Chapter 102 – When the Heavens Weep (VII)

Chapter 102

When the Heavens Weep (VII)

We ran until my lungs were numb and my legs felt chained by weights.

The sloped, rugged terrain of the mountain slowly shifted to the forested one, and it became even harder as I had to avoid stumbling and falling down against the endless jutting roots of the trees.

There were cuts and scrapes galore within just a few minutes of running and trying to navigate the maze of the tall, overgrown shrubberies full of thorns and sharp branches digging out.

Yet we ran.

Luckily, at least, all we had to do was run down and follow a ‘path’–there was no way to get lost.

Though, I have to admit, besides the burning pain searing within every inch of my body, there is one thing that hurts above it all–the shame. What shame? Well, I am carrying a child, sure, but Long Tao is carrying someone twice the age of the child I’m carrying, and he barely looks like he’s broken a sweat.

Xi Zhao, too, looks about as unbothered as when we started, and me? Well, I’m soaked.

I can all but taste the sweet toxins of apathetic laziness ooze out of me, though, in my defense, the vast majority of them were not my doing. I’ve actually been working out semi-regularly, you know? A few dozen push-ups here, some squats, a bit of cardio, but it didn’t feel like much was changing.

Any time I got my body purified by the system, however, the change was massive–sort of like having worked out for six months straight and actually seeing the results of it.

I could think of a thousand things–

The light was blinding, so blinding in fact that I instinctively pulled my hand over Light’s eyes and just barely closed mine in time for them to burn just a bit. The ground suddenly gave out under me, and I started falling, stumbling in the dark to find the girl and pull her tightly into my chest as I tried to angle my fall in the opposite direction.

Even through the darkness, bits of strobing lights broke through, like shattered shards of an hourglass aglow like a prism. Streaks blurred, and I found myself closing my eyes harder only to somehow exacerbate the entire damn thing.

I fell rather awkwardly, back first rather than butt first, though, luckily, I did bounce off the tree on my way down, which cushioned the fall slightly. It was when I landed that the actual tremors truly began–the ground quaked violently. Honestly, it felt as though there was something deeply dormant waking up, like a volcano was about to blow its top off and these were its warning calls.

Within a second, I found myself tossed back up and rumbling across the air; just in time, I managed to open my eyes and see the tree about four yards from me, pushing out with my feet and landing against it, springily managing to land on one of my feet after.

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Honestly? Probably the most athletic feat I’ve ever pulled off in my life.

Looking back up the mountain, I caught a brief glimpse of a truly monstrous pillar of greenish light. It pulsed like tiled noise for a moment before it dissolved, leaving behind a clear blue sky.

In my awe, however, the clean blue sky was overcome with ashen clouds within just a few moments. A breath later, rain as red as blood began to pour down.