Chapter 152

I was coughing and panting while the feeling of dread lingered deep within my chest.
'I steeled my resolve... I pushed past the fear. I pushed past the guilt, the sorrow, and the grief. So why does it still hurt so much?!' I began to sob to myself as my right hand clenched tightly above my heart as if it would stop the pain I was feeling
After a few more minutes of this, I rolled back into place and laid there with my back to the floor and my eyes facing the ceiling. Yet even though one might have thought that I had begun to randomly look at the ceiling of the skull, if one were to look closely they would be able to tell that I wasn't...
My eyes were dull again and lifeless.
"To think I would fall back into this pit again..." I closed my eyes once more, yet this time I had no intention of opening them any time soon.
I stayed like that for a while. I didn't know if it had been minutes, hours, or even days, but I had just stayed that way for as long as I could.
I recollected all the precious memories I made with everyone I knew. With Crystal, Alex, Emily, and my parents. I replayed a precious memory before bringing back the scene of their death again and again. Every time my body would instinctually wince as I was forced to watch the scene occur in front of me as if I had gone back in time to witness the scene again.
After what seemed like forever, I opened my eyes again however this time, they were no longer lifeless and as dull as they were before. No, they were filled with something else now...
'I will not fall to my own self-pity again!'
[Intelligence +1]
"Hmm? What's this? And why is everything black and white again?" I groaned while trying to get up.
"Hmm?" My eyes darted around, immediately allowing me to understand the situation without the need for the system to explain it.
[The Unknown Energy resonates with the Immortal's burning rage]
[The Unknown Energy resonates with the Immortal's grief and sorrow]