Chapter 146: A Very Small Universe

Chapter 146: A Very Small Universe

More and more of those birds are coming after me while I keep floating toward the sky. At first, they don't notice the corpses that have crashed on the ground, but as I get closer, they ask more and more questions. No one raised the alarm and all my kill were silent. Someone can even consider me as a silent assassin here, even if a lot of collateral kills are happening. Or not, since everyone is my target. When I am only at a little more than a kilometer away from the city in the cloud, I get surrounded and stopped where I am.

That's not a patrol of two or three guards, no that's an impressive one. Twenty warriors, one of those magicians in white. They look surprised to see me, they were probably leaving to accomplish a mission or something. Not too big, but still enough to require all of those people. As the rest of the guards, they ask me questions, about my identity, my race, my intentions. And my answers were exactly the same, unless, this time, I was visible from the rest of the city. Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

When all of those bodies began to fall, I hear a scream from far away. There, I see a guard rapidly flapping his wings to fly away, not caring at all about what will happen. The other is still screaming while pointing at me. I use an orb of acid to shut the noisy squeak coming from his beak. But the damage is done, soon, more and more are coming toward my position. They see the fleeing and panicking guard, but the space around me is empty. The bodies are on the ground, and the guard melted entirely. Just a simple ghost floating here, totally inoffensive.

But they are cautious and don't come near me, they arm their bows and begin to sing something. Too bad, I wanted to eat your life. Well, I guess killing you and gathering your blood will be enough. I float toward them slowly, wanting to see the power of my two shields. I am certain that the first is my [Veil of Darkness] and I want to see how strong it is. As for dying, I don't think that it will be easy, especially against such weak beings. Three Heroes tried to do that, and none of them succeed.

As expected, they have the brain of a bird but are not that hopeless. When I keep getting closer and ignoring their demands, they fire at me, only a few at first. But when they realize that I didn't slow down and even receive any arrow, they all shoot their deadly projectiles. I can see a rain of arrows getting negated by my [Veil of Darkness], not even creating a crack in it. No, they keep coming, getting the arrowheads destroyed in the process, with the wood part falling because of gravity.

We trail that group of hybrids, without them notice. Of course, at one time, I was really scared. They encountered a horde of wolves, bad and big wolves. With two heads, bigger than a bear from the Earth. Honestly, if those wolves were present on Astria, I would have been so dead when I left the undead cave. As for the group of humans, they all died, except one that fused with the ground and the one turning into a rock. I guess the other didn't have a way to hide. After that, I had to wait a lot of hours before they were not scared to leave their hiding spot.

If I had lost them, I would have never found out the base of Krieg on on the name of this planet. I don't know about it. Let's call it Birdland. The base of Krieg on Birdland. It took five days for the humans to reach it. Too much ground to cover. Maybe their base is well hidden, but when your sight can pierce the ground, it is quite visible. Especially the permanent movement coming from the ground. So, I found it, what should I do now? Destroy everything? No, why Krieg will help me if I do this?

In the end, since they probably can't kill me, I just walk in by the front door. Scaring everyone by my presence. But I don't know if they are too terrified to do it, or maybe smart enough to understand that I won't hurt them immediately, but no one attacked me. Not even a tentative. So, I float across the corridors, following the normal path. Except for the fact that I bypass all the locked doors. And I arrive at the bottom of the underground base, where someone looking very similar to the Prophet is sitting on a chair.

I know he can't be the Prophet since I killed him a month, two months? Some time ago. Maybe he is called the Prophet, but he doesn't have the power of Krieg yet. Would have been really bad for me if I had fought a fake Prophet on Astria. No [Blood Touch], my life would have been very grim. As for the human in front of me, he is shaking. I don't think it is because of me, but because Krieg told no, it's because of me. He can't speak to Krieg right now, so I have to make him do whatever he needs to do that.

-I need to speak to Krieg right now, no, I am not with you, if you slow me down, I will make sure that no humans leave this place alive. Now that we made that very clear, what do you need to exactly to open a conversation with Krieg?