Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 706: Finally Exiting The Mountain

Felicie looked on dazedly at the strange yet familiar picture in the mirror.

Ever since she was little, her greatest characteristic had always been her orange hair and eyes, something special and rare that made her incredibly distinctive from others.

But right now, half her hair was a mixture of her usual orange and a strange silvery white. But what was even more peculiar was the color of the silvery white. It looked like the one that was erratically flying all over half her face right now.

“How did this happen? Since when has this happened?” Felicie couldn’t help but ask. While she had truly not checked a mirror since the beginning of their journey, she was definitely sure she left the inn with her full orange hair.

“Didn’t you ask the reason why I was looking at you weirdly in the morning? Well, now you have your answer,” Zeras replied with a smirk, and it finally dawned on Felicie the reason for Zeras’s intense look on her today. Only now did she really understand how.

“Are you the one that dyed my hair in the night, without my permission?” Felicie yelled at him as Zeras turned the side of his head to her, giving her a ‘are you sure?’ look. That was more than enough for Felicie to understand he didn’t have anything to do with it, and he too was just as clueless as she was.

“Why did this happen?” She asked curiously as she looked at the strange color, but strangely, she didn’t find it annoying, and actually…nicely looking. The color contrasting the orange made the hair look so beautiful and added an extra layer of strangeness to her otherwise normality.

It was like a person being shown a concealed other side of themselves.

The joy and gratification of being different than the normal self, of seeing something else when looking at the mirror.

Perhaps those would be apt descriptions of what she felt currently.

“I don’t know,” Zeras replied curtly.

“But how come it looks like your hair color. Almost like a part of yours was put into my own. Don’t you think so?” Felicie asked as Zeras was about to respond but soon noticed something strange in her voice and turned to her, only to find her eyes looking at him dreamily.

“Whatever you’re thinking, stop thinking it,” Zeras said seriously.

“You never told me you can read minds now,” Felicie said giggling.

“I can’t do that.”

“Then how come you know what I’m thinking in my mind?” She whispered directly into his ears, her hot breath turning his ear red.

“Because you sound and looked at me weirdly like…” Zeras said, but couldn’t find the right word for it.

“Like what?” She pestered on.

“Like a naive little girl in love with a devil,” Zeras answered resulting in a loud giggle from Felicie.

“And what’s wrong with a naive little girl being in love with a devil?”

“Well, she will earn the same thing that devil does to everyone.”

“And what’s that?”

“Getting devoured…mercilessly.”

“And what’s wrong with that?”

“Everything,” Zeras said with an obvious tone.

“I’m not scared of that.”

“Well, you are scared of everything. So that’s a lie,” Zeras replied to her as Felicie hmphed.

“I’m not scared of everything. I’m just scared of a single thing and that birthed the rest,” Felicie explained raising Zeras’s curiosity.

“And what is that single thing?” He asked as he felt Felicie grow silent, resting her head and drifting to slumber.

Zeras didn’t pester on at all, giving her space. It seemed he might have touched on an important secret that she might not be ready to reveal. It was never a good thing to force on people’s side space.

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“We’re close,” Zeras mused, a small smile breaking on his face as he looked into the distance, finding out that the end of the mountain was closer than ever.

The more he moved, the more he found out that this place they had offered to pass in the first place was actually the right place.

Right now, the sun was close to setting, sending orange cascades over the sky that set a nice myriad of colors through the air.

With even more energy, Zeras’s feet sped up as he quickly approached the end of the mountains, his eyes flashing with even more speed. The increase in speed alerted Felicie, causing her to open her eyes.

“Finally!” Zeras mused, jumping from the highest peak of the mountain and soaring downwards with speed, quickly approaching the world of white that covered the entire area beneath them and close to slamming hard on the ground.

He clenched his fist, punching downwards, releasing a shockwave that threw them upwards, automatically cutting down their momentum as Zeras gently stepped down onto the carpet of snow once more.

“You’re really right Felicie. That place was the right part. How did you even know that?” He asked surprised how she was able to accurately predict.

Zeras couldn’t even imagine what he would have had to go through if right now they ended up at a dead end and they had no choice but to turn back and go check out the remaining two parts.

If he had followed a choice, he would have made Felicie’s the last due to the weird path he had sighted before and that would have cost him three more days of running around before finally finding the correct path.

“Hmph, you see I’m the navigator. And I’m doing quite the good job, aren’t I?” Felicie asked with a smirk as Zeras gave a nod but ultimately had to agree.

“Yes, you really do,” he said, causing her to laugh out loud.

But in the next instant, the entire world seemed to turn upside for Felicie as her body was immediately lifted off the ground, finding a familiar body wrapping around her like a ball and then the sound of an incredibly loud explosion.

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