Nightmare Mythos

Chapter 85: Guardian Shelves

"AHHHH! Motherfucker!"

After just escaping through the relentless running in the previous hallway, Cesar finds himself sprinting in the same situation as he screams his lungs out.

Right behind his tail was a Nightmare, who was also running very hard to escape another being right behind its tail.

The one chasing the Nightmare and soon-to-be Cesar was a Frowning looking Shelf. Just judging the way it thumps its feet on the ground sending loud tremors nearby was heart-wrenching for both the human and the monster.

"Hmph!"

"Damn It!"

Not knowing if he had to worry about the Nightmare first or the Frowning Shelf, Cesar decided to turn sideways at the next intersection point, trying to shake away the two behemoths in his back.

There are three more other ways aside from the direction he ran onto and he strongly wished the Nightmare had ignored him and gone forward.

Thud—!

Alas as if the Nightmare had set its eyes on Cesar and not trying to lose its gaze at him, the creature took a huge turn in the side, running the corridor that Cesar went onto. Following its back was the same shelf that isn't ignoring the Nightmare anytime soon.

'Come on!'

Passing through hundreds of wooden bookshelves while pivoting into different kinds of corridors at every intersection point in a span of a minute, Cesar turned to another side of the corridor once more and continued running forward.

For now, he didn't have any plan yet aside from shaking off the pursuers on his back.

'I'll just continue running forward!'

Cesar saw another intersection point where five corridors led to different parts of the library but he decided to go to the middle part, relentlessly trying to test the pursuer's endurance.

Yet halfway through moving forward as he was crossing the intersection point, Cesar felt a presence on both his left and right side.

Whoosh—!

Cesar had no choice but to use his jumping power as he leaped through the air just to avoid those attacks that came from the sides.

Cesar had to forcibly stop thinking once he saw almost a very unnoticeable web string a few meters away from his position that he needed to pass through no matter what. Seeing that one had to jump from it, he prepared himself to take action.

Whoosh—!

As flawless and easy as he did, Cesar avoided the web string that looked like a trap from his eyes before glancing backward.

"Oh, come on—"

However, the corrupted humans, whether they were idiots, completely unbothered, or didn't just see the string, they went to cross it. Without knowing what it contained or what it signified, something started to shift at the walls of the shelves.

Before even one of the corrupted humans had time to react, a shelf moved away from its position and smashed the corrupted in a single punch to the ground.

Thud—!

The other corrupted barely even survived it as it jolted and doubled up its speed to catch behind Cesar.

As for the Nightmare, seeing yet another Guardian Shelf on its way, it barricaded itself using its hand while forming a power that looked like a shield before charging forward.

The Guardian Shelf which looked like an angry one, stand ground at its position and waited for the Nightmare to come to intercept its way.

"Hmph!"

With a grunt, the Nightmare slightly hastened its speed before bamboozling its way through the Angry Shelf.

Boom—!

With an enormous impact such as that, the Angry Shelf was thrown aside by the sheer power alone of the Nightmare before it continued running forward. Its eyes darted towards Cesar who watched it all in a slight fearful eyes.

'I ain't having any of that,'

Cesar then turned to the left to try to use the slight delay the Nightmare received from the Guardian Shelves but it wasn't enough. The corrupted human, followed up, unsure what it was actually doing on its life.

The Nightmare, having a petty attitude as it is, used the same way as Cesar and turned sideways.

However this time, two Guardian Shelves were chasing their backs.