FALL OF THE ANCIENTs

r minds still racing with the knowledge of the evil they had faced. But their relief was short-lived, for

he city descended int

ir. People disappeared without a trace, and those who remai

he old expert they had met before, Mr. Evans. But when they arrived at his ho

whispered, his voice shaking with

m in the basement, its walls covered in strange symbols and writings. And there, in t

d, his voice quivering with horror. "He

thing strange. There was a symbol carved into his

if the very air around them was alive with a dark energy. They recognized it as a

trembling. "The darkness is using this symbol to spre

n to glow, its light filling the r

stop the symbol before it was too late. They tried to destroy it, but it res

ove, its lines and curves shifting and changing, forming a

of them whispered, his v

spoke, its voice low

the room. "The darkness is already here, spreading through the ci

t they had to act fast. They drew their weapons,

the darkness," one of them shoute

n and their resolve steeled, lunged a

ill the entire room. The investigators felt a strange, tingling sensation in their hands and fee

his voice filled with fea

the second, began to laugh, a cold, malevo

th malice. "I am the darkness, the evil that lurks in th

the investigators alone in the darkness. They could feel the

ing, stumbled out of the room, their

them whispered, his voice shaking wit

of the house, their footsteps e

ange in the city. The sky was dark, the ai

arkness closing in around them. They could hear the sound of footste

d gaunt, its skin pale and translucent,

ispered, his voice filled with

they saw that it was not the da

nvestigators with a slow, deliberate gait. As it drew closer, they

ing, inhuman hiss. "We have been watching you, waiting

, ready to fight. But as they did, they realized that the

rs die in a lethal way the

seemed to smile, their teeth gleaming in the darkness. A

that he was thrown backwards, his body crashing into a nearby wall. H

p, but the Ancients were too fast, too strong. They swarm

ely against the Ancients. But for every blow they landed, the An

reak for it, sprinting through the darkness towards the nearest street. But

re looming over him, a creature

tal," it hissed, its v

but it was no use. The creature, its eyes glowing with an unearthly light,

ed, its voice cold and cruel. "Your soul will fuel

inst the creature's grasp, but it was no use. He could fee