Chapter 232 232 Over There

Chapter 232 232 Over There

Without hesitating, he whipped out the dagger on his belt- and in one smooth move, he slashed through the flesh of his open palm.

Stacy's eyes widened in shock. Her lips separated as she gasped aloud. From the white of his palm, a streak of red blood appeared.

She swallowed huskily- watching the blooming and budding red gush out of his palm. She lifted her gaze to his face. Both his eyes were sunk in the hollows of their sockets. His face had a faraway-distant look. Like he was lost in a daze.

He closed his fist mechanically- squeezing assiduously.

In rich trickles, the blood spilled out of his palms- drizzling in heavy drops- landing squarely on the baby spiders beneath. Stacy's breath ceased. Along the length of his outstretched arm, the crease of his sleeves ruffled as he twirled his hands around- showering the newborn black widows in a rainfall of his blood.

On the ground, their jaws separated- and their eager-barely formed mouths, lapped the dark red liquid up.

[SOUL CONTRACT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY BOUND.]

Stacy peered at him as he closed his fist and withdrew his hand.

She had a faint idea about what Nexus had just done.

And for some reason- it excited her.

"Stacy, he growled; "Don't forget what we came here for."

Color rushed back to her flushed face;

"Of course master," she nodded enthusiastically: "of course."

Forcing her gaze away from him, she felt her gut twist in a knot. Nexus' sudden burst of savagery had m gotten her all jittery on the insides. She hid her mischievous smile as she turned around.

That was hot- master.

Clasping her hands together in front of her, she arched her head low- as if in prayer, abs chanted in a low rumbling voice:

"Clear as the moon, bright as the stars,

Give me the sight of the heavens-

The power of the blood moon."

The rhythm of her tune caused the words to flow out smoothly. She slowly lifted up her head, and immediately, the white of her eyes turned bloody red. Under the fluttering of her long lashes, she let her eyes rove over all the breadth of the battleground- searching carefully for any sign of a wireworm egg.

"Well?"

Nexus asked impatiently- wrapping a white handkerchief around his bleeding hand. The folds under his eyes twisted- wincing slightly as the fabric landed on the open wound;

"Found anything yet?"

Stacy stood a couple of meters away to his right.

With her legs slightly apart, and her shoulders thrown back- her head remained still on her neck for a moment. Slowly, twirling in a noiseless circle, she kept her stiff neck in place and began to turn her head clockwise- angling from left to right- twisting her skull in slight rotating movements- scouring the length of the terrain.

In her eyes- a rich cloud of blood overshadowed both her eyeballs.

And from the edges, a slow trickle of red liquid slithered down her face.

With her dark red hair fluttering in the wind, and the bleeding sight of her face- she looked like a nighmare.

Of course, Nexus' vision remained the same. But the Blood Moon prodigy was seeing things in three different dimensions. Like the vision from a night vision googles, streaks of bright colors dotted the edges of her blood red vision.

In this case, it wasn't heat signatures.

It was mana signatures.

A minute ago, while the battle between the two monsters had been raging, she had tip toed her way towards the other two wireworms and searched their corpses. But absolutely nothing had been in their canals.

She had been disappointed not to find even a half formed egg.

So, with her bleeding eyes, she gazed upon the wireworms- repressed all other mana signatures in the background, and isolated the unique mana from the insides of the wireworms.

A blaze of green bloomed before her.

It was like following a trail of smoke- bright green smoke.

Silently, in breathless movements, she lifted her head slightly- glazing over the corpses- over the boulder, way beyond the cleft of rocks- and followed the trail with her eyes. Just like her eyes, the entire terrain had turned into a fog of dense misty red- and like a trail of bread crumbs, the green smoke stuck out in the sea of blood red.

"Over there–"

She raised her right hand, pointing ahead- way past the valley, to the next hill in front. Her right hand kept going up- inclining high and higher- till it pointed to at vaunted top of the cone shaped hill;

"The trail leads across the ravine- on top the hill ahead."

Nexus lifted up his head- tightening the makeshift bandage around his hand.

With his eyes narrowing in their sockets, he thrust out his right leg- walking up to her in long fluid strides. He pulled up next to her, heels scrapping on the earth in soft gentle clacking sounds.

"Are you sure?" he echoed.

"Positive." she replied; "I can see it as clear as day. My Blood Moon eyes doesn't lie."

"Oh, yeah," he exhaled, glancing at her; "I forgot about those nasty eyes of– WHAT THE HELL?!"

Nexus thundered, gawking at her eyes; "YOU'RE BLEEDING?!"

She merely shrugged; "Oh, this is? It's normal. Don't worry about it master."

Nexus squinted till his eyes turned into razor thin slits.

"You sure? Cos' it looks really–"

"–wicked?" she chuckled; "Blood is the price the York clan has to pay for true sight. After all, can't take without giving right?"

"Yeah," he wiped his hands- peeling his gaze away from her face; "I guess so."

"So," she sighed; "Shall we?"

"Indeed," he squinted hard; "Indeed we shall."

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Nose flaring, and lips twisted in a mini snarl, Nexus grunted again.

It was the fifth time- in five minutes.

The hard soles of his rugged boots scraped along the rocky surface of the hill- breaking of sediments of dust and sand. Up above, in the eastern sky, the bluish white crescent moon shone lazily- casting lazy shadows on the sides of the hill.

Nexus grunted again. He absolutely hated hunting at night. No. He was beginning to hate hunting completely.n--0VeLbIn

But especially at night.

He craned his head forward in the dark, and opened his mouth;

"Hey," it came out as a low whisper; "Just a little reminder here- not all of us have super cool night vision eyes, OKAY?!"

He heard the frustration in his voice. And he wondered if Stacy heard it too.

A few yards ahead of him, the York girl was bent slightly at the knees- crouched low, and inching forward with her right hand placed on the wall to the left.

"Master," she finally spoke- after what felt like an eternity; "We're here. This is it. This is the spot."

A sigh of relief echoed shamelessly from Nexus' throat.

In the moonlit night, he shimmied right up to Stacy- carefully edging his way up the steep slope. His eyes finally settled, bringing his vision into focus. His jaw dropped. Right before him, in a depression- surrounded by formations of rocks, the eggs sat on pile of twigs- nestled closely to each other- with barely an inch of space in between.