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Chapter 406: Chapter 406: Traveling with Rea

Chapter 406 – Traveling with Rea

The days passed quickly. Kaden and Rea had been running, walking, jogging — the only thing they hadn’t done was crawl — all along the way.

They passed by many types of environment, going from walking through rocky terrain, to looking around in slight tiredness at an expanse of field riddled with withered weeds, or even burning a forest down to go faster...

Well, that was only Kaden’s doing.

Then finally, now, they were standing at a place with white sand shrouding the earth below.

Three days had passed, and the duo was now at the cusp of the Frosted Bridge.

Kaden would have believed three days of walking together would have been enough to break the ice, but it seemed he had underestimated the current situation.

Rea’s walls were harder than even ice.

All that made the exciting journey he was expecting to be nothing short of awkward.

Sometimes, along the line, Kaden would allow himself to think of what this would feel like if he was with Meris... Vaela... hell, even Inara.

But then he would always shake his head, wafting away those thoughts, berating himself for thinking of other women when he was with his fiancée.

He felt like a pitiful cheater.

Which he was. But truth was a bitter pill to swallow.

Even for Kaden.

"From here," Rea spoke, snapping Kaden’s attention to the current situation, "we need to find the bridge and reach the other side to continue our way."

Kaden nodded, looking around him.

The temperature had lowered since they stepped foot there, going to the colder side even though they were just at the door of this strange place.

About him, nothing existed except the snow-white sand curling around his boots and a few scattering rocks — colored in eerie white.

Looking deeper in front of him, Kaden spotted the rise of a couple of mountain hills, more precisely of eight of them.

Those eight mountain hills, each one jagged and jolted upwards in a strange way, were arranged in a weird fashion. Weirdly, Kaden could know the direct order of those mountains.

He wondered why.

They were all covered in a makeup of ice, yet it was strange to Kaden. The ice seemed different. Even the snow beneath his feet felt different somehow.

As if it was ice, but not at the same time.

His eyebrow peaked in intrigue, and his perception began to sharpen, preparing himself for any kind of ambush.

Still...

Kaden craned his neck overhead, seeing the sun already away, with the moon lazily herding toward the sky.

Night would soon come. And with the shadows falling over them, both Rea and Kaden felt the temperature of the surroundings peak exponentially and abnormally.

"I think," Kaden began, looking at Rea at the corner of his eyes, "it’s better if we continue our way tomorrow morning. Night is at the corner. And I don’t fancy walking in an unfamiliar place during nighttime."

Rea nodded, red eyes already looking around. "Yes. But we will need to find a suitable spot, though."

Her eyes settled finally on Kaden.

"Will you do it? Your perception seems to be better than mine."

Kaden grunted an acknowledgment, then focused more seriously. In a heartbeat, a map of the surroundings began to etch itself inside his mind.

The more he discovered, the more his frown deepened, forming a chasm between his eyebrows. He clicked his tongue, noticing the rising of a mist from the depth of the landscape, spreading outward, directly toward them.

His perception turned sluggish when it touched the fog. It was not all. Touching the fog with his perception felt like touching a living thing itself.

Kaden seemed to have heard a shrill voice from it. And the beating of one heart.

Rea snapped her head toward the approaching mist. Her lips pressed into a thin line.

"So?" she demanded of Kaden.

"I found one," Kaden said. His body blurred, going directly toward the spot before the mist reached them.

Even so, he made sure to keep a reasonable speed for Rea to follow.

The surroundings turned into a blur as they ripped past the snow-white expanse.

Soon, they reached a...

They tilted their heads.

"A house?"

...

Rea and Kaden looked around the house. Well, house might be a little misleading. It was nothing but a small cave-like dwelling, made of white-colored rocks, the roof triangle-shaped.

There was a small fireplace, with blue fire flickering softly from it, bathing the home in a soft light.

Inside, the two saw a small withered couch in the middle atop a carpet that looked like the dead skin of a beast.

But what beast had skin with so many colors on it? From just one glance, Kaden noticed over ten different colors.

The sight did not please the aesthetic of Kaden. He winced, peeled away his eyes from it, and continued his examination.

His crimson star-lit eyes settled on Rea, who was staring intensely at some paintings hung on the walls.

Only then did Kaden realize that paintings adorned the walls completely, describing things he recognized and things he didn’t.

Again, he frowned. Paintings summoned both good and bad memories inside his thought-cage.

He didn’t like it if it was done by anything else but Vaela. It irritated him.

Despite that, he decided to take a look, starting at the very opposite side of Rea.

The first one he saw was a blank white canvas. He said nothing and continued. The next was the same, except a small black dot that existed in the middle of it.

It was tiny. Kaden almost missed it.

He continued, his feet dragging, scraping and kissing against the floor made of things Prometheus knew not.

The more he went on, the more other black dots covered the white canvas. At the middle of the room, the canvas was now fully black.

Kaden paused there, mind tingling strangely. He seemed to be on the cusp of catching something about these paintings. However, it was fleeting. Very fleeting.

It was like he was mindlessly trying to hold into his hand mist that went on its way, making him miss whatever message these things wished to convey.

Then again, lacking the context and anything of that sort... Kaden was lost.

However, now he was intrigued. He eagerly continued to the next, seeing Rea already there, staring at the painting intensely.

With the blue light caressing her face, looking from the side with her many earrings and piercings, Kaden must admit Rea had a kind of unique charm.

She was beautiful.

But that was all.

He focused on the painting, and his heart thrashed against his chest wildly.

The next thing Kaden saw was himself falling on the ground, Rea snapping her head toward him in surprise.

"Kaden?" Her worried voice didn’t reach Kaden.

The only thing on his mind was the trail of blood trickling down from the now black canvas.

It was only a trail of blood.

But the Warborn bloodline and his half-death aspect within him squeaked with unknown feelings.

His eyes rolled into themselves, became white, before Kaden found himself in a completely different place.

This time, the sun was not bleeding.

The sky itself was falling apart on the earth, broken and shattered, blood, war, and death all over the world.

And there, Kaden heard the song.

Oh... what a dreadful song it was!

...I am the conqueror without horizon, the one who drowns worlds in endless strife, whose tread shakes the marrow of heaven and earth alike.

I am War given flesh.

I am Blood made eternal.

I am....

Everything stopped, and Kaden’s consciousness went deeper and deeper into this strange dream.

Rea was already beside him, eyes confused and worried. And that worry deepened even further when she noticed...

Kaden was bleeding all over the pores of his body.

"What is happening? Einar! What is happening?"

—End of Chapter 406—