He awoke.
Body of armor he arose from the cocoon of his claws of metal A knight? What had happened... he is stupid, he doesn't understand, but... he is strong...
He is content...
He will head north.
He will head northwest ...
He will consume all who stand in his way regardless of the thoughts of the lessor's... Even titans are mindless compared to him His soul thinking, his mind spiritually manipulative and powerful.
He might not circulate his soul essence around...
But he himself is an essence controller, his instinct guiding it for him.
He heads north, and he feasts on nightmare creatures...
He feeds on the weak humans he instinctively avoids the more viscous of souls.. the soul understands it's weakness... It is not pragmatic to die so early.
It rushes It'll feast on the human souls...
through unknown connection... It will find the soon to arrive baby souls Their Dormancy filling his beastly core ...
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***
Waking up on the shore of A coral wasteland was as comfortable as waking up on sandpaper.
He glanced around himself quickly, His solace ending in his rise to understand his surroundings...
there are those with lesser sins then the lazy who die after all...
Looking east he seen a castle looking west a Tall tree off into the distance behind him was a forest It was black, charred into obscurity.
He decided to head towards the castle...
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A Man can be seen entering the sea... he would approach a wounded Nightmare Creature and slay it... Granting him an echo...
this man is Gunlaug, and far away another nightmare creature is hidden behind the local fauna stalking said man...
'He is strong..?'
'Maybe, But I can't kill him as for now.'
'Maybe if it were just a moment ago..?'
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***
The beast has hunted long enough He slew Nightmare creatures and endured enough It even consumed a few Human souls...
Its ready to become a monster.
***
The Perimeter is alright gunlaug but there are plentiful of nightmare creatures and people are going missing...
It's most likely the work of that creature The Knight...
It's likely hunting us... What should we do!?
I'll get it eventually, But let the people know that the bright lord has been killed it's been long enough now... They should understand it's hopeless to challenge the spire.
***
The Beast is Securing itself within A homey cave.
Hours later the beast awakens to understand itself deeper...
It is a Awakened Monster.
And even now it still hungers.
***
While the sleepers grow more powerful, the forgotten shore is relentlessly fearsome, craving the demise of all and having its grim desires fulfilled. Most die quickly others die slowly...
But those on the forgotten shore cower till starvation and inevitably death.
But eventually A soon to be hero arrives to challenge the castle authority.. but they die as well.. how do you challenge someone with the might of a transcendent?
So they abide to the authority, And they hunt for their quota.
For if they don't..?
Then they become the quota.
The nightmare creatures here are happily feasting what a beautiful Feast...
But... In the night a nightmare creature can be seen cowering in fear
For it gazes upon the benevolence of the Knight Feasting on its brethren like its a mindless beast, They don't know better and assume that they can prosper by eating all their hunger blinding them... But this nightmare creature is awfully sane for a sort of the void
The knight hunts more nightmare creatures typically than humans! they even become aware of his ability to prosper with the cannibalism, They identify him as a disaster, An enemy within and to not spare him any peace... He is like the pure ones! Kill them and him too! For he is a traitor!!
or so They instinctually assume within their subconsciousness even further below the corruption.
And so a third party had been formed with a sole member they both hated but couldn't attack for they knew they'd devour each other after.
The cannibalistic nightmare creature the other Creatures and the Humans...
They'd suffer a Great deal... except the Knight of course he'd prosper off of it like a Vulture.
until eventually the future came...
The winter solstice came again...
And this time the knight, Is a Awakened Demon...
And is again hungry for his satiation has ended.
***
"Can Somebody Please kill that damned Knight..?"
"Knight..?"
"Yeah! that Damn Knight! It was okay to keep around I guess.. But it steals our kills and our food and then on a full stomach attempts to slay us as well! ... The bastard will die soon! we need him too!"
"Oh you mean the Thorn knight!"
"Thorn knight..?"
"Yeah when it became a demon its knightly exterior armor malformed as its thorns Moved Out from its body apparently its a pretty high rank now... what if its a High Class!?!"
"Nooooo... Hopefully Not!! The powerful Knight within the cathedral at least stays in its abode! We could possibly die at this rate... maybe it's better to simply challenge the spire at this point... then at least we die within our own control! these damn nightmare creatures! these damn death zone's! these damn trials and tribulations!!! I Hate It!!!"
***
The Demon had grown His capabilities Its a force to be truly reckoned with...
It has gained numerous abilities for one
For one it can sprout thorns and manipulate those thorns whether it makes them rigid or whatever it can even form objects with them though it is still simple thorns, It also can mimics the elements around it... the corals ability to digest like fungi? the thorns are red and it has adapted to have the trait, He can also travel long distances with his thorns being the catalyst for the method.
This applicability creates a shift in power dynamic within the trials between the death zone creatures and the human's attack too much and he retrieves ur trait. Him now being able to harm or even diminish your previously unmatched unique capabilities' quickly while also able to travel to you within mere moment's A deadly combo.
And so the Thorn Knight quickly with great haste and stealth enters the Cathedral where the fallen devil resides...