Crossing Illusion: Reflection (Book 1) #Wattys2017

Chapter 31: Our Responsibility

Moon shine beautifully on the now clear dark blue sky. It shine down on the lake as what seems to be a hole of void opened, lead into an unknown abyss of realm that are beyond us.

"This can't be..." Fahmir stare down at the lake. He can felt chill run down his skin, and he rarely ever do.

He have been awakened.

The group watch from their own spot, observing anything that could possibly emerge from the gate. "Hey, hey.... Isn't this really bad!?" Melisa ask her teammates that isn't speaking for minutes but only mumbling. "Even a toddler would know that this is BAD. This is the worst case scenario, Melisa." Almerich sneer at her, once again amazed by her lack of intellectual that she ask such obvious thing. Meanwhile the other didn't speak much but only observe in fear, worry, and maybe also curiosity. Christine and Danny is genuinely scared though.

"Oh god, what kind of abomination would rose from this gate...?" Noir bite his lips. This is the first time he felt like that his Phantasm alone won't be able to take care of a monster, since usually few personnel of Mirage would do the job. However, for their whole life in SPD, this is the first time he see with his own eyes an actual deity, not a small monsters or your general mythical beings.

"I heard she mentioned the name as Bokrug... I think I heard about this creature before..." Almerich held his chin, trying to figure it out, and Fahmir then speak behind them.

"An elder god. Haven't you heard about them?" Fahmir trying to calm himself down with smoking, and it didn't worked. He need to come up with a plan, and no human being ever, or at least none recorded, have encountered this deity and survived. He don't know a single weakness or trait of the monster.

"An elder god... Wait, a silver key and an elder god... An eldritch Lovecraftian deity!? Is this for real!?" Almerich is the first one that able to recognize the clues, other than Fahmir and Astina that already do even before hearing the name of the deity.

"It is real. I once encountered one of them around five to six years ago in mount Himalaya, where a hidden temple in the mountain contain a deity named Shoggoth. They are weak, able to multiply, and formed like a black biological mass, or should I actually said, they looks like a mutated lump of gigantic amoeba that formed into this monstrosity." He took his time remembering the scene, also trying to enjoy his good old time.

"So, can they die?" Almerich ask a straight answer, and he nod. "Obviously. This Shoggoth can regenerate and merge together, and repopulate by multiplying. Though definitely not a match to guns or other physical attack, their liquid body weak to cold, so they never go out of the temple. They also died when I burned them, but when ordinary human people confront them, a flamethrower maybe insufficient."

"So, they could die. Check." Noir nod, seems one of his worry is gone. "But the Shoggoth is just a low-leveled abomination compared to the greater one. I think they called elder gods?" He look at Fahmir, and he nod.

Astina sighed. "You two are wrong..." They look at her as she opened her notebook. "Bokrug, also known as The Great Water Lizard, The Doom of Sarnath, or Thuum'ha of Ib, is a Great Old one." She look at them, and Fahmir grow even more pale now, so does Almerich. "The Great Old One!? Like Cthulhu!? How could we defeat something in that caliber!?" He seems more than horrified now, knowing that their enemies is something as great as the notorious eldritch being.

"Calm down, I said they all could die... If we know how to do it." Reynold turn his head at the massive hole, that still expanding and soon would consumed the whole lake. As they trying to figure out a plan, someone else approached them. "I know how... Though it's only a rumor."