DYSCHRONOMETRIA

CHAPTER 14 - A Night To Forget

At the dark coast during a storm, a thunder claps. Its lightning lit up the beach, revealing a woman figure with her back at the audience. She turned, her eyes glowing fiercely at the darkness, while her skin glimmers with magic. She looked at the audience with sharp eyes...

"⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️
THIS CHAPTER HAS MENTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND GORE, READ IF YOU WISH!"

The Siren then jumped at the dark waters, disappearing on sight.
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Lianna landed on a pool of blood. She looked everywhere at her surroundings, only to find similar things; destroyed buldings painted with blood , dead and mutilated bodies with either twisted limbs or head or missing parts of the corpse, and heads with --possibly Knights-- helmets on and were put to sticks as if a lollipop. Aside from blood and gore bodies, there were also organs from dissected bodies, there were also those with their torso--either beheaded or not-- being the only visible part, and lower bodies. Seemingly split to half corpses, and limbs spread everywhere. Eyeballs and heads were also around the area.

Lianna was horrified, but it would be more frightening if she got teleported straight into the horror. Though this is still something she can't prevent to see. She looked at the ruins of structures, the flag of blood showing its features partially: she immediately recognized it.

She was at the kingdom where the Witch lives.

Lianna breathed heavily. She can't handle what's going on.

She continued to sit in despair, she stared at the pool of blood around her. All she can see is red and black. Nothing more.

Just then, lights suddenly appeared. Sounds of metal clashing, lightning, fire, water--magic! "... Magic... They're nearby." she looked around and saw,

SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY MAGIC. SHE WAS IN A DEATH TRAP.

Magic circles appeared below her seat, it glowed red and felt hot. He immediately stood up and avoided the  trap. Still, she was surrounded by magic everywhere, it must be the gang fighting against their enemies. And she did saw a glimpse of them despite their rapid movements.

A scream of a child and a monster is heard. Lianna immediately turned to her back and saw a child--no, not just any child--it was the child priestess! She was being chased by a giant monster that eerily looked like a cross between centipede, millipede, and a spider. It had 9 eyes with 4 on its left and right side of its face, while the ninth one was the largest and the only one moving, since the other eyes were like spider eyes. It was fast. Lia witnessed how the child managed to hinder the monster's speed : by screaming at it, though it was deafening. The monster seemed to have a weakness of sound. The child would also scream "Purification!and point her staff to it, "An attack..." Lianna murmured.

Purple and magenta clouds surrounded Lianna in a motion.

"Wah! Hey! Let me--!"

She was lifted up,

"--down..."

She was in awe amd terror. She saw everything from above--

Fire and wind clashing into a metal ball, earth pillars filled with spiderwebs on its gaps, the centipede monster crashing into buildings, a building--seemingly an evacuation center--is surrounded by water and earth magic, on the east part of the kingdom was an oblivion of nothingness and a red cloud raining down... acid? Lianna wasn't that sure since she's far away. At the north, she can see a similar oblivion--except that there was a ghost standing next to it-- and a giant ice which was being targeted by flying arrows.

--there was too many. She cannot enumerate them all. Nonetheless she was finding a certain individual. The Witch. Though, she cant find her due to the density of darkness and blood surrounding it.

Corpses where everywhere. And soon she realized they were knights who fought the enemies, but ultimately failed to do so. Was this how strong they were? The magic's strength?

Suddenly the cloud brought her to where she was wishing to see. As she went by, she saw the red demon with a sword. Though he looked different and this time, he was really a demon. Maybe his true form. He was fighting someone, a girl, who looked slightly familiar to the red woman she had seen in the past, except her hair was tied.

She arrived to the location. They were in an intense fight. And simply getting closer here would make one feel its heavy pressure and tense atmosphere, let alone make one get here! This would definitely make one explode into madness. Lianna felt like her head was exploding from the inside due to the magic intensity. But still, she was forced to watch aside.

The witch was brimming with dark and water magic. While the red demoness has been with fire. It was odd watching someone fight with intense wrath.

They clashed for a very long time, the Witch's dark tendrils--and her hair -- were acting out on its own, attacking the red demoness. Her enemy however, kept countering it with her fires. She kept a smug face full of bloodlust and malice. The witch had an expression of wrath and desired  revenge.

The force of their attacks made them to be pushed backwards. Leaving a heavy trail of dust,

"So, have you given up?" the Red Demoness started. The witch only answered her pants.

"No... Not yet..."

"Then why... Why do still keep fighting?" she screamed the last word, the demoness seemed rather annoyed.
The Witch closed her eyes and lifted a hand to cover her face as she spoke,
"I... I WAS..." she lifted a hand as she spoke and glowed, "THAT VICTIM YOU HAD--"

The memory suddenly wavered,

"Wait! No! Show me! Show me what--Ugh!" she begged to continue the memory, but it seemed the pocket watch had not allowed her as purple and fuchsia clouds immediately engulfed her.

"--Let me go--let me see what hap--"

The magic cut her off.

At the portal, a figure slowly appeared in front of her. Lianna was crying. It was a woman with blue skin, green seaweed hair adorned with an urchin headdress, she had a purple fish tail and glowing lilac eyes. She had a cross of disgruntled, anger and disappointment expression. She stared down at the young woman  sharply.

"Wh-what happened to them?!" she demanded, crying.

"It was necessary for me to cut it off here," the Siren said coolly. Lianna was baffled. "What do you... mean?"

The Siren turned her back, she looked at her one more time before disappearing, "You have seen enough of what is necessary for you to see."

Lianna was lost for words.