Chapter 401: The Chronos Incident Begins...

Chapter 401: The Chronos Incident Begins...



Academy, Rio's Room.

[Is there really any purpose in staring at the sun like that?]

'It makes you feel 'cool' though... I just do it for the sake of it sometimes...'

Standing near his room's window, Rio was sipping tea in a leisurely manner while watching the sun rise with the same expressionless look on his face.

[I don't get you... You sometimes behave like an old man; how about going to some clubs and partying and stuff?]

'Going to clubs won't change anything; I will still look as dead as I was looking before... I might even ruin the fun for others...'

[But I heard that going to clubs increases your chances of a girl flirting with you!]

Rio sighed at those words and shook his head.

'Do I even need any other girl to flirt with me... I already have one that has a lot of interesting reactions when you tease her... Oh, but you aren't allowed to tease her though...'

[Yeah, yeah, I know, You and your Ms. Golden Tsundere... It's like she's the sole star shining in the pitch black and empty night sky that is you...]

While Rio was arguing with Shadow in his mind, he noticed a strange sensation in the air all of a sudden.

'Hmm... The sky in the distance... seems kind of more redder than before?...'

Before Rio could react, the entire sky went dark red, and a rain of blood started to pour from the sky.

Even Rio was shocked after seeing such a scene.

'Tears of the world!? What the!? Why is this phenomenon happening now!?'

'Tears of the World' is a phenomenon in which the world itself rains blood from through the space-time fabric to show that it's deeply saddened or hurt by something.

In the novel, this phenomenon only appeared once, and that was when Link was killed off by Fade.

As Link is the chosen of the world, his death made the world itself quite sad, and the world bled in the form of the rain of blood.

This kind of rain doesn't have much effect even if you touch it and is completely harmless to even ordinary people, but its main effect is the impact it leaves on the mind of those who see

it.

Rio quickly put away the tea, grabbed his coat and space ring from the couch, and quickly put them on.

'Something's not right; this isn't supposed to be happening at all!'n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Link is completely fine now, and there's nothing that should have triggered this phenomenon, as Rio already interfered with a lot of things and many things have changed.

At that moment, Rio could feel that the rain of blood bore no good for him, it definitely will bring some harm.

His intuitions immediately started to warn him that something's definitely not right; thus, Rio immediately got combat ready as he took his equipment.

[Ding! Strings of destiny have been tempered!]

[Ding! The Spire of Ascension has gazed upon your existence and has tried to draw you inside!]

[Ding! True Immunity triggered! ERROR.... ERROR!!]

[Warning! 'A??m???' has taken effect! Your skill 'True Immunity' has been forcefully suppressed!]

[The Gaze of the Spire of Ascension has taken effect!]

Thus, Raji was worried about her safety a lot.

Just when Raji was trying to think what to do about this situation, her phone started to ring

like crazy.

She hurriedly brought it out to see who it was, and it turned out it was a call from a military

general.

"Ms. Raji! The other SS-rankers are not picking up their phone; thankfully you picked it up!"

"I have grave news to tell you! A massive demon army has attacked the southern coastline of the nation! There are hundreds of S-rankers among them!"

"We require immediate assistance!"

Raji's eyes widened in shock when she heard those words,

"What!? Where did so many demons suddenly come from!? Why didn't the alliance warn us that so many demons were heading in our direction!?"

It is nearly impossible to reach their nation's border in plain sight so easily; their high-tech detection equipment can even keep eyes on S-rankers in case they suddenly appear nearby. There's simply no way so many demons entered the border of the human empire without noticing, and all this happened at such a convenient time, just when Ashtel and Jin had

disappeared.

It's too much of a coincidence that it seems like a well-planned conspiracy!

Raji immediately contacted the World Alliance, and what she found out was even more

shocking.

It turned out once the SS-rankers were teleported away by that mysterious building, all of their nations were attacked by demons all at once!

Now, they are all occupied with combating the demon attacks and have no time to worry

about others.

"What are the demons trying to do!? This is but a complete all-out war! They are literally attacking the entire world at once!"

Nobody had any idea why the demon armies suddenly launched such massive-scale wars and

attacked every nation that they could!

Moreover, people only noticed the demons when they had already entered their nation's

borders! Which is simply too bizarre!

'Don't tell me that the force that forcefully teleported us sent these demons to keep us busy

so that we won't be able to interfere with it!?'

Raji gritted her teeth and opened a portal to go to the southern coastline of the nation.

Now that Ashtel and Jin are not present, the responsibility to keep the nation safe has fallen

on her shoulders; she can't dodge this responsibility.

Thus, she had no choice but to go and help out in defending the borders and keeping the

demons at bay.

If they make it to the cities, thousands of innocent people will die, and Raji will be responsible for their deaths.

When Ashtel comes back, he will blame her for negligence, so she dared not delay. 'Link, I will leave the safety of my sister to you once again; please keep her safe...'