Curiosity is a strange motivator in humans, possessed by the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, everyone has this urge.
And I am naturally curious about some things.
Once, I discovered my girlfriend's betrayal.
Yes, I had a girlfriend.
But she was also deceitful and eccentric.
I thought she was faithful, but I was naive.
One day, she told me she was going to visit her mother, but she forgot that I knew her past and that her mother had died in a war.
So I smiled at her and said, "Go."
I quickly followed her and found her entering an old house.
I broke into the house like a thief.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am a professional thief and a skilled criminal.
I saw her and her lover in a compromising situation, hahaha.
I didn't feel anything.
I approached the bed, looked at her, and smiled.
She got up quickly and said to me,
"I'm sorry."
She didn't finish the sentence before a bullet pierced her heart.
I killed him too.
No.
No.
My curiosity wasn't about that.
No.
It was when I cut off her head and decided to place it behind me on the bed alongside the other heads.
I wanted to know how I would feel seeing her head hanging behind me every day.
Next to her was an old man with a white mustache and a long beard. He was one-eyed.
There was also the head of a young boy and his mother.
Among these heads was the head of the gang leader.
And today, because of my curiosity,
I am now at a gate beneath the river, in the prison of demons.
I am shocked by what I see.
In front of me is a vast room that looks like a tomb.
There were strange carvings on the walls.
There were over 30 bodies impaled on stakes in a bizarre manner.
In the middle of these bodies was a large chest.
W...What?
It's a coffin.
I approached it with steady steps, ready for any danger.
On top of the coffin was a small box.
I thought it was treasure.
But when I opened it, I found a black book titled
"Deciphering the Inscriptions."
I opened the book.
On the first page, it was written:
"Only the chosen one will find this place or this book. This book contains the key to deciphering the inscriptions on the wall.
An ordinary person would take 3 years to memorize the book.
A special person, a year.
I looked at the words with a broad smile
and said,
"I need just one second."
I took the book and placed it in my inner storage.
I pulled it out.
"The book has left your inner storage. Do you want to memorize its contents?"
I thought of the word,
"Yes."
Now I can read all the inscriptions on the walls and understand every word.
These inscriptions tell the story of a great king from the beginning of time who controlled this entire world, ruling over humans and demons alike. He was the sole ruler of this world.
Strangely, he was a hybrid between humans and demons, and hybrids are now at the bottom of the social hierarchy in this world.
But the reason he was able to control this world was his army. His army consisted of 200,000 dark soldiers.
No one knows where this king got his army, but in these inscriptions written by the king himself, he said the secret of this army lies in the land of demons in the Mountains of Darkness. These mountains belong to the Giant Tribe, but there is a request and a vow that the chosen one must fulfill before learning this secret. If they do not, they will die as punishment. The thing that will guide the chosen one in the Mountains of Darkness and open the doors of light for them is hidden in this room somewhere.
I spent more than an hour reading those inscriptions around me.
But I felt uneasy. I quickly looked around, trying to think of where this thing could be hidden.
I looked in every possible direction and saw nothing but the bodies and the coffin.
I opened the coffin and found a large corpse inside.
Where could this thing be? I felt
at that moment when I placed my hand on the chest of the corpse that my heart would leap out of my chest.
I drew my sword from my Inner Domain and began stabbing the corpse in front of me.