Chapter 143: Jake’s Path(1) (1/2)

After the final decision was made, one by one, the group all left Jake's room.

Two minutes later, it was only his leader, Eden, that remained as they had a heavy topic to discuss.

Stopping at the door, Eden faced Jake, ”How many more?”

His subtle didn't confuse Jake. Instead, the latter scribbled something on his notebook and showed Eden.

”This is your last one. Time flies fast, heh,” teased Eden.

He looked at Jake's deadpan face and stopped his bad attempt at a joke.

Donning his serious face, he replied to Jake, ”One last time... Are you sure you don't want to reconsider?”

Jake scribbled down an answer for Eden to see.

Looking at it, Eden laughed out loud, ”This is something you don't hear every day, hahaha”

He opened Jake's door to leave, before repeating the content on the note for his amusement, ”If we don't complete the mission, we will probably die. If we complete it, we will quit our job. In any case, this is more important than it seems. Ending with you leaving in both scenarios, whether to the underworld or to the Central Continent. Hahahaa, what a cruel way to put it.”

Dwelling on Jake's words, he left the room and closed the door.

*Bam!*

As soon as he heard the sound, Jake sighed and quickly got comfortable.

He arranged his room and then removed the cloak he wore.

Stripping down to his underpants, Jake went to a nearby mirror to stare at himself.

'.....two months…..' mentally marked Jake.

Vividly examining himself in the mirror, Jake was once again reminded that it had been exactly a year since he had arrived in this strange world.

A year…...just hundreds of days, yet he had experienced a lot of unbelievable things.

His appearance had not drastically changed, not even a bit. However, there were new features added to his beautiful looks.

Gotten from his encounter with a [Grade-3 Demonic Beasts] was a small vertical scar on his face, close to his right eye.

Back then, the injury had almost damaged his right eye, if not for the healer that saved him. She also added contact lens to protect his eye and camouflage it.

There were other new features, but they were too hard to notice.

Jake trailed his hand to his throat. His body trembled under the soft touch of his fingers.

This was one of the things that had detained him for quite a well.

Jake had never used a notebook to communicate. So, why did he use it now?

It was simply because he had decided to act like a princess two months ago at the beast's attack on the sea.

He remembered perfectly. He was about to die when he released his melodious voice, summoning the sea serpents to save him.

Jake understood that his scream was way too high for his body to endure. It messed up his throat any now he was unable to produce clear sounds.

Basically, he was dumb--Wait, that's offensive!

Basically, he was mute.

However, he was not distraught as the scream saved his life and also shed light on his identity.