Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Chapter 865 Gate

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Elena was having the day of her life, after having confessed her love to Anna and becoming girlfriends, she was the happiest girl in the entire city. And after inviting her beloved friends to the same park they went to before; she thought it would be just another day of joy and relaxation.

Perhaps she had just forgotten the things she went through just some weeks ago, when her school was overrun by monsters and everything was engulfed on chaos, while she was unable to fight back, and was captured and left helpless. Maybe it was her own mind trying to block those memories, so she could keep moving forwards.

"H-Hey, isn't it getting a bit late? S-Should we be heading back home?" Wondered Monica, slightly shyly.

"What? Don't be BORING, Monica!" Elisa groaned. "We've just gotten here! Let's go to the carousel now! I want to ride the ponies!" She spoiled girl giggled, while her bodyguard, Steiner, walked behind her carefully.

"B-But it's getting late…" Monica cried. "I've never been outside s-so late."

"Don't worry, we'll go to a few other attractions and then we'll move back home." Elena patted her head. "We are no longer kids, right?"

"H-Huh, fine…" Monica sighed, feeling some sort of strange feeling of dread. As if something was watching her. She turned back, looking around, only to find just normal people wandering everywhere. "Hm…?"

"What's wrong?" Anna asked her, tilting her head. "Are you feeling tired? Maybe sit down around and then we'll come back to pick you up."

"N-No, I'm fine! Really…" Monica sighed, thinking that whatever "bad feeling" she had might have been her own social anxiety, and went along with the girls.

They wandered across the entire indoor park, which was made exclusively because this region of Canada gets very cold through a good part of the year, so people and the children can still enjoy the attractions of an amusement park even in the cold of winter.

They ate ice cream, visited the carousel Elisa really wanted to ride for some reason, and then moved on to a haunted house, where the girls walked out laughing, only Monica had been startled all the time, screaming three times in a row…

"Hahaha! You're so easy to spook, Monica! What the hell?" Anna laughed, teasing Monica while patting her shoulders.

"I-I am not good with ghosts, okay?" Monica sighed.

"Even though you're playing a Ghost in BNLO?" Elisa raised an eyebrow. "Maybe you're trying to get over that fear?"

"I-I guess…" Monica shrugged. She had chosen those due to the guidance of the Goddess of Darkness, Nyx, which had appeared before her as she created her Avatar. So she didn't have much of an option back then, due to her social anxiety, she ended nodding to all suggestions. "Ugh, I would have preferred playing as an elf or something, actually…"

"Okay, okay, go easy on the girl." Elena sighed. "Should we be heading back now? We've spent too much time here… I don't want to worry mom."

"Sure, I was feeling pretty hungry. Is she making some tasty dinner?" Asked Anna.

"I think so? I'll ask her once we're on the way." Said Elena.

"Then, Steiner, guide us to the limousine please." Elisa said.

"Very well, young lady." Steiner nodded, guiding them out of the amusement park, the amount of people there was already quite low, less than two hundred by now, people was already moving back home.

Monica glanced the entire atmosphere, still feeling that strange, dark presence somewhere. It wasn't just her imagination after all, it was something that had come out of her own abilities.

After becoming the vessel of a powerful phantasmal being, her soul had transformed and gained a lot of phantasmal abilities themselves. One of them included incredible heightened senses and sixth sense that alerted her of "dark presences".

"S-Something's wrong…" Monica started to mutter to herself, while walking besides Elena. "I can still feel it- No, it's more than one, why? So many… Is this all in my head or…?"

"Monica?" Elena asked her, worried about her expression. "What's gotten into you? Are you tired?"

"E-Elena, we have to quickly get out of here! Someone- no, somebody is following us around, we have to-"

Before Monica could say another word, it felt as if time stopped. A fracture in the fabric of reality opened, right in front of their eyes, the empty air shattered like glass.

Crack, crack…!

"No!"

Monica panicked, as she quickly tried to drag everyone away, her Aura of darkness grasping them and moving back as quickly as she could!

Crack, crack…!

CRASH!

Only a split of a second after that, a giant crack in space opened, a swirling mass of blue energy erupted, a portal to another world.

A Gate!

And without even waiting a moment afterwards, dozens of skeletal claws surged from within the gates, as a dark greenish fluid began to pour of it, contaminating the entire indoor park.

"ROOAARR!"

The ferocious roar of Undead creatures echoed across the entire park; monstrous skeletal monsters appeared out of nowhere. The people who had yet to experience such things enough to become accustomed to them, felt paralyzed for a split of a second, before hell broke loose.

"A-A Gate?!"

"RUN!"

"Uwaaagh!"

"Shit, shit, shit!"

"Monsters?! RUN!"

The screams of the civilians echoed everywhere, children and parents running away as fast as they could from the indoor park. The beasts began crawling out of the Gate, looking around as if trying to measure which prey they wanted to take down first.

"Wait, what?! A Gate?!" Elisa was the first one to scream, and then looked back at the giant hands made of darkness wrapped around her waist. "Monica?! You got magic powers?!"

"I-I'm sorry!" Monica let them go as she quickly felt scared of her own strength. "But I was so scared I just dragged everyone with me to safety!"

"Shit, this is bad!" Anna muttered, noticing a few beasts staring at them and then quickly beginning to spring towards them! "We have to run, Elena!"

She grabbed Elena's hand before everyone else and attempted to run, but the skeleton beasts were much faster, leaping towards them with their jaws wide open!

"GRAAAH!"

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