BXBX NOVEL Chapter 158: CHAPTER 157 - Ridha is closing in.
[The Remover of Obstacles agrees with the other two gods.]
[The Divine Healer of Mankind is looking at you.]
[The Divine Arbiter of Justice and Order is saying that she will always be on your side.]
[The Huntress of the Moon is curious about the unfolding scenario.]
[The Enchantress of Love is hoping for something new this time.]
[The Metal Detector is betting a gold coin on the fact that this time won\'t be any different.]
Alex couldn\'t help but frown as he read through the notifications.
\'What are they up to?\'
He didn\'t understand what they were trying to point at; after all, he wasn\'t someone who was sitting up in the sky and looking at everything happening around the world.
[The Certain God agrees with the other gods.]
His frown only deepened when the \'Certain God\', who always did the explaining in private messages, didn\'t say anything right now.
"What is it?"
So, he stopped in his tracks, turned his head upward, and questioned out loud, causing the gods to go silent for a while.
[...]
Another first time was Alex—it was the first time he initiated the conversation instead of just replying to a request.
[The Dragon Warrior is saying that he can\'t reveal much but you should try to not kill many humans.]
[The Eternal Devotee of Rama is saying that you might get a chance to get something.]
[The Remover of Obstacles agrees is unable to come up with words that could help you understand things better.]
[The Divine Healer of Mankind is intrigued by this development.]
[The Divine Arbiter of Justice and Order is saying...]
[The Huntress of the Moon is...]
[The Enchantress...]
[...]
The gobs, however, still couldn\'t give Alex the answer he wanted; they were rule-bound after all.
They couldn\'t just reveal everything they saw, lest they want to be kicked out of this game.
Alex, on the other hand, didn\'t really seem much affected by those replies, as he had expected that much from them.
They weren\'t someone who could one-up the system, but there was one who could, and he was waiting for her to speak.
His question was directed at her from the start.
[["You wouldn\'t know it, but someone you have met before is moving toward you at an incredible speed, so all the gods want from you is that you don\'t kill them.
It is up to you in the end, but believe me when I say this: You will need to team up in the future no matter how hard you try not to.
So, why not just make a team right now?"]]
The one Alex was waiting for, finally spoke; her words, however, turned his expression grim.
A human was approaching him—this was no big news, at least not big enough to make the gods actively participate in the matter.
The certain god\'s words made sense, as she probably didn\'t want him to end up alone at times when he really needed someone to team up with.
But why now?
Why were they saying that to him now?
All of this pointed at one thing: The one who was coming at him wasn\'t any normal person, and they had a strong god backing them up—a god that could be said to have a considerable amount of power and influence. read-only-on-NovelFire
This discovery put Alex under pressure.
Now he will have to tread carefully with his interaction with the humans, as he didn\'t know which person the gods were talking about.
He does remember the faces of everyone he had met, but what if that person was someone he met yet he didn\'t focus on?
That would be bad.
The good thing was that he now had a lie detection skill, and this skill could at least tell lies apart, so he wouldn\'t have to fear someone lying to his face.
He would just ask some questions, and only after he got a satisfactory answer would he take the case forward.
Yes, he won\'t just kill the person, but if they were to become hostile or show any action that makes him think that they might potentially become his enemy, then he would kill them.
He wouldn\'t want to risk his life just because there\'s a chance that he was a bit concerned about the consequences.
In a world where people sell their own family members, his doing this much was considered pretty tame.
He didn\'t know who it was that the gods were warning him about, and he didn\'t care about it for now, so he walked straight toward the next zone.
As for who this person walking toward him, aiming to have a chat with him was?
It was a girl who decided to give herself to Alex, a guy who was the ruler of her dreams.
It was Ridha Negi, the girl Alex saved during the second tutorial.
"What do you mean, \'I\'m late\'?!"
She had been searching for Alex with the help of her goddess, but when she reached the location her goddess had told her, Alex was already long gone from there.
"C-Can you please tell me the direction again?"
She asked for the way again, and her goddess pointed in another direction, urging her to move faster, but the poor girl couldn\'t do anything as she found herself trapped in that place until the second scenario was completed.
"I will just remove the reason for my delay..."
She even thought that maybe defeating the minor demon would help her escape this locked area. So, she decided to fight the minor demon on her own, only to find herself running away from the demon after being mortally wounded.
If not for her goddess\'s help, she would\'ve died that day.
"I need to grow stronger."
It was then that she realized the importance of collecting coins, convincing her to kill as many beasts as she could.
Now, don\'t ever underestimate a girl crazy in love; the things they could do are something no one would ever hope to be able to do.
For the next four days, she fought day and night, raising her rank, almost reaching rank 1, but the moment she realized that she might overtake Alex if she went on, she paused and pushed all of her coins into her stats.
Poor girl didn\'t know that she wouldn\'t have overtaken Alex.
If one were to check the stats ranking in the area, then Ridha might be second only to Alex, but unfortunately, there was no such ranking.
"Just a bit more..."
On the fifth day, when she worked even harder and collected enough coins to touch the peak of the stats limit, she finally decided to fight the minor demon again—it was time for her round two.
"FUCKKKK!!"
But she lost again, not left on the brink of death as she was stronger this time, but not unscathed as well.
That was when she realized that her body was completely worn out due to her continuously pushing her body to the limits and not getting more than 2 hours of rest a day.
So, she slept the whole day, and when the sixth day came, she rushed out again, but this time, she wasn\'t alone; she had a group of people who had volunteered to help her fight the demon, only to be used as a meat shield by her during the fight.
"Thank you for your sacrifice."
This was all she said to the people who died protecting her.
With much effort, Ridha finally succeeded in defeating the minor demon at the expense of the deaths of every human that went along with her, but that was when she realized that all of her efforts were wasted as she still couldn\'t go out of the zone.
"I\'m coming."
So now, when the tutorial had ended, she rushed toward Alex\'s direction with her speed fixed at the maximum she could.