Chapter 117 - Episode 117: The Klagliaad Forest. (3)

Grisell and Francesca run toward William and stand behind me. Ivonna is in front of us and she's slowly walking towards the sound and take a peek. As soon as she peeks her head, she immediately turns around and starts to walk fastly towards us with her pale face while shaking her head.

Francesca looks at Ivonna.

"What is it?"

Ivonna looks at us.

"I don't know what that thing is, but it looks terrifying. It's a woman wearing a dirty long white dress and covered by dried blood on it. Her neck is crooked and she's grimacing while giggling at me. I can't see the eyes of that thing. She's also holding some kind of hook on her right hand."

William clears his throat.

"That's a ghost that is famous on the internet. It's a ghost that likes to gouge people's eyes and eat them... that ghost is hostile and harmful..."

We are all looking at William. Francesca then pointing at William's armor.

"Is that why your armor is covered with blood?"

William nods.

"Yeah... she gouged my eye when the first time I saw her running towards me. It's so painful... I tried to attack her but it did nothing as if she's just an illusion but can attack us."

We are gulping from hearing that story from William. Grisell then grabs Ivonna's hand.

"I think, we should run..."

We are running away from that thing that Ivonna saw. I wonder what is it looks like because Ivonna looks terrified when she saw it. But then we all realize that the ghost is not letting us run away from her. No matter how fast we run, the ghost can still catch up with us.

William's face is so pale right now. He explains it to us about the ghost and one thing that make us look at him with disbelief is that the ghost can't be outrun and the only thing we can do is keep running away from her. Even though she's just a myth that the people on the internet created, I can't believe that something that is made up by people on the internet would be a pain in the ass like this. They need to nerf this damned ghost.

As we are running away from the ghost, I look back to see the ghost's appearance, and I immediately regret my decision. That thing is way taller than me, her long and black nails are trying to reach us as if she's ready to grab one of us and gouge our eyes. Her feet stomping the ground very loudly as she's running towards us.

We manage to make some distance between us and the ghost. We drink stamina potion since we have been running for quite a long time. Then we hear a voice coming from in front of us.

"How many f*cking centipedes out here!"

"I have no idea, but this is your fear though, Em..."

It's Emma and Hans' voices. We are immediately run toward them.

We see Emma and Hans are killing centipedes that are crawling on the shrubs and on the ground. Francesca immediately calling them both. They turn around and their faces are brightened immediately, but William stops Emma and Hans from coming toward us.

Francesca looks at them both.

"You both need to run away from here! We are currently getting chased by f*cking hostile ghost!"

Emma and Hans are looking at each other and shrug. Then they both are running toward us and ignoring Francesca and William's words. Emma looks at us.

"F*ck ghost! I prefer getting chased by a ghost than centipedes!"

The ghost is getting closer and starts giggling. Emma and Hans' eyes are wide opened and look at something behind us. They both immediately scream.

Emma looks at us.

"I-is that the ghost?! Holy sh*t it's terrifying!"

We all look at Emma and Hans while nodding in agreement. Then we start to run again to get away from the ghost.

I look at Emma and scoff.

"Welcome to the club..."

Emma looks at me and punches my arm.

"Shut up! If you told me that the ghost is this terrifying, I would rather run into centipedes! Who's fear is that thing?!"

William slowly looks at Emma and raises his hand nervously.

"It's mine..."

Emma is covering her face and screaming in frustration.

"William! Why do you have this kind of thing in your head!"

William is laughing nervously.

"It's from the internet..."

Emma is squinting her eyes and staring at William. William is laughing nervously and looks away.

We are finally able to run away from the ghost. We are currently resting and eat something to refill our stamina and hunger. Francesca is checking the area with Ivonna. Emma is scolding William for the thing he brought to this forest. Now I know why we were separated back then, it's because of Grisell's fear of being alone in an unknown place or basically being lost.

Francesca and Ivonna are back from checking the area. Francesca is pointing at something behind her.

"Guys, there's a big space are up ahead. We should go there because it seems safe."

We all nod and then we are following Francesca and Ivonna.

We enter a big space that looks like a garden, and there's a big rock in the middle like the one from the entrance. We are walking toward it and read the writings on the rock.

[Everything just surfaced, and your journey is ending.]

[The beginning is now.]

They're looking at it with confusion. Emma then looks at me.

"What is that mean? Have we reached the end of the quest? Where's the item?"

I raise my eyebrows.

"I think you know. It's said that everything that just happened is just the introduction, and now it's the beginning of the real deal."

Francesca sighs and leans on the rock.

"Are you saying that we are going to experience those things again while we still have to look for the item in this huge area? It's said the journey is ending."

I shake my head.

"No. That's not it. This rock is one of the three rocks in this forest. one on the entrance, and another one is near the item that will give a clue where the item is and how to retrieve it."

Everyone is looking at me with confusion. I take a deep breath and look around.

"We took the wrong path, and now we are stuck in here and have to face our fear..."

I look at them and gulping.

"To put it simply, this rock is the bad ending one. This is the end of our journey. We failed..."

Grisell is holding Ivonna's arm and look at her.

"We should log out... there's nothing else we can do here."

I look at her and tilt my head.

"That's a really good idea, but if one of us logged out from the game, everyone in the party will be teleported to the entrance of the forest, and the quest will be count as failed."

Ivonna is checking her friend list.

"Chessi, Mike, and Leo are still out there. I will ask them if they found another rock on their sides. If they found the other rock, and we logged out from the game now. I don't want their hard work to go to waste. We must endure it for as long as we can."

Francesca is looking at Ivonna and sighs.

"I hate you so much for doing this to me, but you're absolutely right about it..."

I start to hear whispering. It's her voice again. We also start to hear giggling coming from the path we came from. The screeching sound of centipedes and their legs are coming toward us from all around us. Two figures that were haunting me and Ivonna are slowly forming. But there's something new is here as well. We can hear a laugh coming from above, it's coming from one of the three. Something is menacing at us with its red glowing eyes.

Hans turns around and looks at us.

"I think that's my fear. I thought that she would never appear, but I guess I was wrong."

Ivonna, Francesca, and Grisell are looking at Hans and then look at that thing on the tree. The three of them are saying the same word.

"Walpurga Hausmannin."

I look at Hans.

"Who is she? Is she hostile?"

Hans looks at me.

"Walpurga Hausmannin, the famous witch from Germany. She was accused of witchcraft in 1556, which exemplified this common occurrence. Hausmannin, a poor widow who worked as a midwife, confessed to sleeping with a demon and selling her soul to the Devil, in the hopes he would save her from poverty. She confessed to meeting this demon on several occasions, dining together on wine, and cooked babies. She committed crimes in the Devil's name: murdering forty children in her care as a midwife, as well as animals. She confessed to sucking the blood of children, like a vampire. For these acts, Hausmannin was sentenced to be burned alive at the stake. It's the legendary story that everyone in Germany knows about it."

Hans then looks at the witch.

"To answer your question, yes, she's very hostile..."