Like a butterfly erging from its cocoon, everyone watched the creature break through its bony skeletal cocoon, and slowly make its way towards them all.
Din, Din, Din, Din, Din~
Its footsteps seed to carry the weight of their lives the closer it got. At this point, everyone had already forgotten about Dorian's existence, feeling they were all goners in here.
Please!
Look at the Godly supernatural being walking their way and look at them, puny humans… Do you think they can stand a chance against it?
Ashaku felt his breathing grow harder the closer the creature got. "Taller… It's taller than before."
Could this be its true form? It was now 50 tis uglier than what they recalled.
"What? Are you sure?"
Ashaku nodded, "Positive. I can't be wrong."
Din, Din, Din, Din~
The creature took its sweet ti, coming over. In fact, it didn't need to stress itself to climb the many steps because the strange flesh eating beetles already forced a moving carpet that carried it forward.
And when it was finally close enough, it opened its mouth and finally spoke in a voice that sounded like a thousand eerie voices mashed up into 1. "Benachanta…."
It spoke a tongue only a few people here recognized.
"The Old Language of the Cygs…"
The old Cygyptian language was the Cygs, which was very different from modern Cygyptian language.
Only historians and archeologists here understood what the creature was saying. Of course, Dorian's side also understood too.
"Translate… Translate now," Obediah commanded in a hushed tone. "Welco," Ashaku translate.
The creature spread its rotting insect-infested arms wide, opening its smiling mouth to speak once more.
"Welco to my tomb. Finally, the ti has co for and my beloved to be reunited for all eternity…. But for that to happen, I must consu the blood of the Marked ones… "
The creature turned his attention to Ashaku and Harvey, causing a chill to crawl up their spines.
"As for the rest of you, my loyal servants will be more than happy to feast on your flesh and your SOUL!"
The more Ashaku translated, the more everyone else felt their intestines turn green with regret.
Why?
Why did they have to co to this forsaken Cygypt Desert?
"No, no… since all it wants is those 2, then why not negotiate with it for them?" Bohania wasted no ti buying his own life, and several others like Eldora also agreed with him.
"That's right, they will be dying for the greater good, which is a noble thing."
"Yes, yes, exactly! Who can they bla for their bad luck of getting marked? They should be the ones to sacrifice their lives for ours!"
Ashaku and Harvey were so angry and afraid that their faces turned red like pufferfish. Although they knew so would choose to sacrifice them, it was still shocking to hear how I first hand.
Sure enough, it's only in humanity's weakest and most fearful monts do you see the true selfishness in humans. Many people had already entered into heated argunts, forgetting that negotiating with such a monster was not even an option in the first place. They seed to be forgetting that they were the ones in it's liar with no way out. It had the option to kill them all now. So why were they talking about negotiating as though they were on equal footing with it?
At this mont, their IQs dropped a significant notch, and all they cared about were their basic instincts – Survival.
Many were even ready to bite off body parts belonging to Ashaku or Harvey's with their teeth and sacrifice to the creature if it would allow them go.
Suddenly, they missed the desert heat they complained about earlier.
Give them scorching sun, give them super-parched throats in the desert, give them hot sun-kissed sand on their feet… anything but this!
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