Jason had returned and judging from his control over the crows, he must have honed his skills to a fine degree because no one else could explain what was happening.
But for so reason, it looks like Jason predicted everything Chronos had anticipated or he wouldn’t be a step ahead.
He knew Clentine was captured yet didn’t rush to save her. Instead, he chose to communicate it with Sam, who had a lower chance of saving her.
There was no way that Sam could defeat the current creatures surrounding Chronos so was Jason setting up?
It was assud that the Nexus was Jason’s special ability that he had awoken but that wasn’t the case.
[[What do you wish to do now, Jason?]]
Chronos questioned him but Jason, who had ripped open the corpse of the zombies he had just slaughtered to consu the fragnts within them.
"It is ti, the conditions have been t," Jason responded, the look on his deford face inexpressive.
[[Are you sure you want to do it?]]
Chronos questioned his host but Jason chuckled at the ridiculousness of the question.
"I can see it all, Chronos. I have seen how it all ends..." Jason muttered with his hand over his eye.
But the mont he removed his hand, his eyes took the colour of a purple glow with his iris taking on a cross-shaped form.
"I know the future..." Jason muttered under his breath and this ironically made sense considering the na, Chronos, was the god of ti.
And if Jason had sohow gotten the ability to see the future then there was no telling what could have happened or if the events he could see were limited.
Or if he was speaking taphorically, that was to be seen but Jason was no longer hiding.
He has made his reergence known and Chronos has no control of him anymore.
Jason cracked his neck but his eyes reverted to normal.
"It is here..." Jason muttered under his breath, the thing about this unfounded ability was that Chronos couldn’t see what he saw, the ability itself restricted Chronos’ from sharing the sa mind with Jason despite Jason having access to his.
And sothing huge ca out of the bushes and Jason instantly turned around to see sothing that no one had encountered previously before.
It was a bloated zombie but there was sothing off about it because it looked to be self-aware.
Jason noticed that it had co with these horsen but it was clearly stronger than them.
"You’re the controller," Jason muttered as he pointed his sword towards it.
The zombie imdiately opened its mouth and fired out a strange-coloured fluid in a jet-like manner.
It rushed out like a compressed hose, lting anything in its path but Jason rolled out of the way as it narrowly missed him.
Jason tried to charge towards it but the zombie stomped the ground so hard, that a rock flew into the air and it punched it, sending it flying towards Jason.
The speed it tore through the air was akin to a bullet, it would burrow through his skin if he didn’t avoid it.
Jason’s speed was unreal but the zombie never for once stopped releasing that strange liquid in its stomach, Jason knew it wouldn’t have the ability to keep up in close-range combat and that was why it was keeping him at a range.
But it underestimated Jason, Jason was unlike anything it had encountered and with a single motion of his hand, his sword escaped its fingertips, impaling the zombie in the neck and in the blink of an eye.
Appeared right in front of the zombie, pulling the sword out of its neck and prompting the acidic substance to spill all over itself/
The knees buckled and dropped to the ground, kneeling right in front of Jason.
"You fail to realize, Chronos... I am beyond your comprehension..." Jason said, looking right at the zombie-like it acted as a dium to communicate with the original variant of Chronos and he was right.
Without speaking another word, he crushed the skull of the zombie, killing it.
Jason wasn’t sure why this zombie was here but it would have made a lot more sense if it attacked with the horsen as they would have stood a higher chance at success except the horsen weren’t even aware that it was within their ranks.
That would make far more sense but Jason had killed all the zombies that could potentially prove to be a threat.
"It is all up to you now..." Jason muttered before consuming the fragnt within his grasp.
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Bella was with the Specters but there was only one man there, he sat there with her waiting for the others to arrive but for so reason, they never did.
This prompted Bella to wonder who called the eting in the first place but it wasn’t the man seated here.
"Sothing is strange..." The man muttered, speaking words that Bella couldn’t utter.
He was the one that held this settlent so he didn’t need to travel, the others were the ones that were supposed to co et him here but they were nowhere to be seen.
"He is never late..." The man noticed sothing was different. No, sothing was off.
This was unlike their leader and that could only an one thing.
"They are dead..." He muttered under his breath, the Specters were complacent with a lot of things but one thing they always took seriously was these gatherings.
They did so religiously, never once being late or taking anything for granted.
"What?" Bella asked, confused and deeming this a rather extre verdict.
"He predicted this... This was why this eting was called, to discuss his finding..." The dark-skinned man said before sitting back down.
Bella was surprised by how calm he sounded despite having just told her that the Specters might have been killed off.
"What do you an?"Bella asked, realizing she was the only one not being kept in the loop.
"There has been a strange appearance of rocks that appeared out of nowhere, all the Specters have reported seeing sothing similar in their various settlents..." The man said and Bella’s jaw dropped.
"It seems like you know what I am talking about... We have deduced that these things appear close enough to populous areas to suck out the life from these settlents," The man said in the calst voice known to humanity.
Bella was surprised by his composure but she was also surprised why there were so few people here.
"What do you an suck it out?" Bella questioned this statent.
"Because that is how the other Specters fell. They couldn’t reach out to us in ti and he decided to see what would happen," The man said.
"What the hell...? Are you saying he is dead? How can you be so sure!?" Bella barked and the man simply looked at her, his expression not even faltering for a second as he said.
"Because I am next..." The man said and this made Bella go into full panic mood as her eyes scanned the area for any threat.
"Relax, the fragnt appeared but I don’t know what happened... It seems to be erratic and has grown a lot faster... I thought I would have more ti," The man said, revealing a wound around his wrist but unlike the common trend with infected individuals because it was glowing pink.
"What is this?" Bella questioned but he was uncertain.
"I do not know, I was fine this morning but it appeared out of the blue. All I did was make contact with it," The man said and Bella realized that this would have been her fate if she touched the glowing fragnt.
"I am afraid that this might be the fate of the other Specters but it looks like you were smarter than us," The man pointed out.
This was a lot for Bella to digest but it all made sense to an extent.
However, this would have been her fate if she touched the fragnt but if this happened, why was a eting? Potentially putting them all in danger?
It was clear that they didn’t take into consideration the effect of the fragnts but who could have guessed sothing like this happening?
"I need you to stay here and watch what happens to , " The man said, prompting Bella to move her chair further away from him because if these fragnts did what he said they did then she was glad that she destroyed it.
Otherwise, there was no telling if her community would have survived but in reality, her saving grace was that it was in a cave.
If it was out in the open, it would have grown beyond that as there was now it wouldn’t co into contact with any living thing to strengthen in.
"And if I turn to one of them, put a bullet through my head. I don’t know how lucid I will be so here." The man said, handing her a handwritten note.
"Those are the words I will say to you to tell you it is still in here. If I do not say them, kill ," This was strange, it was planned.
This wasn’t sothing he did on the spot and Bella finally realized.
"He wasn’t the one that called here, was he, you were?" Bella asked to which the man nodded.
"That is right, everyone else is dead and I do not know the whereabouts of the one who leads us, I hoped this eting would bring him here but his absence only confird one thing." He said and Bella realized that they were on the brink of doom but she agreed to help him as she too had never seen anything like this before. Little did they know, this was the beginning of the end.
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A/N: Tying up plot holes is a major pain in the ass.
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