Nightmare Mythos

Cesar couldn't help but notice the change of tone from the heretic that must've probably been perceived by others who were solely focusing their attention on him. By the looks of it, the last period, The Fixed, is the most dangerous period the group will probably encounter.

The heretic soon explained why it was the case as he informed with a sigh, "I like to call it a Fixed Period since after landing the paper floor, one will have to force themselves to remain fixed on their position as the Library isn't done yet with its modifications. Oh right, why did I say the library will be your enemy? Very simple too honestly,"

The heretic gave a comparison, "For example, you are finishing an important work and an annoying fellow decided to be a pain in the ass, that's how I described how it works. As long as the library isn't finished, remain in your position. An indication of how this period will end is the 'closing roof' on the 'current above' of the library."

He observed each of the members and nodded, "Let's say you moved, consider yourself dead now. Because the Library will not allow its work to be disturbed, even a measly existence like ours is no different. It will send you surprised attacks. The most normal of them all is the shelves breaking character and sandwiching you in its middle.

Believe me, I've seen worse outcomes and it can and will be much worse,"

The heretic then sighed as he shook his head, "This is all I can give you, according to the deal we have. Are we all good now?"

'Hah! Is this guy for real? As if I will do something like that! I'll kill you the moment I get the chance!' Cesar cursed the heretic inwardly, not trying to shake his opinion about the damn psychopath.

Leah, whose persona became different, steals a few glances down below at how magnificent the whole library is before asking a question.

"What if you are the first one to break the rule? What then?" Leah asked in a roundabout way while slowly slipping her hands through her pocket.

The heretic placed both of his hands on the back of his head as if he were trying to relax before smiling cheekily, "Come on, I'm never doing that,"

Whoosh—!

After she received the answer from the heretic which really didn't sound very wrong at any angle, Leah still threw a hand-sized shuriken in a circuitous path. As if there was a string connected to it, she pulled with great force and the shuriken swiftly went to the Heretic

Klaus, on the other hand, let go of his previous Tether at Amar and aimed it toward the heretic to reel him in. It swerved to make the heretic keep guessing where the tether is going.

To provide even a bit of help for the two, Quentin used an artifact that he borrowed from Cesar, Black Arrow, and threw it towards the heretic. The strength of the

Whoosh—!

The group instantly came to a tacit agreement that they, for obvious reasons, not going to believe any of the heretic's words even if all of them sounded true.

Hence while they were still not on the ground and didn't hold much equal footing, they would attack him.

"Sigh…"

However, after watching those slow attacks, the heretic seemed to become bored as a tired yawn escaped from his lips. He looked at the group for a moment before three apparitions spawned at different parts of his body and deflected those incoming attacks with ease while holding the one artifact in his hand.

"Okay, it's all on you guys then,"

With a smirk, the apparition suddenly tightened its grasp on Klaus Tether and Leah's shuriken and forced their power and weapon to be drawn towards the heretic waiting for them.

Swoosh—!

"Break! Break!"

Amar shouted in a hoarse tone as their balance fell off even though they were only in a float period, but because of how hard the pull of the heretic's apparition had become, they couldn't react fast and let go of their items and power.

'Shit—!'

Just as they were about to make contact with the heretic, all of them including the crazy believer got instantly pulled down as if a huge magnetic force made them follow it.

"Ugh!"

Even the heretic screamed in fright and agony as he couldn't help but release the cohort since he had to worry about himself in the second stage of the fluctuations, The Dive.

Swoosh—!

Unlike the time when Cesar experienced a stable fall in one part of the hallway, this one where his group was going to experience an entirely different type of fall which is much harder and frightening.

And it was showing.

"God… damn it!"

Everything floating in the library fell into a dive with an unstable speed that made everyone react fast. Their faces formed different kinds of funny expressions as everyone pushed themselves to focus on the bottom of their floor.

Setting their gazes on it, Cesar directed his eyes at the incoming shelves that were only had kilometer or so away. Soon, these fast dives and they seemed too long distance wouldn't matter due to how fast they were going down.

'Pinpoint yourself to the paper floor!'

Cesar and the rest knew what they had to do and, as heartening as it sounds, they started to follow the heretic's words from earlier. Directing themselves slightly to the side, all of them positioned where they thought they were seeing the same paper floor and waited for the dive to end.

Whoosh—!
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Cesar, on the other hand, didn't just idle around. Even if his face had become weird and formed a funny expression, his eyes were still set at the eyes on the price.

With only a sleeping shell left from all the bullets he had used on his journey at the mansion, Cesar aimed his revolver directly at the heretic's head.

Whoosh—!

Before he and the rest of the group could land on the floor, Cesar strongly forced himself to pull the trigger, something even easy as that became hard on his situation.

Bang—!

'Fuck!'

Cesar realized that he managed to hit the heretic, the only problem was that not on the prime target he was aiming for.

'Not in the fucking head!'

The only thing he knew, Cesar and the rest of the group had fallen on the paper floor.