Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 701: Moving On…

Faster than usual for Felicie, the golden rays of sun appeared in the sky, illuminating her face in its radiance. Slowly, her eyebrows quivered before they opened up, and the memories of the day assaulted her.

“It’s morning. Wake up, Zeras…” She called out to her side but quieted down when she saw no one beside her. “Um, Zeras?”

“You’re finally awake…” The voice resounded at her as Felicie raised her head and found him sitting down on top of the mountain with a bored expression on his face.

“Oh, you’re awake already?” She called out as she quickly rose up, packing her mattress into her bag, which instantly disappeared with a clap from Zeras.

“And when did you even wake up? The sun is just coming out. Don’t tell me Otherworlders don’t sleep,” Felicie said, resulting in a shrug from Zeras.

“There’s no need for sleep. We’re fine without it.”

“Ahhh, such a miserable life. You have a tongue but don’t need to eat. You have no need to properly relax your brain too, and can never really enjoy the joy of a good night’s sleep. In a way, you Otherworlders are more miserable than you all think….” Felicie said, quickly climbing up the mountain and coming to arrive before Zeras after much struggle.

“You can climb pretty fast…” Zeras commended. He had just watched her quickly climb up a 50-meter-tall mountain in less than a few minutes. Not even a mortal man would be able to do it so fast, talk less of a lady like her…

“Don’t be full of yourself. I can climb faster than you!” Felicie declared with a hmph as Zeras rolled his eyes.

‘In your dreams…’ he thought to himself.

“Well, thankfully you can climb fast. Because we have a lot of climbing to do…” Zeras said as Felicie looked away from him and her jaw dropped to the ground when she looked in front of her.

The top of the mountain revealed to her just what awaited them: relentless climbing. Larger mountains led to even larger mountains that continued far into the distance, revealing to them they would have to keep climbing up and up and keep moving like this before they were able to exit the mountain range.

“If I have to climb this, it will take me at least three months…” Felicie said as her legs almost turned to jelly from simply looking at the sight.

“And how long until the Otherworlders finish their expedition and be returning?” Zeras asked her.

“Only two months…” she said as Zeras furrowed his eyebrows.

“Guess we can’t wait for you to spend three months climbing then…” Zeras mused. Just as Felicie had said, it would take her at least three months to cross the mountain. And Zeras wasn’t even sure after this mountain they would see the tower; maybe there are still other areas they were to cross.

If they had to spend three months climbing the mountain, then when would they reach the tower at all? Maybe when others were already leaving.

“So, what do we do now?” she asked.

“We only need to be going straight to arrive before the tower, right?” Zeras asked as Felicie nodded before her eyebrows furrowed.

“Wait, don’t tell me you’re planning to leave me here and go alone. That wasn’t part of the deal, was it?” Felicie asked him as Zeras turned to her with a raised eyebrow.

“Who said anything about breaking the deal?”

“Oh, then why are you asking if the path to the tower is straight ahead? It’s almost like you want to keep going without me…” Felicie reasoned as Zeras sighed.

“You have to work on your trust issues, you know that…” he said before suddenly he faded away from her sight, almost like disappearing into thin air.

“Where did he..GOOO!!!!” Felicie screamed out, not in frustration but in disbelief as she felt herself get lifted up from the ground. Soon, the ground became even more distant, and her spine went cold as she wrapped tightly against the body.

“What are you doing!” Felicie screamed, failing to reign down her fear and clinging tightly to Zeras’s back.

“Making sure I don’t have to wait for three months before your sorry ass finally climbs up some rocks…” Zeras replied as he rapidly jumped through the various mountains, slamming his legs and shooting straight for hundreds of kilometers into the distance.

His speed was so fast that with a single step he reached the highest peak of the mountain and with another step, the place where he formerly was was no longer in sight for Felicie.

Everything became an absolute blur to her, her orange hair flying erratically behind her, and her snow-white skin turning red from the pressure of moving so fast.

“So you still think you can climb faster than me?” Zeras asked her as Felicie hmph-ed.

“Hmph, this is cheating. It can’t be counted…” she said out loud as Zeras smiled shamelessly.

“Anyway, can you stop tightening hard on me like a boa? You’re making me feel weird…” Zeras called out as he felt himself losing breath from having Felicie wrapped her hands around his neck so tightly.

The strange soft sensation he felt on his back was making him feel somehow…

“How will I look if I happen to mistakenly fall from your back from this height?” Felicie asked in return as Zeras looked below him and he quickly did the simple calculation.

“You’ll be reduced to a pancake…” he replied honestly.

“My point exactly. I can’t risk that, so I am not clinging to you. I’m clinging to life as much as I can!” Felicie yelled out, doing all she could to reign down the fear in her heart.

But the only thing that made that easier was making sure she would at least be going down with him.

“So you’re saying I’m your life, huh? That’s reasonable judging how much you have been clinging to me these past few days…”

“You!” Felicie’s head turned a full tomato red as she buried her head behind Zeras’s back to avoid him seeing her in such a weak state.

“Just shut up and keep going. We have a tower to catch, remember…”