It didn't take up to a moment for Allen to realize that he had been set up. "You bloody bastard!" Allen seethed as he clenched his teeth. He was about to go after Phillip when one of the men held him by his arms, preventing him from going further. "Let me go you bloody fools!" Allen yelled and tried breaking the man's hold around his arm but his efforts were in vain. Buff tried running to Allen's rescue when another man grabbed him from behind. The man was about the same size as Buff so it was very easy for Buff to overpower the man and throw him onto the floor. He ran toward Allen and elbowed the man holding tightly to Allen across his face. The man grunted in pain and fell to the floor. "Shit!" The man cursed under his breath as he felt blood dripping from the corner of his eye. "Don't let them escape..." The man muttered as he tried getting up but he felt a pang of pain shoot through his face and it caused him to fall back onto the floor. "Let's get out of here quickly boss!"
Allen walked through the door, with Buff trailing slowly behind him. "Boss, I don't think you should be going inside without finding out what is in there first," Buff said and was starting to feel scared because the whole place was darker than the dungeon itself and none of them knew what must be lurking in the corners. "Allen, I think we should go back now!" Buff said, he wanted to run back out but he couldn't because he was eager to see what was behind the door. "I can sense something in here!" Allen said and stopped abruptly in his tracks. "Then let's go back out, whatever it is, it could be dangerous," Buff informed him but Allen didn't seem to be listening to whatever was being said. "Boss?" Buff called again and he even had to tap him on the shoulder but still, Allen didn't flinch. "I can sense it in here, I thought I had lost it but it's in here, how is it in here?" Allen said to himself. "What is in here?" Buff asked, turning to face Allen but Allen kept his head up ahe
Allen began to slow down the car when the road Ultimate had instructed him to take was coming into view. "What are you doing boss!!" Buff screamed out. "Shut the hell up and just follow my lead," Allen said to him as the car was starting to come to a halt. Buff was starting to get angry, he shot Allen a hateful look, he knew Allen couldn't see what he was seeing and just a while ago, he had started acting out of character. He couldn't explain why Allen was slowing down even when those men were on their trail but he wasn't going to let himself get killed over one man's stupidity. The car hadn't been totally fine to a half before Buff kicked the door of the car open and jumped out. Allen who hadn't been paying attention to the conflicts and emotions on Buff's face suddenly turned and watched in silence as Buff rolled away from the car. "Where the hell are you going to?" Allen asked nonchalantly, he wasn't all too concerned about Buff's decision at this point and it was only his
"What do you mean by I'm in a trance?!" Allen asked as his eyes widened in shock. —isn't it obvious?— ultimate asked but it made it seem as if he was being sarcastic Allen knew that Ultimate was not the one to make jokes all the time. "Obvious?!" "I'm so lost right now that I don't know what you're talking about." —Wake up Allen and I mean it literally— ultimately said with a sense of urgency. "I don't understand what you're saying, what do you mean by I'm in a trance?!" Allen asked, getting up from the couch where he sat. —Are you not aware of your surroundings?— ultimately asked him surprised at Allen's reaction. "I'm not, please I want you to explain things to me, I have no idea about what you're talking about!" —Now tell me, do things feel right, I mean can't you tell that a lot of things seem out of place?— Allen looked around the room, taking in the arranged area, "No, nothing looked seems out of place here." He said. —I'm not talking about your room silly, I m
—Do you remember the first night when some people broke into your house and carted away with some things?—"People have always been breaking in and I know that they will continue to break in," Allen said. "But that still doesn't answer my question about me being in a trance." —I need you to remember that particular night when some people broke into your house.—"What night was that, was it at this house or the other one," Allen asked, intuitively pointing his fingers backward. —No this house, it happened weeks after you moved in... Do you remember now?—"Yes yes I do, so what about it?" Allen asked. —Good, I wasn't with you at the time so I wasn't able to warn you about their plans. Those people who broke into your house are your rivals, well they work for your rivals.—"Rivals?? I thought I had only people who were jealous of my success apart from the loan sharks." —These are more deadlier than the loan sharks and when I say by your rivals, I mean that they are your competitors a
—Do you remember the first night when some people broke into your house and carted away with some things?—"People have always been breaking in and I know that they will continue to break in," Allen said. "But that still doesn't answer my question about me being in a trance." —I need you to remember that particular night when some people broke into your house.—"What night was that, was it at this house or the other one," Allen asked, intuitively pointing his fingers backward. —No this house, it happened weeks after you moved in... Do you remember now?—"Yes yes I do, so what about it?" Allen asked. —Good, I wasn't with you at the time so I wasn't able to warn you about their plans. Those people who broke into your house are your rivals, well they work for your rivals.—"Rivals?? I thought I had only people who were jealous of my success apart from the loan sharks." —These are more deadlier than the loan sharks and when I say by your rivals, I mean that they are your competitors a
Allen agreed to let himself be transported back to the realm where they had been earlier. It scared him at first when Ultimate told him that he had rivals who would go to any length just to see that they see him suffer before eventually taking him out. And the worst was that they had trapped him in a trance that was on a loop, his days were on a continuous repeat but he wasn't aware of it and the fact that this was possible only heightened his fear. "What do I do to wake up?" Allen asked the moment they had been transported back to his room. —A lot of things, Allen, a whole lot of things.— ultimate responded. "Get me started on them, do I need to take a note to jot them down or something?" —You don't need that, first of all, your rivals do not know yet that you've found out about being a trance, and two, they don't know that I'm no longer in their possession— "So we're on a good start, aren't we?" Allen asked, his tone was etched in apprehension that he was barely breathing
"Oops!" Was not the word Allen had meant to say but that was what spilled out from his mouth. He had not the slightest intuition that he was going to find the machine this soon and now that he had not found it, he had no words to describe the monstrosity of the machine. In the center of the room, a monolithic machine towered over the space, its metal exterior etched with cryptic symbols pulsated with a malevolent energy. The machine's surface appeared to shift and writhe, like a living entity, as if it was alive and feeding off the darkness within.Glowing red eyes, like embers from a malevolent fire, burn bright as they surveil the room, casting an eerie glow on the walls. The air around the machine seemed to distort as if reality itself was warped by its presence.Tendrils of wires, like snakes, slither across the floor, connecting the machine to a series of ancient computers, their screens flickering with code that seems to pulse with dark power. The air was heavy with the scent