Chapter 773: Chapter 774 – Forgotten Mist – Part 5.

(This isn’t right.... It is just paranoia.) – thought GreyHunt.

(FUCK YOU!)

(I’M NOT FALLING FOR THAT!)

(Those are not my thoughts!)

(They are fucking alien!)

(But that should be impossible!)

(The game-)

"..."

"Fuck." – said GreyHunt with a terrified expression.

(That bastard ClownFrog said that he was being affected in the outside world by the game.)

(Something that shouldn’t be possible.)

(Not only that, this game can mess with you by making you hallucinate, see illusions and stuff.)

(Vision.)

(This is their limit.)

(They can make some noises, like make it sound like it coming from inside of you, but that is all!)

(But this stuff?!)

(It is directly affecting my brain!)

(No illusions or noises!)

(FUCKING MIND!)

(No mind tricks or anything!)

(Just direct attack?!)

(This should be fully illegal!)

(And yet, it is doing that?!)

(...)

(But why I’m the only one affected?)

(My monsters look mentally exhausted, as well as Lilium, but they are definitely not suffering from the same thing I do!)

(Does that mean I’m the target?)

(But why?!)

(...)

(Nobody should know about our talk from back then.)

(About illegal world affecting.)

(We made sure back then that all of our devices were turned off and we made sure to keep out mouths shut!)

(But I’m the only one in this group who knows about the illegal effects!)

(...Or what if it just targets the strongest player in the group.... And makes them go psychotic, killing their own teammates?)

(Fuck me!)

(This isn’t good!) – thought GreyHunt as he still could hear the "alien" thoughts inside of his head, raging him to murder, to not trust.

(SHUT UP!)

"...Em... You okay?" – asked visible worried Lilium.

"I’M FINE!" – shouted GreyHunt.

"Just... Thinking about our course of action!"

(I say that... But this dungeon.... It is fucking corruption my mind!)

(I can resist those thoughts... But I think it is for the best if we hurry it up.)

"Let’s go." – said GreyHunt as he started walking once again, without waiting for rest of his team.

"!"

"Hey! Wait up!" – said Lilium as she and the monsters tried catching up to GreyHunt.

"..."

(Second time.) – thought GreyHunt.

(This is the second time the game itself broken the rules.)

(However, something isn’t right!)

(Previously it was Sloth!)

(And now it is the Forgotten Fragment?)

(Is it the dungeon itself doing?)

(...Or the boss?)

(Either way, this isn’t good!)

(I can’t talk, to make it even worst!)

(We don’t know if our "barrier" is still strong enough.)

(Are we allowed to even talk in game?)

(Shit! I can’t even give signals to these fuckers, since they don’t know shit!)

(So does that mean I just have to keep my mouth shut, while there is a possibility of me just SHOOTING THESE BASTARDS!?)

<<This wasn’t good.... The noises were getting more noticeable and I could tell them apart from my own thoughts... But still, they were there... Messing with my head.>>

<<I’ve tried keeping my cool, making sure that the others wouldn’t notice me acting most odd out of the entire group.>>

<<...>>

<<But even so... It was getting annoying.>>

<<We continued our walk for like what... Hour? Two? Maybe three?>>

<<Fuck.>>

<<I really can’t keep track of time anymore.>>

<<Not only that, we started noticing the change.>>

<<We were getting attacker far more often by the doublegangers and in much greater number as well.... Did something happened?>>

<<Was there some sort of change we didn’t noticed?>>

<<Either way.... We didn’t bothered investigating it as we just continued walking.... And we kind of.... Well... We may or may not had walked entire fucking circle.>>

<<We.>>

<<Walked.>>

<<For fucking hours.>>

<<Made it all the way around the fucking dungeon.>>

<<And we still didn’t bloody found either the exit or the end!>>

"...Well... This sucks ass." – said Lilium as she and GreyHunt stared at the massive wall.

"..."

"If it isn’t near the walls, then that means it somewhere inside." – said GreyHunt as he started walking.

"Probably at the center."

"We at least now know where it could possibly be."

"..." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Okay. WAIT!" – shouted Lilium as she snapped.

"...What?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Look. I get that this place messes with our heads right now and stuff." – said Lilium.

"But aren’t you rushing it too much right now? Didn’t you said before than we needed to be careful?"

"..."

"I’m sorry.... It just.... Something else is also on my mind that I can’t get out... Private stuff." – replied GreyHunt, straight up lying and hiding his condition.

"Well, you better focus on the fucking job right now, since you told us to focus on it no matter what." – said Lilium.

"Just... Fucking breath... Okay?"

"..."

"Okay." – replied GreyHunt.

<<I thought I was controlling it.... But it seems that the noises are keep getting louder... They are trying to silence my own inner voice.>>

<<I maybe really here on the timer... But still.>>

<<We now possibly know where the dungeon end could be.>>

<<So, we headed directly towards the middle of this massive shit hole.>>

"..."

"Something is off." – said GreyHunt as he looked around.

"Yeah... The atmosphere and area is changing..." – said Lilium.

"The streets... Well, they look way less maintained... And the houses look less lively."

"Like heck, like some sort of line was passed and everything changed." - said Lilium as she alongside GreyHunt continued walking down the path and started noticing that the environment around was changing now at extremely rapid rate.

Poor.

Destroyed.

Desolated.

Abandoned.

Not maintained.

It was just.... Old and completely forgotten.

Compare to the other houses that were empty and "lifeless", they were at least maintained.

However, the place they were currently at? It was something completely different now, as if they entered completely different

"..."

"Somebody is approaching." - said GreyHunt as from the mist, GreyHunt and the others could see several figures approaching.

"HEY! FRIEND OR FOE! FOR FUCK’S SAKE!"

"!"

"FRIEND! FRIEND!" – shouted the voice from the mist as GreyHunt instantly raised his hand, giving order to all the monsters to stand down as the group of unknown beings emerged from the mist.

"..."

"Shit! It is you!" – said Little Maniac as he walked out from the mist alongside his clown and jester monsters

"Oh.... Thank fucking god!" – said Lilium.

"We finally! We found somebody!"

"!"

"Lilium! You okay too?!" – said excited LM.

"Fuck me! I thought both of you were dead! Since we couldn’t find each other for hours!"

"Well, as you can see, we are alive." – said GreyHunt.

"..."

"Quick question....Is it... Well-"

"No. Cave is also alive and he is with me." – said LM.

"Come! This way!" – said LM as he began leading the group towards the depths of the abandoned territory... Which by now started looking like a trash site.... However, at the same time, there was also something different going on.

The mist, it was dissolving. The vision was getting clearer and cleared.... Finaly allowing the group to start regaining their sight and hearing.

"We are here!" – said LM as the group arrived in front of the massive building... However, something was off about it.

The building itself stood abandoned.

Rotting and destroyed, while all of the windows were boarded up.

But it wasn’t the only thing that caught GreyHunt’s and Lilium’s attention.

No.

There was an army of demonic warriors standby nearby.

"...Heh... I guess I was wrong." – said Cave who was sitting on the staircase, before then getting up and approaching GreyHunt’s group.

"You are really are alive, huh?"

"Yeah.... Good to see you Cave." – said GreyHunt as he and Cave shook their hands.

"What the hell took you so long?"

"Well, we walked in the fucking circle, if you want to know!" – said pissed off Lilium.

"?"

"Circle?" – asked confused LM.

"We walked around the entire map... We tried fallowing the wall at the end.... But instead for the hours we walked around the whole map, straight up just returning to the spot we were in before."

"After that, we tried using the data from the self-writing map to decode the location of the middle.... And we came here to see if we were right or wrong."

"Well, we gotten here few hours ago." – said Cave.

"This place.... Well, as you can probably guess, it is center of this dungeon."

"It looks like shithole."

"But at the same time.... The mist is approaching this location."

"Neither are doublegangers."

"!"

"Hey! You are right! We haven’t fought any for some time now!" – said Lilium

"..."

"Then I guess this abandoned building is the final zone?" - asked GreyHunt as he stared at the massive abandoned building.

"Ay. No doubt about it." – replied Cave.

"This place is only like this.... And this is the only abandoned building. We seen some houses near this place, but they were only messy."

"..."

"Hey.... Is Apple Juice here?" – asked Lilium as she looked around for the female priest kobold player.

"..."

"She died." – replied Cave.

"Before we gotten here, we got ambushed by the large number of doublegangers.... We were doing fine at first.... But then we let our guard down at the worst possible timing."

"The fake GreyHunt and fake LM appeared from the shadows, ambushing and assassinating Apple before I could do anything to save her."

"Fuck. We lost our main healer?! This will definitely won’t end well." – said Lilium

"..."

"When did she died?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Few hours ago... Before I found LM by accident and then we managed to find this place."

"..."

"We started getting attacked more often few hours ago.... So, I guess this is the safe zone... And while you were at it, all the fakes were going after us." – said GreyHunt.

"..."

"But I saw Apple during the last attack wave." – said Lilium.

"Yeah... I did too... Fuck me. So, I guess even if you die, that doesn’t mean that your doublegangers will stop spawning." – said GreyHunt.

"..."

(Not only that.... But it is still there.) – thought GreyHunt.

(The noises in my head!)

(Even though we reached this "safe zone", these fucking noises are not fucking disappearing!)

(It just fucking now hurts just listening to them!)

"..."

(We need to conquer this dungeon, before I really start fucking blasting to death my own teammates.)

"I want you all to get ready." – said GreyHunt.

"You hear me?"

"I want to finally deal with this bullshit dungeon and be finally be over with it!"