Chapter 615 - The Hunt (5)

I started to calculate how long it would take for me to land on the ground. From the height of the hover car, I had to have at least ten seconds. This would leave five seconds remaining. I pulled out another rope out of my inventory, a backup I planned to use for the next round. The hunter had spared Alex's hover car ever since I separated from it. I yelled at Alex, "lift the hover car higher, the highest it can go!"

Alex followed my instructions, the hover car rising in altitude as I struggled to match its height, failing to wrap my rope around. The distance between us became bigger, my focus getting weaker as the ground became closer to me. I gritted my teeth, eyes narrowing as my aims became worse. Everything depended on my last attempt, desperately praying to hook onto the other handle.

Fortunately, Alex noticed what I was trying to do, turning the car to make it easier to grab onto the handle. I cheered inside my heart when I was successful, the help from Alex letting me attach myself to a new anchor. Checking the timer, I had ten more seconds left, quickly climbing the rope to get into the hover car. However, the hunter was brutal, Alex jumping out of the car when the controls started to go out of control. I coughed from the smoke, the car slowly crashing down, dragging me along with it.

It was better to abandon the car since I would fall down slower if I was alone. By the time I reached the ground, I would be safe. I realized the hunter couldn't do anything to me when I didn't use an anchor, completely surrounded by air. However, I urgently needed a new plan to survive the next round. Searching for a place to land, I sighed in relief from finding I made the right choices, watching the timer:

[Time Remaining: Three seconds]

[Time Remaining: Two seconds]

[Time Remaining: One second]

[Game End]

While the destroyed mansion still remained, I was able to land on a patch of neatly trimmed grass, the garden not badly affected as the other places. Although my dress was in tatters, I knew Alex had backups inside his inventory. This was a chance to recover as much as possible, taking as many elixirs out of my inventory to drink as possible. If each individual elixir had a small effect, maybe consuming a large number of bottles with different types would be different. I didn't have the time to synthetize them together, hoping it would somehow mix inside my body to get the impact I wanted.

When I started to hear someone walking towards me, I stopped drinking more elixirs, pushing everything back to its original place. I would have to ask Micah later if there were any side effects from doing this. Once I organized my thoughts, I turned to face the person behind me, shuddering when I noticed Alex's eyes, filled with a tremendous mix of anger, disappointment and worry. I started to step away from him as I knew it was best to avoid him. But before I could, he tightly grabbed my hand, pulling me closer to him. However, I had a safety net, Oili and his partner joining me, stepping out of their hover car.

"We apologize for the results of your event. We can compensate you, please accept our offer," Alex pulled out a cheque.

"Apologize," He turned to pressure me.

"I apologize for destroying your mansion and your event. I can offer you more elixirs," I wondered if they were interested.

"It's fine. We don't need any compensation. We're friends," Oili declined our offers.

"Please accept this, or else I'm dead later," I mumbled towards the end.

I pulled out a hundred elixirs of each type, skyrocketing high in front of them. I sadly gazed at Oili and his partner to take them, hinting I would become a goner otherwise. Thankfully, Oili seemed to understand, the pile disappearing as he stuffed them inside his inventory. Both Luke and Alex didn't like owing anyone, including distant family members. I grabbed Oili's hand with my spare hand, "can we use your hover car to get to the next event? Ours is sadly destroyed."

"Do you mean Ethan's place?" Oili wondered.

"Yea, that place!" I didn't want to return home.

"We're heading the same way then. His place needs more sub-hosts and we can't continue the event here anymore," he showed me the message.

"Our hover car is coming in ten minutes Rika," Alex didn't want to use theirs.

"You can use it alone," I brought out my pitiful eyes to Oili's partner.

"The three of us can use this hover car," Oili's partner gave into me.

Unfortunately, as soon as I touched Oili's hover car, it broke down, crumbling into pieces. Staring at the ashes and broken parts, I was stunned, wondering how it managed to survive during the hunt. Alex squeezed my hand tighter, trying to hide his irritation, turning to them, "you can join us in our hover car. It should be coming within nine more minutes."

"However, you must sign this contract to make sure everything you witness stays confidential," Alex pulled out something Luke had prepared for similar cases.

"A contract?" Oili stared at the document.

"It has to do with the inner workings of other fractions.. Many calls come in and out during our travel time," Alex explained.