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IXโ€“A shred of humanity

These creatures of the night have roamed the land since the dawn of time, feasting on unsuspecting creatures, leeching off of their life, their very essenceโ€“and have existed for as long as they can and wished.

They came from the depths, made through eons of sin and hatred, or so it claims, far beneath the unholy court of the Fallen was where it was born.

Most of them are basically immortal.

...but at the same time, some of them are not; for they can still be put to slumber or sealed for eternity in the most unlikely placesโ€“far beneath the land or sea, if so God allow it, they will stay there, trapped and slumbering until the end of time.

Just like this one will be.

Thankfully, I and my household have managed to discover some of their

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  • Corruptionย ย ย X

    X โ€“ The Wish For some reason, Jin Sanscroft dreamed of that place again; the frighteningly beautiful graveyard-garden of wilting flowers and the birds robbed off of their freedom, singing and chirping their sad songs from their cages. It sounded like a hymn fit for the dead. The skeleton that was once his beautiful mother had long since turned into dusts by the sudden wind and a voice that sounded so familiar whispered to his ear: Wake up. He shivered and immediately began to unlock the cages one by one, briefly watching the birds flew up and perch on the gravestones until they had surrounded him in a circle. Confused, he stared back at them, ha

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-18
  • Corruptionย ย ย XI

    XI โ€“ Golden days โ€œThat girl is planning something nefarious; something truly wicked behind my back. Like a snake waiting for me to lower my guard before it strikes. Sheโ€™s bidding her time, ooh; sheโ€™s definitely bidding her time... I just know itโ€“I can FEEL IT!โ€ Queen Ysabel exclaimed with a feverish certainty, pacing back and forth inside her lavish chamber in front of her magic mirror, her golden heels making a clicking sound in the marbled floor, โ€œMaybe I should try making a move on the boy-knight of herโ€™s this timeโ€ฆโ€ โ€œWhat? Why?โ€ โ€œWhy the hell notโ€“oh I DONโ€™T KNOW!โ€ the Queen made a grand, careless sweep of her arm, not bothering to look at her reflection, โ€œFor all I know, seeing her cry and wail over her precious friend's corpse might make me feel

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-19
  • Corruptionย ย ย XII

    XII โ€“ There is beauty in death Moments like this forced her to wonder what kind of pair the two of them will make once they grew up. A knight and his princess. She scoffed, thinking of how clichรฉ it was. But then again, maybe it isn't. Maybe their own story would be different than the fairytales he insisted on reading for her. Maybe their story is not that kind of fairytaleโ€“at all. What kind of story has a knight that scolds his princess? She smiles and stares at her reflection. A princess with red eyes... And these red eyes seemed to be thoughtful as she steadily gazed back at her reflection from the large, black-framed polished

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-20
  • Corruptionย ย ย XIII

    XIII โ€“A Handmaidenโ€™s Tale Somethingโ€™s wrong. (And strangely enough, it all started when Jin had to leave for the time being. Eden wasnโ€™t sure but she found that to be the most suspicious, the more she thought about it now. Is it because Jin Sanscroft was the only who would have raised a hand to help immediately, the only one who cares well enough to actually do something about it? Or maybeโ€ฆ maybe it is because he was the only one who would have known right from the start that something has seriously gone wrong? But with him out of the pictureโ€“ โ€ฆit had been too convenient for them.) * * * * * Princess Ariaโ€™s fourteenth birthday was at least two weeks away when the

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-21
  • Corruptionย ย ย XIV

    XIV โ€“ The Bloody Signs This has gone far enough. The Princess is his heir, his child. He really shouldnโ€™t be sneaking about like some sort of rat, watching over his own child from the shadows, from afar and waiting for blasted reports from a handmaiden who was just doing her job (especially someone who his daughter so clearly puts her trust into) it was like a violation of her trust too... And as soon as King Arion dismisses Miss Brighton from his office, he was immediately ashamed of how hopeless things had turned out between him and his only child. But even soโ€ฆ no matter how much the Princess dismisses him, how much she insists that she was fine, that he was just being paranoid, beingโ€ฆ being nosy heโ€ฆ he knows, even if he may not know he

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-22
  • Corruptionย ย ย XV

    XV โ€“ A Crack in the Mask Eden Brighton has always known (even if she thinks that the rumors about her highness are so far-fetched by now and she was so ashamed at how she once readily believed them when she was younger) that Princess Aria wasnโ€™t really what someone you would deem to beโ€ฆ normal. Physical appearances aside, the girl has always been different, has always felt different enough that no animal would voluntarily come near her without bristling or dare to attack her point-blank should she deigned to come closer in a bid to touch them. And as her personal handmaiden, Eden has always been subjected to her highnessโ€™ presence, so she always felt it, that being in the Princessโ€™ presence, for some reasonโ€ฆ has always felt so cold. No wonder the Princess always has the fireplace lit, always had it b

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-23
  • Corruptionย ย ย XVI

    XVI โ€“ Dead Dove: Do Not Eat Without a warning, the Princess all but grabbed Eden by the hand before the Queen could say more as she brusquely slammed the door shut behind them. Eden thought her highness would have released her as soon as they stepped out of Her Majestyโ€™s chambers butโ€ฆ but no, the Princessโ€™ grip remained firm and true as she continued to drag Eden far and far away until they were all but running, now in the familiar, empty halls of the west wing, the sound of their footsteps the only noise, reminding Eden just how late it was right now. โ€œDid she hurt you?โ€ The handmaiden was alarmed when she realized that the younger girlโ€™s hand was actually trembling, โ€œMilady,โ€ she called, eyes wide in concern, โ€œIsโ€ฆ are you alrightโ€“?โ€ โ€œDid she hurt you?โ€ &nb

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-24
  • Corruptionย ย ย XVII

    XVII โ€“ A Hymn to Redemption As the handmaiden continues to envelop the Princess in her arms with her entire body slightly rocking back and forth over and over again to soothe her cryingโ€ฆ until the younger girlโ€™s trembling faintly stills, sheknows. (As Eden hears the young girl sobbing and crying her heart out so hard that her voice practically breaks off and eventually dies down into the tiny whimpers, hiccupping here and there with the barest traces of snifflesโ€ฆ The sound was breaking her heart too, bit by bit, and Eden thinks she might be crumbling alongside her mistress as well. There were silent tears and dripping blood still streaking down her highnessโ€™ pale face as she coughs and hiccups so badly, which Eden shushes and wipes away with her hands, gently brushing her fingers thr

    ์ตœ์‹  ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ : 2021-09-25

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  • Corruptionย ย ย The Missing Pages

    โ€œThe stars, they said goodnight So, sleep till morning light Someday, I'll stay And dream for eternity With youโ€ฆ O beloved from above Until then It's only a matter of when When he draws near To take thee away O beloved from above Your hymns, I shall sing with love Until time passes me by So donโ€™t kiss me goodbye Grant me another chance Spare me a second glance Let meโ€ฆ be with you again Belovedโ€ฆโ€ . . . . . . When Sir Hans Bathory finally came to, the world was already burning down all around him. And thereโ€™s nothing stopping it even as he sees the first, blindingly bright rays of the sun. Utterly confused and feeling panic and something like despair bubbling up from within the depths of his chest, the feeling of wrongness roaring everywhere around him, the knight finally gathers the strength, the courage to stumble and search through the torn-apart castle, one hand crawling and clawing at his neck (because he was so sure he was supposed to be deadโ€“) while the other

  • Corruptionย ย ย Special Chapter: Spider's Thread

    โ€œDo you know what it is like to live but not be in control? To watch your โ€˜selfโ€™, your own body living a life that was supposedly yoursโ€ฆ to becoming nothing more but a vessel of a parasitic being you werenโ€™t even fully aware of that was just there, watching and waitingโ€ฆ simply existing inside you?โ€ Proserpina says nothing to that merely cants her head a touch in a barest hint of a nod because reallyโ€ฆ she understands. Because this is the curse of things that should be dead but still failed to dieโ€ฆ for as long it still had its consciousness, a vesselโ€ฆ it would continue to exist, would continue to remain. โ€ฆuntil the end of time. And as the young goddess continues to appraise the being that disturbingly looked far too human than the others residing within the depths of Tartarusโ€ฆ she thinks it was like staring at herself in years she didnโ€™t even want to think of.

  • Corruptionย ย ย Epilogue

    Proserpina turns to the next page, squinting hard. When the next words makes absolutely no sense and still doesnโ€™t change at all no matter how much she stares and wills for it to change, the goddess of shadows finally blurted out the words that probably will make sense out of it all because seriouslyโ€“ โ€œโ€ฆWhat the hell?โ€ โ€œWhat is it?โ€ another voice piped up. Her entire body jolted. Quickly, the young goddess turned to look behind her with a deer in the headlights look in her faceโ€ฆ but it was only her younger brother, William, standing by the doorway, a black knapsack carelessly slung over one shoulder, a hand in his pocket while the other was loosely holding his phone, looking over at her with a weirded-out stare. Embarrassingly enough, it took her a moment or two to final

  • Corruptionย ย ย XLI

    XLIโ€“A Grim Fairytale The bats screeched then, erupting into a violent waterfall of darkness raining down upon them and an ungodly roar of outrage seemed to fill the entire world just as Jin felt himself crumble to his knees once more, white noise instantly filling his head as the white-hot pain consumed him. For a moment, Jin felt one of his hands blindly, weakly pawing all over on his side, on the floor that was becoming stained quickly with bloodโ€ฆ his blood. โ€œNow, it would never have one of our own,โ€ he heard Sir Hans Bathory saying above him, his voice shaking with what seemed to be remorse and trepidation at once, โ€œThat demon would never ever have you, who bear the blood of Sansโ€ฆโ€ Jin can vaguely feel a familiar, cold darkness creeping and licking at the fra

  • Corruptionย ย ย XL

    XLโ€“An Execution Jin Sanscroft yanked his uncle close to him as they rounded another hallway before the old man could be mauled by an ungodly maw while firing a round of bullets towards the other beast that suddenly leapt from the shadows out of nowhere with his other hand. He could feel Sir Ainsworth speaking over the commotion, but he couldnโ€™t hear him. His eyes were firmly locked upon some of the beasts that were snarling and gnashing their teeth at him. And the beastโ€™s eyes locked upon him. Red eyes, those eyesโ€ฆ its eyes looked like Ariaโ€™s on that day she tried to kill me, Jin thought with a sense of growing dread more than a passing thought as he lowered the pistol, just as the beast fell to the ground with a loud thud. Inaudibly, he swa

  • Corruptionย ย ย XXXIX

    XXXIX โ€“ Judge, Jury, and Executioner โ€œ...Do you hear that, though?โ€ her smile seems to grow a touch wider. Sir Hans Bathory paused as well, a bit disturbed upon hearing the sound of upcoming footsteps and Queen Ysabelโ€™s cries and pleas well as it was growing louder and louderโ€“they, whoever had the Queen, they must be coming close to the throne roomโ€“yet he did not dare to move nor take away his gaze from the demon standing right in front of him. The enemy was just sitting right thereโ€“ โ€œItโ€™s the sound of an animal being led to slaughterโ€ฆoh, such music to my ears,โ€ sheโ€ฆ the demon was practically moaning in sheer pleasure as she closes her eyes for a moment, as though relishing the ungodly screams before they opened, regarding him once more with those surreal eyes of blood, โ€œWhich reminds me: donโ€™t you hav

  • Corruptionย ย ย XXXVIII

    XXXVIII โ€“ A Prophecy to fulfill Ysabel all but stumbled forward clumsily in her heels with Sir Quentin leading her with a firm grip by the arm, โ€œAre you sure you know where we are going, you fool?โ€ He didnโ€™t answer. She scowled, โ€œWeโ€™re lost, arenโ€™t we?!โ€ โ€œNo, no milady I was justโ€ฆ I truly apologize for the inconvenience, but this is the safest route we can take in the palace wall, out of sight from everyone,โ€ the knight replied, looking around a bit too frantically for her tastes, โ€œโ€ฆand safe from those creatures,โ€ She bit her lip, opting to keep her mouth shut, cradling the sack she brought with her containing all the jewelries and gold she managed to steal and gather from her vault and the Kingโ€™s chambersโ€“it was fortunate they had not decided to clean her deceased husbandโ€™s chambers just y

  • Corruptionย ย ย XXXVII

    XXXVIIโ€“ The Prophecy Sir Hans Bathory frowned upon finding the throne room vacated. Not to mention, it was quietโ€“too quiet to be even considered normal. If the knight hadnโ€™t known any better he would have assumed that the Queen and her cronies had all but fled the palace by now, abandoning her people to their fate to the beasts, gone to who knows where. Now, by all means, Sir Hans wasnโ€™t political savvy but that doesnโ€™t mean he was plain stupid, he had known all along that the Queen was up to no good (heโ€™d still choose the witch over any other day than having to actually bow his head to a demon playing human) but stillโ€ฆ it was kind of annoying to be stuck in this current predicament without an authority figure. Especially since they were all looking at him for guidanceโ€ฆ

  • Corruptionย ย ย XXXVI

    XXXVI โ€“ Unveiled โ€œWhat is the meaning of this?!โ€ The mirror watched on in glee as Queen Ysabel with her usually fashioned dark blonde hair now completely messed up and her gown wrinkled as she frantically paced back and forth in front of her distorted reflection, her hands running through her tangled locks as she continued to panic. News of the kingdom being invaded in the middle of the night by demonic beasts that simply wonโ€™t die had finally reached her ears in the midst of her supposedly victorious celebration, the people being hunted and devoured like livestock as they speak, the land pillaged and stained with blood and the only thing protecting her right now from them are the palace gates and very few of her men armed by mere swords and bows, becoming less and lessโ€“ โ€œWhy is this happening? Wh

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