Chapter 446: Not the time for jokes
Kellen shifted when he heard the door open, and felt that it was Rhys entering the room long before the hand landed on his waist.
"How is it?" Rhys’ voice was low, his chin brushing Kellen’s shoulder as he leaned in. Kellen sighed.
"Awful." Kellen admitted and Rhys let out a dry laugh.
You’re right there." Rhys agreed, wrapping his hand more firmly around Kellen’s waist and Kellen appreciated the comfort.
"Were you able to get any more information?" Kellen asked and Rhys made a grumbling noise.
"Not anything I think is useful. I can probably say that the monster attack is over. They fled when the gate exploded." Rhys said and Kellen exhaled slowly. He didn’t really agree with what Rhys said, and Rhys could tell. "What? Did you?" Rhys asked, and Kellen turned his head, meeting his gaze.
"No. I didn’t. But what I saw in the recordings didn’t look like a gate explosion. Especially not of a poison gate." Kellen told him calmly. He hoped that he at least sounded calm, because he didn’t feel it. Casper had found a chair and was sitting down in it while he typed on his phone.
"You didn’t mention that to me." Casper said, glancing up at the couple. Kellen winced.
"Sorry. I think I meant to, but I just..." Casper grunted. He didn’t look offended, he didn’t even sound upset. He sounded distracted. Like he had just said what came to his mind as he was working.
"It’s alright Kellen. I’m not upset. What do you mean it doesn’t look like a gate explosion?" He asked and Kellen nodded, trying to hype himself up to speak about it. This felt so much like the time he had to explain about poison gates before, in Uncle Tom’s office ages ago.
"Well...we don’t have a lot of information on poison gates, but most gates don’t become a suction cup when a gate explodes. They normally explode outwards, with monsters and creatures coming out. We...I didn’t see any of that happening when the poison gate exploded. That, and we have the D Class gate as a reference. We kind of know how warped the surroundings get when a gate of that level explodes. We would already know if the poison was spreading this way." Kellen said.