' Where am...I '
' Hm? Is it grass, but...'
The man slowly opens his eyes is surprised.
' I can see? '
Then, the first thing he sees is a red sky with black and white parallel and criss-cross lines along with...what looks like skulls in between the square compartments of the Criss cross lines?
He wasn't too sure since he was still a little bit dizzy.
Around 2 minutes later,
His visible return to normal and then he saw the assumed sky was actually a ceiling.
The skull on the ceiling looked...not-so-dreamy?
well, it looked downright horrifying.
Some skulls were of human, some looked like animals and some he didn't recognize but there was one thing in common in all.
It was that all the skull had one deep scar on the right side eye socket and some had snake like thing inside them.
If a sane or normal person where to see this scene, they would outright, definitely shit their pants and lose consciousness out of fear.
And he was no different.
Although he had seen his own share of abominable and disgusting things as a soldier, hunter and killer, something about about this feels nauseating.
Though, thanks to his years of training he is still able to keep a poker face but his eyes say otherwise.
His eyes glint a mixture of various emotions like fear, horror, disgust and finally calm.
Even he was surprise that he calmed down.
Then, he stood up or tried to but suddenly he felt like he wasn't....physically?
No, the correct word would be he was spiritual or incapacitated? He wasn't sure.
Was this his soul state or was this only his consciousness?
But, before he could came to conclusion, dark ray and light ray cover his soul state or consciousness or whatever.
10 minutes later,
He felt strangely 'whole' . The 10 minutes process didn't felt painful like he had seen in the various anime and manhua. The so-called ' Recreation of a physical vessel', where people loss there mind and cry tears of blood.
Oh! How cringey.
Instead, it felt like the most wonderful massage.
BBBBOOOOMMMM!!!
Only a few seconds have passed since the man has become ' physically ' , when suddenly be felt as if 2-3 Mt. Everest were put on his body.
He was still laying down on the ground with his back to the ground and front facing the ceiling [ You know, how you sleep? That type of position] , when the tremendous pressure descended.
His body was pushed into the ground .
He felt his whole body tearing apart, his bones cracking and turning into powder, but it started to heal immediately, again and again. It was excruciating.
He wanted to cry and yell and howl at the top of his lungs but his voice box and lungs were already crushing and healing and again crushing.
He could not even do a thing.
Blood was gushing out from every pore of his body.
The pressure was killing him, but his regeneration was keeping him alive.
He started to regret having his regeneration at maxed out.
He also started to regret making fun of cultivators pain during creation of physical vessel.
The pressure forcefully buried him alive but he did not lose his consciousness.
He was having multiple thought at this moment like, what is happen? what is going to happen? what was the point? Why does he have to go through this torture? When will this end?
BUT, he knew one thing, he must survive, no, he HAVE to survive, no matter what.
He was also having a feeling that if he loses his consciousness, it's game over for him.
There were even some faint voices that said, ' Don't lose to it.' or ' Don't lose hope.'
Was these voices hallucinations? or was these the voices of his gut feeling?
He didn't know. He didn't care.
The pain was just too much for him or any normal living thing to bear.
After what seems like an eternity, he was finally able to escape the excruciating pain.
3 minutes later,
Even after his body has adapted to the surrounding pressure, he was still in the sinkhole calming his heart and coming back to reality.
' Such a pressure.....there is....there is bound to be a monster, no demon in this room....I need to run as fast as possible. '
Then, while in the sinkhole, he stand up and check his surrounding.
He finds that he was at least 10 meters deep in the crater. After that he checks his body and is shocked.
He knew that, that grinding and tearing of his muscles, ligaments, and bones, after regeneration will change is body greatly and make it stronger because that's how he became a SS level hunter but...but it was nuts.
Earlier, he was a staggering 300 cm (3 metres) tall man with jacked up body and an awful scar from his right solder to abdomen and some small scars around his body that not even his regeneration could not heal because they were old.
But now he was around only 240 cm and he was not so jacked up....but he was not weakened, on the contrary he has never felt so strong.
It was like he was compressed and if a professional bodybuilder or gym trainer were to see him right now they would either think that he is on steroids or it's CGI if showed a video. He even felt his brain being more clear than ever and his senses were shaper as well.
He was feeling more calmer and compose than before.
His scars were also gone for good.
But every thing was not so great.
He was naked now and saw his little brother...that proud 12 inches rod was also compressed into a 9 inch 'little' little brother.
He felt like crying but now was neither the time nor the place.
He bend on his knees and jumped with the force he thought was appropriate.
For hunters like him, 10m jumps were ordinary things.
But the thing he didn't consider was that his body has changed.
So, like he thought, he was out of the crater but he put a little..scratch that, he put a lot more force then required.
And before he knows anything, he finds himself soaring through the sky and..
BOOM!!
He crashes into the ceiling that was 150 metres above the ground.
BOOM!
Again, before he can do any thing he crashes into the ground as the pressure puts him into his place, again creating a crater around him.
But this time, there was more.
The ceiling area he crashed onto had the skulls crushed as well, leaving the snakes and Scorpions homeless.
Poor snakes.
So, obviously, they gracefully falls towards there perpetrator.
As for the perpetrator, he was long submerged and mixed with the ground, literally.
On the ground, there is 50 meters crater and inside it is a ball of goo, red in color with bones sticking out of it.
The goo is continuously move a turning to from a shape but it looks like it is short on mass, muscles mass to be exact.
Luckily, the perpetrator has long lost himself in a world of dreams and wonders.
And it seems, fortune is with the goo ball as hundreds of snake and Scorpion are coming it's way.
As the snakes comes closer to the goo ball to take a bit out of it's juice flesh, hundreds, if no thousands of blood tendrils rush towards the snakes and Scorpions like hunger wolves.
The monsters felt threatened for there life, but its already too late.
The tendrils grabs the hundreds of 6 meter long snakes and 1 meter tall Scorpions with 2 meter tails and dissolve them into the goo ball, not even bones are spared as they are used as nutrition to give the body a final shape.
After an eternity,
The man, which turned into a goo ball, and finally into a man again, slowly opens his eyes.
He quickly gets into a sitting position and moves his face up and finds himself in an even deeper sinkhole than before.
He tries to remember what happened after he jumps and thought,
' This is not a dream. I was in this room and the pressure,... then got stronger and jumped with too much force, then crushed into the ceiling, snakes falling along with the sudden increase in the pressure. How the fuck am i alive?'
Then he check his body and is shocked again.
His previous compressed body of 240cm has again reached his original height of 300cm.
His little brother is also back and grew by an inch, that means a staggering 13 inches, OMG.
Anyway,
He was not as jacked up as before. His body is muscular, lean and flexible. He was feeling stronger than ever, but..
' How did i gain mass again? '
Then he looks around him a finds multiple stain of blood. It took him a few seconds to understand what has happened after he passed out thanks to his enhanced brain.
' It looks like the experiment was successful. Too bad for does sucker that i am dead, well, i will use it nicely 😈'
Then, he stood up, closed and opens his hand to grasp his increasing in strength.
This time, however, he decided to climb out of the crater, slowly and nicely.
He walks up to the walls and starts climbing it.
Although it was 50 meter crater, he was sure he could have jumped out of it but since he could not control his strength at the moment it was better to be safe than sorry.
When he was only 1 meter away from the opening of crater, he stopped and used his newly, very improved senses to sense the surrounding.
He closed his eyes and focused.
Then, him as the centre, he began to use the ecolocation skill in circles to cover as much distance as he can.
5 minutes later,
The man slowly open his eyes as he thought of the things he sense,
'hmmm...i can't sense the whole room but from how much i can sense there is a living being 1000m east from me and 1000m west of me there are two lump of energy...i should head west.'
Now, from those immature minds out there who did not understand why he choose west is become, obviously, the pressure must have been emitted by the living being in the room.
Well, it's not that non living being or energy emitting object did not emitted pressure, but he (the man) didn't know that.
The man slowly exits the crater and starts leopard crawling in the west direction. He slowly and securely kept on crawling through the grass. 2 minute later, the man is surprise to learn that he was already infront of the energy lumps.
1000 meter, leopard crawling in 2 minutes, it's pretty darn good if you ask me.
' Nobody asked you, bitch.'
...
'.....'
I will talk to you later. ( see how i increase my pay 😤 )
Anyway, he was at the edge of the room and there were two walls perpendicular to each other.
Both walls have two whirlpool like things sticks, both moving clockwise , different in color, different in feeling.
Red and green.
These two colors are insight.
As for the feeling, well...both have a sense of danger but red one have less dangerous feeling than green.
So, obviously like any sane person, he crawled towards the red 'gate'.
Well, he didn't know what it was but decided to call it ' gate ' anyway because it looked like does manhwa he have read.
But, the moment his head was about to go through the portal...
BOOM!!BOOM!!