NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1731
Although we didn't get a lot of sleep that night, the next morning we were back on course. The forests of Dioshin started to peel away, and then we started to travel away from the Abyss. I had to say that I felt a sense of comfort traveling away from the Abyss. As beautiful as the lights were to see from afar, the entire place gave off an uncomfortable feeling overall. Looking into that darkness felt like looking into the darkness of your soul. Alysia even said it might have something to do with time, which only made me less eager to be around it.
Every time I had messed with time-bending dungeons, things hadn't turned out so well. I had lost a month in the Illusory Sword Dungeon, giving my girls enough time to be convinced I was dead and fall into bad ends. Twilight Dungeon was a time in the opposite direction. I had gained two months, but all that had served to do was cause issues between me and the other half of my soul. Then there was the Twilight mindscape where every hour was a day. The last thing I needed was to end up in another dungeon that messed with the movement of time.
However, there was one thing. I had been expecting to meet a certain person, and I had even found myself growing a bit interested in what they had to say. I didn't want to have my timeline messed with, but that didn't mean I didn't want some hints here or there.
"I guess we didn't encounter the Soothsayer after all," I spoke out loud as the Abyss started to disappear in the distance.
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Rea had remained strangely close to me ever since the incident. She ended up hearing my muttering and then jerked upright while shooting me a hard-to-read look. Before, Rea had said something that tied her to the Abyss. In a moment of panic, she had said that she wouldn't go back, which suggested she had come from the Abyss in the first place. I hadn't pushed the issue, and she was probably hoping I had forgotten she said it.
Of course, such a thing only created more questions. How had she left the Abyss if no one could leave? Was that why she was at the border of the Abyss? What did that have to do with the assassin's guild? The biggest question of all was why did she want to kill me? She didn't know that I knew she wanted me dead, and it wasn't exactly something I could ask, but I still kept her around hoping to learn more. That seemed to pay off by mentioning the soothsayer at the right time.
Her reaction told me that she must have known the soothsayer in some way. I only glanced in her direction, waiting for her to say more. Rea seemed to realize that after her exaggerated reaction, she had no choice but to say something.
"You… won't be encountering her." She finally responded, her words dripping out with some care.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Because…" She turned away, staring out toward the Abyss with a distant look in her eyes. "The soothsayer is dead."