75 Veil 11

A pleasant breeze swept through the air and covered a lying person in the middle of a landscape with nothing but a tiny wooden house.

Lia opened her eyes and tiredly sat up. She moved her arms, then her legs. The effect of the poison has vanished. Lia could move her body and leave here.

The wooden house behind her seemed so empty and lonely in this vast landscape. Now that the Lord had no control over her, Lia could make her way to Rag. But this also meant that she didn't have the permission which would make her face soldiers.

At the same time, Lia was clueless about her current location. In the far, she couldn't see any cities nor that people were nearby.

She didn't have any other choice but to aimlessly walk around. It was painful. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. It was supposed to be fairly easy to reach Rag but one thing led to another until she was in this situation.

It was a long walk with nothing in sight but the dark sky and the grass swaying in the wind. Lia trailed along a path, her eyes only stared straight ahead. In this silent night, Lia looked dignified and mysterious as if she was the only being to exist. Simply eternal.

Until loud voices caught her attention. She whipped to the right and saw four people sitting in the grass. The wind carried their voices to Lia.

"It's ok, it's only a small wound. I'm sorry, I didn't come earlier," a deep male voice slung itself around Lia's heart. It was quite pleasant to hear.

"Don't blame yourself, we shouldn't have been reckless. It'll heal soon," a light female voice answered, it had an undertone of pain but she seemed to be fine.

"Let's leave as long as we don't trigger the-" another male voice appeared.

Lia stopped in her tracks. Usually, she would just ignore them and leave, but right now they were the only people she saw since walking for a long time and her only hope to know where she was.

Thus, she decided to approach them.

"Why do you still have it?" another female voice appeared. It was a bit rougher and anxious.

"I can't just throw it away!"

"I'll take it," the male with the deep voice answered.

Only until Lia was around five metres away from them, did they notice her presence. A female sat on the ground with her foot bleeding, while the other three surrounded her. The female with the rough voice jumped up when she saw Lia and exclaimed,

"Don't come here! Stay away!"

Lia was perplexed but didn't stop, she only said, "I want to ask something."

"No, don't! Go away! Go! Go!" The male also panicked and tried to hush her away.

"I just-"

"Stop," the male with the deep voice, pitch-black hair and piercing eyes stood in front of the three. Lia stopped advancing and the other three behind the male who was half a head taller than Lia, sighed in relief.

Lia had no idea why they were so afraid but in order not to make them more scared, she remained on her spot. She opened her mouth but the deep voice cut her off, "Leave."

It was strange how they were avoiding her. She also wanted to leave but if she did now, she had no means to find her way, "I simply want to ask a question."

"No," the male resolutely rejected her.

"It won't harm you."

"Your existence already harms us."

This sentence irked Lia a bit but she chose to ignore it. There was nothing wrong with them being vigilant towards her. Lia gave the guy a last glance before she turned around.

"Where should we head?" the rough female started to talk.

"I live in the back of the Drad city," the other male answered.

"That's not far, I'm just glad we managed to escape the Lord," the injured female spoke and these words caused Lia to stop.

She approached them again. Lia's sudden decision caught he male who stood in her way off guard and he slipped trying to spot her. Lia and he fell onto the ground with Lia landing on top of him touching something hard.

"Fuck," the guy cursed and threw Lia off him but it was too late. Lia could hear the desperate 'No's' of the others when her view fell on the round hard token under her hand.

Then the next second, she felt the familiar zap feeling and pain in her body. She once again opened her eyes to see an unfamiliar surrounding.

"No, no, no!" the anxious male shouted before he glared at Lia, "It's all your fault! You damned-!

"Ok, enough," the man with the deep voice stopped him.

The injured female started crying, "This can't happen! Just when we managed to leave one! Now, we're doomed! No one can help us! My foot's still-"

"You!"

Lia was thrown against the hard, stone wall. The rough voiced woman held Lia bythe collar, "Why can't you listen and just leave as we told you?"

Lia remained calm, "I have no idea what you all have been saying."

"This," the man with his deep voice and black hair held up the token, "Is a token that's been infused with teleportation magic. It's set to transport five people into a game created by the Lord. Because you came, we're five."

"The Lord? The slender one?" Lia had to be sure if she was still in that Lord's area.

"No, it's another one."

So, Lia was teleported to another area, it wasn't clear if this was even further away from Rag or not.

Right now, the situation seemed dire. Everyone was panicking and angry at Lia except for the black-haired male. Lia once again was stuck in another 'game'.

"I should've never given you the token! We should've thrown it away! No one would pick this trash up anyways!" the anxious male glared at the black-haired male.

Lia examined the surrounding. They were currently in a cave. In the place they stood was a crossing opening up to two paths.

"I don't want to die!" the injured female started to bawl even harder. The rough female quickly ran to her and tried to coax her. This really didn't look good, in situations like this, they needed to be calm and think straight but they were all too riled up.

In this case, working together was useless, in addition, they blamed Lia.

"We need to leave here," the black-haired male pointed at the two paths.

"I can't! My foot!" the sobs didn't stop.

"Don't worry, it'll heal quickly," the other female continued to pat her back.

This game wasn't much different than the other one she was in. Both had the goal to escape.

However, there was one thing Lia wondered about, "Do all Lords have teleport powers?"

No one answered her. The black-haired male just stared at her before getting closer to the two paths. He examined them.

Lia sighed and also went to get a closer look. Both paths looked identical. There wasn't much of a difference, apart from a slight glimmer at the end of the left one.

"A trap," Lia exhaled.

The guy next to her raised his eyebrow.

"Let's go left," the anxious male heard what Lia said but ignored her, "I don't trust her," he added.

"It's up to you," Lia indifferently looked at him and started to head towards the right path.

"Hey! What are you doing?" the female's rough voice caught up to Lia.

"You don't seem to have any intention to leave, so I'll go first."

"I can't! My foot!"

Lia was annoyed by her wailing and whining, "Then focus on healing. Also, you don't welcome me anyway, you'd rather have me out of the picture, no?"

No one said anything. With that Lia made her way alone out of there. Even if she was stuck with that group, she wouldn't get any answers.

"Wait," the black-haired male grabbed her by the shoulders.

"If she wants to go, let her! Let her! We don't need her!" the anxious male walked up and down.

"No, there's a reason why five people are needed to activate the token. We should stick together," the black-haired male was also reserved.

He held his emotions under control but Lia could see the anger in his eyes. He didn't like her, that was clear.

"No thank you," Lia brushed his hand off.

"I said, wait. You recklessly endanger everyone and now you want to run away from your responsibility? You're damn selfish."

Lia faced him and her cold face let his pale in comparison. The word 'responsibility' hit her. She had failed in the past and this only reminded her.

"My responsibility? I simply wanted to ask you a question. You could have listened and answered with one sentence but instead, you threw confusing words at me," Lia stepped forward until she was close enough for their faces to touch and stared him directly in the eyes,

"If you weren't incompetent enough to explain your situation, I wouldn't have approached you 'recklessly' as you say."

The male turned silent. He saw her frightening icy eyes and the dark glint behind them. She was… dangerous but he had no choice to keep her because this situation here was too unfathomable.

"Alright, say what you need to clear with us."

"Simply answer my question from before," Lia stepped back and smiled at him but the smile didn't make it to her eyes.