Draconic Pets Evolution System

Chapter 250 The Wailing Abyss

Dark.

Pitch darkness.

A sense of loss.

"Just how long have I been falling?"

Ryuk couldn't tell.

Seconds?

Minutes?

Hours?

Days?

Months?

Years?

Time was slipping through his fingers, stretching and twisting like dying embers in the wind.

He reached out, but there was nothing.

No ground, no walls, no sky.

Only the abyss, seemingly swallowing him whole.

But one thing kept him anchored, grounding him to reality—his heartbeat.

A steady thump that grew weaker with each passing moment.

The cold wasn't just physical; it gnawed at something deeper, something beyond flesh.

Like the kind of cold that seeps into the cracks of the soul and hollows it out from within.

And what was worse?

The Silence.

It was maddening.

Not the quiet of solitude he had felt in the forest, but the absence of his own existence itself.

Even his own breathing refused to echo in it.

But just when his consciousness began fading, devoured continuously by the abyss—

—he sighted something.

A flicker.

A sensation at the edge of his mind.

And immediately, he awakened, realizing a truth he wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad about.

"I'm not alone..."

His thoughts betrayed him, but he had no time to dwell on them.

Then—

The Wailing Began.

A single voice.

Broken.

Hollow.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

A scream so raw it scraped against his soul, yet somehow, it ignited a flame within his dying heart.

His heartbeat instantly sped up, his hair standing on end.

But then—

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Another.

Just as bone-chilling as the first—if not worse.

Then another.

And another.@@@@

The chorus of agony grew, twisting through the vast emptiness and gnawing into his soul like claws.

The screams weren't distant.

They were everywhere.

Inside his ears.

Inside his skull.

Inside his very being.

Retching through his soul.

He gasped, but his breath came out hacked and wrong, as if the abyss was trying to steal it away from him.

His hand clawed at his hair—

The horrific creatures had been freed from their shackles.

And now—

The chains that held them were flying toward him with terrifying speed.

From above.

Like an avalanche, they surged for Ryuk.

And he moved—

Barely.

Swiftly shifting his weight, dodging them—

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—but the true horror came when they reached for his neck, his wrists, and his ankles.

The creatures—now freed from their silence—

—fell toward him, their decayed hands outstretched, seeking his body.

And then—

Realization dawned upon Ryuk.

He looked into their wailing faces.

And beneath their expressions of agony—

—he finally saw what lurked beneath.

A mask.

A mask of intense stillness and unchanging emptiness.

"They... they don't just seek to bind me..."

Ryuk's eyes widened in horror as the creatures closed in.

He could finally see beyond their twisted, screaming faces.

Beneath those wailing mouths was another face.

A second face.

One carved with only sinisterness and maddening desire.

"They... they want to make me one of them!"

Today, after countless years in the abyss—

The Forsaken Chains had finally found their next victim.

"FUCK OFF!"

Ryuk roared—

—his voice filled with disgust and rage as his fist slammed into the face of a creature.

His hand pierced through like a knife through butter.

Rotten brain matter splattered as the creature released its final gasp, granting Ryuk a breath of space.

And he inhaled deeply.

"I might have lost all my abilities... but I still have my physical strength!"

Ryuk's eyes shined with sudden realization.

But as he looked—

They were still coming.

More and more, soaring after him, their grotesque figures twisting and writhing as they hunted him.

He knew he had to act.

Now.

Immediately, Ryuk moved.

Throwing down his arms, he folded his body inward—

—tucking himself into a natural point before suddenly—

—he expanded.

His body snapped outward with force.

And instantly—

The hands that were holding onto him were ripped from their owners.

Detached from their sockets, they spiraled into the abyss, severed.

And then—

CLAP!

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