Endless Journey: Infinite Realms 266 Karma is your own Undoing

"Huh?"

Ray was not sure why, but out of nowhere, he suddenly felt uneasy.

It was as if a pile of worms were not crawling under his skin, with their cold, sticky shells clinging on his dermis.

Needless to say, Ray was not happy because of this.

"What the hell?" Ray muttered to himself as he stood up quickly.

He rotated his power inside his body as he began to look around him warily.

"Why am I suddenly feeling like this? Is something about to happen?" Ray thought as he narrowed his eyes.

"No, that can't be. I have already set thousands of bombs around the Green Moon. Anyone who tries to attack me will be in danger from my bombs! That should just mean that I am safe here! But even with that… why am I feeling this uneasy?"

"…"

No matter how much Ray tried to reassure himself, the uneasy feeling still remained inside him.

It became so much to the point that he was left with no choice but to discuss about it on his Companions.

"Oi Noelle and Vera, do you see anything wrong around this moon?" Ray asked the two as he tried to make himself look calm. "I just feel like… there is something that might happen here."

"Ray, you told us to just stay here on the Green Moon and not do anything, as you wanted the other two factions to fight each other first. You have been saying that, yet you think that we are in danger of getting attacked now?" Vera replied crossly as she crossed her arms. "Of course there is a chance that we will get attacked here!"

"…" Noelle did not give any reply, as she continued on staring at the night sky.

"I don't want you to criticize my decision. Just f**king me if Just tell me if you can hear anything that is approaching this place! It's just as simple as that!" Ray replied angrily as he glared at Vera. "Now, does your ears hear anything weird?"

"No. I don't hear anything approaching this place." Vera replied as she shook hear head.

"I see." Ray replied pensively. "So does that mean that I am just being paranoid now?"

"Won't you just say even a thank you to me?"

"I don't have to. You are just doing your job for me." Ray calmly said, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. "Do you have to thank your servant for something that he/she must do? Of course not. That just lowers the value of their work."

"Tsk, if it were not for your explosives, I could have beaten you black and blue already…" Vera muttered to herself.

Ray, who heard this, let out a smirk as he curled his thumb.

"Urgh!" Right after Ray did this, Vera suddenly doubled over as she clutched her head.

She seemed to be in great pain, which was clearly visible on her shut eyes and flushed skin. Her breathing became rapid as her whole body began to tremble.

Blood then came pouring out of her mouth in large quantities, so much that the sand underneath her began to turn red.

"I just exploded a little portion of my explosives inside you. That ought to teach you a little lesson." Ray said to Vera as he gazed at her bloodied mouth. "Now I know that you can heal easily from what I did, but the pain must not have been good, right?"

"Hah, hah, f**k you!"

"Well, you can say whatever you want to me, but you won't be able to defy me." Ray said as he ignored Vera, whose complexion was now improving.

He glanced at Noelle again, who was still staring intently above her.

"Oi! What the hell are you staring at?" Ray shouted to Noelle as he grabbed her left arm tightly. "Come, f**king look at me!"

Ray gripped her arm so hard that a pained expression appeared on Noelle's face, but she still did not avert her gaze away at the sky.

"Tsk, are you going bonkers again? What a f**king drag…" Ray murmured to himself angrily as he flung Noelle's arm away from him. "You couldn't even answer a question from me, and you dare to act like this? Do you want to be in great pain too?"

Ray immediately curled his thumb, which was followed by another blood flow on Noelle's mouth, but even with that, Noelle still did not move away nor move her eyes away.

Upon seeing this, Ray could only throw his arms in the air in frustration.

"Motherf**ker!"

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When Ray met Noelle before, he first saw her as a crazy person.

She had been always worshipping this 'Emperor' of hers, and she does so with a fervent devotion that managed to creep Ray out.

Bu even with this kind of fanaticism, Ray still wanted to make Noelle his Companion and Slave because of her ability.

Noelle was a top tier assassin, and she was versed in all fields related to the art of assassination.

Melding with the environment, usage of assorted weapons and mastery of countless martial arts.

Name anything that an assassin should know, and Noelle most certainly will be an expert on it.

If it were not for Vera's help and his own tricks, Ray was not sure if he could have taken in Noelle with him. But fortunately for him, he managed to get her for himself.

Since then, Ray had benefited from using Noelle to the fullest.

But right now, Ray had been slightly regretting taking Noelle with him.

"Tsk, there had been times that this woman had been acting like this, and now is the worst one. What a f**king waste of my time." Ray thought to himself as he glared at Noelle's stationary body.

"Wait, could be she thinking of rebelling against me? No that can't be." Ray thought to himself as she shook his head.

"WIth my status as a Traveler, there is no way that Noelle can just kill me, because if I die, Noelle dies too." Ray thought to himself as he felt more and more suspicious on what Noelle was doing. "There are also the explosives that I placed inside her body. If she makes me angry, I can just trigger those explosives, killing her easily. With those two factors in place, there is no way that Noelle can just attack me. Unless she is feeling suicidal, there is no way that Noelle will attack me! Heh, and with the way that she is right now, for her to attack me is just an impossibility!"

After Ray thought of these, he decided to leave Noelle alone.

He turned his back towards Noelle as he decided to approach Vera, but at the instant that he did this, he heard Vera's shout reaching towards him.

"Ray! I can hear something approaching us right now! And from what I can hear, our visitors are powerful!"

At the moment that Vera said these words, the uneasy feeling inside Ray had increased once more, as if the visitors were related to it.

"Who the hell are they?" Ray thought to himself fiercely as he stared at the direction where Vera was looking.

Coincidentally, this was also the direction where Noelle was staring at since earlier.

Ray did not think too much of it as he was more worried on the appearance of his visitors, as his unease just continued to increase.

He pushed Noelle aside as he walked forward, with his eyes focused on observing the newcomers.

Fortunately for Ray, he did not have to wait that long before he saw the newcomers.

5 seconds after Vera made her announcement, Ray and the others saw a massive body approaching the Green Moon.

This body was as large as Peina, and its appearance was also similar to Peina, except for the fact that Peina's skin was green, while the newcomer's skin was blue.

This blue giant looked intimidating by itself already, but after some seconds of looking, Ray realized that it was not only the blue giant that had arrived.

Sitting on top of the blue giant's head was a man who was wearing something that looked like a wizard's cloak.

His clothes and hat swayed as the blue giant got nearer to the Green Moon, making the man look extremely mysterious.

These two were the only ones that Ray saw, making it apparent that these two came here to the Green Moon by themselves.

At first Ray was wary of these two, but after a few seconds of looking, Ray eyes widened as he realized that he was actually familiar with the wizard-like man.

"Wait… isn't that guy the Traveler that has allied with the Symbolists?" Ray thought to himself as he stared at the two. "As for that blue giant… that must be the prisoner at the Blue Moon. So he also managed to enslave it too…"

"Wait! Why am I even thinking about this? I should be worried now!" Ray thought to himself as he shook his head. "First of all, why the f**k are these two here? Are they trying to attack this place by themselves only? Without any help from their allies? Are they nuts or what?"

No matter which way Ray looked at the current situation, there is no way that the wizard man and the blue giant will win in a confrontation against them, especially with the way that Ray had prepared defenses around the Green Moon.

"I have implanted thousands of explosives around the Green Moon, especially at the atmosphere." Ray muttered as he saw the blue giant still going towards them. "I only have to detonate it with my power, and those explosives will explode right at the atmosphere! With the amount that I placed there, it should be enough to kill you!"

"Now, if you two want to die, then just go and enter the atmosphere!" Ray thought with finality as he saw that the blue giant was about to touch the atmosphere of the Green Moon.

"Come on! Touch it already!" Ray thought to himself excitedly as he began to smile excitedly. "I don't know why you are being this idiotic, but that's fine with me. If you want to die, then go die with a bang!"

As the distance between the giant and the atmosphere became less than a meter, Ray tensed his body to prepare himself to detonate the explosives.

But before the giant's body could reach the atmosphere, Ray suddenly heard the wizard man talking.

The wizard man's voice was strangely captivating, and Ray could not help but shiver as he heard it.

"Okay, I see that a lot of hostile people are trying to welcome me here. Hmm… even if you are all excited to see me, that does not mean that I can just go in there." The wizard man said as he tilted his head. "Well, since you are trying so hard to greet me, it's just fair that I give out a greeting of my own too."

"Clap Clap." The wizard man suddenly clapped his hands, which just increased the unease inside Ray.

"My faithful shadow servant, it's your turn now to impress me." The wizard man then glanced at Ray's direction, which made Ray widen his eyes in panic.

"You, what the f**k are you talki-"

Ray's rude reply was cut off as he suddenly felt something penetrating him from his back.

"What the…" Ray looked down on his chest, and there he saw a massive blade poking out of his left chest area.

"This…" As he saw this blade, Ray immediately realized who had attacked him.

Amidst the pain that he is feeling right now, Ray did his best to turn his head around in order to look at the person who stabbed him.

It took him a few seconds to do so, but Ray managed to look at the face of his attacker.

"Noelle…. are you out of your mind right now?" Ray choked out these words as blood spilled out of his mouth.

His eyes were solely concentrated on Noelle, who was holding a blade with a crazed look on her eyes.

She seemed to have not heard what Ray had said as her eyes were gazing intently at the wizard man.

"Emperor… I have done what you wanted." Noelle said as she plunged the blade deeper on Ray. "I-I am killing this possible usurper right now!"

"What the hell is this!" Ray shouted at as he felt his life starting to slip away from him. "If you kill me, you will die too! Why are you doing this!"

"If the Emperor wills me to sacrifice my life for him, then I shall be happy to do so." Noelle replied as she gave Ray and empty gaze. "Since the Emperor wanted to eliminate you, I of course will do everything that I can to do that!"

"No!!!"

"Just be honored that you were treated by my Emperor as a threat." Noelle said as she twisted the blade that she held. "It's rare that he does something like this…."

"Vera! What are you doing? Help me out here!" Realizing that he was about to die, Ray desperately looked at Vera as he asked her for her help. "If I die, you will die too!"

"…"

But instead of receiving a reassuring answer, what Ray got from Vera was a sneer and an angry stare.

"Ray, I don't care if you are dying right now. Actually, I am happy!" Vera said as she joined Noelle on plunging the blade deeper on Ray.

"Ugh!"

"Since you have taken us in as your Companions, my life has been hell!" Vera shouted out as tears began to fall down from her face. "You made me do humiliating things, and you even forced yourself on me several times! You think I am happy with those things happening? Of course not!"

"Glu glu glu…" Ray tried to explain himself, but the blood flowing out of his mouth was too much that it was impossible for him to speak now.

"So what if you die now? I don't care even that kills me!" Vera said as she stared to laugh. "If your death is the only way that I can be free, then I shall accept it! So, don't try to plead on me, you rotten bastard!"

"Grrr…" Ray tried to activate his explosives, but to his chagrin, he realized that he was too weak right now to even detonate his weakest explosive.

As he realized this, Ray knew that there is no hope for him anymore.

His Companions had turned on him, and he was not even able to activate his power.

The only thing that he can do was to slump down on the ground as he bled out to death.

"…"

As Ray closed his eyes in his final moments, the last thing that he heard was the wizard man's voice.

"Noelle, good job! I shall remember your valiant sacrifice! Once I conquer this world, I shall erect a statue depicting you bravery!"

Ray was unable to make any comments about this, as his mind was already covered by darkness.

Chapter end

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