By the time Zhu Jianyu tracked the footprints back to the village, no one was there. Most of the houses were burned down or on fire. Dead villagers were everywhere. Zhu Jianyu felt sick to his stomach. He looked at Klaus to see what he thought had happened.
"I-the village must have been attacked by raiders, like the orcs or something..." Klaus said in a monotone voice. Zhu Jianyu continued using his ability to track the footprints of their friends. It would be easy to find where they were with it.
"Oh, I forgot I could do this" Persephone said through the system. Zhu Jianyu jumped at the sound of her voice. It had been weeks since she had used the system to contact him directly.
"We are being taken to some sort of camp, everyone is here except Kimikori, he was still in the village last time we saw him." She said.
Zhu Jianyu's grew increasingly worried. He looked around and didn't see anyone, not alive at least. He tracked his footprints coming into the village and found that it ended at the well in the center of town. He was scared to look in. He peeked his head in, expecting to see the worst.
"Bruh get me out of here." Kimikori yelled from the bottom of the well.
Klaus jumped over the edge and slid down the wall of the well. It took almost no time at all for him to reach Kimikori. K noticed blood dripping down Kimikori's head and arm. It seemed as if he had taken a lot of damage before they had rescued him. He got on his back, and Klaus started climbing back up the walls of the well. He slowly scaled the wall inch by inch to bring his injured companion back up the well. Zhu Jianyu watched as they ascended, until he heard a creak in one of the houses nearby. Intreged by the sound, he made his way to the burnt down rubble of what once was a house. He started pushing and removing all the remains of the roof that collapsed on the rest of the house. Inside he saw it. A burnt body and a child.
"It seems that the person noticed that the roof was falling down during the raid, and went to protect the child..." Zhu Jianyu said as he moved the burnt body out the way. The child looked injured, and didn't seem to respond to anything he had said. Zhu Jianyu picked up the child and brought him outside. He walked to the well and saw that Kimikori and Klaus were almost back to the top. Zhu Jianyu looked down and jumped. He ran past Klaus and Kimikori as he jumped to the bottom of the well.
"Shiro? Is he suicidal? He'll never survive falling that fast!" Kimikori said as he watches him crash into the bottom.
Zhu Jianyu's legs collapsed as he fell onto the bottom. He scooped water into the poor child's mouth. No response. He continued to do anything he could to help the child. He started panicking until he remembered that his system could possibly help in this situation.
"How can I help this child not die." He thought. He scrolled through all of his abilities and spells that would come in handy in a time like this. Then he found one named "Soul Revive". Zhu Jianyu without skipping a beat pressed accept. A glowing red bar reading "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO USE THIS ABILITY?" popped up. Zhu Jianyu didn't care and he pressed accept again. His body started glowing brightly.
He felt light and it was surprisingly bright. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. Everything around him was white. The sky, the ground, everything was white. Zhu Jianyu had found his way back to The Void. He looked around and finally opened his mouth.
"Why am I back here?" Zhu Jianyu asked worryingly.
His answer was brought with silence. There was no reply. He waited and waited for someone or something to answer. What seemed like seconds of silence turned to minutes. After ten minutes Zhu Jianyu collapsed onto his knees.
'Am I stuck here..." he thought as he slowly gave up hope. 'No...my system...there has to be some sort of ability I can exploit to leave this realm...'
Zhu Jianyu opened the logs of his system and looked for anything useful. Most of the options he had picked in the past were gone. There was no "Fire Arena" option and no "Soul Revive" option. It was strange, all the options seemed to be slowly increasing. New options such as "∷ᒷᔑꖎᒲ ʖ∷ᒷᔑꖌᒷ∷" and "ᓭ𝙹⚍ꖎ ℸ ̣ ∷ᔑリᓭ⎓ᒷ∷" had appeared. Their options glowed a strange color. He went to select the second option when he realized that his hand was not like how it was before. Instead of the pale look of the hand he had before, his hand was now more tanned like it was when he was on Earth, back in his own body.
"Who are you?" a familiar voice said from behind him.
He turned around quickly, just to see the curly green hair and pointy ears that he was reborn with. He looked him up and down. It was strange, he had no clue how he was looking at his new body like this. He stepped forward expecting to hit a mirror, but instead felt the soft skin of the elf. The elf immediately smacked away Zhu Jianyu's hand.
"What are you doing?" he said as he backed up.
"I'm confused, you're in the body I was reborn with!" Zhu Jianyu said confusingly.
The elf looked at his arms and gasped. Pure joy was brought back to his expression, and he started to hop around in joy. This was interrupted by a sudden aura. Zhu Jianyu and the elf immediately fell to their knees. They looked up and saw a giant silhouette of a figure.
"I have called you to The Void for the final time. There has been a change of plans." The figure said.