Chapitre 9: CHAPTER 9 -A BATTLE WITHIN
As I sprinted towards the small door, a deafening hiss pierced the air, causing my ears to bleed. I glanced up to see a monstrous, ten-foot snake descending from the ceiling, its body coiled and ready to strike, blocking my path. I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me, my body numb and heavy, as if the venom was already coursing through my veins. And then, I saw it - all the veins in my body began to glow with a deep, eerie purple light, a stark reminder that the poison was spreading faster and deeper into my body.
Just to note, I was not bitten by any snake in the process of entering the temple but how did the poison enter my body? He was confused, the only time he had an open wound or got wounded recently was when he was on the way to the temple.
Then it hit him, he got cut in his left wrist moments before entering the temple, he dismissed it thinking it was something sharp that just cut me, but thinking about it now when I got hit there was nothing around me, I was in an empty space filled with grass not trees, then something flew past me then I got cut in my wrist.
I untied the cloth I used to tie my wrist, my heartbeat getting faster and louder. My wrist has been crystallized, and it was spreading through my veins causing the glowing purple veins around my body.
"I felt fear, my body temperature dropped, my heart started beating slowly while I stared at my wrist ignoring the obvious danger in front of me. 'Wouldn't my whole body be crystallized if this goes on,' I thought, and there was no obvious cure to this situation since it hasn't happened to anyone in the tribe. 'Would I be crystallized forever' before I could think anymore the snake slammed its tail at my chest.
Paahhhh
My chest caved in, the tail whip sending my flying in the direction where the ceiling just collapsed. "I was injured" I thought, my bones are broken.
As I lay there in the rubble, my vision getting dark and blurry and my body screaming In pain, I saw the snake slithering to me, its eyes carrying an otherworldly pressure. I tried to move, but my broken bones wouldn't allow me to even move a finger. The crystallization was still spreading, my purple veins glowing brighter, while this was happening I was going through excruciating pain.
The smaller snakes that survived the rubbles, started slithering out and biting my body, there were more than thirty snakes biting me everywhere on my body.
"I was better to just end it" I thought, because even if I heal from all of this I'll be crippled that's if I get healed.
The poison entering my body caused a chain reaction right as it mixed together with the crystallization in my veins, it felt like me whole body was burning, I let out a silent shout. But I noticed something, the crystallization of my arm had slowed down tremendously.
The pain was too much for a normal human to bear that it would cause instant death the moment the feel it, my vision began to blur, my thoughts started declining rapidly. The mixture of the poison and crystallization had seeped into my heart.
Ahhhhhhhhhh
"I screamed outloud" even the smaller snakes distanced themselves from me in that moment, I felt my heart litterally burning, "my chest was scorched with pain, feeling like it was about to crisp", my lips became parched and bloody from all the blood I've been vomiting, my heart suddenly started to beat slowly till it had eventually stopped totally.
At that moment, my eyes glimmered, for all the pain that I had gone through for all I had to endure for this short moment . I felt my senses expand so much for a quick second then dulled, the pain subsided dramatically. All this happened because Akpobor had crossed the threshold of pain, tho he felt it, it didn't hurt as much as it had hurt before. But the problem of crystallization was still there making the threshold seem useless.
It was a twisted irony, the very creatures I sought out to kill, where the ones who gave me hope to survive the crystallization of my body.
As the large snake slithered toward me, i feigned death, letting the last breath of air leave my body.
It slithered towards me, bringing its Jaws to my face, it seemed capable of advanced thoughts the way it was staring down at me. I became nervous, any small mistake could be the end of my life as I know it.
The snake stared at me for almost a minute before slithering away, thinking I was dead the small snakes dragged me to a corner of the place.
Through the threshold of pain, I managed from barely screaming or producing any sounds while they dragged me. I had broken my left hand, some bones I. My chest and ribs with wounds everywhere in my body.
The process of going deeper after crossing a threshold is a path, there are many thresholds connected to each other or are branches of each other like endurance and pain. Miracle has already stepped into the path, he had crossed thr threshold of speed when he was being pursued by the apes and he went further by steeping on the path.
By entering the path, it will give you some benefits, it would be relatively easy to cross thresholds that are on the same branch or are connected or it could help hasten the training of other thresholds but it wouldn't be quick as the ones connected.
The snakes were about to start swallowing me, from the place they put me I could see around the area. I looked the large snake was a little bit further away while the small door was close.
I didn't give the chance up, I stood up regardless of the pain and the snakes still biting me and in my body and ran toward the door. The large snake noticed me and started slithering quickly towards that area but before it could get to me I had already crossed the door and fainted on the other side.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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