Legendary Shelter Survival Guide

Chapter 162 Mark of the Damned (1)

Everyone kept looking at the dark, hoping to see a silhouette or hear something again, but it was like nothing was there now.

For a few minutes, there were no sounds or visuals even when Lucas had activated his perceptive eyes.

"If my perceptive eyes were higher level, then I could have seen the thing already I think."

"What can't be done, can't be done, Lucas. Let's just leave."

"..." Lucas looked in the dark and a part of his being told him that he was missing something, that he had to fight this thing out of no reason other than how it messed with him and Mike's brain.

"Lucas, it's not worth risking our safety over something we can't even see or understand," Sandra's voice carried a mix of caution and worry. She had seen the creature with a better perspective than Lucas.

"I could feel suffocation from this one, and I meet a lot of ghosts but this one is beyond me. It's like the evilest thing I have ever seen." She continued in order to get inside everyone's brain to move forward.

But Lucas remained silent, his mind working furiously. He felt an inexplicable urge to confront whatever had invaded their minds, a determination to fight back against its influence.

"Lucas, we're with you, whatever you decide," John said, his voice a blend of support and confidence.

The group stood there, the tensions high.

In the midst of uncertainty, Lucas's thoughts raced. He recalled the feeling of fear and helplessness when the voice spoke to him, the sensation of being controlled by an external force. He couldn't shake the belief that there was more to this situation than meets the eye.

'We really can't do anything huh...' Lucas thought and he was right.

The creature could not be even seen much less they could confront it.

Lucas knew by fact that things were more serious than the one in the undead dimension. There, it was possible to look at the ones he had to kill but here, it was some sort of a mind game.

The thing in the dark was trying to get them inside the dark in order to do something to all of them and Lucas knew it was not something good anyway. Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire

"We will leave. Mike, can you run now?" Lucas asked the question to the one who had just got up on his feet again, Haley had already fixed him mostly and MIke could now see the situation before them.

A talk with him made them all realize that the main culprit for being manipulated by getting debuffs was really by getting inside the darkness. For Mike, when he panicked and accidentally went inside the darkness, he felt a very odd feeling.

At first, it was heart-stopping fear but then, it became some sort of desire on his own. His mind seemed to have started to daze and now he had started hearing things.

According to him, Mike couldn't tell what the sounds were but he was slightly sure that it was the group shouting his name and screaming.

Yet just after he realized this, he started hearing something more prominent, and in a single second, he knew it was his dead wife calling for him.

Mike lost his composure and just started marching without caring that he couldn't look at anything, it was like it didn't matter whether he opened his eyelids or not.

That was when he met Jerry in a half-sleep state and he remembered nothing about there confrontation that Jerry told him about.

"Yeah..." Mike responded with a slightly distant expression and Lucas nodded in response.

John and Ella nodded in agreement, their determination reignited by Lucas's words. They had faced countless challenges together, and this would be no different.

As they continued to run, Lucas's mind raced. There had to be a solution, a way to break through this endless darkness and find their escape.

Another half an hour passed but Lucas and the others still ran to the best of their abilities.

"Fuck! How much more?"

"Mike, shoot in the front and all the directions!" Lucas ordered that MIke obliged in a second.

He shot in all directions, the bullets made out of the fire went further and further and nothing happened.

BAM!

Lucas's eyes darted to the left, there, in front of him, a blast was taking place right in front of his eyes.

"M-MOve there!"

"You can't go anywhere! I command you to stay here!" The hoarse voice surprisingly shouted from the darkness behind them.

Yet Lucas did not have the time to take his words to any heed. He had actually found something that could get him out of there if things were to be all good.

The figure in the dark exuded a lot of bloodlust in the hope that even a single person gets left behind yet everyone ran.

Nobody said anything but everyone understood the assignment, they needed to run or else, anyone could get left behind.

After a single minute, Lucas saw something with his perceptive eyes, before the dark even faded, he saw a glimpse of something like a gate.

"STOP!" Lucas said which made them all stop frantically.

"What?"

Everyone had desperation written all over and they kept looking at Lucas with various emotions.

"We're here..." Lucas looked in the front, his eyes were glowing.

While no one else could look at it, Lucas was already staring at it with a grin.

It was a pitch-black gate with a lot of darkish aura seeping out of it.

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Author's note

It may be getting a bit boring but it will be ending soon! Stay tuned, readers!