User blog:Baluar/Arc 3, chapter 10

This chapter will be posted by parts, due to its length, and to increase the drama. :D

Meanwhile… 

I am getting a little bit tired. Sure, becoming a God Eater does increase your stamina and strength, but Nia must weigh a good 90 kilograms. Carrying her is tiring me out. I guess if I only stopped for a second. I drop Nia delicately in the floor, and then fall exhausted myself, trying to grasp some air after moving Nia around for what’s probably been a couple of hours. Suddenly, I see Nia moving, which scares me out. I ask her:

-Nia… What’s going on? – She slowly turns around to see me.

Later, in the tunnels… 

I finish fighting the last wave of hellworms. While they are indeed dangerous creatures, my unnatural rage allows me to cut through them as if they were hot butter. The last one has ended up stabbed with Katy, then putting her in fire. That caused the being to explode – literally. After that, I can’t do anything but to wander around aimlessly through these tunnels, hoping to find… something.

While wandering around aimlessly, it was inevitable for me to come across a few hellworms. I reduced them to shreds with my gun before anything could happen.

Eventually, after hours of wandering around, I suddenly arrive to a huge tunnel. Worms are all over the place, and they do try to swarm me, but once I turn Katy’s flames on, they all get away.

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">-[Don’t do that too often, ok? It tickles.]

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">-[Whatever, lady.] – I turn off the flames, but the worms don’t come in close.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Then, I see the worms are ordered in military formations. That suddenly made me suspect. There’s someone controlling them. Suddenly, I hear footsteps behind me.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">-Rachel… seriously? You can clone yourself now?

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">-Rachel? – That voice? No way… – No, Baluar. I’m sure you recognize this voice.

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">-W-wha… how… this is impossible… Nia? – I turn around. It’s her.

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Somehow, she’s here. She’s changed her clothes for a dark purple dress. I had never seen her like that.

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">-No, my dear brother, it’s not impossible. I was behind this all along. Did you really think I was wounded? You could carve a path through my dear worms just as easily as you could cut through butter. I could have done the same thing. I was only hoping to draw you here and finish you off.

To be continued...