Chapter 94: Ch92. Pain as a teacher (16) - Hunted
The silence stretched around Miles like a noose. The corpse, no... The player lay at his feet, his armor still smoldering from whatever transformation had turned him into that... Thing.
The eerie fog curled around the body as if reluctant to let it go, whispering secrets in a language Miles couldn’t understand.
His breath came shallow. That could’ve been him.
No system notification. No experience, no reward. No acknowledgment from the game that he had just fought and killed something. Or rather, someone.
His fingers curled around his scythe’s handle, knuckles turning white.
"What the fuck is this place...?" He muttered under his breath, glancing toward the distant ruins.
More figures moved in the mist. Stumbling, twitching, groaning, but they hadn’t noticed him yet. That would not last long, though. He had to move.
Still, he hesitated.
Miles knelt beside the corpse, his fingers hovering over the armor’s insignia. A guild crest, even though he did not know which guild it was from. It was barely visible beneath the grime and corrosion, it was unmistakably a guild crest.
But there were no other guilds, other than Union and Sakura, right? Unless...
The words that The Archivist had said to Mara echoed in his mind like an omen.