Chapter 37 - 37: Choice (1/2)

Chapter 37 - 37: Choice

"Run, everyone run!"

Those ere still left in the neighborhood all jumped to their houses to retrieve theiraway fro on whether he should run away His heart was beating so fast that it ht leap off from his body Portal creatures, monsters were about to co to fight the creatures from the Portal would be tantamount to suicide

Should he run?

But as soon as he saw the children that were left behind by their parents, their faces, covered in s were not allowing them to run as fast…

Van immediately had his choice

He was now a Syste may have been devalued for Van due to people like Gerald, but for these children, Van was their only hope And so, with several deep breaths, he tried to cal to drown out the screams of the people with the sound of his breaths

And soon, the ru of an insect quickly revealed itself fro as Van's ar out froht chitter, the leg iant spider?", Van could not help but gulp as he slightly backed away fro its way out of the Portal And soon, all the hairs in Van's skin stood up as the spider completely revealed itself

"What… the…", were the only words that came out of Van's mouth as he stared at the face of the spider A face that it shouldn't have in the first place-- the face of a human baby

The creatures of the Portals… looked like this? Van has seen a number of them from the Deadzone, but only from a mile away and only as a silhouette or as a shadow He had seen one from books and scriptures, but never a live one, not this close… and definitely not one that looked like this

Coht numerous times from the market were from the meat of the creatures from the Portal Was one of the skewers… from this spider?

Van quickly shook his head, this was not the tih he alht, he tried his best to calm himself down as he looked for a weapon he can use It seemed that it hadn't noticed him yet, so this was his best chance to find one

The spider-hu, aler than hi it into pieces

And so, Van quickly looked around And instantly, his eyes laid on where the gryphons used to be

'This… did it get loose due to the panic earlier?', Van quickly picked up soaff?'

A gryphon's gaff is a bracelet with a curved, sharp spike They attach it on a gryphon's toes to be used as their weapon, hts Van was very familiar with this as this is one of his father's past tiue as he was reminded of his father in the ", he whispered as he tried to wrap the brace around his left arh, due to his small arms, it fitted perfectly