BXBX NOVEL Chapter 189: Lies and Deceit
Chapter 189: Lies and Deceit
The way they died was pretty silly.
While they planned on killing them for kill stealing, they ran away, but then they tripped and rolled down a hill, landing on the river below, where they eventually drowned.
It was a pretty unlucky series of events for them.
It was turning night, so they returned back to the Eldertree Institute and saw other students doing the same.
There was a long line to the Point Shop and the leaderboards were updating with every passing second.
Team Lucius was currently in the top spot with a whopping 1080 points. The second place was only at 677 points.
After some time of waiting, Glenn handed over their gathered items for the stall vendor.
The stall vendor quickly counted the points, then told the referees, and they updated the leaderboard.
Their team appeared in fifth place with 490 points.
"Fifth, argh." Roberto sighed. "How the hell did that first place team get so many points?"
"Almost full team of mercenaries, no wonder." Glenn said.
"What\'re you guys planning to do now?" Terry asked. "If you guys don\'t have anything to do, should we play a game of Mad Marbles?"
"I\'d love to, but me and Glenn are planning to visit the Mourning Room." Roberto said. "They\'re planning to put Brady\'s name on the Wall of Memorial, so we\'d like to be there..."
"Oh..." Terry nodded and patted him on the shoulder. "Understandable. See you tomorrow then, alright?"
"Mm." Roberto nodded, and then he and Glenn left with their Floor Orbs in hand.
"What about you, Ryan? Are you down?" Terry asked with a smile.
"I also have some things to do back in the real world." Ryan said with a smile and scratched the back of his head. "I see you two tomorrow."
"Aight," Terry replied, waving as Ryan walked away.
Adam followed Ryan with his gaze until he disappeared around the corner.
\'I always thought Ryan was good with his emotions, as I couldn\'t get a good reading out of him, but now he is feeling pretty impatient. I wonder what\'s got him so worked up.\'
...
At the Mourning Room, another name was added to the Wall of Memorial.
It had the names of everyone that had died in the Eldertree Institute, and it was already so many that there was barely any space left on the wall.
Roberto and Glenn lit up incense candles and said a prayer for their fallen friend.
"How\'s Brady doing?" Roberto asked.
"Sad." Glenn said. "He isn\'t answering my phone calls anymore, but I asked his parents, and they said that he\'d been holed up inside his room mostly."
"Maybe we should visit him?" Roberto asked. "After Hunter\'s Month is over. Then we have plenty of stories to talk to him about."
"That sounds good." Glenn said with a smile.
At this moment, the door to the Mourning Room opened and instantly closed with a loud enough slam to startle the two.
Glenn and Roberto turned around-they saw a masked figure standing by the door holding a large knife.
"Who are you?" Roberto asked with sinking feeling in his stomach.
It looked like the masked figure smiled as the mask\'s fabric stretched across his face.
Without having any time to respond, the masked figure crossed the room and lunged at Roberto with the knife.
"What the hell!" Roberto grabbed the hand, but the knife still plunged deep into his shoulder. "Get away from him!" Glenn threw a punch at the mask, but the figure grabbed the fist, pulled his knife out of Roberto\'s shoulder, and then stabbed repeatedly at Glenn\'s chest till it was riddled with holes.
"A-ah!" Glenn let out a final breath before collapsing to the ground.
One of those stabs landed on his heart, instantly killing him.
"Glenn!" Roberto cried out. "Bastard!"
He threw a punch fueled with anger, and it landed squarely on the mask.
The figure stumbled a few steps back, but then threw the large knife, and it landed deep in Roberto\'s side, causing him to crumple to the ground.
Then, the masked figure pulled the knife from his side and stabbed it repeatedly into
Roberto\'s chest.
Roberto reached out towards the mask, but before he could rip the mask off his face, he turned limp as everything turned dark, and he took his final breath.
"Whoo... whoo..." The masked figure stood up and then removed the blood from the knife using a cloth before quietly leaving the room.
At the Mourning Room, two bodies started to slowly turn transparent, but their blood trickled down the hundreds of names on the Wall of the Memorial, leaving stains that could never be washed away.
...
At the exact same time, at the highest floor of the Eldertree.
"What is it?" Renard sounded very annoyed as he took a seat behind his desk.
He was already preparing to return to his quarters to have some alone time with Bertha, but then got called out to his office by one of the students.
If it wasn\'t something important, he planned to expel the student right here and there!
"Well, what is it, Ryan?" Renard said.
Ryan stood in the office with a serious look on his face.
"I\'ve got something important to tell you." Ryan said.
"I am listening." Renard said impatiently. "I don\'t have all day!"
"I heard that you wanted Adam to join you in your cause." Ryan said. "I am friends with him,
so he told me."
Renard frowned and tapped his finger against the desk.
"Yes, I did, and so what?"
"It\'s not news you\'d like." Ryan said. "However, behind your back, Adam is insulting and ridiculing you. He thinks your idea of justice is idiotic."
"What?" Renard gasped. "I gave him a special privilege to visit outside whenever he wanted to and allowed him to skip some of the classes. You\'re saying he is insulting me behind my
back?"
"Yes." Ryan nodded. "I don\'t like him doing that, as I think you\'re a brilliant man; that\'s why
I came to tell you this..."
"That bastard!" Renard slammed his hand on the mahogany desk and cracked it from the middle. "After all I did for him, that two-faced bastard!"
Ryan hid his smile behind his calm facade.
Renard stood up and stormed out of the office, leaving Ryan alone.
When the footsteps disappeared, Ryan let out chilly laughter that echoed through the empty
room.
"What a fucking fool." Ryan said with a grin. "Just a few lies, and Renard believes it all,
haha!"
It was true that Adam had told them about his meeting with Renard, but he never insulted
him or made fun of him.
It was all Ryan\'s lies and deceit.
"Now that Adam will be taken care of by Renard, there\'s one more person I have to deal with.\'
Ryan\'s smile grew.
...
Inside his room, Adam juggled a small, hand-sized ball and thought about some mundane things like what he would have for morning breakfast before returning to the forest for the
Hunter\'s Month.
At that moment, the scenery around him changed, and the bed disappeared below him.
He fell on a hard, forest ground and realized he was no longer in his bedroom, but instead
back at the outside forest!
The howls of dangerous monsters surrounded his location.
Adam\'s eyes shrunk, and he stood up.
Then he saw someone standing not far from him.
It was none other than Renard, a look of coldness in his face.
He was holding Floor Orb in his hand-it was the master Floor Orb of the twenty-fifth floor,
and he was able to summon other users of Floor Orb at will.
"Headmaster?"
"Making fun of me, huh?" Renard gritted his teeth. "I thought you could see the bigger
picture, but in the end, you are just a brat."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"What are you saying?" Adam\'s eyes shook, and he felt chill seep deep into his bones.
He realized something frightening.
\'He is here to kill me!\'