Chapter 268: A Fissure in Rovero (2/2)

Arthur's eyes teared up as he thought of the suffering Kira would spend in the trial. His body kept falling until space began to stabilize. He opened his eyes as he began to fall from the sky.

The scene in front of him was one of hell. A giant portion of the mountain range has disappeared, replaced by the wasteland of bones. Joe's pub was gone and everything that resembled a mountain range.

The bony castle appeared in the real as Arthur fell downward. He looked around and spotted the purple figure in the distance. Rae was riding Lilo as the two raced toward him.

Arthur stretched his arm and Rae met him midair and pulled him towards Lilo's back.

”Are you injured?!” Rae asked with worry but Arthur simply shook his head. ”What happened just now?” Rae looked at the mountain range with fear.

”A fissure has taken over the land,” Arthur answered as he looked at the bony castle. ”It's still there, that creature.” He could feel its existence.

From the hole that Lilo has created in the castle came out the masked figure. It looked around and spotted Arthur. It stared at it calmly before disappeared into thin air and disappearing.

”Did it teleport away?” Rae asked.

'No, it slipped into the nothingness. What the hell is this? What is this?' He racked his brain for an answer but he couldn't understand this creature.

Suddenly, a siren came from the direction of the city.  Both of them snapped their heads toward it as Arthur's guts flooded with fear. Lilo sensed his emotions and flapped its wings toward the city.

Rae turned to him but Arthur has already used his teleport rune. He used it more than once until he was standing on the top of a building at the center of the city. What he saw made Arthur freeze.

”All citizens must evacuate. A Dungeon Break of Avarice has occurred. All citizens need to head to shelters and the Temple.”

The broadcast ran through the city as destruction engulfed it from every direction. Monsters rampaged and destroyed everything in their paths. Citizens lied dead on the ground as kids roamed the streets crying.

Arthur's heart was seized with terror when he saw that the neighborhood Master Ronin and his family lived in was destroyed. He used his teleport rune and ran toward the direction of the mansion.

When he got there, he found houses demolished to the ground. He ran toward the mansion but stopped when he saw a hand lying underneath a fallen wall.

It was a small hand, bloodied and misshapen. Arthur removed the wall through telekinesis and found the kid that he met a few days ago dead beneath it.

With pain tearing through his heart, Arthur turned toward the mansion and used his detect rune. It was empty. He looked around and saw that the neighborhood has been cleared.

'Where are they?' Arthur's heart could rest easy until he found them. He took out his artifact and contacted them. As soon as he heard their voice, he sighed in relief.

'Hello?' Oren's voice came. 'Arthur, is it you? Where are you?'

'I'm by the mansion, I'm alright. Where are you? Is our mom okay?' Arthur realized that the relief brought to him made him tired.

'We're fine, Master Ronin came over to us suddenly and said we should go to a shelter. The Break happened at that moment.' Oren answered and Arthur realized he must have seen a prophecy.

'There's a kid over here, he's dead...' Arthur reported. 'I think it's the neighbors...'

'Oh god, oh god. They were looking for him.' Oren's voice broke. Arthur shook the thoughts away.

'Stay in the shelter. Take care of mom.' Arthur said before he bid farewell. He needed to find that creature before any more causalities occur.

At that moment, Arthur felt a movement behind him. He looked back and saw that the kid was standing up. He has turned into an undead.