[3, 2, 1 Initiating Error Check]
And as soon Pyxlus's voice finished its statement, Vermur's chin hit his chest like guillotine dropping on a heavy neck. His vision blurred. Slowly and naturally. Like fainting faster than the pain that caused the reaction could reach his senses.
His arms sagged and his back hunched once more as his whole world faded and faded and faded and...
"Huh?"
He was gone. Not dead.
Inhale. Exhale. Just a sleep as his soft uniformly slow breathes entered and exited his nostrils.
And as for his conscious, where was it? Could be in a dream? Or could it be that one could simply sleep in their dream? Wouldn't that lead to another? And another.And another.And another.And another.And another!
It would surely lead to endless continuation that even the currently expanding universe would never catch up to.
This would be what one would call a parallel dream. What was that? Was it achievable? If so, then...
"Hu-uh-uh-uh scary."
Yes it would truly be a nightmare to behold. But Vermur had bigger things to think about. Like where the heck he was. He stood somewhere. Dark but dimly lit with a silvery dim hue. Visible yet not completely.
He looked up to the sky, baffled by the sites before. The sky, this sky wasn't like the one he saw not long ago. This sky didn't seem or feel endless. It bore the resemblance of a smoothened, shined and polished marble dome that had didn't curve at any angle or point. Its colors constantly flowed and wavered with swirls of soft silvery and opaque gray hues that danced slowly yet barely in Vermur's eyes.
He looked down. And the floor he stood bare a similar structure to that of the sky that hovered above. Only this time, the hues that danced beneath or within it were an opaque hue and dense black.
The structure itself was all elegant without anymore touches to his surroundings. Its blank yet uniquely attractive characteristics put at singular point between Vermur's confusion and his admiration.
But there was without a dought that Vermur found this place... slightly beautiful.
His head shifted to his front and indeed he saw nothing a head. His gaze then drifted to his left and right sides and could still see nothing.
He sighed and sat down as he thought, 'Man I got nowhere to go or anything to do.'
And he wasn't wrong. He truly had no clue about what this place was and what it had to with him being here in the first.
And initially, his first thoughts at this disappointing discovery was to maybe walk around and see if he could find anything but... it didn't sit well with him.
No because he was scared, but because it felt... unsure. Unsafe. Unwise. And would a complete migraine to his head tk over think about. And too tiresome for him as well.
And most importantly, he didn't want to move not because he could totally neglect all the other hindering factors and just do it anyway. But because his body didn't want to as well. Like before... he remembered the countless times his body moved and operated on its own accord even when he was using his mind to drive it just for a bit.
And since his body here didn't do so. He didn't trust place or whatever lain before it.
So, he let out puff of air from his mouth and through himself into to ground as he suppressed all rising urges to do what might truly endanger him.
Besides, it would be nice to catch a break in this place after all events and struggles been through. And so, as his body lay on the marble floor of this unknown gray terrain his breathes softened and slowed as his his vision blurred slowly. From the times that he found himself fading away.
The time when he was struggling to get out of the snow. To the time, when he struggled to understand why the monster just simply could let him go. To the time where he nearly died. To the time where he called upon the Lord for help. To... just recently when he told Pyxlus to help fix him. He never truly felt like it would be rest rather like a temporary forced escape due the conditions he was in. In this place, this dream as Pyxlus called ut. It felt result complied more with the situation that occurred rather than everything actually going the way he needed it to. And so it was like this place's standards unconsciously and forcefully relied cost rather than favor. Like a child thinking that getting his/ her shoes from their room because their mom told them to would be a reason for them to finish and go shopping together. Only to find her gone before the fully strapped their final shoe on.
Hahaha. Ironic isn't it. How lies can truly be cause of one's blunder of course with sole exception of one's mindset towards the standards and conditions of the lie being told to them.
Well, that didn't matter now. For Vermur, for the time since awakening. Felt like he could finally catch a break and... truly rest.
As his eyes closed shut. A true darkness is what he remained to see.
But it seems that karma just let him catch a break as he found himself awakening in that darkness. He wasn't scared. He wasn't famished about it either. Just...
"Ugh, here we go again."
Disappointed. As one may call it that.
His eyes darted from his left and right to his and up and down and the behind him or at least what it felt like. He walked the lost hope. Not truly just partially exaggerated. That this place would be similar just like the place before.
And just when he wanted to try sleeping again, his gaze that was in the darkness that he stood. Caught a glow at the front edges. This surprised and his head snapped to his front as he saw something. It glowed a red hue. Not completely red. But just something similar. And he tip toed. And tip toed. And tip toed. And tip toed. Until he looked down slowly and his eyelids parted slowly. Carefully.
And he bent down. His eyes almost completely reflecting the vermillion glow of the object that lain before him standing at a feeble height of 0.3m. Its vermillion glow brighter than any light he'd seen before. Its aura was like a deadly riden corpse that lived a horrendous and tragic life and as ominous as that beast before.
And instead of cowering or backing away.
Our boy. Our poor foolish and greedy boy grinned possessively as if he'd just won the lottery.
His face was covered in the bright vermillion glow of this thing. And yet even from afar someone could tell. The boundless and endless greed that he mistook for passion.
[Error Check. Is complete.]
[The results will now be relain to Master Vermur.]
[Awaken Master Vermur, for we have company.]