✨Prisoner of Hell [SLOW UPDATES] ✨

Outside Pandora's Box

I am confused just the way he is about some journey.

"What? That makes no sense to me. Anyways, Virgil right?"

He nodded.

"Do you know where I am? I have been lost in this forest for a night and it's really scary. Your the first person I have met in a while."

"Oh well that's okay, I was confused too when I landed here, but then I found my way out too. Welcome to Hell by the way, " he said.

"What? Hell? Have you gone nuts?"

" Umm, No I am not nuts, you are. Don't you know you're in Hell and dead already? Didn't a guide come to tell you that?", he said.

"Wait, guide ?"

"Yes, There is a tour too. An introduction to Hell and its contents as ordered by the princes."

Hell? wow. That makes no sense. Am I dead? That's just weird. I have died plenty of times. But this, it's real. I am dead. Literally, finally. Wait, a guide? It's starting, I think, just like the dream said. Guide. . . He is the guide. Does that mean dad's really in trouble? Let me find out.

"Tour? This is really hard to digest, but I think I know what you are talking about. "

"Ring a bell? I understand this is traumatising and a lot to think over, but yes, you are dead and now in Hell. Now tell me why am I to find you here outside Circle I as ordered by the Gods?", he asked.

"Circle I? I need a BIG introduction to all of this. Please, I am confused as much as you are. But I think I know what's happening and why you are here."

"Enlighten me first", he said.

"Okay. Lately, actually right before you woke me up, I had a dream. More like Vision. My dad is trapped and this voice told me to find her in 5 days. Otherwise, she will kill my dad."

"Oh, a trap quest. And you say she? Wow, takes a lot of guts to trap a live human here. Against the rules, though.", he said. "Anyways anything else in particular?"

"Oh yes, you are a poet, right? She gave this riddle-like poem to me", I said while dictating the poem.

"Yes! Finally ! . . . After 100 years, another quest!", he said.

I stared at him, totally judging his desperate behaviour for an adventure.

" Well I forgot to mention, I am Publius Vergilius Maro, also called as Virgil and one of the greatest poets who accompanied Dante to his Beatrice here right through Hell."

"Wait, you are the Virgil? . . . Like the actual Roman poet?", I asked.

"Well yes, I get called for a lot of adventures, however, you my friend are here after 100 of years of no quests as such.", he said.

"Okay, First things first, please enlighten me to this place."

"Alright, there are nine circles of Hell and the seven Princes who rule it here. I'll tell you more about them later on. After Hell there is purgatory and then paradise a.k.a heaven. Each Circle gets worse off every time. So greater the number worse off it is. The sinners of each circle are punished for eternity in a fashion fitting their crimes. Those in Hell are people who tried to justify their sins and are unrepentant. " he said.

" So nine circles, seven Princes and sinners. Got it. "

"Okay, so if she said the darkest place, it must definitely mean Circle IX. So last circle it is. Gear up cause this might be a long journey. Also, get your weapons ready." he said.