Zen wiped his lip, cleaning the blood and straightening himself.
He looked up at Jade, dozens of thoughts running through his head.
First of all. He’d gravely miscalculated on both ends.
He was much weaker than he originally anticipated and Jade was much stronger. He’d already expected a similar stat boost for her just like after he completed his first evolution but he didn’t think one hit from her would feel like getting ramd into by a beast.
Feeling the taste of tal resurface he quickly stopped himself from spitting blood again, swallowing it. Luckily his healing had started dealing with it
[HP: 130/166]
"I-i didn’t... I’m so sorry-"
"I’m fine"
Zen said as he stood up straight.
"I just needed to test sothing"
Nobody else spoke but they were all looking at Zen strangely. No one had expected that outco, especially not Jade herself, and it didn’t look like Zen had faked that reaction either.
Diane suddenly stepped forward.
"Hey,ja-"
Before she could finish, Zaria held her back, shaking her head.
"Not the ti"
"That wasn’t... fine"
Neo scrutinized Zen. Ever since he’d seen Zen in his soul realm he’d been able to tell sothing was off but now it was indisputable.
"Looks like soone got a little bit too cocky"
He said, downplaying what happened, slinging one hand around Zen’s neck.
"We’ll take him to the infirmary for a quick patch"
Maximilian added.
"See you guys tomorrow?"
No one here was stupid enough to just believe it like that but overlooking it might be the best option for now.
Sothing was clearly wrong with Zen
As the girls walked away Xavier joked.
"Guess Jade no longer has to worry about bullies,huh?"
A few seconds passed and it was just the four boys left.
"You wanna talk about it?"
Maximilian asked first.
Zen shook his head.
"That’s what I thought"
"Does it have to do with the...you know what?"
Zen pauses for a few seconds before nodding. They were his largest suspects for now.
"Do you want help?"
Zen shook his head
Neo chuckled, rolling his eyes.
"Tough luck, you’re stuck with us"
Zen sighed and pulled out of Neo’s grip, walking towards the dorm alone.
"They just want to help"
Theia said, appearing on his head
"I don’t need help, not for this"
She sighed and gave up, looking into the distance.
"You need to talk to Jade"
"Why?"
"Because she’s scared. She died, woke up one random day with super strength and durability, and what do you think is going to happen when she learns she can heal, or worse, transform?"
"She could expose herself?"
"Yes"
He looked back, glancing at his roommates and looking in the direction sable and the other girls went.
"And they could turn on us"
Theia facepald
"That’s not the point!"
Zaine suddenly grunted.
"Then just get rid of them"
"You two are being paranoid"
"Maybe Theia’s right "
"Shut up you-"
""ENOUGH!"
Zephyr suddenly yelled.
"I can barely hear myself think. YOU can’t even hear yourselves think. I thought you were all supposed to be the sa person. You’re completely out of sync "
Theia sighed. Zephyr had successfully gotten their attention.
"Alright, let’s focus on another problem."
Zen looked down at the choker and heard Zaine groan in the back of his mind.
"Why not just take it to the playground. They could probably get rid of it?"
Zen didn’t reply to that.
Did this thing even count as beast gear? He wasn’t entirely sure, although it could be sothing else,he wasn’t entirely sure
"We can’t do this. They’ll kill you, rember?"
Theia said although even she didn’t know why. Zen wouldn’t say exactly what he’d done to anger them, but he seed pretty certain.
"It seems the only solution is the tedious one"
She sighed.
"Good old fashioned levelling up"
Zen humd. It would take anywhere from three to nine tis the amount of effort he’d put in since he got the system to reach his previous strength.
But right now...there wasn’t any other way.
He suddenly got a text and looking at it he noticed it was from Zaria
...
He didn’t reply, he had nothing else to say
Zen walked into the dorm and instead of heading straight to his bed,he moved towards the ga pod in the corner of the room.
He opened it up and laid In it, switching it on.
He rembered what Theia said about it draining his life force. Another mystery he couldn’t solve.
He waited a few seconds for the scan to be complete before it switched on, pulling him into the world of the ga.
He opened his eyes and found himself in front of his farm. It looked less abandoned than when Zyro ca here
He looked at the ti and muttered.
"She’s late"
Theia scoffed
"And she was so serious when she said we had to get here early"
Zen didn’t bother with that and started looking around, examining the place.
He went into the barn and silo, checking to see all the items still where he’d placed them and even more that mao-mao had probably put there.
He spent the next few hours browsing before deciding to go check on the plants
He’d only walked for a few minutes when he heard a voice.
"Masteeeeeerrrr!!!"
"Oh no"
He imdiately looked back and a huge vine had already wrapped around him, pulling him towards Alarune.
Similar to before he couldn’t resist as she crushed him, hugging him tightly
"You’re... going...to kill "
He groaned, trying to squeeze out of her embrace.
"Master ca back again!"
"Let... go!"
He felt himself about to black out again before sothing suddenly grabbed his clothes and punched Alarune, sending her tumbling and ruining the ground as her roots tore through it.
"Mao?"
He heard her groan as she put him down.
"That stupid plant never listens. At least she’s got clothes on now"
She sighed, turning to face him.
"She’s fine by the way, that barely scratched her. Sorry I ca in late,had to take care of so personal business. You okay?"
"Yeah...."
Zen said absentmindedly, trying to make sense of the system notification in front of him.
[Notice]
[Herald fragnt detected]
[Execute leap protocol ?]
Zen wasn’t sure what this was but he clicked yes and imdiately he did a tir began
"Hey,you good?"
"Yes"
Mao sighed.
"Great, you’re all moody again"
"You have an issue with how i act?"
She shook her head, smiling
"Honestly, I’d be more disappointed if you went and beca normal without "
She looked around, breathing in the nostalgia
"So you wanna go on a quest or sothing? You’re weak as shit right now,we need to get your levels up"
"I don’t mind"
"Too bad, I’m deciding for you, besides,you don’t need to fight to level up,Mr farr"
Zen wasn’t sure exactly what she wanted to do but he was down with whatever. Zyro had promised to spend ti with her so he had to honor that promise.
"It’ll be like old tis, I’ll fight off monsters and you take care of literally everything else.
Zen looked at the farm. The few seeds Zyro had planted last ti had grown.
***********
A few hours passed and Zen was carefully adding new seeds into the soil while Mao watched from the side.
"It really has been a while,huh?"
"Yes"
"I’m glad this doesn’t feel...akward. it’s nice. Even if I’m still pissed at you"
"..."
"You’re really not gonna say anything? It’s been years man, and even before then you sotis disappeared for weeks. "
"I got in trouble "
"Yeah I know that, but... you know if you actually asked for help I’d help you, right?"
"... It’s complicated "
"Yeah, everything with the arcade is complicated"
She sighed, taking a deep breath.
"Your family -"
"Dead. As far as I can tell."
All of Mao’s annoyance disappeared into thin air and she sighed. She hadn’t ant to push, especially after he already said it last ti.
"Sorry. I-"
"Don’t have to apologize. My sister might be alive though "
"Rio?"
He nodded.
"I have a clue but I’m not sure."
"So you’re trying to find her?"
Zen nodded. It was on his list of priorities.
She imdiately perked up.
"Where are you?"
"Hmm?"
"I an in real life. We can et up and I’ll help. What planet are you on?"
"..."
Mao groaned.
"Co on. I used to talk to Rio too, she’s practically my little sister I’ve never t,you have to let help."
Zen went quiet for a few seconds before opening his mouth to speak
At that second the tir in the system reached zero and the ground imdiately started quaking like it was the end of the world.
The player systems imdiately popped up
Mao’s eyes imdiately widened and she yelled.
"Let’s et in-"
*Bang!*
A large explosion suddenly appeared out of nowhere, blinding them .
Zen’s eyes opened and he found himself back in the pod, with an error screen on the headset.
He imdiately got out and headed towards his bed , sitting down.
"Did you get it?"
Zyro asked
Zen nodded.
"Looks like mao-mao wants to et in dragon city"
That was the only information he had for now, according to what he saw the ga was going to be under maintenance for a while.
"Zen,look at this."
The notification finally popped up and he saw what had happened with the system and the ga
[Congratulations host]
[Partial link has been created to beacon]
[Realm identified : Varian"
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