Chapter 339: Value (5)

Up to now, Libra was rife with irregular energies. Maybe they had been the results of weird experiments performed by these creatures.

“The Shadow1 was a very new phenomenon amongst them. It coiled itself round a stronghold, trapping any approaching beings in darkness.

In essence, it was an actual shadow. Part of the shadow had developed one thing akin to consciousness, a phenomenon near nature.

Even Libra could not absolutely management it; they might solely handle to put it to use to some extent.

As a result of it is a phenomenon, it is past human management.

“……”

I regarded round. The house was already crammed with darkness, however there have been fairly just a few issues underfoot.

Issues swallowed by the shadow.

“Shion. The place are we?”

Immediately, Soliette’s voice flowed from beside me.

“What, you bought caught too?”

“Sure. It appears so.”

Soliette blinked and responded.

“……Rattling.”

Whether or not inside or out, there wasn’t a lot distinction.

“Shion. Have you learnt one thing?”

“I do not know a lot both. Kve by no means been inside earlier than.”

Those that have entered have by no means come out. That is why there is no info obtainable.

“Is there anyone there!”

I shouted Loudly.

Soliette additionally created a hand-held sound amplifier and adopted swimsuit.

“Is anybody there——1”

No response got here again to the fading voices.

“……Let’s go.”

We moved ahead to wherever.

Each course regarded the identical, however the fNotepadJ is a pure navigator. If you happen to draw the trail you walked like a map, you will not get misplaced. The issue is that the trail could be meaningless.

For me, it is a race in opposition to time.

If I do not present up for work for 3 days, or reasonably two, suspicion will inevitably come up.

“Shion. Cannot we simply minimize out? With the Severing Sword.”

“……Would that work?”

I turned to Take a look at soliette.

“l’ll attempt.”

Soliette drew her sword and swung it.

The magic-infused blade minimize by the air, however nothing modified. It was nonetheless too weak to separate the house itself.

“……Grasp ought to attempt.”

Soliette Regarded again at me.

“Alright. The grasp will give it a shot.”

I drew my sword with a little bit of humor.

“Kraaaaaaa!”

“Wha!”

Soliette flinched on the scream I set free.

I swung with all my would possibly, however once more, to no impact.

“lt did not work.”

“……Grasp, you are actually loud.”

Soliette pouted. I coughed awkwardly.

“Uh, Shion. Look there!”

She pointed. There was some kind there. I checked first with the SZX-9500.

It regarded like a useless particular person.

“……Appears Like a corpse?”

“Huh?”

“Let’s go.”

We approached the spot.

Within the darkness, a corpse clad in mercenary apparel lay emaciated.

“lt appears he was a mercenary.”

Gentle leather-based armor. Pockets aplenty, crammed with wires, knives, and far more.

I picked up a pocket book protruding from an inside pocket and flipped open the primary web page.

[Day 3: I’ve drifted into a strange place. Its nothing but darkness. But I’ve faced worse than this. If therefs nothing, thafs almost a relief. I plan to keep a diary to maintain my sanity.]

The handwriting exuded confidence regardless of the sudden phenomenon.

[Day 8: I’ve decided to keep track of how far I walk. There must be an end somewhere.]

[Day 13: No matter how much I walk, I see no end. There’s no answer. I see nothing.]

[Day 18: It seems something has gone wrong.]

[Day 20: I found people! Three others in the same predicament as me.]

Day 20. No pages adopted. If there have been folks, they might discuss collectively. No have to maintain a diary simply to take care of sanity.

However then…

After flipping by about twenty pages.

[Day 109: I need to start writing in the diary again. Just staring. Its sad. Haha.]

From Day 109, every little thing started to deteriorate.

[It’s day 121. The sky was clear. Today seems like it might bring some good things. Bugs are flying around. Hmm. I think I’m a bit off.]

[Ah, right. I remembered what I need to do today. The person next door keeps bothering me. The noise between floors is too much. I should call the police.]

The writing was laborious to decipher. The sentences had been disjointed. Pages crammed with bloodstains and spit marks continued till Day 209.

[I found food!!!!!!!!!]

“……1”

I rapidly drew my sword. At that second, the eyes of what I believed was a corpse widened. Knives sprayed from its complete physique.

Ching, ching, ching, ching——!

How might this considerably affordable guess be of any assist to soliette now?

“You.”

I began with a single phrase, and soliette’s eyes trembled.

“You have got a expertise that will likely be remembered in your loved ones lineage.”

Arkne’s precept is primogeniture. Thats the rule. The household’s rules aren’t simply compromised. As soon as a precept solidifies into custom, it turns into a rule extra unbreakable than the rest, a rule that shouldn’t be damaged.

“No. Not simply the household, however a expertise that will likely be remembered within the historical past of the continent.”

Felix and Jared had been obstacles to soliette. One distracted her coronary heart, and the opposite, just because he was born first, took the place that ought to have been hers.

That is in all probability what the Arkne ‘household’ thought.

“So, perhaps they used the ability of Knightmare.”

“…”

Soliette silently lowered her head. After staring on the floor for a very long time, she murmured softly.

“lt feels such as you’ve regarded into the darkness in my coronary heart.”

There was no signal of shock. Reasonably, she accepted it calmly.

In spite of everything, she hadn’t fully dominated out such suspicions.

“So, I ought to take revenge on my household.”

“…”

Her self-mocking phrases pierced my coronary heart. I abruptly felt uneasy.

“lf it’s essential to take revenge.”

I rapidly positioned my hand on her shoulder.

“What’s going to you do?”

I requested her in a bewildered tone, with out even realizing it. She confronted me. There was no reply. For a very long time, there was no reply. Her trembling lips had been irritating.

So, I broke the silence first.

“Suicide?”

“What are you speaking about, Shion.”

The environment immediately lightened. Soliette chuckled and flippantly hit my shoulder.

“I’d by no means do this, such a factor.”

Her response was as if it was the obvious factor on the planet.

Was she all the time like this, or did I modify her?

I checked out her and requested once more.

“Even 5 years in the past?”

“Sure, in fact.”

Her response was instant, as if the considered it by no means existed.

“Why would I commit suicide?”

Her difficult reply was overwhelming for me.

“…”

As a result of earlier than the regression, you probably did commit suicide. You left alone after saying it was for my sake.

Such phrases surged to the tip of my tongue.

I believed I had forgotten, nevertheless it appeared I used to be nonetheless not over her suicide.

“Lets consider a means out first, Shion.”

Soliette stood up once more, gripping her sword.

“Ah!”

I watched her as she repeated her ordinary slicing motions. I noticed her eyes, nostril, mouth, shoulders, fingers, arms, legs, and ankles.

Immediately, an concept struck me.

I turned on the “SZX-9500.” The shadow was thick with magical particles.

They had been particles from the ‘Magic Area.’

The shadows had been additionally inhabiting the ‘Magic Area’ that makes up the library.

If that is the case.

“Wait a second.”

What’s the nature of this Magic Area?

I gathered mana particles in my palm. Then, I took out a pocket book from an individual who had simply died. I blew the particles into it.

Ssshhh…

The pages of the pocket book started to show, beginning to look new once more. All data had been erased, returning to their pristine, authentic state.

Was it rewinding time, or restoring it to its authentic kind?

I wasn’t certain which it was.

However, the thought I had whereas this—

“…”

I checked out soliette.

If my concept works, the present soliette would possibly quickly die. The ‘previous’ might take her place.

Nonetheless, it is a Magic Area.

The mana contained in the Magic Area loses its impact the second it flows outdoors.

Which means, the restoration is restricted solely inside this Magic Area. As soon as we escape, she’s going to revert again to the present soliette.

So, it is price a attempt.

No, I need to succeed for her sake.

In any other case, we’U die.

“lf chopping is an excessive, then connecting just isn’t a lot totally different.”

A phrase the previous soliette as soon as advised me.

The present soliette regarded again at me.

“Huh?”

“Soliette.”

I known as her identify.

What I’m about to do is to deliver again her distant previous self.

“Are you able to belief me?”

Earlier than the regression… an act of summoning the First Sword of the Continent, a determine who will likely be remembered in historical past.