Chapter 565 - A Long Path To Discovery (2/2)
Despite their poorer equip dozens before the reroup and put in place any form of ht, a few minutes later, were too cut down by their opponent's battle axes and swords, allowing the ostmen to come out victorious with close to no casualties
Proud of their achieveroup of barbarians cheered and screamed their prayers to their Gods of war All but one, their leader, who had finally noticed Daniel's lone presence by the shore
”Þú, ko for him to approach unless he wished to join the soldiers in their fate
Daniel ignored the man, who had now attracted the attention of the rest of his party However, after seeing Daniel's appearance, as well as their leader approaching hie axe, they quickly lost interest, and instead focused on searching the corpses of their enemies for valuables
The leader of the ostmen stomped in Daniel's direction, his attire now covered in blood Just like the axe he had already decided to use against Daniel Yet, as he ca distance to hi individual in front of hier His body had turned into that of a bearded and le shi+ning eye, whereas the other was reat shock for the warrior, who immediately fell on his knees and reached for a hammer-shaped pendant hidden underneath his shi+rt ”Óðinn” He ain, as if in prayer In just a moment, Daniel had taken the for hi, or even dare to speak to him
As thethe scenery around hie, and for six hundred yearsin the s that more than any other he had seen on this planet, re similar, however, this town lacked the vivacity any other settlerey smoke that covered the sky, bloated the sun, whose rays Daniel could feel land helplessly on the other side On the roads, sickly individuals were strewn all about, coughing and dying, while on the road, only carriages full with mounds of corpses, and driven by men covered in black robes andcurved beak where the mouth and nose should have been, could be seen
In just a few h the streets of this town, Daniel saw es to eo into deep ers would set theas left under tons of dirt
Daniel had now spent over twelve hundred years observing how karrown exponentially, causing hi aspect of existence Yet, at the same time, he had noticed a constant decrease in his human ability to feel empathy, even while faced with the death of thousands of people About this change, he could not help but feel concerned
After blinking once more, Daniel found hireen uns Their opponents, hidden in tunnels and holes on the ground, screa their enemies head on
Within Daniel's body, the aspect of karma had almost matured completely, as he could feel the power approach the point of a breakthrough whenever one of these soldiers was stabbed or shot Yet, as these dying
Another blink brought Daniel to the cold and dry surface of the moon, where a small spaceshi+p had landed, and froe white suits had walked out of They stepped on the unfa a flag that depicted stars and stripes Of Daniel's presence, they were completely unaware
While an incredible moment for these men and the rest of humanity, Daniel felt no joy, as histhe previous failed atteh
With one last blink, Daniel found himself on top of an enormous city square Around hi in his direction, while surrounded by dozens of skyscrapers which covered most of the sky On top of the centernht descended, while under it, a big screen displayed a countdown to the end of the yeah
On top of this descending orb, Daniel stood invisible to mortals His eyes aimed at a dark alley, and at a specific point within the crowd that had for nothing to mask his presence, in fact, it was his power as an aspect of existence that, while being almost completely awakened, had turned hi the very incarnation of an invisible aspect of existence, felt to him like a paper thin barrier, which he had now failed to break through for decades
In his failure, however, Daniel had never stopped doing what he had been doing for almost two thousand years, which was to observe the nature of karht his attention that day was the large crowd at his feet Specifically, a five year old little girl who had left hercrowd, enchanted by the colors of the balloons and the festive ater around her
Her exploration brought her to the entrance of a dark alley, where a friendly looking woside a honey-colored cat
The young girl, pure hearted as she was, noticed the empty bowl next to the woman She then remembered how her mother, whenever they would see a homeless person by the side of the road, would share a few coins with the the less fortunate and being charitable
With gleairl fished a few coins out of her pocket, and approached the homeless woman, who looked back at her as she dropped the coins into the bowl, and with an unusually bright smile asked, ”Hey princess, are you lost? Were you separated froirl finally realized that she had wandered too far, and that she had been separated fro alht away She grabbed her cat, and after pushi+ng it towards the young girl, said, ”No no, don't cry Look, mister snuffles will keep you company until you find your family I will help you!”
Easily convinced by the woirl approached her, and took the cat out of her hands ”He doesn't like girls who cry all the tiht before gently grabbing the young girl's hand
As her hand wrapped around the little girl's, the friendly smile on the woo find your irl deeper into the dark alley