“What is it?”
“Were you not able to tell?”
Concentrating his spiritual energy to his eyes, Alex could see in the dark. However, he noticed that their surroundings were eerily quiet, Jasmine’ s breathing just sounded slightly heavier than usual.
Luna had woken up too.
“Is something up?” Luna whispered and released her spiritual conscience, but it was to no avail.
Maiko replied. “I did in fact notice something staring at us, it had green eyes. But I couldn’t tell what it was, it just disappeared in an instant.”
“A demon?” Alex and Luna gasped. They gasped so loudly that they woke Jasmine up as well.
Since it was already uncomfortable to sleep in such a place, she started panicking as soon as she knew that some demon was watching them right now.
“Wait here, I’ll go look outside.” Alex stood up with the Seven Blades of Death in his hand.
Luna said, “I’ll follow you, else you wouldn’t have backup if it’s a strong opponent.”
Jasmine didn’t dare to stay here alone as well, her face was pale from fear. “I… I’d like to follow you too.”
In the end, the three of them surveyed the area for quite a while, along with the half ghost king at their side. Yet they couldn’t find any demons or beasts with green eyes.
Despite this, they were no longer in the mood to sleep.
“I don’t know why, but I keep feeling like something is preying on me in the dark.” Alex frowned. This was definitely not a pleasant feeling. It even managed to give him goosebumps since he couldn’t find the cause of this.
“Could it be… A ghost?” Jasmine asked.
“Did you think of something?” Luna asked.
“I heard that there’s a race called the dwarves back in the Stone Ages. Their average height is just around four feet tall. However, they seem to be born to become craftsmen, they could even make spiritual tools. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but just look at the structure of this city and the craftsmanship of that goddess statue. I don’t think anyone could just pop out a masterpiece like that.” Alex replied.
“Dwarves? Is there actually such a race in this world?” The two women were shocked.
“Could that entire race be suffering from Dwarf Disease?”
Since it still felt like they were being followed, Alex still felt uncomfortable staying in that house. Hence, he decided to leave this place and head to a cruder place within the city. With this, the feeling of being watched had finally vanished.
The next day, when dawn arrived, the three of them left the city and passed by the plaza with the statue, leaving through the large city gates.
Starting at the humongous entrance, Alex couldn’t help but exclaim. “These gates are just way too big!”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Pinnacle of Life