His heart began beating faster as he gazed at the words which were turning clearer by the second.
Finally, when they were completely clear, he told Valentina to stop.
Without any wasted movent, he put the paper in his pocket.
He had already rembered all the words on it.
It was the paper on which only the two words 'Eldritch Eryndor' were previously visible.
The entire sentence was -
'I'll bring Eldritch Eryndor to you.'
His heart was beating fast as he still rembered that phrase.
What does it an? It is obvious. Soone is trying to plot against .
But then again, who is 'you'?
Eryndor's gaze turned towards the abyss.
Could it be?
Eryndor didn't dare confirm his own guess.
According to his speculation, soone at the high ranking position within the Human Federation was targeting him, pushing him towards the abyss.
Then wasn't it obvious that this 'you' was soone from the abyss?
What the fuck? And here I thought no one has made it back from the abyss?
It was written in information packages at several reputed sites, and even on official sites that there was no information regarding the abyss of the secret realms.
Do they know that soone has already known about people, or maybe just a single person or entity existing within the abyss and even made deals with them regarding ?
Valentina didn't say anything, letting Eryndor calmly process whatever he had read on the paper.
Eryndor didn't interact with Valentina either, his mind still occupied by the words and what they could an.
If that person from the Human Federation has made a deal with soone from the abyss, could there be a minute chance they wouldn't kill ?
Nope. Eryndor squashed that thought as soon as he had it.
Even the teleport-when-eliminated function was turned off. They didn't care how they sent him, dead or alive, he just had to be sent.
Just who could be inside the abyss that they would want in any form possible?
Eryndor shook his head, and took out other pieces of yellow paper. There were a total of seven pieces, with one just having been decoded.
Holding out one before Valentina with the sa posture, he asked her to begin employing Regression.
The sa thing happened all over again, with the blurry words turning more clearer by the second.
But before the process could continue, Valentina coughed, and he noticed the progress halt. The words were still illegible.
Without having to be told, he asked,
"Ran out of energy of Consciousness?"
She nodded.
"For so reason, I have a lot more than my peers but those papers are still taking a lot of energy."
Eryndor fell into thought as he heard her.
Does that an the words were written a very long ti ago? No other reason it would take so much energy to regress their state.
He nodded at her, telling her to take it easy.
Since Valentina would take a considerable amount of ti for her energy of Consciousness to recover, and since both of them had just recently gained a windfall of points, none of them was in a hurry.
They set up a temporary camp, and took out their rations from their bag.
There was only a faint sound of rustling, and unpacking as they took their places and opened their food containers amidst the sound of surroundings.
Even with plenty of beasts residing in the secret realm, there were still normal birds which could be seen in large amounts.
Their chirping was always present in the background, giving a serene sensation to whoever it was who was hearing it.
Valentina took a bite of her double cheese loaded chicken burger, chewing it thoroughly and swallowing before speaking up, breaking the silence of the environnt.
"In case you think that the killing which I perford earlier was not like . You know, like… it didn't suit , you are correct.
"From a standalone point of view, I didn't have the heart to kill them because they were simply following orders.
"However, there is sothing I've gradually co to realize.
"I may be soone who looks at situations from a morally good point of view. But what I hold in higher regard are the connections I make with people.
"Those people threatened your life, I can make the connections just as well as you did. The teleportation going off, it was obvious they were ready to kill you.
"Since they were out for your life, it was fixed in my heart that they had to die. No amount of convincing could make forgive them."
Eryndor was stunned as he heard her. He slowly realized that his perception of her seed to be all just based on his surface level interactions with her.
Only after staying with her and seeing her actions first hand in an important situation did he get to truly know about her.
With the burrito still in his hand, he took a big bite out of it as the surroundings returned to silence.
When he was done swallowing that bite, he asked her with an amused smile.
"What if I had done sothing morally wrong though? Would you still kill them?"
Valentina tilted her head at him and answered after a mont of thought.
"I would kill them first before asking you about it.
"If by my standards you had indeed done sothing gravely wrong then I would ask you for your motive behind it.
"If it's acceptable, it will take so ti for to co to terms with it but everything will be fine still.
"But if your reasons are not acceptable —"
Valentina's tone had a touch of sadness, but a similar level of conviction as she spoke the next few words.
"Then that would be the end of our friendship."
There was a mont of silence before she spoke up once again.
"Maybe I have not matured fully yet, maybe I am not a good friend, maybe I value my principles too much even in this era which has broken beyond repair."
She hesitated once again before continuing.
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