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章 29: TO TAME A NIGHTMARE

Caspian first gazed at the monstrous figures that suddenly came to life like ancient engines and then, back at the young boy in white. 

For a moment Caspian considered pulling the boy into the snow to hide him from the abominations. But then the chill that ran up his spine as he stared wide-eyed at the child named Monster made him decide otherwise.

It sounded insane but certainly Monster had all these fearsome creatures subjugated and they were all strolling in the direction Caspian had come through. 

"So you don't have to worry about Makima, all you have to do is tame that."

Again Caspian's attention was drawn to the abomination that crawled out of the lake. It had pale bone-white skin with steel claws. Its back was hunched over like a fox with a similar fox-like nozzle, only this one had a single vertical eye radiating a sinister red glow at the centre of its forehead. 

"My advice. Take him somewhere much more confined."

Monster said as it fashioned a blade out of thin air and handed it over to Caspian. 

'What the?!'

"You're joking right?!"

Caspian stuttered as he alternated his gaze between the mirrored him and the one-eyed fox thing. 

He would have honestly even preferred having to face Makima, but unfortunately, it wasn't seeming like he had a choice. 

Gazing at the exquisite blade it had fashioned out of thin air, Caspian couldn't help but admit that he was certainly dealing with a true abnormality.

The blade itself was made of stainless steel with a golden hilt. The power it radiated was just ridiculous. Staring at the blade and then at Monster, Caspian couldn't help but shudder. 

'Just what are you?'

Monster had this childish innocence around its mannerisms and gestures. But Caspian could easily tell that it was no regular being–at least in here, and the way it spoke most definitely couldn't be taken likely. 

Caspain was in its world and its rules seemed absolute, for whatever reason. 

Certainly, it had to have known that Caspian couldn't possibly do anything to harm that beast. 

The abomination wasn't large but four meters could hardly be considered as small. 

The thing was Monster never said it wanted Caspian to kill the beast. Instead, it had wished for him to tame it. 

'If that's the case…?'

Caspian thought as he peered at the beast, then at the lake behind it. 

"This world is just like the mountain?"

Caspian asked.

"Well, it's as vivid as you remember it."

Monster replied with a thoughtful expression. 

'Wasn't it even sure.?'

Caspian thought with a sigh.

Either way, it still made sense, all he had experienced as he drowned in the lake could only be gotten from his memories. This meant that there had to be a relation between Caspian's mind and the dream world Monster claimed to be Sovereign over. 

But if this world was truly modelled after his mind and memories, then his objective didn't seem too unattainable. 

If he managed to make it to the base underneath the mountain, then there really could be many ways he could bind the beast.

He glanced at the abomination one more time as it tried to pass its steel claws through the ethereal figure of the lady that stood beside the lake.

The claws went through her like a bird cutting through the air. Yet she barely flinched, only lifting her lite cigarette to place between her lips seconds after. 

Caspian ignored the strange phenomenon, passing it off as something that happened in dreams.

Soon he was circling the lake. 

It wasn't long before the beast picked up on his activity. 

Moments later he was running through the forest with an abomination locked in a demented frenzy chasing him tirelessly from behind. 

Caspian was already heaving and panting laboriously before he found the massive maw that served as one of the many entrances into the government's underground base. 

'Thank God mg trauma made it shorter than it actually was.'

He barely had enough time to stare at the eerie chasm that stood out from the white snow like a gap in space. Neither did he have enough time to shiver at the sinister updraft that spilt out of that gap.

He immediately ran inside, his steps echoing after him.

The fox-like thing was already upon him, curling its gaunt figure so it fit into the tunnels.

With how much it struggled Caspian could only thank Monster for first planting the idea to lead the vile thing into the tunnels.

Although it was still covering the gap between it and Caspian quite quickly. It was still being slowed down. 

Caspian meanwhile only had his breath to focus on as he ran in absolute darkness. Sometimes he could feel something strange trying to pull at his legs, but he refused to buckle and fall. 

After all, they were only the stuff of nightmares.

With how over-exaggerated his memories were it only made sense that the cave would be much darker than it had been. Even the creatures he could hear crawling about and trying to grab onto his feet were all constructs of the trauma he had developed climbing down to the base so often as a kid.

For as long as he could remember visits down here were a weekly occurrence and it only got worse the more Calamitous Will his body learned to harbour. 

At some point, this had even been his home. 

Caspian's mind was already stroking at deep mental wounds when suddenly he heard metal groan like it got ripped apart like cardboard. 

When Caspain turned he immediately caught sight of the fox's claws tearing through the metal-plated tunnel as it struggled to pass through. 

It was only a matter of seconds before it would befall Caspian. 

A few moments later Caspian was leaping into the air trying to avoid the claws as they grabbed onto the metal plates. 

It took careful consideration to avoid those claws. 

One mistake and he could get sawed in half just like those plates, and he couldn't promise how long he could keep himself from error. 

Soon hope shone in Caspian's eyes in the form of lights at the end of the tunnels. 

These white lights, however, weren't rich and radiant like the golden glow he had heard the sun spilt constantly in the south, and in other events. 

No, these lights were eerily bright and lifeless.

When Caspian finally leapt into the lit area, a massive opening with metal panels and strange contraptions received him, with the strange ceiling lights helping to push away as many shadows as they could.

Caspian rolled on the floor and immediately picked himself up with the sword Monster had gifted him pointing directly at the hole he had leapt out off. 

Soon the fox was out too, its claws landing solidly against the metal flooring. 

Caspian stared at it and then at the strange contraption that lay behind him. 

"Come on then."

He said with a nervous grin.


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章 30: GOLD THROUGH FIRE

The room was brightly lit with metal panels flooring almost every surface. Bordering it were glass display windows that only let you see through one side. 

They had observed him through those windows, scrutinizing and brutalizing him with their orders. 

Then there was a depression in the room that led to the center.

There laid a strange but familiar contraption, intended to appear like a massive lantern. It was made of thick stained glass and black glass-like bars. 

It hung in the air, and opened like a fly trap with its petal-like glass compartment spread out. 

A golden array was written messily on a stone platform below the contraption.

Caspian's plan was simple. He just had to get the beast into the circle and close the contraption. 

How he was going to do that? He had no idea.

'But where there is a will, there is a way.'

Caspian muttered to himself as he focused solely on the prowling beast.

Looking at the creature Caspian couldn't help but gulp down heavily, it had massive fangs, a single eye, and inhumanly steel claws. It was everything Caspian hated. A true monster.

It moved first though, cutting the distance between them almost instantly. 

Caspian immediately rolled to the side, using the metal panels that circled the contraption as cover. 

Boom!

One of the panels combusted as the beast ripped it apart with its claws. 

Like he was chased by death through a collapsing cave, Caspian crawled underneath the panels as the beast followed destroying them as Caspian moved. 

Before the panels were completely torn to bits Caspian rolled out. At this angle he had a perfect shot underneath the beast's arms so he took it. 

With a bold swing, Caspian's blade went right for the creature's arm, only to go through it. 

Red mist spilt from the ends of the blade as it swept through the pale flesh of the beast like it was cutting air, suggesting the ethereal nature of the beast. 

"What the hell?!"

Caspian cursed a bit being taken aback. In fact, he was so stunned he had temporarily forgotten about the lethal presence of the abomination. 

When he had gotten to his senses the beast was already upon him. Its massive figure completely concealing Caspian as it stood above him. 

It snarled and growled causing Caspian servals strokes and miniature cardiac arrest.

Every time the creature feigned a bite, Caspian would flinch with his eyes wide open in fear. 

After a while, he noticed that the beast did not really intend to harm him. With that Caspian slowly rose to his feet. 

As he did the beast walked off of him to huddle up in a corner. The creature had its back facing the cool metal wall as it watched the contraption with its one eye. 

Caspian gazed at it and then at the contraption as well. He had never been in it before but strangely it felt like a part of him did. 

"Bind, control. Tame?"

Monster had told him to tame the beast but then offered him a sword So Caspian had assumed he wished for a direct confrontation. 

'You don't win trust that way.'

Caspian sat at the opposite end of the room and considered his situation. 

As he did a couple of things came to mind. It was already very obvious to him that the creature had to be his Calamitous Will personified. 

It wasn't out of the ordinary, Will was often free, and with the Chaos associated with Calamity, it was only natural that something as Chaotic as a living being would be spawned. 

Maybe this was what the government had been trying to accomplish with him. 

Certainly, he couldn't know of the details. What good would that even do? What he was certain of was that they tried to separate him from his Will. 

It didn't seem possible because logic tells us that you are your Will and vice versa.

'But don't we all have tendencies to cause harm enabled by our free will?'

If that was the case then actively restricting yourself from acting purely because you can, could be seen as a way to separate Will from intention. 

'Being righteous has never been easy.'

So the government locked Caspian up and for better or worse failed to successfully separate the two of them, at least until the massive obsidian ore was found in the mountain.

As Caspian thought of the obsidian ore, his eyes immediately wandered to the contraption and the multiple black glass-like rods that connected the contraption to the massive vault door that stood to his right.

Staring at that door alone gave Caspian chills, even the abomination far off to the side seemed to stir uncomfortably. 

What calmed Caspian were the words spoken to him whenever he was brought down here. 

When the heat became so unbearable, he had to fight to stay conscious, when the tears in his eyes would evaporate as he cried; 'Why?'

"But how else would gold be made." 

As he spoke those words, somehow they calmed him, giving his torturous circumstances up until then, a sort of necessity. 

With his resolve steeled Caspian opened the door, and immediately his band-aids came off. He could feel his mind fracturing as it turned over the soil Caspian had buried over it. 

The years he spent cooked up in there, clutching his knees as the tight metal walls prevented him from stretching or laying. Came back to haunt him.

He wasn't human then, the situation had turned him into something more. 

"And that fire is unforgiving, washing away impurities, till only gold remained."

He said as he turned to the abomination in the corner, then back a the white stuffed lamb that sat alone in the cold metal vault.

Of course, the government had failed, that much Calamitous Will had opened an Event and abominations crawled out of it destroying the base. 

Their plans of shifting the gold from its impurities were destroyed. Or was it?

The abomination was not acting out some canal and chaotic impulse that compelled it to kill.

From the moment Caspian had connected himself back to the Will, he immediately felt rage. Rage that wasn't directed to him but more to what it had endured and what caused its suffering. 

Which could only mean that there were two of him, and he was the impurity that was shifted out. 

Of course, what remained was the abomination. Raw power in a bottle, fueled with rage, the only thing that makes it insane enough to be Calamitous. 

"The combination of Celestial Will and self."

So the abomination wasn't actually an abomination but a soul core.


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