasn't nearly as powerful as them, if a god was watching. It would have a smile on its face.
After a few hours of walking just to gain less than half the distance he would usually scale, Yuhe was drop dead tired. His knees were on the verge of falling and splitting into two, his feet were bloody and he felt each of his toenails on the hint of falling off, his legs in general were defeated. The endless torture he had put them in was simply too much for the now beaten pile of flesh and bone.
Yuhe took that as a sign to finally rest. Dropping on the ground unceremoniously like a bag of potatoes, he laid for a few minutes breathing hoarsely before calming down and falling into a slumber again.
Yuhe was dreaming, again. The tragedy that was etched into his mind was now playing again just infront of him. He could honestly write a whole book about the events that would befall him in this dream with ease and perfection.
'I would never do that, I wouldn't even wish this upon my worst enemy.'
Yuhe's face was lifeless, but that didn't mean his heart was. Standing up again and feeling power now enter his body was always a good sign, he used to be weakened everytime he entered his dream because it was a younger version of himself. But now that he was submitting his body to the edge of exhaustion everyday, this dream body was light-years stronger.
'This will be the last time.'
Yuhe said that with a voice full of resolve and confidence, even though he had been saying that for the past four attempts. He still believed it, every part of his body knew what unstoppable force was coming to him and it didn't care. He doesn't know where or when he developed this fearless personality inside him. Maybe it was from him being a mouse in the forgotten village, or maybe it was him knowing that there was no permanent physical damage could be taken here. But he was also beginning to feel different in the real world to. Easily pushing his body to the limit was not something he would always do. Of course, he's been forced to use his full strength and then some multiple times, like those beatings from the gangsters he would receive. But this was different, if he wanted to, he could have easily just sat at the lake and waited. But he didn't, he ousted himself to find an out his own way. Not using or relying on anyone else but him.
He liked the new him, the new Yuhe was a fearless person full of resolve and the relentless ability to push himself past any scenario he might find himself in.
He was like a hero.
So, using this new confidence, he looked at his mom and dad deeply in the eyes. Before his own eyes could get cloudy and wet, he looked away. Then looked up and the ominous figure appear out of the portal.
'You gross me out everytime.'
Yuhe said that, but had a full smile on his face. If anyone could see him right now they would think that he's gone mad. But Yuhe was not crazy, yet. He was slowly getting more and more confident and excited with each second that passed.
By the time his clean light hand touched the cold steel of the kunai, he was already about to release it from his grip. Throwing it faster than any human his age possible. It whispered in the air as it flew and sliced a few protective veins. Before the eye could even move its massive pupil to look at the black object flying towards it. The kunai was already infront of it. Instinctually, the eye moved as it felt the dangerous aura of the weapon. It barely dodged as it cut the sclera of the eye. The once white layer on the eye turned a deep red, scarred permanently from the kunai.
However, the kunai kept flying. Even though it sliced through about three feet of tough and slippery layers of the eye, it was still continuing on target. And that target was the very thin vein, around the size of the beam of light that once struck the dangerous demon.
The situation was oddly similar, a powerful foe appearing out of a portal, stunning the defenseless humans that were unfortunate enough to be there at that moment. Saved by a quickly moving object and then forced to live with the memory.
Yuhe's smile grew bigger, 'Ah, maybe I'm closer to being a hero than I thought I was'
The black kunai gleamed as it shot past the eye. It was far to late before the eye noticed the kunai was going to severe its connection to the portal. Putting up a useless and poorly made defense of floating blood and veins. The kunai cut it without any loss of speed or pressure, and then. It severed the vein that connected the eyeball to its world.
The world seemed to shudder. An animalistic scream was heard from inside the portal and then the eyeball fell. The massive portal closes without making any noise. Once the scream ended, the world was completely silent. All Yuhe heard was the kunai still flying into the distance. And once that was to far. Yuhe heard nothing.
That was until, the massive eye slammed down on the driveway leading towards his house.
Yuhe had already knelt down and slammed his hands over his eyes before the massive weight of the eye hit the ground. The eye had to weigh atleast a couple tons, so the driveway easily gave way. And made Yuhe actually fall over from the resulting mini earthquake. After a minute or two, the dust settled and all that was left was Yuhe and the lifeless eye. Or atleast that's what Yuhe hoped. Cautiously walking towards the eye, yuhe examined it from a little bit closer. The eyes flesh wasn't what normally made up a humans. It seemed to be a bit slimy and a lot harder, it was like there was a shell of impossible to break and to slippery to slash protective layer on the floating eyeball. Of course, this would be true for most weapons. The kunai went through it with as much ease as any human would with cutting butter.
Walking around towards the gorey backside, Yuhe remembered something. While skimming through the "How To Awaken Humanities Potencial" book I side the library. He saw a short yet powerful couple pages, and that was about Items.
Items were powerful weapons or helpful trinkets a person could use to dominate any opposing abominations. He didn't know much but he knew they were made from two ways, either someone possessing a Gifted Power that allowed them to craft Items. Or someone retrieved them from the body of defeated abominations.
Yuhe contemplated weather or not to start digging inside the eye ball infront of his parents for a bit. Then remembered the amount of work he had to put in just to get to this position. And quickly started to work.
'Guess ill start at the eye.' Yuhe said reluctantly
The pupil itself was one of the weakest parts of the abomination, yet it still took Yuhes whole strength to just pry it off. However, after doing that, he saw it. And knew immediately that it was a powerful item. It was a miniature eyeball, looking exactly the same as the one he just killed. Except this one was made of full gold. It looked beautiful, Yuhe was stunned by how pretty and godly the Item looked.
He went to touch it, hoping to feel its golden power in his hands. But the second he did. He was knocked out cold.
***
After awakening inside the memorable desert, he was pissed. And this was rightfully so! He just spent so much willpower and strength trying to defeat that eyeball, just for it to be all for naught! Yuhe swore loudly at the gods for the first time in many years. Then he quickly shut up.
Not because a danger was nearby or a friendly person heard him. He simply just had a voice start talking inside his head.
'Congratulations! You have beaten your inner True Challenge! As a reward, please accept the Legendary gift!'
The voice was robot like, but not like any robot he's ever heard of. It sounded like a women, but also didn't?
'Why am I even spending time thinking about this things voice?' Yuhe angerly thought to himself before saying outloud.
"I Accept!"
'You have gained a Rank:Titan Item!'
"What?"