"Am I dreaming, I see you lying beside me. Right now, you look so innocent like a countryside girl. People will call me crazy and never believe me if I tell them you are the same girl who tried to kill me."
"But...… can I myself believe that."
"you're a devil when you're awake but you look like a child when you're asleep. I wonder what made you like this, I wonder what our actual relationship is, I wonder why does your life belongs to me.
She moved very close towards him, so close that their lips almost touched and cuddled with him.
He was surprised from this sudden action but he didn't move her away neither did he move away from her. Slowly, the awkwardness started to disappear from his face, he calmed himself down and gazed at her with the melo eyes. Something about her was drawing him towards her.
He was looking at her without any thoughts in his mind, it was as if he just wanted to think about her. That's when he noticed, beads of perspiration appeared on her forehead, tears started oozing out from her eyes. She came more closer and grabbed him as if she needed him.
Her body started to shiver and she was crying her heart out asking not to leave her alone, not to die.
Aurel held her in his arms and whispered softly, "Don't cry, I'll never leave you alone, I'll be with you. Don't worry, everything will be fine."
The warmth of his cuddle slowly brought her unstable body back to normal. He caressed on her back and ran his fingers through her soft and silky hairs. She was still crying but her body was slowly becoming normal, she was not shivering like before. The pain in her voice said it all. He could tell that something very horrible had happened to her.
"Both of you, what are you doing right nowwwwwwwww...." A loud voice woke both of them up. Looking at Aurel so close to her, she pushed him without thinking for a second. She pushed him so hard that he almost dislocated his rib cage.
Both of them quickly stood up and saw that Alex, Kris and Irene were standing and looking at them in a daze. Scarlett glared at Aurel but noticed that her eyes were full of tears, she quickly realized she had been crying throughout from the nightmare.
Aurel got up unable to move his fingers and his clothes covered with dust.
"Are you okay, I pushed you too hard," Scarlett asked wiping away her tears.
"Yeah, I'm okay."
"What happened to your clothes, why is it so dirty, did you play bull fighting last night."
"Oh, what are you talk.....," he looked at his clothes and realized that the last place he was in was a very weird place known as Ratpitt.
He had completely forgotten about that, he was unable to recall how he slept off by Scarlett's side when he was last present inside the 'Castle of Void.'
After hunting down the lizard dragons, he entered inside the castle. It was not dark as he expected, an unusual scene where the rocks were floating in the air as if they had no mass like a balloon filled with helium. No pillars supported the structure, no source of light, it was enclosed from all sides, still the whole place was dazzling with golden hue.
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"Process, what process and what green arena now. Oh Lord, how much do I need to fight."
He looked here and there to find a green arena but found nothing. He explored some more and at last he saw a neon green circle on the ground.
He walked up to it, but nothing happened, then a notification popped up-
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Before he could understand anything, his body started to grow stiff, veins popped out from each and every part of his body, his heartbeat grew up to 200% than a normal human being could ever handle.
His mind and body started becoming numb, his body elevated in the air and suddenly a dazzling green light emerged from his body. A very powerful windstorm ravaged his surroundings.
After a few minutes of this happenings, everything gradually came back to normal and he returned to his normal state. The windstorm was also nowhere to be seen.
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A series of notification appeared in front of him, but he was delighted at the notification which stated about the superhuman strength.
The new stats table appeared-
"Woah, it's like I'm in some kind of fictional world. Another tab which he never saw opened up."
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He was wondering about the skills and the stats table when his hand hit with a rock behind him, he felt an unbearable pain in his hands, he then remembered that he had broken his finger while fighting off the dragons.
"Awwwooo, instead of superhuman strength you should have given me the healing ability then I would have been more grateful."
He had not only broken his finger but also he had slight burns all over his body, but he noticed that he was feeling much better even with the injuries.
"Hey, which dreamland are you in, Hey, are you listening," Alex broke his trance by poking his shoulder.
He remembered everything except how he woke up beside Scarlett, he had no idea.
Everyone was intently staring at him for an answer.
Seeing this, he understood they needed an answer so he made up a rather illogical but confusing story that he was practicing with some unknown student and this way he was slightly injured and even broke his finger. After he finished practicing, he was too tired so he came inside his room and slept off anywhere without noticing her.
"Hey, you should have put on a cast if you have broken it, how could you sleep peacefully here. Come to the first aid room," Kris said raising his voice.
"Hmmm, Oh, first aid... hmmm,…. Yes, I was just about to go, hmm.
Aurel noticed a strange thing that nobody else noticed that Scarlett pushed him with so much strength but that didn't hurt him much. This meant that he had really gained some superhuman strength.