Chapter 213 Chapter 213 - The Director
The advisors had no problem following that order as they simply closed the door to his room, and all watched each other with serious looks on their faces.
"Don't find information on the Reaper, continue searching for any traces of Aiden Nightshade. That's the priority," said the Director of the Nightshades, the one who would oversee every operation that would come out of this room.
"But-"
"No buts continue searching, I'm sure that he isn't dead, he must be hiding somewhere and make sure that he won't find out about his disappearance or else, it would actually become crazy," said the director, obviously talking about Sylas who was on the other side of that door, destroying everything that he could grasp.
"Yes, sir, we will continue the search," replied one of the advisors, not wanting to anger the director as it would be even more problems than the head.
"Then, what are you still doing here," said the Director, dismissing the advisors.
It had been a month almost two since they had launched their research of Aiden Nightshade and they had gotten nothing, absolutely nothing.
How was it even possible for him to disappear like that?
Emily, his maid, had been trying to find him for the last two months without a single clue.
'Let's hope that we will find something soon, well... before he finds out,' thought the Director, as this was simply his only hope.
If Sylas were to find out that Aiden was missing or even dead, the Director couldn't even begin to imagine what would happen to the estate.
In a week or less, it would be in complete ruins.
'Where are you? Just where are you?' thought the Director, as he simply didn't believe that Aiden was dead and he had good reasons to believe.
Reasons that he simply couldn't reveal to the advisors who all told him that Aiden was dead.
The Director was sure that Aiden was alive, there was not a single doubt in his mind.
***
"Oh, a lake, interesting," mumbled Melinda as she watched over the duel with great care analyzing every single detail that she could glimpse at.
Olivia and Emma didn't react when they saw the environment chosen for the fight, as if it wasn't even a concern, still as confident as before.
If only they could've known Aiden's earlier thoughts before remembering his flight ability.
Melinda, on the other hand, already knew of it since she had seen him take part in the trial and learn how to fly and use Qi.
To be honest, that was the thing in which she was the most interested, seeing how Aiden would be using his Qi, an energy that wasn't used by many.
In fact, those who could use it were counted on one hand, and not all five fingers were used when counting.
Just imagine how rare are the users of that energy, it was simply amazing for Melinda to have found one who was only starting with using it.
It was a great opportunity for her since she would be able to see his progress over time with the utilization of Qi.
It was an opportunity that she would make sure not to miss.
Then, she glanced at the timer which was on her right and saw that this duel was finally about to begin.
"Let's go, Aiden!" shouted both of the girls as they continued watching him from this little room.
The three of them, Melina, Olivia, and Emma, were in the spectator's room which was high in the air, right above the duel room.
It was the perfect place to be able to glance at the whole area without any problems.
Then, they started hearing the countdown of the duel starting.
[0:03]
[0:02]
[0:01]
[0:00]
[The duel will now start.]
***
As the countdown reached zero, Isolde was swimming toward the nearest boat.
Those were the wooden structures that had been in the process of being created while Aiden had thought of the idea of flying.
While she was going in the direction of that boat, Aiden was obviously in the air watching her struggle to reach the boat.
In fact, it seemed that she had a little difficulty swimming, however, Aiden wasn't one to talk since he didn't even know how to swim in the first place.
'Well, should I end this as fast as it started,' thought Aiden as he started flowing down toward the struggling Isolde.
Then, as he reached her, he took his dagger and prepared to slash her neck in one clean strike.
*Slash*
However, when he saw that Isolde's head was floating on the water, Aiden had only one single question on his mind.
'Why is the duel not finished yet?'
Hadn't he just killed her with one clean strike, so why wasn't he hearing the usual beeping sound in the back of his mind?
What was happening here?
Then, Aiden in complete confusion started to look around himself, asking himself if something had happened to him or the duel for that matter.
Had there been a malfunction with the duel room?
Aiden wasn't sure if that was the case as he knew that if it had been something created by the system, then the chances of there being a mistake were slim, extremely slim.
But, then minutes passed and he noticed that nothing was happening.
Then, having nothing else to do, he headed toward the door of the room, however, no matter how hard he tried to open it, the message appeared in front of him over and over again.
[The duel is not finished, you cannot leave this room.]
Aiden had tried one time, two times, three times, but nothing changed he was stuck in here with the floating body of Isolde.
But then as he turned around, he noticed that something was weird with his surroundings as if something was constantly moving around, he didn't know what it was.
However, he knew that there was something weird with this room, his instinct was telling him and he wouldn't make the mistake of not listening to it.
'Wait, where is her body?' thought Aiden, as he noticed that Isolde's body had completely disappeared from where it had once been.
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