Chapter 100 - The Death Of The Undying (1/2)
Still in the glorious morning, Jaro and Carla had become an official Ouranos Citadel's citizens the moment they marked their living territory next to each other on the available land.
After being given the context of the new system by Foel, they decided to carve a medium sized just enough for a room apartment. Soon they mingled with the curious neighbor and both of them fit nicely with the working community.
”This square token called 'aur' is the unique currency of this Citadel.” Carla pondered as she held the helluva of catalyst into the sky, letting the sun shone through the pink sakuradite. ”This… this is a high quality artifact! It beat my Swords of Shattered Paths in terms of mana conductivity and assimilation! We can even temper and enhance it, fill in mana with the prepared mana socket, and carve our own customizable formation…
”What the heck!? Not to mention, this thing was given to every citizen of this hell of precious material!”
Her eyes gleamed with spark. Jaro ignored her as he began his hellish routine of giving himself extreme muscle pain by doing 5 claw push ups in one second for as long as he could.
His special 'void' broke down the excess and wasted stress into energy, slowly nourishing his own muscle. Because he had done this process formerly, getting back on it was easier than his first time.
Carla hooded her pupils with her eyelid, staring at Jaro with a little frown. ”It's unbelievable that you can get skinny like this. I still can't believe your story, but seeing the muscle dork that got his muscle shrunk with only bones and skin is convincing enough.”
Jaro stopped, then he immediately laid himself on the ground with his gaze to the sky. Breathing in and out ferociously, it took twenty seconds before he could let out a word. ”Almost everything is unbelievable. At least somehow, I made it alive.”
”Me too, bud, me too.” Carla nodded. ”Now I wonder where the hell Gushen were going. I swear I saw his impaled body on the ground back then, and didn't know how he was still alive.”
”The same as us, probably.” Jaro chuckled. ”I don't even know how I'm still alive.”
After the encounter with the pseudo-angel, he began to think deeply about everything. The justice in his heart still burned brightly than ever, but being fiery alone won't help him let the light out of the veil.
He needed his fire to be stronger, and more precise. The dark angel's speech shook a revelation to him.
He reached his hand to the burning sun, imagining himself grasping the thing that is illuminating the world.
”One day…”
He sat up, and noticed that Carla was surprisingly silent. Jaro then glanced at the direction his friend was looking.
A tall bulky demon, wearing a torn black jacket outside his white shirt with a trouser. Standing with strong and straight posture, that man then smirked.
”Didn't know you'll end up here.”
Jaro grinned like an idiot.
”You too, bro.”
At the same time, far away from the northeast of the Citadel. Ahead of the modified agriculture land where rocky biomes filled with swamp and tall trees dwelled like parasitic moss in this area.