DEAD!

You feel the life drain from your body and everything goes dark.

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CRACK!

Your eyes flare open as the fiery scourge tears across the flesh of your bare back.

"AHHHH!" You scream. Your voice is hollow and husky.

You were suspended in mid air. Unseen binds holding your arms and legs in opposite directions with a powerful pull that made you fear you would be pulled apart. You were naked and helpless. That wonderful feeling of living gone once more. Around you the cracked hellscape spread out in all directions.

"He he he he. Well, that was disappointing. Couldn't even get through the first level. I thought you'd be far more entertaining than that." The hell lord's hot breath sears the back of your neck. "Ah well. I will still have my fun with you." A long spiky slimy tongue licks slowly up your leg. You hear the sizzle of your flesh as it melts from the corrosive saliva of this fiend.

"GAHHH! AHHHHH! No!." You croak. "Wait...give me another chance!"

"So greedy. No, mortal. I gave you another chance at life. One more than almost every other mortal gets. No more chances hero. He he he he." His dry rumbling laughter shakes you to your core. "NOW...YOU ARE MINE!"

You hear the scourge snap and crackle in the air as he winds up for another strike.

You look to the red-grey clouds above. "NOOOOO!!!"

CRACK!