Nightmare Mythos

"AHHHH! Motherfucker!"

After just escaping through the relentless running in the previous hallway, Cesar finds himself sprinting in the same situation as he screams his lungs out.

Right behind his tail was a Nightmare, who was also running very hard to escape another being right behind its tail.

The one chasing the Nightmare and soon-to-be Cesar was a Frowning looking Shelf. Just judging the way it thumps its feet on the ground sending loud tremors nearby was heart-wrenching for both the human and the monster.

"Hmph!"

"Damn It!"

Not knowing if he had to worry about the Nightmare first or the Frowning Shelf, Cesar decided to turn sideways at the next intersection point, trying to shake away the two behemoths in his back.

There are three more other ways aside from the direction he ran onto and he strongly wished the Nightmare had ignored him and gone forward.

Thud—!

Alas as if the Nightmare had set its eyes on Cesar and not trying to lose its gaze at him, the creature took a huge turn in the side, running the corridor that Cesar went onto. Following its back was the same shelf that isn't ignoring the Nightmare anytime soon.

'Come on!'

Passing through hundreds of wooden bookshelves while pivoting into different kinds of corridors at every intersection point in a span of a minute, Cesar turned to another side of the corridor once more and continued running forward.

For now, he didn't have any plan yet aside from shaking off the pursuers on his back.

'I'll just continue running forward!'

Cesar saw another intersection point where five corridors led to different parts of the library but he decided to go to the middle part, relentlessly trying to test the pursuer's endurance.

Yet halfway through moving forward as he was crossing the intersection point, Cesar felt a presence on both his left and right side.

Whoosh—!

Cesar had no choice but to use his jumping power as he leaped through the air just to avoid those attacks that came from the sides.

'Fuck!'

Aggressively looking left and right, Cesar spotted two corrupted humans using their abilities to entrap and kill him. One attack made out of a wooden sphere went to the other side where an attack made of steeled spear came from.

Both corrupted humans screamed at each other as they lunged towards the middle to finish the fight between them before immediately looking to the side where huge tremors were emanating from.

They saw a Nightmare coming at them… but they shivered once they spotted the Frowning Shelf.

They also started running away from it.

Cesar, who immediately ignored the corrupted humans and continued running forward, was in disbelief once he realized their group of a human and a nightmare had two corrupted humans in the mix.

They were all escaping from the towering frowning shelf right behind their backs.

"That thing doesn't tire, you know?"

Suddenly, the even voice of Cedeit reverberated through Cesar's head as a wave of relief and wariness had taken over him. Relief because the voice was here that could help him but apprehensiveness for the same reason.

After all, Cesar didn't forget the deal they had.

Still, it was all something he had to worry about in the future. For now, after hearing that the shelf isn't something that knows exhaustion, he at least had to do something about it.

"Is there a way to defeat it somehow?"
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Cedeit seemed to have snorted at that idea as he replied with his usual voice, "No, someone like you can't even damage it a little bit. Those shelves are called Guardian Shelves, you know? They are all made by the same architect as this mansion. These Shelves are responsible for maintaining the peace and quietness in the library… which you know, hasn't been quiet ever since then,"

Cesar's exhaustion wasn't reaching yet as the marathon they did from the table was the worst one so far. Though in this library where different kinds of occurrences are happening and danger just lurking around the corner, it was better to finish as tedious as this one.

"Does it have weaknesses?"

"Are you kidding me? It has no weaknesses,"

Cesar was silent for a moment before letting out a tired sigh, "It can't be killed and had a very strong structure for something of its size."

Cesar had to forcibly stop thinking once he saw almost a very unnoticeable web string a few meters away from his position that he needed to pass through no matter what. Seeing that one had to jump from it, he prepared himself to take action.

Whoosh—!

As flawless and easy as he did, Cesar avoided the web string that looked like a trap from his eyes before glancing backward.

"Oh, come on—"

However, the corrupted humans, whether they were idiots, completely unbothered, or didn't just see the string, they went to cross it. Without knowing what it contained or what it signified, something started to shift at the walls of the shelves.

Before even one of the corrupted humans had time to react, a shelf moved away from its position and smashed the corrupted in a single punch to the ground.

Thud—!

The other corrupted barely even survived it as it jolted and doubled up its speed to catch behind Cesar.

As for the Nightmare, seeing yet another Guardian Shelf on its way, it barricaded itself using its hand while forming a power that looked like a shield before charging forward.

The Guardian Shelf which looked like an angry one, stand ground at its position and waited for the Nightmare to come to intercept its way.

"Hmph!"

With a grunt, the Nightmare slightly hastened its speed before bamboozling its way through the Angry Shelf.

Boom—!

With an enormous impact such as that, the Angry Shelf was thrown aside by the sheer power alone of the Nightmare before it continued running forward. Its eyes darted towards Cesar who watched it all in a slight fearful eyes.

'I ain't having any of that,'

Cesar then turned to the left to try to use the slight delay the Nightmare received from the Guardian Shelves but it wasn't enough. The corrupted human, followed up, unsure what it was actually doing on its life.

The Nightmare, having a petty attitude as it is, used the same way as Cesar and turned sideways.

However this time, two Guardian Shelves were chasing their backs.