In room 4,
"Nix open up! Get the hell out of my room!" Obsidian called out as he hurriedly banged on the door.
There was no way Nix and Alex could still be dueling.
Click!
Nix poked his head out of the gap and looked at the two. They looked more like they had run several miles before rushing over.
Squinting his eyes in suspicion, "where were you two? Why does it also look like you had stolen some important figure?"
"Steal?" Lank spoke up quickly as his heart pounded in fear. "You can't possibly think that of–"
He couldn't finish his words as Obsidian's tail slapped Lank so he could shut up. Pushing him to the corner, he flashed a grin towards Nix.
Nix raised a brow at the weird attitude the two were putting up, there was something wrong.
'Mune.' He called on her presence.
[Ahh! I was having a good sleep] Mune whined, stretching out her hands and opening her mouth wide before blinking to stay awake.
Nix called on Obsidian, "one moment."
Obsidian pointed to himself, unsure if it was right to meet with Nix, he could have some trick up his sleeves.
"Yes, you." Nix nodded, calling him closer with the flick of his finger.
Reluctantly, he walked towards Nix.
Sniff!
Nix took a big whiff of the faint smell that reeked off their body.
[How is this possible?!] Mune gasped in shock.
Nix was temporarily distracted by Mune's shocking words, it looked like she knew the putrid smell on them.
"Why do you smell funny?" Nix questioned, hoping they could answer him before he consulted a shock-stricken Mune.
"Smell?" Obsidian sweat dropped, he gritted his teeth and looked towards Lank.
Lank simply avoided his gaze and placed his hand on his pants and over the elixir. They couldn't let Nix touch the jar.
Pushing the door wider, Alex stared out, his hair standing on its head with it sizzling with smoke.
"F*ck!" He exclaimed and slapped on his hair before it could be set on flames.
His face was covered with black patches and so were his clothes.
'Thank you for your silly way of allowing us to escape this!' Obsidian grinned as he gladly took the opportunity.
"My goodness, why are you in such a mess?!" Obsidian gasped, pushing in the door and walking in immediately.
His mouth dropped when he saw the makings of the room, it almost looked like they two had been dueling in an underground volcano vault. There were several black scales with overlapping areas giving off a blue dimmed glow outline.
The towering size of the room made him wonder what could have gone on in the room or what sort of training they had carried out that had caused such a huge bang at the time he and Lank were spying on them.
Lank rushed in, tripping on his feet and holding from falling by Nix. Getting his balance, he brushed past Nix.
Nix was left confused at first until his vision quaked.
[20 energy points deducted]
Nix groaned in pain as he felt a bit of his energy drained out of his body the moment Lank had passed by him.
He had just invested his 660 points to level his energy, strength, and agility, yet Lank had simply brushed past him and drained a bit of his energy?
<Rooar!!!!>
The dragons let out screeches of pain in his subconscious. This had felt like a burning sting on them that ate at their scales.
When the pain subsided and they healed, they snorted, roaring to be let out and have their revenge on Lank.
'Rest! I will get to the bottom of this.' He assured his dragons, disturbed that they were simultaneously all affected by the same occurrence.
None of it seemed to add up and he continued to stare at Lank as he suspected that something was off about the two of them.
"You sure know how to do a good makeover while I'm outta here." Obsidian clapped his hand. "Such darkness and the beauty of the color blazing."
"..."
Obsidian felt something was off about Nix's quietness and confronted him about it.
Even at that, Nix had his gaze focused on Lank the whole time as he listened to Mune.
[There's something on him that reminds me of something hidden in the scroll–this was the true content that is yet to be unlocked]
Nix's eyes widened at the words, he had not put so much emphasis on the scroll ever since the system's glitch and he was burdened with guilt at not checking its content for a while.
His hold on his revenge was dwindling and in its place came the distraction in the form of friends. 'Are you sure it's the cause of my energy depletion?'
Mune nodded her head, if he could get drained just by a brush, she was right. They had been in the forbidden zone in the organization.
She had thought it was nothing more than a fable she had been programmed on just for the sake of universal information, but that smell had been registered in her memory–there was no mistaking it, the fable was indeed true.
'Then I guess the duel isn't over.' He had a smirk as he looked over at Alex, temporarily remembering their training.
Alex yelped and hid behind Obsidian. He was done pushing his limit, he wished so bad to be back at his home without any worry or interaction.
He was wrong to have taken up the challenge of dueling him in whatever way possible.
The inclusion of defeating his dragon before dueling against Nix was an unfair position he was put in. It also looked like the red dragon enjoyed playing with him till he gave up just before they heard a bang on the door.
This was the one thing he was grateful for, the distraction to his favor, he knew Nix didn't mean any harm to him–if it weren't for his reluctance to give his dragons full control, he would have been roasted to the spot.
What he couldn't figure out was why he was given a death glare by Nix. 'I didn't do anything, dude!'
Obsidian could feel Nix's aura change, it reminded him of the time they had been in the arena, but this was different, he could feel it seethe off from the surroundings.
The room still gave off the feeling Nix had embedded into it before his duel with Alex.
"Mentor, is there something wrong?" Obsidian masked his nervousness with a forced chuckle.
Lank followed suit, not wanting to be in an awkward silence watching the cold air of awkwardness spread around.
Nix simply lost it with the chuckle from Lank. "You sure are in a good mood."
Lank gulped and immediately shut up, he couldn't understand why he was picked on but wasn't into arguing if it meant he would go against Nix in such a bad time.
[Master, calm down. I'm sure they can explain]
Mune felt that this might not go well, not while they had reminded him of his failed goal.
'Why don't we see if they can do that for their best friend?' Nix snickered and focused his attention on Lank.
Lank felt as if he was pushed to the wall. "Is there a reason I should be scared or sad?"
He couldn't even believe the courage he had mustered to be able to say that while Nix was resonating with a deadly aura.
What all couldn't understand was why this sort of aura was directed at them–treading carefully was the best option.
"You should be happy, I wouldn't want anything less for my friends," Nix said with a forced smile.
That smile left the three uncomfortable and they all shared glances as they tried to pinpoint what had caused a drastic change in the mood.
"Of... Course." Lank coughed out.
"But..." Nix paused and activated his telekinetic ability.
"I don't seem to understand how it's possible that you would brush past me and my telekinetic energy suddenly drained." Nix pointed out.
This was the first time that his telekinetic energy had been favored over his fire energy and had left him exhausted with just a little tapped.
Lank trembled as this would only land them in trouble if Nix would know about this. He looked to Obsidian for a way out of this.
"Nix, you must be tired from the duel you had with Alex." Obsidian brushed it off as one of those signs that he needed some rest.
Nix nodded his head as though he was agreeing with Obsidian's words. "You have a point."
Obsidian let out a sigh but was worried when Alex shook his head frantically signaling it was a bad approach he had used.
When he and Nix dueled, they had trained to use little energy yet be effective in their duel, and the fact that he used his dragon to test out his ability only meant he used little to no energy with them.
"I do have an important question, how does a depletion in my energy trigger all my dragons to seek your flesh!" Nix forced out a laugh as he looked at Lank.
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