Game Transcendence

8: Bound

8: Bound
Date Written: October 12,2019

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A freezing cold water splashed on him woke Kian up from his unconsciousness. His hanging head bobbed up which caused his eyes to meet with a familiar glaring ones. It was Vanish.

"U-um..." Kian didn't know what to say. The man just appeared out of nowhere.

He surveyed the surroundings and found out that he was in a tent with various weapons hanged on the shelves. These weapons were familiar and Kian often found them in shows where violence are shown. In other words, torture weapons 

What baffled him was the fact that he was bound on chains in a chair. Then memories from here earlier fight returned to his mind.

"Y-yo!" He greeted Vanish who looked as if the young man before him was the greatest sinner of all.

"Guild master, we should hurry up and start the plan!" A blonde woman wearing an overall black seductive underwear and stockings said with excitement. On her hands was a thorny whip which was shaking, indicating how much she wanted to land the thing on Kian's body.

Vanish just nodded and backed away.

"W-wait!" Kian shouted with anxiety running across his body.

Torturing to get out information didn't work like this, doesn't it? They didn't even ask him anything. Or maybe they only let him live so they could find a toy for this crazy woman?

"Hahahahaha!" A familiar witch-like laugh came out from the woman.

Before Kian knew it, the whip had already landed on his chest. However, there was almost no pain at all. It was just just painful than bite but Kian experienced this pain everyday that he was already numb to it.

Meanwhile, the woman just kept waving her whip. Due to her excitement, she couldn't see that Kian, her supposed to be prey for her fetish shot her a look of pity.

"Miranda, stop." Vanish said. He couldn't watch the woman make a fool of herself anymore.

After a short moment of comedy, Miranda was driven away from the tent. Now, only Kian and Vanish were left inside. There was silence for a while before Vanish spoke.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"I'm Kian." Kian replied.

His reply made Vanish's eyebrows twitch.

"Elaborate," Vanish said, his arms folded and a finger impatiently tapping.

"I'm Kian Sylvester. Eighteen years of age. Has a girlfriend and plants to have two children-" Kian haven't finished what he was saying yet when a punch landed on his face.

He travelled in the air for about second before he landed on the floor. Vanish appeared Kian, with his eyes that showed the intent to kill and grabbed the cuffs of the young man's clothes.

"Answer me properly. Who are you guys and what do you want? Tell me everything or else..." Vanish's voice trailed off as he made a slashing action with his fingers on his neck.

The corners of Kian's mouth couldn't help but twitch. It seems that the eye crystals in his forehead was the reason why he was mistaken as a member of the Excelcis race.

"Umm," He didn't know what to say.

Vanish who looked like he was about to scream at Kian suddenly turned.

The next thing Kian knew, a piercing pain washed over his body. He couldn't help but scream criminals the intense pain akin to thousand needles poking his body.

After he did his best to look down, he saw Vanish grasping an eye crystal tightly and pulled it away from his body.

Although the eye crystals wouldn't break since they're harder than diamond, trying to take away from his body was like taking away an internal organs of his.

"Stop!" Kian tried his best to properly say.

He didn't got a reply though. Instead, he heard Vanish groan and hiss before he fell down.

While struggling to open his eyes, he saw Vanish's hands covered in cuts, red particles of light leaving his body through them.

Both of them were surprised, especially Kian who didn't know that his eye crystals could actually do that.

Still, the pain from before didn't disappear.

To his horror, Vanish once again stood up and grabbed ahold of an eye crystal.

The tent was filled with the screams from the two men.

Kian judged that Vanish must be a some kind of M since there was even a certain glint in his eyes. He couldn't help but shiver when he saw them.

When Vanish was about to do it again (which sounded totally weird to him by the way), Kian was already begging him to stop.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you!" Kian screamed as loudly as he could and his breath turned short. It's as if he was afraid that Vanish couldn't hear him.

Vanish grinned, his face showed pride. Kian on the other hand wanted nothing more than to wipe off that smug face.

It didn't take a long time for Kian to confess everything that he knew. At first, he hesitated but then decided it was only right to tell everything.

"Hmmm." Vanish rubbed his chin as he fell into deep thought.

"So you're saying that there's a way to convert to being a half alien and that can be used to fight back, right?" Vanish asked.

Kian nodded. It was his suggestion so that the players could at least fight back.

"I don't really trust you but we're gonna need all the help we can get. I'm gonna keep you alive until I find out you're just lying," Vanish said before he turned around and left the tent.

After everything that happened, Kian finally managed to let out a sigh. His eyes turned drowsy but before he was able to arrive at wonderland, familiar voices sounded out.

"Alert! Enemies are attacking!" A scream from a man sounded out together with sounds of bells.

"Give us back Kian!" A familiar voice from a female said.

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Sorry I didn't update for a week. There's been a major blackout in my place so I can't use my phone. I had to write this and the following chapters in a notebook.

By the way, I finally decided to make a volume four.

Thanks for reading!