the inevitable end

Season 2: The beginning of madness

"The earth was trembling as if it were the end. The ground beneath Lait's feet cracked everywhere, and a sound like thunder rumbled from within the earth. With his newfound power, he wasn't surprised because he knew well what was about to happen. He smiled, took a deep breath, and began chanting incantations.

From the ground below him, hundreds of monsters emerged like a flood, making the scene resemble an insect in a frog's cage. Anyone seeing our hero Lait would think he had gone mad from the sight. A person without armor amidst the worm's nest, smiling wildly, contrary to Lait's usual calm demeanor. He seemed mad. It appeared he had gone mad. His mind was producing massive amounts of adrenaline, his eyes covered with a white film stained with some of his blood, and his clothes filled with the blood of the monsters he had devoured. His smile was not human; it was more like a devil's smile. Could the devil smile with such a terrifying smile? He unleashed his incantations everywhere he was. It's frightening; it seems his personality changed greatly after he started eating the monsters' flesh. He became extremely instinctual. The parasite tried to calm him down, but it couldn't. He killed and was killed as if he were a raging beast.

The parasite says, 'I knew this was coming. I tried to control his emotions. Mostly, when I merged with him, his way of understanding emotions changed. He became more sensitive to emotions, and that's what I deduced from his memories. I tried to control his emotions so he wouldn't get excited, but he began to change little by little after eating the flesh.' The instincts of the monsters began to control him. What a fool I am. Eating the monsters' flesh increased to a degree that he pounced on the worm yesterday, and the soul did not leave it completely. I must control the whole body and remove the control of Light's brain on the body until this flow subsides."

Lait stumbled and moved violently, ignoring his magical energy running out. Suddenly, his body stopped. It seemed the parasite's plan had succeeded. The parasite took the magical bag that Dark had given them and escaped from this vortex of monsters. After a while, Lait's body tired and fell unconscious in the midst of the hurricane desert, along with the parasite.

An hour passed, and nothing happened; his body was still lying in the middle of the desert. After two hours, he was buried in the sands swept away by the winds. After forty hours, he was no longer on the surface of the earth. After forty hours, Lait woke up to the sound of the parasite saying, 'When will you wake up, fool?'

Lait opened his eyes several times, and his vision gradually became clear as the sand fell off his body. The desert sun was high in the sky, casting harsh shadows and making the air shimmer with heat. His head throbbed with pain, reminding him of the battle and the uncontrollable anger he felt. Memories were fragmented but vivid—the monstrous shapes, the m******e, his hands stained with blood. He struggled to sit up, feeling sand in every corner of his clothes.

The parasite's voice echoed in his mind, not with its usual sharpness but with a tone of concern. 'You've pushed yourself too far, Lait. The flesh has changed you more than we expected.'

Lait's response was a mix of anger and bewilderment. 'Do you think I don't know that? I can feel it... the hunger inside me. It's like I'm losing control of myself.'

The parasite sighed mentally. 'We need to find a way to balance this. Your strength is increasing, but so are the risks. We can't afford for you to lose control again. Next time, there may be no return.'

Lait answered, 'You're right about that, but I feel a strange sensation. I no longer feel pain in my head, despite not closing my vision, it seems that I have become free as if it's time."

Lait looked around him, trying to determine his location. The desert seemed endless, stretching in all directions with nothing but sand dunes and rocky hills occasionally. "Where do we go from here?" he asked loudly, although the question was directed to himself and the parasite alike.

The parasite said: "It does not matter which way we choose, what matters now is that we defeat this wave. All roads lead to the center of this card."

He replied, "Yes, you are right in your saying, so it does not matter which way we choose, as long as all the roads end up in an inevitable end."

Lait walked all the way, and they found an ant next to an ant with a length of five meters, Lait threw the fire at the ant's prayer, but it did not affect her. Apparently, it has a terrible defensive power. Lait thought that eating her skin would make her steel-like.

Lait asked the parasite: "If I eat it, will I be mad again?"

The parasite said: "The problem is not eating, but the ability to quickly inject into your body, making your brain and body need longer to adapt to it and the pain caused by the ability to try your mind to get rid of it makes you crazy so you don't feel pain but it seems I found a solution to this problem I will not inject the full capacity into your body once but I will increase the dose slowly which makes your body not respond to this cursed response."

Lait said: "So it seems that the time has come for hunting."

Lait fought the ant for about four hours until he killed her because of her pure exhaustion from the essence inside her after he had difficulty in crushing the outer shell, the parasite consumed the essence while Lait began to prepare a feast for himself so that he could sleep inside a hollow rock he found in this empty desert.

[to be continued]