Chapter 572: An Affected
After walking out of the portal, Jayden looked at the scene around him, it was completely different from what he had expected, everything was covered with plants and trees.
Broken buildings were lying all over the place, it was currently night time yet some of the plants had a glow to them, it seemed most of the plants and trees were different in many ways.
” I think you opened the portal to the wrong place, let’s go back. ” Jayden spoke and turned around but the portal closed as soon as everyone had walked out of it.
” What do you mean the wrong destination, this is Earth hmm I guess it had changed a little bit. ” Goddess Damuda spoke, Jayden just sighed he had not expected that the change he heard about before from the goddess would be so big it was almost like he was in a post apocalyptic world.
Jayden turned around and saw the body that was split in two by the portal and only now did he notice that there were other people around, he looked at more than a dozen masked men and the couple who were sticking close to each other.
” Did we disturb something? Don’t mind us and continue. ” Jayden spoke and turned to walk away from there.
All the people around were just too stunned by everything that had just happened so they looked at Jayden in shock and confusion, and just when he began to walk away did they finally came back to their senses.
” Where do you think you are going after killing one of our member? ” A masked man spoke, and then his gaze went over all the women standing beside Jayden, they all received the second biggest shock of the day, so many beauties in a single frame were too blinding for them.
Even the man who was standing with his wife couldn’t help but get enchanted after seeing them even though he was just a few seconds away from death and only came back to his senses after his wife pinched his hand.
On the other hand, all the masked men didn’t hide their lust, for some reason their plans immediately changed with a silent mutual agreement, pointing their weapons towards Jayden one of the masked men spoke:
” You can’t leave after just killing a man, you will have to compensate us for our loss ” They didn’t recklessly charge at Jayden since they thought that he was the one who had opened the portal just now.
” Hmm What kind of compensation do you want? Just let me tell you first that right now I’m as poor as you. ” Jayden said after he stopped moving and looked back towards the skull masked men though he knew exactly what they were going to say.
” Don’t you have any idea who we are, ignorance is bliss, capture him and all the others along with him. ” The masked man commanded all the others as they took out their weapons and began to walk towards Jayden while their gazes remained fixedly on the women.
Jayden looked at their weapons he could sense different types of elemental energies coming from them and they seemed to have been made from different materials, he couldn’t understand how even these ordinary humans were able to get their hands on such things.
” Getting robbed by cheap mobs as soon as I return, haa Anna I think you had jinxed me earlier. ” Jayden mumbled, then he raised one of his arms towards the men standing in front of him and spoke:
” ABSORB ”
Then under the incredulous gazes of all of them, the bodies of all sixteen men began to get torn apart their flesh and blood were all absorbed by Jayden and within seconds they had all turned into dried corpses, none of them even had the time to scream.
The couple fell back while they looked at Jayden with even more fear than they had shown earlier, but without even glancing at them Jayden turned to his family and spoke:
” Let’s go to our house, though I don’t know which direction would that be. ”
Just as they turned to leave, the man sitting on the ground gathered all his courage and moved behind his wife then he asked: ” A- Are you one of the a- affected? ”
” Affected? What is that? ” Jayden asked looking at him, this man didn’t have any special aura and even the woman was ordinary human.
” Huh? Y- You don’t even know that? Where have you been all this time? ” The man asked with a surprised expression, he wondered if Jayden was just joking with him.
” Are they affected people? ” Jayden asked while pointing towards the corpses of all the masked men.
” No, they weren’t, you really don’t know? ” The man asked with wide eyes, he couldn’t understand how someone could be so clueless when the entire earth had changed completely.
” And what are these weapons? ” Jayden asked as he picked one of the blue coloured knives, he could sense a strange type of energy from it which somehow made him feel like it was related to water.
” No no no first tell me, have you been living inside a cave all this time with so many women at that and how were you able to use that ability if you are not an affected? ” The man asked in confusion, since Jayden was talking to him normally his fear had reduced a little.
” Something like that, but first tell me what had happened? And also where are we right now? ” Jayden asked, as he looked around at the forest like place.
Giant trees had grown all over the place, everything had been covered by grass and plants, the buildings around were all in shambles and strangely Jayden couldn’t sense any living creatures around.
” W- Why don’t we go somewhere else to talk, it’s not that safe around here, by the way I am Ron. ” He said and stood up on his feet, his wife was still trembling after seeing how all those men had died.
” Okay, and I am Jayden. ” After replying to him, Jayden decided to follow him since he was not sure about his current location any way and he also needed to know about the current situation of the world.
” Sigh, I don’t even have my mobile with me right now, how are we going to get out of here? ” Ron said and sighed.
“…” Jayden just looked at him with an expression saying ‘seriously’, he can’t even get out of here himself and he was bringing them all along with him.
” Then you should just worry about yourself, I’ll be leaving- ” Jayden spoke and was about to turn but Ron spoke hastily and interrupted Jayden.
” No wait, t- these men they must have mobiles with them, I’m sure s- so just give me a minute. ” After speaking these words he steeled his heart and took a long breath then he stepped towards the corpses and hesitated a little before touching them.
But after glancing towards Jayden he made some kind of decision and began to go check the disgusting looking corpses.
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