BXBX NOVEL Chapter 213: Magic
The dog once bit on him again and again but no matter what he did, he couldn't step on the water and Wei Jun was well behind it.
Wei Jun ignored the giant dog and turned around. The girls also looked at the scene in bewilderment because the dog wasn't coming at them for some reason.
They could see the amount of hate in its eyes, the annoyance, the hunger, but the wolf, from their perspective, wasn't just stepping forward.
Wei Jun turned to the girls, whom he had saved for a reason, and asked, "How do we get out of here?"
"…" Melissa was still not so out of it that she could reply but looking at the bizarre situation, she had a question of her own.
"What was that?! How did you do that?! Why is it not coming after us?!" Okay, maybe it wasn't one question but the questions were along the same lines.
Wei Jun looked at her before he replied in one breath, "That was a giant dog trying to eat you two, I saved you and it can't chase us because I discovered it can't step on water."
"…What?" Melissa was taken aback by how calm Wei Jun was. He was very calm given the situation and that the giant monster was still behind them, growling at them.
"I see you're an idiot." Wei Jun blatantly said and made his way to the middle of the lake and sat down to let the girls come to terms with their situation. Besides, he needed to revise a plan of his own.
He had waited for three days in that place and waited for the monster to go mad with hunger but then Melissa's presence suggested that there were some more with them and if they weren't with Melissa, the good guess was that they were hunted by the monster so his hunger plan was as good as failed.
He turned his eyes to the two girls who were still coming to terms with their current situation and slowly making his way to him.
He was considering whether to use them as bait after finding out how to get out but he was quick to discard that plan soon after the system said.
[And then what?]
What the system simply meant was that how was he planning to get out after that? For instance, even if he were to get out, he would be out in a strange and foreign land and he would be simply blamed for the misfortune that happened to Melissa and her team if there was one.
In such a foreign place, the only fate he would have was death. He would be killed without question so it was better to strike some goodwill with these two so he could make it out safely out of here and then after that as well.
>From now on, the conversation between Melissa and Wei Jun will be in English. <
"Why is it not coming here?" Melissa asked, this time her voice unhitched, which meant she had calmed down to a great degree.
"I don't know." Wei Jun said before he added, "All I know is that it can't step on water. I used this lake to protect myself from it but so far, I haven't been able to find any way out of here."
"How did you come here anyway?" Melissa asked next.
"By this," Wei Jun showed her the bracelet on his arm before he explained, "Some lunatic forced me to wear this and then the next moment, I was here, surrounded by strange no-eyed dogs. Those were doable but then that bigger one came on and no matter what, I could only run away."
When Wei Jun stopped, he looked at Melissa to signal her that it was her turn to ask again but he only saw her with her mouth agape. She wasn't the only one, the girl with her also had the same astonished face.
"You mean to tell me that you fought a blind Barghest yourself and won?" Melissa asked.
'Blind Barghest? That's a better name than no-eyed Barghest.' Wei Jun mused inwardly.
[How is that better?]
[It's not even accurate]
[Blind beings still have eyes]
[These Barghests don't]
Wei Jun couldn't help but admit it was a very good point. Besides, it was just about naming so Wei Jun didn't really care too much.
"They weren't too hard to kill once I got past their Miasma barrier." Wei Jun nonchalantly replied before he asked as if his answer wasn't significant at all, "How do we get out of here?"
Melissa still wasn't willing to let go of this conversation because they needed at least one four-star aura master and one third-circle mage to deal with one no-eyed Barghest.
And yet a cultivator, who wasn't that strong by her accounts either killed not only one no-eyes Barghest, but killed all of them, according to her analysis, but also acted as if he hadn't done anything big.
"Their bodies," The girl with Melissa asked, "What did you do with their bodies?"
The urgency in her voice suggested there was something with the corpses of the monsters but since Wei Jun couldn't tell anyone about his inventory, he lied, "I burned them."
"Why?!" The girl yelled as she stood up, splashing water on Wei Jun's face.
Wei Jun looked at her, wondering whether he should chop her head off or not, but he calmed down in the end and replied, "I was planning to starve the giant beast so it would be too weak to fight me. But that's useless now that you have supplied it with the meat of your team members."
Melissa was aghast at what little consideration Wei Jun had for her teammates but when she remembered those same teammates had also abandoned them, she wasn't very angry about it.
Still, "How were we supposed to know that? And besides, you weren't even supposed to be here anyway? Where did you get that relic anyway?" Melissa asked all of those questions in one breadth.
"You weren't. I wasn't. And I was forced to wear this by a lunatic. If I knew I would be stuck here, I wouldn't have come here." Wei Jun replied to all of the questions in one breath again and then asked one question of his own while raising his wrist, "What do you mean relic?"
"Those bracelets aren't used to enter the gates anymore. They were outdated because they were unreliable about the landing. Nowadays we use spatial magic to create waves and open a rift in the wall of the gate dimension." The girl with Melissa explained before she struck her head playfully and said, "I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Natasha."
"Wei Jun." Wei Jun straightforwardly replied.
"You have a very clear accent; Wei Jun. Do you have a girlfriend?" She asked with a twinkle in her eyes.
Wei Jun where this was going so to avoid any further headaches, he replied, "Yes. I have two."
As he replied, he saw Melissa's face turn awkward which he couldn't understand very well until he saw the crazed look on Natasha's face who was practically drooling at his sight.
"Please, don't ask." Melissa pleaded for Wei Jun to not ask about Natasha. Wei Jun also felt doing so would be a wise thing to do so he asked Melissa, "You still haven't told me how to get out?"
Melissa looked at Wei Ju quietly for some time before she said, "I know how to get out of here. But I doubt that giant wolf will make it possible for us."
Wei Jun looked at the Direhound and he knew it was true.
Wei Jun looked back at Melissa and asked, "So is there another option?"
"Not really. We cannot wait for rescue until everyone inside is dead." Melissa replied.
"So it's up to us to get out of here?" Wei Jun asked.
"Yes," Melissa replied.
"Very well," Wei Jun said before he asked, "Where is that gate you talked about?"
"I'm not telling you," Melissa replied.
"Why not?" Wei Jun asked.
"What's stopping you from using us as bait and get out of here yourself?" Melissa asked. Wei Jun could easily use them as distractions and make it out himself from there.
"I see." Wei Jun replied, completely understanding Melissa's words, and said, "Then lead the way."
Melissa nodded and stood up. Natasha and Wei Jun followed.
"We need to lose that guy first," Melissa said while pointing at the Direhound.
Wei Jun nodded and said, "Follow me."