BXBX NOVEL Chapter 247: Monastery in the South
Chapter 247: Monastery in the South
In the ruined remains of the Holy Room, Adam carried Lady Yu on his arms.
She was slightly injured with a few scratches on her legs, but nothing too severe.
"W-what happened?" She looked to the destroyed ceiling, which had collapsed in a cloud of dust and rubble.
"Time to find out."
Adam said, unfurled his wings, and flew straight through the crumbled ceiling with Lady Yu in his arms.
While four of his wings kept him float, the other four cut through the ground above him, clearing a path for them.
Soon enough, they smashed through the final layer of the ground and appeared outside.
However, they were immediately engulfed in a black cloud of smoke and ash. It was impossible to breathe.
Without stopping his flight, Adam flew straight up and exited the black smoke from top.
Both of them then turned to look down and saw a shocking sight.
The city was gone, with a massive black cloud covering it all.
The cathedral was gone.
The Royal Palace was gone.
The roads were gone.
It was all just a burned, barren wasteland.
"Oh my god." Lady Yu covered her mouth in shock.
With fear in her face, she turned to look towards the place where the monastery should\'ve stood, but like everything else, it was also gone.
It made her tear up, and she hoped that everyone got out safely as they were basically her family.
\'The hell is this?\' Adam frowned. \'Nothing like this happened in my past life. Imperium City is gone? That\'s crazy.\'
This meant that he had somehow changed the future, but he didn\'t understand how he could\'ve changed something so drastically.
"Do you think everyone is dead?" Lady Yu asked.
"No." Adam looked over to the horizon and narrowed his eyes. "I sense auras leaving this place-millions of them."
"I see..." Lady Yu said. "My home\'s gone..."
She felt quite lost and didn\'t know what to do next.
"Do you have any place to go?" Adam asked.
"There is..." Lady Yu looked to the south. "A monastery on top of Mt. Laojun."
"I\'ll take you there." Adam\'s wings unfurled, and he started flying straight towards it.
Luckily for him, he knew where it was since he had visited that place before.
Lady Yu wrapped her arms around his neck to not accidentally fall, and together they soared towards the monastery on top of Mt. Laojun in the south.
When they were flying across the land, they saw roads lining up people, heading away from the Imperium City. Most of them were Originals.
It was a sad sight.
"What will all of them do?" she asked. "They all lost their home, like I did..."
"I am sure they\'ll find a place to live." Adam said. "This world has ways of helping Originals in need."
"Mm..." Lady Yu mumbled and asked. "What do you think about my identity as Original?" "What about it?" Adam asked back.
"You don\'t think that..." She paused for a moment before saying. "I am not real?"
"What is real?" Adam looked into her beautiful face. "What if I am not real? Y\'know all about
the Other World, but what if that is not real?"
"I... never thought about that." She frowned.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Then don\'t." Adam said. "I don\'t care about you being Original or whatever. You look goddamn real to me."
Her eyes widened in surprise, and then she smiled softly.
With the wings, they soared over rivers, forests, and green fields of flowers. It was strangely comforting, feeling the wind in her hair and the warmth of the sun on her face.
After hours of flying, they saw the mountain looming in the distance, its peak cutting through the cloud layer like a knife. It was a sight that took her breath away.
Adam started flying higher and higher until he finally caught sight of the monastery on the mountain\'s peak. It was shrouded in a mist and seemed almost magical in its isolation.
He flew over the monastery\'s walls, and the monks and nuns who were spending some time in the courtyard looked over towards the unexpected visitors.
After landing on the courtyard, Adam lowered her to the ground, and she looked around the monastery\'s gardens with a smile.
A couple of nuns recognized her and welcomed her warmly.
She was, after all, Holy Priestess, and they were allowed in any monastery.
Monks looked over to Lady Yu, and she felt slightly sick as her stomach churned, but it
actually wasn\'t that bad.
The Curse of Men didn\'t act as strongly when the man who looked at her didn\'t feel lust or any sort of attraction.
That\'s why her two guards were Kyle and Kanari, who didn\'t feel anything towards her, but she still couldn\'t be in the same room as the two of them for too long.
"Priestess Yu, what a pleasant surprise." The monastery\'s head priest, Father Zhang, greeted her with a warm smile.
He didn\'t expect her to come so suddenly.
"Father Zhang." Lady Yu did a womanly curtsy, and smiled warmly. "I am sorry for my sudden
appearance."
"That\'s fine. Is everything alright?" He asked.
"No, it\'s not." She shook her head. "Imperium City is gone."
"Gone?" Father Zhang looked shocked.
The courtyard turned silent as no one knew how to react.
It wasn\'t just a small surprise. It was shocking.
The capital city of the New World was gone!
"What about our brothers and sisters?" Father Zhang asked in a serious tone. "Did they
manage to leave the city?"
"I don\'t know." Lady Yu said, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Alright..." Father Zhang looked at the head nun and said, "Catherina, may you take her to her
quarters?"
"Right away, father." Catherina smiled at Lady Yu and beckoned her to follow her.
Lady Yu turned over to Adam, and to many people\'s surprise, she grabbed his hand and asked.
"What will you do?"
They were shocked because they knew about her Curse of Men, but now she was willingly touching a man, and they looked very intimate while doing so.
"I have a plan in my mind."
"To the war?" she asked worryingly.
"Actually, no." Adam shook his head. "This incident changed my plans. It\'ll take a couple of
months before any faction is ready to enter the battlefield again. They need to arrange their
ranks, etc."
"Then, what will you do?"
"I\'ll go to the dungeon." Adam said. "To do the final push."
"Final push..?"
"This holy ceremony increased my strength by a great amount. However, it is not enough. I
plan on grinding and try to reach level 25 before I am needed in the war."
"Oh..." She didn\'t understand some of the terms, but she nodded nevertheless.
Adam planted a kiss on her cheek, which caused many people in the courtyard to gasp.
They thought that was enough for her Curse of Men to activate.
However, instead, she was just smiling happily with a blushed cheek and gave him a farewell
wave.
With his wings carrying him away, Adam flew over the monastery\'s walls and headed straight to the entrance of the dungeon on the buried Imperium City.
He wanted to reach level 25 because that was the moment when he would officially become "Royal Mercenary" and the game would calculate his current strength again.
It was a level when a player\'s strength changes significantly.
If the game determined he was Prime Mercenary level of strength, his level would increase to
match his current strength.
After reaching level 25, he might reach the same strength as his previous self was!
Thus, he was extremely excited to start grinding levels, and he planned to start doing so from
a pretty high floor.
50th floor!