Chapter 179 Tiny Red Dots

[ 30/30 water ability points ]

[ Water ability is now level 3 ]

[ 40/40 water ability points ]

[ Water ability is now level 4 ]

Luis had a wide smile on his face as he stared at the message on his system screen.

Leveling up his water ability twice was really nice but it didn't come easy as the Angel was lying on the ground with mud stains on his uniform, he wasn't looking exactly okay.

"Are you okay?" Pearl bent over him to ask.

"Yeah." He replied blinking his eyes several times.

Pearl offered him a hand which he gladly accepted and was pulled up.

"You really can take a lot of water blasts." She said,

"I told you I could," Luis said, cleaning his body but not all the dirt was going to go off.

"I really expected hand-to-hand combat until you brought up that challenge," Pearl said.

"We can still do the hand-to-hand combat," Luis said

That wasn't true as he had gotten zapped really down after trying to avoid and then letting himself get hit by all those water blasts.

[ 10/100 Energy ]

Pearl knew the obvious quite well no matter how much Luis tried to hide.

"You look pretty tired," Pearl said.

"No, I'm not."

"We should start heading back, Tammy must be worried sick about me," Pearl said, already following the building to find her way back to the school.

"Ok," Luis said as he followed her from behind.

The two moved through the forest as Luis kept touching every single tree, taking ten percent life force from each of them until his energy had gotten filled up.

[ 100/100 Energy ]

Without resting or eating anything the Angel had regained his lost energy and he could tell that by how strong his body felt once again.

'I wonder what will happen if I take energy from that tree.' He thought as he approached the next tree.

[ 10% life force consumed ]

[ +10 Energy added to reserve energy ]

[ 40/50 reserve energy ]

'Oh.'

"Do you really love trees that much?" Pearl turned back to him to ask.

"Huh?" Luis said, removing his hands from the tree's stem.

"You keep touching every single tree we walk past," Pearl said.

"Oh."

If tree lovers were to be called out Luis knew he wouldn't be found on that list because of the horrible experiments he had tried on trees with his power drain.

'You should develop some respect for them though.' Lena said.

The two kept walking until they had gotten to the point where they could see the stores in the area but there was a problem as there were guards in the area just like Luis had suspected.

"Come, we'll tell them we got lost after using your teleporter," Pearl said and was about to step forward when Luis pulled her back.

"I don't think that's a good idea," Luis said.

"Why?"

"Follow me, I think we can find another way," Luis said as he walked out, entering the bush by the side.

"What a really nice route to take," Pearl said with sarcasm as they made their way through the bush.

Luis didn't reply to her as he kept pushing through the bush until they could finally see a building.

"Isn't that the school clinic?" Pearl asked.

"Yeah, I told you we could find another way," Luis said with a satisfactory smile.

"Yeah yeah let's go now," Pearl said but just as she was about to step out from the bush Luis pulled her back.

"What now?" Pearl said she sounded like she was about to break down in tears.

"Look," Luis said, pointing at the clinic.

Two boys were being carried by four other boys and the boys being carried in didn't seem to be conscious.

"Oh," Pearl said.

'Another set of hurt boys and there's no doubt they are from that fighting club.' Luis thought.

"Luis," Pearl called as the Angel was just looking directly at the clinic without saying anything.

"Yeah let's go," Luis said as he stepped out from the bush first.

The two walked fast to enter the tracks to avoid raising suspicion from anyone passing by but just as they walked past the tree in front of the bush Pearl noticed something.

"Did you notice that tree has tiny red dots on its leaves?" Pearl asked, pointing back at the tree.

"Red dots," Luis said as he turned to the tree and it was only after looking closely that he was able to see the dots. "You really have good eyesight to be able to spot that easily."

"Thank you," Pearl said with a smile.

For some reason, Luis couldn't take his eyes off the tree as he was getting some strange feelings and that was when something clicked in his mind.

[ Aura vision activated ]

He looked at the tree to see that the dark magic he had transferred to the tree yesterday had spread to various parts of it.

It didn't spread to every part of it as there only appeared to be little particles of the aura at every part of the tree.

'That wasn't supposed to happen.' Luis thought as he figured out the reason behind the red dots on the tree.

"Let's go," Pearl said, pulling him by his arm.

"Why do I have to follow you, we're already back in the academy?" Luis asked.

"Because you have to explain everything that happened to Tammy." She said as she pulled him along.

"Can't you do that yourself?"

"No, I want you to do it because you'll do it better."

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p Ace had gotten bored and tired of reading the book he was reading, it was a book about wind ability and he read it almost every day but right now he had gotten really tired of reading it and just threw it aside.

"Those two really decided to leave me all alone today." He grumbled to himself as he turned to face Luis' bed.

He kept looking at the bed until he noticed that one part of the sheet was a little more elevated than the other parts.

"What's that bump?" He said as he got up from his bed and walked to Luis' bed.

He pulled up the sheets to reveal the VR headsets Luis had taken from Michael's lab.

"Why does he have a VR headset on his bed?" He said as he picked up the device and that was when an idea came to his mind.

"I think this should keep me busy for a while." He said as he laid down on Luis' bed and slowly put on the VR headset.

His vision began to die out as he immediately found himself in the white space.

[ Welcome back Demon Slayer ]

"Demon Slayer?" Ace said.

[ Please choose a weapon and game mode ]

The weapon inventory was brought up and the teenager had mistakenly clicked the first option without even getting a clear view of the weapon.

The game mode options were quickly brought up after that and he had made the same mistake Luis had made by clicking the random option.

The scene began to change as he immediately found himself in some sort of sloppy snowy terrain.

Ace looked around him with a surprised expression on his face.

'Is this the same kind of headsets we used to train?'

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