317 Defector 1 (1/2)
Chapter 317: Defector 1
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A huge white dragon flapped its wings slowly, creating large, whistling gusts as it glided through the grey skies.
Garen, who was in his gray robes, gazed at the Petrifying White dragon gliding by as he stood by the window. His focus didn’t change at all as he seemed lost in his thoughts.
He was standing in a new study room.
The room was entirely white, including the walls and floors. The wall cloth and carpets smelt like newly washed, moist laundry.
After standing for a while, he turned and looked at Lala who was rearranging things.
”Have you moved everything that was in the previous study room?”
”Yes sir.” Lala returned the cloth to the basin. ”Do you have any other orders? The time now is 3 o’clock in the afternoon. If there is nothing else, I will fix the hole in the study room.”
”You can just nail up a few layers of woods.” Garen ordered.
”Okay.” Lala hesitated. ”Air will leak it though.”
”Don’t worry about it.”
”Then, I will go now.”
”Alright.”
Garen turned around and sat at the desk with his gaze out of focus, as though he was looking into the distance.
Lala gave him a strange look before walking out of the new study room, gently closing the door.
Her footsteps slowly faded.
Garen sat by the table without moving.
After some time, a clear clicking sound was heard from his arms.
Garen refocussed his vision as he blinked and rubbed at his temple points.
”Hmm… This Tactic, Sight Sharing still requires more time before I can get used to it… The situation and the sound it makes doesn’t tally up, much like those soundless movies in the theatre.”
He started to feel suspicious after he’d rested for a while. He took out the exquisite golden pocket watch from his pocket and realized that the clockwork had stopped.
Garen wound up the pocket clock gently so that it could run again.
”It’s been so many days. How long has it been since I met Goth? Ten days? Twenty days? I can’t help but feel that something’s weird about Elielan.” He put down the pocket watch as he frowned.
Suddenly, Garen’s face was filled with surprise. He stood up and looked at the white abandoned building through the window.
Among the abandoned city walls and buildings, a black beetle as tall as half a man was swiftly scurrying towards the villa.
A black pants leg could be seen in its mouth, and it was dragging a weak-looking dark human body.
This body which was in long black clothes had all of its hair burnt out. The hand and legs that could be seen were covered in blackish red ulcers. The body left an obvious, dirty trail as it was dragged along by the beetle.
The beetle scuttled on the flat terrain towards the villa hastily as it dodged a few large craters.
Garen opened the window, and lightly leapt out of it as he exerted some force with his legs. He landed in the villa’s garden daintily. As he regained his balance, he personally greeted this black beetle which had dragged a person along with it.
As he took a step forward, a foul odor wafted in his direction.
Garen frowned as he carefully inspected the body.
The body was completely burnt black and literally all visible skin was coated in blackish red blisters. These blisters of all sizes appeared in clusters, morbidly similar to grapes. Some of them had already burst due to the friction and a yellowish black viscous substance could be seen flowing out of them.
Furthermore, its hair was completely burnt off and half of the skin on its head appeared to have been ripped off with great force, as the underlying flesh could be seen.
Garen narrowed his eyes as he observed this body, and he was suddenly cautious.
”Interesting. Let’s assume you found me on your own accord instead of me finding you. I will not believe in such a coincidence. Out of this enormous range, you chose to faint in my territory.”
He muttered to himself. He then walked closer, squatted down and pulled open the person’s shirt.
He pulled off the outer black shirt and without any underwear, a pair of half rotten breasts, covered in purple red blisters, was revealed.
”A woman?” He covered her body with her clothes and stood up as he tried to resist the horrendous smell. ”Since you found me on your own, I really want to see what you’re going to do.”
Garen turned around and walked into the villa. A Deep Swarm Croc gently flicked its tail and rolled the girl on its back, carrying her while following Garen.