studiobondurri Chapter 166 Excitement
Chapter 166 Excitement
Excitement
Christopher saw it before he sensed it.
Rather, he didn't sense it. Despite looking straight at the... thing, his senses didn't pick it up at all.
On the fringes of the area that was illuminated by his lantern, a figure loomed ominously.
It seemed vaguely humanoid. 'Seemed' was used because the entity couldn't exactly be defined as it didn't seem to be there at all. In fact, Christopher was confident the entity wasn't humanoid at all, and the only reason he registered it as such was that his brain was trying to fill in the gaps and make sense of what he was looking at, despite the fact that his other senses didn't capture the entity in the first place.
Calling it unnerving was an understatement, and even Christopher had to drop his lax demeanor.
Not being able to detect an opponent and their abilities was enough to put one on guard. But the fact that even now, Christopher's senses couldn't detect the thing that was right in front of him wasn't exactly good for staying calm.
He had tried to scan the thing numerous times, but even with the lantern enhancing his senses, he detected nothing.
It was to the point that Christopher started to doubt his eyes and wondered if what he was seeing was an illusion conjured by the blizzard.
That would have made things so much easier, but the feeling of unease in his heart told him otherwise.
'And it's just standing there. And if it can completely evade my senses like this, then what if there are many more looming just beyond the reach of my lantern? What's their strength?' He narrowed his eyes. And that's when Christopher realized something that surprised him a little.
'I'm nervous.' The realization hit him like a truck.
The closest he had gotten to feeling nervous was when he fought the Void avatar and almost got his head sliced off. That and when he was put under the scrutiny of those powerful entities.
However, both times, he only ever felt inconvenienced, bordering nervousness, but he was never truly worried as he always felt like things would work out.
He was still confident, but to have his senses so truly eluded was unnerving to the point that he was genuinely nervous, which was something he hadn't felt since he reincarnated.
The realization sent a myriad of feelings through him.
Yet there was an emotion that burned brightest among his other emotions, to a degree that surprised him.
Excitement.
'... What...?' When he ascertained how he was feeling, his body felt like it was buzzing.
'This intensity... it's just like that time.' Christopher's mind returned to that time he had lost it and nearly blew up a continent because he was infuriated by the terror tarantula killing some people.
He smiled slightly and turned to the large windows. The blizzard was significantly closer now. However, it was still a few hours away, and this exchange shouldn't take longer than a few minutes.
"Let's go and meet them." He said and calmly got off his seat. The moment he did, everyone in the room got off their seats as well. The timing was so clean that it seemed as though they had rehearsed it beforehand, which they had.
However, one of the handlers was approximately 0.1 seconds slower than his colleagues in getting off his chair. An inconsequential time.
SPLAT
Yet their head was still reduced to paste faster than one could blink.
Vazar looked at the body as it collapsed with a distasteful look on his face before snorting and moving on.
The other handlers paled, but they didn't look at the body or show any reaction to watching the colleague get killed in an instant, lest they end up the way he did.
The group walked out of the vessel just in time to watch Constella's vessels land and all the flying beasts from Jenny's group touch down.
Vazar perfectly hid his irritation and put on his usual calm and collected smile. And put his hands in his pockets as he waited.
Not long after, two groups appeared to meet him, and soon, the three groups had gathered once again.
However, as opposed to Vazar, the other two groups had seen better days.
Constella looked slightly disheveled, and while she managed to keep her dignified appearance, it was clear that she'd seen better days.
Jenny need not be elaborated on. The bandages on her arms were a dead giveaway to her condition, and the irritated yet slightly tired look in her eyes showed that she wasn't at her peak state.
This realization made Vazar giddy inwardly. He loathed the two unenlightened lowlifes to the core, and seeing them in any sort of distress was bound to make him happy, like suddenly seeing your favorite candy out of nowhere.
In fact, he considered fighting and killing them for a moment, but he killed the thought as soon as it appeared.
He had fought the two girls many times before, and of those many times, there were times he had ambushed one or even both of them when they were off much worse than this, and he still failed to kill them.
Knew it would be the same if he tried anything, so he staved off his bloodlust... for now.
"Glad to see you guys could make it!" Vazar chuckled and spread his arms as if he were expecting a hug, though all he received were two deadpan glares.
He sighed.
"Tough crowd. Well, no matter. Let's get to business, shall we?"