Jackson opened his eyes slowly, he felt drowsy as if he had just woken up.
The first thing that he noticed was the antiseptic smell of a hospital and as he looked around, he saw several surgeons wearing scrubs, masks and gloves. They all seemed to be operating on him.
He continued to look around, extremely confused but still in a drowsy state and saw the usual surgical equipment and machines. The entire room was dark, his eyes meeting with a surgical light, illuminating his entire body.
This all was very unusual to him as nothing like this was in the Victorian era, after all. He tried to get up but he couldn't move a single muscle, all he could do was move his eyes around and see the surgeons operating on his body, his stomach ripped open and his ribs visible.
Suddenly, a large wave of pain hit him. He could feel every inch of his body desperately screaming for help. Tears started roll down his cheeks from the intense pain. This pain was because he wasn't on anesthesia during 'his' surgery and it was unbearable, traumatizing almost.
He tried to scream for help but nothing went out of his mouth. He even tried to use his powers to switch with one of the surgeons but it didn't work. All he could do is endure hours of pain without any mercy whatsoever.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! IT HURTS! GOD DAMN IT!" Jackson screamed in his mind. "IS THIS HIS FUCKING REALM?! AH, IT HURTS!"
He then proceeded to endure a few hours of pain and just when he thought it was over, he suddenly fainted and once he opened his eyes again, he saw himself in the same room, the same surgeons operating on him and from the looks of it, it seemed that his surgery had just began. It was clear that he went back in time and he was doing to endure more pain. "FUCK ME! I AM SO SORRY, I APOLOGIZE! I APOLOGIZE! LET ME GO! RONX! RONXXX!" Jackson screamed, more tears rolling down his cheeks.
He endured a few more hours of pain and then he fainted. Only to see himself again in the same room, the surgery barely starting. He had to endure more pain.
This went for thousands of hours and after over a hundred procedures, he was finally teleported back to the real world.
He was standing straight on his two legs and was directly staring at Ronx but all he could see was the doctors still operating on him. He could still feel the pain even though it was gone. His face had lost all of it's color and he didn't even dare to move, the traumatic experience still going in his mind.
"Seems like you are back, Jackson" Ronx said, calmly sitting in a chair, in the open street. "I hope you had a good time there. You must have spent thousands of hours there, going through unbearable pain. Though, it has only been a few minutes in the real world."
"Hey, Ella" Ronx said, turning to face Ella, who was calmly standing next to Ronx. "Thanks for helping out, you can go now. He's completely broken."
Ella looked at Ronx, her expressions completely neutral. She simply nodded and disappeared in a blink.
Ronx then turned over to Jackson, approaching him. "My realm is quite powerful and torturous, it seems like. No matter how strong you are physically or even mentally, no one can be in their right mind after doing through such a traumatic and painful experience."
"Any last words?" Ronx asked.
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"However, even though your explosion ability might be impressive, it has disappointed me." Raven said, taking out a puppet that looked like Luke, the needle already in his hand. "I have seen enough, it's time for me to retaliate."
Raven slashed the puppet several times using his needle, causing Luke's body to get the same slashes. Before, Raven could injure Luke further, Barrett appeared behind him with lighting speed, his greatsword splitting Raven in half.
However, that is what Barrett imagined would happen because the greatsword went completely through Raven as if he never existed. Instead of laughing or attacking Barrett, Raven was disappointed. "Are you serious? I had told you all that you can not hurt me because my soul is in my puppet, meaning the only way to hurt me is to hurt my puppet. I explained that to everyone in the castle and yet...you forgot. Were you even listening?"
"I am trying to make this more entertaining for myself by making it easier for you all but it seems that my efforts were for nothing" Raven said, grabbing Barrett's neck and throwing him onto the ground. Before Barrett could get up, Raven threw a puppet that looked like Barrett onto the ground and stomped on it several times.
Barrett was also affected by the stomps as it was his puppet that was being attacked. He tried to get up but a invisible and untouchable force kept attacking him, burying him into the ground further and further each stomp.
Luke recovered from the sudden slashes on his body and saw Barrett on the floor, getting attacked by a invisible force. Seeing this, Luke rushed towards Raven and threw a bottle at him, which Raven dodged.
Luke then threw several more bottles at him, which were all in vain as Raven dodged all of them. "Throwing those bottles aren't going to do anything" Raven said, both of his hands in his pockets.
However, just as he said that, he found himself in the corner, barely any space to dodge. Raven slightly smirked. "So this was your plan, huh?"
"Great idea but the thing is...you were too late" Raven said, cutting off one of the puppet's arms, causing Luke's arm to be cut off as well.
Luke gasped but still grabbed all of the bottles that he could and threw it all towards Raven. "You have no where to dodge!" Luke said, slightly smiling, thinking that he won but Raven would crush that thought completely.
Raven threw his own puppet in the opposite far corner of the room and as soon as he did, most of the room exploded but as the smoke slowly started to disappear, it was clear that Raven was still alive and perfectly fine.
However, Luke would not let this chance to go to waste as he started to run towards Raven's puppet. However, before he could reach it, his head got cut off, blood spilling everywhere in the room.
"Ah, one down" Raven said, the puppet's head dropping to the ground along with the puppet's entire body. "I don't need the puppet anymore."
Barrett stood up, his eyes filled with rage and his greatsword ready to devour anything in it's way.
"The last one remaining, eh?" Raven said, a evil grin forming.