Book 6: Chapter 37

Book 6: Chapter 37

Scarlet

I close my eyes and focus my senses all around the entire world itself. On every last singular droplet of blood. And I immediately feel a little overwhelmed by the vast amount of information I can get from it all.

It feels bizarre. Like I know everything about every bit of blood in the world.

Like I can control it all at will.

Although it’d be dangerous for anything I control over this large an area since all I know is the individual droplets of blood. If I tried controlling them, I’d probably end up ripping the blood out of the bodies of everyone on Earth by sheer accident.

Which would be bad. Accidentally killing everyone on the planet.

Even if I might be able to put them back together with some time.

Probably.

Anyways, I quickly single out the... strange... bits of blood. The blood that is most certainly not normal. Not human. And not even of this universe.Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

The void creatures don’t particularly have ‘blood’, per se, but they have something similar to it. And it apparently counts enough that I can control it still.

It just feels very different and uncomfortable to me.

Kind of like something alien that shouldn’t exist.

It’s just weird.

My brows furrow slightly as I try to keep all of the strange, alien bits of blood under control. Only for me to raise a brow after noticing something even stranger.

One specific gathering of that blood seems to be mixed in with regular human blood in an odd way. A rather unhealthy way at that. And it looks like it’s fighting with the human blood.

It kind of reminds me how I used to be way back when my human and blood lycan blood would fight before I contracted into the System.

Not very hard to figure out who this blood belongs to.

A few moments ago

But as he’s fighting, a strange sensation comes over him, making him stop. And he’s not the only one who stops fighting. Everyone within the entire mall stops moving and begins to look around. As if everyone, Anthony included, feels someone’s sole attention on them.

Then an even stranger sensation comes over him. Like someone is gripping his blood itself and locking it in place. Something he guesses everyone else is experiencing as well when he sees everyone, whether human, void creature, demon, or contractor, freezing stiff.

Just as quickly as they froze, though, everyone staggers as if let off of a string that was holding them like a puppet.

Everyone but the void creatures and Anthony.

Anthony can’t even grit his teeth as he’s stuck frozen in place, feeling the usual pain from his blood. But after several seconds, that pain slowly begins to fade away.

He blinks in surprise, only to feel further surprised by the fact that he can move again.

What’s... happening?

Anthony looks around before focusing on his hands, turning them back and forth. But no matter how much he moves, no pain comes to him.

The pain he’s grown used to over the years is gone.

Then his attention is stolen away by the void creatures, who all seem to be convulsing in place.

Anthony frowns and tilts his head slightly, only for all of the void creatures to pop like bubbles, sending their blood splattering around the mall. Every last void creature inside of it, not even leaving a single one behind.

He quickly jerks his head upwards to stare at the sky, where he knows Scarlet must still be. Meanwhile all of the blood belonging to the void creatures begins to rise into the air before shooting out through any gaps to head towards the sky.

But while everyone else is in awe of what is happening, Anthony just feels relief as he smiles up in the direction the blood is heading. As he revels in the lack of pain. In the peace he’s found out of nowhere.

Thank you... so much...

Tears begin to flow from his eyes while he watches a large wave of glowing red blood swallow up all of the black blood that had floated up into the sky from all across the world. Only for it to all vanish again in moments, heading back to its source.

Thank you... Scarlet.