Chapter 161 - Odd Town

'What next....' Gray looked at the barrier that can be seen in the sky from where he was standing and kept thinking of what he should do now...

Honestly, Gray really wants to enter the base... The city in front of him right now...

How to say it... The survival bases have many kinds of random abilities of all kinds, every base might be a treasure box for Gray...

Many weird and useless abilities for their owners might be another divine-like ability for Gray who can move between worlds...

Not only him... But for all his partners...

And from what he knows, the city in front of him wasn't a normal base... But a real city made of many bases with a huge population...

Let's not say the top five there...

Gray really wonders what kind of abilities they have...

But soon enough Gray shook his head and denied the idea of entering the base right now, but decided to find the other first...

Why? For many reasons...

First, finding the others was more important than hunting power that he will get sooner or later...

Second, he doesn't have much free space in his D disk right now...

What did he do in these years? Learning magic, copying skills, learning many things...

Even though he has about 80GB of free space right now... But that wasn't enough...

Who knows how much space he needs to get everything he wants...

Some skills might be very strong but don't cost much space... While some others could be very normal but have a huge size... This depends on the nature of the skill itself...

For example Mary's skills... Because it wasn't a normal skill that can be learned or have a real systemic process, its size was not so large... Unlike Haki skills...

While some skills that rely more on qualification and the systemic process can be high and low... Which also depends on the skill itself... Just like magic skills... That needs Blood and knowledge and exercise to get...

In fact, his D disk should be much larger than this... After all, he can extract talent...

But... His Disk raised so much in the sea world only... Because Baccarat kept helping him finding the talents and extract them... While in the wizarding world, he hardly got a few talents from the extremely talented wizards...

Even if he doing the talented one, he couldn't extract them even if he wants to...

Honestly, that was also one of the reasons, why he didn't copy some skills for himself but only for the others before...

After all, it was true that he found a way to extend his D disk, but it wasn't unlimited after all...

Besides... He can always get what he wants if needed from his partners' disks...

'Well... It's decided... After finding the others, come back and take a look...' As Gray thought of this he didn't look at the barrier anymore...

"Ok... Let's go..." Gray said to Perona ready to pass the city and continue his way toward Mary's location...

"Hmm? Where are we going?" Niala heard Gray's words and said...

"..." Gray looked at Niala who was still there and had a thoughtful look on his face...

"We? You're not going with us" Perona heard Niala's words and said...

"Why?" Hearing Perona's words, Niala looked at her and asked with doubt... As if she wasn't sure why they will not go together...

"...." This time Perona was speechless... Why? Why she was asking *why?*...

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In the cloudy sky...

A dark smoky cloud moved fast through the void leaving a long dark smoke line behind it...

This dark cloud was so fast that it was traveling a very long distance every minute, as it moves further and further...

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Somewhere in an old abandoned town filled in forest trees, in the middle of a forest...

The air here was so depressed and silent here... Other than the weird hollowed sound of the wind moving between, nothing other could be heard here... Not even a bird noise existed in this place...

The sky clouds were dim, giving a depressing feeling of death all over the place... While the light that passed from the clouds was no different... Making this small silent town a very scary place...

*WOFFF*

In the town entrance, a black cloud suddenly fell from the sky spreading darkness to a few meters around the place it fell from...

While in the middle of this darkness, a long-white-haired figure wearing a dark crown on his head with a white snake around his shoulders appeared as the light in the darkness slowly reveling itself walking two steps forward while the smoke that was emanating from his body still didn't calm while looking around...

"Here is?" Gray looked around the weird town trying to figure out where he was right now...

"This town looks odd" Perona in her soul form appeared beside Gray and said...

"...." While Niala who came along also looked around with a bored face...

Yup... It was Gray who was flying by himself at a very fast speed to move all the way...

The way he used to fly just now wasn't the normal flying spell... Nor his Magnet control...

But another method used by the death eaters before... But his own improved vision...

Gray can't apparition into the unknown... While the method the death eaters were using was more like... Half-apparition, Half-Flying... And was quite fast honestly...

This method wasn't a real secret in the wizarding world... But not many can use it... And even if they can, the feeling of using it, turning into half-smoke wasn't a great experience with many weird side effects...

A normal apparition can make one feel sick... and the same for a half-done apparition, and even worst somehow...

The reason why Gray cared about this skill because it can be used with attributes...

There are two ways to use magic... To use it normally without any attribute... And using dark and white art in the middle to make it faster...

And what Gray had used just now was naturally a Dark art... After all, with his ring, the dark he uses wasn't normal darkness at all...

And that was also the reason why he flew very fast just now...

While walking in the empty streets that were mostly filled with tree roots everywhere...

Gray found that most of the buildings here were already destroyed and the roots of the trees were like a disease spreading all over the place...

"Gray look..." Perona saw something while walking and said to Gray beside her...

Hearing her, Gray looked in the direction Perona pointed to...

What Gray saw was a humanoid figure not far away...

Seeing this Gray raised his eyebrow and moved slowly toward the figure to see...

And soon they saw what was it...

What they saw were weird statues...

Wooden statues everywhere... And all these statues were humanoid statues!

Well... In another look, these statues also got weirder... Because... some of those statues were actually... Zombies statues!

From the deformed look of these statues, Gray was able to see their identities...

Gray looked at these statues and walked into one of them and looked closely...

Looking at it, from what he can see, these statues were more petrified by something turning them into what they are now...

While many small roots already made holes in these statues moving around...

Looking around, Perona stayed close to Gray while looking at this scary town...

While Niala kept observing Gray with interest... But while doing this, she looked at the tree trunks with thoughtful eyes...

Speaking of Niala...

Why she was here?

Gray wasn't really planning to let her around him at first... After all, he can see that with her ability, she won't be in danger if he left her alone.

And he wasn't really a good man to take care of her anyway...

Besides, he felt that if he left her, he will still see her again soon...

But... He was still very interested in her unknown ability... So in the end he brought her along as she wants, to observe her ability by himself...

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As Gray moved around, he finally reached the main street in this odd town ...

Like all others, it was filled with roots all over the place, making this town, into a dark green town...

"Gray... There is nothing in the forest around..." Perona beside Gray looked around and said to Gray...

Just now she the ghosts she spread everywhere around the forest told her the situation... The entire forest was empty...

"I see..." Gray also said while looking at the town around him...

"What should we do next?" While looking around, Perona asked... The sky was already dim... soon enough the world will be washed with darkness... And it wasn't a good choice to keep moving...

"Stay here for now..." Gray didn't choose to move on and said...

So with a few hand waves, Gray cleared an opened space for them and conjured a few things they need to stay here tonight...

Even though they are in town right now, but this place was more like an ancient town filled with tree roots everywhere...

So Gray didn't choose to stay in one of the houses but cleared the space, so he can always be ready in case something happened around them...