670: Escape

Escape

"What should we do?!" Hearing what the other party said the trio who felt elated that the New God was dead started panicking again.  0

"I need you guys to head to the North East of that place, and once you're at the edge contact me again." After that the radio became silent. 

"Are we going?" Tala asked while looking around nervously, Miguel was also looking at Nikki waiting for her answer. Nikki gritted her teeth as she stared at the unconscious Erste she then looked at her other two companions.

"Fine, let's go." 

...

Even though the edge of the place they were in wasn't that far, it took the trio a long time to reach it as Erste's body was quite heavy.

When the group saw the edge of the fake city that they were in their various thoughts stopped. Even though they already heard it from Erste seeing it for themselves was something else. 

"Can we really go home?" Miguel murmured to himself. Tala was barely holding on and Nikki had closed her eyes seemingly deep in thought. After several seconds of silence, Nikki contacted the person on the radio. 

"We're here, what should we do next?" 

Nikki waited for a response but none came. 

"Hey, are you still there?!" 

"Hey?! respond g*ddamnit!" 

Nikki screamed at the radio transceiver, but no matter how loud she shouted, no matter what kind of profanity or insult came out of her mouth the person on the other side never responded.

"What should we do now?"

Miguel couldn't stand the silence and asked. Nikki looked at her two companions and the sleeping Erste. Nikki, for the first time in her entire life, was unsure, this was beyond anything she could have imagined, so she answered Miguel with the truth. 

"I... I don't know..."

"Huh, what do you mean you don't know!" 

"I don't know what I don't know. It's not like I know more than you two, I seriously have no idea what to do next." 

Miguel gnashed his teeth as wanted to punch something but instead started screaming out loud. In his mind Miguel knew that Nikki didn't have all the answers, in fact, she must be just as scared as he and Tala were, but even so, he wanted someone to be responsible.  While the group became silent the radio transceiver suddenly sounded. 

"Hey, are you guys still there?" 

"Yes! We're still here you b*stard!" Miguel was the one who spoke. 

"Huh? Who the f*ck are you calling  a b*stard?" 

"Who else but you is a f*cking b*stard! Do you know how many times we tried contacting you without getting any response?!" Miguel's voice was trembling as he spoke. 

"..." The person on the other side sighed deeply before continuing to speak. "I was doing something here on my side. I know that you're scared but I have my own sh*t to take care of. Damn, we don't have time for this an Old God might appear any time now."

"We're already at the location you told us to go to, what do we do now?" Before Miguel could say something more Nikki already took the transceiver from him. 

"What I'm about to say next might sound crazy, but you need to trust me and jump down from your position." 

"Huh?" 

When the three heard what the other party said they unconsciously looked at the edge and saw other floating cities but below that was an endless void.

"You want us to jump down there, to where? Even if we land on the nearest floating city the fall from this height would still kill us. What's the difference between doing this and dying by the Old God's hands they both end in death anyway."

"Even if you do die by falling which you won't it would be significantly better than dying in the Old God's hands. You may not understand it now, but unlike a New God even at full power is simply like a human with superpowers, an Old God is completely different. An Old God is something close to what we think of as a true God, depending on what kind of Old God it is it can control certain elements in the universe, most of them are able to modify reality and control time to a certain extent. So if an Old God were to capture you, that Old God may be able to rewrite your reality to make you feel pain like no other. You can't even escape by dying as an Old God is able to manipulate souls. So do you still think dying by falling is the same as being captured by an Old God?"

"Tsk," Nikki clicked her tongue as she once again looked at the distance between them and the other floating cities. 

"You guys need to act now, the Old God will be there any moment now. Once any Old God fully descends then you won't be able to escape anymore." 

"Damn it! Fine then, let's do this! If you're lying we would die either way so I'm going to bet on you f*cking b*stard! How about you two, are you going or staying?!" Nikki asked the other two who were bewildered by her sudden outburst. 

"Of course, I'll do it!" Miguel also shouted trying to encourage himself. 

"... If you guys are going then I'll go as well." 

"Alright then, let's-" As Nikki was speaking the artificial sky was darkening and the ground they were standing on was trembling violently. 

"Sh*t there's no more time, you guys jump now!" 

Nikki grabbed hold of the unconscious Erste with the help of Miguel, and Tala held onto the radio transceiver. The three were now holding hands and were about to jump but before they could jump, the trio felt a suffocating pressure. They looked upward and saw something like an eye staring at them. 

"F*cking jump now!" 

The trio who were stunned no longer hesitated and jumped downwards and as they were falling, they saw above them that the sky was shattering, and from beyond the sky they heard a voice filled with malice.

"I will find you!"

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