Chapter 489: Gone
“That’s it?” Derek stared at the spot that Alanah had just been standing. Everything was so… smooth. One second, she was there, and the next, she was gone—only accompanied by a very short flash of light. There wasn’t even as much fanfare in what just occurred as there was when entering any dungeon. “I… was expecting more,” he said.
“As was I,” Avery stepped forward and looked to the same place as Derek was. Then, he turned his head and whispered in Derek’s ear, “It seems like you have a lot to prepare for, so when you next meet her, you’re ready.”
“That does seem to be the case, doesn’t it?” Derek replied as he reached up to touch his cheek. The small peck on the cheek and the words that Alanah had told him didn’t really catch him by surprise. The time he spent with the siren had been very fun, after all. If nothing else, he now had even more of a reason to figure out a way to the woman. “Actually…” he muttered, then turned back to look at everyone. “You all stand back.”
Everyone nodded, and Avery also took a few steps back. Moments later, Derek activated Void Travel and stepped into the portal to the void when it appeared. Silvi, too, hopped up to his shoulder and went inside. Derek pushed his Void Sense as much as he could and searched for Alanah. Her aura was one of the bigger ones that’d he had ever seen, so if he could find anyone, it would be her.
To his dismay, as he pushed and pushed, he was never able to totally locate her. It was like he was on the verge of being able to feel the woman, but he just couldn’t quite do it. Still, just that fact that he managed to feel anything while looking for her gave him hope. I just need to get stronger is all, he thought. Eventually, I know that I’ll be able to move to her. It will just take some time. I hope everything goes well on her end.
“Do you feel anything?” Derek asked Silvi.
“Nope,” Silvi replied. “Restaurant lady is gone. No trace left. Maybe she’ll make more restaurants wherever she went. Very good at making restaurants and food.” It seemed that because Silvi only shared Derek’s Void Sense with him, and she could only have it at level ten, she couldn’t even feel the sensation that Alanah was still out there like Derek could.
“Yeah,” Derek chuckled. “She is pretty good at doing all that, isn’t she?”
Finally, while Derek was still inside his portal and he wasn’t in any kind of rush anymore, he began searching for others who were far away. First, he thought about Silvi Jaccobs and pushed his Void Sense to its limits. He wasn’t overly familiar with her aura, as he didn’t have the senses back when he left Earth as he did now, but he was still able to see and feel her faint aura.