Chương 17: Secrets-I
Tom woke up in a start, his back drenched with cold sweat "Haaah... haaah" he slowly exhaled through his mouth, after calming down a bit he looked around the cave but Arthur was nowhere to be found
"Arthur!" Tom shouted Arthur's name but hearing no reply, he started having a bad premonition, he immediately ran out of the cave to look for Arthur
Outside the cave, the smell of monster blood was suffocating as if a massacre had happened, multiple monster corpses were laid out in a circle around their cave, Arthur was quietly standing next to those corpses.
"Did you do that? " Tom asked
"No" Arthur replied in a grave tone
Both of them became silent, there was no way they didn't notice such a big fight right outside their cave, this only leaves with one possibility... Someone or something brought these monsters outside their cave
"Seems like the cave was not vacant" Tom said "It's warning us to get out from its home"
"We didn't plan to stay here either way" Arthur shrugged and looked at Tom " Let's get going"
"Arthur.. " Tom hesitated
"What? " Arthur asked
"Nothing.. " Tom smiled and shrugged, he wanted to tell him about his real name but that name will bring back painful memories.
'I am no longer Ezra, I am Tom " Tom smiled
Arthur was confused by his behavior but still said "Let's get going, we don't have all day. "
Both of them travelled till sunset, killing multiple monsters along the way while avoiding the stronger ones through the help of sharingan's precognition
"Let's rest here for tonight" Arthur suggested after scanning the area through his sharingan.
Both of them slept on a tree top till morning.
Morning
Arthur woke up and what greeted him was the same nauseating smell as before, he looked down the tree top and just like before, they were surrounded by monsters corpses laid out on a circle around them, the only difference being the circle's radius was a bit smaller than before
"Looks like it holds a grudge " Tom said who was inspecting the corpses " These monsters are cut down by a single strike! the only monster I can think of is Dark scythe, they are highly territorial but are generally harmless if we don't bother them first" Tom concluded
"It looks like it is hesitant to fight with us, otherwise it wouldn't have warned us like this" Tom said
"Nothing to worry about then? " Arthur asked
"its territory ends after 2 miles from here so it would leave us alone after we leave his territory" Tom reassured
"Let's get going then" Arthur suggested and they continued their journey.
After 5 minutes they left the dark scythe's territory and their anxiety decreased a lot, having a monster prowling around them during sleep was nerve racking.
The rest of the journey was smooth sailing, they encounter some weak monsters here and there but the numbers were decreasing signifying that they were about to enter the edges of the forest
After running for 30 minutes, the duo came across a destroyed plain with huge black bones protruding out of the ground. The aura was more sinister than the one they previously encounter.
"Not again" Arthur murmured
Tom's face became pale and hurriedly ran towards the site, seeing that, Arthur followed after him
As he entered the forest of dark bones, the many voices of souls that he was expecting wasn't present, on the contrary, it was very quiet, eerily quiet. As he continued moving forward, he heard a lonely voice whispering behind him in agony "He is not what you think he is, run away while you still can lad" the hoarse voice warned him, Arthur immediately turned back but there was no one behind him,
in the distance he heard Tom's sobbing voice "Lord... "
Hearing that voice, Arthur started moving towards Tom
When Arthur reached him, he could see that Tom was crying in front of a majestic figure, it was probably the Lord of the escort agency, the rumored "king of escort warriors", an old man in his 50's, his body was glowing with a majestic aura which strike awe and respect to whoever comes across him but sadly, that majestic figure was riddled with black bone. his shoulders, abdomen and even his heart was impaled with multiple black bones that were slowly corroding him.
Arthur looked at Tom who was still crying,
"He adopted us, taught our brothers cultivation arts.. he was guardian figure to us" Tom cried
Arthur wanted to sympathize with him but now wasn't the time "We have to leave" Arthur said, "We don't have much time left"
Tom hesitantly stood up and bowed one last time " I will surely take revenge for you and everyone! " Tom swore.
As they were leaving the site, Arthur heard the Lord's soul whispering to him.
"It will come out soon, you don't have much time left. Run! " After saying that sentence the Lord's soul vanished as if it was refined
Arthur gulped ' It seems like an estimation of 2 weeks was wrong, the demonic cultivator is already refining the souls of his victim!'
"We don't have much time left, quicken your pace! " Arthur warned in a grave tone and Tom seriously nodded
'He is not what I think he is? is he more powerful than an innate realm!!! ' Arthur got chills when he thought about that and quickened his pace
They travelled for 2 nights without sleeping, They didn't want to sleep until they reached the nearest city but their fatigue was catching up to them, travelling around the forest with a fatigue body was almost a dead sentence if they encounter a monster so having no choice, they decided to take a short rest.
......
TOM'S DREAM
"Li! " Ezra shouted as the lifeless body of Li fell onto the ground. (Ezra is Tom's real name)
"How pointless " the demonic figure laughed
"Kekekeke"
"Now it's your turn" the figure pointed his index finger towards Ezra and a dark energy started gathering around his finger.
Just as he was about to shoot that dark beam , the captain appeared and slash the back of the figure with his sword.
"Kekekeke"
"Do you think attacks like that will harm me? " the figure laughed
Seeing his attack failed, the captain took Ezra on his shoulder and flew out of there.
"Do you think you can run! " the figure laughed in craze and threw multiple black bones which the captain dodged nimbly
"We have to find the Lord or it will catch up to us " said the captain in a grave tone
"Why are you leaving!? the fight has just begun! " the figured roared in laughter as he flew towards them with multiple bone spears floating around him.
"We don't have much time left! " the captain said in a grave tone, "What I am about to tell you is of the utmost importance! 3 days ago we accept a commission of the Wu mansion to deliver a cargo across the night wing forest, the task was simple enough but we were promised a fortune for it! naturally sceptical, our Lord and us captains decided to inspect the cargo ourselves... it was a vase with multiple high level seals around it, upon further pressure by our Lord, the Wu mansion revealed that it was a seal that stored the soul of an ancient demonic cultivator, The task was too difficult so we naturally decided to decline it but the Wu mansion lord and our Lord had a secret talk which resulted in us accepting this mission- " The captain couldn't finish his sentence before a black bone pierced through his shoulder.
*Agh* the captain grunted in pain
"I am coming!!! " the demonic figure laughed as it was catching up them
Seeing the figure coming closer, the captain threw Ezra down.
Ezra was still falling from the sky when he heard the captain shouting " Go find the Lord! I will stall him here! "
Ezra watched in helplessness as the grumpy captain smiled one last time and flew away towards the direction of the dark figure
"Nooo! " Ezra shouted but his voice was being drowned by the strong winds
DREAM END
..........
Tình trạng nguồn điện hàng tuần
-- Xếp hạng
Quyền lực 
-- Đá
Quyền lực