The Cryopod to Hell Classic is the original version of TCTH, written based on the original writing prompts, expanded into a full series, with 490 chapters of fun adventures. However, it is extremely flawed, with paper thin characters and plotlines that don’t resolve properly. It abruptly ends at the finale of Route C, and was never finished with a proper ending. Classic is best read after Refresh so you can appreciate where the story came from. As its own story, Classic has too many flaws for anyone to recommend reading first.
It’s not that what I’m reading is too horrifying to comprehend, I simply just don’t know how to react to the words on the page. Accounts of humans capturing demons, butchering them in brutal, vile ways, and even performing barbaric chimeric surgeries before releasing demons back into the demon’s realm to traumatize them… the journal…
The hallway is quite dark, despite the five torches on each side of the wall extending down the hall, but to eyes that were just in an unnatural darkness unlike any other, it’s as if I’m staring directly into the sun. The walls themselves are tiled, and appear to be made of an onyx-like black…
I’M AWAKE! My eyes flip open, and my arms jerk forward involuntarily, only to smack into an invisible wall. A few seconds later, I finally register the feeling of pain and wince. That hurt. It’s pitch black all around me, but as I begin to wake up and shift my body, I become acutely aware…
Mulgris and the other Sentinels continued to stand still, running millions of calculations in their minds as they had been doing for the last few hours. The pitch blackness around them was no barrier to their vision, given they did not perceive the universe in the same way as an organic would. "Have we confirmed…
"Hoarhiim, is that really you?" I lean forward and touch the orb more gingerly. It feels warmer than usual, or perhaps that’s just my imagination. The darkness of the room seems to make the brightness of the orb that much more painful to look directly at, yet I feel somehow as if the orb is…
It happens instantly. One moment, my hands are on Amelia’s shoulders as she leans away from me. The next, she’s gone. I blink to make sure I didn’t just hallucinate, and the sickening sound of a fist impacting bone blasts off to my right. By the time I lift my head to follow the source…
Even as I stare at the demon before me and my vision goes red with rage, the warmth of her blood flowing down my arms slows as the heal magic finishes. It’s far too late to save her now. I can see the particles from her aura flooding upwards. Just like with that girl in…
Satan wants to play hide and seek. I’m not having it. Without a doubt, this is a trap. If I rush into it, Satan will laugh all the way to the bank. My best option is to get some backup. Teleport. I arrive back in Heaven right in front of Sensei, and he jumps back…
I open my eyes only to see blackness. My mouth feels like I’m chewing on a jellyfish. A weird gummy sensation, one that feels electrifying. I’m laying on the ground apparently, and when I raise my hand up to rub my forehead, I’m somewhat surprised when something stops me just short of doing so. Oh,…
Kraal watched as the last fireball streaked across the sky and crashed into the ground. As soon as he detected his fellow unit had reformed itself he sent the signal outwards. All Sentinels have landed. I have reset the score. The one who kills the most organics will be the next scouting leader. Commence attack…
