[Comprehensive Fairy Tale] The Uncrowned King

This kind of plot similar to a horror movie made Samuel startled into a cold sweat.

After counting twelve chaotic, low and gloomy bells, Samuel finally regained his senses from the rigidity he was stuck in, and turned around abruptly. Sure enough, in the middle of the white room he was in, he saw a man who was out of place.

For the impression of the original Red Death, Samuel only remembered that he was wrapped in a shroud. At that time, he imagined a mummy in his mind, and he was only frightened by his meaning, but he was not afraid of such an image— —In terms of visual effects, the horror effect caused by flying flesh and blood is always greater than the obscure image hints.But now, seeing that unusual image in the crowd with his own eyes, he couldn't help but tremble.

This trembling is not because of his own fear, but only because of the natural response given to him by his image.The Red Death is wearing a white shroud, the white is extremely white, because limited by the silk weaving technology, such a white cloth is very rare, and this white is also very clean on him, as long as it is ignored There are bloodstains on the white cloth, but the cleanliness does not conflict with the bloodstains.He was wearing a false mask with blood splattered on it. The mask was just an ordinary human face, very similar to the real face, not scary, but the facial features were rigid and dead, giving it a full zombie effect.

Samuel has watched some horror movies more or less before, and this kind of image setting can only be said to be the lowest level of horror, but in the eyes of Samuel who knows his identity, a "face-fearing camera" has been automatically added, It's as scary as if someone is about to die at a glance.

Samuel didn't choose to take the initiative to attack, and he didn't know whether this image was a cutscene character in this scene rather than the real Red Death, so he didn't dare to act rashly. After all, there are always many possibilities for the enemies that appear in the illusion.He wants to see how the Red Death kills people first, even if people die after he walks by, he must have the illusion that he can see through everything.

A man surrounded by people in the crowd had already noticed the existence of the Red Death, and shouted to stop. This man was the owner of the castle, a certain prince, and the organizer of this temporary refuge.He and other onlookers thought it was someone's prank, but they didn't know that disaster was coming.And the Red Death, as if he hadn't heard it, walked in the crowd with big strides, walking in the crowd like a stroll in a garden, and everyone avoided wherever he went.

He walked slowly from the white room, and then went to the purple room.The prince was furious and chased after him.Samuel suddenly recalled a small detail. In the original text, when the twelve o’clock bell rang, the prince was standing in the blue room at the far end, so the order of his pursuit was to leave all the rooms. in sequence until they stop at the black room at the very end.The Red Death walked through every room, perhaps just to spread the virus, but Samuel stood here because he thought the white room was the least dazzling, and the Prince and the Red Death also appeared in this room.

In other words, there is not much time left for Samuel to observe.They passed through the purple room, and then came to the black room, and before Samuel could do anything, he saw the celibate prince drew a short sword and stabbed the Red Death, but the sword didn't touch him at all, But he let out a scream, dropped the dagger, and he fell to the ground—he was already dead, face down, and there was no reason for his death.

The Red Death leisurely entered the black room, and Samuel followed him, holding a nondescript tripod.The Red Death stood next to the broken and fallen clock, looking down at the shattered wood residue and metal parts, a faint laughter sounded, so short that one might suspect it was a hallucination.But Samuel didn't doubt his hearing.The thing laughed, and naturally thought, holding the tripod in front of him, trying to say a few words of "polite politeness" in accordance with the usual pre-war practice, but there was nothing to say.

Anyway, saying nothing will make the Red Death destroy everything. Even if the Red Death really said something, it is just a prelude before the cat catches the mouse.Samuel was about to launch a wave of probing attacks. Before that, he had used all imaginable means of using power to protect his whole body. At this time, there was a commotion outside. The people, at this time mustered up the courage to rush in.

"do not come!"

Samuel called subconsciously, and then remembered that they couldn't accept what he said.The brazier in front of this room was extinguished by Samuel before, it should be extremely dark, but they could clearly see that strange figure standing there, so he watched the boldest of these people go Caught the Red Death, grabbed his blood-stained shroud and mask.They grasped tightly, but they were surprised to find that what they grasped were only cloth and masks. Those things easily changed their shape under their grasp, but there was no entity underneath them.

It's now—horror movie theorem, the event must find out. At the time of the victim's discovery, Samuel used a large restraint technique that spanned the entire room.Although he had forgotten that the Red Death was an invisible body, the Red Death also relied on the shroud and mask. If these things can be eliminated...

The effect of the restraint technique is obvious. The surprised people in this room maintained their postures, and the support of the Red Death was firmly controlled by him. Samuel could feel that only he gave the order, and the shroud and mask It can be easily destroyed by him.

He gave himself an order, and a large group of flames burst out out of thin air, and the surrounding air became slightly distorted, and directly attached to the mask and clothes of the Red Death. Under Samuel's gaze, they It's not the same as other things in this room can't be burned, but soon reached the point of ignition and burned, together with the hands and bodies still grasped on them, they were reduced to ashes.

When the shroud and mask were burned away, and he didn't see what was there after they disappeared, Samuel still didn't dare to be careless.Just now he did this kind of thing without using his brain at all, but now he faintly feels that something is wrong, but he has no chance to regret it.

Then, before he could think about what was wrong, the consequences of something wrong appeared.From all directions, there was a burst of laughter that couldn't tell where the sound came from. It was the same tone of laughter as before, but one could hear the obvious smug tone.His binding technique automatically expired, and the people standing in the previous position seemed to wake up, and soon discovered the disappearance of the Red Death and a few companions, and before they could think of anything to say, they all covered their own hands. The head screamed.

Symptoms of the Red Death appeared on their bodies, which turned the text into reality, and Samuel clearly recalled the original text he read before: The Red Death is characterized by blood, and the patient has severe pain and dizziness Symptoms, the pores will bleed profusely, followed by death, and the time from infection to onset is only half an hour, which is the most terrible plague.

But in the presence of Samuel, they didn't even have 5 minutes from the time they started screaming until they fell to the ground with blood stained clothes, and the effect of the plague intensified on them.And Samuel also saw a piece of scarlet pressing towards him, as if everything in front of him did not suddenly turn red, but a red filter was suddenly added to his eyes.Samuel was forced to fall to the ground, and at the same time quickly made an air shield to block the whole body, waiting with bated breath.

The range of this strange scarlet was not only aimed at him, it went out from the door of the black room and spread to other rooms. Almost immediately, when Samuel felt the pressure in front of him, he heard the sound coming from the door. The scream outside and the sound that stopped at about the same time.They were all dead, so the scarlet could finally concentrate on Samuel.

For the first time, Samuel felt that he was so close to death.It didn't take long for the air shield he built to resist it to fail and completely collapsed. The scarlet that became more intense passed through him effortlessly. He understood that this meant that this terrible plague had already infected him, no matter what he had before. What kind of calculations are futile in the face of such a terrible plague. He regrets that he once liked a horror novel so much, and hates why the novelist wrote it to harm him. At the same time, he feels that he is too stupid to think that others are It exists only by relying on external objects, it is just a literary technique of turning the intangible into tangible to exaggerate the atmosphere!

He compared himself, recalling the symptoms of the Red Death in his mind again.Severe pain, yes, so severe that he couldn't even find where the pain came from; dizziness, the world in front of him, the dark room and the scarlet that was already covered with non-stop flickering, he felt like vomiting; bleeding, this It was much more serious and frightening than the bleeding from the seven orifices, and it was so thin that the pores were the unit of bleeding, enough to make him imagine that he was a large fountain in a dizzy state, with springs everywhere, spraying jets of water unscrupulously.

The fantasy even amused him, and he tried to laugh but coughed violently from the blood that was pouring from his throat.This... is this going to die?The body quickly became weak due to the heavy bleeding, and his sanity could no longer be maintained.This kind of bleeding method, no wonder the death process was shortened to a short time.

but……

I'm not home yet, back to my real home.

I still have a junior high school diploma, equivalent to half illiterate.

I also want to... see my parents again, and see this lovely world again!