The world-devouring dragon

On the pillar, the girl in white clothes and skirt shivered in the cold wind, but compared to the coldness of her body, the fear in her heart was really approaching the limit.

"Crazy...all crazy."

She bit her lower lip tightly, and the fear that was spreading in her heart made her legs and feet weak.

In her sight, the elderly prophetess kept mumbling words, and the faces of the many North warriors following the prophetess were also full of excitement.

Thorbjorn, the most prim old man in her eyes, the bearded old man who she remembers taking great care of her, one of several clan leaders, is now blind in one eye and has a broken leg. I had to stand in the crowd with a cane.

The calmness and composure that once shone in his eyes were gone now. Instead, he was looking at the girl in front of him with enthusiasm, as if he was looking forward to the next sacrificial scene.

Paul, the young man who had just replaced the deceased former clan leader and became the new leader, was covered with scars on his body and face. It was completely impossible to tell that just a few months ago, he was still a tough guy who was often bullied by his fellow clan members. .

And he was looking at the girl coldly at this moment, without a trace of pity on his face...

Looking from left to right, from right to left, no one in front of the girl had even the slightest sympathy or compassion for her. Instead, they seemed to be impatiently waiting for the sacrifice to begin.

There is no doubt that the girl who was dissatisfied by her fellow tribesmen and ended up as a sacrifice obviously had reason to be afraid, but this was far from the reason why the girl was so frightened.

"Why...why can't you see it?"

The girl's glass-like pupils stared at the expressionless people in front of her, and her lips were constantly trembling due to excessive fear.

In her sight...

Above the heads of the people who were looking at her indifferently, there was something like a slender gray cloud, which kept flying upward and spreading. Finally, thousands of strands of mist gathered together to form a huge, seemingly non-existent thing that covered the entire wilderness. Mist.

This huge and unpredictable fog is entrenched in the sky, and something seems to be brewing inside. Just looking at the huge fog, the girl will feel a deep sense of despair deep in her bones. And the feeling of fear, just like a toad being stared at by a snake, the deep fear of being stared at by the cold eyes of its natural enemy made the girl feel extremely trembling.

However, unlike the deep fear in her heart, everyone seemed to be unable to see anything and turned a blind eye to this strange scene.

No, I should say...

They really just can't see it.

A few months ago, not long after starting the sacrifice, the girl discovered something was wrong. From then on, she realized that the mist was not a good thing.

And all of this...it seems that only she can see it.

She was scared and wanted to tell her fellow humans, but...she was a mute girl.

The defect of being unable to speak makes it difficult for her to explain to her fellow tribesmen what she sees. Her daily life is fine, but when faced with such a scene that is so complicated that she can hardly explain it, even if she desperately tries to dance, it is difficult for her to describe it to her fellow tribesmen. That's something.

And as the sacrifice progressed, under the girl's fearful eyes...

Everyone seemed to be changing.

Gentle people become violent, kind people become evil, tolerant people become rude, friendly people become aggressive...

In the eyes of the girl, the whole world seems to have gone crazy. Everyone is changing subtly. Whether it is personality or other things, they are constantly changing, but it seems that everyone except her is changing. He was unaware of it, taking all these changes as a matter of course.

But she, the only one who understood all this, could only watch in endless fear as her familiar and warm hometown turned into a strange place like a devil's cave.

She didn't dare to tell all this to her fellow tribesmen, because she began to be afraid of those fellow tribesmen who were becoming increasingly crazy and twisted.

She was so timid that after realizing that she was powerless to change all this, she could only hide in her bed and tremble in vain, not daring to say anything about what she had seen.

With her humble status, she was inconspicuous among her peers, and no one cared about her, so she saw a lot of things.

Clan leaders said that people began to die on a large scale due to the heavy snow, diseases and wild beast invasion brought by the darkness.

but……

Passing by a room by chance, she spied with clear fear through the crack in the door when she saw the clan leaders gathered around a corpse of their own clan that they claimed had been "dragged into the darkness by wild beasts", opening his belly as if It’s like a pack of wolves feasting on food, the greedy attitude of devouring each other, the fighting scene when fighting each other for intestines and lungs, the ferocious eyes with blood on the corners of the mouth when biting off the corpse, the bloody scene with corpse fragments everywhere and blood flowing everywhere...

It was impossible for the girl to be associated with those once generous clan leaders.

Under the seemingly normal appearance, there are those bloodstains that suddenly appear in remote corners and are quickly wiped away, those things that look like human fingernails that occasionally appear in meals, those that are getting more and more irritable and often because of trivial matters. A member of the same race who can get into a big fight over trivial matters...

Everything is making the girl feel more and more unfamiliar with the place where she was born.

The methods of sacrifice became more and more bloody and cruel, and with the sacrifice, the fog continued to expand and grow every day.

At first, it was just wisps of smoke-like things, but as the smoke gradually grew larger, eventually, all the smoke gradually gathered together, forming a huge fog floating above the head, covering the girl's head. Everything within reach of the sky was covered.

And finally, even though she was trembling, she was still pulled out by her fellow tribesmen as a living sacrifice.

…

Looking at the prophetess who was muttering a prayer in front of her, the girl's body could not help but tremble.

Not because of the cold wind at night, but because of the extreme fear that filled my heart, the kind of fear that felt like falling into an ice cave.

She couldn't understand why, but she knew it was definitely not normal.

"Who can help me……"

She wanted to ask for help, but as a mute woman, she couldn't say anything and could only open her mouth silently.

She wanted to struggle, but with her strength, she was unable to break free from the rope. She could only wait for the end of the sacrificial ceremony in fear.

No matter how long the prayer is, there is a time to finish it, and when the prophetess finished reciting it, she raised her head and looked at the top of her head, as if she was expecting something.

In the night sky, a gust of cold wind blew past, and then there was no movement, as if the sacrifice had failed.

However, looking at the cold wind, the prophetess murmured as if she was dreaming.

"It's coming..."

Following the words of the prophetess, the cold wind suddenly became fierce.

"call!!!"

The howling cold wind kept blowing in the wilderness, becoming more intense each time, blowing up countless dust and debris on the ground. In the nearby darkness, the panicked wails and whimpering sounds of animals were also heard running away. Voice.

"It's coming!"

The prophetess shouted excitedly again, her voice trembling with a bit of inexplicable excitement.

When the girl heard this, she subconsciously turned her head to look, and suddenly a bolt of lightning pierced the night sky...

"Boom!!!"

Deafening thunder roared in the sky, just like an angry dragon swimming in the sky,

In an instant, the sky and the earth were filled with daylight, illuminating everything in front of the girl. But looking at the "figure" standing in front of her, the girl suddenly felt creepy, her pupils suddenly shrank to a point, and she felt a sense of fear in her heart. It climbed to the extreme in an instant.

Her body involuntarily clung to the cold wooden pillar behind her, clenching her teeth tightly, as if the cold wooden pillar gave her a little more security than this crazy world.

In front of her...a humanoid monster was staring at her with its cold snake eyes.

Unexpectedly, her eyes had become like those of snakes, her face was covered with fine snake scales, and even her tongue had become like a long, narrow and forked snake letter. However, she seemed to be unaware of the prophetess watching her. , the expression on his face seemed to be trapped in inexplicable excitement and fanaticism and it was difficult to extricate himself.