Chapter 154: Life Drain (1/2)

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The Teglyca bounty hunters had just jumped into the gap.

Immediately they entered the town, they were shocked beyond understanding.

”What in Heaven's name?!” cursed Archer.

The moment he found himself in the town, he already his recurve bow on alert as he scouted his surrounding, but it turned out that just seeing his current scenery could weaken his hands.

It was the same for the others, who had been also on alert but were shocked by the appearance of the town.

If there was a word to describe it, it was dead. The town was dead!

The vibrant blue clouds that were present all over the planet, well, were not here. Instead, standing in their place were dark black clouds that whistled a disturbing sound.

”Weeeee!”

The previously beautiful town buildings were dilapidated and were invaded by rotten plants that swallowed them up. No matter how many times they looked, they could see the particles of the earthen materials used to make the buildings constantly spill away, floating in the air.

There wasn't an ounce of bright color in the town. They were only wails that came from nowhere in particular and dried corpses fixed into the ground due by the hands of time, some were even fixed into building walls.

The only one who didn't react to what they saw was Jake. Yet, he had his own dilemma to understand.

Sweat dripped down his skin as he tried to snuff out his emotion. In truth, he couldn't see what the others were seeing.

However, what he saw was much worse!

His two eyes, particularly his [Akashic Eye], trembled as they watched their vision overlap without another one.

The other scenery looked the same as the Weeping Town except everything was dead grey with different shades.

The wind that blew on his face carried the faces of ghosts, wailing in front of him. Somehow, his soul was freezing just by looking at them

Not just that, there was a constant song playing in the air that was, in its right, beautiful to hear, but Jake knew it was actually ugly. The worst kind of ugly. The ugly that came directly from the pit of hell!

Every note of the song bit at his heart and he was left to wonder how it was possible.

Every time he blinked, he saw the normal Weeping Town, but the next succeeding blink shifted his vision back to the horrendous version of Weeping Town.

Every time, the [Akashic Eye] got increasingly hot, to the point he thought it would melt.

”Jake,” a voice called to him.

He recognized it. It was the voice of Eden.

He looked to his left, but couldn't find the man. He looked to his right…..it was the same thing.

Yet, he could still hear the voice calling him, ”Jake….”

*Blink* *Blink*

Jake blinked rapidly, trying to force the vision out of his head. Yes, it could all be in his head.

There was no way there were two Weeping Town. It would be interesting, but Jake had no time for interesting stuffs.

”Jake.”

The voice still addressed him.

”Jake. Jake.”

”Jake. Jake. Jake”

It was getting louder, clouding his thoughts.

”Jake. Jake. Jake. Jake.”

Now, it felt like it was getting closer to him, but he couldn't see it.