Raizel has already made a plan on how to defeat the creature in front of him.
First he would first use his sword as a distraction, making it looks like he was attacking the creature, and when the creature is focused on his sword, he would use his telekinesis to push the creature of balance and then he would trap it in an illusion.
That how it was supposed to go according to him.
But then suddenly
WOOSH!!
A sudden gust of wind howled across the ashen barrow, violent and unnatural. The storm tore through the gray mist like divine wrath, scattering it into nothingness.
In an instant, the suffocating thick gray mist that had blanketed the island was ripped apart in an instant and shredded by invisible claws of wind that screamed louder than any living thing.
Raizel paused as he narrowed his eyes, his white hair whipping around him like threads of white flame. The fog that once cloaked the world had vanished, and for the first time, the sea was visible again. It stretched endlessly under the bruised sky, glimmering with cold light.
The creature with a thousand eyes froze mid-motion, its form was now fully revealed.
A mass of writhing limbs, slick and pulsating with veins of bioluminescence, it was disgusting to look at, with how it exposed muscles were twitching every second. Each eye turned toward the sea, their was a hint of fear on them if Raizel saw it clearly.
It muscles were now violently twitching with unease, spreading in every directions.
Even the Shell Demon, that was still burning faintly with oil and fire, halted its movements. As it now stand properly, it could feel that something… older had just awakened,
Something which was not supposed to awaken...
Sunny, Nephis, Vasily, Alex, Maya and Rebecca all of their eyes were widen in fear as they looked at the sea, their body trembling in deep rooted fear.
Cassie as already gone unconscious with the silent pressure
And they all felt it.
The water began to boil.
Rumble!!!
Rumble!!
RUMBLE!!
RUMBLE!!
It started as a low vibration beneath the waves, a rumble deep enough to shake the bones.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!
Then, a bulge appeared in the sea's surface enormous, swelling, and splitting open. What came next made the entire cohort fall silent.
From the abyss, a dark shadow rose.
At first, it was mistaken for an island, or perhaps a mountain being lifted by unseen hands. Then, the illusion shattered as the creature's true form emerged, vast, grotesque and magnificent.
The creature itself, is a titanic entity emerging from the ocean's abyss, dwarfing everything around it.
The monster's head is immense and smooth, resembling that of a cephalopod, a blend of octopus and humanoid traits.
Its eyes glow faintly in the dim light, cold, intelligent, and merciless. They seem to gaze not just at the figures below, but through them, as if perceiving the very soul of them.
It was neither animal nor a god, but something in between. It carries the aura of a being that has existed since the birth of the seas.
It Tentacles are thicker than the tree of the Ashen Barrow unfurled from the black sea, dripping with brine and crushing waves beneath their weight. They were enormous, each thick as the tree mast, curling and twisting violently through the air and waves.
The surface of the tentacles is slick, rubbery, and slightly reflective, lined with powerful suction cups that could crush wood and bone effortlessly. Several tentacles rise high above the ocean, forming arches like serpents ready to strike, while others churn the water into foaming whirlpools.
The sleepers and the monsters below can almost feel the movement and weight of each appendage seems alive with purpose, controlled yet chaotic, radiating raw strength.
WWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!
A single roar rolled across the horizon, deeper than sound, a vibration that rattled hearts and shattered resolve.
Sunny's eyes widened, his body locked stiff. His lips parted, but no words came. He simply stared at the being stunned and helpless as a primal understanding dawned in his mind.
'That is no monster.....' This was nature's itself, this was a what people used to call a god born from the marrow of the ocean itself.
"…We're dead." his voice trembled, barely audible over the storm.
When Sunny first started showing the symptoms of nightmare spell, he has already given up on living, but after surviving his first trial and nearly getting killed in the process. Something awakened inside him, and that was to survive.
No matter how hard it is, no matter how difficult it is, he will survive and return to the walking world and meet his sister rain.
But it seems like his journey has already reached it's end.
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Rebecca dropped to her knees, her breath ragged, eyes wide and glassy. "No...no is this.... the end..."
She for the second did not think that her first nightmare would be this hard or near impossible.
'I wasn't trained for this..' As a child from a legacy clan, since the movement she was born she was trained to survive all kinds of nightmare and their region, her mother made sure of it.
But after a while, her mother also got send into a mission and was never seen again, all she ever got was sword (a memory ) from her mother former comrade.
The people who deliver the sword said that her mother died a honorable death.
"That she died for the greater cause."
Even thought she was young, she know that it was nothing but lie. Knowing that she wasn't gonna get the answer's with asking, she decided to train even more harder to get more stronger.
She thought that if she trained hard, and overcome her first trial, she might be able to become a awakened and find the one's responsible for the death of her mother.
But it seems like in this life she might not be able to find the culprit's.
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Maya clutched at her chest, tears started dropping out her eyes without her realizing it. "Are... we really...going to die....?"
She for a second didn't thought that the dream realm would be this hard, after all her first nightmare was easy in which all she has to do was find a witch and let the other people burn it.
She did face little difficulty in the process but that was nothing compared to this...
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Alex looked at the huge monster, with dead eyes. He hold his head and then started shaking, then slowly, slow but crazy laugh started coming out of his mouth.
"Hahaha!....hahah!....hahahahah!"
"We are fucked!!"
"Hahahahahah!!, Did you guy's see thatwe are FUCKEDD!!"
He spoke while pointing at the monster.
Alex has a crazy look on his face as he seems to have give up on the living.
"hahah...haha t-this is the...end hahahah"
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Even Nephis, her expression usually carved in calm determination, stood frozen, the reflected light of the leviathan flickering across her pale face.
Thousands of thought flash on her mind, thousands of way's in which she can escape or fight.
But their were no answer. It seems like this was the end for her.
'This is not the end!'
She tighten the hold of her sword, ready to fight, even if it for the last time, she was willing to give her all, even if she has to... die.
'No death is must not!!.' she refuse to die even in such situation, after all.
'My revenge is not complete.' her grey eyes started to shine brighter and brighter...
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Vasily's reaction was different from the rest of the sleepers. His hands shook violently as he stared at the impossible sight, something which he didn't expected.
"No… no, this wasn't in the story…" he whispered to himself, almost hysterical. "This.... this shouldn't exist! It wasn't supposed to—"
He cut himself off, swallowing hard.
Fear
Real fear which he has forgotten because he thought that he knows everything, now the fear of the unknownwas awakening and it was getting carved deep into his features.
'This wasn't how it was supposed to go!!' he thought as his hands started trembling more and more, his body was drenched in sweats as he just now remember that.
Not everything was supposed to go his way.
Vasily used to think that just because he knows the plot, just because he used to read the novel, he knows everything. He thought that if he don't directly change anything in the story, nothing would go wrong.
He thinking was false.
He didn't know that thiswhole world is wrong.
The movement he has come into this world, he always thought of it has a novel world, not the real world.
He didn't know that this is a real world where he can die, a world with a strength like this he will die against the future enemies.
It seems like the fate has put a slap on his face to wake him up and he just felt it pain now.
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Raizel seems to have head what Vasily was trying to say, but he said nothing, he did note it down, and asks him when the things will clam down.
For now his gaze was locked on the horizon looking straight at the monster, his eyes were unflinching and unreadable. The faint reflection of the creature's massive silhouette gleamed in his violet eyes.
'500 meters long, 90 meters wide, 80 tentacles each should be around 100 meters long with a width of 50 meters, the skin would be hard to cut need a big sharp weapon or....power.'
Raizel was calculating the body mass of the creature, unlike the others he wasn't afraid nor was he scared.
He has seen worst creature in Nereza, the Dark Solomon family dream realm.
Inside their he has seen monster far greater then this and far stronger then this.
Some of them are even of sprite rank, a rank in which even his mother would not dared to fight.
But looking at this monster which was only of Corrupted (terror) rank.
Raizel might not be able to defeat it but he was confident that he can run away, since he has the necessary skills and memory for it.
But right now looking at the creature, their were only one thought going on his mind.
'Why did it appeared here ?'
Raizel knows that a creature of such rank would not have appeared here, such creature would not just come to surface to show themselves.
'Fate is it...' Raizel eyes were calm as he thought about it, if there is something that can change something in this world, then it is fate.
How did the fate do it ?
Raizel don't know that, maybe it has tickle the creature or maybe just woke it up.
What was it motive for awaking such creature ?
Was it to warn Raizel to not interfere with it or was it something else.
Will it keep on doing things like this ?
Raizel don't know, but he would try to see how far the fate would go, to keep the future interact.
And if thing's got out of control should Raizel do something about it ?
He still hasn't decided yet. But if thing's does go out of control
'I can always destroyed the world.' thought Raizel with a clam look, after all destroying the world was easy for him, he just need to reach the saint rank to activate the destroyer artifact and let it do it's wounder.
RUMMBLLED!!
He quickly come out of his thought's as he looked up and saw the monster moving it's tentacles.
WOOSH!!
One of the colossal tentacles shot upward, the air whistling around it. The Shell Demon, which was the size of a two story house, a creature with a monstrous presence, was now nothing more than an insect caught in a tentacles of the monster.
ROARRRR!!!
It let out a roar as it attack the tentacle with it large scythes, but a pity the monster didn't even budge, much less letting the demon go.
CRASH!!!
The tentacle wrapped around its body, crushing through steel plates and splitting the air with the sound of snapping metal.
The demon kept on resisting and resisting but all of it efforts were in vain, then slowly but surely it stopped has it has given up or it has died.
The creature with thousand eyes was slowly slipping away, since the large monster attention was on the demon, it got the chance to get away. It has almost reached the other side.
WOOSH!!
But alas another tentacle reached out, this one coiling around the creature with a thousand eyes. The many-eyed abomination screamed, its collective voice shaking the sky.
SCREEEMMMMM!!!!
For a fleeting moment, it tried to fight, its countless eyes glowing in crimson, their was desperate fury, but the grip of the tentacle only tightened around it.
SPLASH!!!
A wet, horrible sound followed.
And then… silence.
With horrifying grace, the leviathan lifted both prey high into the air, their writhing bodies dwarfed by its enormity. Then its massive mouth, a circular abyss lined with endless rings of teeth opened.
It wasn't just wide; it was impossible, and inside the mouth their was an all-consuming void that seemed to pull in even the light around it.
The Shell Demon vanished first, swallowed whole with a single movement. The creature with a thousand eyes followed, its screams cut off mid-sound as it was dragged into that abyssal maw.
After having the meal, the creature descended once more into the depths, dragging the storm and its chaos with it.
RUMMMBLLED!!!
The sea convulsed violently for a moment, waves crashing high into the night sky and then… calm.
The wind ceased. The sea's rage quieted. The fog dispersed.
The island stood in eerie stillness.
No one spoke. Not a word was spoken.
HISSS!!!
The only sound that remained was the soft hiss of waves kissing the blackened shore.
Sunny fell back onto the branch, his breath unsteady. "Tell me that was… a dream."
Raizel looked Sunny with a calm gaze as he spoke.
"No one can have dreams in dream realm Sunny."