Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey
Chapter 135: Only Darkness

A few hundred meters away from the Lucas location, at the depth of Wilderness, One Humanoid monster and two people in Yellow and Pink costumes were fighting.

The fight seems to have reached its end as both hands Humanoid creature cut off from its shoulder.

"Lightning Bolt."

"Fire Explosion."

Both man and woman said at the same time that a fireball made of fire appeared in the hand of a woman and a Lightning Bolt at the hand of a man.

Both of them threw their Magic spell at the Humanoid monster.

-Boom!

-Boom!

It hit the mark! As both the fire bomb and Lightning Bolt hit the Humanoid monster.

The Humanoid Monster is dead!

"Finally we can start the real mission now!" Ken said as he walked toward the Alice.

"But-"

"Don't even start Alice, We are both at Silva City on an undercover mission but because of you we are behind the time."

Before Alice could continue what she wanted to say, Ken stopped her.

Alice becomes quiet as she remembers why she and everyone from her team are dispatched here.

"What about that kid?" Alice asked Ken as she remembered Lucas half half-face through the black mask.

Sigh

A sigh escapes from Ken's mouth at the ridiculous question about Alice.

"Sooner or later he will die if he stays near Doungen get."

It was harsh but it was also true.

'Poor guy.' Ken thought so, he would like to invite him to their organization but that kid would die by monsters before that happened.

"Now, let's hurry. We have to reach the mansion on time, if we are one minute late then we will receive a very harsh punishment." Ken said to Alice.

But before both of them took a step forward the ground trembled beneath their feet.

Ken's expression turns worse as the tremble grows as seconds pass by.

-Crack!

-Crack!

Grounds started to split apart, as trembling grew up.

"K-Ken...L-Look there...B-Bihinde Y-You." Alice pointed in the direction of where they came from, where S-rank Doungen was.

Ken looked back and his eyes widened at what he saw.

"T-Titan?"

He saw a titan.

Without missing a second he grabs his wife's hand and brings her close to him.

"Lightning Dash." Ken uses Lightning movement art of his.

A spark of yellow lightning appears on his body.

In the next moment, he disappeared from there with Alice in his hand.

His destination was a mansion, Where Nova Academy students were staying.

***

Lucas POV.

A realization came to my mind as I watched the leader of the demon eat other demons.

At first, I felt disgusted and dreadful as I watched demons begin to eat other demons' mouths but then something clicked in my mind.

Something unnecessary but necessary at the same time.

They are from the Titan Shifter race.

The Titan Shifter went out of existence after the war that took 50 years ago.

At that time Titan Shifters were one of the formidable demons that fought against humans and other races.

Their height, strength, and defence are all up to an [S-] rank despite their own Mana rank being at [A+].

One alone Titan was able to change the tide in that war, It was thanks to the current number-one hero in the world humans, Elves and drawers able to save themselves.

If not for him at least 80% of the population from all three continents would wiped out, leaving only 20% Population.

From this, you can imagine how fearsome the Titans were.

But I wrote in the novel that Titans went out of existence.

They were too powerful to be left alive after all.

There is only two way that Titan Shifter would be completely out of existence.

First, you have to kill all Titan Shifters which is practically impossible.

Second, To become a Titan, One demon Titan Shifter have to eat another demon Titan Shifter, and I'm not talking about one or two but at least hundreds or thousand.

That's the main reason they went out of existence, because if they want to become a titan they have to eat their kin.

In the last war, they ate all of their Kin, So demons could win but they failed to do so because of one man.

But they managed to weaken humanity and everyone at that time.

'So these demons must be last of their kin.'I thought so as the last demon entered the mouth of their leader.

Demon closed his mouth and with a wide smile on his hideous face looked up at the sky as a rainstorm hit him.

"Soon everyone will know our existence, they will fear us...again. It's all for our 'MASTER'."

The demon shouted, his body began to change and dark energy gathered in his body like a cacoon.

All of the dark energy he gathered from his kin, entered its body, and his body grew at the imaginable rate.

The demon, human-like skin shades away leaving only flesh on its body.

Soon enough 60 meter Titan was standing in front of me.

A moment later, I suddenly came to my senses, shrugging off the dread and awe of witnessing the enormous creature...

My legs trembled as I watched the real demonic Titan.

'I should get to the hell...O-Out of h-here.'

-Crack!

-Split!

I took one step backwards ready to run but my foot landed on a branch of a tree, and the branch broke under my foot.

'Fuck...'

I look back to Titan, and what I replace sends a chill back down my spine.

The titan was staring back at me, with his blood-red eyes.

'Come on how the heck that it make sense that that enormous Titan could hear the sound of a tree branch breaking in this heavy rainstorm?'

The Titan raised his enormous leg and like some football player brought his foot down at me.

"Luminous Glide." I activated the second movement Stellar stride, hoping that I would be able to dodge that foot.

With a burst of speed, I disappeared from there, I thought I was able to dodge that kick but I was wrong.

-Bang!

I don't know how but Titans one of the fingers brushed against my back and like some canon ball I hit many trees and found myself stuck in the wall.

My lungs were crushed, same goes for my back, all the bones in my body were crushed into dust.

My senses became dull and I found myself at the death door.

Then, there was only darkness.

***

Lucas was very close to dying.

Being dead... wasn't too bad, all things considered.

More or less every bone in his body was shattered. His rib cage had caved in, and sharp bone fragments were piercing his lungs. His limbs were twisted at unnatural angles, and his skull had cracked. There was excruciating pain, but it went away almost immediately, since his spine was broken, and his spinal cord was severed.

The world was dark and silent.

It was almost comfortable, if not for the terrible cold.

Lucas was very, very cold.

'Is it supposed to feel cold when someone dies?'

He didn't know, of course, he died back on earth but at that time Lucas felt like he just woke up from his sleep and found out that he was inside of novel.

Many useless thought comes to his mind.

His parents, his sister from this world and his parents from back on earth.

Sadly he can't remember the face of his old parents...

The funny thing is that in those Useless thoughts, there was Sunny.

He will miss that idiot.

Then there was the image of Evelyn.

He doesn't know why he is thinking of her at this point.

Since coming to Nova Academy he always had an awkward relationship with her.

But later he found out that he was her Ex and some of his memories were sealed or erased by someone.

Lucas thought he would solve the mysterious past he had with her and somehow mend things between them.

"Ha, what fuck shit life." Lucas bearly managed to utter the curse.

Lucas opened his one eye and glanced at its surroundings.

The Titan was nowhere to be seen, but the weakening tremors that shook the world from time to time told him that the Titan was walking away, heading to Silva City. Unable to move,Lucas imagined letting out a sigh.

'...What luck.'

He might have died, but at least the giant had not stepped on him.

Lucas tried to move his hand but found that unable to do so.

Most of Lucas's bone was crushed by the force of the attack.

If had not activated his movement art, Lucas would die on the spot.

His lone eyes glance straight ahead, In the distance of the S-rank dungeon gate.

The gate still stood unfaceted by all the commotion going on this side.

Soon monster crawls out of the gate, and then another monster follows behind him.

'Looks Like I will die this time for sure...'