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Neo woke up in an abandoned hall after a fight with the Dark Knight. Neo looked around the abandoned hall. He tried to stand up, but his body was tired, trembling, and a little in pain.
Amidst the dust of battle that still covered the hall like a ghostly curtain. His heavy breaths rose into the cold air like black smoke, as he stared at his trembling hands… There was no longer a trace of blood or wounds.
Even the hole the Dark Knight's sword had made in his shoulder had disappeared, as if his body was being reshaped from the void itself.
He raised his eyes to the collapsed body of his opponent, finding it had shrunk into a shiny black mass the size of a palm, resembling a strange key carved from the eye of a demon.
Key to the throne gate
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[I didn't expect it to be this beautiful] Severia
"Severia whispered in his head with a tone like the laughter of a poisonous beetle. The key was as cold as hell's ice, intricately detailed: its edges resembled microscopic dragon teeth, while its core glowed with red dots like dead eyes following every move. Neo grabbed it with a hesitant grip, feeling its vibrations rip through his bones like cockroaches crawling through his veins. He walked towards the giant throne, still standing despite the cracks that resembled a destroyed spider's web. The base of the throne was engraved with mysterious symbols, and in its center was a narrow opening in the shape of a snake devouring its tail.
When he inserted the key, blood suddenly gushed out from the sides of the opening like black tears. The entire hall smelled of burning sulfur. Neo slowly turned the key counterclockwise, each "click" like a cannon shot reverberating through his skull. Suddenly… time stopped.
The throne exploded into a thousand black shards, a purple-red shockwave sending Neo flying backwards as the ground beneath his feet cracked like a giant glass. The remaining pillars of the hall collapsed like dominoes, and the ceiling was pulled down as if it was being swallowed by a black hole. From the midst of the chaos, something began to rise: a sword just over a meter long, its blade resembling a winged dragon's tongue made of a material that wasn't metal or flesh.
Neo said the name of the ceiling.
Neo " Vinzdeno Spiritual Sword was radiating an aura that made the air around it bend like a mirage. The reddish black blade was covered in golden zigzags that looked like veins pulsing with energy, while the hilt was a massive animal bone wrapped in dark chains that wriggled like living snakes. At the base of the blade, a red glass eye moved in all directions as if searching for a victim.
Vinzdino radiated an aura that made the air around him bend like a mirage. The reddish-black blade was covered in golden zigzag lines that looked like veins pulsing with energy, while the hilt was a massive animal bone wrapped in dark chains that wriggled like living snakes. At the base of the blade, there was a red glass eye that moved in all directions as if searching for a victim.
[This is not a sword...it is hunger incarnate] Severia
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Severia screamed in his head as the dark red aura devoured what remained of the hall.
Dark red energy exploded like a mini supernova, the walls of the hall evaporating in a flash, the collapse revealing a night sky heavy with sickly colored stars. Neo hung in mid-air for a moment, the sword pulling him like a magnet as black tentacles of darkness spontaneously sprouted from his back, wrapping around the sword's hilt and fusing it with his body.
Severia [Now...play your part well, I'm feeling sleepy]
Severia whispered before her voice disappeared like a passing meteor.
Neo landed on the ground in a patch of black ash, the sword in his hand screaming silently. Around him, everything was destroyed except for the two-meter radius where he stood… The ground there had become smooth glass, reflecting a ghostly image of Severia's smiling face. He raised the sword towards the sky, and the clouds split open like a giant wound, a black rain of blood-like droplets beginning to fall.
On the horizon, the sound of bells rang out.
Neo: "Well it's time for me to leave the dungeon. I got the sword I want."
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