Chapter 251 An Old Enemy Of Mine

Netherrealm.

A few minutes before Zero and his party arrive.

…

"(FIND THEM!!! THEY MUST BE HERE SOMEWHERE)" spoke a huge rhino faced monster as he commanded the other monsters around him to search for someone.

The sky was white as always, with the sand covering the entire land.

There were mountains and rocks scattered all over the place as far as your eyes can see.

Among the huge mountains, two human-like monsters with twin horns and blue-coloured skin were hiding from a battalion of Rhino headed monsters.

The human-like monsters were siblings, brother and sister, who had escaped from the enemy's camp and were now moving towards their home, but unfortunately, the enemy had caught up to them.

-Boom!!

Breaking one of the giant rocks, the leader Rhino monster revealed the location of the brother and sister.

The brother takes out his spear and attacks the Rhino, though he is easily pushed back by the latter with an axe attack.

While the sister, finding his brother getting hurt, uses her System to heal his brother,

"[Dark Aid]"

The wound vanished and the white blood that was gushing out of the slashed chest healed at a rapid pace.

Meanwhile, the other monsters, who were with the Rhino, moved around to cover the duo's escape route.

The brother stood up again and looked around with a glare as he pointed his spear at the leader.

"(You still haven't given up, huh? Futile attempt,)" spoke the Rhino before he moved towards this duo, but before he could take more than two steps,

A stranger appeared at a distance not far from there. It was a massive gate that could let an entire battalion move from one side to another.

Both the Rhino monsters and the blue-skinned duo observed it with a confused yet scared expression as they stared at it.

-Creak!!!!

The gate opened up with a loud voice that reverberated throughout the entire grounds and soon shadows of a few young men and women appeared in front of everyone.

"You better have reasons for pushing me here against the System's quest. I f*cking lost 10% of my stats, you know? 10 f*cking percent!!!" One of the guys spoke out loud as he shouted looking at another man.

The others were making slight ashen expressions as well, as they moved here.

And then…

The topless man with black hairs, black eyes and a black-coloured tattoo on his body, moved forward towards us and asked,

"(Can you tell me where we are right now?)"

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[Zero's POV]

"(Can you tell me where we are right now?)" I asked the Rhino who seemed the leader here.

'These Rhino's must be Wrath's men while the others too… Hmm, they seem to be Jealousy's people. But weren't they like… enemies at each other's throats?' I pondered over it and looking at the situation, I think I could more or less make out the situation here.

"(Who are you?)" The Rhino asked as he cautiously observed me before I thought of something and a smile came on my face and I turned at those blue coloured men and spoke,

"(Wanna make a deal? I'll escort you to back to your land, but in return you have to answer my questions.)"

Everyone from the battalion of the Rhinos looked at me with a baffled expression and the blue-coloured duo were surprised as well.

"(Do I need to repeat myself?)" I spoke before I saw the Rhino using his attack at me with the best of his power.

And I used a good amount of light magic on my arms, swiftly dodge his attacks and then… slashed his chest with my bare arms coated with light magic.

Like a hot knife cutting through butter, my hand smoothly slashed his chest before pouring more of light energy into his body.

I saw his body falling into pieces as he died a gruesome death.

I then moved forward towards the others as well and killed them using the same method. Even the difference of power was quite a lot, but with the light magic we can more or less kill anyone.

Sadly, though… they will return to life in about an hour because… well, because people here cannot die no matter what… They have only two options in their hands. One is to pass the wall of the living and be reborn as a weaker monster in Planet Vermilion… the other is to continue living in this damned dimension.

"(They will revive soon, I think we should leave from here,)" I said, and the blue-coloured monster duo stood up and looked at me with a baffled look on their faces.

"(Who are you?)" Spoke the blue-coloured girl standing in front of me with a curious gaze as she observed both me and those behind me as well.

"(I am just a guest here. The name is-)" I was about to speak my name but someone else beat me to it…

"(Reaper. You have returned?)" spoke another bright white girl, who came out of nowhere in front of me.

"(Theia,)" word came out of my mouth as I blankly observed her.

She shouldn't know about my existence yet… I was supposed to meet her on my second visit to Netherrealm, but yet here I am looking at her standing in front of me.

The Goddess of Life and Light… the overseer of the Netherrealm.

"(Why did you commit suicide?)" She asked as she glared at me. And it made me even more baffled.

"(You have returned in time as well..

But how is that… possible?)" I muttered slowly and she, probably not hearing my words, cried out loud.

"(Reaper, Netherrealm died. Your planet Vermillion died as well… where were you?! I searched and searched only to hear that you were killed by Lucas!)"

A strange turn of events occurred as soon as we arrived in the Netherrealm…

The Goddess, who once wished for my eternal doom, the one who's always haunted me in the Netherrealm before… was now looking at me as if I were her sole saviour.

"(Just… what happened after I died in the previous timeline?") I asked with confusion in my eyes and a strange sense of familiarity with this… an old enemy of mine.