Norman frowned at the waiter's reaction. He suppressed the anxiety bubbling in his heart and asked, "Someone gave it to me and ran away…. What's this?"
"No wonder they ran away. This thing…." the waiter had a complicated expression on his face as he took a deep breath, "You know nothing about the prediction, do you?"
"What prediction?"
"That…." the waiter hesitated as he seated himself in the seat opposite Norman and glanced around carefully before opening his mouth, "I guess you don't belong to our city. That's why an outsider like you must not know this. A few decades ago, a master demon who was dying made his last prediction before dying. According to it, this world will come to an end because of a wooden array like this drawing! He even handed over the drawing and specifically told everyone not to piece together the broken parts of it!
"A few people went on expenditure to try and find that thing. They did find the location of four broken parts, but they couldn't get their hands on the array at all! Half of the people that came back went mad and another half was too injured to even carry on living for a few years!"
Norman frowned as he pursed his lips, "What a waste!" he immediately acted like a snobby young master. He leaned back and raised his head arrogantly, "Bring me a cup of wine."
The waiter was stunned after seeing the change of expression that occurred so suddenly and nodded, walking away silently before glancing at the paper one last time.
Shane thought for a while and spoke, "Let's find out the location of these things."
"Okay," Norman was about to call the waiter again when Shane stopped him.
"Don't ask the waiter yet," Shane pointed out, "Don't forget that this is a tavern. Rumors start from here. If people realize that we want to go after that thing, we might get in trouble. If possible, we should avoid as much trouble as we can."
Norman closed his mouth and reluctantly blended into the crowd again, walking away just like that. The waiter came back with the wine only to find the table empty. There was a coin placed on the table.
He scratched the back of his neck and shrugged, walking away without saying another word.
As soon as Norman walked out of the tavern, he heard a few people shouting at one another followed by the tremble of the ground. He glanced around only to find people in groups standing not far away on the street as sparks of dark energy flew around the place.
It seemed someone was fighting.
Norman walked closer and found that a few demons were fighting head-on with their powers, and no one wanted to stop it. This was what the original demon world should be like. He looked uncomfortable at the scene for a moment before someone shoved him forward. He turned and yelled, "What are you doing?"
"You're standing in the way!" another demon looked at Norman with a displeased expression on his face, "Get out of my way!"
Norman was about to say something when one of the demons fighting around in the circle surrounded by other common demons fell to his death as the victor one raised his hand in the air with a grin on his face, "I won! If there's anyone who would like to challenge me, come forward!"
At this time, the demons were pushing and pulling one another. This group of commoners wasn't very peaceful as they all yelled and scolded one another while pushing each other. Amid this, Norman's body was pushed so much that he ended up entering the circle, standing in front of the man who had just murdered another demon.
The dead body was taken aside by someone as everyone else cheered.
Norman wanted to cry. He didn't want to fight at all!
Everyone cheered him as if he jumped into the circle to fight. Norman stared at the people around him and took a deep breath, "System, what should I do, ah? I never wanted to fight."
Shane narrowed his eyes as he looked around. These people looked more like hunks who would kill to do anything. Unfortunately, these were all demon commoners. Things like this were probably happening all around this city. He sighed and said, "Sure, if you want to fight the entire demon community, you can go against them and run. With your strength, you can probably run as far as ten meters."
Norman's face paled as he stared at the bulging man standing in front of him. The latter almost looked like a sumo wrestler with big horns on his head rather than a person! Wasn't it that fighting with this kind of person would also kill him?!
Even though he had these thoughts in his head, he took a deep breath and pulled out his sword. He only had one spell to use, which was a darkness power-sucking spell. So he instantly used a sword to defend and stood in a defensive position to attack any minute. If things go wrong, he would use the spell without pausing for a bit!
His thoughts about fighting and winning were beautiful, but the reality was cruel. As soon as the fight started, the huge man's body flashed as he rushed in front of Norman and hit the latter with his fist. The man didn't even use any power and fought with his bare arms.
Norman's body flew out of the circle and fell to the ground, covered with blood. He felt pain hitting every limb of his body.
If Norman hadn't suffered from that devastating pain not too long ago, he would have felt shocked right now, but he didn't. He wiped the blood from the corner of his lips and chuckled, "If it weren't for that stupid pill, I would have fainted from that hit just now."
"You're welcome," said Shane shamelessly as he sat back in his space and stared at the screen as if he were watching a TV show. "You need to be fast. You might as well use that power right now."
Norman was about to nod when the big man's body flashed again and hit Norman straight in his stomach. His body was thrown back with a force that he was unable to block. He finally laid back, curled up against the hard ground covered with stones. His entire body felt like it was covered with wounds and blood, almost as if he were stabbed with pins throughout his body.
He took a sharp breath and pushed himself up to his feet. Without thinking twice, he instantly started chanting that spell!
Spell echoed in his mind as he stared deeply at the big demon guy in front of him. Just when he felt that the demon would approach him like before, he felt a rush of energy being transferred to his body from the demon's body. Then he saw the big demon falling to his knees with a look of horror in his eyes.
Then he glanced upon Norman and asked in a stuttering voice, "W-Who the heck are you?"
Norman simply sneered and didn't reply. How could he tell this person that he was a ghost on a mission to destroy this world? Just as he was about to say something, a few people rushed over and yelled, "Ah…. we are under attack! The neighboring city is attacking us!"
Everyone's face paled as one of the ladies sobbed and spoke to her friend, "Why is it always like this? They attack us almost every day! Our population is reducing! What have we done to deserve this?"
Her friend sneered and crossed her hands on her chest, "Really? Didn't you kill twenty-one families in their city last year? You were the serial killer they couldn't find because you don't even belong to their people! You hypocritical girl!"
"Don't talk back to me!" the first girl instantly pulled out a sword and had just started to attack when her so-called friend used her power first and slaughtered the girl by slashing her neck. The pretty head fell to the ground with a thud, "Those who go against me can die!"
Norman watched this scene with widened eyes. No wonder this world was supposed to be destroyed. Not a single person was innocent!
He didn't think much about this anymore as he stood up from the ground and rushed away from that place. Since this place was going to be attacked, he should better hide!
"Don't hide, go find a library first," Shane spoke through the mind.
"Why? Won't it be dangerous?"
"It's fine," Shane could control the body and help his host escape the critical situations, "It's because there's a war that I'm choosing to go to the library. Everyone must be busy running away. So we will have a chance to find secret information about that object we found. It could be that the info about this would probably be hidden in the deepest part of the library, away from the eyes of people. So let's go and find where are other parts of that array thing that waiter talked about."
Norman nodded and didn't argue anymore as he walked around the street while hiding among the civilians.
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