Chapter 40: Guilt

Chapter 40: Guilt

40- Guilt

After Orochi walked deep into the cave leaving behind Armelia alone, she started crying. Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

It is true that she failed to notice the dangerous situation they were in and how Orochi saved her from all this. And instead of appreciating his help, she punched him and injured him.

Thinking about all this made her feel more guilty. After few minutes she calmed down and looked around, but it was completely dark. She got panicked and started running in the direction in which Orochi went. Fear can be seen from her expression or in her eyes, maybe she is scared of dark places.

(OfCourse, if you can see in the dark. Only then you can see the fear on her face or eyes. [Authors Sarcasm]).

She stumbled a few times, she also fell down and got hurt, due to dark she could not see the way properly, so she walked by sticking to the walls.

(Author= Sticking to the walls in the sense does not mean that she is now spider man, it only means that due to lack of vision she is using walls as support to walk ahead)

After walking for few minutes, she felt her hands touching empty air, as walls came to an end. She looked around and saw light. When she observed clearly, she saw that Orochi was looking at a Statue and was trying to find something. But after looking at it for a while, he gave up and sat at some place to have a rest.

Armelia still felt guilty about earlier, but suddenly an idea crossed her mind. She thought maybe Orochi was trying to find a treasure or something on the statue or something related to it, but failed to get it. And gave up. So, what if She could help him, and find whatever Orochi was looking for on the statue? After she finds it, she can give it to Orochi and after he receives it maybe he will forgive her. Or may even thank her for the generosity she has shown.

Thinking about all the future possibilities that may happen, Armelias eyes started sparkling. And she hurried towards the statues direction. Although, it was difficult to move in dark, but with some difficulty she managed to reach the statue.

She did not have a flashlight like the one Orochi has, but she is an Evolver and when a cultivator goes through Beginning stage and Refinement Stage, they undergo many changes and their senses also gets high. And when a person goes further and reaches Evolver stage or Demi-Human Stage, the senses are further improved.

I picked up the scroll. And tried opening it, but no matter how much strength I used, I could not open the scroll.

After trying different ways, I could think of opening the scroll, but still it was of no use. So, I gave up the idea of trying to open it for now and put the scroll aside.

I searched through the rubble of the broken Old Mans statue, to see if I can find anything else. And this time my luck was useful, and I found something.

It was the book that the Old Mans statue was holding in his hands and reading.

The book was part of the statue and any normal person would think that the book was attached to the Old Mans statue. And even I was fooled by the looks of it.

But after the Old Mans statue broke, the book had cracks on it. Or more like, the books Stone like look was just a Faade or fake cover to hide something. And due to damage occurring on the book, that cover broke, and cracks were formed on it. And the inside object was visible through the cracks.

I removed the Fake Stone type cover and saw that inside of it was still a book.

The book was Brown in color and was about 3 inches thick.

I opened the book, but it was all blank. There was no written or pictorial content in it. It was completely empty. I searched through the book but still there was nothing.

Just as I about to close the book, I felt something when holding a page.

It was the last page of the book.