Affinity: Chaos Chapter 158 - Is That What I Think It Is?

"Void, stop!" Grey yelled while chasing after Void.

Void heard him, but paid no heed to his command, he wanted the blade, it was shiny. Although he didn't know what he wanted to use it for, but since it's shiny, he wanted to keep it, he'll think about its use later on.

'Damn it! Of all the things to be obsessed about, it just had to be shiny things?' Grey thought angrily.

From how strong Void's obsession was with shiny things, Grey had already concluded he would never take him close to the castle in the Capital after they left here, otherwise, given Void's guts, he might probably steal the crown off the head of the emperor.

While the two were playing cat and mouse, with the cat surprisingly playing the role of the mouse, they didn't realize that they were being watched.

Growl...

The creature growled gently. It was currently hidden in the shadows, and other than its sowhat faintly glowing green eyes, none of its other features could be seen.

It stepped out from a hole that neither Grey nor Void saw in the wall facing the tunnel they passed through, it nimbly climbed the wall, making sure to avoid entering the area the fire covered so as not to be seen. Before long, it had gotten to the top of the lab, staring down at the duo who were still running around.

"Haha, where can you run to now?" Grey grinned widely while staring at the cornered Void who had his back on the edge of the wall.

With nowhere to go, Void was like a cornered rat, but even when he was cornered, he still refused to let go of the blade, instead, he held it tighter.

"Just let it go, I'll find you sothing shinier to play with later on." Grey persuaded.

Void shook his head while tightly holding onto the blade, he also looked around, seemingly scanning the area for an opportunity to escape.

"Co on Void, give it to . You should know because of you we got careless." Grey said while walking closer to Void.

When he was chasing after Void so monts ago, he had completely forgotten about where they were, it was only now did he rember they were in a place where there's a likelihood of sothing old being here.

Seeing that there was no way for him to keep the shiny blade this ti, Void begrudgingly handed it to Grey.

When Grey held the blade, he couldn't help but praise its craftsmanship. The blade not only looked good on the eyes, it also felt great.

It had a silver hilt with dragon carvings around it, and a snakelike creature that had legs, four to be precise, that ran from the start of the blade to the tip.

"What an exquisite blade." He said out loud, not hiding the joy in his voice.

During the ti Grey was looking at the blade, Void suddenly recalled sothing.

'I forgot to tell you earlier, I can't use the space elent.' said Void.

"What?! What do you an you can't use the space elent." Grey asked, confusion evident in his voice.

He had never heard of an Elentalist not being able to use their elents before, unless they ran out of elental essence, and that rarely happened. But he knew Void hadn't been using his elents, so there was no way for his elental essence to run out.

'When I wanted to take the blade, I noticed I couldn't use the space elent.' Void explained.

"And you're only telling now?" Grey's face slowly turned serious.

This was a major issue, and Void felt getting the blade was more important than telling him about it sooner.

He tried keeping the blade in his storage ring, but just as Void said, anything related to the space elent seed to be blocked by sothing.

'I'm sorry.' Void apologized when he realized the severity of the matter.

Since he could use his space elent previously, and it was then suddenly blocked, it ant that it was caused by soone, or, sothing.

Grey's thoughts went into overdrive, trying to think of a possible solution to the matter. He tried using his fire elent, and it worked, not just that but his other elents as well, and they worked perfectly.

"We should leave this place." He quickly ca to a decision.

He had already acquired this blade anyway, and from the look of things, there was nothing left for him to search here, leaving this place was the best choice for them.

Just as Grey ca to the decision, he realized Void who was still in a standing position was staring behind him, intently.

"Void, what are you looking at?" Grey asked, not daring to turn around imdiately.

'Behind you.' Void said timidly, pointing behind him.

Grey's heart raced when he heard this, and he was suddenly gripped by fear.

Gulp!

He gulped in fear, the scariest thing was the unknown, now, the unknown was behind him, but he didn't want to know it. If he was given an opportunity, then he wouldn't ever hope to know it.

He steeled his mind, and took a step forward, after walking to the edge of the wall, he slowly turned around, placing his back on the wall just like Void with his head looking at the floor.

After placing his back on the wall, he gradually raised his head. The first thing he saw was the almost seven inches sharp claws that protruded out of the toes of the creature, it had five toes on each limb. Looking higher, he realized the creature had two forelimbs, and two hind limbs which were covered entirely with armor-like scales, there was also the long tail that was behind it, but Grey couldn't get a clear view of it from his position.

The creature had powerful muscular hind and forelimbs that were almost three ters in length, Grey wasn't even two ters yet! His head was slowly but gradually starting to face upwards.

The muscular shoulder of the creature was at least half a ter wide, and its neck was over one ter long, and positioned at the top of the neck was what looked like the head of a dragon, only without horns.

'Is that what I think it is?' Grey transmitted his thoughts to Void, not daring to speak out.

He was literally almost scared shitless right now. For the first ti in his life, he was dead scared.