Chapter 2 : Encounter Part 4

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What a day, this is my first day seeing another creature, seeing a woman who looks like I am in love with her, and I am seeing the spirit call Manes first appearance.

He raised his head looking at me and said. "Looking at your face, it seems like you have lots of questions," He may see my face where my lower jaw drops a little looking at him. He straightened up. "Please ask, I'm ready to answer all your questions."

I pulled back my lower jaw, closed my mouth tightly and opened again to ask Manes some questions.

The first thing I asked was those creatures I saw today. That creatures are called Noes, they are not supposed to be in this world. They come through dimensional cracks.

Dimension cracks occur because the high spirit of space is already old, making it rather difficult to stabilize the dimensions, so some cracks appear in the world.

But even if Noes could enter this world, they still could not interfere with this world, except for strong Noes who can cause natural disasters. Noes won't attack those who cannot see them, but they can attack those who can.

Next, I asked about the ability of Dead Eye, which when I used it, I only realized blue light enveloping Noes last night.

From Manes' explanation, the power of his eyes can see when the living things that exist will die, divided by color differences.

Black means that already died.

Dark red, today,

Light red, less a week,

Dark orange, less than a month,

Light orange, less than a year,

Light green, decades,

Light blue, hundreds of years.

So, that Noes, that I saw last night in the middle of this Fraun city will live for a hundred years? I'm glad that Noes didn't find me.

My eyes feel heavy, making me rub my eyes. "I feel sleepy now! It looks like tomorrow we will continue. Will you go again?"

"No... I will stay inside you, now!" Manes went straight into my body. It feels like it sprays my body with water. What a weird sensation!

I feel tired now, let's think about it later tomorrow. I immediately threw my body on my bed. My mind, which once filled with various thoughts, starts going blank as I nod off to sleep.

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A dim ray of the rising sun peeked through a gap in the curtains right into my eyes, waking me up rather pleasantly.

These days, I made a promise with Alp to an arcane game. As usual, Alp is always waiting for me in front of the house, propping himself up against the gateposts.

"Mort, can I ask you something?" He asked, while kicking a small rock across the street.

"Sure!" Not thinking what he was going to ask made me accept it.

He stopped kicking the small rock, then stared at it with a smirk. "Are you falling in love with that new girl that just transferred?"

What! I panic. How does he know how I feel about Lynn?

"H-How do y-you know?" I answered with my shaking voice.

Alp gives me a board smile as he teases me. "You were crying and your face turned red after seeing her, aren't you?"

He saw me crying? Ah! So embarrassing!

He laughed at me. I cover all my face with my hand, so Alp cannot see my face that already feels hot.

*BOOM*

Suddenly the sound of an explosion entered our ears. We close our eyes by using our hands from the blast wind.

But a piece of rubbish from the blast flew and hit Alp's head. He falls to the ground with his head bleeding and losing consciousness.

I put up his head and leaned into my hand, shouting. "... ALP! ALP!" Waiting for him to open his eyes, but he never opened it.

*ROOAAR*

A roar caused the entire glass of the surrounding building to break. So, I protect Alp using my body from broken glass. The damage from the roar, makes everyone run away, leaving me and my injured friend behind.

I looked towards where the sound of the roar was coming. Waiting for the dust fumes to point out the culprit.

When the dust fumes have dissipated, I finally see the culprit behind it all. It turns out that a Noes looks very disgusting, his body is full of mucus, the smell is as fierce as a corpse. It looks like the orcs I see always in fantasy books.

When I was looking at it, our eyes met. Noes started walking towards us.

Shit!!!

What should I do now? If I run alone, maybe I can get away, but I can't leave my best friend like this!

I let go of the contact lens in my left eye and looked towards Alp. A dark red-light cover Alp body. "Does that mean Alp will die today? This is bad!"

I went to look at Noes, a light orange covering its body. So, it is a strong Noes...

"I will not let my good friend here die!" I lowered Alp's head slowly, and I stood up and walked toward the Noes with determination to fight.

Manes came out of my body and said. "This seems to be an unavoidable fight huh..."

It looks like Manes already knows what happened here. "I can't let my best friend die here, so please help me Manes!"

He bowed. "Of course! My lord, you can use my weapon to fight!"

His weapon? I have never seen him carry his weapon so far. Well, whatever I need to save Alp! "How can I use your weapon?"

"I'll teach you, so close your eyes," The Noes got closer to us, making me a little afraid to close my eyes now. But I have to do what Manes said because it is a chance to save Alp! So, I followed the words Manes.

He leads me. "Open your right palm, feel it, smell it, and grab it!!!"

I commenced to feel solid objects in the right-hand palms; I slowly opened my eyes and finally, I saw the weapon.

The weapon is like the crescent moon filled with a black aura, from the edge of the crescent moon to the tip of the stick.

So, this is a Manes weapon...

... Reaper Scythe!

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