In a dark dungeon, sitting in an open field, a knight dressed in pitch black armor and a ragged cloak torn and dirtied with blood, holds a long black blade with glowing blue engravings and the edge coated in blood.
"I am so very tired... I have spent so many millennia stuck in this prison," the knight said as he sat down.
Before him, the body of a dead wolf. But unlike a regular wolf, this one was twice the size of a man with half of its body infested with a white and purple fungus that rooted the skin.
"You poor creature, you have suffered so because of a war fought long ago," the knight said, laying a hand on the wolf's head.
"But you may rest now...How I envy that," the knight sighed before getting back up.
Walking deeper into the dungeon, he only had one goal: the creature that was chained down.
As he walked, getting closer, he ran into beast after beast, all corrupted by the disease, a blight—a disease born from the unstable aether of a dead god. Each beast came at him with such a lack of care for their own lives that he could not help but sigh. Knowing how much they were suffering, he cut them down in one attack, allowing them to die a painless death.
Soon after killing dozens of beasts of all types, he finally reached the changed creature thoroughly corrupted by the blight. An amalgamation of tentacles and limbs that grew from an eyeball that floated atop the body of a giant.
"Don't worry, you can rest now," the knight spoke in a solemn voice.
The next moment, the knight's blade began to glow a dark blue, and markings on his armor began to appear with the same glow. As the beast watched the knight glow with a blue light, he suddenly disappeared from sight. Before the beats could react, he felt a sharp pain more noticeable than the pain from the blight. As its eyes scanned its body, the beast realized that it had a large gash on its chest. Looking back up, the knight was back where he once stood.
"You're tougher than the others," the knight sighed.
Clenching his blade, he dashed forward. As he got closer to the beast, it swung down one of its tentacles in an attempt to stop the knight, but he easily dodged the attack and cut off the tentacle. As the beast launched more and more tentacles, they were all dodged and cut off by the knight, who moved like flowing water between each attack.
With the battle prolonging and the beast becoming injured, it no longer paid any attention to the pain; all it felt was fear. Before this knight, any wounds it gained healed instantly, but each of the knight's attacks caused its healing to stop and a burning sensation to fill its body.
"Have you realized, you won't heal if attacked by my blade. It was crafted to hunt down those afflicted by the blight. I know it hurts...and I am sorry, so I shall end this." The knight spoke as he began tracing runes onto his blade
[Divergent Rift Rune Activated]
Holding his blade up into the air, the knight took a deep breath as he did the atmosphere around the two changed. The air became heavy, and cold winds began blowing.
Seeing this, the beast knew that its life would soon come to an end. Even though they wished to live, they also wanted to die. The constant pain and the loss of their sanity were driving them mad. As the blight within their bodies attempted to take over and attack the knight, the creature's mind fought back, keeping their body still.
Clenching his blade, the knight swung his blade down in a single slash. His form was so perfect without flaw that it would cause any swordman to be awed at its beauty. But with that single slash, the space around the shifted, along with the shift, the beast was cut in half, and the surrounding terrain a few hundred meters behind it cut that same.
Releasing his breath, the knight looked at the body of the beast as the wind blew it away as it broke apart into ashes.
"Rest easy now, you don't have to suffer anymore."
[Deligian: Curroption Level: ★★★★★][Eliminated]
[World: Alduien: Currption level: 0]
[World finished preparing for next target...]
"Of course it spread to another, seriously, Null, what are you doing?" the knight sighed.
[Error! Error! Error!]
[New world not found]
[Curroptions spread has increased by 2.3874%]
[New Universe Currpted: DC Universe]
[Beginning Transportation]
"A new universe...wait, that-that means,"
[Yes, Lord Null has failed to initiate Protocall Zero]
[Force transfer beginning]
As the knight received these messages, his worst fear had come true. The being that forced him to fight these blighted creatures had died. Most would be happy with this, which means one of the most powerful beings would begin spreading the blight from its corpses, and now it was no longer contained to a single universe.
Before he could fully understand what was happening, a white light surrounded his body, lifting him up into the air. With that, he was transported away, leaving the worlds he constantly fought and purified.
[More information on the blight, the different levels of it, the war of the gods, and the background of the MC will come out as more chapters are released. Thank you and I hope you enjoy]