บท 7: Curses And Divinity[Mark of the hidden gods of immerse calamity]

This chapter is dedicated to @EmalineFadaini. Thanks for the Powerstones!

Both Evie's and Tera's eyes bulged out the moment a ghastly figure emerged from a cloud of thick dust. Cladded in golden steel amour breast plates, which covered every part of it. Deep blue eyes burning wildly like a furnace of death. A radiating energy of utter bloodlust bloomed making an animose feeling of eerie grip whoever was near by. But Blake did not flinch! He felt this feeling the last time the Orthodox Crane made its appearance so feeling it again was not enough to scare him except the crane decides to triple its fierce appearance and this was because, the orthodox crane was now a part of him. Just like he has a heart, the crane is now like a second heart willing him to do things depending on the aspects of such thing he has to do.

Tera turned immediately to Blake.

"The gods have blessed you?"

She was shocked because no one ever gets the blessing of a god through the orthodox crane in a short period of time. Even those lucky fews that were blessed had to pass through days and days of intense bloodshed and torture before getting the blessings. But right now, Blake was a different species. Nimbly blessed in a couple of hours after one kill. What incredible luck that was.

Was it his battle style that attracted the gods? No one knows, but Tera could clearly remember that he had killed a deranged vampire earlier. That particular kill had earned him the blessinhs of the gods and now here was another. Blessings or curses... whatever he recieves would be of good use to him.

Right now, only Blake could hear the Orthodox crane speak.

[Dormant Blake, the affinity to curses have been bestowed to you.]

Blake choked on his saliva hearing that.

'Curses, did he kill to recieve curses?'

Blake was dumbfounded. But that wasn't all because the Orthodox crane still had more to say.

[All blessings must come with a curse. Your curse had been locked in a Threshold. Do you want to unlock it?]

"Why would I do that?" Blake sneered staring at the inhumane figure standing vaguely before him. Plus its lusterous armour was glittering in the moonlight. His [Dark Umbrellea] hanging over him to protect his soul from being snatched.

Tera and Evie were the most confused because right now, the crane seems to be speaking to Blake and they were unable to hear it. In a whole cycle of the synthetic entity, every person is being assigned a personnal Orthodox Crane. You might be able to see it but cannot hear what it says. Only the person that the crane is being bestowed upon was able to hear them. Besides the crane was both Blake's blessings and curses.

Blake stared into the expressionless eyes of the orthodox crane wondering whether he should accept the curse or not. Besides, this was his fate and he couldn't run away from it no matter what. It was like, a sidesay whereby if Blake refused to unlock the curses, a time will come where Blake would have to choose to either die or unlock the Curses. [Sidesay]

The Threshold of the curses was still withheld in by the crane untill the final reply was made.

Blake sighed over and over again before replying.

"Unlock the Threshold."

A sudden gleam sparked in those deep blue ravendous eyes. An influx of mischief compiling and a wicked smile... uh, did it really smile? Orthodox crane doesn't have expressions or do they?

Its voice spoke.

[So be it.]

After that remark, a certain light danced around with myraid colors in the air. Silhouette of darkness began to swirrl as the process of unlocking the Threshold progressed. Embers of light were opening, gust of wind was brewering and a loophole was created.

Now Blake could feel the transformation. It wasn't as dire as the first that he encountered with the ball of energy. This time around, it was as if a certain something was opening. Something full of treachery. Something dark... it was the embers of divinity. The [Embers of divinity] was a channel to tell how the curses and flaws would go but right now the curses were opening even more and becoming dominant than the flaw.

[Your Curses are undergoing transistion.]

[You are being relocated to a new destination...]

Blake blinked,

'what...'

He realised instantly that once he moves, Evie and Tera would not be able to find him. Plus teleportation of this nature takes time to work so he immediately took a tight hold of the both ladies hands. It was an iron grip which would ensure that wherever he was being relocated to, they would be taken along due to the contact.

"What are you doing, Blake?"

Evie hissed with discontentment on her face. She tried to dragged out of his hold but his hand was much stronger.

"Listen, am being moved to a new direction.. if we dislodge connection, I might vanish out of thin air. Well that's good though, the moon is a soul reaper... and I don't want to be an escape goat." Blake said.

"What do you mean by [Soul reaper]?"

Evie asked with a confused look erthed on her face.

"The moon gazing down right now is able to reap someone's gaze. Look at my shade.."

Blake displayed the [Dark umbrellae] before positioning it to hang over his shoulder as he gripped Tera with his other hand.

In no time, Blake, Tera and Evie saw themselves in a strange place which looked like a whole new world. Pandomonium stars glittered in the dark sky, with its color featuring a radiance of slight violet. Harsh wind picked up in quick pace and crashed against a feverant hill which sloped upwards littering dust into the air. The floor was bedded with soft sand with stones and debris shooting out, roughening the soft sand. Gitters and spikes protruded from the floor boding and towered only five meters above, with sharp corals edged on it. Blake stared at the place with a calm expression. He dismissed the [Dark Umbrellae] which disintegrated into sparks and leaving his sight.

A bony rib like structure was prowled into the soft sand which just looked like the bone of an already slain creature. The clouds were gray though but it was far from raining.

Blake could still feel the presence of the Orthodox Crane. He turned to search for the [Creature turned into a god] but just after he turned, he heard a voice resound in the silence of Blake's mind.

[Curses: You are trapped in a hidden land. Your freedom lies in the Vile Castle.]

[Trial: Freedom]

'Damnation! My trial is to get my freedom.'

Blake informed both Tera and Evie so as to have to get ready for what was to come. But now his question was where this Vile Castle was.

"Where is the Vile Castle?"

Blake asked the orthodox crane who remained silent for a while before replying obnoxiously.

[Over the dark coast of Linards Mountain chain.]

Immediately, a striking question registered in his mind. The question he had always wanted to ask the Orthodox crane. It was about his mark. Mark of some gods. The thought of it was striking enough to create an intriquing circumstances to the mind. Blake decided to spew his question.

"What mark do I possess? What am I entittled to?"

"What possible fate do I posses. The mark of the god's depicts what exactly?"

Blake's mouth ran out of question as the Crane remained utterly silent only for the voice to say.

[That's meant for you to discover yourself. But right now your entittlement...]

[Descendant of the hidden gods of intense calamity.]

[Monument of Treachous Fate...]

'Wait what...?'

[Condescending Barrier to all human existence...]

Blake's eyes bulged. This was a true definition of a terrible power.

'Calamity...?'

'Barrier to human's existence..?'

'Monument of fate..? What in the spells is a Monument of Fate?'

Blake was pissed.

This is wrong, all wrong. Somehow he recieved an evil power which would cause the gods to leave him trapped in the Underworld Groove. Well done Evie and Tera...

The damned Orthodox doesn't seem like its done talking...

"Its all my fault anyways for asking."

[...Embers of evil]

'Damnation...'

[Position: Switched Attributes]

"Wait what..."

[Flaw: Dormant.. powers of your curses withheld your flaw... ]

[A possiblity that your attributes might switch back after first trial...]

A possiblity, not a fact. Infact, it takes only luck. And luck right now was far from him. He turned to face the ladies who still waited patiently for him to be done.

"I don't know, is there no other way out of the Underworld?"

"Didn't the gods bless you?"

Tera asked and Blake's face turned absolutely dark...

"I am a descendant of a hidden gods of intense calamity. A barrier to all human's existence, a monument of fate... now does that ring a bell? They are evil attributes." A wicked smile plopped on his face as Tera's face was filled with dread. Evie on her own part looked calm and collected.

"I knew something like this was bound to happen. Remember Tera, he got blessed after his first kill in the underworld."

Blake was now angry.

"And so fucking what? You both are to he blamed entirely for this."

"We thought you were a vile creature." Tera chimed in.

"Yea, great." Blake scoffed.

"Calm down, sometimes they normally do switches upon the first trial in becoming a CrestFallen. There's a possiblity that your Attributes was switched." Evie reminded him and Blake sighed realising that the Orthodox said same thing.

"Possibility doesn't tell that it will..."

Suddenly, the whole land shuddered terribly making all three of them to jolt by the sudden quake. The shokewave was so intense that even the earth started to rip apart. The slopey hill was coming off due to its shudder and then the soft sand shook as if being trampled upon by a certain strong force of inertia. Before he could even comprehend what was going on, the Orthodox Crane said in a harmonious tune.

[You are in the body of a Fallen Calamity...\©Hawk of Doom\. You have mere hours to get to Linards Mountain before it awakens...]