Chapter 142 The Beginning Of The End [2]

Rustle-

Tristan landed at the location the compass was pointing.

Looking around his complexion turned grim. Beast carcasses were rolled out everywhere.

Remembering that Nathan was in critical condition a horrible possibility came to his mind.

"Shit!"

He ran to the place he could smell human blood.

Through his path, he encountered more and more beast corpses.

"Were they attracted to this place due to human blood?"

Not good.

He flapped his wings and took flight.

It took him a minute to find Nathan in this thick jungle with help of his strong vampire nose.

Flap-

He found the one he was searching for.

"N-No way…"

Nathan was missing an arm. There was not a part of his body that wasn't covered in blood, it was to the point the ground beneath him had been soaked in his blood, turning red.

Wounds and lacerations were more visible than his skin itself.

Tristan dived down and quickly checked Nathan's pulse.

"Did he kill all these beasts in this state?"

Broken entrails, blasted body parts, crushed limbs; the corpses around Nathan were brutally skewed. The scene sent chills down his spine, all these beasts were killed in one hit.

"He's alive…"

A sigh escaped his lips when he felt a weak but unmistakable pulse in Nathan.

He carefully yet swiftly picked him and unfurled his wings. Even if Nathan was alive, it wouldn't be the same a few hours later, until he was treated.

Rustle-

Bang-!

Suddenly sensing a movement on his left, Tristan used his wings to form a shield. Moments later his body was blown away along with Nathan.

"…What is that?"

He supplied more blood to his wings which were destroyed in one hit while scanning his surroundings.

"A child?"

A human child was glaring at him with tears-stained eyes. The child's fists were covered in beast blood, making the identity of the killer of the beasts clearer.

Tristan was about to strike the child, mistaking him for a beast when the child spoke.

"Help…Papa…"

His body jerked and he stopped.

He squinted his eyes and saw the child looking at Nathan.

'Did that child protect him until now?'

"Papa…hurt…"

'Papa? Is that child his kid? But when I tasted his blood, I was certain that he is a human.'

Human kids can't awaken until after they grew a decade old. This made it clear that the child in front of Tristan wasn't human.

Tristan wanted to ask more about it but he knew this wasn't the time for it, the person in his hand was dying.

"I'm here to help your papa. He asked me to come before."

"Nerael…remember…uncle…"

"Nerael? Is that the kid's name? It knows me?'

'Whatever, this makes it easier.'

"I know a way to help papa. Will you come with me?"

With great difficulty, the kid nodded its head."

*

Flap-

Tristan landed in front of everyone.

"Leader?!"

Miller paled when he saw Nathan's current state.

"H-How d-"

"I'll explain later."

With another flap, Tristan directly entered the dungeon and rushed to the Elixir pool.

Reaching the pool, he gently lowered Nathan and put him inside it.

Shaaaaa-

Smoke began rising from the pool.

A few minutes later Miller, Merlin, and her two brothers reached the pool.

Tristan asked them to sit before giving any explanation. He, himself, was confused about what was happening.

He was about to begin speaking when something flew out of Tristan's cape and leaped into Miller's chest at breakneck speed.

Bam-!

The impact was so strong that Miller's body rolled a few times before stopping.

"Brother…papa…hurt…"

Before he could make sense of what was happening, he heard someone sobbing.

Looking below he saw a child crying on his chest.

It had grey hair and purple eyes. Yes, the child was 'it'. The child was neither a boy nor a girl and given the amount of its strength it probably also wasn't human.

Tristan helped Miller sit and wrapped the piece of cloth that the child dropped when it rushed to Miller.

Watching the confusion in Miller's eyes, Tristan sighed and opened his eyes to explain.

Throughout that time the child stuck to Miller's chest and, calling him big brother, refused to budge.

For some reason, Miller also didn't try to remove the child, not because he was looking after the child but because he felt afraid to refuse it.

While they were conversing with each other, blue screens appeared in front of the unconscious Nathan.

[User Health has reached sufficient levels]

[User is no longer in critical condition]

[Conditions have been met]

[Beginning Synchronization]

***

---(Nathan's Pov)---

"Hah!"

I jumped to my feet.

"huff….hufff….I'm alive?"

Patting all over my body I found that I had been healed already. Did Miller put me in the Elixir pool as I had asked?

"But shouldn't the scars have remained?"

Questioning the lack of scars I walked out of the place.

It took me a few seconds to reach the door and step out.

"What the… Am I dreaming?"

I quickly pinched my cheeks but nothing happened. I did not wake up.

However, I knew that the sight in front of me wasn't possible.

Destroyed buildings, fires engulfing the neighborhood, cobwebs on top of the broken lamppost, and a crimson sky.

It was a ruined world.

It wasn't my world.

Before jumping to a conclusion I decided to check a few things. It only took a few minutes.

"Yup, this isn't real."

There was no corpse even through this utter destruction, I couldn't look at my reflection, and I was unable to use ether.

Was I dreaming? But this was too realistic to be a dream.

I was trying to calmly look for answers when-

Ccrrraacccccckk-

-the sky shattered.

The ear-shattering noise reverberated, and a crack started forming in the sky.

By the time the noise stopped the crack was already touching the horizon at both ends.

The distance between me and the crack was too big for me to determine its size, however, I knew that it wasn't something I could even fathom.

Through the crack, a human stepped into the world.

He calmly gazed at the world.

His gaze that swept through the lands and ruins momentarily stopped at me, nevertheless, he quickly ignored me and looked somewhere far away.

With his gaze fixed on that place, he opened his mouth.

"Was it you all along?"