Chapter 23: Adventure Together
"You felt that, right?" the boy asked the lady. The both of them had felt a burning on their marks the moment they passed by Jake. They immediately stopped when they felt that sensation.
"Aaron is out of town. He is the only one with a mark in this town, so that means there is someone new," she said. She turned around, but Jake had vanished from sight.
"Let’s go, we aren’t allowing that person to get away," she said and leaped onto a roof. She started running along the roofs at a crazy pace while the boy floated on a cloud of sand beside her.
"What do you think someone with a mark will be doing in this town?" the boy asked.
"What else do you think? Gathering resources. No one knows when the Hundred Trials will start, so all Chosen are going about gathering resources.
The fight doesn’t start when the trials begin—it started when you become a Chosen," she said. Her eyes darted around, looking for Jake. Finally, she spotted him coming out of an alley and getting into an inn.
"There he is," she said and leaped off the building, landing right outside the building.
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Inside the inn, Jake climbed up the stairs and got to his room.