THE LIFE AFTER DEATH IN HELL
Inferno
The infernal landscape stretches before us: a vast desert of broken earth, surrounded by flames that reach toward a dark, reddish sky, as if the fire itself were tearing through the atmosphere. The echoes of terrifying screams reverberate in every corner, while lakes of thick blood reflect a deathly light. The air is thick with the stench of sulfur and eternal suffering. In the midst of this chaos, a figure is chained to a jagged rock, his body marked by deep wounds, his flesh torn by a thousand tortures. The man is barely conscious, but a twisted smile still remains on his face.
UNKNOWN: (Gasp…) How much time has passed? Perhaps millennia, years, I no longer know nor do I care; That damned demon comes every so often (gasp…), I've lost track of time and all I can do is talk to myself to keep from feeling like I'm going crazy. Little by little I feel nothing anymore, I don't know how much longer I'll be here; If I hadn't made those decisions, maybe I'd be in heaven and not rotting here. I hope those damned people who deceived me are rotting along with me in this disgusting hole.(A noise is heard and the person begins to despair).
A horrible monster with mouths on its cheeks and a long tongue in its main mouth, somewhat deformed in body, but muscular, with long hair covering its eyes, approaches the tied-up person from behind the rock and says the following in a very eerie voice.
DEMON: (In a grotesque and mocking voice) Well, well, well... it's time for torture, you damned rat. This time it'll be even more fun! Hehehe...
With a cruel smile, the demon takes metal clamps and electrical cables out of his leather bag at his waist. The clanging of metal sounds like a death sentence.
DEMON: Look what I have here... the clamps and wires. This is what you're going to get today, human! We're going to have some fun, aren't we? Hahahaha!
A bloodcurdling scream escapes the man's lips as the demon begins its macabre task. Electricity courses through his body, and though the agony is unbearable, the man doesn't completely lose his composure.
12 hours later.
The demon departs, satisfied with its amusement, leaving the man to his suffering.
DEMON: (Spitting on the ground) Well, that's enough for today, you human filth. See you tomorrow... hahaha.
The sound of the demon's footsteps fades into the darkness, and the man is left there, bleeding and dazed, but with an expression that seems to show something more than pain: there is a hidden determination in his eyes.
UNKNOWN: (crying and gasping) When will this end? I don't deserve this, but I'll never lose faith; it seems (he calms down) that I'm getting used to the pain, I hardly feel anything anymore (he stops crying and a small smile appears on his face) and my revenge will soon come. I'll get revenge on those bastards for what they did to me.
The unknown man looks up at the dark, reddened sky and faints, In his mind, a single word stands out as a promise: revenge.
Narrator: To understand what truly happens to this man, we must travel back in time, to a time when he was still alive, when the decisions of destiny were yet to be made. This is only the beginning of his long and painful journey, one that will lead him to confront his own torment and, perhaps, to his redemption. But for now, the story of this man, chained in hell, invites us to travel further back in time...