Sigh... "This is what I get for opening my big mouth." Kai exclaimed to himself, as he was seeing a circle with nine tiny crosses, surrounding a smaller circle with four smaller crosses, in front of him and at the same time, a familiar panel appeared in front of him:
[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
A MINOR SLAVE SEAL IS BEING FORCEFULLY APPLIED. SINCE THE LEVEL OF THE SEAL IS LOW, THE USER CAN STOP THE SEAL FROM BEING APPLIED ON THE USER.
DUE TO THE USER'S RESISTANCE, THE DIFFICULTY HAS BEEN DECREASED, INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF TIME REQUIRED TO NULLIFY IT.
TIME LEFT: 000:00:06:00 --> 000:00:11:00]
"Talking about a rather complicated crest, but not impossible. Still, I need to be fast since even with the resistance, I only have a little bit of over 10 minutes." After exclaiming that, he slowly started to perform the same process, albeit with some difficulty, due to the fact that the crosses were smaller and the margin for error was bigger, as a result. After ten minutes, he completed the process and looked at the result screen:
[COUNTER SEAL DRAWING RATING: 86%
THE SLAVE SEAL SPELL HAS FAILED TO AFFECT THE USER. DUE TO THE HIGH RATING, THE CASTER WILL NOT BE AWARE OF THE SPELL FAILING.
DUE TO THE USER COUNTERING A MINOR LEVEL SEAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE USER WILL GAIN {+2 Dark Affinity} AND +1 LEVEL {Mind Resistance} THIS BONUS CAN NOT BE REWARDED AGAIN.]
After reading that panel, only then did he sigh with a relieved face and sat down. As he was sitting down, he kept staring at the white void in front of him, until a familiar creature appeared at the corner of his eye. The creature was the same black rabbit that had had eaten his nose instantly and as he was staring, the bunny seemed to be slowly moving away from him.
Kai was feeling a bit baffled by its behavior, but decided to not invite trouble and keep his thoughts to himself and sighed with relief. As he slowly got up, he saw that the rabbit was walking past him and it didn't take more than a couple of seconds for panic to quickly set in, as he jumped back with a fearful expression and remembered his last encounter with it.
As for the rabbit, it just ignored him and kept moving forward, as if he didn't exist in the first place and before long, it was at the same position that was standing before, when Kai had first noticed it and kept moving forward, similarly as before.
"What the..." Kai couldn't help but exclaim, as he was seeing the rabbit moving past him, disappearing behind, then reappearing behind him and repeating the whole process once again.
"Ok... I'll just let this beast do as wants, as long as it doesn't feed on my organs." Kai commented with a slightly nervous expression. After that, he kept staring at the rabbit, while thinking about his current situation and the people he could potentially trust. It wasn't before long that he had come to a conclusion and that conclusion was:
"Yeah... There's no way in hell I can trust anyone in this place. The other guys aren't even an option, since they are probably slaves under someone and they had failed to counter the seals at the time of our summoning. As for the king, the prince and princess and anyone who is part of their royal court or whatever, there's no way I can trust anyone as well, since anyone could be the slaver and exposing the fact that I'm not a slave, is practically a death sentence."
After coming to that conclusion, he couldn't help but kick the ground with a frustrated expression and start cursing like there was no tomorrow. After a while, he had finally calmed down and then looked at the bunny that kept moving forward and appearing behind him.
At this point, it had already done half a dozen loops of just moving forward and he had grown rather curious now and although he was feeling apprehensive, he still decided to grab the bull by the horns and if things go south, then accept the consequences and never do the same mistake three times.
Once the bunny appeared right behind him, Kai waited for a bit to pass him and then decided to follow the rabbit behind him. After walking for a bit and expecting it to disappear at any moment, the rabbit kept moving forward and before long, one of the steps he took, caused the ground to slowly dissolve into light petals, before following on everything around and over him, revealing the actual form for the scenery around him.
"Wow... I never would have expected this kind of scenery." Kai exclaimed awestruck, as he stared at the white rocky ground, the bright and starry sky and the three planets that were nearby. As for the planets, one of the planets resembled Earth, while other two were mostly white, with some gray circles on random places.
After staring for a whole minute, he then decided to look around, but he couldn't find the rabbit that he had followed.
"Where did it go?" Kai couldn't help but ask curiously as he looked around, but he knew that he wouldn't get any answers either way.
In the end, he decided to give up looking for it and check the area around for anything that could be interesting. Unfortunately, he didn't find anything, even after walking for what it felt to him like hours upon hours on end.
"Just what kind of place is this? Even for a dream, this is just too real. Also, what happened to the rabbit that I was following? Did it also turn into dust or something? Damn it, so many questions." Kai couldn't help but exclaim with a hint of frustration, but before he could make any more thoughts, a sword had suddenly pierced his chest from the back and it didn't take longer than ten seconds for everything to become red and then black.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH... HAH... HAH... HAH... No... No f*cking way that was real." Kai exclaimed with a panic-struck expression, as he was clutching his chest and remembering the horrible from getting his chest pierced.
"Hah... hah... Calm down, it was just a dream... It was just a nightmare. It was just that, nothing more, nothing bloody less." Kai told to himself, in an attempt to calm himself down, but after experiencing that, he wouldn't be able to calm down and wasn't even sure if he would be able to stay calm anymore. But there was one thing that he was absolutely sure of, and that was the fact that he wouldn't be having a good night's sleep, for a long time.