Vol 3 Chapter 14 (1/2)

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at 21st of October 2019 11:08:55 AM

Chapter 14

Thankfully, as Micheal ran through the central zone, he noted that almost everyone was either in orientation with the newbies or taking the day off due to the arrival of all the new Chosen .

He didn't encounter a single person on his way back, though he did run into a normal shambling Morenkai which he made short work of . The deathly zombies which had proven terrifying to his younger self were nothing more than a footnote on his journey now .

His home base wasn't actually very far from where he had been . In what felt like no time at all, he found himself back atop the skysc.r.a.per where he'd decided to set up camp . Overhead, the sky had faded to darkness, evening almost completely slipping away .

The Morenkai were just as randomly active in the day as they were at night . Because the Morenkai had weak visual senses in the first place, the darkness of night didn't hamper them much . Compared to humans who relied greatly upon their eyes, they were typically much better off .

Very few of the skysc.r.a.pers would give off any light at night, and there were no stars in sight overhead, nor was there a moon . This made every night one of grim darkness, only occasionally lit up by some of the skysc.r.a.pers with lights s.h.i.+ning through windows .

If one wanted to hunt in the night, they were typically forced to bring a light of some sort or some type of night vision goggles or Ability . Bringing a light out at night made you stick out like a sore thumb and was ill-advised . Conversely, using an Ability slot for something like that was usually an expensive and potentially wasteful choice . The night vision goggles were the best option, but were also quite expensive to purchase from the Shop .

Micheal had usually opted just to sleep at night, like most humans . When he gained the Ki Cultivator Ability, he'd used that time to meditate as well .

”Hmm . ” His eyes narrowed as he stopped in front of the door that led to the bowels skysc.r.a.per .

'That feeling is still here . ' The feeling of being watched and followed had persisted this whole time . No matter how he moved or ran, it never left him . It was a type of sixth sense, a feeling that rose the hair on the back of your neck . The type of feeling you wouldn't recognize unless you had felt it many times before .

Several times he had taken casual sweeping looks around, trying to spot the tracker . All, unfortunately, to no avail .

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'Whatever . ' He mentally shrugged, putting it aside for now . Someone, or some group, had likely seen him taking out the regular Morenkai and wanted to keep tabs on him .

He pushed open the doorway, moving down into the skysc.r.a.per . As soon as he opened it, however, he froze .

He sniffed the air .

'Someone has been through here . ' He frowned again .

'It seems I'm not the only inhabitant here . ' It wasn't exactly surprising . There were tens of thousands of people in this Cl.u.s.ter, while the number of skysc.r.a.pers was only in the thousands .

'That or they lured a Morenkai down here to trap and kill it . ' Micheal could remember back when he had been on a Hunting Team in the Saru Group how they would lure a Morenkai in and use the close corridors of the skysc.r.a.per hallways to their advantage .

The walls and doors here were all extremely st.u.r.dy . Even the powerful shambling Morenkai couldn't break them down .

He moved into the stairway and down the stairs . He paused as he moved down a single floor, listening carefully to the world around him .

Faintly, he could make out the hum of various air conditioning units working, a few fans running…

He couldn't make out anyone or anything else .

He shrugged again .

'Eh . ' He couldn't be bothered worrying over something like a rookie .

He quickly made his way down to his floor, the 30th, entering the dimly lit narrow hallway . The plain grey walls were soothing and relaxing, a nice change from the monstrous Morenkai up top .

When he entered his room, he found that everything remained untouched . While he hadn't actually left anything in here, he had already decided this was where he was going to live .