BXBX NOVEL Chapter 35: Running From Death!
Judging from his shaky body, Nolan could almost smell the young man\'s fear.
But that was exactly what was confusing him.
Just a day ago, he had beaten up Wiro\'s goons, thereby humiliating him.
Shouldn\'t he still be angry with him? Yet here he was, seemingly warning him of something grave coming his way.
It seemed impossible and most likely a ploy to trap him yet as he looked at Wiro, he couldn\'t believe this was acting, even for someone cunningly intelligent like Wiro.
"Calm down, Wiro. Tell me all about it!" Nolan said as he grabbed the boy by his shoulder, his hold tightening a bit to make him divert his attention from whatever he saw and focus on him.
"They\'re... They\'re already coming. I\'ll tell you, in my own dorm room," Wiro said as Nolan\'s eyebrows furrowed.
Now this was starting to get really suspicious, and putting him greatly off.
But eventually, he just nodded.
"Fine, I\'ll come to your..." He hadn\'t even finished his words when suddenly his head jerked to the far side as he felt the night suddenly darkening and the darkness rapidly moving towards him silently.
[Main Quest Issued!]
[A malevolent force has been sensed rapidly moving towards the Host! Malevolent Scale of Power is now being scanned.]
[Scan Complete. The Quest Has been Issued.]
[Quest: Survive!!]
\'What!?\' Nolan screamed in his head as he received the quest.
The system was issuing a mission for him to not die!?
"Oh, no. They\'re here..." Wiro said in horror, and in the next instant, he jerked his body away from Nolan\'s hand as he sprinted away from him, quickly approaching the backyard wall.
Without waiting a single second more, Nolan also dashed off, rapidly chasing after Wiro.
He had absolutely zero understanding of what was going on, but if he didn\'t trust Wiro and was afraid that the young man was simply pretending to lure him into a trap, then Nolan at least trusted the system.
If the system was willing to reward him for simply surviving, then it would probably be best if he listened and sprinted away as fast as he could.
Instantly, without looking back, both students sprinted forth for the wall that barricaded the entire Greek Descent dorm room.
With slight surprise, Nolan watched as Wiro clung onto the walls, his hands quickly climbing up like a spider.
Without waiting a single more second, Nolan also jumped up from the ground, ascending into the air as fast as he could.
Just when he was about to hit fall down back, close to the top of the wall, a milky white light appeared in his hand, and he dug his dagger straight into the wall, anchoring himself.
Raising his other hand, he grabbed onto the other side of the wall, and instantly raised himself up, at the exact same time that Wiro appeared behind him.
CRRRIIINKKK
The sound of something scraping against the hard ground resounded, and Nolan turned his gaze towards his dorm room, finding that there were now strange robed shadowy entities with strange dark chains standing behind them, right in front of his dorm room and slowly opening the door.
Suddenly, a fierce grab was issued towards Nolan as he was pulled away by Wiro, and both of them fell down, slamming hard on the ground.
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"Hmmmmm"
A slight hmm escaped the lips of the shadowy figure before Nolan\'s door whose face turned towards the top of the wall where Nolan had disappeared from, a split second earlier.
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The pain was enough for Nolan to lose his concentration as his dagger disappeared back into him.
In his gaze held the last thing he saw—the figure of those shadowy entities with the strange chain.
Their aura. Without being aware, goosebumps covered every inch of Nolan\'s body, as his heart thumped loudly in his chest.
It was like he had came across death itself and that made his heart quake in fear.
The aura oozing from the figures was incredibly mysterious but alarming was the fact that it gave Nolan a feeling of helplessness.
It was like no matter how had he tried, his only fate would still be the kiss of death!
"Who... who are those!?"
"We\'re not safe yet; they can still track us down..." Wiro said to Nolan, having calmed down a little, yet the guy was already sprinting off into the distance.
Nolan quickly followed after him, both young men rapidly making their way forward and soon disappearing completely from the Greek Descent area, moving deeper and deeper away.
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Two hours later...
"Ahh...ah."
"Ah...ah."
"Ah...ah."
The sound of hard breathing and loud heartbeats could be heard as Nolan and Wiro appeared before a wooden house, deep within the woods.
He and Wiro had been running for close to two hours now, and they had moved incredibly far away from school life, entering into the forest area that Nolan had never seen before.
Wiro, through a series of cuts, had finally brought him here to this small wooden cottage, which was obviously handmade.
"Where are we?" Nolan asked as he rose up from the ground, amid the white air that puffed out his nose from exhaustion.
"My home..." Wiro replied, also forcing himself to his knees before crawling towards the house one step at a time.
He mysteriously tapped on various places on the door before it opened up by itself.
"Come on in..." Wiro invited Nolan, who walked after him with suspicion in his eyes as he arrived inside the small cottage, finding it to be the exact replica of his own dorm room.
"Your house? You don\'t live in the academy?" Nolan asked him.
Every student lived in their respective descent dorm room, and Wiro was telling him he lived out here in the forest area, far from the academy?
"No. This isn\'t my real home. It is my secret hideout..."
"Why do you need a secret hideout?"