Kora never had any grand ambition before becoming an awakened.
Maybe getting a job, living far away from any Nightmare Gate, getting a wife, raising children and dying in peace.
That wouldn't be too much to ask for, right?
But it seemed Fate had no plan to make it easy for him.
His girlfriend tragically died to a nightmare beasts the day he proposed.
It was a regular day, they had been going to the park near their college, everything seemed fine.
That was until a massive swirling mass of smoke appeared, and Nightmares poured out of it.
She sacrificed herself for him, willingly throwing herself into the maws of Nightmare Creatures to delay them.
Kora's never been the same ever since.
He became colder, more detached, but even in that depressed state, he still did his best to have a good time with his family.
At that time, he really thought he had hit rock bottom, and life could only get better from now on, right?
That was until fate showed him an abyss even greater still.
He had become a nightmare spell carrier.
Even tough he survived, the sheer terror contained withing these memories changed him.
People had died infront of him before—People he loved, even.
He had suffered a lot than even that when he was diagnosed with cancer.
He had developped unyielding patience since his bullying days in school,
But that, THAT made all of his past tragedies null.
He didn't think, didn't scream.
But he wasn't scared?
'This is the nightmare spell, Treat everything happening inside as a video game'
…
'I've survived harder things before, this is nothing.'
…
'This is just a game.'
…
'This is just a game…'
…
'This is all just a game ?!'
…
'I'm not scared of a game.'
…
'…'
…
'Maybe I am scared.'
…
'...…'
'I- I'm scared'
The tower, The screams, the flying organs, the decapitated heads rolling at his feets, the Nightmares, The red sky…
How was a human supposed to survive this.
He should've given up. He should've just died.
Why did he not give up, why did he climb that damn tower ?
Anger flowed through him.
He couldn't protect those he loved, and now, he couldn't even protect himself.
"That's because you're a pussy"
'W-What??'
"You heard me, coward. You can't even accept the reality infront of you. How did a Pitiful wretch like you even complete what I couldn't ?"
"W-W- Who are you? How are you here ?"
Kora looked around the endless expanse of red. The Sly being red like Blood itself.
Then, he looked at what he was standing on.
"b-bleghtrhhr"
He puked. Vomited a strange mix of Shit, piss, worms and food junk.
"C'mon, pal, You know EXACTLY who I am. You also know EXACTLY from who these innards came from, stop lying to yourself."
On the ground, or more exactly, THE ground, was made of innards. Countless internal organs flowing like some eldritch entity's wet dream.
Then, a Tree sprouted. It was small at first, but slowly, it started growing, seemingly feeding on the innards to grow.
It started growing, and growing, exponantialy fast. Till it covered the sky.
Yet, the tree bore no leaves, it only stretched, till the clouds parted.
And what was behind was an abomination.
A giant eye made of blood, it was glowing like a damn sun.
"Wha—WHAT IS THIS!?!!?" Kora held up his calloused hands, Full of blood, and countless memories flooded him.
Why hadn't he given up ?
When the sky seemed to fall, where did the D̴̢̩̻̙̱͔̗͐͊́̉͛̕ẹ̴̢̘̭̝̗̮̒͌̀͘͠t̸̢͉̀͗̚ę̵̗̺̟̼̐́̽́̍͆̏ŗ̴̮̬̫̙̮̻̝͎͕̏̾̂̊́͂̒͘͝m̴̨̠̪̞̹͓̂̒͛͆̐͘̕ḭ̸̛͚͍͉̽̋̓́͜ń̸̞̺̺̙̣͔̞̜̐͑ä̵͎́́͒̇͂͐͘͠t̴̛̛̬̪̘̗͓͓̿́̑i̶̝̬̮͇̞̗͐̿͌ͅo̸͎͓̭̭̽̍͌̾̈́̄͘ͅn̷̲̔̃̈̄͠ To hold it up come from ?
" Why are you still holding yourself back ? You KNOW what this power of yours can do, yet you stubbornely try to escape it."
"Dread it, run from it, Destiny arrives all the same. Now, you'll have to get moving and use it if you don't want to perish."
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"Tch, cockroach."
He remembered faintly now, this voice was always here.
Everytime, screaming at him to do unholy things.
"Kill them"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"You can destroy them goddamnit!!"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"Did I not tell you? WE ARE THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM, MIGHTIEST. WE ARE POWER ITSELF, WE NEEDN'T CONCERN OURSELVES WITH SOMETHING AS PUNY AS RESPONSABILITY"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"…"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"Do you only know how to say that ?"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"Kill yourself bitch"
'Great Power comes with great responsability'
"…"
'Great Power comes with great resp—'
"OH C'MON SHUT THE FUCK UP."
The voice was fed up.
"Do whatever you want, just know I'll kill you if it ever benefits me"
The majestic voice resoned, this time, full of annoyance.
Kora's unfocused eyes suddenly regained alertness. His trembling body stabilized. He seemed all like a simple calm and collected person. Yet, in his mind, only the blurry figure of an elderly person remained, screaming at him angrily.
'…'
This time, he remained silent.
"I kind of love that brat"
"Now, You can either use I̴̘̬̍̍̓̓̇͌͐̑̕̚T̴̰̬̟̩̰̦̠͛͌̓̏ ,or perish"
"Go play, brat. But just to remind you, dread it, run from it, Destiny arrives all the same. "
"So either fight, OR BE FORGOTTEN."
With a laugh, the Dream shattered, and the giant eye seemed to fall into the abyss.
Koral looked at it, seemingly deep in thought.
He then uttered a Simple yet powerful phrase, a phrase existing since the primordial era of Humanity.
"Fuck of, bitch"
And with that, Kora's consciousness came back to reality, where only a split second seemed to have passed.
Then, his skin seemed to squirm. Various patches of black seemed to grow, His limbs and hairs seemed to extand, with his hairs turning white.
The sclera of his eyes turned pitch black, with his pupil turning crimson.
A sword, made of Pure darkness manifested from seemingly nothing.
He looked all like a nightmare creature right now.
To Arhan—Who was half conscious— This seemed to be the final straw that broke the camel's back as he passed out.
Zero, who watched this unholy scene, could only curse.
"By the dead gods…"
"What kind of fuckery is this."
That "Creature" even seemed to exude danger to him, and he KNEW how strong he was, even in that body.
Yet kora, who had appeared totally normal, suddenly turned into this abomination that could threaten him ?
"What kind of cheating is this Goddamnit?The divine kind?"
The thing however, didn't seem to care, as it came crashing down to Zero with his Dark Greatsword, a maniac smile on it wretched face.
It swung.
The hit wasn't something he could take on normally, Kora was now more nightmare creature than human, as a few pairs of eyes seemed to grow on his face.
Zero jumped over the sword.
Thank go— The dead gods,He still maintained the advantage of combat experience.
He would've tried to deliver a spinning kick to the thing's face, but his "legs" were to small, and he wouldn't give a chance for that massive maw to get a hold of his body.
Zero, and the "Thing "that kora transformed into, continued to fight over and over.
Zero Dashed through a slash, then, He thrusted with his nail at the protuding heart of the creature.
The creature tried to block, however, what he didn't see was the swirling mass of white particles around Zero's body.
*𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇*
The nail suddenly gained another bigger, sharper edge, and that unexpectedness was enough to tilt the tides of the already fragile balence
Yet, Zero's body was truly too weak, even after all that, the heart didn't shatter.
The creature, tough severly injured, tried to catch Zero—Who was still hanging by his still embeded nail.
A serious look appeared on Zero's "face".
Then, sudddenly, an idea came to his mind, albeit a bit embarassing.
"What's your type of Woman ?!"
A melodious voice was heard, a Pure, unscarred voice.
The creature, startled, even dropped to his knees.
That exposed a weakness that Zero would never fail to exploit.
He pushed all of his remaining force into his nail.
*Crack*
With a small, almost unhearable crack, the Heart shattered.
—RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH—
The creature screamed in agony, and as Kora's body returned to normal, you could see a small emotion hidden in his eyes.
Relief.
Zero, however, seemed to have no notion of tacit social understanding and directly asked.
"Bitch, What in the Eldritch god's wet dream was that"
Kora looked at Zero, with a face that screamed:
'Are you retarded ?'
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hi guys. I Kinda wanted to write this chapter, tho idk if I did good.
I originaly planned for Throne of swords and King of Chaos to be the same chapter, but I decided to divide them.
thanks for the support helps a lot.
Ima buy the part 2 volume of Lotm btw ; gonna flex to em illiterate in class.
Will also present Lotm in my school's English book contest.
I love lotm and would smash a demoness btw. if its female, it ain't gay.
Next chapter, in "Shadow slave: The Hollow knight."
A certain grimmchild is out there re-enacting the 1800s in america, Yet, a swirling mass of Darkness is hiding in the Dark Labyrinth.
Who is the Six eyed entity plotting within the hidden darkness ? Who is the mysterious Mother hidden in the wretched dream realm ?
YOU'lL GET TO KNOW IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OF DRAG— I mean, Shadow slave: The hollow knight.
Also, what do y'all think about re-naming this fic to Voice of Genesis? I kind of it'd attract less reader since, yk, its not an obvious Shadow Slave fic.
I'd like for y'all Opinion.
PEACE OUUUUUUUUUUUUTT