Twilight of Shepherd and Calamity

Ch.33 In the Abyss of the realm

(warning that this chapter may be full of filthy logic and reason, please be careful with the mental contamination)

The beast roar in a harsh twisting voice as if it could tear its own throat, the voice is filled with sorrow and anger. In the forest not a soul in sight, no one hears or understands the meaning behind the roar, no one knows 'who' is roaring despite there is only one left in the forest. This is the story on another side after despair and craziness crossing through each other like a spiral. What lies beyond the end of the spiral? Would it be the darkness where the craziness engulfed the despair or another exit of light?

"Wonderful, my dear hound. I shall embrace you. I want you to destroy the world for me. Now, bring the malevolence all over the world!" Tartarus laughed when he finally get this done, still, the 'beast' is not going to listen to him easily, it is mindless, or pretending to be mindless.

"It doesn't matter if you are not listening to me, I will take your body instead. Spirit release, arte activate-- ' Alice'." Tartarus doesn't surprise with the fact that the beast doesn't listen, he planned to take its body from the beginning.

Tartarus is troubled that he can't release malevolence and he can't be turned into a dragon. All the clone he produced doesn't possess emotion since it is not taught to them except the two escaped. Although the external malevolence may let them turn hellions, it would not be a strong hellion that may release a large amount of malevolence since they have no emotion. Yet, it is a different case for Velvet. It is completely an accident that Tartarus woke in the earthpulse and then found the hidden place that sealed Innominat and Velvet with guardians there. He gained the memory of earth about the story of Velvet and Artorius and so he basically knew a lot about Velvet, he may easily turn her into a hellion or lead her to release malevolence if she awakes. Let's admit that though he knew all things about Velvet, the plan still not worked normally when Velvet restrained her malevolence very well.

Now Velvet is turned into a hellion, he enjoys to taint the land himself whether than ask the other to do it, therefore, he decided to take over her body in full control with the mental invading arte. To the hellion turned from despair and guilty, her mental state is empty enough to welcome the invader taking over the 'place'.

To fall, to collapse, to tumble down the world of void. Here is the despicable interloper roughly invaded and dived into the One's deepest part in the sea of spirit. There is a space of void, no cliff, no moon, no forest or any other things Eleanor has seen in Velvet's mental world, nothing exist here, the scenery is filled with emptiness and darkness. This is the absolute calmness of void, not a single breath of life or light of hope to be felt in the space, this is the abyss of despair. The sudden invade of the interloper waves the space like waves on shallow water, in the moment his leg touched the ' ground' in the space, waves appear. A woman is lying on the water like a dead body, there is no lightness in her eyes.

"Do you despair?" The interloper Tartarus teased.

".............." The woman doesn't answer, only gaze at the front without focus, her eyes are not gazing at anything.

"My bad, indeed, I know the answer," Tartarus smirked as he received no response.

"You want to achieve something for the other, but it is not possible. You can't gain anything, or achieve anything or be anything. You can't, because you are the void, the calamity, you only know to destroy." Different from usual time, Tartarus said the words out of pity but not as a teaser, a more tender tone.

"But you do well for me, so here are the little presents from me. Take it, Velvet."

As Velvet is not hearing, that is why Tartarus allows himself to speak with a tender tone. As Velvet is not looking at anything, he allows his eyes filled with empathy. He just can't let himself to reveal his true feeling to her, from the day he saw her story, he has the feeling that this person will be the same kind as him. Yet, the people around her are the obstruction for her to find the 'true self', so he found ways to remove the constraint.