Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Monotony (227)

It was rather monotonous, riding the leg of some abominable, unseen titan to the base of a gargantuan mountain.

One would think it would be entertaining, but it mainly consisted of not moving for a long period of time, then having to cling to the leg they were on while it moved.

Still, it was much, much quicker than they would have been if they were on foot.

By now, a few hours had passed, and they had covered an immense amount of distance.

Kai could still make out the ruined walls of FrostVale, but even at his current altitude he could not spot any gargantuan corpses in its walls, which was a bit of a shame.

He would have liked to see a large tentacled corpse there, it would have lessened the pain on his heart a little.

Kai looked down at his fingers, or more specifically, the blue bandages hiding them. He had already drank his HP potions for the day, and they did partially heal his injured fingers, but they mainly fixed his fingernails, not so much the bleeding.

So Cecilia had applied some strange bandages to them. There was a lot of strange things like this stored in her ring, but Kai liked remaining curious about what was in there, it was like a little goodie bag.

Speaking of Cecilia, the ex-Queen had long fallen asleep, somehow.

Her fingers were still intertwined with his, as if she were scared that if she let go she would fall off the leg of the titan, or even that he would fall off.

She had fallen asleep while leaning back against the obsidian material of the leg, but her head somehow ended up on his shoulder.

Kai didn't mind though, it wasn't a big deal after all.

Plus, he wasn't going to complain if she...

Uh.

Nevermind.

Sighing, Kai looked back out at all the open land before him.

It really was pretty flat and barren, like nothing had existed there at the first place.

At times, Kai would think that he had caught a glimpse of something, but it would disappear the next moment, like something was trying to obscure it.

Or even make sure that he didn't look at it.

Then, Kai glanced over to see what the rest of the team were doing.

Petunia, Remy and Esurient were all playing together, Umbra still being hid in Kai's shadow as she would have been too large for the ledge they were sitting on.

It really was a strange group of them, especially a child, rat and sentient sword.

Is this what life was going to be like when they properly returned back to civilisation? Such mismatched groups of beings?

Kai wasn't sure, but he was curious to find out.

And it's not like he didn't have a source to find out, it's just that he hadn't been contacted by said source in a long time.

It had been seven, nearly eight months since Kai's last meeting with The Ever-changing. He wasn't sure what sort of mission they had gone on that would last this long, but he had no other choice than to wait for them to contact him.

Kai sighed softly, leaning his head back against the obsidian material as he prepared himself.

He had been keeping track of the titan's steps after all, so he knew what was coming.

"Petunia, get ready."

Nodding softly, Petunia pressed herself as far as possible against the material behind her as Esurient pressed against her front, keeping her pinned.