Prelude
In some other recordings, I have made, I often refer to the time when I disappeared for a year.
It was something I didn't really want to talk about and when I discovered that no other
Faceless One is here, it took a load off my mind.
I didn't have to hide or try to come up with any excuses or even just say where I was.
I didn't have to tell anyone that while one year when everyone died has passed for them, I was imprisoned for over 15 years.
Why do I want to talk about it now?
First, I do it so I won't have to talk about it ever again.
Second, that knowledge could help someone and if you read this, you will have another piece of the puzzle in this story of the end of the world.
And third and most important, because I found one of the recordings I created during my desertion, something I thought was impossible.
The last mission
The
Extinction was one big mess.
Without the support of the
The Created or the
ZODIAC, fighting with the
Lords,
Beasts and spirits all at once was hopeless.
But we still did it.
For one Lord we killed, hundred of ours was killed as revenge. And don't get me started on the human casualties. There is a reason why it was called Extinction.
Three years have passed fighting, struggling with the
Nightmares, and trying to find a way to stop the Lords.
During the third year of Extinction, one of the scout teams discovered that the Lords started to gather up in the places where
The Curtain was particularly thin and started to prepare for the rituals that would utterly destroy it.
As the Lords performed the ritual in complete synchronicity all over the world, it was theorized that there was a possibility that stopping the ritual in one place would stop it everywhere else.
This led to the creation of the plan called
"Show must go on" during which the forces of
The Faceless would be concentrated in few points close to each other to distract and break apart the enemy forces. The teams would be spread out enough to not hear the
Word that Warps if it was used on the other team.
The day of the action came.
There were two briefings, first given by the command, second, lesser, given by to our team by our leader,
Purple Paladin.
All of the teams boarded their transporters.
The people were very nervous. There were almost no chatters, only tapping of someone's fingers. Someone was praying for good luck.
Since the morning I had a really bad feeling. My Nightmare was all stirred up.
My team's objective was to pull the Lords guarding the ritual away without engaging in combat with them.
But when we arrived at our destination, it was already one big mess.
Lords knew we were coming, some teams were already turned into
Warped Ones and the road to the ritual site was impassable.
Something fell from the sky and hit our transporter. There was an explosion.
The tremble of the chains
When I woke up the whole surrounding area looked like all hell broke loose.
My team already moved forward, probably thinking I am dead.
As I wanted to contact them I realized I have been hearing a sound.
Almost constant jingling of a chain.
It was one of the chains I used to track the particular Lords.
This one was tied to the Lord responsible for killing half of the legion stationed in this country.
The Lord who defeated me three times and never killed me, even when he killed or warped the people I knew.
So I went where the chain led me.
Today I would finally die from his hands or defeat him.
To the
Lord of Four Paths.
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The poison was spreading through my blood. My ace in the sleeve failed. He was still standing in front of me, watching me, motionless.
It hurt so much, my Nightmare was roaring inside of me.
But for some reason, I was feeling calm.
My body responded less and less.
I fell backward into the pit made by one of his attacks.
I failed everyone, but I didn't care anymore.
As I was falling, I closed my eyes.
The chains trembled...
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