Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 127

Chapter 127: The Cracked Veil

The apartment was filled with absolute darkness, except for the faint glow that was surrounding the tiny candy sized creatures that were busy whispering about the man who hadn’t moved from the couch since morning.

“He isn’t dead already, is he? I haven’t seen him opening his eyes for hours.” One of the white, jiggly creature asked its companions.

Merely a second later, it let out a sharp cry when it was hit fiercely. Turning around, it found its friend staring at it with a very unimpressed look. “Why are you hitting me?” It demanded with a hurt expression.

“Because I’m so done with you and your stupidity. Just because he hasn’t opened his eyes for a few hours, are you going to consider him dead? What about sleeping? And can’t you feel him breathing?” The friend demanded in return, shifting its gaze toward the couch.

“Ohh!” Was all the first creature could say as the other possibility dawned on him. As a result, it received another glare from its friend which made it quickly hide behind an elder who was nearby.

Seconds later, another one from the group spoke. “He has been like this for days. Something is weighing heavily on him.”

“I don’t like him being this way.” A fourth one added, carrying a sad expression on its tiny face. “This place has become lifeless… Just like his current state. I miss the good, old days.”

While these tiny, harmless creatures continued to talk, Rune kept his eyes closed even though he was listening to their every word. He felt too tired to even open his eyes, let alone move from the couch.

He hated being in his current state more than anyone, but he was stuck in his current predicament – something that had never happened to him before, and he never ever expected to even happen to him.

It had been exactly eight days since he killed that group of mysterious people in the supermarket and created a crack in his relationship with Grace. Just thinking about that woman made him let out a deep sigh.

This wasn’t in his plan. This wasn’t what he expected to happen – her becoming so much important to him that he had become his current self. None of this was in his plan when he left his world and stepped into the Human Realm to locate the jade bracelet. His initial plan was simple and easy.

He was still struggling with his thoughts when he felt it – the power shift, the presence of the energy that had him not only opening his eyes, but also sitting up with a start.

As an elite warrior of the Magik Realm, he could recognize that energy anywhere. And if there was still any sort of hesitation, it disappeared when he took a look at his jade ring that was shining bright red.

“Is something wrong?” The eldest among the creatures asked when the group witnessed him suddenly sitting up. The concentrated and serious look on his face might have alerted them as well.

Instead of answering, Rune closed his eyes and tapped into his powers that were ready to assist him as usual, actually happy for finally being put to use after being ignored for so long.

With the combined force of the ring and his powers, he tried to track the source of the energy. His search led him straight to a remote village in the northern end of Starship Country where the veil was located – the ward that separated the Earth from the dangers that lurked in the darkness beyond it.

And it barely took him any time to notice the crack in the veil. It was small, but big at the same time. Despite being merely the size of his palm, that crack was big enough for monsters to walk through it… and one had already crossed it.

The dark energy of that monster was still heavy in the air, making Rune realize that he got a new task to take care of. He couldn’t let that monster hurt the humans. It was his job to stop it as the one of the protectors of the Human Realm.

Calling his powers, he sealed the crack even though he knew that the veil wasn’t going to be able to stand for too long. The continous natural disasters that were hitting the Earth, they were damaging and weakening the veil as well, hence the crack. If these disasters continued, the veil was going to give away sooner or later.

Once he had filled the crack, he immediately tracked the energy of the monster to shop it. He was surprised to find out the speed at which the monster was moving, making him realize that despite the small size, it was a powerful one.

He tracked it through cities, states, only to come to a deadly realization – the monster was heading to Sunspire City. For a moment, he thought the monster had sensed him and was coming for him. But he discarded the thought just as quickly as it came. The monsters, they would never seek an elite on their own, not until they had a death wish.

So why….

The answer hit him merely seconds later – leaving him frozen for merely moments that were enough for that monster to cross several more cities and enter the Sunspire City.

Rune was on his feet immediately. He ran out of his apartment and entered the one next to him, his body easily passing through the metal door that did nothing to stop him.

She might have registered his presence because she walked into the living room that very moment, a look of pure surprise and confusion taking over her face when her gaze landed on him.

“Rune? How are you-”

She never got to finish her question as he closed the distance between them with ease and pulled her behind him. His eyes moving toward the floor-to-ceiling window as the creature appeared there at that very moment, ready to attack. A powerful green light escaped his hand, passed through the bulletproof glass, and hit the monster.