The bone-chilling appearance was screened in front of Samantha, Jiho, and Leon, as well as the others who proceeded to help the student that Samantha had stabbed to successfully land a strike and those who were in the Dark Prison just a mont ago.
Zebel's atmosphere was simply, but terrifyingly nacing. Her hair was shoulder-length and dark blue in color as though it was a sunless and moonless sky. Her eyes had different sets of colors, being a person with heterochromia as a side effect of possessing Chaos within her body. Her right eye was crimson, while the remaining eye was similar to her hair's color.
But what made Jiho, Samantha, and Leon falter and almost instantly beca fearful was because of the two sets of horns that gradually, but quickly protruded from either side of Zebel's head.
Two horns that were around twelve to thirteen inches in length. The horns' color was dark and transparent as shadows. It was giving off the vibe as though it was the symbol of her resentnt against Artorious' acts during the mysterious Trial of the Stars.
During that ti, although it wasn't Artorious alone who made the life-changing decision, it was still his final judgnt that brought forth its consequences.
'It will be all of your children that will suffer the pain.'
Zebel thought in a serious manner. This ti, she stopped bubbling anymore to provoke or instill subtle ideas in the heads of the horrified people, mainly Samantha, in front of her.
At that mont, a dark aura started to emanate from Zebel's body, causing the atmosphere, which was already heavy and suffocating, to beco heavier and more breathtaking.
Zebel floated midair, followed by her dark scythe which was now floating to her head.
[Activating the Skill: Dark Moon (SS )]
[The shades of despair will now devour this land.]
[The despair of the person will serve as their food!]
[The body of the person will serve as their drink!]
[The shades of despair will now undergo the process of "Despair Possession"]
In the dark sky of this imaginary Dark World, a dark moon, shining in resplendent dark moonlight, suddenly appeared on the sky. Then, a mont later, various shadow figures that didn't have a physical form spread out from everywhere.
These figures were ambiguous in nature. They could be considered ghosts or spirits, but one thing was certain despite what one could identify it as — their re presence was extrely disrupting the emotional and ntal state of Samantha and the others, sending them into great despair.
Acting on her previous words, Zebel commanded the nurous figures to possess, not Samantha and her companions, but the students who were recovering with the help of Elizabeth, Rumia, and Anya.
"S-Stop-!"
With Jiho's cry of despair, Zebel didn't even grin or mock him with his pleading, but rather, her expression remained cold.
This ti, with the intention of showing them what it ant to suffer, the playti was truly over.
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Since they were inside the imaginary Dark World and couldn't use any skills, the students who barely recovered run from their lives.
It was indeed a foolish act, but at the mont of fear, even those with various life-and-death experiences would have their rational thinking to be turned into turmoil.
So students, with Russell's party's doing outside the Dark World, were vanishing even before the shadow figures managed to reach and possess them.
But those who weren't fortunate enough had their lives taken away from them.
Instead of possessing the body and taking control over them sohow, a shadow figure, the mont it entered the body of the student, would tear the student's body apart from the inside.
Feeling palpable anguish, with Jiho and the other's eyes, in their vision of a seemingly hopeless situation, they saw the cruelty done to so students, who they didn't know, as their bodies exploded from the inside. The imaginary Dark World was now then dyed crimson.
It was a world that was made in black and red, the harmony of despair and blood.
Leon, whose emotion seed to be snuffed out of existence due to the possession of the miniscule amount of dragon's power from his Constellation, fiercely glared at Zebel in midair.
But at that mont, he saw Zebel's eyes staring back at him. Then, after a second or two, Zebel disappeared from her spot and suddenly appeared in front of Leon.
With her words, their eyes and ears were almost consecutively jolted awake as they seed to regain their senses, but they were still in the process of breaking down due to the fact that they were helpless, especially when they were revered as the strongest first-year students in the Obelisk Academy.
And here they were at this mont, puny and weaklings when confronted with reality.
"You are one step away from completely leaning to the other side."
After Zebel's words ca out from her mouth, Leon tried to slash her in close proximity, but miserably failed because the aura that Zebel was exuding beca more trendous, forcing them to kneel almost instantly. Their knees crashed on the ground, causing excruciating pain, and blood from their nose and eyes started to leak. They were monts away from death.
"S-Stop..."
Pausing for a mont, Zebel glanced at Jiho, who seed to be muttering the sa words repeatedly and intermittently.
'Did he already go crazy?
'I don't know him, but the fact that he's connected to the mysterious Alexander... I need to spare him or use him as leverage.'
Not only Zebel, but the other eleven remaining main heads of the Black Sky Disorder, were almost ignorant about Alexander's identity because he was a player who did not go under the mysterious Trial of the Stars, but for an unknown reason, his power seed to be as strong as, if not stronger than, Artorious.
Glancing around, Zebel saw Elizabeth, Rumia, and Anya, whose eyes were almost dead, but she did not command the shadow figures to possess them because they were the daughters of the players who were with Zebel in the distant past.
In other words, Zebel was originally a companion of them.
"Bring them in front of ."
With her cold words, the shadow figures brought the three with the rest. They were lined up at least two ters away from her. They were on their knees, looking at Zebel with myriads of expressions.
Samantha had a glimr of hope according to the words of the entity in her head that she would not perish; Elizabeth had a sliver will because she had yet to confront the truth behind her father's death; Anya had a longing expression, who seemingly wanted to just see her father at this mont; Rumia also had the expression similar to Anya, while Leon had an unknown expression, seemingly pondering the words that previously ca out of Zebel's mouth.
On the other hand, Jiho was still looking at the ground, repeatedly muttering incomprehensible words as though he truly lost his mind due to the effect of the Dark Moon that Zebel had called forth.
After a minute or two, as they lined up helplessly in front of her, Zebel muttered in a cold tone.
"... Fortunately, for now, you are the only ones alive."
Tears started to flow from Rumia's blue eyes as soon as she heard the words from Zebel's mouth. She didn't need to ask for confirmation because Zebel was soone who delivered the modern technology that sent the Articor in disarray, killing thousands of people in the process.
Similar to when she had learned about the disaster that was brought about by the Failure Penalty of the Tower of Growth, Rumia couldn't contain her tears as her heart and soul felt like were being torn apart. Her compassion for the people, except for those that deserved judgnt, was truly astounding.
"S-stop..."
"...What the hell is wrong with this one?"
Zebel irritatedly spoke, causing the others, although feeling despair and desperation to survive, to glance at Jiho's side, who seed to lose every care in the world.
Approaching and crouching in front of him, Zebel grabbed Jiho's black hair and looked at him intensely as though she'd drill a hole in his skull.
"... You're a lost cause. I was planning to use you in so ways, but I think it's useless now."
Still grabbing Jiho's hair, Zebel proceeded to smash his face on the ground. It was sothing that contained more power than when she had kicked them from the building before.
Bam-!
Zebel then stood up and turned around, seemingly waiting for sothing, specifically those who would respond. In other words, she was waiting for the parents of these students except Jiho. It's also the reason why she didn't kill them yet, but it didn't an she couldn't torture them in any way.
"S-stop..."
Zebel stopped moving as she turned her head slightly. Her face was painted with confusion because what she just did should have certainly killed the man in question.
Finding the situation peculiar, Zebel's expression turned more serious than what her expression was before.
"M-my people..."
Her heterochromatic eyes constricted upon hearing a new set of words that ca out of absent-minded Jiho.
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