BXBX NOVEL Chapter 162 It's Just A Tree
A tree which had been living a few minutes ago, it looked really healthy and Johnny\'s enlargement made it look even more healthier but now it was no more all credits to a certain Angel.
Luis didn\'t even look up for once during the time the leaves were falling as he kept looking at his hands with one thought in his mind.
\'All this for just one stat point in stamina.\'
"What did you do to the tree?" Ella asked as she slowly approached Luis.
"It was a mistake, I was testing something when…"
"You should really be careful the way you test your powers," Ella said.
"I said it was a mistake," Luis said. He was beginning to boil inside now but it wasn\'t because of what Ella told him.
"But you killed the tree, you shouldn\'t make mistakes with a life."
"It\'s just a tree Ella and that was the reason I used it in the first place," Luis said and quickly stormed out of her presence.
"Fred, Johnny I want you to return here in the evening." He said before walking away.
Ella kept looking at him until he was out of sight.
"Just a tree." She muttered as he turned to the tree which was now a standing rotten stick.
"Yeah sister, it\'s just a tree," Fred said as he turned and began to walk away.
"Sorry," Johnny said with an awkward tone as he followed behind Fred.
Fred had walked a little distance when he suddenly crashed on the floor.
"Where did that come from?" He winced.
\'You deserve more than that.\' Jasmine said.
\'Did you do that?\' Ella asked.
\'Yes.\'
\'What did Luis exactly do to this tree?\'
\'Angels have the ability to suck energy from other life forces.\' Jasmine said. \'That\'s what Luis did but he took it too far, trees are still part of the world\'s essential life force, they play a big role in keeping earth safe, especially for humans.\'
Two green vines burst out from the ground and wrapped around what was left of the tree. Green light covered the tree preventing Ella from clearly seeing what was happening.
"What are you doing?" She asked with her hands covering her face.
\'Recreation is an essence for survival and continuity.\' Jasmine said.
Immediately after saying that the green light cleared up and in the place where the dead tree used to be a new tree could be seen, it looked like it just sprouted out from the soil.
\'You can do that?\'
Luis had stormed off in anger not because of what Ella had said, he was angry at himself.
There was this feeling of pleasure that came over him when taking the life force from the tree, it was a feeling of addiction that forced him to keep consuming the tree\'s energy until there was nothing left.
He has sucked the tree dry not because he hadn\'t gotten the stat point yet but because of that addictive feeling, it was like the feeling of a man tasting food after one month of starvation.
\'What is coming over me? I always get that feeling when consuming life force but it didn\'t feel this great against Carl and his boys.\'
\'Power can be addictive sometimes, you just have to learn how to control yourself.\' Lena said.
Luis wasn\'t heading for his dorm room as his destination was the library where he was going to meet Michael for their unfinished business yesterday.
"Hi greenie." He was greeted by Emilia immediately as he walked into the library.
"Hi Emilia," Luis said as he quickly walked past her to avoid getting dragged into another conversation like last one and he was glad she didn\'t call him back.
But she would have called him back if a middle-aged man hadn\'t pulled up on her counter.
Luis walked through the shelves until he found the one he was looking for then he pulled the book and quickly got in before anybody saw him.
"Hi Luis," Nika said.
"Hello Nika, how are you?" Luis asked.
"My system is fully operational, thanks for asking."
Luis pulled up in front of the monitors to check the footage from yesterday, he scanned through the footage from yesterday until he found the footage where some boys who he didn\'t seem to recognise crossed paths with Fred on his way into the market centre.
They were three of them and Fred knowing that he stood no chance especially without his abilities decided to make the run for it.
\'He\'s now using other boys, maybe his new recruits.\'
Luis kept searching through the various cameras until he found the one of Johnny.
Johnny was going to the pitch when four boys who Luis also knew none of them appeared from nowhere, they had him surrounded but Johnny targeted the one he believed was the weakest, knocked him down and made the run for it.
The similar thing about both footages was that the boys didn\'t even make any effort to chase any of them.
The conversation in both footages didn\'t make any sense at all because all the boys said was that they were going to beat them.
"The days of nonsense are numbered George," Luis said as he slowly walked to the elevator. "Oh yeah I don\'t have access without Michael."
"Actually Michael has granted you access today," Nika said.
"Huh?"
"Yes it is just for today."
Luis shrugged his shoulders as he stepped into the elevator which quickly took him down to Michael\'s laboratory.
He walked into the lab to see that Michael wasn\'t there yet.
"I wonder what\'s taking him so long," Luis said as his eyes darted towards the VR headsets that were lying on top of the cupboard beside him.
He stretched his hand to pick the VR headset he had used yesterday when bright white light suddenly appeared before him causing him to quickly retract his hands.
"Welcome Michael," Nika said.
"Oh, you\'re here," Michael said with a smile.
"Yeah and you know why," Luis said.
"Come down Angel, I know demonic weapons are dangerous to you but that doesn\'t mean they are not useful against demons, you even used the demonic sword to kill a demon on the demon planet."
"So you made a demonic weapon," Luis said.
"Not exactly," Michael said.
"Can I see it then?" Luis asked.
"Sure, just give me a second," Michael said as he tapped the floor twice with his feet.
A table was beginning to rise, Luis thought it was the weapon but it wasn\'t, the table that rose up had the rectangular container of absorbic acid on it.
Michael carefully carried the chemical to where he had taken it from yesterday and then returned to the same spot where he was standing.
"Now let me go bring the sword," Michael said as he began to go down.
"Why can\'t I just go down with you?" Luis asked.
"I\'m not sure you would want to, anyways stay here and don\'t use those VR headsets," Michael said as his head finally went out of view.
Luis stood in the same spot for what looked like five minutes, he got bored and thought of using the headsets before Michael returned but just as he was about to turn he heard the motion of Michael coming up.
Michael didn\'t come up alone as the table came up but this time the item on it was covered with a white cloth.
"You wanted to see it, here you have it," Michael said as he pulled the white cloth off revealing something that caught Luis by surprise.
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