NOVEL NEXT Chapter 495: Empty
" I remember it now, I was right I had heard of a similar occurrence before although even I don't know much about that thing, but I can tell you for sure that whatever that thing was, it was directly related to witches, I had heard rumours of some kind of creature making everything it touches disappear or something like that.
This rumor was attached to another rumor which stated that this thing had killed many of the famous witches. "
Just as Anna spoke these words, Jayden gaze immediately shifted towards Hecate who was still standing there with an expressionless face, she also seemed to be in deep thoughts.
Taking in a long breath Jayden first calmed his mind, and then he went over all the events that had just now taken place and he finally remembered that it was Hecate who had advised him to cut his leg so he was even more sure that she definitely knew something.
" Hecate, you know something about that thing, right? You even warned me about it earlier. " He asked stepping closer to her, and she was finally pulled out of her thoughts, but she didn't respond to his question immediately, only after a few minutes of silence and a long contemplation in her mind did she finally speak:
" Yeah, I think that thing is probably here to hunt me. "
These words confirmed whatever Anna had told him, Jayden acted ignorant and asked with a confused look on his face:
" To hunt you? Weren't you living in that area where no one was around? So why would anyone send something so dangerous just to hunt someone as weak as you? "
Jayden hoped that she could at least share a little part of her secret but Hecate seemed true to her name, the Queen of Lies, as she began to make a random story. Find adventures at M-V-L
" It was a man I had met once before, he wanted to marry me and bring me to his kingdom but at that time I rejected him, I think it is his way of taking revenge. "
Without paying any attention to her words Jayden was in thoughts of his own, the most possible reason why that thing was here could be that whoever was Hecate hiding from here, had probably found her location, and was now trying to kill her, but there was no way to confirm it yet.
Seeing Jayden not listening to her words, Hecate stopped talking and after a few seconds she added:
" We should get out of here, or that thing will come here to hunt us and then it will be much more difficult to leave since it has already seen your teleportation abilit- "
While saying this, Hecate looked a little astonished since she didn't think that Jayden would also have abilities related to space but then her words were interrupted by Jayden:
" Us? No there is no us, that thing is here only to hunt you. Haa, anyway tell me whether it has the ability to track us or not. " Jayden asked as he massaged his temples, wondering why his luck suddenly took a turn for the worse.
" Uh... It's actually us now, and since it has got your leg so it can easily track your location even from a long distance. " Hecate spoke in a low tone, ready for Jayden's words of anger.
" Wah, so now that strange creature have changed its target and will be hunting me instead of you? Did you know that something like that has been sent in search of you? " Jayden asked, his mood becoming worse by the second.
" No! I definitely did not know anything about it being here I was shocked too to see it here, and I never wanted to get you involved in all this, b-" Hecate began to speak in a serious tone but Jayden interrupted her again and asked:
" It's no use talking about all that now, just tell me whatever you know about that thing. It's abilities, its weaknesses or whatever you could remember. "
Hecate nodded and after arranging words in her head she spoke: " It is a beast who is called Empty and just like the name says, it has the ability to remove anything from existence for a particular period of time, as for its weaknesses... "
She fell silent again and then added: " Since it is altering the space and reality so it uses a lot of energy in each attack, therefore it could only use this ability for around fifteen or maybe twenty times and then it would not be able to attack for over an entire day, at least. "
Jayden frowned after hearing these words, even fifteen attacks were more than enough to kill him so this weakness could not really be utilised, then he asked again in annoyed tone:
" Is that all? Am I supposed to take twenty of its attacks first to take advantage of its weakness, do you think that is possible? There has to be something else right? " He asked hoping that Hecate really knew something.
" Hmm, oh right I think if you have a good grasp over the spatial abilities then you might be able to stop it for some time though those abilities can't be used to defeat it.
There is another way, but I don't think it will be very useful... " She muttered the last of her words in a low tone.
" Tell me what is it? " Jayden asked impatiently, he was getting more and more angry and the feelings that he had kept subdued for a long time inside him seemed to pour out slowly, trying to control his mind.
" Although it is impossible, but if someone could control time then it is possible for them to defeat it, though I never heard of someone like that so we should just keep moving. "
She finally said after seeing Jayden get angrier, but she said this since after the death of the Time God, there was no one who could control time like he did, though the higher beings protecting the world took control of the various timelines of the world so that they could stop the world from getting destroyed in its own.
" Time could help me? Tell me, is there a specific way or do we only need to stop the time? "
He asked with a little bit of hope in his voice and even though Hecate could not understand why he was asking she still began to explain every thing she knew related to it.
After listening to her explanation, Jayden closed his eyes and fell deep into thoughts: " So there really is a way to kill that thing, then I will have to- wait you said it is a beast? " Jayden asked as he suddenly opened his eyes.
" Yes, it's a beast. " Hecate answered simply.
His gaze immediately shifted towards the tattoo present on his arm, after a long time he would finally be able to find a beast for Eve,and if she could really take that ability then her strength will increase many times instantly.
" Okay, we are going to hunt that Empty. " Jayden muttered as a smile appeared on his face.
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