Chapter 144:
Holding
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Meanwhile, nearby the city.
The barrier that placed Vincent to hide him and Emily had disappeared and he walked out… alone.
He made another black-red-colored robe for himself before dispersing the barrier.
'That cheeky wife of mine is quite… wild,' said in his mind, Vincent, as he remembered how he just 'purified' his almost sex-crazed wife, named Emily.
He looked up and deeply inhaled the winter breeze as his "ACA" spread on all sides.
"It's already dark… I guess it's time for our first short date," he quickly found Annie, Skylar, and Selena who were calmly chatting a few dozen meters away from him between trees.
He smiled slightly before bending his knees and jumping.
*Boom*
The ground slightly cracked as he jumped dozens of meters high with the support of a Wind element in the direction of his women.
His long-white hair beautifully danced in the wind as he crossed a few tall trees before landing right near the trio.
*Thud~*
His landing scattered the nearby snow and made the girls' hearts' slightly jump from this sudden event.
"Vincent. Since you are here, I can assume that Emily is satisfied, huh? Where is she?" said Annie with a smile as she stood up and walked towards him.
"She is sleeping in her room on the 4th floor since she fainted in the process," answered Vincent calmly.
"Fainted, huh. Are you going to make me faint too?" said Annie seductively as she bit her lower lip before touching his face.
"I will try, but…" Vincent suddenly stopped as his eyes slightly twitched before he continued, "... a bit later."
"Dear, are you not feeling good?" asked Skylar worriedly as she and Selena arrived near him.
While Vincent was with Emily, they both became a bit closer with Annie as they chatted on various topics, but mostly about themselves.
"Vincent, what's wrong, please tell us," added Selena as she grabbed his hand.
Vincent's gaze moved to look at the sky before his figure slightly trembled and showed that he was about to faint.
"V-Vincent…?" asked an already scared Annie.
"M-move aside, n-now!" uttered Vincent and quickly closed his mouth and bent down.
*Vomit*
He moved his hand away and began to vomit black-colored blood that began to slowly corrode the ground.
The ants' toxin damaged his insides quite enough to make him feel fucking horrible.
When he thought it had stopped…
*Vomit*
He threw up once again, but now even stronger as he was forced to fall on his left knee.
The girls were shocked silly as fear of losing him suddenly emerged in their hearts. They knew that he would not die, but seeing him like this because he saved them by taking that toxin to himself made them feel terrible and useless. Especially Annie and Selena.
"Husband, I-I will h-heal you right away!!" said Annie with a trembling voice as she arrived behind him.
Vincent stopped puking and then raised his right hand as if saying to them to stop panicking.
He wiped his lips which were covered in black-red liquid before cleaning his mouth and hands with Water.
"Calm down, It's just "black corrosive ant's" toxin. Even though it could kill any other mage of 3rd rank, to me it's not too dangerous, but such scenes as this will occur time at a time before my body adapts to this toxin and slowly raises its resistance to it. Only then these scenes will not appear anymore, so please, don't get worried too much. I'm fine and will not lie to any of you, okay?" Explained Vincent after he stood up and looked at them calmly with a smile as he always does.
Annie's eyes became wet before she tightly hugged him from the front and she placed her face on his heart.
*Ba-dump~* *Ba-dump~*
His calm heartbeat always managed to calm her heart every time she got worried for him.
Vincent didn't feel any lust from her hug, but only pure love as he gently caressed her silky blue hair with his right hand while the other one was on her waist.
Then, he looked at Skylar and Selena's slightly wet eyes.
"Don't be shy and come here. I'm not made of paper so your hug will not break me or something, you know? Aren't we fam-?" said Vincent, but before he ended the sentence, Selena immediately hugged him on the free side from the left while Skylar did the same on his back.
Three beauties of different figures tightly hugged him from each side, pressing their big and not-so chests onto him.
He looked at them while they looked at him in response with worried, but loving gazes.
Selena felt his big hand slowly moving on her back and her heartbeat rose up, just like Skylar's.
"I'm such a lucky man, do I?" asked Vincent with a smile as he caressed them.
"Yes you are, so don't dare to betray me, us, you hear it, or I will kill you…" said Annie as she gazed into his crimson eyes.
Vincent's brows rise up slightly at her words.
"But could you?" teased her, Vincent, and then felt how she tapped her foot on his as if responding to his words.
"I will find a way, foolish husband…" said Annie angrily.
Vincent bent down a bit and kissed her forehead before saying.
"If such a day will really arrive, which I very, very doubtful of, then it will be no me anymore. In that case, be sure to kill me as gruesomely as possible, okay?"
The trio looked at him weirdly.
"Why do you want to die after it? There are so many men and women that are living carefree lives after betraying his/her loved ones," asked Skylar as the right side of her face was on his back.
Vincent shook his head and answered.
"They already lost any morals and principles in their lives, and to me becoming a lowly scum like them is an ending that might be even worse than death. If I break one promise that I gave you all, then I will surely break the second one, then the 3rd one, and so on. I will not be myself anymore and just become another lowly-" Vincent abruptly stopped as he almost mentioned previous travelers that were sent here by that chaos race member, "Zarack".
He didn't know for sure that those travelers became like that, but he was sure that they break their promises given to " Zarack" after he blessed them with the power that he was holding.
After all, if they had succeeded in their mission to reach the 10th rank then he would not be brought here, or at least didn't meet with "Zarack" and would be without any memories of past lives from the start, living a life of a normal average human.
Of course, only if by some coincidence, his soul would still end up arriving on this SkyWorld planet after his and Alina's suicide.
Just this was enough for him to disdain their lives. It doesn't matter what their situation was that forced them to abandon their mission.
To Vincent, they were… just big and juicy nourishment for his elemental and body cultivation.
He really wants to rip their hearts, and spines and then swallow the part of their massive quality of "CSF" and "WE" they had gathered by hundreds, if not thousands of years.