Creation Complete, a New Bond Obtained
Hearing the strange noises coming from behind the stone gate, everyone's hearts jumped into their throats.
Terror was like air to them, inhaled into their bodies.
It circulates throughout the body via blood circulation.
They wanted to escape from here.
But they are in the deepest part of their hearts, in a place they are unaware of.
They harbored a mixture of longing and curiosity about this place.
They wanted to see the civilization here with their own eyes.
Curiosity, like a delicious poisoned apple, made them overlook the hidden dangers.
Instead of fleeing, they stared at the stone door.
Step by step, step by step...
In this oppressive atmosphere, I slowly moved closer.
They pushed hard before reaching the stone gate.
Hehehe~
The stone gate made a sound.
Like ancient musical notes, a rhythm that is difficult to understand.
Once the stone gate is opened wide enough for a person to pass through.
Several mangled corpses rolled in from there.
Looking at the corpses, they felt a chill run down their spines.
These are their teammates who went missing earlier.
But now they're all here, and they're in terrible condition.
Frost, along with a thick, sticky substance, covered it.
The chest was opened and the organs were missing.
His distorted face and wide-open, angry eyes held a chilling despair and fear.
They could hardly imagine what these people had gone through before they died.
A howling, biting wind blew in through the cracks and lashed their faces.
They were pulled back from a state of fear and a continuous drop in SAN values.
Only then did they notice that behind the stone gate lay a snow-capped mountain.
They pushed open the stone door completely and went out into the raging wind and snow.
They were on the mountaintop, at the highest point of this snow-capped mountain.
There was a cliff just tens of meters ahead, and we were looking into the distance from the cliff.
Ahead lay endless mountains, and... a vast complex of buildings that filled them with awe and fear from the depths of their souls, representing a powerful civilization!
The massive, black, geometrically shaped boulder looks as if it has stood here since time immemorial.
The giant rocks are interwoven and complex, yet they possess a strange sense of order.
It formed a huge, labyrinthine complex of buildings.
It stretched endlessly until the horizon.
This is the land of the Elder Things civilization.
They could hardly believe that this place was far beyond their comprehension.
Madness burned within me like a rising flame.
What truly set the mad flames ablaze was their firsthand witnessing of the so-called Elder Things!
The figure of the Elder Things appeared in the mountains ahead.
Their absurd yet twisted bodies defied description using any known words.
Compared to the Eldritch Beings things they faced, they were Entity present, simply existing there.
But because they are closer to the Elder Things, they can feel that fear more clearly!
Their sanity was rapidly declining; madness filled their eyes.
Their perception began to become completely distorted.
Only the scholar and the Potions remained relatively normal, but at this moment they would rather go mad and completely lose their minds.
The man, who had gone mad, struggled to leap off the cliff and reach the other side.
The scholar and the Potions tried to stop them, but it was too late; they all fell off the cliff and disappeared into the abyss.
Just like the civilization that exists here, sacrificed to it.
The two of them began to flee, realizing that their supposed thorough preparations were utterly absurd.
They made a huge mistake from the moment they stepped into this place.
They ran out of the stone chamber, through the tunnel, but just as they were about to leave the ruins, they realized they had run out of the stone chamber and through the tunnel.
The snow-capped mountain where they were standing began to shake violently, and the ancient ruins and boulders they had passed earlier collapsed one after another.
They were at a loss as the snow collapsed below.
But this violent shaking quickly turned into rhythmic, undulating pulsations.
The accumulated snow and ice were all shaken off, revealing the black mountain rocks.
The rocks undulated rhythmically, sending up plumes of white steam.
Seeing this, the two of them felt like their brains were about to explode!
The giant mountain they trod upon seemed to be alive, its rhythmic undulations beating like a heartbeat.
The rising white steam looked like exhaled gas!
No... no... no!
A tremor ran through their very souls!
It is a living thing!
A twisted madness filled their eyes, and what they saw had become a completely different scene.
They weren't treading on black rocks!
A nightmarish, gleaming black form, its amorphous body writhing, flowing, undulating, pulsating...
Densely packed with green light, eyes resembling pus constantly formed and decomposed on the surface.
This is what forms the snow-capped mountains beneath their feet!
The mountains here are alive!
These are the creatures called Shoggoth, as depicted on those wall carvings, who lived alongside the Elder Things!
Their fate was sealed from the very beginning!
A final madness began to consume their reason, Potions, at the last moment, drank his own Potions in an attempt to resist.
But its massive, mountain-like body transformed into a black, viscous wave of flesh and crushed past...
Several days later, in the Steam City.
The high-ranking officials who had been waiting for the return of the explorers to the snow-capped mountains have finally welcomed their return.
However, their safe return was completely different from what they had imagined.
Of the team equipped with the most advanced and sophisticated weaponry, only one person returned.
He was a scholar covered in wounds, with a blank expression, lifeless eyes, and constantly muttering, "This was a mistake."
All the others are missing, so they can all be presumed dead.
All the high-ranking officials realized that a terrifying threat was lurking within those mountains.
But no useful information could be gleaned from that insane scholar.
However, the moment the mountain range is mentioned, the scholars become unusually excited and instinctively want to stop the others from going there.
However, the high-ranking officials unanimously decided to continue the exploration, at least to find out what was there and whether it posed any threat to them.
The scholar was sent to Arkham Asylum.
The mission to explore that massive mountain range is being planned once again...
Shen Hui witnessed firsthand the fear that the humans in the Steam City felt when facing the Elder Things.
Just as Shen Hui had predicted, fear and madness from the Mountains of Madness began to spread.
The people in the Steam City are exploring something new, something that could destroy their civilization.
I just don't know when they'll realize this.
Shen Hui's creation task has been completed, and it can be considered to have come to a complete end.
I checked the feedback from the Death World Will that I had received previously.
[Create a special area: Mountains of Madness 2414 km]
[The area of Land of New Life has expanded to 310 kilometers.]
[Create a new race: the Elder Things, Shoggoth]
[The Death World has been expanded, and the world's rules and will have been strengthened.]
[Gain new Origin Bond: The Unspeakable Race]