CHAPTER 870: 867: THE THIRD NIGHT (5)- BONUS

Time passed, and after approximately fifteen minutes, Corey began to get suspicious of what was going on.

Enough time had passed for something to happen, but nothing had happened despite almost thirty minutes having gone by in the Third Night.

He clearly remembered that the First and Second Night did not take up to five minutes before they were forced to face the danger of each Night.

Although he had no idea what the Third Night was going to bring, the fact that he had not encountered anything after tricking the Rule of Taking was extremely unnerving.

He preferred facing a danger rather than not facing any danger.

’On the First Night, the Universal System said The City No Longer Sleeps, and the Thirteenth Dawn and I were forced to face a horde of monsters that we had never encountered or even gotten a clue as to where they came from.’

’If I was to use what the Universal System said... then it was extremely accurate.’

’The City no longer sleeps... which means that every or majority of the monsters and entities that were in our vicinity was awake.’

’... And they attacked us.’

’I don’t know if I should say that we were lucky that no Tier 5 monster appeared on that Night... In fact... that Night was the easiest Night we had ever encountered.’

’We encountered a Tier 5 on the Second Night, and then we encountered a Tier 6 on the Third Day.’

’Hopefully I don’t encounter a Tier 7 cause I don’t think I can battle one despite my recent improvements.’

Sigh

’Meanwhile... On the Second Night, the Universal System said The City Mourns.’

’And then we faced a monster that could transform into the people that we cared the most for.’

’If there was a tragic story behind the person, the monster used it. Yara was the victim of it.’

’... The City Mourns huh?... It’s pretty appropriate for what we faced on that Night.’

Corey shifted his gaze to the flame that had been burning in the fireplace. A tinge of curiosity flashed in his eyes.

’The Universal System said that the City Hungers this Night... Which should mean something extremely simple.’

’The City is hungry. I don’t know how an entire city can be hungry, but it is... But there are questions to this statement.’

’If it’s hungry, what does it want to... eat, devour, consume?’

’Is it one of us? Or one of our body parts? Our mana cores? Our souls? Our lives?’

’What exactly does the City want to... devour?’

’And why?’

’Why does an entire city need to devour something from us?’

’Also... how?’

’How can a city devour?’

’If I’m to use the previous nights as a reference, it’s most likely a monster... But that is also confusing.’

’If the system says the City Hungers, then that means that the monster is definitely hungry... And something that is hungry would not be so patient especially when the food is right in front of it.’

Corey suddenly looked in the direction of the Thirteenth Dawn. Although he could not feel their auras, he could get a general sense of their locations.

’... Hmm... Unless the monster or the city has already devoured the Thirteenth Dawn or somebody from the Thirteenth Dawn.’

’But that should be unlikely since they would have found a safehouse.’

’The safehouses have actually been a safe place for all of us from the very first night.’

’It was because Yara shattered the window through her aura that I had to fight that Tier 5 monster.’

’Unless something happened, they should be in a safehouse, safely protected from the danger of the Third Night.’

’So what exactly is the danger of the Third Night? What is the monster?’

He shifted his gaze to the dining table that was not too far away from him.

’To be honest. This is the first safehouse I’m seeing that has this many whole furniture in the house.’

He stood, and approached the dining table. He stood before it, and his eyes turned pure white.

’Hmm.’

He hummed internally, and then he touched the dried blood on the table. He rubbed it and observed it for a few moments before frowning deeply.

His eyes changed, and his Eyes of Omniscience was swapped for his Tri-Pupil Eyes.

’If I’m right, then this blood is thousands of years old?... How strange.’

A tongue of Dreamfire appeared on his fingers, and he burnt every single trace of the flame.

He also touched the pitch black sand that was on the plates, and the frown on his face deepened slightly.

’The aura of time I can perceive on all these things is extremely old.’

He shifted his gaze to the fireplace that had a fire without fuel.

His Tri-Pupil Eyes changed to his Eyes of Omniscience, and he tilted his head slightly.

’That is truly a... fire?... It’s not a fire filled with screaming souls of children, elderly, women, men, and monsters? But a normal fire?’

’... For real?’

His frown deepened, and then he shifted his gaze to one of the windows of the house.

’What?!’

His eyes widened in disbelief at what he saw, and without hesitation, he quickly strode toward the window.

’What the-!’

He reached the window in five silent steps, and then he leaned slightly forward and peered out.

What he expected to see was the ruined ground of the Dying City. Its broken streets, destroyed buildings, and cracked stone of the ground despite the thick fog that encompassed everywhere around him.

Instead...

He saw nothing below.

No cobbled paths, and no fractured architecture. No corrupted earth.

Only air.

And endless, fog-choked air that stretched downward like a bottomless void.

And that was when his eyes widened in realization and immense disbelief.

The entire house, its walls, the fireplace, and the stable floor beneath his feet... was floating above the city’s surface.

Not only that... It was moving!

He would not have been able to come to this realization if he had normal eyes.

Due to the thick fog, very few would even be able to see the ground they were even stepping on, but through any of his eyes, he had been able to see at least fifty meters from him.

And the absence of the ground was extremely frightening.

’Damn it.’