Mike twisted and turned as unspeakable levels of pain ripped through his body.
" ahhhhhhh! That twisted voice can hold its rewards for all I care. Why subject someone whom you want to reward to such levels of pain?" He asked aloud as pain induced fury clouded his mind. Instead of abating, the storm of pain only grew worse....
" Ahhhhhhhhhhh! JUST STOP IT ALREADY!"
....as though the emotionless, disembodied voice was punishing his defiance,he felt as though a sinister yet invisible doctor was cutting him up muscle by muscle and tearing bones one by one out of him without care or precision.
The pain abated for a while as though whatsoever or whosoever was dishing out the pain had run out of steam. Feeling the near disappearance of the pain he was experiencing, he opened his eyes on instinct….
" NOOOOOOO!"
....only to see his body stripped of all flesh. His circulatory system and his digestive system were still within his skeletal frame but every other thing had been stripped clean. Even worse was the sight of his filleted flesh all around him induced a horror in him that cleared the thoughts of his painful ordeal from his current train of thoughts. In fact, his mind blanked out as he saw his dismembered body. Then, as if punishing for gazing on what was not to be seen, the pain came again at greater levels, hitting him with the force of a bullet magnified to the size of a high speed train. The next torturous pain he experienced came in sets and in increasing levels.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH"
He tried to open his eyes to see what other macabre thing was happening to his body only to discover that he has lost his sight….
"JUST WHAT IS HAPPENING TO Mugggghhhhlll!"
…..then he felt as his tongue was ripped out making him to loose speech mid-sentence. He felt as blood filled his mouth, before pouring out rapidly from the sides of his mouth. Then he felt his cheek torn from his mouth alongside his digestive tract. In between his clouded mind, a fractured thought popped.
' why...ca….n't...i...wh..ats…keeping…..me…alive?'
In that moment, images flashed passed his eyes. It was not moments of his life flashing past his eyes. Rather, it was a series of strange memories that floated to the surface of his consciousness;
The first one he saw was that of a brown skinned, Elt like, male creature bearing a great war axe standing on a tall hill and looking down on the encampment of an enemy with burning, golden eyes. Then the memory faded as a series of other memories took its place. In each of these memories, the axe bearing creature cut down its enemies, or any one foolish enough to stand in opposition to it with the ease of one axe swing as billions of runes that changed colors with each vision burnt brighter and brighter on its skin with each kill. This continued until the radiance coming from them wreathed and encapsulated its whole figure. Then, in each of these visions , as though it reached a certain threshold, the light encapsulating the creature, erupted with a much more blinding brightness akin to that of a supernova filling up everything in each of the visions. When the light cleared in each of these visions, the creature, along with it's axe had greatly changed in appearance.