Arafura S1 - Darker Than Black

S1 | Chapter I | Secret Room I Abandoned

Slowly Mr. Gen began to wake up. The body feels tormented. Hands, feet, to the head, all feel difficult to move. The hard impact of a fall makes the forehead of the head drain a little blood. Breathing feels heavy when the chest hurts—ah it seems like this is the effect of hitting the tree trunk when falling. Not only that, some joints feel like painfully twisted.

His ears heard nothing but silence. His gaze was very dark, only a little light was visible in his eyes but it was very dim. He tried to move his hand, at this time he was still in a sleeping position, under a very cold floor but felt a little littered with sand.

"D—Where am I?" Mr. Gen forced himself to rise.

It felt like the wind was flowing from the ceiling, it turned out that right above Mr. Gen there was a large hole as wide as his body. It seems that Mr. Gen fell through that hidden hole and then slid into this room. His gaze turned to glance at the surroundings, this room looks like an undisclosed underground room—no, it seems more suitable to be called an abandoned underground room. Smelling from the smell like filled with dust that immediately makes the nose itchy, the aura was so empty, really a bad room. Mr. Gen guessed, maybe the existence of the hole is not the actual entrance, the hole as designed for a hidden chimney, besides there are no stairs in it, anyway, the distance from the end to the end of the hole is very far like the distance of the well excavation, of course Mr. Gen can not climb back.

This room is empty. There is nothing here, just a collection of sand that pollutes the floor. When Mr. Gen touched the wall of the room, somehow it felt cold and wet as if it was really an abandoned room, even some parts had felt slippery as if they had been filled with small moss. It's possible, the real thing is more than Mr. Gen expected, the circumstances where there's nobody and nothing adds to the suspicion, moreover, this abandoned room was right under the ground of the luxurious castle territory. It's so illogical!

It should be impossible. The castle considers the circumstances of the surrounding so it is impossible for there to be an abandoned room like this. If if the abandoned room is outside the academy fortress, it is very reasonable, because it is out there in nature there is no life—at least it is according to the knowledge of Mr. Gen.

In the silence of the moment Mr. Gen heard the sound of running water. Although it was a little faint, but Mr. Gen was certain of its existence. Way out. If the sound is here, it means that there is a road connected to this room. Mr. Gen tried to find out where the sound came from, he glanced at the entire wall of the room but did not seem the slightest existence of the door. The whole thing was just a very simple flat wall.

"Dam. Where's that sound from?" Pissed Mr. Gen.

Mr. Gen then tried to walk down the wall of the room, he walked while putting his hands on the wall to make sure there was no secret door in it. His feet continued to move with a very slow rhythm, filled with caution. The sound of each step was very audible due to the amount of sand scattered. However, the instant the sound of steps stepping on the sand changed made Mr. Gen startled.

"Wood floor?"

Turns right. In front of him was a floor made of wood, different from the others. Mr. Gen then squat—the sound of running water is indeed very audible from this position. Mr. Gen tried to knock on the wood—suara as if there was an empty room inside.

"Not wrong anymore. This must be the way out!"

No. gabe. Mr. Gen did not open it right away. He is a person who easily suspects the circumstances around, including on the wooden floor. He thought that if it were opened, it would be very dangerous if it was a trap. Although Mr. Gen was a strong man who drank fresh blood, it did not mean that he would not be injured if an axe or dozens of arrows hit him.

Then Mr. Gen unleashed his power that instantly transformed his figure into a man like a demon. The black aura from him instantly turned red like fire. The aura was giving off heat energy without light, even something that was nearby—including the wet mossy walls—it was slowly drying out. The floor below was burning with heat from his feet. Mr. Gen is ready to hit. When his strength was at its maximum, he immediately threw out the punch without any restraint. The room immediately shook as the wooden floor began to be hit three times. The wooden floor was slowly cracked and then shattered unceasingly making the sound of water flow more clearly heard. The wooden fragments fell and disappeared.

Without a second thought Mr. Gen jumped into it. His body slid through the hole and then hit a very cold pool of water. The swift flow and depth of the water made his body dragged by the current without being able to survive.

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