Chapter 72: [Source Energy] (1/2)

Few hours passed by and the night was getting closer to the next day.

While unconscious, Jake squirmed and squealed due to pain.

It took him a while plus the buzzing of the light lamp for him to wake up.

'Hmm,' he murmured as his eyes adjusted to the white light.

He tried to stand up, but his weak body failed up. Still, he wasn't frustrated.

Although his body was pretty banged up, his injuries closed while he was sleeping and the blood drops stopped.

Just before he got knocked out, Jake had wondered if he would bleed to death with his open and large wounds.

Seeing as he couldn't move, Jake crawled to the corpse of the two zombies.

All this while, he had been curious about their identities. They seemed like professionals, but they gave him a strange sense of familiarity.

He crawled to the senior and his mask, coming face to face with the identity behind it.

'Damn! This is getting serious,' Jake sighed.

The face behind the mask was a noble. Jake could tell that as he had seen the noble during the King's banquet.

Not wanting to draw out conclusions, he crawled again to the junior and removed his mask.

The face behind the mask was a young noble, similar to the senior's face. Jake reckoned that the both of them were somehow related, due to their resemblance.

Seeing their face had brought many questions into Jake's head.

What were they searching for?

Why were they so adamant about tying up loose ends?

Where did they get the potion from?

And most importantly, who did they work for? Where they part of a hidden movement?

Jake searched their bodies to get more clues, but he was found nothing. They were too clean, once again displaying their professionalism.

Despite being nobles, it seemed that they were very used to the life behind the masks. Jake reckoned that they have been doing similar activities for more than three years.

Also, from their conversations, they weren't the only ones!

This was obviously something Jake couldn't get involved with. In fact, he had already made up his mind to leave the kingdom once he found what he was looking for.

This was very dangerous. A group of cultivators capable of transforming into zombies. Although they would die, it would make a good suicide team when needed.

'I have to assume they have other groups that would search for them. Thereby, I have to clean my tracks,' mused Jake.

He was sure that their comrades would come here sooner or later, and when they find nothing they would become suspicious of the guest house, but they wouldn't take any drastic move, and only operate in the dark. So, what he just had to do was stay in the light!

He took a second look at the corpses and sighed, 'It will be a waste to leave them be.'

Placing his hands on the body of the junior, Jake summoned his [Purple Whirpool] and absorbed the familiar grey energy.