CHAPTER 15 – A DAY OFF?
Here, I am finally taking my day off from everything.
Lying on the bed as you do nothing… "this is the real peace.", I buried my face in the pillow to avoid thinking anything, but I can't forget what I actually did yesterday.
After putting on a show, I make sure to see my way out as soon as possible. Rumors should already be circulating about my powers in the guild.
"Man, I wished I'd used my brain yesterday and let the hero handle it."
"I did warn you to not overdo it!", Cho – Hee enters the room as I was speaking to myself.
"Whatever, it's my day off today. I am not going to the guild today."
"Alright, we won't complain. I'll be going downstairs for some breakfast with others."
"Sure!", As I watched Cho – Hee leave the room, I realized when we came back to the inn yesterday. I avoided even going outside for a few minutes.
I know taking a day off won't help me in any way. Things will be pretty much the same when I will be going back to the guild tomorrow.
Sighs…
I really caused a lot of scenes. I fight off that damn monster almost soloed it and showed everyone how greater my power is compared to the hero. If I take any wrong step, this rumor might spread like wildfire in the whole empire.
It will be bad if the general public finds out that there is another person with the same strength as Hero.
Uh…. Why did I even try to help Hero and save the others? It's not like me to be sentimental or kind.
As I remember the scene where people were crushed and thrown away like some toys I can mutter only one thing, "It was stupid!"
Let's just take a deep breath and think with a straight mind. I am pretty sure things would've gone just perfectly even if I don't intervene and show off my powers.
Wish I can ease off my mind but here, I can't really sleep, heck I feel nothing even when I fight against all those monsters yesterday. It's almost scary to think that my body doesn't have any fatigue and shows any kind of problems or weekness.
Never mind, even if I go back to sleep. I will only see her again.
I ended up waking up from bed and walking toward the window.
"This cloudy weather with cool wind strokes is kind of refreshing at least.", When it finally started to rain. The cold-water droplets which hit my face, make my frustration go away.
I leaned towards the window facing my back at it. I decided to open the blue book I received from Gaia, A perfect weather to read books.
"INVENTORY"
"It's about time I also deal with this problem. I won't be able to avoid it for long anyway.", I clicked on the book icon in my inventory.
*woosh, The blue book appears in my hand.
"I wish, I'm not going to regret reading this as well.", As I opened the book, there was a title on the first page. 'A world abandoned by the gods.'
"What an interesting title. Am I going to read a fantasy book inside a fantasy world?",
Haha… doesn't that make the genre fantasy meaningless.
Anyway, as I flipped more pages the story goes on.
[There was the biggest empire in the world without magic. It was also used to be the most prosperous place in the entire world supported by both humans and gods. The Emperor of that place is also considered the kindest king of all time. Queen was also gentle and caring, The Heir was mature and wise just like the king. As everything was going well. There was an event that is unknown to everyone. Suddenly the world's biggest empire vanished from the world's surface like it never existed. The entire world went into chaos after the mysterious disappearance of the empire where some people were trying to take over the land and its resources.
War started to appear between humans throughout the globe as the blood bath begins. In the name of Land, Power, Money, Fame, Desire. The greed of every king and emperor of different nations started to grow even further as time passes.
Eventually, the world split into several parts where no one in this world can call their land peaceful. Despite all that, the war between nations doesn't stop. God has also forsaken this world at this point, and no one knows what happened to the world where war was at its peak.
Some say, after the war, they realized the pain and suffering and made a peace treaty. Now they made several achievements in science and technology.
Whereas some say, the world is in a better place as humans ended up killing each other and ended up with the extinction of mankind.
But one thing is for sure, God never came back to look again and no one knows what really happened.
THE END.]
"That's it? The thickness of the book doesn't really satisfy the story itself. Why are the rest of the pages left blank? "
As I keep flipping the pages of the book. At last, in the bottom left corner of very last page, there was a name written.
[– Gaia.]
"So, this entire book is written by Gaia herself? then, what does she mean when she told me I will find my answers here?"
I don't think Gaia gave me the wrong book, but I don't really understand what she wanted to tell me with this weird story as well.
"She is the weirdest one out there, and here I was thinking that I might find a clue of going back home.", I put the book back in the inventory, and all of a sudden I heard some noise from downstairs.
"What's happening downstairs? A party in the middle of the day?"
"Hey, who's making all these noi…", As I walked downstairs the entire lobby of the Inn was in shambles. All furniture's broken, Bottles and Plates smashed with foods still in them.
Near the broken counter, I saw Innkeeper lying down, I quickly rushed towards her.
"Ms. Mia! Are you conscious? Please talk to me, tell me what happened here."
As she was barely conscious, she pointed toward the door and speaks, "Y-your friend… *cough – cough … the hero..."
What? The hero?
Suddenly hearing those words, my mind went blank. It's almost as if it's stopped working and moved on one single track…
I helped Ms. Mia to her room and asked someone to take care of her. After taking care of this, I walked out of the Inn.
As I keep on walking in this heavy rain towards the imperial palace, I had already lost my mind and can think only one thing.
"I'M COMING TO FIND YOU, HERO."