The True Fear Church, a mysterious organization sheltering in the shadows, to most of the people, this was an unknown terrorist group that only recently started showing their teeth. But to me this could be a clue, a clue on what this world was.
Facing William at the basement, my heartbeat increased, this was the moment I was waiting for. Then, with his gaze staring directly at me, William started talking.
"You see Zen, the information you must have heard about the cult is 'incomplete' ". He looked slightly distressed while talking.
"My cult isn't exactly 'one' ". I was puzzled at what he said.
"You see, this cult came to be thanks to our mysterious leader. They told me he was an amazing person, and thanks to him this 'cult' rapidly grew in the shadows".
"What's their name?". I couldn't hold my curiosity and asked about him. William gave me a strange look before responding.
"I don't know, his identity is a total secret, when he was still present the archbishops called him 'The one who has seen the other world' ". William seemed to admire them a lot.
"When monsters escaped the underground, he leaved without a trace and our cult kind of collapsed".
"That's when it was divided in 3 wings".
"The 3rd wing, a wing dedicated to escape this world and the wing I belong to, the wing of darkness".
"The 2nd wing, the ones sacrificing souls to summon a god, the wing of fear".
"And lastly, the ones with unwavering loyalty to our leader, motivated by the sole objective to bring him back. The 1st wing, the wing of truth".
As William told me about the cult, I started to understand it a little bit. Their leader likely had a lot of knowledge about the truths of this world and must have wanted to escape.
After explaining that William looked at me and asked.
"Do you really want to join this? there will be no going back".
I pondered for a moment, thinking that maybe I didn't need to do all of this, but I shrugged that though rapidly, I had to know everything about the church.
"I want to join". I responded with conviction as William sighed.
"Very well, then suit yourself". On his basement was a collection of black robes and white masks, they were certainly different from the one's I saw the day they attacked.
I asked William where we were going, and he told me today he had a meeting and wanted to bring me with him. When we were about to leave, he gave me a white mask.
"We give these masks to new members". He told me.
We exited the cabin and started walking, if we weren't in the middle of nowhere I'm sure everyone would think we were cosplaying. I felt kind of embarrassed wearing these clothes.
"Edgy right? They told me that when the cult was firstly created our leader was fairly young, so that's why our clothes are like that".
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We kept walking, and before my legs gave up, we reached the inside of a cave. Three hours passed, so it was quite dark outside so when entering the cave, there wasn't any single ray of light.
"Just keep walking forward, eventually we'll arrive".
I wanted to ask how was that possible, but I just kept walking, I walked and walked, but before I realized. The light had returned. In front of me were about a dozen cloaked figures all of them masked.
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I gave it a try, but it still gave me the same answer. Don't transmigrated people get all kind of cheat skills?
William was alongside me, thing that made me feel slightly safer, I turned around to see exactly what happened, but the cave couldn't be seen anymore, in fact I could see the sky as clear as day, with the exception it was dark, so dark.
"Relax, you aren't hallucinating". William calmed me down while grabbing my shoulder.
"This is called a dark world". I couldn't help but be shocked by this revelation, this dark world existing makes the roaring another threat I must be wary of.
"Priest, who is he?". One of the cloaked shadows talked as everyone on the room started to notice my presence.
"He's a new member, I chose him myself so respect him". William responded and stood in front of me.
"A new one? Luck finally strikes us".
"Don't push your luck Priest, you know that the Bishop is really cautious".
Among the group, there was some mixed opinions but wasn't really focused on that.
Beyond the table we were ubicated at, I could see countless rock-like darkeners pass by, and beyond that I could see a dark fountain towering above everything.
Shortly after, someone appeared, he wore a black cloak but unlike the others his mask wasn't purely white, but had black symbols engraved on it.
He looked at me straight in the eyes and asked.
"New one, are you truly determined to join us". His presence slightly overwhelmed me, but I stood my ground and replied with a nod.
"Then follow me, the others can continue the meeting without us".
We started walking towards the darkner town, while walking I saw all kinds of darkners, from ones inspired by different kinds of stones to ones made by grass, who would have thought I would see a stone dinosaur.
The bishop explained to me more in depth about dark worlds, confirming that the things I knew from deltarune applied here.
"How was this created?". I asked him curious about his answer.
".. How much has the priest told you about us?". After answering him, he lightly chuckled.
"He seems to have a lot of trust in you". He told me this, and we kept walking, then we reached what I could only describe as a stone and grass library.
"You see, when the leader left we had to reorganize ourselves. Back then the 2nd wind already separated ways with us, but the 1st wing and us were still one. To create a hideout, the leader's right hand disclosed us about the knight. The leader had nurtured a being capable of opening dark worlds, that young kid created this dark world".
"But eventually, the 1st and 3rd wing separated and the knight went with the 1st, as of now, this world can't be sealed, because the only being we know could seal dark worlds happened to be our leader".
As they talked, more mysteries were added to my collection. But no answers came.
"You must be wondering why we are at a library, it's just that everyone of us has to have a magic tattoo engraved on the eye, and the librarian is the one responsible for them".
Then he stood up and went outside.
"Don't worry about your identity, the librarian isn't a snitch".
As I was left alone in the empty library a small stone dragon appeared.
"You must me a new cultist, gosh why are cults so popular nowadays". As he flew below my eye level, he told me to remove my mask. Then his next words left me speechless.
"Hm? You must be a hero of the prophecy, you aren't supposed to be here".
Hiding my surprise I responded.
"What prophecy". As silence continued for a few seconds he replied.
"Shit, I got confused, you aren't prince Asriel Dreamurr, right?".
As the small dragon started sweating (Just how) I could only wonder, what the actual f*ck was happening?
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