Chapter 269 - Not human (2/2)

”You, I should have killed you that day!�� Ray shouted. At the time when it had appeared in their room, Ray had allowed it to escape, because he wasn't able to track it with his dragon eyes, Ray had decided to ignore and it was a mistake on his part he felt.

Ray dashed forward fast with his fist ready, then just before his fist could reach the true infected, multiple hands had come out after him.

”Doppelganger”

Using this skill, a clone of himself had appeared, the hands immediately grabbed the clone and pulled him in but Ray was free. He carried on moving and shot out a large fireball out of the palm of his hand.

The shadow knocked the fireball away but behind it was Ray himself. Ray grabbed onto the shadow's chest and chucked him onto the ground pinning him down to the floor making sure his hand was directly above its heart.

”Why are you after Van?” Ray knew that all the true infected were connected back to the shadow in some way. He would control them all like a puppet and if Ray was right, he would be listening in right now.

”The one controlling you, the shadow plague leader, who is it!” Ray shouted.

And as Ray thought, the Shadow plague was indeed listening and watching everything that was happening.

”And why would I tell you that?” The true infected said. ”But you, you are strange indeed, you smell different. Are you sure you are human?”

For a second the question the true infected asked caught Ray off guard, and in that brief moment. Ray was engulfed by the hands and taken away into the magic circle.

All the shadows were gone and the crystal with it, all that was left was an empty training room. Even the shadow wall blocking the exit had disappeared and standing outside where the rest of the students who were preparing to enter the room for the practical assessment.

”What happened, that black wall that was blocking the entrance, it's gone.”

”Huh and there's no one inside, where are the others and the professors?”

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As the teleportation circle was slowly doing its magic, all of the students where being transported to somewhere but the big question was where. Ray had a hunch but he was hoping it wasn't true.

Finally, after a few moments, the teleportation had ended and Ray was in a newfound place. As he looked around, he could see the black dead land, he was surrounded by forest and dead trees. And the little water there was around him was red in colour like little drops of lava.

Ray's prediction was right, they were inside the shadow's territory.

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