Chapter 101 The Great Hunt 22 (2/2)
*Bang*
The moment it hooked on the tree John jumped out from the maddened beast that was still painfully roaring.
Just as he jumped, John saw one of the creature's scythes coming toward him.
In the air, there was nothing John could do to actually dodge the incoming attack.
The deadly scythe was fastly approaching, and it was about to cut John in half...
”*Roar*” With a loud warcry Nuru jumped and entered between the scythe and John.
She skillfully wielded the spear in her hand and thrusted toward the incoming Ixodoom's slash.
*CLANG!!!*
”*Puh*...” Nuru was sent flying backward while spraying a mouthful of blood after the clash between both forces.
While Nuru's attack didn't manage do to damage in the scythe, she was strong enough to change the direction of the Ixodoom's limb and save John from certain death.
”Nuru!!!!” John shouted as he couldn't do anything beside watch as she disappeared from his line of sight between the lush trees.
Once he landed on the tree the first thing he did was to run in the direction Nuru was sent flying, he ignored the terrible pain and bleeding coming from his uncountable wounds all over his body.
The Ixodoom was about to madly chase behind John when it realized that there was something inside its huge wound created by John.
John looked back at the creature and said, ”Blow up, fucker.”
*Tic*
With a low pin noise, the timer of the grenade inside the Ixodoom's head came to zero.
*BOOOOOMMMM!!!!!*
Blood and flesh pieces were sent high in the air with the explosion that occurred on the creature's head.
John gave one last look at the corpse that had its brain blow up before resuming his ran toward Nuru.
”Hm?” John suddenly forced himself to come to a halt when he started to a feel a extremely painful burning sensation on the back of his right hand.
”Are you alright?” Nuru walked out from a bush while holding her right arm that was completely bloodied and clearly broken.
With one look at Nuru and John was certain that even though her life wasn't at risk, he injuries were very serious.
”You shouldn't worry about me look at yourself.”
”I'm fine, thisss isss jussst sssome flesssh woundsss.” Nuru cleaned the blood away from her mouth and approached John.
”Well at least- ARGHHHH!!!!” John was about to speak something the pain in his hand intensified to an insane degree and started to spread throughout his entire body mainly his head.
He felt like there was something graping his brain and squeezing it tightly.
”What happened?” Nuru panicked and got closer, but John fell on the ground while loudly groaning in pain before she could hold him.
”AHHHHH!!!!” John's eyes flared opened and he looked at his hand.
A few burning marks slowly started to appear in his hand.
But more than that.
He was able to see those same blue particles that he had seen before with Peri, but this time the particles were coming directly from the Ixodoom's body and entering inside his body through the mark that slowly being formed in hand.
With difficulty he turned his head to look at Nuru.
Her mouth was opening and closing, but he was unable to hear a single thing beside the buzzing noise.
It was way too pain the whole process. John couldn't handle it and after a few minutes he immediately fell unconscious.
...
”Hmmm?” A lonesome figure exclaimed while lifting its head to look at the endless black sky.
This figure was on the rooftop of the Shopping Complex in the Ark Outpost.
There was a lot of Hylotl guards walking around but none of them seemed to see this figure completely clad in a purple rode that covered its entire body.
The only thing that could bee see was its crimson two eyes that shone with intensity.
”A disturbance in the universe...” The figure whispered with a deep and ethereal voice. ”It doesn't seem to be another survivor of one the Ancient Challenges...what could this be...? Maybe another Dimensional Rift? No, this happened way too close and not beyond the Frontier...” The figure started to think of what could have cause the disturbance that he felt. ”It doesn't matter...maybe this could be an opportunity. I was doubting that the people would be able to destroy the Ruin once for all, but now..with the help of this person, maybe it can be possible.”
His eyes gleamed with a powerful red light directed at the black sky like he was wanting to pierce through it and see beyond.
”Hahahahahaha... It looks like things are about to get interesting.” The figure loudly laughed and the Hylotl guards continued to carry their duties without even realizing that there wast laughing in the middle of the rooftop, just by their side.
...
With the guaranteed victory in the Great Hunt and with the Artifact that would soon be John's hands, peace doesn't seem to be an impossible dream for the Universe now.
There were only possibly 5 more Artifacts to go, before opening the seal and fight the otherworldly evil threatening the universe.
But unknown to John, the possible fall of the Universe wasn't coming only from the threat of the Ruin.
Sometimes, the end can come from within.
Chaos had started to sprout throughout the Universe in the same day the Terrene Protectorate fell.
Everything was changing. The stakes getting higher and higher.
John was only a single person and there's a limit in what he can do.
His actions might appear insignificant, but they cause ripples that could change everything.
That's different for the great players of the universe that had already started their power struggle, their little game that put at risk trillions of lives.
For them, lives are nothing more than just another piece that can be used and disposed whenever they see appropriate.
This once dorment power hungry people, and forces, are riling up, weaponizing, and plotting against each other in this giant chessboard.
As the line between good and evil, heroes and villains, start to blur, it becomes difficult to know who are the enemies and who are the allies.
Long time enemies will ally to each other as previous friends will try to destroy each other.
In middle of this chaotic world, how can someone keep himself clean, keep himself good?
~~~~~~~~END OF VOLUME 1~~~~~~~~