( Current Timeline )( MC POV ):
I really should have usedsome of my free points to increase my Spirituality, if i did, i would pretty much have the ability to react to whoever or whatever caused me to be like this, but sadly there's no if in this world .
But i can be somehow certain that someone indeed was responsible for this, i felt a tug on my back and then lost all my ability to move anything other than my lips and eyes which i used to convey my last massage to the second person that was able to see what was going on with me, the princess Trina .
I just hope that the princess was able to understand what i tried to say earlier about her helping me out in taking care of my friends and to make sure that they were out of the harm away as possible as she can .
And i kindly get the gender of the culprit behind all of this happening, the hand gesture was sudden and deliberate yes, but it held a bit feminine to it and that is the reason that made me believe that my attacker was actually a female , it couldn't be Reince since i was able to see that she was still looking quite shocked on the city walls, so who might the culprit be, this is even more daunting .
But that last gesture of the crown prince left no doubt that he may really have some shady connection to the demon king , i was convincing myself that i might have been wrong on this conclusion of mine, but the last incident with the chained kids left me with 80 percent certain that he was the one behind all of it .
But now i'm quite certain that he too held a close relation to the enemies from outside the land and they might even be the ones responsible for the rebellion against the previous King Lotor .
14 years ago, the crown prince overthrown king Lotor , after he came back from the Wicked Forest with much more strength than what he used to have, then once again increased his strength once more after the king tasked him with getting rid the defecting guards who went hiding in the Wicked Forest then he came back and challenged the authority of king Lotor and he was able to succeed in the end , thanks to the divergent they used against King Lotor .
But why just why would they wanted to create this sort of havoc inside the city, what was really their motives , there were no one capable of standing against them so why would they resort to allow monsters to roam freely inside the city like that and intentionally too .
They should hope that i'm incapable of coming back for them otherwise things will be quite different from now on .
It is a good ambition to try to change the world to the better but would i really be able to do it, i can't help but wonder since ironically i'm unable to do anything else literally .
Arrrgggg, i'm quite frustrated at how the things suddenly turned out to be and how after all the feats that i was able to achieve, i got one shotted like that .
Heck, i don't even know where am i heading or whether was that sphere and the bubble that was bounding me in place will ever come to stop or will it keep me cladded in it like this for eternity .
Before talking about changing the world, i should first take some time to think of a way out of this current predicament of mine .
Should i just wait for it to vanquish and disappear out of its own accord, currently i don't believe that i have much to say or do about that .
But i believe that there is some hope in getting rid of the bubble that was holding me so at least that was something promising, i'm feeling quite the discomfort in being bound like this , if i had held to the sword for a few more seconds or minutes , i don't believe that whatever was used on me would be of that much of effect .
The bubble that was cladding me in it continued to disappear , freeing me more and more of my confinement and allowing me to move more freely .
It was 10 minutes or so before it completely disappeared allowing me to now move a bit more freely than before and giving me the ability to exactly pinpoint what was going on around me .
The moment that i pierced through the night sky i was still bound to that bubble so i really wasn't able to see much but now that i'm able to freely move, i was greeted by the most magnificent yet horrifying scene that i have ever seen in my life .
Magnificent since for the first time i was actually able to witness the starry sky from up close i felt as if i almost able to touch the stars that was decorating the sky which were actually quite a lot .
To be more accurate there were an infinite numbers of stars shining in front of my eyes, something very majestic to behold, the majestic scene didn't stop here too .
As i was now able to move more freely i began trying to see if i'm able to punch my way out of that cursed yet still moving in a quite fast way sphere .
But i didn't test my ability to force my way out of it directly, since even though this was a sci-fi like world i was still unable to fly and i'm on who knows how high above the ground now , my strength is great yes and i really might be able to survive such a fall but can i really bet my life in a weak probability like this , guess not .
So i at most flicked the sphere with my finger and it made quite the ripples on the surface of the sphere , i guess i might be able to break it with a full powered punch, but for now this is merely a guess of mine , i will have to see for myself if it was actually true or not .
Or i could just burst through it now and have it be possibly the end of me , a quite intriguing way to go if someone was actually willing to try , but i'm still wanting to still around for a bit more time so i guess i will pass , but where exactly am i still heading ? .
Weirdly enough even though i kept searching around for both the Sun or the Moon like how space was explained to me back in my old world, but there were no trace of those two celestial objects, yet i was able to see and feel the heat of the Sun when i got out of the palace 3 to 4 years ago .
Are they just far in distance, so that's why i'm incapable of seeing them or was the reason something else entirely .
I looked downwards, completely disregarding the thought of continuing to search for the Sun and Moon for the time being .
But as i looked downwards, i wasn't actually able to see anything other than a huge ball that was completely filled with darkness, even my Dark Vision skill weren't of any use in deciphering what was exactly going on here and to make the matters even worse .
That ball of darkness was getting smaller and smaller in my eyes which could possibly mean only one thing and that was me becoming more and more further away, but luckily for me the sphere which i was in began to actually slow down .
I was still contemplating on whether should i just go with breaking through with full force or not when a horrifying scene suddenly appeared forcing me to completely make my mind or else i might be something else meal , or an appetizer in this case .
Coming from the direction of the starry sky above me a gigantic like blue humanoid like creature with a star on his forehead, his eyes were shut and he didn't have a nose but instead of the nose he had a set of tentacles and they seem to do the same purpose of the nose, but this scene was weird yes but not horrifying .
The horrifying part came from the way he appeared, he appeared out of what i presumed to be a star and weird enough all the scene that was taken place was actually printed on my mind as if i was watching it from the pov of the said creature .
I'm not even sure on how strong was the said creature is but he was able to split that star in two with his blue like hands and then he opened his void like mouth after the tentacle nose of his began to move around on top of the two pieces of the star as if it was sensing something .
Then the gigantic like creature swallowed the two pieces of the star in one gulp then he made his way to another star but this time he didn't split it in half no, it stood by it for a few more seconds then left it be and want to another one and again swallowed it in one gulp and then repeated the same operation for 6 to 7 times over and over again .
A whole region that was lit just now suddenly began to be filled with darkness, but the real horrifying moment was when he without any brief notice opened his eyes and actually gazed in my direction .
Completely locking on me, the moment he opened his eyes i felt every hair on my body standing, my heart almost stopped beating and my back was dranched by sweat , his eyes were fully black as if they was even there .
I felt a stinging pain in my heart just by looking at them, my brain was screaming at me to run, even though i wasn't even sure why was my reaction this severe , but i attributed it to be a quite logical fear .
Since not every day you see someone or so that was able to swallow the stars, not to mention being locked on by it .
My reaction was severe yes, but it was absolutely justifiable , the creature stood there staring at me for some minutes as if he was wondering what was exactly going on this speck of dust , yes that's what i was to him a speck of dust .
I felt as if being devoured by worry by the second under the piercing gaze of that gigantic blue creature with a hollowed like eyes, i was currently covered by sweat unable to move a muscle .
I tried to act as if i wasn't even there as to fool him enough to let me be, but sadly he was still following me with his gaze and the sphere losing the acceleration aided him in doing so .
I was still unable to even continue to look at his eyes due to the stinging pain that i kept feeling in my chest, my brain suddenly calmed down as i logically reminded of the great distance between the two of us .
I began to steady myself and enforce my spirit while still trying to assure my still palpitating heart .
A moment ago i was saying that i wanted to change the world for the better and that i already enough strength to do so, but after seeing and encountering that creature, i felt that my strong resolve from before was beginning to falter .
I was beginning to wonder on what if that huge creature was actually my enemy and who was standing between me and the achieving of my dream about making this world more in harmony .
Will i really be able to beat him, will i be even able to repell him if he was to decide to swallow the world beneath me like he did with all of those stars .
Was there even a way to beat him, he is dwarfing most of those stars and he literally split them in half just by using his hands, will i really be able to best him even with a sword in hand .
3 days, suddenly a voice came from what i presumed to be my unconsciousness , or i might have just gone crazy .
That voice was telling me something that rekindled my hope and fighting spirit back .
Right, why i'm this much worried about him being much stronger than me , three days that's all what it took me to transform from a useless person to be arguably the strongest individual in the entire realm .
Wasn't that Kaiju-0 monster stronger than me when i first met him, where was he now, extinct .
Didn't Regard said that the crown prince was the strongest human in the kingdom of Troland, i'm more than capable of defeating him effortlessly .
And i was able to gain this much strength in how long , three days, i became this powerful in merely three days .
So if i'm not strong enough to beat him now, i shouldn't dwell much about it, who knows how long did he lived or what did he do to obtain such a formidable strength .
Will my previous promise to myself about being able to overcome whatever obstacles in my way be null .
No, the battle didn't even started yet i'm already throwing the towel , a shameful act and a dangerous one too .
Something like what just happened a mere seconds ago is what i presumed to be more dangerous than getting swallowed by the gigantic creature in the far distance away .
Losing faith in myself after some mishaps is something that i should no longer do, from this day and forth my way is to go beyond what others have struggled to achieve, and that creature in front of me is now on my hunting list too .
And there will come a day when not only will i be able to fight him, no i will beat him until he can't even raise his eyes to look at me .
The moment that such a dangerous thought began to form in my mind, i was a bit startled to hear a crackling sounds coming from the empty void above me, but it soon returned to the deathly calm atmosphere once more .
But out of nowhere i suddenly felt as if something or someone was suddenly behind me, i turned around and saw that the creature from before was there .
Thanks to my now strong heart and mind, i only was a bit startled about how fast was he able to move and he was actually more smaller in size than what i previously saw .
The whole scene felt off to me, it was as if my eyes were the ones currently playing tricks on me, he was now leering at the planet shrouded in darkness below me , but then he focused more on staring at me with interest and frivolity , both enough previously to make my skin crawl .
But now there was no such thing, i stared at him back with newborn confidence and determination and most of all courage .
I was already contemplating about what should i do next when i remembered the suicidal solution that i had before and i began wondering whether would he turn to devour the planet beneath me if i to suddenly fell down there .
It is a super risky situation either way, but i'm not even sure to be able to control the sphere i was in .
Suddenly the already slowing down sphere began to once again accelerate but weird enough it was actually began to accelerate the speed of its spinning around itself for some unknown reason .
But the sudden occurrence left me no choice but to act decisively, i hurriedly punched the sphere with my full strength, but other than a few more ripples appearing on the surface of the sphere but there were no sign of it disappearing and what made the matter worse was me finding out that the moment that i released my punch .
I was actually being held in the hand of the blue creature from before or the sphere was , leaving me no way out other than to improvise and see how things will go .
I remembered still having 20 free attribute points that were still undistributed so without even seeing my status window , i put them all in Constitution and the effect was immediate, the sudden rush of strength left a deep cracking marks under my legs .
Just a moment before that weird creature in front of me finish completely swallowing the sphere, without an ounce of hesitation I smashed a hole in the sphere and using my new increased Strength and Agility, i propelled myself out of the sphere and the whole that i just made .
The most difficult part was after i got out of the sphere, even through i moved instantly fast, i was still being drawn to the huge mouth of the said creature .
Luckily or unluckily, the moment that i was able to get close to the shroud of darkness while trying my best to hold my breath, i was actually being pulled by an even more gravitational force toward the original plant i was on .
The pressure was so huge that it felt like as if the whole universe or something like that was forcing me back to return to where did i come from .
I was shooting back towards the planet that i just recently left some time ago as a result of that gravitational force affecting me .
And that wasn't the only effect the moment that i was affected by that huge gravitational force, i first tried all i could to resist it but as a result i somehow angered it , so i was completely knocked out by the sudden increase of the said force .
I was engulfed in flames as i began to return back to the shrouded in darkness planet, completely unaware of the outstretched blue hand that was trying to catch me from behind, but was slowed down by the huge gravitational force that was now surrounding the whole area in it .
Seeing that the thing he took interest in suddenly getting swallowed by the darkness in front of him, obviously angered the said creature so without an ounce of hesitation it opened its mouth and was about to swallow it whole, but he then came to a sudden stop .
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