Chapter 313: My Father Is Everywhere (2)
The Dragon Knight who had escaped Keter went straight to the royal palace to find Rukan.
“...?!”
The garden where Rukan stayed was uncanny. From the outside, the inside was visible, but the moment the Dragon Knight stepped inside, a dense gray fog swallowed everything, and he couldn’t see even an inch ahead.
“W-what is this...?”
The Dragon Knight tried to return the way he’d come, but no matter how far he backed up, the entrance wouldn’t appear. Even when he sprinted at full speed, it felt like he was just running in circles. The only things visible were the gray fog and flowers in vivid, unnatural colors.
“Ha... Ha...”
In that place, even his sense of time began to warp. He couldn’t endure even ten minutes; those ten minutes felt like ten hours. Just as the Dragon Knight’s mind was about to snap...
“Come.”
Rukan appeared abruptly within the fog.
“Your Highness!”
The Dragon Knight whipped his head toward the voice. Instead of moving forward, he only walked backward. The voice was unmistakably Rukan’s, but what stood there was an abstract, inhuman presence. The texture and colors were like something that had just stepped out of a framed painting; it was not of this world.
Rukan, who once moved about in a wheelchair, was nowhere to be seen. Mounted atop a grotesque amalgamation of human flesh and octopus-like legs, Rukan himself was covered from head to toe in teeth and eyes.