Chapter 12: Tortured To Death !
The story he gave was the truth but not the whole truth as he hadn't mentioned his massacre at silence. He mentioned he was on a mission to retrieve a relic for his organization and nearly was killed by the unusual Gaurdian spirit.
When he was escaping he neared where they currently were then felt all of the energy signatures. He also mention how he felt a calling that nearly possessed him and led him to the tablet, but when he got to the tablet and touched it, it just dissipated into thin air.
They sat there in silence for dozens of seconds before one spoke saying "hey silence what do you think about what this brat said" they received no response prompting another to say "Silence?" In a questioning tone causing them all to look at where silence was to see what was up with him not giving an input on the explanation the young man gave, but he was motionless unmoving as if he was a statue. That's when they all noticed everything even his cloths was unmoving ,despite strong winds being present, it was as if he was suspended in time. They knew something was wrong, so they looked back to where the young man was to see the same situation, it was as if he was suspended in time as well.
This caused all of the other three progenitors to release their spiritual pressure once again and what was originally silence and the young man dissipated into mere shadows, making the three recognized they had been duped. They all flushed red with embarrassment because beings of their level had been completely fooled without noticing anything at all, even if the culprit was a powerhouse at the same level as them.
"That brat must have been a dog of his" said one of the progenitors.
Somewhere in a pitch black place, there was a figure that had no skin, his flesh was completely exposed, yet the figure didn't make a sound. The figure had been tortured in every unthinkable way , yet he never made a sound. He had his skin removed, organs crushed, limbs removed and healed all over again repeatedly.
The figure was Horo, when the headmaster of silence escaped with him he had no good intentions to begin with, as that object was something that was believed to be able to help him ascend beyond mortality. He wondered how Horo had ended up at that place but he knew it couldn't have been good news because he was the one who gave the elders instructions to keep Horo detained in silence. He was already going to torture Horo to get the object but when he returned to silence he nearly killed Horo right then and there after seeing everything he built and all of his dogs he'd raised be decimated and massacred beyond belief. This led him to torture Horo in ways unheard of before, yet he couldn't get Horo to make a sound. Now the headmaster had decided to torture his soul, which was possible because progenitors can interact with the soul.
He first began just before releasing his progenitor's spiritual pressure upon Horo's soul which instantly mad his face crumble, he began to make grunts and breathe heavily. Next he put his hand on Horo's head and directly begin crushing his soul, Horo screamed and yelled to the point of sounding like a beast, this continued with continued bodily torture for months until his soul was about to crumble, and his body was barely sustainable because he hadn't had any nutrients, just healing products. Horo decided to believed in what he heard from his soul module about reincarnation after having his soul split as it couldn't be worse than what he was going through now. The moment he came to that decision, with infinite resolve he destroyed his heart and organs with his meager energy to disregard his physical existence.
The moment his brains was destroyed he heard a notification that he thought wouldn't be possible since the soul module was within the brain and should be destroyed as well.
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" Due to your extreme resolve your will power has broken through a threshold causing your soul module to melt and fuse with your soul origin."
"Tree of Tragedy fuses with your soul origin"
"Your traits has fused with your soul origin"
"Tragic lives spell activated, your soul will now be severed and each piece will contain a mark of your origin, may all the pieces of your soul persevere through tragedy and return to the piece of soul that holds majority of your origin."
After hearing that last notification, everything went black for Horo.
The piece of soul that held majority of his origin obviously held his consciousness since that is what the origin is mostly comprised of, and it just floated in what seemed to be pitch black void. For Horo it felt as if millions of eons was passing per second, even though he intuitively felt there was no concept of time and space currently as he floated in the darkness. After what could have been billions of years or only a couple of seconds, he suddenly felt his soul get snatched towards what felt like downward to him, then there was extreme light….