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Chapter 2 - Pathway

What happened to my arm?

Of course Sin was in confusion, without his doing he defeated two travelers, travelers were meant to be the pinnacle of humanity and Sin without breaking a sweat defeated not one but two.

I need to get out of here!

His heart started racing soon more and more travelers would show and he didn't want to take any more chances.

His legs were moving fast, faster then ever before, every second he kept running his speed kept increasing but so did the worry in his heart. He just defeated two travelers TRAVELERS, anyone who even tried to touch let alone defeat one of them is a dead man.

As he ran he felt something, a ominous presence was approaching him. Sin stopped fear started spreading. Who was the person Infront of him? Was it a traveler? It could even be a monster, but no, this was way worse.

The person Infront of him was Nox, Nox the savior of time, the strongest traveler.

His eyes widened, what was he supposed to do? He met a foe stronger then him. A cold voice shook him out of his thoughts.

"That arm. What did you do."

Sin couldn't speak just seeing her made him fear for his life. But suddenly

Woosh

A loud metal clashing with each other was heard. It was Nox and Sin's hand clashing against each other.

"Hm."

Without any hesitation Nox quickly changed her stance pummeling Sin's lower body momentarily paralyzing him.

Another clash this time sending them both away.

"Wait!" She didn't.

Her strikes were more powerful more precise and deadly.

They clashed few more times each clash almost costing Sin's life. If it wasn't for his hand protecting him he would be dead in a moment.

I need to get out of here! She won't listen to me, but my legs won't stop shaking!

This fight would end soon with Sin being the one defeated. His arm sensed that. Out of nowhere his nerves were filled with some energy, slowly becoming one solid point in his arm.

Instead of defending him or striking a stance his right arm grabbed the space. And with one single swipe tore it apart, Sin couldn't even comprehend what he was experiencing, in this open space was a pathway. It was beautiful.

What he saw was generations of people, their houses cities ranging from modern to ancient, he was stunned. He couldn't understand this beauty, as he was admiring the pathway a powerful force sucked him into the pathway.

Sin was flying forward with his arm shattered seemingly out of nowhere, when he could finally think straight the pain and terror kicked in.

He was swinging his arms around like a fool, he had to calm him self down so with many deep breaths and alot of gaslighting Sin focused and grabbed onto something, he couldn't feel it but he knew he grabbed something, It was ancient Rome.

Sin blacked out for a moment, as he was "asleep" the information of ancient Rome "his" friends, the language his mother father all this new information about him, but it wasn't him it was the body of Aquila a hard worker with no goal then to praise the gods.

Sin woke up.

"Where... Where am I?"

He mumbled, Those memories weren't his it wasn't his body and he wasn't from here, what happened? There was no time to focus on these questions because Aquila had to work, like a command "Sin" got up and continued his work.

Wait, wait, wait, wait WAIT

I'm Sin! A lower layer class rat who entered a pathway of some sorts. I remember touching something, what was it? My ears wont stop ringing, shit. When I touched that I got these memories and body. I'm Aquila from the ancient Rome,

A sense of confusion and worry started forming in Sins heart, His arm — was it even a arm? It Forcefully sent him here, without any explanation or warning. His mind was being overwhelmed by the life of Aquila and the knowledge of ancient Rome,

His mind started to hurt, it wasn't any headache it was like thousands of knives were stabbing Sin.

"AUGH"

He took off in a instant the guards didn't even had a chance to stop him his legs were faster, Sin kept running he just wanted to escape to somewhere, somewhere safe and cozy, eventually Sin found something it was the colosseum.

Inside Sin hid in the far back he didn't want any unwanted attention. His mind kept hurting, nothing he did would stop the pain kept coming and coming.

Shit, shit, shit,shit SHIT, SHIT! What do I do?! AUGH I can't even think straight, I'm scared I'm so scared can just someone save me?

Sin cowardly though.

All of this is so worthless, my life is worthless, I don't have reason to continue...

Please... Someone save me.

His arm reacted.

I hate this, without anyone to care for me, shit, I'm so pathetic...

His arm reacted.

Someone please just help me, reassure me I'm not alone.

His arm reacted. His mind reacted.

??? Grabbed the space tearing it apart with a single swipe, ??? kept going and going, destroying everything, the people were being dissolved into the pathway, the buildings collapsing, screams of terror were heard everywhere.

Everything collapsed. Only ??? Remained. The impact was too brutal, his arm was bleeding from various places. Even thought the pathway tried to close itself the sheer size wouldn't allow it. Guards of the empire lunged at ??? Just to be evaporated.

All hell broke loose in the streets, nobody knew what was happening many were praying to the gods, some though this was the gods punishing them, only ??? remained, standing without a hint of fear.

He felt something, an unthinkable presence was watching him.

"Do not anger the £€¥¢£¥"

It wasn't a voice,??? Heard it but not through his ears it was deep in his soul, it was a warning.

??? Felt another strong presence, this one significantly weaker, the one who showed up was none other then Nox the Savior of time, ready for a rematch.

*

As both Nox and ??? Took their stances the air around them seemed to become more and more distorted, the pathways ??? Opened were starting to destroy the place.

I need to end this now!

Nox dashed forward ready to claw ??? Neck out, but instead she stopped,both of them were on guard with their stances ready to take each other's life.

As she started to get closer ??? Moved aiming for her face, thanks to her reaction she managed to block the strike, the blow shook her whole body leaving her stunned, ??? Took that opportunity landing a devastating blow to the gut.

"GRAH"

That punch made Nox realize this isn't any ordinary enemy.

"Fine then, let's turn up the volume."

With a single click Nox's body moved 10 times faster then before, she appeared behind ??? Landing a kick to the head seconds later she was gone, another killing blow to ??? Ribs then arm, legs, head over and over again.

Why isn't he going down?!

"Tsk, shit!" Nox staggered back as her equipment started giving up on her, — she went over her limit.

??? Was standing in one place bleeding from every place only for those injuries to get filled with the strange energy stopping the bleeding, Nox took her stance once more but then her eyes widened in confusion.

*

AGH, MY HEAD MY BODY I CAN'T...

I CAN'T CONTROL, AAAA, IT HURTS.

While Nox watched in confusion Sin was desperately fighting for his own, his head was pulsing, his body was in extreme pain he couldn't think properly Sin wasn't able to see out of his own eyes all he saw was the strange energy.

He slowly but surely started regaining control over his body, it wouldn't be that easy though.

Sin was paralyzed for a short time, Nox seeing that charged forward aiming for his neck.

The trusty sword she used for many battles was dissolved into peaces by the strange pathway that seemed to open out of nowhere, making Nox retreat.

"-tsk!"

Her time was running out, if she stayed here any longer her gear would force her back but with a high risk of killing her in the process.

She looked at Sin anger in her eyes, at this moment he was in his most vulnerable state if only she had more time, nothing could be done about it now, so with a pull of a string she was sent back.

As Sin opened a new pathway the mysterious force sucked him in once again.

Sin finally regained composure, but so did he regain his pain, the more he used his ability the more he shattered and abused his arm, just the sight of it made him sick.

All around him were cities ranging from modern to ancient, the more he traveled the more they changed until the cycle restarted.

Curiosity filled Sin, so he reached his arm to one of the time lines, as he reached out Sin was suddenly able to grab something it was as if he was grabbing the timeline it's self.

I need to get back, then I'll figure out what to do.

So he searched and searched until what seemed like a familiar building was seen, not even giving it a second though Sin reached forward and grabbed it, his vision went black.

After who knows how long Sin woke up, and found himself in the body of Victor, for some reason most of his memory was foggy, he couldn't recall how he ended up where he was but knew about his childhood.

"Ugh.... I won't ever get used to thi-"

When Sin tried to get up is body forcefully threw up blood making him colaps to the floor in agony.

"HUF, HUF, Augh shit! My body...."

The source of the pain was his arm and what seemed like pierced thigh with a deformed claw. What was the reason for throwing up all that blood?

My whole body won't stop, it's like I'm on fire. It hurts,hurts,hurts.

Sin couldn't figure out what was happening to him, as he felt his life slipping away the energy transferred to his stomach. What followed was 10 seconds of the worst pain.

"AAAAAAAAAAH, AAAAAAA."

Even if he wanted to screaming was inevitable, the energy was having a war with the thing that was slowly killing him moments ago. Sin was about to pass out when all of a sudden it disappeared.

"Huff.... Huff..."

Sin was gasping for air, he felt like a new Born baby. Still in agony Sin looked out of the broken wall next to him.

It was all in ruins, he didn't know if he was in the future or the past but everything was either destroyed or falling apart. The world was in ruins.

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