BXBX NOVEL Chapter 63: Agreement with Stone
Indeed, the sight before him made his hair stand on end. He never thought he would see such things in his life. Of the people he had seen, he had only met Nemesis face to face, and he really could not accept such a thing.
He was seeing people he had never met and didn\'t even know the look of, and Nemesis. Every one of them was tied up, blood pouring from their bodies, some had their heads on stakes and some were being burned. In short, it looked like a slaughter zone.
"The war of the gods is a very serious matter. That\'s why you weren\'t supposed to die." Philosopher\'s Stone said suddenly, and James, hearing this, was surprised and questioned, "Is this my fault?"
"Technically, in a way, this is the future that will exist when you die." said the Philosopher\'s Stone and James, who heard this, said, "Please send me back. I haven\'t been in this Tower for long, not even half a year, but they\'re already everything to me, I can\'t let this happen."
The Philosopher\'s Stone didn\'t seem to care though, it transformed back into James\' form and stood there sulking, only to speak after a few seconds:
"What about us? All the souls in our creation, what have we done? Those who were betrayed and murdered, raped and murdered, beheaded and destroyed, struggling below while these gods watched from above? What was our offence? Weren\'t they the ones who filled our heads with the idea of becoming gods and took everything from us?"
As soon as the Philosopher\'s Stone had finished speaking, James stayed where he was and then looked at the image again, this time not angry, but with a steady thought, then turned back to the stone and spoke again:
"Look, I really don\'t give a damn about what happened to you all alright? Yes, you guys died like everyone can, that is not my problem, but since I died I am begging you to send me back if that is the future that is waiting for my family. I know deep in my heart they do not deserve this."
At these words of James, the eyes of the body formed by the Philosopher\'s Stone widened and it was obvious that he was surprised.
"So you do not care if we did die or not huh?" the stone suddenly asked, and James, hearing this, shook his head and began to speak:
"Yes, I wish you had a Philosopher\'s Stone so that you could live, but you never had that chance while I had a new one, so please let me go, I have to go back if I\'m going to approach this future every time I don\'t get stronger or if this is what happens when I stay dead."
As these words came out of his mouth, the body formed by the Philosopher\'s Stone disappeared and then the stone fell to the ground right in front of James, at that moment, more souls than James could count flew out of the stone and began to disappear one by one.
"We just needed to be sure..." said the first soul came out.
"Now you can take revenge on the tower for us!" said one of the souls.
"We couldn\'t, but please destroy all the evil you saw!" shouted another.
"I miss my daughter and my wife very much, I would like to tell them again that I love them, never forget to say that to those you love!" said another.
These kinds of conversations came up every now and then, they were constantly saying things to James as if they were burdening him.
However, it was slowly getting darker, James had passed the test, and he had no idea what the purpose of the test was, even though it was clear what kind of test it was.
As a result, he had managed to come back in a strange way.
When he opened his eyes again he realised that all the pain in his body had disappeared and he looked to his right and saw Ronald and Leyla.
Both executives were quite surprised, it had been almost 20 minutes since they had arrived here, but James had already woken up.
"How come?!?" Ronald suddenly muttered and continued to gently look at James.
James straightened up took out a bottle of water from his inventory and drank it, he felt as if he didn\'t have a drop of water in his body, was this what it felt like to come back from the dead?
"I really died, haven\'t I?" James suddenly said and Leyla, who heard this, spoke up:
"In a way, James. You went into a trance the moment you took the killing blow, and if the Philosopher\'s Stone hadn\'t accepted you, you would have died."
James rolled his head when he heard these words and then said, "So I wasn\'t dead?" and was surprised.
"Yes, exactly," Ronald said in answer to this question.
"Well, let\'s get to the point, how did I end up dying under your care? I knew I wasn\'t that injured, do Lady Nyx and the others know anything?" James asked again.
Ronald and Leyla looked at each other and Ronald said, "Elian tried to kill you and no, Lady Nyx has no idea about this, so please don\'t tell her."
James smiled slyly as he heard those words. Even the dumbest person in this creation could tell that something sly was going on in his mind. That was exactly why Ronald and Leyla were a little worried. After all, no one would try to piss off someone like Nyx who literally born from the person that has created them.
That was why James yawned and then looked deeply at Ronald and Leyla, then pulled another bottle of water from his inventory, drank it, and then spoke:
"I know what my lady is like, I\'ve got a few ideas of what she\'s up to, I suppose you could give me something to keep my mouth shut."