Chaos Devourer System - Chapter 695: The Journey Begins

Chapter 695: The Journey Begins

The excited voice of Felicie rang out behind him as Zeras turned to her, watching as she struggled to drag down the large bag she had in her hands. He couldn’t help but shake his head amusingly, witnessing her struggle to bring it down even though she tried all she could to make it seem effortless.

“You know you can just ask, right? All it takes is ‘Can you help me with this, please?’” Zeras said to her as Felicie heaved a sigh of relief, watching as the bag disappeared into thin air immediately upon Zeras’ touch.

“Thank you!” she said as Zeras shrugged helplessly before walking out of the inn, quickly followed by Felicie. Exiting the inn, it was dead silent and quiet, the only sound being the sight of snow raining onto the ground silently.

No doubt all of the Otherworlders had already left for the tower, making the place look like some sort of abandoned cemetery.

“So, where to next?” Zeras asked as Felicie dipped her hand into her cardigan, bringing out a note containing various symbols and lines. Her eyes brightened when she turned to the east side where the tower had been noted to have appeared.

“This year is a bit of a lucky year. We simply head that way. The challenges in the path are lower than any other direction. Let’s go!” she said, taking the front lead. Quickly, both of them moved, creating footprints in the snow.

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Hours passed quickly on the journey with both Zeras and Felicie, and luckily or unluckily, they had encountered zero danger along the way. They had passed by the settlement since early morning and reached a forest buried in snow in the afternoon.

Eventually, they had walked past the snow forest, and what came as a shocking surprise to Zeras was the area outside the snow area. It was a mountain—an extra ginormous range of mountains that extended far into the distance, with various mountains crossing into each other and spreading through the entire area.

Judging by the links, Zeras could easily test that anyone could lose the right path if they had to go through this mountainous path, even with a map. That was just how complicated it was.

“Here we are. The Legendary Mountainous Path Ranges,” Felicie said, reading out from the small book she had in her hands as Zeras raised an eyebrow.

“You have a record of it? How did you even get that?”

“Hmph, I won’t tell you!” Felicie said as she dipped the map back into her pockets. Zeras simply rolled his eyes, his interest in it quickly fading away.

“Anyway, it’s already dark now, and crossing this mountain in the dead of night will be a big mistake for anyone that dared to do so. What do you say about stopping here and waiting for sunrise?” Felicie asked him as Zeras’ eyes glinted with light.

Actually, he would have loved if they had continued to move. Morning or night made no difference to him. Stopping would only give those who had continued on the path before them an even better advantage. It wasn’t a good thing at all.

But reasoning with what Felicie said, the interwoven pathways would prove difficult for anyone to navigate, even a cultivator. It would no doubt be even more difficult for Felicie, who was responsible for navigation and had proven through the journey that she was greatly needed.

“Ok then. We will wait until dawn,” Zeras said with a smile, causing Felicie to heave a sigh of relief. She was anything but a nice person, and having to navigate in the cold night would probably make her fall to her death. Stopping was the best thing she could wish for right now, and it had just been granted.

“Ok, then. I’ll try to get some wood for fire. I have a feeling the night would only get colder!” she said, preparing to move back when her hand was gently grabbed, causing her to stop.

“No! You stay here and I’ll get the fire,” Zeras said, releasing her hand before heading into the jungle alone.

“I’m pretty sure I can easily gather the wood. I have been doing that all my life, something I doubt you have experience in at all,” Felicie pressed on as Zeras shook his head, shrugging helplessly before quickly disappearing into the jungle, a single thought ringing in his head as he entered it.

‘You won’t come back if you dare enter…’

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BOOOOOOM

The sound of a body roughly landing onto the ground resounded as a huge tiger-like beast slid down a tree lifelessly, a gigantic hole in the center of its head that revealed the other side of the area.

Turning to give a proper look, one would see more than a hundred such creatures around the place, each having in some magical way dropped through their body and snatching away life from each of them.

At the center of the scene of massacre was none other than Zeras, who had cold white air puffing out of his lungs and nose.

The entire area was dead silent save for his turbid breathing, but in the next instant, a slight rustle could be heard as Zeras faded away from where he stood in the next second.

RIIIIIIIIIIIP

The sound of a body part getting ripped off resounded as dark bloodstains rained down the white snow, followed by a soul chilling scream…

At the top of a tree stood Zeras, but this time he wasn’t alone. In his tight grasp was a strange humanoid-like alien with a lanky yellow body and a tail. The figure held no difference at all to a chimpanzee except for the fact that it had no hair on its body, and currently, one of its arms had been ripped apart.

Its ears were also long and pointed like those of a bat, and the sound of its neck bones getting crushed repeatedly sounded as Zeras slowly strangled it to death.