While Adam was busy sorting things out, Coast City had two new peculiar visitors.
A blue-haired boy with a darker skin that made him seem like someone from the desert or coastal areas. He had blue claw tattoos on his arms and a few more on the side of his face. There was ancient language at the edges of those claws.
He was the same boy that the seer girl saw in the vision.
His dark blue eyes looked around the coast city entrance gates before he found a peculiar sight of a woman veiled in black.
The boy was intrigued by two things he saw in front of him. One was that the girl did not have any arms. An armless girl, to say the least. And the other one was the aura she possessed.
Having special senses, the blue-haired boy could see that the girl was anything but normal. She possessed the strength of some of the most powerful beings that the boy had fought or seen. Thus, intriguing the boy even more.
“Are you done gawking?” Breaking him out of his stupor, the girl turned towards the boy.
Though she was blindfolded, her gaze and facial expression told that she could see even without her eyes open. Her calm attitude somehow made the boy a bit more cautious than what he usually is.
“Are you going to say something? You aren’t dumb, are you?” The girl tilted her head in confusion before she observed the boy for a few more seconds.
“You are strong. Who are you?” The boy spoke his honest thoughts as he looked at the girl. Hearing his words, she smiled as she understood the reason this boy was on such an edge ever since he saw her.
“You can see, huh?” She moved closer to the boy as the surrounding turned still. Everything other than the boy and the girl turned blurry, while the girl moved closer to the boy. Her blindfolded eyes seem to look through the entirety of the boy in front of him.
And the boy who stood there with a cautious face mumbled some words,
“[Asbescus Demitra limase!]”
The girl’s eyes suddenly widened as she asked,” Who-”
But the boy shouted before she could complete her sentence,” GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!”
-Click!
A clicking sound rang in the head of that boy, as he found himself standing back in the same spot he was before. Only this time, everything was normal. All the people were moving and chatting around him, passing him by, caring for their own things.
And the girl… she was nowhere to be seen.
The boy looked around for a few more seconds before cautiously moving into the city. His eyes were looking at everything around him, while his senses were at max as he moved.
If the city entrance was this dangerous, then only god knows how scary the city could be.
While the boy moved into the city, a few hundred meters away from him, the same girl was taking heavy breaths, barely supporting her back against the alley wall. She managed to escape the boy using her spells, but looking at the situation, she understood that she can’t let her guard down even in a city as weak as this one.
‘Why does fate want me here? Shouldn’t I be in the Border Town looking for the guy who has my [Chalice]?’ She thought to herself as she removed the veil covering her face.
She was still blindfolded since she had traded her eyes for power. But it wasn’t really much of a problem, since she had boosted her senses enough to see everything around clearly. Much, much better than what she could see with her eyes.
She was, after all, the Goddess of Balance, Equi.
Though she still missed her arms which she can’t regenerate that easily. She would need a tremendous amount of power to get back her [Arms of Gods]. Which is, kind of, only possible if she gets her hand on [Chalice of Equilibrium!].
Her blindfolded eyes then looked up at the sky, as she noticed the cracks present, leading towards heaven. And then she sensed the presence of gods, who were observing the city.
‘What exactly are they doing? And where?’ She thought as she narrowed down at the gaze of the gods who were using divinity. It intrigued her to why there were so many gods’ gaze in this city?
And after managing to look around, she found a single place where they all had their eyes set on. The Edge of the Coast City on the other side near the seashore.
‘Should I get involved or should I keep a safe distance? Or perhaps I should escape the city altogether?’ She pondered over the three choices she had. While she wanted to know what the heck was going on to involve so many gods, there was also the fact that she was a wanted criminal among the gods on both sides.
Currently, no one knew that she had escaped her prison, and that was actually a good thing. And obviously she had to get powerful before she could come out in the light.
But here was the thing. Most of her powers were stored in the [Chalice of Equilibrium!] held by the fate weaver. And while she didn’t like it, her fate powers were guiding her towards the same storm that could potentially devour her.
So waiting could perhaps lead to a situation where the [Chalice] is caught by the gods, and she could forever lose her hope of getting her powers back. And obviously there was a chance that this whole thing wasn’t even about the [Chalice] and she could just get it without getting involved in this mess. As long as she keeps patience.
“Damn it!” She cursed under her breath before standing up and changing her appearance to that of a normal human. It wasn’t strong enough to fool higher gods, but was enough to stay out of sight of normal gods.
“Hopefully it isn’t a mistake,” she mumbled as she walked towards that place where the storm was brewing. Towards the mansion at the edge of the city.
And unbeknownst to her, the boy in the blue hair, who was observing her from a safe distance using a power of his own, also began following her, hoping to find some clues to what he was looking for.
