Nightmare Mythos

Chapter 117: Final Showdown (11)

Rumbleeee—!

"Avoid the shelves!"

The never-ending shaking of the Library has been finally felt by the occupants of the Library, finally being able to think the graveness of the situation.

All the survivors left from their fight with both the Keeper of the Void and the Librarian ended in a stalemate with the former being contained from somewhere that only Cesar knew while the former escaped from the squadron's grasp.

These people have gathered in one place as they awaited for their doom as a result.

After all, they have no idea how they would get out of this place.

However, even with those doubts lingering in their mind, some people who still believed they could get out of this destructing place are clinging to the hope that Cesar, the person who disappeared earlier has already found a solution.

Thud—!

Those who have any spare essences left to use are tasked of doing the job of clearing the shelves that went on their way while paving a path they can use if the site they were using has become unavailable.

Those who were spent and nearly to the point of exhausting their essence are merely recuperating and readying themselves in case the others who were working have become tired and on the verge of Essence Deviation.

Rumbleeee—!

The thunderous rumbling became even more apparent as seconds tickled by making everyone's attention befall at the 'current roof' where The Void had already damaged the Library and was able to succeed in attempting to get inside.

The hole that appeared small earlier had grown considerably big. The Library whose job was to keep The Void from trespassing had its progression slowed down due to the fact that its resources were only limited.

Heck, it was already a miracle that it was able to hold on with such an abomination that is solely made for obstructing everything on its path.

The Purplish Emptiness that swallowed everything whole.

"And you're telling me Cesar met it twice and got away from it?"

Jacqueline spoke in surprise as the main people who knew about him all gathered in the middle. Stay connected via mvl

"Isn't the Nightmare with Two Wands had a very uncanny similarity to this abomination, The Void? And right before everything else, Cesar seemed to know about this Nightmare's title but had to stop because this thing entered,"

Klaus brought up the topic relating to it which Jacqueline, Reyna, Nike, and Amar could agree with.

"Just so you know, Cesar also seemed to be the reason why the Nightmare we are fighting disappeared,"

Vin then brought up what he knew about Cesar then added, "I don't know what happened but when we are facing being wiped after that thing attacked us with two spells that we barely even contained, I really thought we were goners. But then, I blinked and… it was gone,"

Leah, Klaus, and Jeremiah who were at that time also shivered just by hearing about it and couldn't help but nod at his statement.

He was exactly right.

The next thing they knew, they saw Cesar appearing in a gap reality by hopping inside and grabbing the cube in his hand before he started coughing out blood, dropping into the pool of blood he created himself.

It was still fresh on their memory how Cesar was able to move in his circumstances but they knew he was one tenacious bastard.

"Uhm, I don't really know if I should tell you but since he was gone and I don't want to surprise him, and how we're talking about him then I have to tell you guys something,"

All their attention was shifted to Jeremiah who let out a short sigh in his mouth and then calmly stated,

"Cesar soloed a Nightmare on his own. I wasn't even talking about some Nightmare. We calculated it as some sort of Intermediate Nightmare Creature. But in my opinion, it is on the verge of becoming a Higher Nightmare Creature,"

That one big piece of news produced a surprise reaction to all, Vin wasn't even exempted.

Defeating a Nightmare while being in the First Order of the Shaded hasn't been heard of. Heck, if that was possible, humanity might've been already free from the influence of the Nightmare.

Mostly, people who can solo a Nightmare have become a Third Order. Only a handful of people achieved such a phenomenon while being on the Second Order and came back alive. Now this already includes Techniques to mix up their survival and prowess rate.

But a rookie who just achieved initial control of his potion without techniques to use?

Cesar was the only one who achieved such a phenomenon throughout the history of Nightmares.

"Amazing…"

Nike couldn't help but draw a grasp.

His group didn't even doubt it, nor did anyone at this point.

The more they went to learn and hear more about Cesar, the more amazing he became in their eyes.

Rumbleeeee—!

But just as they revered Cesar's phenomenal and out-of-the-world achievements that probably most people wouldn't be able to achieve in their whole lives, everyone felt a change in their central gravity that made them all surprised.

"What?!"

All of them shouted in disbelief when they realized that they were undergoing fluctuations, initializing to its first period, The Float Period.

"Fuck, hold tight!"

Nike shouted as everyone underwent a shift in their center of gravity.

"Ahhh! No, shit! How come?!"

"Really, at this very moment as well?!"

"Dear Lord, I'm ready to accept you in my life! Take me with you into the light!"

Yet the Library which usually extended itself to make it appear that they were literally floating while undergoing its mechanism throughout the whole thing didn't do so.

Instead, the appearance of The Void beneath their feet continued to enlarge.

Hence it appeared that they came to the second stage of the period of the fluctuations, the Dive.

"Oh shit!"

Jacqueline who had a very disgruntled look on her face clicked her tongue as she shouted in desperation, something she didn't like to do, just to get a little bit of help from the particular someone.

"Cesar!"

As their gazes fell below, they saw a rift opening up that almost looked strikingly similar to a hideous cut they'd all seen on the outside.

"Penetrated reality?" Quentin voiced out before seeing a human figure get out of it.

There, they saw Cesar whose demeanor appeared different, had a ridiculous smile on his face.

"I told you I would get you all out of here, didn't I?"

Just as he said it, another rift opened up, this time, a larger one from the rift where Cesar was currently standing.

He made it to the point where everyone was falling into it.