Chapter 236: Hello darkness my old friend
Cass felt himself shiver as he opened his eyes and couldn’t see anything. He hadn’t noticed the temperature here before, but it was a little chilly and he rubbed his arms.
Then, a warm, soft breeze carrying the scent of cherry blossoms filled the room and Cass shivered for a different reason.
"Our brave warrior. You conquered your first dungeon! Tell us, what do you think?" Cass didn’t need much experience to realise that he was speaking to the motherfucker who stole his emotions, promised him more magic, and was the ’manager’ to the other ’gods’. He felt his fists clench, wanting to just shout and scream and cause a scene, but he also kind of knew that it wasn’t going to get him anywhere.
Who else could the manager call? The owner?
Cass really didn’t want to meet the owner. He kind of felt like there was no turning back if that happened, and honestly? Now he just wanted to get as far away from them as possible, with as little interaction as possible. He had viewed them as like an annoying saving point before but now? Now they were like a fucking mico transaction game.
It always fucking cost him something interacting with them.
"It was fucking awful." Cass told them, his words dripping with anger. "Everything was fucking awful. Do you guys have a damn rat, or are the demons able to look into you and see your worse fear because I had to kill myself." Cass complained and the warm air stilled for a second, before it came back.
"Well, some are capable of doing so, but they shouldn’t be able to get through our barrier. What do you mean you had to kill yourself?" They asked, the genderless voice taking on a harshness that had Cass swallowing. Uh oh.
Was Cass right when he had thrown out those words in anger? Why was this continuing to happen? He was just speaking his mind, and yet it kept being damn accurate.
"Just as I said. I had to kill the old version of myself, the way that it happened." Cass told the ’god’. "It was the construction site remade into a mini boss room." Cass said, before he asked the obvious follow up question. "Are you...not allowed to see inside of the dungeons?" He asked and the wind whirled around him.
"Caspian, you should know that we can’t see everything. There has to be some balance to the world, which is why we brought you here. You are to help balance this world. Demons aren’t allowed to see into our temples, and we aren’t allowed to see into their dungeons." Cass was surprised that they were considered equivalent. Did that mean that dungeons could be places of worship for demons?