Nightmare Mythos

Chapter 45: Descent

The interior of the hallway he was in didn't seem to appear much different than before aside from the fact that he was falling into it instead of forcing himself to move forward.

It was a weird feeling but it had been exactly an hour since Cesar was dropped down in this space. Instead of thinking about what he wanted to do this time forward, he remained unmoving... if that was the right word even though he was clearly moving without his own accord.

But now, he had taken plenty of rest enough.

Cesar had to lock in once more.

"Should I stop my descent and hold onto one of the curtains? Should I just continue dropping down then?"

Cesar couldn't help but talk to himself loudly.

It was because there was nobody there to think that he was crazy. Additionally, he can think of a solution while letting his thoughts out and do them separately, in a way that is more effective to him.

'It's bad to stop to descent now since I'm not too sure if the ancient door will be able to contain the Void. I can't let it happen once more since I'm just fortunate enough to run as soon as I noticed something was weird with the quake and the crack that it followed,'

"Then, shall I continue going down?"

'It's not an option but it was the only choice on the table. No matter what was stored at the end of this hallway wouldn't even matter. Is there another ancient door waiting for me at the finish line or the pit of this endless corridor is nothing but an inevitable death?'

Cesar came to a halt with his thoughts before letting out a soft chortle, "I guess it's a bit insane to do this but it really clears my mind to not multi-task and contemplate each problem one at a time,"

As his clothes fluttered across the wind while he descended, Cesar didn't do much in the meantime. His actions remained static while trying to have some little fun as he fell to the corridor by doing some weird actions such as rotating around the air in the most ridiculous way possible.

This continued for another hour.

Holding on to the fact that there was something down across the endless hallway, Cesar remained vigilant and expectant.

The same carpet, windows, curtains, lights, and walls all around the place were never changing, always the same, and forever staying. As if untouched by any vulgarities, the vast corridor excluded its imposing aura to whoever stepped into it as always.

"Hmm?"

The nonstop stillness in the hallway began to change when Cesar noticed he get ahead of a figure sticking its five legs into the wall while remaining passive even though it felt the presence of Cesar.

Obviously, Cesar already noticed the figure a few moments before he exceeded it.

"Huh?"

Looking upward to trace the whereabouts of the five-legged mysterious figure, Cesar noticed that its stance slightly changed.

Cesar knew he was in trouble once it did another set of fatal attacks to him.

He couldn't let that happen.

Clank—!

Cesar immediately loaded his revolver with a demon-hunting bullet, a piercing shell, into its chamber as soon he saw the corrupted human doing the same trick, dropping down a couple of normal bullets since he was being hasty.

But it didn't matter if he dropped those mundane ones as long as he inputted the specialized bullet into his gun.

He swiftly pointed it upward as he continued falling down.

'One chance...'

Whatever he was planning to do, Cesar knew he only had a chance to make the best out of his bullet.

Remembering the contents of the piercing shell in one of his classes and being sure that he wasn't making another mistake like he had earlier when he was using the sleeping shell, Cesar remained on the lookout.

"Come here, you bastard..."

As if answering his call after just a few seconds had passed, the corrupted human used the force it had inputted into his legs to somersault forward.

Whoosh—!

It went invisible for a brief moment due to how fast it pounced forward just to attack Cesar, but it was the only thing it was good at.

He'll have to stop at some point to make contact with Cesar.

And Cesar knew it was the only chance he had.

Clearly seeing the corrupted human inches away from his face, Cesar shot the revolver at its head and made a huge boom that eradicated most of its head, exploding into body pieces.

Splash—!

Losing anything related to its upper body, the corrupted plummeted to the ground at the same pace as Cesar, who was coughing out a mouthful of blood from his mouth with a slight smirk.

"Finally, a companion,"

With a dead body on his side, Cesar didn't feel alone anymore as his descent continued.