Chapter 494: Nothingness
When Bruce heard Jayden’s voice he was startled and fell down on the ground, making a lot of noise, then he stood up and looked fearfully towards Jayden and finally walked near him.
” T- They both have d- died. ” Bruce said, and then steeled himself for Jayden’s anger but nothing happened even after a few seconds had passed he looked above and saw that this news didn’t make Jayden’s expression to change at all, so he heaved a sigh and began to explain.
” A- Actually, Yash was killed by a 3rd Zone demon while we were surrounded and Jiggy w- ” but his explanation was interrupted by Jayden.
” Alright, I don’t care about them, were you able to get any cores? ” He asked, Jayden didn’t care about the old man or Jiggy even though he had turned them both into his slaves for some time he knew that none of the three were anything exceptional so it would do him no good to take them along with him.
Bruce instantly took out four cores out of the pouch on his waist and passed them all to Jayden, then he stepped back and waited there patiently.
” Hmm not bad, okay you can go back and no longer have to be my slave. ” Jayden said and without even glancing at Bruce, he took Hecate’s hand and began to fly in a different direction leaving a stunned Bruce there.
” Where can I even go now? Going back to the academy is nothing short of suicide and I can’t go to any other place. ”
Bruce mumbled to himself, and the only possible way for him to survive was to stay in this forest he could either live his life peacefully or become a bandit there, after thinking for a long time he decided to just travel around.
If none of the three of them returned back to the academy then they would think that some accident must have happened and assume that all three people had died, even though they would be sending some people to check but if he could avoid them all then he would be able to have a new life in this forest.
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After flying away from him Jayden created a shield around Hecate and then flew at his full speed, Hecate could feel that he was becoming impatient and wanted to collect all the cores as fast as possible but she could not understand why he was in a hurry.
At this speed Jayden was able to travel even more distance in a short time but the danger had also increased, after a few hours of travelling while he was flying over a strange dried tree, Jayden hadn’t noticed anything strange about it but just the moment he was about to cross over it, he suddenly sensed killing intent aimed at him.
Without thinking he used Void skill and along with Hecate he flashed some distance away, but when he turned to see the cause of the killing intent he was surprised to see that in the area from which he had just teleported from, had completely disappeared, there was no air but it wasn’t vacuum it was as if that small area has disappeared into nothingness.
” What’s that? ”
He mumbled but again the same sensation tingled all his senses, warning him of the danger that was about to devour his body.
Jayden knew that using the Void skill wouldn’t be useful since it was already too late so he moved his body away and tried to reduce the damage as much as possible.
*TING*
A metallic sound rang out, Jayden was barely able to move out of the area of the attack but for some reason, his leg was feeling a bit strange and when he looked below Jayden was shocked to see that one of his legs had disappeared from the area below his knee, there was no blood but it was not even healing.
” We should go away right now. ” Hecate spoke in a hurried tone, she looked panicked.
Jayden didn’t linger there any longer and used Void skill to move as far away as possible from there but even then he teleported several times and got quite far away from it.
” Hoo, what the fuck was that thing? I wasn’t even able to sense any thing at all, this was the first time that something like this had happened. And why isn’t my leg healing? ”
Jayden threw one question after another, he was incredibly confused, looking at the leg which was yet to heal, he looked at his knee and could see that under his knee everything had disappeared yet not a single drop of blood was dripping from it, even though the flesh and bone could be seen from under it.
” C- Calm down, first, you need to cut your leg above the knee, do it right away. ”
Hecate said in a hurried tone, at first Jayden couldn’t understand what she meant but when he focussed his mind on his knees he was shocked to see that his leg was slowly disappearing, as if nothingness was travelling up his leg, his skin, flesh and bone were slowly turning into nothingness.
He hastily turned Andrea into a sword and cut his leg off, although he hadn’t noticed it before but after cutting his leg he remembered that he wasn’t even able to feel any pain in the area that was devoured by that strange thing, only when he cut his own leg above his knees could be finally feel pain.
When the separated part of his body fell on the ground, within seconds it disappeared but it didn’t stop there it even began to devour the ground, turning it into nothingness as if there never had been ground.
” What is this? Is this supposed to be the strength of a 3rd Zone demon? Could it possibly be that demon who was evolving? ” Jayden asked, that strange feeling of nothingness had sent a chill all over his body.
” No there is no way that a 3rd Zone demon could be this strong or even a demon who is evolving can’t display such strength, but I’m sure that I have heard about something similar to this happening before, give me a minute to remember. ”
Anna said, and then fell silent, Jayden used his senses to the max and scanned the area around him to see if that thing had followed him to all the way here.
None of the 3rd Zone demons he had faced so far were able to injure his body after it was refined by the Dragon aura but that thing just now had so easily cut his leg, Jayden was yet to recover from the surprise as everything had happened so fast.
Hecate stood beside him without saying anything as she stared at the area which had disappeared by now in the ground vwith a frown on her beautiful face, since Jayden was not able to think straight he had overlooked the fact that it was Hecate just now who had warned him about the danger and advised to cut his leg so it was obvious that she knew something.
In complete silence, a couple of minutes passed, and neither Hecate nor Jayden spoke anything, Anna was taking her time trying to remember about this thing and only after five minutes had passed did she finally remembered it.
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