Ark: The Cycle of Light and Darkness

Deep in the fog, the doctor's first reaction was not to yell, but to forcefully slow down the heartbeat that had begun to accelerate.

Alone, I can only calm down now.

If you panic before danger appears, that is the biggest danger!

The doctor squinted his eyes and carefully looked at his surroundings.

This strange space at this moment seems to be made up of endless darkness. The fog that travels through the darkness is shallow or deep, forming a series of strange walls, surrounding your position in the middle..

Fortunately, from an intuitive point of view, this space is not like the murderous steps in the courtyard and corridor. Although there is heavy fog, it does not give the doctor a sense of fear that his life is threatened.

And -

(I have an intuition that if I want to know what happened in this castle, maybe I can do it here...)

Thinking of this, the doctor was about to move his legs, but he heard something in his ears, and his whole body immediately became hairy.

That was the sound of horse hooves. From far to near, from light to heavy, the sound of horse hooves hit the doctor's heart like a drumbeat, and he quickly judged from the direction of the sound that it was too late to avoid it at this moment.

"Bad——"

Before the words in his heart could be finished, the figure rushing out of the mist caught the doctor's eyes.

There were bloody wounds all over his body, some of which were deep enough to see the bones, and the saber held tightly in his hand seemed to be filled with a strong smell of blood. The knight seemed not to notice the doctor standing on the field, and charged forward non-stop.

The doctor could feel his heartbeat suddenly stopping.

The impact of the knight in front of him, including man and horse, was extremely shocking. Even though he was not wearing heavy armor, how could he withstand such an impact with the strength of a mortal body like the doctor?

So he only had time to put his arms in front of his head - this is a person's instinctive reaction to protect his vitals when being attacked, although sometimes, the strength of two arms is actually no different from being undefended.

……

…………

（…………Um?!! )

The severe pain he imagined did not come. Even the moment he closed his eyes, the sound of the horse's hooves that sounded like death disappeared from his ears, as if everything was just an illusion.

The doctor opens his eyes.

There are no cavalry, horses, or sabers dripping with blood... Everything is just like before, with heavy fog and darkness. In the quiet space, I was alone.

(Hiss...)

The hooded man looked around in confusion, then looked at the ground.

Whether it was the surrounding aura or the traceless status quo on the ground, it proved that the so-called"knight" and"running horse" were just phantoms, but this phantom and the despair before death were too real, making him feel lingering fear

"Is it an illusion? Or...is it something special?"

The doctor shook his head, took a deep breath, and after confirming that there would no longer be any strange phantoms around him, he chose a direction and walked forward slowly.

The direction may not be the right one, but in this lightless land, There was no reference, so there was no direction.

Soon, the doctor discovered something while traveling.

"etc! I'm not a traitor, I'm just - ugh!!"

"It’s useless, you can’t escape, you can’t escape hehehe...hehe...hahaha...hehehehe……"

"Don't chase me! Don't chase me! I no longer owe... no... no debt!...cough...ahem...no...uh huh……"

The phantoms that kept flashing in his mind, beside him and even around him convinced the doctor that this area must be connected to the previous Scarlet Castle and the theater troupe.

Seeing the clothes on the victims or perpetrators, the doctor also remembered the strange things that Mu Luo had mentioned to him in the past in the theater troupe.

(Evil karma...these are all...the troupe's bad karma...)

I felt a tightness in my chest, looking at the increasingly terrifying phantom, the darkness and blood representing death filling the earth and sky over and over again, The originally white mist had been filled with black and red colors at some point, and the spine-chilling cold, accompanied by the intuition of death, was gradually covering the doctor's body.

But the doctor seemed to feel nothing.

He wanted to know everything that happened here - the story of Dionysus, the story of the theater troupe, the story of dusk, the story of the puppets... the stories that happened in this land, the once glorious Gaul that has now become history. s story.

Even if the endings of these stories point to a bloody truth, he still wants to know.

At some point, the thick fog had dissipated, and the dark sky still covered the boundless land. But at this moment, where the doctor was standing, his ankles were covered with blood-red liquid.

It is the mellow aroma of wine and the stench of blood - the end of this realm is the endless night sky and the earth annihilated by blood and wine.

The doctor saw a figure standing at the end of the land.

The man whose face he couldn't see clearly was sitting high and seemed to be pouring wine for himself. The original simple wine vessel seemed to be full of malice at this moment, as if it was not filled with good wine but overflowing sins.

The doctor clearly saw that the wine pourer looked at him from a distance, and then showed a cold smile.

The hooded man closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were just as cold.

On a moonless night, the earth weeps with blood, and people who enjoy themselves are overflowing with sin.

——"Night terror".