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Chapter 8 - 08_Wish

‎Nihil Looking at the giant ants sitting above a pile of food glaring at him like a predator.

‎Suddenly one of the ants stood and climbed down the pile of food and stopped before Nihil moving its antennae closed around Nihil.

Nihil thought inwardly, "What is it doing?"

The ant stopped, then suddenly with incredible speed it opened its mandibles and closed it with deadly force. Nihil jumped into the air and was able to dodge at the last moment.

The ant loudly makes a sharp sound that echoes throughout the colony, then the ant stops and the chamber falls into eerie silence.

Then suddenly the ground started to shake violently as the entire colony echoed with thousands of footsteps.

Sweet started dripping from Nihil's face as he turned back and jumped toward the exit. As he exited the chamber, the ants were already on the left side, he took the right and run with incredible speed throughout the colony with thousands of ants chasing him.

As he was running, he saw an entrance in front of him and jumped inside of it.

‎He landed safely on the ground and as he stood up, he saw thousands of eggs laying on the ground attached to each other by thin white string.

Nihil inwardly thought "Is this egg chamber"

He turned back, seeing thousands of ants entering the chamber and surrounding him from all sides.

From behind suddenly several rocks flew into the air and landed on the ants crashing several of them in an instant.

As Nihil looks back, he sees a giant Red ant radiating a crimson aura glaring at him with fury.

Nihil thought inwardly "Is this the ant queen?"

The ant queen raised her antennae, releasing pheromones into the air.

At once, the ants began opening and closing their mandibles with deadly force, producing a sharp, unpleasant clicking sound as they turned aggressive.

The swarm charged at Nihil. He drew his sword and sliced several ants in half, yet the creatures did not stop. They continued their assault like a horde of mindless zombies, rushing forward without fear.

Soon, the ants overwhelmed him, crawling over his body and biting from every side with their sharp mandibles. They tore into his arms, legs, neck, and flesh relentlessly.

Amid the agony, Nihil slowly opens his eyes and finds himself floating in pitch dark void, Nihil said in calm, slow manner "Where am I... Am I dreaming?... no I can feel excruciating pain throughout my body..."

‎Nihil gritted his teeth in anger as tears started to flow from his eyes and he said his voice filled with regret, pain and fury

"Why?... Why?.. Why!? Why!? Why!!? Why!!? Why!!!?....

Why always me?... 

Why do I have to suffer...

What did I even do to deserve this..."

‎"I have no freedom, I don't have any freedom to choose... Born with a power I didn't ask for... treated worse than a pig... burned alive to stop the disasters, I don't cause... lost my mother because of my stupid skill... Why? God I ask you... What's the point of this suffering?... Why does someone have to suffer?... Is it a test to teach the individual something in return for his suffering? If so, then, what do you want to teach me?"

‎"I know how this universe works, how the Angel of wishes grants wishes... I learn it when, I was in the void, When someone ask for a wish, Only the means are provided to achieve that wish, It's depend on the individual to grasp the opportunity giving to them to fulfill their wish and became stronger or he can Ignore them and blame god for not granting his wish."

‎"What is my wish...

My desire to leave the void brings nothing but pain, agony, loneliness, humiliation of my being, torture, burned until my body became ash, betrayal, toying with my emotions...

The child inside me only dreamed of exploring nature, experiencing warmth and unchained freedom...

Yet, this world refused to grant me my wish...

This is to be expected, unfortunately, this is reality and reality is often cruel...

My patience is starting to wither and I might not know what I, be in future...

But, one thing I can say is that I have not yet given up on kindness...

I never will...

Between good and evil, I will always choose good as it is the hardest path to follow...

No matter how much reality forced me to be a demon, I will be an angel, an angel terrifying enough to dispel all forms of cruelty and darkness from this world..."

Slowly Nihil opened his eyes, his limbs were gone, there's ants bites all over his body as chemicals flowed in his veins giving him immense phycological and inner body pain, his body clot as if he was poisoned laying helplessly on the ground.

The surrounding ground was stained with Nihil blood.

Nihil's body glows with brilliant green light radiating the entire chamber, the ants back off as his body slowly heals itself.

As the light disappeared, Nihil was standing with a sword in his hand surrounded by ants from all sides.

‎Ant queen glare at Nihil raise her antennae, open his giant mandibles and was about to signal for attack, Nihil raised his sword and with incredible force threw it in the direction of ant queen, As the Queen realize it was too late, the sword pierced through the Ant Queen killing her in an instant leaving a massive hole in her body.

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