Pretty, The Ninth Transmigrator and the Eight Impenetrable Kingdoms

Chapter 2 - Summit City

She looked around her and her suspicions were confirmed. There were no gray or white souls she could see around except for the park. She felt that there was something weird while she was in the city and she never knew why until she noticed there were no white or gray souls floating around. They were maybe rare for other places but the Summit City was different, souls were a common thing here.

She did not know what was happening but she chose to turn around and went on her way. Those souls couldn’t hurt those people in the park anyway, especially if it’s the City’s residents. But the whole situation was puzzling her.

What were they planning?

She casted away her thoughts and picked a road leading northeast. There was no one around passing the roads as it was still early in the morning and the weather was also not nice.

She then arrived at the residential area. The roads from here on out were lined with ornate gates from both sides. She passed many residential blocks' entrances and from the little gaps the gates had, she saw some people bustling at their homes and tending to their chores despite the weary weather. Living their life normally with their families.

She stopped on one of the ornate gates near the edge of the residential area and entered it. Two rows of buildings line up before her facing each other with a narrow road between them devoid of people.

She chose this residential block for a reason. There was once a bomb explosion or something that happened to this area a year ago and the residents of this section and the nearby ones had to be relocated. They renovated this place and it took months for it to finish.

By that time, the residents had already settled into their new residential area. She and her father were once one of them. She picked this one because there was a high chance that it was still unoccupied and from the looks of things, she was right.

She really needed to rest and to take a break from using her ability. She might not feel tired currently, as she physically couldn’t most of the time, but her body was probably on its last leg. Her body might not tell her she’s tired but she’s mentally tired.

She deactivated her invisibility and she continued running through the road. As she had expected, the newly renovated homes looked bare and uninhabited.

She picked a random building, three stories high, located on the edge of the residential block, near the back entrance of the block. She climbed the stairs of the building directly towards the second floor.

The buildings in these residential areas were designed to house huge rooms where people with multiple family members could live together.

Multiple rooms could fit in one building that could span into a few floors. There were huge open hallways in front of the building with stairs spanning from bottom to top, huge balconies were located in front of the rooms jutting out in a semi circle, where huge beautiful gardens, cared for by the gardeners of the city, were usually placed.

She stopped towards one balcony. The balcony spans with a radius of ten meters, enough for a huge expanse of garden to be placed in it.

There were rows of plants and bushes around. Three tall shelves of hanging plants were arranged in the middle of the balcony like they were shelves in the library. While huge bushes of durantas were arranged in the periphery. She ducked behind one of the duranta bushes, completely hiding her from the view of the hallway.

This was the best hiding place for her, opened enough not to be enclosing and still hiding her from the view.

Now that she finally got a break, she felt the pounding ache in her head. Her body couldn’t feel pain and exhaustion easily. It’s just that when it happens she will feel intense pain and crippling exhaustion. It’s like she was just storing her tiredness away till it piled up enough for her to feel. She knew she was on her limit. Any time now, she would shut down.