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nNick slowly opened the plates again, and a couple minutes later, they once more looked into the sewers.

nJust like the last time, the sun illuminated a big spot on the surface.

n“Parasite, we’re ready!” Wyntor shouted.

nThe two of them waited for nearly half a minute.

n“You’re ready?” a rat asked after popping its head out of the water.

nWyntor and Nick nodded.

n“We prepared a corpse to lure it out as well,” Wyntor said.

nThe rat just snorted when it heard that. “One last meal in freedom, eh?” the rat commented to itself.

n“Sure, that should work,” the rat shouted. “The guy is currently roaming around the Dregs below the surface. If he feels a corpse, he will quickly come here.”

n“Good,” Wyntor answered before turning to Nick. “Are you ready?”

nNick nodded and threw a rope down.

nThe rope unfurled until its end touched the liquid of the sewers.

nNaturally, Nick needed a way back into the warehouse, and this rope would be his way out.

nThen, Nick and Wyntor looked at the Parasite.

nSilence.

n“What?” the Parasite asked.

n“With you here, I can’t use my ability,” Nick said. “You know that.”

n“Pfft, you don’t need it,” the rat said with a laugh. “The guy is a Possession Specter without a useful ability. Even more, the guy is only an Early Hatchling. Fighting him is like fighting an angry table. Trust me, I’m not going to ruin my future relationship with Dark Dream just to see you die.”

nNick furrowed his brows and glanced at Wyntor.

nWyntor just shrugged casually.

n“Alright,” Nick said carefully.

nThe next moment, Nick went away from the hole and grabbed the corpse.

nSplash!

nNick hurled it into the water, and just a bit later, he saw it float on the surface.

nSilence.

n20 seconds passed.

n“Is it coming?” Nick asked.

n“No idea,” the rat said. “I tend to keep my minions outside of the water. It’s not very healthy for them. But he should be on his way. Give it a minute.”

nSilence.

nThe three of them just looked at the floating corpse.

n“Oh, there he is!” the rat suddenly said.

nThe next moment, something white slowly rose out of the sewers beside the corpse.

nIt was a pristine white bandage!

nA moment later, several more strings of bandages rose out from the sewers.

nSlowly, they wound themselves around the corpse, and just a bit later, the corpse began to submerge.

nNick took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes.

nThen, Nick jumped into the hole.

nSPLASH!

nNick hit the water beside one of the bandages, and he immediately grabbed it.

nAs soon as Nick held it, he felt a strong pull, and he immediately got pulled below the surface.

nNaturally, the water was just as disgusting as the last time, but Nick didn’t have the luxury of feeling disgusted right now.

nHe had to capture the Screaming Coffin!

nNick didn’t let go of the bandage, and he quickly got pulled more and more into the depths.

nSuddenly, several more white bandages appeared, and they started to come towards him slowly.

nLuckily, the bandages were very slow. It was almost like the Screaming Coffin didn’t feel any urgency or anger.

nWhich was actually the case.

nAs a Possession Specter that possessed an object, the Screaming Coffin didn’t even really have a consciousness.

nIt had the same level of consciousness as a cell.

nIt just followed the most basic instincts.

nRIIIP!

nSuddenly, one of the bandages was ripped off as Nick pulled on it.

n‘What?’ Nick thought in shock. ‘I ripped it already?!’

nThat was when Nick realized that he was a couple of meters below the surface, which meant that neither Wyntor nor the Parasite could perceive him.

nAt this moment, Nick’s body was over 15 times as powerful as the body of an average adult male, and the Screaming Coffin was only an Early Hatchling. 𝑟𝘢.𝘤𝘰𝑚

nAs soon as Nick ripped the bandage off, the other bandages started to slowly retreat.

nEven though the Screaming Coffin had a very basic consciousness, when one of its bandages was ripped off, it still decided to stop its attempt to consume Nick.

n‘That’s problematic,’ Nick thought. ‘I don’t know where it is!’

nNick moved forward and grabbed two of the retreating bandages, but he didn’t pull on them.

nInstead, he simply kept them in his grasp.

nThe bandages wanted to slowly retreat, but after a couple of seconds, they started to slowly encompass Nick’s arms.

nNick didn’t do anything.

nSoon, more bandages appeared around his body, and they also started to encompass him.

nTo make sure that Nick wasn’t bound in a problematic position, he kept his arms and legs apart while also keeping all of his muscles flexed.

nEven if the Screaming Coffin managed to wrap him in several bandages, all the bandages were still attached at one end, and with a single pull, Nick could tear them off.

nSome seconds later, ten different bandages had grabbed Nick’s body, and he felt himself get pulled downward.

nLuckily, Nick was carrying a bit of Arclight on his waist, which meant that the Nightmare wasn’t an issue right now.

n10,000 credits was no longer something extremely expensive to Dark Dream.

nAfter getting pulled down for a couple more meters, something appeared.

nIt was a luxurious black coffin.

nAt this moment, the coffin was closed, and twelve white bandages came out of the tiny gaps between the body and the lid of the coffin.

nNick looked at the coffin with narrowed eyes.

nAs Nick got closer, the coffin slowly slid open.

nAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

nImmediately, Nick felt like he was looking at an eternal ocean of hate-filled ghosts!

nIt was like an army of furious and unwilling corpses was screaming at Nick to join them.

nThey hated being doomed to this eternal existence of suffering, and they had long since lost all of their rationality.

nAll of them were filled with nothing but pure hatred for anything that didn’t share their pain.

nNick’s body shook when he heard the hate-filled screams, but he quickly calmed down, and only one thought shot through his mind.

n‘So, that’s why it’s called the Screaming Coffin!’

nNew novel chapters are published on 𝒍𝙞𝒓𝒆𝙖𝓭.𝙘𝒐𝒎

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