Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 703: Running…

“BLEEEERGGGGHHH”

After about five minutes, Felicie finally rose back up as Zeras passed her the water bottle. She washed her face before collapsing weakly on her back.

“What?” she asked, noticing Zeras’s expression of disbelief.

“Oh, nothing.”

“Quit acting tough. I have been in the sky for eight hours straight now, being soared forward faster than a horse. How did you expect me to handle the pressure? Not like you’ve been through much worse, have you?” Felicie hmped as Zeras shrugged.

“How many hours more do we need to wait for you to get back to normal?” Zeras asked.

“I’ve recovered enough…” she said as Zeras immediately prepared to continue moving on his path when suddenly, his eyebrows furrowed as his neck jerked behind him with horrific speed, and his eyes narrowed dangerously before his expression immediately turned grave.

“What’s wro…” Felicie had yet to finish her words when she felt herself yanked up. In the next instant, the entire world became a blur as Zeras ran with his fastest speed, quickly disappearing into the distance at twice the former speed he was using before.

‘That aura. It’s too strong…’ Zeras thought to himself, his heart racing madly within his chest as he hurriedly moved through the air, parting space with the power of his physical body.

“Hey, you’re moving too fast. What’s wrong…” Felicie struggled to say, finding the air rapidly slapping against her exposed hands and turning them ruby red. But Zeras didn’t even have time to pay attention to that, focusing on racing as quickly as he could.

After running relentlessly for close to another seven hours straight, with the moon already appearing on the horizon, Zeras finally got down before an ordinary side of a mountain cliff.

SHRRRIIIING

The sound of his katana leaving its sheath rang out as he sliced open a circular wall on the mountain surface and entered into it, before rolling the stone back to where it was.

“Huuuuuuu,” a sigh of relief escaped Felicie’s lips as she got down and laid on her back, her bones cracking from having remained in the same position for a long while. Strangely, there was an opening in the extra-large cave that they were in, causing light from the starlight to illuminate the area.

She could see Zeras standing at the locked entrance, his hands raised to her signaling for her to be quiet, and his ears were pressed against the door, his eyes rolling within their sockets with speed.

‘They’re gone…’ Zeras thought to himself, exhaling in relief before he slid down the wall, turning to look at the bright starlight, his eyes flashing with familiarity and his trolled expression disappearing quickly from his face.

“Are we being tracked?” Felicie asked as Zeras finally turned his attention to her before he shrugged expressionlessly.

“Don’t worry about it…” he said, waving her off, before bringing out her bag from his storage ring.

“We stay here for the night, we resume at the dawn of the morning. I can already see the end of the mountain range a few hours earlier. We will be able to leave this place tomorrow…” he said to her before rising up and moving to the area where the starlight was concentrated and laying on the ground, his eyes soon closing up as he tried to reign in his energy.

Then, Zeras could sense a familiar aura. An aura that he knew well who it belonged to. It was none other than those white aliens who have managed to slip away from his grasp. He had thought it was Krama that had brought him back to them, but there was something different.

Something enough to make Zeras immediately give up and run.

There were two auras, one of them was the one he found familiar and one he could confidently deal with even though it might cost him a bit of trouble.

But the other. It was intensely powerful! There was no doubt about it. The aura was at the Undying rank! The same stage as Zeras’s cultivation.

But what had made him run was the fact that right now, he wasn’t really at the Undying rank. He couldn’t use his mana and therefore couldn’t use his various techniques nor could he use his star bodies.

All he had was his brute power, something that was no doubt strong but would be forced to bend before the might of a true Undying rank expert.

‘How did they even access their true cultivation, even though everyone else can’t activate it?’ Zeras wondered to himself with narrowed eyes. If only he could have gotten his hands on those aliens’ strange art. Perhaps he wouldn’t be rendered so pathetic.

“We were being chased, weren’t we?” Felicie’s voice rang out as Zeras felt the sound of her footsteps which came to a stop beside him, and she sat down.

Judging from her expression, she wouldn’t take Zeras’s shrug as an answer.

“Yes, we were,” Zeras responded curtly.

“And you ran?” Felicie asked, her voice holding slight disbelief.

“Yes, I did,” Zeras answered curtly.

“Wow, but I thought you were strong…” Felicie said, using the opportunity to mock him, and Zeras could only chuckle in his heart.

“Yes, I am.”

“If you’re strong, then why did you run?” she asked him while lying down on her back and staring at him curiously.

Slowly, Zeras turned his head to her, looking straight into her fiery orange eyes.

“Because of you…”

“That’s not true…” Felicie whispered back to him, looking at his face with her heart pounding faster, but soon it quieted down as she watched Zeras’s caring expression replaced by an evil grin.

“Of course I don’t! Hahahahahaha!” Zeras replied, chuckling out loud in mockery at her.

“You! Do you take joy in playing around with my emotions all the time?” Felicie asked, feeling slight anger and betrayal that made her punch at his face, but he easily avoided it by moving his head out of her hand’s reach.

“I like your naivety. It’s not all the time you see such a naive girl in the upper realm…” Zeras responded with an evil grin as Felicie coldly snorted before distancing herself away from him. She would make sure not to fall for his tricks again.

“For the fact of it, I’m not a girl. I’m a lady!” she said before scoffing at him and facing the other side, fuming in anger.

‘Tch, how naive…’ Zeras thought to himself before setting himself comfortably in the starlight, preparing to take a comfortable nap. While he couldn’t absorb the starlight, being in it calmed down his body and felt even better than an expert massage.

But he was soon interrupted by Felicie’s sudden question.

“Can you tell me how the ladies of the upper realms are?” she suddenly asked him. Zeras raised an eyebrow at the strange question but obliged after seeing her curiosity.

“Well, the person I was running from was a lady…” Zeras replied to her as Felicie raised an eyebrow before laughing out loud.

“You ran so fast, I thought a wild beast was chasing you.

But it was actually just an otherworlder lady? Seriously, just how spineless are you?” Felicie mocked as Zeras grinned, shaking his head.

“Oh, then what would you have done if you were me?” he asked her curiously, and she didn’t even think twice before answering.

“I would have simply wooed her…”

“Oh, wooed her!? In what way?”

“Maybe start by telling her that her eyes are beautiful.

Then strike up a heartwarming conversation where you pay serious attention to each and everything she has to say, making sure to sigh in compliments.

I’m sure if you had done that, she wouldn’t have done anything uncourtly towards you, and you would have even made a new girlfriend…”

COUGH

COUGH

COUGH

The sound of coughing could be heard as Zeras suddenly felt a pain assaulting his chest as he turned to Felecie wondering if she was just kidding him but her serious expression said otherwise.

“You actually think the best thing would have been to talk out way out?” Zeras asked as Felicie currieed her eyebrows cross checking her ideas once more before she ultimately nodded.

“Yes that’s the best thing you ought to have done…” She replied more than conviced.

“Well then I think I now have your answer for how the Upper realm ladies are. Firstly, they do not think of themselves as ladies. They wouldn’t even blink at all before slicing off a man’s head so far he is weaker than them.

There’s almost no difference at all between male and female in the upper Realm. All are cultivators or awakeners.

Also they’re smart enough to know that love is impossible to find in such a world. Its purpose is for a single thing only and that is to come together to create an even stronger bloodline.

So they don’t turn red like tomato anytime a man talks to them. Like you…”

“You!!!