Chapter 296 - Back in the city (1/2)
Traversing through the rift of the space, bending the reality to pull the target relatively close to you, diffusing your body and consciousness into the primary particles and recreating them in your destination… There were multiple ways of instantaneous travel, yet I still had no idea how Bonger was able to provide me with such an usefull spell.
Entering the dark doors that were oozing a repulsive aura didn't help in my investigation either, even going as far as planting a seed of doubt about Bonger's origins and source of power.
Stepping through those doors made the entire world turn around and vanish, replaced with an overwhelming and neverending void. I could only guess that I was able to perceive this place in a different way than before because of my far better physical and mental state, or maybe thanks to assimilating entropy? Every question that I found concerning Bonger and it means, only caused even more uncertainties to pop up.
Before long, I felt like either something was pulling on me or I was simply falling towards some sort of gravity, before the dark void, devoid of any colours suddenly saturated itself to present a wide array of tones that made up the picture of the city I was familiar with.
Because it wasn't the same place that I left.
All sorts of architectural wonders were now in shambles. Finding some basic points of reference by digging up the images from my memory, I realised that what used to be the grand arena that gave name to this place, was replaced with an enormous crater, incomparable to what I was capable of doing with my measly magic back then.
Taking the insane hole in the groud as a main point of reference, I turned around, casting an imaginary map on the desolate streets.
Screech!
As I turned around, the time that seemed to stop for a moment when I arrived here, resumed its usual flow.
Previously I thought that since those zombies were essentially the creation of Bonger's emergency means, I should be immune to their aggression, but seeing how being the only person alive in the vicinity, they still turned previously stalled attention towards me, instantly changing from a complete stop into a fully-fledged dash.
Not willing to take any chances, I used the strength and agility steeming from my statistics to dash towards the distance. I had a certain list of places I wanted to visit, placed in a semi-hierarchical order. Since I couldn't know what was the state of the city or how much time I would have upon arriving nor where I would be teleported to exactly, I had to optimise my plans by starting with the closest targets instead of going straight for the most important places.
Running through the streets devoid of any life except for the evergrowing mass of zombies trying their best to follow my steps, gave me the vibes of some of the indie games that I so loved to play back on earth. Thankfully, there was no seven days limit before some kind of great horde would appear to destroy to make me die, but I still had to be wary of some kind of experts appearing to check the commotion out.
The first location that was sadly rather low on my list of places to check out turned out to be the hotel we resided in with Eve. Speaking of the vibes I got before, when I stood before its rather well-kept entrance when compared with some other buildings in the city, I couldn't help but gulp my saliva down when I imagined the amount of loot that I could gather by just sweeping this location clear!