Chapter 140 Leave While You Still Can
Nix cringed at the way Aer acted towards him. If she was trying to flirt, she would get a big F.
\'Be careful, pretty face might set your body on fire.\' He thought with a smirk.
"I\'ve seen more trees with curves than what I\'m seeing." Nix laughed at her futile effort. A part of him wanted to continue with the taunts.
Aer frowned at the obvious disregard for her efforts. She had been sent by the organization to get rid of anyone who had managed to get in touch with the evidence before it was cleaned.
Immediately she had set eyes on him, she felt smitten by the intense power his body gave.
Her pink eyes glowed with fury at his disregard. She was considered a temptress back in the organization and adored by most.
The more she thought about his attitude towards her, her anger blazed, and the once smitten Aer slowly died off in that respect.
"Are you referring to me?!" She growled, her body blending in with the environment as her ability activated, making it seem like she had only a few parts of her body visible.
Nix smiled at the activation of Aer\'s ability, "finally I get to see the better part of you." He snickered, unintentionally escalating the issue more than it already was.
Her invisibility was much more appealing to his eyes– ironically.
Although he knew what she was doing was going to be a dangerous move, he felt the thrill of adrenaline at the thought of what he was going through.
His hands blazed with fire, "I hope you aren\'t too angered by my words."
She had only her face visible to him, but there was something that wasn\'t right about the way she smiled at him.
Aer\'s brows wiggled as she looked down at a magic circle she had cast.
With horror-stricken eyes, he looked down at the pink magic circle he was caught in. The pink glow spiraled around him before converging into a beam that shot upwards.
"Not agai–"
Zzzpp!
He was immediately sucked into the circle.
–––––––––––
Thud!
Cough!
Cough!
Blowing on the dust that rose into the air with his hand.
Nix let out a groan which echoed and lasted for a few seconds longer.
\'Zoar?\' He wondered if it was the very place he had been transported to in the past.
Pushing himself up, he wasn\'t alarmed by what he was going to see. It couldn\'t be anything as bad as Zoar. If he could place his bet, he would go for this very place as being the one which he had been in.
Scratch that...
\'You gotta be kidding me.\' Nix stared into darkness, lowering his head immediately and having a rethink about his whole life\'s achievement.
\'Darkness, really? You turn invisible and they transport me to a place where I\'m like nothing but a mole?\' He frowned.
Shooting a wave of flame in the direction of where he had felt a change in the air. He cursed at the echoing snicker.
"Face me if you know you have it in you!" He yelled in a particular direction of his choosing.
At first, he had not understood how and why she was considered dangerous by his senses. Not until he felt a cut on his cheek.
His hand immediately shot up to his cheek, alarmed by her capability to get closer to him without his knowledge.
"Hahaha!" Her voice echoed, fueling his anger the more it repeated to his hearing.
"You\'re special," Aer began, her voice suddenly turning shady and like it was a convergence of two voices.
\'Coming from you, I would not accept your debased compliment aimed only at sweet talk me into falling for some trap."
Ignoring his words, she continued. "Yet, you\'re hindering yourself from accessing your true potential."
"Who sent you?!" Nix growled in rage, randomly shooting his flames in the proposed shift in the wind pattern.
He hated the fact that he couldn\'t hear a single clip-clop sound of her heels, he began to wonder if she was floating.
Acting on reflex, he sidestepped. The sound he had heard right after caused a shiver to run down his spine.
A shattering sound shook the walls, the floor reverberating the very disturbance.
Shooting a fireball in the direction in which that sound had been caused. He was able to get a glance at a pink glowing metal.
\'What is that?!\' He wondered, immediately dodging another aimed at him.
The only advantage he had over this new upgrade to her tactics was it was a piece of larger equipment that was bound to make more noise.
Sweat dripping, he needed all the abilities he could at his disposal.
A wicked thought crossed his mind as he calculated his next move.
[Hearing augmentation activated]
\'You\'re so screwed!\' He felt a calm wash over him in an instant.
[Gift: Fire deactivated]
"If I were you," Nix said in a loud voice, assured she was aware of what he was saying.
\'Which I never will dare think of.\' His thoughts countered.
"I would leave while I still can." He offered one chance for her to change her mind.
"..."
To his disappointment, he didn\'t get a response from her. It felt like she knew the sort of word game he was playing.
\'Fine, have it your way.\'
Taking a large inhale of air and exhaling immediately, he concentrated on the ability he could use his passive gift.
[Passive gift: in effect]
Aer watched him with keen eyes, her right palm creating a Fūma Shuriken she had been throwing in his direction.
\'You would regret disrespecting me,\' she gritted her teeth, deliberating not to make any sound that could give her away.
Nix had his eyes closed, with his ears picking on her presence almost instantly, detecting her breathing behind him.
\'Gotcha!\' He opened his eyes, ready to counterattack what she had planned for him. He was glad that he could use his passive gift without any surveillance.