Just in less than a few seconds, Alex scread out in panic. I acted all innocent and kept my face looking forward without turning back for even a second.
"Damn! She is really persistent!" she kept cursing as we continued to walk. I just sent a simple ssage back to Angelica, telling her that her love was saved from a death trap by .
Of course she didn't even bother to send a single word back, and I didn't mind that. After all she just did what I expected, and kept Alex busy for now.
"What happened?" as innocent as a child I asked, acting like I knew nothing at all.
"She knew I was in a deadly situation," Alex seed to not buy my act, glaring in doubt at , "who might be the person who told her this?"
"Just tell her you are busy working with ," I shrugged, "after all I'm still waiting for your answer."
"Tsk," helplessly she said sothing that I couldn't hear and sent it back to her friend. Then she turned to give such a blaming look.
C'mon, you were the one crossing the line here, not .
"Now, can you tell if you heard about that list?"
"Not a single word!"
"Can you just search about it then?"
"Who do you think I am? Wikipedia or what?!"
"Then… you don't know anything about it? Not even a rumour, a place, anything… Any info will help."
"Told you, I never heard about it!"
I frowned. "Aren't your ability to see through things related to the angels? Aren't you an oracle?"
"Oracle? How did you get such a nice na from?`` Unlike my uneasiness, she jumped in delight and even clasped her hands together in a cute way.
Did she do it on purpose? Yeah, I thought so.
"I just heard it before," I didn't explain much. I needed to deal with these new changes that I never expected.
Was that god wrong? How could this be?!
"About my ability," she suddenly said after a mont of silence, "it's useless if you asked . I only can see pieces of images related to things those angels are doing at this mont or planning to do in a fixed period of ti. I don't know what you are talking about but if you want to know about their plans for now, I can tell you."
"Useless?!!" hearing her selecting such a word about her ability forced to bitterly smile. Since when was the power to see the future bad? Especially the future related to your enemies?
Knowing anything hidden from you was a power of god, true and mighty god! "So you can tell what they are planning for now and later on?" I asked before adding, "will your ability work on things they'll do in a month from now?"
"Month? That's ridiculous!" she furrowed her brows before adding in a serious tone, "I can only see through things they'll do in one week. Yet again I have no total control over this ability, nor can I easily access it without paying a price."
"You beca weak after using it?"
"Not this point," she didn't deny it clearly but the next thing she said enlightened , "I have set of rules about this ability, can only pay with my stat points to use it."
"Your stat points aren't locked then?" This was against what Angelica told before.
"Angelica must have told you another misunderstanding of her. That girl… Tsk," she shook her head in disappointnt before adding, "I have the right to add points to my stats like you do. Yet I used all my stats before just to pry over the angels and know what they plan for and my other friends. So I ended up with zero stat at the start of the apocalypse. And you can understand how hard it is to get more stats in such a state."
Yeah, that might be hard for anyone to handle, but not girl!
"Take these," I took out a large number of stat points and gave them to her, "use them to add points to all your stats. We are currently waiting for the second quest to officially start, aning our limit is one hundred point per single stat."
"These…" her eyes glead with bright light before adding, "aren't these stats points? Damn! You are truly wealthy!"
Despite saying this, she was polite at all and even jumped to take my gift. I couldn't help myself from laughing. "Now I want to know what they are planning to do now and in the next week. Try to see things related to the heroic calling, or the realm gates."
"But…" she reluctantly looked at the stat points in her hands. I could understand the thinking of a beggar who finally found a paper of one hundred dollars on the side of the street.
"I have tons of these," I reassured her, "don't hold back."
"You aren't just bragging to impress , right?"
Girl, who did you think I was? Impressing you?! C'mon, you already were totally impressed by !
"Just do it," I hurried her, "we have not much ti to waste here."
During our little talk, I already gathered every warrior scattered around and were now moving in a big group towards the direction of the closest castle.
In the past hour that I spent inside that hospital, the jumper didn't stop sending info constantly to . I knew he was doing a great job already, so I had to do my part in taking control of these castles fast.
Thinking about it, the most dangerous person in the Jersey city next to here was already my lackey. There was nothing to prevent from expanding my dominion over there as well.
As she started to arrange herself to use the stat points, I also kept myself busy buying a few things I desperately needed.
I bought two items from the channel market, one for contacting my own channel personnel, and the other was to allow to exchange items with them.
These two items were vital and crucial for my next plans. As I finished using them, and before getting the chance to experint their usages, a bright light shone from the still Alex.
To make her use her ability we had to stop walking. We were still in the vicinity of the hospital region, with not a single castle around.
So monsters didn't appear yet. But that didn't prevent from scattering my forces again.
"I need to find an item that can allow to directly communicate with them from far," as I sent one quarter of the Bulltors around to act as scouts, I thought about this stressing issue.
Yet when I scanned the market, I found nothing like I wanted. It seed I needed more privileges to get such an item.
As she started to use her ability, I stood on the side watching and guarding with much anticipation.
To use her ability, she had to sit on the ground, close her eyes, and perform many hand seals constantly.
From her hands bright white light appeared first as long wisps of weaving threads. In my eyes, she looked like she was weaving a cloth or breaking one down.
She stayed in such a state for a long ten minutes. Just after ten minutes, she suddenly opened her eyes and they were all white, scaring the sh*t of !
Damn girl! Did you want to lose the ability to have kids or what?
"Angels are working for their top plan, setting it into motion step by step," a deep and strange voice appeared like it ca from the depth of her abdon. I blinked for a mont before I realised sothing.
This was her way to use her ability. Could she recall what she was saying just now? Or she wouldn't?
If she couldn't then it ant her ability was limited. Soone must be with her whenever she uses her ability, soone honest and trustworthy.
Aside from myself, I didn't feel anyone else was suited for such a task. But taking her with all around was like being her babysitter.
"Oh, I can always use my channel privilege for that!" a realisation hit at this mont. Yeah, I could simply observe her whenever she perford this ability.
So even if we were separated by lands apart, I could still watch her using her ability and listen to everything she said.
"They are now trying to push for sothing big. A rge is coming, one way or another. They aren't only using one thod for it. One short path and one longer are being sent into motion. A direct path of quest is starting, and if it fails, a longer gate of the realms path is being prepared for."
Gate of the realms? This was sothing related to the heroic calling I knew about!
All the realms could be rged using different thods. One simple direction was by the use of the quest and the support of the system.
But what if it failed? Then there was another way, using the total opposite of what they used in the first path; points of weaknesses in the system.
Each realm had many gates securing the path for it. It was rumoured that the system was able to bring worlds apart together thanks to its control over these gates.
If the angels reached these gates and secured them, they could easily smuggle forces from any realm to another.
It wouldn't be a large-scale rge by the support of the system, but this would end up with the sa result.
Our human world would be subrged under deadly waves of attacks from other races. Damn! Even if I managed to stop them here, danger still lurked at the corner.
However after I cald myself, I realised sothing else. "Having few groups of races scattered around the world isn't as bad as opening the gates of hell directly upon us!"
Yeah, this might be selecting the frying pan rather than jumping off it. Yet it wasn't that bad. After all humans weren't void of heroes.
"The gates of the realms issued their list of missions. Completing any of it would allow anyone the privilege to control one gate for one day," she gasped for breath like she was on the verge of dying before coughing out a large amount of blood.
Her face turned instantly pale. Yet I didn't intervene to stop her.
She was just about to tell what I wanted to know.
C'mon girl, just hang a little more in there. You could do it!
But my hopes were crushed the next instant when she started to convulse like crazy. At this point I had to act and imdiately shook her body firmly to snap her out of this.
"Cough… Cough…!" she kept coughing and sneezing, but the seizure was stopped. I didn't know what to do but to search the market for a healing potion and gave it to her.
In the next five minutes she started to get better. Her cheeks regained the rosy colour and her lips parted away from the blueness they had.
"What happened?" I asked with worry.
"Told you," she bitterly smiled, "this ability cos with a price."
Damn! I thought she might be weak, but not to reach such a miserable state!
"It seems what you wanted to know is tightly guarded by those bastards," as she got better, she stood by the help of my arm and cursed the angels. "I felt like I was dying. Thanks for helping there."
"No problem." I paused before asking, "is it the weakness of the body or the soul?"
If it was the body, then I might have a solution for that. Once she stepped on the path of cultivation, gained the support of the gods, she would be more secured.
But if it was the weakness of the soul, then there was no cure for that.. People either had strong souls from the start or fragile one.
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