Standing in front of the centre, Azaworth walked up the stairs and stood in front of the wooden door. He knocked on the wooden door, which a woman in her thirties opened.
"Azaworth, right?"
Azaworth nodded at the woman. The woman allowed him to enter and escorted him inside the building. There were two hallways on the west and east sides of the building. They headed down the east hallway. After a bit of walking, they stood in front of a door labeled E46.
"Call me if you need anything, alright?"
Azaworth nodded his head once more, and the woman smiled and then turned around before walking away and leaving him alone. He turned back to look at the door, and raised his hand. He opened the door gently, and inside was a young girl with peach color hair and pale skin. She wore a regular dress of white and blue, and her body was in a wheelchair.
Although she was stuck in a wheelchair, she was still smiling as she turned the wheelchair to face Azaworth.
"Welcome back, big brother."
The girl spoke at him, and despite being in a terrible position within a terrible world, the girl still had a smile that warmed Azaworth's heart.
"Have you been doing well, Doriel?"
"Yes, the head caretaker has been taking care of me these past few days while you were away."
Hearing this, Azaworth was glad to hear his younger sister was doing well. He observed and thought to himself that he didn't want to see his younger sister continue to live like this anymore, and wanted to do something about it, yet he couldn't.
It was fortunate that the Head Caretaker felt pity for them and took them in when they were on the streets. However, only one spot was left available within the centre, and he let his sister stay there to be taken care of while he lived outside in poverty.
"What's wrong, big brother?"
"O-oh er....uh nothing is uh...wrong."
Stuttering a bit on his words, he would sigh to himself, knowing that Doriel wouldn't buy his obvious fake lies.
"It's just that....uh. I just don't like to keep seeing you in this condition every time, you know?"
Doriel continues to smile at her older brother's explanation. It was as if her facial expression had already spoken to Azaworth.
"Alright, I understand."
Azaworth chuckled to himself and gave a slight smile.
"I'll continue to work hard for both of us, even in this accursed world, Doriel."
Before Doriel could speak. An alarm sound was made on a trinket on Azaworth belt, indicating an emergency backup was needed at the quarry.
"Ah, sorry about that, Doriel. And sorry for making this visit short, I'll be back another time!"
"Wait, hold on-"
Immediately, Azaworth bolted out of the room and left Doriel alone, but he convinced himself that she would still be taken care of when he was gone.
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After a long while of running on foot, Azaworth. arrived at the facility and entered the building. He immediately went to the locker room, unlocked the locked locker and grabbed his uniform and placed his bag into the locker and afterwards, locked it and left the locker room.
Azaworth exited the facility and see the main truck with the miner group on board and the Head Miner waving his hand to signal Azaworth to pick up the pace.
Rushing to the truck, Azaworth managed to get on the truck in time and scanned his ID card as the truck ramp reeled up and closed.
'Phew, that was close!'
"Hey, glad you could make it Azaworth! Was hoping if you'll show up, was worried for a bit hehe."
The Head Miner pat his back while giving off a friendly laugh.
"Well, sorry to call you back so quickly after shift, it just we suddenly got a call of an emergency excavation that needed to be done back at the quarry."
'So that what it was about huh.'
Azaworth thought to himself a bit before nodding and the Head Miner would give grin at his response.
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The truck took a while but managed to arrive at the Quarry parking lot and and they got their gears ready. The truck ramp reeled backwards and onto the pavement and they immediately got out one by one. Afterwards, the miners headed straight to the gates. The guard gate spotted them immediately, and they opened the gate. Once the gate fully opened. The miners entered through the gates and headed down towards the dirt ramp.
Once fully into the quarry, the Head Miner pointed to one of the caves that was recently excavated by another team of miners. It seems they had to mine within the cave.
The Head Miner turned back to the miner group, and opened his mouth.
"I received reports from the other miner teams that there are things within that cave that is needed to be mined out, or else it will cause disturbance in the cave and the other parts of the Quarry. We'll mined them all out, understood?"
The head miner explained it within a short time and it was clear to Azaworth and the miners group. The Head Miner grin at their responses before long, they began heading into the cave all at once.
Inside the cave, it would be bright on the inside with lanterns light up by the previous miner group. After setting up their gears and placing it down somewhere in the corner, they immediately got to work and started mining the rocks.
As the miner began to work, the atmosphere was different than the cave they went to previously. Some miner chatted with each other a little, but most of the whole experience was silent this time. Azaworth worked twice as hard as usual once again, but noticed that in this cave, the other miners quickly took a break this time or some even had no motivation at all. Not thinking much about it, he decided to get back to work.
'Well, seems like everyone is tired this time around.'
Azaworth thought to himself and assumed that to be the case.
Suddenly, one person scream at the top of his lung, which surprised everyone in the cave as they turned their heads to the source of the scream. What they saw horrified them and shook their very core.
The head miner body began wrapping in chains, and soon, suddenly, another scream was made by a different miner as the same thing happened to them. In fear, the miner began running away, however it was futile as the same thing happened to them, one by one. Chains manifested out of nowhere and wrapped their victims.
'What the hell?!'
Azaworth was stuck in place momentary before snapping out of it and started to follow suit and wanted to escape with the other miners in fear, but unluckily, he too was caught in the chains that manifested out of thin air and began wrapping his body.
He scream in pain as the chain burned his skin, and tightly wrap around him. before long, he could spot that the ones who got affected began changing to cocoons that was slowly encasing them. He couldn't do much and it obviously made him afraid and infuriated a bit as he himself look around and see that he too, will die at fate's hand. As the last thing he saw was the cocoon shell encasing him inside as he blacked out.
[`The Purgatory Trials begins now.']