Deranged Writer's Afterword

Time.

Something that I had factored in when I first entered the dungeon, I desperately needed power…not for catching the killer but for what would come after that, to attain the amount of power I needed…I needed a lot of time.

I had come to this village with the dungeon of time in my mind, but now…I want more.

In the novel, Luna comes out of the dungeon tired of living away in it, she decided to end her life, before offing herself, she wanted to see Lydia for one last time. But when she came out of the dungeon, she found that Lydia had been murdered by the same serial killer that’s running around the village now. After, learning of how brutally her only daughter had been murdered-

-she killed everyone.

Rage….unfortunately doesn’t discriminate as Luna wiped out both villages, she wouldn’t have stopped there either if an angel hadn’t descended to kill her….to prevent her from doing any more damage.

Ironically, she still failed to kill the serial killer.

“ What’s happening to us ?”Lydia seemed to be shocked as her body slowly started to turn back in time.

……

That’s right.

Our bodies were slowly becoming youthful again, I watched silently as the countless traces of our rigorous training slowly faded away.

Time itself is neither linear nor circular. It does not flow or move but allows others to do so.

Essentially, the ten years we spent in the dungeon happened, but this world can’t register that…since we were in a whole other dimension. This only works because this specific dungeon has a huge time difference from the real world…..our world.

The work we put in doesn't go away since I can still perform the ten movements as I used to and Lydia can use the lightning spear as well, this meant that the mastery that Lydia accumulated during our time within the dungeon wouldn’t go to waste.

With me….I don’t know.

Since I couldn’t use mana, there are a lot of factors to take into consideration but….I couldn’t back out just because of that. That’s why I put in maximum effort, I went as far as to hurt myself while training.

I introduced this cave in the novel so that it could be used for training, I realized only later how much of a cheat it really was…hence I made Luna destroy it.

Also, I didn’t eat Greydor’s heart since I wanted to wait till I got my mana back, the heart obviously decayed…even with time slowed within my sub-space, ten years was still a long time but I’m sure it went back in time just like us….so I just need to find a refrigerator to store it until my mana returns…..

“ Oh my….”, Luna exclaimed, touching her face.

She looked a whole lot younger than us since the amount of time she spent in the dungeon was much larger.

“ Woah….you look weird,” Lydia commented, staring at Luna.

“ How did you know this would happen ?”, Luna asked me, ignoring Lydia’s stares.

I had told them beforehand that we would de-age as we went outside because I wanted to alleviate some of the tension that Lydia had, even after learning the ‘truth’ Lydia was still reluctant to spend ten years training….so I told her that those ten years weren’t gone.

They didn’t believe me then but now…

“ I guessed…”, I winked playfully, Luna frowned at me but before she could question me further, her body started convulsing violently until she fainted.

Both Lydia and I stared silently at Luna.

~~~~

Augustus massaged his head, his head threatened to burst as he continued to shift along troughs of files regarding the village’s affairs.

‘Sigh’

Augustus got up from his chair and melted onto the sofa within his room, after Adam and Lydia had left….a period of peace fell upon both villages for a very brief period. During this time Augustus and Leo exhausted all their resources trying to find the killer…but they failed.

It felt frustrating as Augustus felt as if they were waiting for the killer to do something.

Even then Augustus had a glimmer of hope…

Luna Caerus.

The previous chief who had exiled herself into a dungeon, with her on their side….they could surely catch the killer. But the two who had gone into the dungeon looking for her hadn’t come back in ten months….

Georna would always come to his office asking about their status and every single time…Augustus had to admit the fact that he didn’t know shit.

To top it all off, the killer murdered again last month.

The victim was a middle-aged lioness named Henna.

‘Sigh’

Another sigh escaped Augustus’s lips as he thought about how utterly pathetic he was…

“ Sir !!”

Nyad, one of the wolves within his security detail barged into the room out of breath.

“ What is it ?”Augustus looked over his rude behavior as he understood the situation must have been urgent.

Nyad took a minute to catch his breath and said,

“ They’re b-back si-”

Before Nyad could even finish speaking, Augustus rushed out of his office.

Nyad had been stationed near the portal after ‘they’ left.

Augustus’s heart beat rapidly as he made his way through the village and as he saw them, he rejoiced for a split second but seeing the unconscious woman being carried by one of them made him stop in his tracks.

Finally…after ten long months…-

Adam waved, a smile plastered over his face as he, Lydia, and Rhys walked over to him.

-they were back.

~~~~

Adam’s POV:

Augustus seems to have a hard time.

But we had to cut our greetings short as we had more pressing matters at hand like taking care of Luna, who just fainted out of nowhere. I mean….I was truly shocked.

It was truly surprising.

…….

…….

Okay….moving on, Augustus immediately called the best doctors within the village and started taking care of Luna. Right now, we were in her room.

I watched as Luna breathed rhythmically, while many doctors examined her.

“ She’s in stable condition….so she should wake up soon…..but we’ve never dealt with something like this before so we have to observe her until she wakes up.”, the gray wolf commented while taking notes.

Augustus nodded in understanding and the doctors excused themselves.

“ It’s really her…”, Augustus said in a daze.

Georna remained silent as she watched Luna with a blank expression masking her face.

Lydia and Georna had a whole emotional reunion, I did want to give the old hag a piece of my mind but I decided to hold in my anger because it wasn’t her fault.

I’m just grumpy.

We didn’t speak and just watched as Luna slept peacefully until a huge lion burst through the door startling all of us.

“ I came as soon as I heard….where is sh-”, Leo started but fell silent as his eyes fell on Luna.

‘Step’

He slowly walked over to her, each step echoing loudly within the small room, after reaching her, he bent down and caressed her cheek tenderly as fat tears fell to her face,

“ She’s b-back….”

Oh yeah….these two were best friends.

‘Sniffle’

I turn around and find Georna tearing up, my mouth literally wouldn’t close…

Where’s the bitchy old hag that we left?

Finding me looking at her, Georna wipes away her tears and said,

“ Oh…fuck off, you brat.”

…………

Well, some things never change.

~~~~

“ I can’t believe that we’re really back….”, Luna said, staring at the ceiling.

We were back at her house and in our beds ready to sleep, Lydia seemed way too happy… I think she’s forgotten about the fact that there is still a serial killer on the loose.

Well….who am I to put a damper on her mood?

~~~~

A shadow entered Luna’s room as she slept soundly.

It observed Luna’s body in great detail for a few minutes, then it brought its hands together and tried choking her.

But the shadow stopped, startled to find two blue eyes staring into her very being.

Luna watched as the shadow tried to run, but it was all futile as Luna caught up with her in a second and took hold of her.

The shadow had deeply underestimated its queen.

The return of the Queen was inevitable but with her return…..the shadow was doomed. It was a plan set up to fail from the beginning.

~~~~

The next day,

Adam walked into Luna’s room to find her waiting for him.

“ What took you so long ?”, Luna asked, frowning.

“ Hey…don’t blame, your daughter’s the one who made us late.”, Adam said pointing behind him as Lydia walked in with Rhys on her shoulder.

“ Forget it….how did you know that-....should I even ask ?”Luna exclaimed in defeat.

Adam smiled gleefully and waved at the woman on the bed, who had been tied up.

“ She tried to kill me an hour ago…..”, Luna added while moving toward Lydia.

Adam let out a chuckle, bending down to face the serial killer that has been haunting the village….

“ Long time no see……Nephyr.”

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A/N: It looks like we won’t reach our PS goal…..*cries*...that’s fine. I didn’t upload for a few days so it’s on me…che.

Anyway, Nephyr was the wolf that led Adam into the village, they were drinking buddies. She’s also the official executioner of the village. A little underwhelming reveal…I know….but bear with me.

PS goal: 100