Chapter 168: The Final Episode (1/2)

Silence ensued after all the netherans had left.

”Ar-Are they dead?” River whispered a question.

The low tone of her voice wasn't due to wanting to be quiet, but the seriousness of the implication of her words.

If Heath's group had died, then what chance did her group have?

Meanwhile, on Jake's side, he wasn't faring well.

Since Jake had entered the manor. He had been feeling strange again.

Now that he was stagnant, his vision became covered with the one that he had previously seen. The same world, but everything was grey and filled with a deathly sing.

Scratching his fingers into the floor, Jake tried to control himself from spasming. Blood dripped from his eyes and he continued staring at the grey world.

'This can't be happening,' he thought.

It was not the right time for his vision to be overlapping!

*Ahh*

The death song reached a high peak and blood furiously poured from his eye. It dripped on the floor and the other could hear it.

Jake couldn't see them, but he tried his best to keep mum. He tried his best to not betray his pain.

”Jake, what is happening to you?” worried Eden.

He couldn't afford his teammates jeopardizing the mission.

Eden patted his arm on an unresponsive Jake and life came back to the latter's eye.

He asked again, ”Are you okay?”

This time, Jake nodded in reply.

”Good...” said Eden as he examined Jake.

He later voiced out his doubts, ”Can you go on?”

Jake nodded back in reply.

After a few more questions, he managed to slightly erase their doubts. Despite them being curious on Jake's condition, they didn't ask further, all they wanted to know was whether Jake would be an obstacle.

'Hmm...' sighed Jake.

He rubbed his blood from the floor. Luckily, the others had focused back on the door or they would see Jake's red blood changing its color to silver-blue.

He wasn't worried about them knowing he was from a different race, but he didn't want to tell them. The only races in this continent were humans, beasts, and netherans. He didn't want to announce himself as the special fourth.

'I guess I have to de-activate it,' decided Jake.

His [Akashic Eye] had been acting weird since the moment he entered the town. While he knew that there had to be a reason, he didn't have time to cater to that.

Controlling his special body part, Jake forced it to shut down.

'What?' thought Jake.

Even after commanding it, his right eye still gleamed with purple light beneath the blue lens.

It was refusing to be shut down!

Sighing, Jake fully erased all the bloodstains from his body and went to join the group.

Since it was refusing to de-activate, there was no use battling with it.