Chapter 117: Owe

"Fucking Shit!"

Nix cursed and struck Cerberus' fur, borrowing Rebecca's sword from Reegan.

"Whatcha doin' ?" Reegan aked.

"I am taking the fur. It'd be useful as armor."

He said and dragged the sword with immense force and tore the body.

"I observed you. It seems you attained enlightenment." He said retracting his sword with a smile.

"Yeah, buddy. Something like Dynamic Fearless. The more I get into the dangerous situation and go beyond I get one stat point and can use something called Vital force. You saw that grey flow, right? I think that's the VF. I feel kind of pumped right now!"

"I am kinda' envious man."

Nix said, patting his shoulder and walked towards Rebecca and picked up her bag.

"Yo bitch how have you been?"He said mockingly and kicked her.

"Nix?"

She said, squinting her eyes.

"Yeah, I am alive."

He said and snatched her bag.

"The bag! Give me... Give"

"Haha, If your weak ass wants it then come and get it."

He said with a smirk and undressed her armor and tore her clothes making silky white bareback visible.

Swiftly he began to heat his chain for a few seconds while shape-shifting it into a stamp, and branded her back with the same Outlaw Symbol he was branded gritting his teeth by pressing her face on the ground with his leg.

"AHhh! Stop!"

She squirmed and cried out in pain as he forced her on the ground while pulling her hand.

"With this, you've paid the price. I am leaving you here."

He said indifferently and began walking without turning back letting her starve to death under the burning sun.

"ahh!"

He suddenly felt a slight pain as though his brain was getting stabbed by a sharp pin.

'We'll see each other soon.'

Rebecca mumbled with a smirk.

"Buddy, Is this a good choice? I mean you left her alive. Are you paying off the debt you owed?" Reegan asked with a smile.

"Tch,"

He clicked his tongue and gazed at her for a second and continued to walk without replying to him.

Soon they reached the vicinity of Babel. It was not crowded like the Labyrinth Lerinare but that didn't mean there were not people around the Labyrinth.  There were Draconians and other Racial people, unlike other Labyrinths. Humans were nowhere to be found.

Though they gave out hostile gazes they didn't come up to start a fight as the Duo entered the labyrinth.

"Kriiiecchhh!"

As soon as they entered a monster pounced on both of them with a loud screech. Swiftly they slit the head of the fire moths and shot up from their place and as they gazed straight there was a huge nest and a swarm of Firemoths.

"Hah, We've expended so much energy... This is too much for us to handle. I've also gained something so, let's just go back for now. What do you say?"

Nix asked indifferently, looking at Reegan's eyes.

"Yeah, sure..."

Reegan said and scanned the eyes that were observing them and slowly walked out of the labyrinth along with Nix.

Since the Krigons they brought died they had to walk all the way towards Theemai and as they walked by they found Rebecca still in her place unconscious.

[Private ability~ Truth eye activated]

When he tried to observe he gained a slight headache that made him literally fall to the ground.

"Buddy?"

Reegan said grabbing Nix's shoulder caringly.

'What's happening?'

He muttered as his Vision spun and turned blurry.

[Private ability~Nova manifestation activated]

[Your soul is activating Doom prediction vision due to forcible occurrence of Nova manifestation]

[Obsorb the Sublimity material to survive the synchronization]

" "

His hands shook and his body began to sweat as his hands subconsciously grabbed the bag which contained a black fist-sized globe that contained particles that seemed like a mini-universe.

His hand abruptly absorbed the entire essence making the black globe empty. His head pain reached its peak making him go unconscious in a mere second.

He squinted his eyes a few seconds gritting his teeth and after blinking twice he found himself in an unfamiliar environment. It was in a blank white room with nothing.

[You are experiencing one of your past life's future]

[You cannot control your body]

"Why is this happening all of a sudden? Truth eye trigger this? I thought sublimity needed to undergo several processes for me to experience this..."

He muttered and tried walking around for a few seconds until the environment flickered a few seconds and opened up an entire scene.

{Where am I?}

Nix muttered and gazed at his thin arm that was holding a heavy sword. He felt far weaker than he currently is.

"Soldier Narag! Move to the third battalion and grab your weapons."

The voice was from a tall man wearing heavy armor carrying a spear.

{Huh?}

"Yes, Sir"

His past self saluted and marched towards the side where almost six hundred soldiers were standing. He joined the queue and waited until the whole battalion filled up and marched the outer gate of Ranrak city. They were the soldiers that'd be fighting in the frontline.

There were two armies stood facing each other. The other side was exceptionally larger than Ranrak's army yet Ranrak seemed to have a lot of hope.  Mutinos, Krigons, there was every unit possible among the Ranrak army. Few of the angels were standing in front of the whole army.

" for Ranrak!"

The sound came from a familiar voice he knew.

{Rebecca?}

Nix muttered. Unfortunately, he was not able to turn towards her nor find out why he was there instead of being a free outsider.

As soon as she shouted every soldier raised their sword above their chest. It was at that moment he found the spitting image of his initial stages in Empyrean, unlike his masculine self.

"Soldier Nix, make sure to come back alive."

Rebecca said, patting his shoulder, caringly with a smile.

{?}

Nix couldn't understand any of it.

He turned towards her and smiled.

"Thanks for the opportunity, Miss Rebecca."

Dark Nix's past was far crueler and harder than Nix's for sure just from observing a little bit. No, it can be said he went through a whole lot of different problems and Nix went through something significant to his past.

"As I said before. You'll receive the remaining payment only after returning in one piece. So don't die yet, you hard-working lad!"

She said teasingly after hitting his back.

"Ouch!"

"Alright, They'll be blowing the horn soon, meet me later."

She said and kicked her Krigon.

"Owooo!"

As soon as the horns blew the marching speed of the soldiers increased.

Swishhh! Swiisshh! Swishhh!

The arrows continuously rained down piercing the air at full speed.

"I can do this!"

Dark Nix said gritting his teeth, tightening his helmet and shield. His body was barely able to even carry the armor yet, he was there to participate in the war. For some reason, Nix could feel something that he didn't possess.

[Unique abilit~Latent Insight Activated]

Followed by the message Nix understood that Dark Nix had developed skills on his own to rely on to fill the gap of lacking level. He went through harsher missions as a non talented outsider who was even rejected by the companies and teams. Moreover, unlike Nix who could fight up to a level 8 outsider, Dark Nix was still at level 1 yet faced monstrous things and survived as a weakling.

"For Regulars!"

"For Regulars!"

It was the sixth battalion that contained Regulars. Amidst them was Nagendra riding his horse in shining red armor gaining all of the attention on the battlefield.

Dark Nix peered at him with envy and gritted his teeth. Though Nagendra said he was ready to add him to his team Nix quietly refused since he'd only be dragging his team down.

The Arrows poured down on the soldiers and penetrated every nearby soldier of Dark Nix. Thanks to the instincts he developed he subconsciously tackled most of it and pushed his legs amidst the thousands of soldiers. Though he was weak there was no fear. His heart was burning fiercely screaming into his mind to kill everything that fell in his sight.

{The hell is this? Why did he not receive a single-level after awakening?}

He questioned himself.

No matter what Dark Nix's perception and instincts were far beyond current Nix. It wouldn't be a lie to say that If Dark Nix gained his privileges he would have trampled the battlefield because that's how much anger his heart was carrying and more importantly he worked five times harder than his current self to survive as a level one. 

Finally, Nix's battalion clashed with the opposite battalion. The clash was absolute carnage heads and blood was splattering and flying around.

One by one soldier next to Nix fell. After forty minutes of the continuous clash. Nix's battalion was completely defeated. There were almost only fifty of them standing opposite two hundred men. Nix was barely able to stand his ground when he instinctively gazed to his side he found Rebecca going on a slaughter. Angels were bombarding others with spells. He was at his limits; he already lost his stamina twenty minutes before. 

Ba-dump! Ba-dump!

Dark Nix touched his heart that was beating wildly standing opposite a monstrous number and the dark horse that was emitting ominous pressure.