Title Crimson Eternal Book 2 Chapter 79 ✅

Chapter 79 Aria Everything I’ve heard about Vest has been... pretty bad. The world was completely destroyed by Pestilence. Everything on it plagued, poisoned, or diseased. Killed in a slow and drawn out way, including the planet itself. Which honestly seems to be falling apart in places. The only person who still lives here is Pestilence. No one has the coordinates to the planet and there aren’t any Gates here. Pestilence is just known to make his own temporary portals here using pestilence energy. Which makes me wonder if I’ll be able to make portals with death energy in the future. Either way, the horse just kinda gallops through the air towards a large castle on a barren cliff as I try to digest everything that’s happened. Ignoring the fact that Pestilence is still holding me in a princess carry. While somehow ignoring my existence despite that. Not sure if I should be annoyed by how he’s carrying me or annoyed by being viewed as nothing but a test subject. But at least he got me out of that eternal hell. Can’t really see his poisons being much worse than spending an entire year nonstop dying. Still odd how it feels... so distant. Like the trauma happened a while ago. Like it’s already been healed mostly. So weird... I shake my head at the thought before remembering the absolute devastation brought about by Pestilence’s arrival. How long did he fight with the Hive queen? Did he kill her in an instant? After a long battle? What happened? I can’t help but frown at the lack of intel, but once we make it to his little castle, he just kinda unceremoniously dumps me on the ground and begins walking further inside while saying, “Follow.” Rude.
But I do so, because this is the agreement Shirogane made. And I would much rather be poisoned by him for a couple weeks than killed for years. To my surprise, I actually find some people working in the castle. Only for them all to run away the moment Pestilence gets near. They don’t actually look like they’re sad or upset or anything though. Maybe a little sickly, but not deathly sick. And they actually look happy despite obviously running away from Pestilence. Then again, everything I’ve heard about him is that if you leave him alone and have nothing to do with his current experiment, he’ll ignore your existence entirely. So he won’t bother you. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s just ignoring them and they’re just avoiding running into or bothering him. A rather odd setup, not gonna lie. None of them look too surprised to see me other than what I’m guessing is the fact that I’m following him willingly. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s brought other test subjects here unwillingly before. Either way, we continue through the castle until we arrive at a large lab where he says, “Don’t bother me for five minutes. I’ll be preparing the first and most urgent poison to use on you.” I nod my head before glancing around the lab, feeling a little surprised that he’s just letting me roam around without anything binding me or stopping me from messing with stuff. Not sure if that’s just his apathy, the fact that I’m also a Horseman, or what. Don’t much care either way though. The five minutes pass by rather quickly before he returns with a syringe filled with some sort of strange purplish blue liquid. A color similar to some time magic I’ve seen. A very rare magic that can’t really do much beyond seeing the future or the past, or maybe reversing time on an... object... Wait, is he- He sticks the syringe in my arm faster than I can react, following which a burning pain spreads throughout my entire body and I almost instantly black out. When I wake up again, I find myself lying down on a slab of stone without any pain. Huh. Interesting.