BXBX NOVEL Chapter 1008: Despair
Rosenheim appeared above the skies, as everyone was fixated on Blake\'s fight against the Elf King to think about anything else.
Barely twenty seconds have passed since they went down.
"R-Rosenheim?!"
Elfriedden\'s eyes widened as he saw his beloved, the love of his live appear before his eyes!
He had imagined she was somewhere else, but he was grateful she was not caught in the rubble and was alive and safe.
"My love!"
"Dear!"
She quickly jumped off her Pegasus, running towards Elfriedden.
The young elf quickly caught her with his arms, embracing her in a tight hug as he slowly descended.
The entire world around him slowed down.
For how long as he been waiting to finally meet her?
The two met each other since they were children at the tender age of 6.
Since then, they\'ve been inseparable.
Elfriedden lived a childhood full of discrimination and bullying from his many siblings due to his "bad" talent and his spirit.
Rosenheim, a young girl from a nearby Dukedom was everything for him.
Her snarky yet cheerful personality helped him slowly improve and regain his own footing in the world.
She was more than just someone he found beautiful or liked at a surface level.
Rosenheim was Elfriedden\'s true pillar, the only girl he had ever loved, and the only one he will ever love.
"I\'ve come back, Rosenheim! As I promised you, I came back…" he kept hugging her. "I missed you so much, my love…"
"I did too!" Rosenheim started crying over his shoulders, tears coming from her eyes.
The two lovers face grew closer, as they kissed without a care of the world around them.
Nothing mattered anymore for these two.
Love was such a thing, it made people blind of their surroundings, of the cruel world.
It made them believe the world outside was beautiful, it made them think there was nothing else other than themselves.
This is why Blake feared this feeling so much, even as he had developed it for a long while now… |em|p,yr
"So many things have happened in these minutes, but you… Seeing you puts my heart at ease," Elfriedden smiled, caressing her beautiful face.
"What\'s happening? Is this a demon invasion? Who is the king fighting against?" Rosenheim asked. "Who are those people?" she pointed at those behind Elfriedden.
"I can explain, an Archdemon has hijacked father\'s body and Blake is fighting him to-"
"HAHAHA!"
Before Elfriedden could continue his talk, the laughter of Mammon echoed across the entire skies.
Suddenly, something came.
A bright, crimson light shone within Rosenheim\'s forehead; it had the shape of a wicked pentagram.
"W-What? Rosenheim, what\'s that?"
Elfriedden approached her, as Rosenheim was just as confused, touching her own forehead.
"I-I don\'t know? Is it something bad?"
"I… I have no idea, let me check-"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
However, before he could check, the same bright crimson light surged from all across the city. His eyes noticed that almost every single citizen had the same crimson light coming from their forehead.
"W-What\'s happening…?"
"STOP!"
The scream of Blake echoed from the skies, as Elfriedden suddenly woke up from his daze.
Something wrong was happening.
It was something even beyond Blake\'s scope?
"Gryyaaaggh!"
"Uuaaaghh!"
"I-It burns! IT BURNNSSSS!"
The screams of the citizens kept echoing across the city, their agonizing screams making them fall to their knees.
The same thing was happening to Elfriedden\'s brother, who started crying in pain over the forehead light.
At the same time, the unconscious body of his mother was convulsing, the same crimson light coming from her forehead too.
"Huh?"
Elfriedden felt like the world was freezing in that very moment.
He slowly looked back at Rosenheim.
She was on her knees, asking for help as she started crying blood, and vomiting blood.
In fact, blood was coming from her ears and nose too.
"R-Rosenheim? ROSENHEIM!"
"It hurts…! Elfriedden! H-HELP ME…! HELP MEEEE!"
Elizabeth quickly tried to go help her and heal her, but a sudden explosion behind them quickly startled her.
In fact, several explosions started happening everywhere, blazing flames beginning to burn the buildings around the streets.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"W-What\'s happening- Ah?!" Elfriedden\'s eyes widened.
Rosenheim\'s face was different.
Red skin was spreading through her fair, white colored skin.
Her body suddenly started flaring with heat, burning.
A strange, intoxicating aura with the smell of sulfur started surging from her body.
And she wouldn\'t stop screaming in agony.
"HELP MEEE! IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTSSSSS!"
"ROSENHEIM!!!"
Elfriedden quickly tried to pull out an Elixir to help her.
Yet!
BAAM!
"Ugh?!"
A giant red fist punched him away, as he fell into the floor several meters away.
"A-Ah…?!"
His eyes widened again; tears started coming out of them.
Rosenheim\'s left arm had suddenly transformed.
It resembled the giant, aberrant arm of a demon.
"Help… me…"
"ROSENHEIM!"
Elfriedden stood up as he ran to help her.
Yet it was too late.
Her entire body started to mutate monstrously.
Her face was somehow the last, her entire body evolved, mutated, and transformed.
Red skin flared her entire body, burning her.
Her muscles and bones grew, expanding.
Her legs became giant, and sod id her arms, her clothes were torn apart as her aberrant body was uncovered, and her cute face, sitting over the horrible demonic body.
"A-Ahhh…"
She kept crying, confused, in agony and pain.
"Elfri… edden…"
"NOOO!"
With a horrible scream of agony and pain, Elfriedden was thrown away as he saw his beloved\'s face transform into an ugly demonic face, with a long nose, bald head, and crimson eyes covering her entire body, and no mouth.
A shockwave of burning demonic flames sent him flying, as he fell into the floor, hitting his head. The world around him began to spin, everything was chaos, horror, terror.
"Uuuaaaggh! Big brotherrrr!"
"Sapphirus?! NO…!"
He tried to extend his hand towards Sapphirus, yet he was unable to reach him.
His little brother also mutated into a horrible demon, suddenly punching him away.
CLASH!
"Uaagh…!"
His entire body was set ablaze, demonic flames slowly consuming his mana and burning his skin!
Agony, pain, suffering, terror, horror…
These were the only emotions within Elfriedden\'s mind right now.
The worst possible outcome had occurred.
The agonizing screams of thousands of elves resonated across the city.
Their bodies quickly mutating into gigantic demonic aberrations.
And Mamon laughed.