While the vampire continued his journey with his new friend, the world froze. His appearance was unexpected; it didn't fit into the very concept of Terra. Many пришельцы from other worlds had entered it, but his arrival was impossible on Terra.
His presence shook the very cause-and-effect relationship on Terra.
HE SHOULD NOT EXIST ON TERRA IN ANY FORM.
A monster that opposed its destiny in its world. A vampire who refuses to be a vampire. A monster that refuses to be a monster. A human who has forgotten how to be human.
"Nomat" — a wanderer in search of himself. Not given up, not broken. Stubborn.
And he was noticed by someone who should not have been there, someone who should not have been on Terra due to the shield surrounding Terra.
THE OBSERVER.
He noticed him. He came to destroy him. Alone. In his arrogance, he came to Terra, considering it a mere pebble among the stars, because of the Originium.
That's why he didn't warn anyone.
But he was noticed not only by the Observer.
A short girl from the Cautus race, with features of both rabbits and hares, also noticed him. She watched his journey with lifeless eyes, in which patterns in the form of diamonds glowed. She was dressed in a white robe that was torn at the base. On her head was a crown made of Originium.
Amia — the Demon Lord — she who watches the development of this story. A story where Amia was still an ordinary human.
As soon as I reached the end of the jungle and a desert appeared before my eyes, I froze. I was enveloped in irrational fear; my instincts went berserk, and my intuition screamed to run without looking back.
I grabbed Serdolica and threw her back with all my strength.
After that, I immediately began taking out enhancement potions and started drinking them. Every single one. Even the garlic protection potion, just in case.
Blinking, a giant eye appeared before me, surrounded by diamond-shaped objects that were connected to each other and formed something like arms.
As soon as I met his gaze, I instinctively used Magical Berserk.
And then another diamond appeared above the eye, from which waves of unknown force began to appear. I used a dash and watched in horror as the territory where I was standing began to deform. Sand, trees, bushes, stones — all of it began not just to be destroyed but to disappear. As if reality was rejecting them (reality resonance).
I immediately began creating dozens of Crystal Spears behind my back, running at full speed to bypass my enemy. But as soon as the spears approached him, they vanished as if nothing had ever been there (quantum erasure).
I tried to change tactics. Instead of Crystal Spears, I used Phantom Spear. This time, the spear wasn't erased, but as soon as it got too close, I watched in horror as the very fabric of reality was torn apart right in front of the Phantom Spear, which detonated it and caused absolutely no damage to the enemy (dimensional destabilization).
I pulled out the Endbringer pistols, a relic I had managed to restore from a fragment obtained during one of the Rift Invasions.
And I opened fire, but even this time I didn't deal any damage to my enemy. My bullets were met by an invisible shield surrounding him (Information Shield).
I dodged yet another of his attempts to do something again. I was like a rat, frantically circling in terror before a bulldog, trying to survive in any way possible.
Fear forced my brain to work at 120%, and my body at 200%. I had never moved so fast in my life. I could hear my bones cracking from the speed I was developing in an attempt to survive. My magic grew stronger with each use. Seeing failure time after time, I strengthened my spells in the hope of breaking through my enemy's defenses.
Over time, the magic I used too frequently began to collapse before even forming.
«Has he figured out the principle of my magic and found a way to destroy it?» (Information Dismantling)
And then dozens of spears appeared right in front of my face. I had absolutely no way to dodge them, so I used Chamber of the Damned, and a green shield appeared before me, taking all the spears. Two dozen undead began to appear next to me, as the conditions had been met. Damage had been dealt to the green shield, and thus the unholy magic had been activated.
Did it help me? Well, thanks to them, I managed to survive, but the pace of the battle kept increasing.
In addition to the waves of strange energy erasing space and rays of unknown energy moving faster than sound and piercing through everything they passed through, another damned cold weapon began to appear right in front of me (Conceptual Synthesis). And it wasn't just melee weapons. I watched in horror as futuristic weapons formed right in front of me.
Could I withstand a direct hit from this? I had no idea, and I had no intention of finding out.
«Damn, I hope this works!»
My right hand began to be enveloped in golden lightning, and at the moment the weapon fired, I managed to activate my ability.
«Lightning Curtain!» — I shouted in rage, as if my voice could make the magic stronger.
And right in front of the weapon's barrel, a curtain of golden lightning appeared.
Explosion.
I was thrown back a good couple of dozen meters, and when I got up from the sand, there was a diamond right in front of my face.
«Damn!» — I didn't have time to do anything before finding myself in darkness.
I began walking warily, not lowering the Endbringer. Then the darkness was illuminated by a sharp light, making me blink and find myself in a dungeon with hundreds of coffins.
«This is the beginning of my journey», — I said хмуро, watching as one of the coffins opened, and a thin body fell out, with horror and uncontrollable thirst in its eyes.
In an instant, the picture began to disintegrate into thousands of fragments. I frowned, not understanding what was happening, until I caught myself on a strange thought.
«What did I just see? I can't remember»
The picture has changed again, here I am standing among human corpses covered in blood, looking at the corpses, I go up to them again and start tearing out their bones, because the blood requires this so that I can create my armor. I remember the horror and disgust at that moment.
A moment later, the picture shattered into thousands of pieces again, and I realized with horror.
"Why can't I remember what I just saw? Is this thing erasing my memories!" (Concept Virus)
I started doing something in a rage, I tried to grab onto my memories, and when I did, I was surrounded by thousands of shapeless shadows that prevented me from doing it.
I resisted in rage. I used everything I had, all the knowledge I gained during the battles, but I lost.
I watched with dead eyes as my memories broke. Piece by piece.
And suddenly everything stopped, but I remembered who I was, I squinted, there was a child among thousands of these creatures, the shadows were trying to reach him, wriggling into unnatural shapes, anyone who saw it would be horrified, but the child stood unwaveringly, he looked right at me.
And then he took a step, the shadows that surrounded him began to set on fire, and their monstrous cry of pain resounded throughout the space, but the child did not pay attention to them, he did not even deign to look at them, he slowly but surely walked straight towards me.
And when he came close to me, I raised my eyes to his face.
"Who are you?"
"Funny, don't you recognize this face?" I squinted, but nothing came to mind, so I shook my head. When the child saw this, he hit me, then lifted me up by my breasts, because of the height difference, he slightly forced me to get up.
"You really don't remember? Did your vampire games cause this? Have you forgotten who you really are?" The child started talking in rage, he didn't raise his voice, but even so I could feel his overwhelming rage.
"Remember. Remember or die like a dog surrounded by these nobodies."
I began to look at his face again, and something at the edge of my consciousness began to recognize him. The shadows that surrounded us began to advance furiously, they did not pay attention to the fire that consumed their bodies, they continued to walk and walk, but for some reason they could not reach us.
Then I remember my parents, how my mother twirled with me in the woods, how my father handed me a gun from his safe with a small grin. Then my mother beat my father for such stupidity for a long time, but the next day we decided to relax in nature together, I laughed at my father's silly stories, watching my mother constantly correct his exaggerations. Then my gaze fell on the mirror, I lifted it up and saw my face, the face of a child that was fiercely staring into my lifeless eyes.
"I... I was human."
"Just been there? The memories that were stolen from you, are you really going to let this go on?" to which I smiled bitterly.
"What can I do? Have you seen this monster? How to win it? He adapts to my abilities in a matter of minutes, and he uses more and more new abilities against me."
«If a vampire can't defeat this monster, then let a human do it.»
«A human? How can he fight this? If a monster like me couldn't do it… Do you even understand…» — but I froze, unable to continue my tirade. Something in the gaze stopped me.
«Have you forgotten what you admired?» — my eyes widened as I recalled the heroes from the fairy tales my mother read to me, the heroes from the games I played, the heroes from movies and anime I watched, the heroes who protected our country. But after remembering this, I lowered my eyes.
«How can I? I'm not even human.»
«Then ignite the flame in your heart! Make it beat again! If you still want to be human, then be it! The only limitation is in your head!» — I raised my gaze again, meeting a gaze of unwavering determination. My determination. So do I have the right to sit here with my head bowed?
I rose slowly. The fragments flying around me began to come together. My gaze became firm, and my determination grew with every second. Standing to my full height and putting away the Endbringer, I drew an ordinary two-handed sword.
Then a portal began to appear behind my back. I turned around and headed towards it. Monstrous shadows tried to stop me, but they crumbled to dust upon approaching. And as I stepped one foot into the portal, a voice sounded behind my back.
«Show that creature what an unwavering human spirit is!»
When the vampire returned to reality, everything changed. The enemy, who had been dominating the battle, felt a sudden chill. He heard a strange sound — something he never expected to hear coming from the vampire's body.
The sound of his heart.