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Chapter 8 - Definitely Not my Bucket list

What I saw beyond the door is the thing which took my hopes away. As there was nothing to see beyond it from the outside of door. Some kind of barrier was in act as to not cause heart attack to whomever this door was welcoming. Thanks to the safety net the fragile me can stay sane for a while and decide before accepting the welcome gestures of an unknown.

I thought for long time the only conclusion I reached to was why the hell I am here addressed as a recipient of welcome this otherworldly huge door. Which residential architecture is this door associated. Please do tell me that architecture is meant for inhabiting lives not takin it ? Am I in a position to even reject this warm gesture which bought me to tears literally. Looking back at the events that happened so far I gave up and started walking towards what seemed to be an impending doom. I walked towards a huge valley which formed after opening of door as the size of a half of door was collosal. Which definitely didn't made sense . 

As to why am I making such over size of door and not on the fact that I could be in another dimension is because I was a orphan tavern boy who lived of gossips for sound mind and dregs by that flunky owner for sound body. What more do you expect from a village bum like me. Ofcourse I will be shocked by what I see as my poor uneducated self can't think beyond that.

I for sure did mention that the door was huge or did I forget. Even if I did Here we go again the door was humongous like a titan ready to befall judgement on mortal world. I entered the barrier like space what seemed to be a huge deathtrap. 

The barrier protected space is wormhole and now this was second magical teleportation experience which will be told to my kids till their ears bleed. Anyways the sense of dissonance was more real during this travel as I was conscious during whole process. This experience was more to the unique side as every fibre of body felt like it was elongating and contracting at the same time. My sense of balance was in for a coaster ride as it wasn't given a second to harmonise. 

Thud

I landed on my two feets this time. Man learns from his mistake and so did I. This time I was standing proud on my two feets but soon diziness caught up and there we go 

Vomitttt...

Bleurghhhhh 

Throwed up even though stomach hadn't seen a granule of grain in a while. I puked out whatever fluid my body held for its survival out. The stomach realized after vomiting that it was empty and so did I. The extreme situations caught me so surprisingly that my body forgot that it ran on food.

Holding my stomach I finally took hold of situation and saw with my own eyes just how sorry I am gonna be for a while and by what my eyes processed I am definitely in for an amazingly torturous ride.

There was horrifying stench of rotting corpses in the air it was so pungent that it burnt the hairs of my nose. The air screamed for even a little humidity as it lacked it so much it was ready to suck moisture out of living entities.

The sight was dusty and visibility was as good as foggy mirror. I think me landing on two feet was an omnious sign as this place didn't allow a moment of reckless behaviour. As it may cost me my breaths which I already owe it to someone else. As I see this absurdity in front of me I wonder just what sort of atrocities did I commit in my previous life that this is what I am about to survive. Only God knows.

I step on the ground 

Crunch 

A sound of bones breaking as soon as I took my first step forward is surely not a good sign. I continue walking the sandy ground but the geography of the vicinities shouldn't allow the presence of a mountain as the region was very sandy. Such structure shouldn't maintain themselves in these type of topography. Just the weight exerted by the mountain can cave-in the land on which it is. Blessing the area with a deep sinkhole as to sink in along with everything it shared its boundaries with once. But the fact that it exists is undeniable as its huge silhouette visible even in low visibility condition due to constant blowing dusty air through the entire region. As per common sense this happening shouldn't be possible. But just my presence on this sad crying topographical plane is against logic so whom am I to cry before the unreasonable marvel of nature which is steadily erected by God itself as embodiment of word steady itself.

Crumble 

Crack

Tremor 

Am I tripping or it just moved ? I closed my eyes as I wished for all of this to be a bad dream. But even after opening it again I was still in the midst of that haphazardous situation. Still praying for it to be my hallucination due to my severly anemic self. A gush of heavy wind sprawled the dusty air. This sudden event peeled my skin substantially enough that within a fraction of second I can definitely experience hallucination. That I was desperately hoping for but the cost for it would be my fragile neck. Which aching for being decapitated every once in a while. Is this normal for my body parts to wish for seperation by risking my entire being with them. I don't think its normal but still it surely explains the fact. Why the things spiralled away so much out of order. 

The dusty winds as if they were choked they ceased to breath I mean flow. Restoring the vision substantially but I was not ready to see what was happening. As I still exist in state of denial. As I deny the fact that anybody could have such bad luck for a living being. But the gracious being of making blessed thy poor orphan soul with such an esteemed honour of carrying thy will. 

What I assumed for it to be a mountain it turned out to be something which I can't quite discern it. As for why ? Because I am new in this neighborhood. I was so busy never had the time to set an housewarming party. Guess my neighbour mistook me for a rude resident. Now they are paying me visit along with an communally decided eviction order. For me to be evicted out. I am a good resident I would glady oblige and adjust for them. But they just want me out they don't care whether I am out in box or pot. 

The sleeping beauty woke up. Oh my mistake sleeping handsome woke up as mountain is proud he/him. Initially what I saw was already big enough to shame the mountains from my hometown. But now as it got up on what seemed to be its appendeges. Though the sight of unfolding of his limbs was not so pleasing. If the holy Sire saw it without a hesitation he would declare it blasphemy as it was sinned the eyes of veiwer. It's not that I don't have monsters back my hometown but even they don't look so ugly. Guess the creator of my realm didn't pawned his artistic ability for power and I am thankful for that. Even if I am supposed to be risking my life while fighting as a conscripted soldier. I would for sure appreciate for the lifeform which eventually kill me to be atleast presentable. If had a family back then how would they have reacted if I fell to such ungly monstrosities. Imagining it felt shameful what would living it would. In my realm monsters were abomination but in different sense as they were naturally endowed with such morphological, anatomical and mystical advanced skeleton which provided them headstart. On the other hand monsters of these realm~~Aaahh even calling them monster is feeling displeasing. Lets go with an more primal word 'Creature' for them. So the creature of this realm are abomination but in different sense. They may be horrifyingly powerful but they do lack severly in look department. 

For a moment if there was creator for these creature. How autistic he must have been be to create such ugliness. Just imagining an omnipotent being with such an ugly imagination is ugly in its own sense. Even ugly mugs of goblins are handsome compared to these peice of craps. Maybe whoever sent me in these unknown realm wanted to test my willpower as to see me die by taking my life of not being able to keeping eyes open due to this absurdly high definition of ugliness. The only time this creature was atleast worthy to be reflected by light rays was when it was sleeping. As at that time I mistook it for mountain. I take back the words I said to my hometown mountain. As just only being big doesn't matter if you are as ugly as yourself. Atleast bad people or monsters from my realm just had ugly soul not ugly mug like this thing here. Even if there soul were materialised that creation of metaphysical, that tangible state of an intagibility wouldn't have been ugly as this abomination in literal and physical sense. 

The dusty air which flew previously was not omnious but it was an angel which disguised itself as devil to ward away evil ugliness like these. The sand in the air wasn't damaging my eyes but it protected me from this site of pure horror. And I was right when I said the dusty air was choked by the gush of wind, it didn't deserve such end. Guess I will mourn for the wind as long as I keep clinging to this life. In the fourteen years of my conscious existence. As the first two year were included in infancy. I never once wished to quit life on my own accord even in anti-life circumstances. But for the first time I wish to take my life not out hopelessness but just out pure helplessness against this shear embodiment of ugliness. 

Oh makers why make thy poor lamb suffer so much. Thee can be so cruel never thought by thy poor me. 

That thing walked shamelessly towards me. Just by his advance I felt molested and violated visually so much that I felt like I lost my chastity. His appendeges were asymmetric, he had female genitallia like naval region but with teeths on it. Seeing asymmetry triggered my OCD even though I don't have one. He gill slits on his cervical region oozing black mucus which dripped till its chest. Which had eye like apertures drenched within that black mucus. With excreta like viscosity and it comprised of leathery rubbles which felt sick to even notice or observe. Below those aperture there was an multiple bouquet of outgrowth in clusters. Each of them looked like dangling loose banana but a naked banana. The colour composition was rainbow which made it more disgusting as its black was completely gravel black. It also had three head like organs which connected with main body with an rod like outgrowth. The bright yellow was the colour of the rod like connection. First head like thing was two balls of skinnish pink colour with brown packing. Other 2 head were of skin colour but there morphology was of an talking trunk of tree. 

Seeing such makeup of a moving being was a disgrace to my living and existence of this entire realm itself. I am stunned and frightened but angry at the same instance. At that moment I earnestly wished for even a strand of mystique or any power as I felt the need to unalive this creature as soon as I can. As this thing and me can't exist under same sky.

Crunch 

Munch, munch, crack,creak 

Gulp Gulp 

A wyrm like being came and ate it up. The sigh of relief my eyes let out at the murder or act of killing of that creature were tears of pure joy. As for encounter with the second creature at the unknown realm gave me joy and fright at the same time. The fact that the nemesis of such blemish on living organisms of all strata is not another abhoring creature in terms of appearance. But it is abhoring in terms of pure bloodlust it reeks of full of black scales which glistened but this wyrm like giant creature had a face similar to 'felipicis' a type of local fish enjoyed as a delicacy. It was served to butlers of House Colt which were the customer of highest rank in terms nobility that old dandy's tavern ever managed to host. So it was rare that the broth of these fish was consumed as elixir by elders of the villages. While cooking it the Chef pocketed the broth for his childrens. But was caught and fired by boomer as a result the pocketed broth was given to malnourished me. At that day I prayed to the powers of fate so hard in just miniscule hope of this event of generosity would be renacted. But frevorous prayers were of no avail. As it was an one time event. 

Reminiscing the warm broth made me realise how hungry I was. As I was gleefully looking at my soon to be doom as a possible delicacy.

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