The frustration you get when you're searching for something, and can't find it is different from the one you get when you've found it but can't have it. The two are on a different level.
Devon looked at the ball then looked at the man on the ground, as he completely ignored the animal statue on his left and right side.
"Okay, I guess striding should do the work." Devon said, taking a step forward.
"Piuuuu, Piuuuuu, Piuuuuu."
A beam of energy shot out from where he placed his feet, "Ouch, that's hurt, what the hell is that!" Devon groaned and question the voice. He then sent celestial energy over to the place he got shot.
"The animal statue forms an entrapment formation around the room, but the formation won't only trap the contractor, it would obliterate him." After getting shot by the energy, the voice spoke to Devon.
Devon's eyes twitched as he heard the voice words, "Wait, what, why didn't you say something earlier! I could have died, dude."
The voice completely ignored Devon's words, it regarded it as him being childish. After thinking of ways to get past the formation, he finally found one.
"Voice, can I get 100 stones." After pondering how he was going to the entrapment formation, Devon's voice sounded.
"That would be 2 task points, Mr contractor!"
That 'Mr' didn't go unnoticed to Devon, as he knew the voice was mocking him, and it was doing a good job at it.
A bag of stones appeared in Devon's hand, he brought out 10 stones from the bag then threw them on the ground. Then the statue shot out the energy again from the ground. But if one should take a good look at it, one could see that the energy didn't destroy some stones. It didn't destroy two.
It continued like that till Devon finished the stone inside the bag, then he bought more from the voice. Furthermore, it continued till he had finally pinpointed all the safe places in the room.
Passing through the ground which the stone had pinpointed was extremely easy as it remained to him of one of the games he used to play back in the mortal World.
Devon was finally at the front of the pillar, just a step forward, and he would be able to get the celestial ball. He prepared himself for anything that could happen, and it did, but this time there was no shooting of energy, it was an arrow formed from celestial energy.
It wasn't any ordinary arrow, as the celestial energy present in the arrow was double that of the one earlier. The arrow aimed directly at Devon's chest, trying to end the battle in one move. But Devon came prepared also, as the celtic long sword was already in his hand.
He waved it at the incoming arrow, they clashed together, but the impact of the strike made him stumble several steps backward. Unlike a normal arrow, that would have broken after receiving the hit. This didn't, it flew back from the hit and came back attacking Devon once again, but this time it split Itself into two.
"Come on, I didn't sign up for this!" Devon shook his head.
It was like the arrows were telling him they also didn't sign up for this, cause both arrows rushed at him, one aiming at his chest area again and the other aimed for his abdomen.
Devon did a double backflip as he dodged both the arrow. He landed back on the ground as he raised the celtic long sword, pointing it at the arrows which were in midair. The sword shot out celestial energy at the arrows.
One of the things Devon learned during his training was energy shooting during his fight against Josh he found it cool, so he learned it.
"Shittt, these guys can dodge it also."
Devon cracked his knuckles and bounced up a little bit as he had already sent the celtic long sword away. He took a step forward but this time he didn't get shot by any beam of energy, he appeared at the front of the two arrows, grabbed them with his bare hands, and broke them.
"That was pretty easy." Devon returned the Celtic sword back to his storage ring.
And like any other time, the voice didn't miss out on the opportunity to mock Devon, "Once again, contractor could have ended the battle since the beginning, so they isn't anything to be proud of."
Devon shrugged his shoulder, he didn't deny the voice claim and he very much played around, "Hehehehehe, it won't kill to have a little bit of fun once in a while."
***
Here it was the moment we have all been waiting for. Devon was standing at the front of the pillar, the pillar wasn't too tall by the way, and on top of it was the celestial ball.
Devon sighed a deep breath, he reached out to grab the ball but as soon as he placed his hand on it attempting to grab it. He felt a repulsion force, that shooked his hands off it immediately.
"Hehehehehehehehehe!"
"What's funny." Devon rolled his eyes at the voice.
The voice had never cared about Devon's feeling, "Even a newborn child can hold a ball better than that."
That word did get to Devon, he bit his lips and clenched his fist. He grabbed it once again, but this time he cooled himself down. The ball began rotating faster trying to get away from his hand as it even started to produce violent energy around its body.
Like it was on self-defense mode.
Devon's hands were already bleeding from the violent energy the ball was producing all around. He channeled both of the energy present in his body, one through his left hand and the other one through his right hand.
..... And it did work as the ball began to cool down slowly and remained still, it wasn't rotating anymore.
"Voice, I have the ball in my hand already, why haven't I got my reward," Devon said. He hadn't heard any notification after getting hold of the celestial ball.
Devon looked confused as he wondered why the voice was counting numbers. And what made it weirder was it was counting it backward. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1....."
GBAN! GBAN! GBAN!
An alarm so loud that even a dead man would wake up to shut it off rang inside the room Devon was.
"Oh, oh, oh, that's not good."
The library guards were approaching, and they were not smiling. To them, that particular alarm could only mean one thing, someone had stolen the celestial ball and the funny thing was he or she didn't steal it at night it was during broad daylight wasn't that insulting.
"Remember, a good thief never gets caught."
The voice won't ever miss a chance to mock him.