Chapter 93: Underwater horror

Safo tried his best to focus his thoughts, usually, he meditated in a quiet room. But maybe due to the extreme situation he managed to get access to his Soul room in 4 minutes.

"Safo, I'm so glad to see you. I thought we would die there. What was that skill that you did? Did time reverse?" Luna jumped at Safo and hugged him tightly.

"It wasn't me. It was O'rmon. I'll explain later."

"Yes, yes, here it is." Luna handed over the bucket of water.

"Please hold it for now, I want to see it." Safo moved to the Soul Stone of the White-Black that somehow entered his Soul Room. Black planet with white lines and dots, a bit bigger than that Luna's, before destroying, was orbiting his own Blue Marble.

"How did it come here, I wonder? Good thing that it is sleeping. We will deal with it later, if something happens, run away, okay?" With that Safo walked to his water well circle.

Six water wells located in a way to create a circle were in front of him. Only one was open, he still had a tattoo of five flowers on his firearm. Safo couldn't wait to unlock all of them and use his resources to the full extent.

Safo took the bucket from Luna, attached the rob to it, and dropped it in the well.

"Why?" Luna voiced her bewilderment. It was perfectly fine water from the same well that she prepared for him. "Do you think I was trying to poison you?" Luna laughed.

"Haha. No, I'm going in." Without any delay and explanation, Safo dived into the well.

"Wait. What are you doing? You can die... Can you die here?" Luna had no other option than to wait.

Using the rope Safo moved downward. The water was clear so he had no problem navigating, and there wasn't much navigating to do inside the well. It was a long straight hole.

Safo spent a lot of time trying to unlock other wells and thought about new ways to try. For a while, he had a thought about the bottom of the well.

"Are they coming from one river and in fact it doesn't matter how many wells I open. Or all of the wells have a separate water reservoir and I will have different fire powers?"

He also had a hope that he could open the lids of the well by pushing them from inside. With a heart full of hope, Safo moved forward, downward.

After a short while, he saw the end of the well. Excited that his cunning plan could work he swam faster. When he reached the exit of the narrow tunnel of the well he found himself in a vast open aquatic space. The small piece of ground far away but it didn't lure him. Safo had a different purpose.

'Maybe next time I will explore this place.'

He looked up and saw six identical holes. 'Damn so it does not matter how many I open, it will only increase my Soul Gauging statistics. I won't have something cooler than I have right now. Oh well, it is worth trying.'

Safo Nur swam forward to the hole of the next well when he suddenly froze in place.

All-consuming fear stunned him. He felt that his whole world went dark and heavy. As if he was lifting the unimaginable amount of weight on his shoulders. Safo wanted to shrink, to be invisible, to hide from the depression.

His vision blurred, his limbs refused to work. He wasn't sure if he still had a heart in that spiritual form, but he definitely felt pain inside the chest.

His jaw started shaking, as well as his hand. Using all the power of his mind he tried to order his legs and arms to swim. He feared that the pressure could drive him crazy any moment if he stayed longer.

'What is this feeling?'

*Murderer*

Safo jolted when he heard a voice, he wasn't sure what or who was the source of the word but it felt as if the sound came from the water itself.

*We... are dead*

Paralyzed, Safo was panicking, unable to comprehend the situation. Somehow, tears came out of him, in the water.

*You...killed us* *Murderer* *I'm dead* *Help* *Why me?* *My CHILD!* *You are a murderer* *Die!* *You must pay* *Pay* *Pay* *You are not worthy* You are not alive* *They know* *We know* *We are watching* *You killed us* *Curses on you* *Curses* *We will wait*

Eyes wide open and full of tears, mouth wide open in unspoken fear. Safo hovered in the water right below the hole to the well. Unable to move, or do anything he was shocked to hear those words from the water.

Everything went dead silent as abruptly as it started but the terrible feeling didn't leave Safo.

The corner of his eyes caught some silhouette beneath him. Something big and dark swam towards him. Seconds felt like ages when Safo Nur moved his head to take a better look.

he saw the ugliest creature that he ever even could imagine. The size of the train, a long eel-like body swam straight at him. Its deep and blackhole-like eyes were hypnotizingly horrifying. The different parts of its elongated body constantly morphed, sometimes some strange patterns appeared on it, sometimes limbs grew only to be turned into dust and disappear.

Sometimes it had two long fish mustaches, sometimes it had the face of a human, sometimes its fins became longer. The bizarre monster from the horror stories made Safo tremble, waving the water around him.

But the greatest fear helped him to escape his daze, and he swam. He swam fast, as fast as he could.

He entered the well right before the eel monster banged its head at it. The sheer pressure made by the collision sent Safo catapulting from the well.

The lid was destroyed to pieces. The huge fountain came out of the water well bringing Safo Nur to the surface. Unfortunately, the fountain touched the Soul Stone of the White-Black that was passing by above it.

With a deafening screech, it woke up.

"It is up!"

'Fuc*! Give me a break!' Safo could only dream about some rest, to his body, mind, and emotions.

White-Black stood proudly on its small planet. It sent his sight to the Safo and spread its wings. A second later it was rocketing down.

Safo made a block with his firearms in front of him. He had no idea why he chose to do that. It was obvious that nothing could save him from a plane crash.

The beast gracefully landed before Safo and bowed its head, touching the iced ground with the tip of its jaws.

"Ze, obey, master."

Safo opened his eyes slowly. He heard a deep voice coming from the beast but didn't believe it.

"What?"

"Name...Ze. Ze, obey, master." Ze didn't move a muscle.

"Your name is Ze?"

"Yes."

"You can talk?"

"Yes."

"And I'm your master?"

"Yes."

"What the Fuc*?"

Ze remained still and quiet.

Luna came running. "It can talk?"

"Apparently, yes." Safo mimicked the short and deep voice of Ze.

"What are you doing here, Ze?"

"Master kill Ze. Ze serve master."

"Fuh, I thought we would have to fight him. Good talk, I gotta go Ze. Be nice." Safo didn't see the harm in Ze and didn't want to spend more time while Kutch, O'rmon, and Dost were in trouble.

When Safo turned around to get a bucket to drink water from the second well he heard Ze calling him.

"Master. Kill no Zo. Ze serve all time."

"Are you asking me not to kill your girlfriend? Why? She might end up here with you." Safo couldn't believe that a monster was trying to save the mother of his babies.

"Eggs live no." Ze tucked his jaw beneath himself bowing even more.

"Do not bow so much, raise your head Ze. Follow me, and tell me can I save her and win at the same time."

While Safo drank the water from the second well he listened to Ze's explanation.

"Alright, Ze. I will do what you said. Thank you. Bye for now."

Safo was about to leave the room when Ze called him again. Safo turned around. Luna and he squeaked a bit.

The Soul Stone of the Ze was falling upon the Blue Marble of the Safo.

"Wait, wait, wait."

BOOM!

Black stone with white pigments was crushed after the clash. In the next moment, the rock and dust pieces vanished from the sight turning into black, like oil, liquid.

The Blue Marble absorbed the liquid and the vicinity looked like nothing happened.

"I believed you even without that. You don't have to do extreme stuff. Anyway, see you." Safo waved to Ze and kissed Luna's chick and stepped out of the door.

Safo ran in a straight line through the darkness between the door to the outer world and his Soul Room.

"I'm back, baby. Is everybody alive?"