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At World's End Entry 54
As I kept my eyes on the throbbing brain of the Dreamer below, a sudden exclamation jolted me from my thoughts.“Doctor Philip what do you think you are doing!”I turned around to find Gerald pointing at Philip with a terrified look on his face.Turning over, I noticed Philip standing next to a lever with a creepy smile on his face.“You can’t blame me, Gerald. This is all in the name of science.” Philip said with crooked smile.“Science?” Gerald muttered. “Step away from that lever, you maniac!... Touching that thing will endanger all of us.”“It would?” Philip feigned ignorance before revealing a toothy grin. “For science.”BamHe gripped hold of the lever at which point a deep sense of foreboding washed over me, causing goosebumps to break out on my skin and my hairs to stand on end.Gerald moved to stop Philip but he was too late.Philip pulled the lever down after which the alarm went off.[Warning, warning. Suppression chamber for the Dreaming Mind has been compromised. Evacuate
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I watched Gerald’s head get crushed under Doctor Philip’s shoe.It was a gruesome sight no matter how much I tried to deny it.Even my Stigma found it difficult to keep my nausea at bay as well as my tendency to panic.The blood mixed with flex and brain matter was splattered across the floor while Gerald’s headless body lay on the ground motionless.I trembled at the horrid situation.Instinctively, I shifted my attention to the shoe that had caused the poor man Gerald to lose his head.I gulped as the black shoe smeared with the red blood and pinkish brain matter rose after committing the crime.At the same time, a crazed laughter was heard. “Haha, you bastard!... You thought you could stop me!”Stuck in a hallway, bearing witness to a gruesome murder while awaiting potential death, very few cadets managed to keep their calm.Fear, shock, terror… as long as it was a version of pure unrestrained fear, they experienced it completely.It only took a moment for the hallway to turn rowdy
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[Leah’s POV]It wasn’t my first time seeing such a gruesome scene play out.Though it wasn’t, it was still hard not to be disgusted.Even more so when it was at the hands of an Instructor.I caught a familiar smell from him.Maybe it was because of my heightened senses, but it was easy to tell… Doctor Philip was close to the Otherworldly in more ways than one.His aura was pungent and his appearance was enough to drive home the madness he was experiencing.Just how were we supposed to deal with this?I glanced at Jeremy.Initially he was behind me but I guess that hurt his pride and now he stood ahead, shielding us from the danger Doctor Philip posed.Maybe if we work together, we can take down the crazy man.I instinctively glanced about, taking note of a few faces that had also received a Stigma after the first two Nightmares.Of course, Richard was one of them.He wasn’t a bad guy per say but that didn’t mean I liked his guts.He never tried to form bonds with anyone.Instead, ever
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[Captain Rodger’s POV]Damn it!Why did I leave in the first place when I knew something like this would happen?Shit, I should have never left!That bastard Philip!Could he really not control himself at the end?How could he do something so crazy as to sanction an excursion just to get to Jeremy?Is that how bad he wants the boy?Fuck, what am I thinking?... That crazy bastard would do anything to get what he wants.Tch, I kicked against his employment when he first arrived but because of the intervention of those bastard, the Starks, I could only watch as the cadets were placed under potential risk.I actually thought he would behave himself since a lot of people were wary of him due to his terrible reputation of experimenting on children and Otherworldly in an insane bid to figure out the connection between species.How wrong was I?That bastard had actually turned his attention to something else, the Dreamers Brain.Just what did he do to allow it manifest the Fog in the Nightmar
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This is bothersome!Hah, I guess complaining about it now is pointless.Let’s just take it as a fated event, maybe I could learn a thing or two from this.Anyway, I should say something before these guys skin me alive with their eyes.“Ahem, you can’t say stuff like that Richard.” I calmly replied with a stoic expression on my handsome face.Richard grinned back. “But it’s not like I’m lying. The Doctor only acted crazy because of your ability to communicate with Otherworldly.”“It’s true?”“Wait, he can’t actually talk with those monsters?”“Unbelievable.”“How is that even possible?... Aren’t they mindless creatures, those Otherworldly monstrosities?”As expected, the group following Richard reacted surprised after hearing what h had to say.At best it had best rumors before now.After my ability was reported to the authorities, Captain Rodger’s tried his hardest to suppress the news from getting out to protect me.Unfortunately, the report had already spread quite a bit before he c
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I glanced in the direction I heard my name and found Lincoln running toward me with a brimming smile on his nerdy face.“Brother Jerry!” He called out as he barely made it to where I stood before pausing to regain his breath.I waited patiently for him to recover before finally asking. “Is everyone okay?”And by everyone, I meant him, Leah and Reginald.For now, I’d prefer keeping the number of people I should worry about to a bare minimum.Too much and I might crash my brain cells.“Yeah sure. Regi is down there with Leah and the rest of the council members, they are currently holding a meeting.”Richard suddenly spoke up. “Who called the meeting?”“One of the council members. She says her name is Veronica and she seems quite upset that Brother Jerry was chosen as Interim leader even though he wasn’t present.”“Hmm, she must be one of the newcomers that weren’t there during the assembly.”“Okay, I have to ask, how long has it been since we got in here?”Because it feels like I’ve mis
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Number 2.That was the number on Veronica’s attire.Maybe that was the reason she thought herself special.Obviously since I could figure out why the numbers on our uniforms existed, it was easy for others to guess it as well.So that meant she was doubtful even though Doctor Philip had said it himself.She was doubtful that a powerful Otherworldly like the Dreamer had it’s sights on me.But was that a thing to compete in?At the end of the day, we’d all still be dead yet she insisted on being petty and focusing on minor details.It was pathetic and honestly quite annoying.I could give up my role of leader to anyone but not a bitch like her that couldn’t understand the situation properly.“Is it because you have some weird ability to communicate with them?” Veronica suddenly spoke up. “Is it so special in the first place?... Those are monsters and the fact that you can communicate with them means one thing and one thing alone.”I snorted. “And what’s that?”“That you are a monster yo
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(Veronica’s POV)Who was he?Jeremy Walker.What exactly was so special about him?He was just a monster in human skin!So why the hell was everyone raving about his capabilities like it was a good thing?I became a cadet in the academy for one reason alone; to slay monsters.It had been my driving purpose ever since I watched my father’s body return from the battlefield.He had died while worshipping the 12 Great families and yet ended up dead at the hands of the monsters.I swore to avenge him.I swore to murder every single monster I came across.So how do you think I’d feel when a monster was allowed to walk around the academy with it’s head raised high and it’s safety assured.What’s more it was so popular, even the Great families had their eyes on it.Disgusting!Couldn’t they see that it was a monster.Why else would it be able to communicate with the Otherworldly?I couldn’t stand it.Before I could only watch from the distance, bidding time until I had a chance to take him do