As we reach the front door of the dark stone building, the old dwarf chants a few words in an unknown language… I tilt my head slightly in confusion…
Suddenly….
The cobblestone path beneath us roars…. Opening up and swallowing us into the ground…
At that moment….
My composure cracks and I scream…. Closing my eyes shut… and clinging onto my own body… trying to protect my head from the fall….
The ginger headed dwarf woman laughs….
As we continue falling deeper into the Abyss underground… I try to reclaim my strength and calm down….
Then as I start to loose hope the wind which was blowing my hair up stops…
And I feel a slimy texture beneath me…
I reopen my eyes finding myself on a slime like mattress within a stone room lit by floating lanterns…
I gasp…
"Why are we hundreds of feet underground….?" I demand information from the dwarfs while getting up slowly from the slime mattress my legs shaking heavily….
"Calm down human…" an unfamiliar voice chuckles…
The voice's owner appears from the dark… he is a tall demon man with gray skin and horns curling out of his head like venomous thorns… his attire is somewhat medieval….
The demon steps closer…. Analysing me from head to toe…. His violet eyes glow as he notices that my soul isn't corrupted by the Abyssal aura….
"How does the human know so much about this place?" The demon squints trying to make sense of my circumstances "her world is newly merged…" he adds in skeptical tone…
I sigh…
Why is everyone suspicious of me..?
"Is this the rebellion's base?" I mutter under my breath then cover my mouth realising I said it out loud…
"The rebellion…?" The dwarfs whisper in urgency… their eyes widening…
"How does she know all this?" The taller dwarf says frantically…
"Is she a spy? Should I kill her?" The red headed female dwarf takes out a sharp dagger pointing it at me….
I sweat…
How could they have heard that…?
I am in actual danger right now….
Not only I am in the Abyss….
But…
I am in the rebellion's hideout….
My sky blue eyes dart around the cave like room….
My fingers fidgeting anxiously….
The demon realising my obvious signs of panic…. Smirks… within a second he is in front of me…. Then he flicks my forehead with a chuckle….
I flinch…
Then….
I stare at him confusion flooding my thought stream…
"Oh human…. I can see you are hiding many secrets…" the demon lifts his left hand up silencing the angry dwarfs…
"But can you really keep them forever….?" He tilts his head reading my body language as if I was an open book…
My sky blue eyes widen
This for sure is a character from my book….
The leader of the rebellion within the Abyss….
He was a demon named [Victor Van Vicki]…
He was the ruthless type who would toy with his people before destroying them…
Yet he was known for his love of food….
I need to use that against him…
"Mister Victor…. I am hungry…" I let out a small smile masking myself into a kind and polite mold… which I used a lot during office meetings with my boss who's most likely dead… yet this is different… my life depends on this…
Victor laughs… his violet eyes glowing in amusement….
"You are a clever human aren't you?" Victor whispers as he takes my wrist and leads me down a long stone corridor…
I follow Victor…
My thought stream overwhelmed by all the information flooding in from the deepest depths of my memory…
Victor Van Vicki….
It's an unassuming name….
A soft name for a demon who will try to destroy half of the Abyss later on in the story…
Thirteen year old me was so bad at making up names….
I regret naming such a scary demon man with this cute name…
As my thoughts continue overflowing….
Me and Victor reach to a stop….
At the end of the long hallway….
We stand in front of a tall dark wood door decorated with black steel…
"You said you were hungry right?" Victor smiles widely as he opens the door…
I nod reluctantly…
What if he kills me…?
Or worse…
What if he locks me up and takes all the information out of me…?
While my brain jumped from scenario to another Victor tapped my shoulder reassuringly….
"Come on human… I hope you enjoy these delicacies… they are from every merged realm…" Victor says as he leads me to sit down opposite of him…
"Wait those are The Fruit Of Davinci…" I stutter excitedly…
I pick up the green glowing circle shaped fruit…
THE FRUIT OF DAVINCI….
It's a delicacy of the demon realm…
In which it enriches the creativity and critical thinking of a person for a certain amount of time…
This fruit is a miracle…
I wrote about this fruit because I often suffered from writers block….
I always wanted a cure for creative blocks…
Now it's here…
And…
I have no use for it…
I bite into the fruit… then I squeal in joy…
My taste buds celebrating the deliciousness of this piece of food…
It first tastes sour then it melts into your mouth….
My eyes close a sign of pure happiness….
Victor watches me keenly…
His smirk getting wider…
"You are an interesting human…" he whispers extremely quietly "you recognise a delicacy of the demon realm…" his lips curling into an even wider smirk "and you eat it as if you ate it before…." he shakes his head…
"I just went to the merged archive…" I stutter excitedly as I continue eating…
"You know that the archive doesn't allow newly merged residents…" Victor laughs at my obvious lie…
Oh no….
I slipped…
Again…
I swallow hard…
Trying to reclaim my calm…
"I made a friend who helped me with that…" I lie through my teeth…
"Intriguing…" Victor chuckles as he stabs a wriggling jelly making the jelly loose colour and become pure black
"The more you talk… the more entertaining you become…" Victor's violet eyes glow while he eats the black jelly…
"I am just an office worker… I am nothing special…" I say in a bored tone…
"Oh give yourself some credit…" Victor Van Vicki laughs…
"You know the ways of the Abyss… from the messed up directions… to even the weird traditions and trends…" he continues…
"I don't care what you were before the merge…" he lowers his voice so no one else can hear…
"You seem strong even with that frail body of yours…" he adds…
"I wonder what your awakened class is…" he looks me in the eyes trying to read my reaction…
I am the writer class…
But I can't tell him that…
Because there's only one class for each person…
My identity will be reveled if I tell Victor my class…
"My class is fortune teller…" I make up a class from the top of my head…
Victor Van Vicki's eyes widen because he never heard of the fortune teller class…