[First-person POV: Nadya]
"Nadya!"
Elysia's urgent voice pierced the chaos around , and before I could fully comprehend what was happening, a sudden impact knocked the air out of my lungs.
Pain radiated through my body as I tumbled away, disoriented and struggling to regain my senses.
As the world stopped spinning, I found myself firmly restrained, unable to move. Panic surged within as I realized I was now placed on the shoulder of a mber of the dark church.
My attempts to break free were futile; the grip on was unbreakable.
"Release ! Let go!" I shouted, desperation filled my voice. I thrashed and flailed, but my efforts were feeble against the overwhelming strength of my captor.
"SHUT UP!" The dark church mber's icy command cut through the air, extinguishing any hope that my pleas might sway him.
"My grandma will kill you!" I yelled, attempting to threaten him, but his response was a sinister laugh that echoed with an unsettling lack of emotion.
"Hahaha, you don't understand, do you? They have abandoned you," he taunted, relishing in my distress. The words struck a nerve—a fear I tried to push away.
"No! They did not; she will co to save !" I shouted, refusing to accept the possibility that I had been abandoned.
"That woman had a choice to either save you or save the other girl, and she chose the other girl. You are abandoned," he said, his voice laced with madness as he relished in the revelation. He didn't pause in his running, the cruel truth hanging heavily in the air.
"No! No! No!" I scread in denial, my desperate protests echoing in the cold silence.
My heart sank, the realization settling within .
Despite my hopes, I knew deep down that Dania had chosen Elysia over .
The reality of being left behind, abandoned in the clutches of the dark church, gnawed at my spirit. Betrayal and hurt mingled with the fear that gripped .
The world around blurred as tears welled up, but I fiercely blinked them away.
"Hahaha, I will surely enjoy breaking you," he sneered, the chilling certainty of his words sinking in.
We were now far removed from the rest, isolated in a situation that seed increasingly dire.
As I regained my full senses, I started to feel his emotions—a twisted mix of lust and madness that sent shivers down my spine.
The unsettling aura around him beca more palpable, and without a word spoken, I knew what was going to happen to if they had .
"LET GO!"
In a desperate attempt to resist, I began to struggle against his grip. However, my struggle seed to only irritate him.
"Bitch!"
In a brutal response, he ruthlessly punched the back of my head.
"Arghh",
The force of the impact sent a searing pain through , and blood trickled down my nose. The world spun, and my head felt as though it had been split into two.
"Let... ... go," I whispered, my voice barely audible as the world around blurred into a haze. My head pounded with pain, and the darkness threatened to consu my consciousness.
"Mo...th...er..." I whimpered, the word escaping my lips—the last thing I wanted to see. As the darkness closed in, I clung to the last straw of my fading awareness.
"AHHHH!"
As my consciousness reached the edge of oblivion, the cry of agony from my captor echoed in my ears. Suddenly, I felt a violent jerk in my body as he loosened his grip.
To my relief, a gentle and firm hand replaced his hold, supporting my weakened form. Struggling to keep my eyes open, I looked ahead, only to find a masked boy in front of .
"N...ei...l."
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[First-person POV: Eden]
[A few minutes ago]
"What will happen if I kill Elysia now?",
I asked, flying as I crossed over the city wall, arriving in the forest. However, she didn't reply; instead, a screen flickered in front of .
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Quest Title: Aid Elysia Odette lisande.
Quest Type: Side Quest
Quest Level: C-Class
Rewards for Success:
●20,000 Experience Points (XP)
●Increase in Luck
Or
Quest Title: Rescue Nadya Odette lisande.
Quest Type: Side Quest
Quest Level: S-Class
Penalty for Success:
●Hatred of the World's Will
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"Is this your way of saying think twice before you act, huh?", I asked, looking at the quest screen in front of .
[Yes]
"But this didn't answer my question," I said, closing the screen in front of . I don't need to accept quests manually, as I don't have a choice here.
[You can't]
"Is that a challenge?", Narrowing my eyes, I asked.
[No, you can either save Nadya or try to kill Elysia; you don't have ti for both.]
"Tch", I clicked my tongue at her response, but she isn't wrong tho and I know what is more important for now.
Propelling myself forward in the air, I arrived above Elysia and Linda. I observed the surroundings from the air as I looked around the whole place, now filled with the corpses of different people, most of whom were n.
"They are really brutal", I mumbled to myself. The dark church is kind of a ssed-up place where one can find every type of evil, but one thing is common in all of them: their negligence towards human life.
"She is awakening her bloodline, Athena's bloodline", I mumbled as I looked at Elysia.
The atmosphere around her seed to thicken with an undeniable aura, and there she knelt, lost in a daze.
The destructive aftermath of her awakening was evident, as the land surrounding her lay in ruins.
I then looked around, noticing two more fights were going on right now, both intense fights with the intention of killing.
I positioned myself in alignnt in the sa way where Elysia was looking at the daze, suspecting that another individual from the dark church might have taken the sa route as he did in the ga.
{Star Sense}
Inhaling deeply, I triggered the star energy within . With a deep exhale, I released it from my body, allowing it to resonate with my surroundings, and with that, an overwhelming influx of information surged into my mind.
A three-dinsional map of the surrounding area ford in my head.
"Argh",
I groaned in pain as thousands of space and ti nodes from different locations entered my brain.
I quickly adjusted the amount of Star Energy leaving with just space nodes in the air.
Quickly finding the farthest node, I established a link, connecting it with by a thin thread of Star Energy.
Then I stopped the flow of mana into my wings, making it disappear and leaving suspended in mid-air for a mont before I began to fall rapidly.
{Space warp}
With that, the space around began to distort, and in an instant, I vanished from my original location, seamlessly transitioning through the distorted space and arriving at the node with which I established a link.
Without pause, I found out another distant node and swiftly established a new link. Following the sa steps again, the thin thread of star energy acted as my guide, allowing to leap through space once more.
After following the sa steps several tis, I found what I was looking for—the man from the dark church who had Nadya on her shoulder.
"LET GO!", As I heard Nadya shouting, I didn't think twice before acting. Taking out a dull blade from my inventory, I began coating it with star energy. A very small fraction of Star Energy left my body, engulfing the blade entirely.
{Space warp}
Tracking the man's trajectory, I connected with a space node in his path as he continued to run. Tid perfectly, I leaped through space, thrusting the blade into his fibula, breaking his front leg bone.
"AHHH!" His agonized scream echoed as he loosened his grip on Nadya. Swiftly, I caught her as she was thrown into the air, gently enfolding her in my arms.
"N...ei...l."
Holding her bleeding head tightly, I heard a weak whisper from her before she went unconscious.
'It can only hold once, huh?' Observing the blade, I thought, The weapon began to crumble as soon as I stopped supplying it with Star Energy.
"Hah...hah.... Who are...you, how..hah.. could you arrive without...... noticing..." The voice of the man from the dark church interrupted, marked by huffs and growls.
'An origin level 9, huh, hard to see them nowadays.'
Instead of answering, I made a gesture, placing my index finger under my thumb and forming a small space distortion in front of it.
I filled it with three-fourths of the remaining Star Energy, creating a cracking sound in the space as the distortion increased.
"Die with that doubt." I flicked my finger, causing the crack to move towards him.
Despite his attempt to crawl away, the space distortion reached him, engulfing his upper body and swiftly killing him.
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