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Chapter 148
Cold air hit his face.Leo stopped.It was the tail end of summer. It shouldn't have been this cold at this hour. The sun was sitting right there in the sky, not a single cloud anywhere, the sky completely clear and open. But the air was cold, an unexplainable cold, the kind that didn't match the season and had no obvious cause.After walking a short distance he turned his head.Nadia was looking forward.Carefully, fixed, not moving. Her gaze was locked onto the library building. The building sat at the center of campus, four stories, stone and glass, wide steps leading up to the entrance, tall thin trees lined up on either side. The windows were large, the inside was normally visible from out here, but now the inside was dark, the glass surfaces showing nothing but the reflection of the sky.Leo looked at Nadia.Had she drifted off again?But no. Nadia's posture was different from before. When she had been standing at the window earlier her body weight had shifted, her shoulders had
Chapter 147
Leo turned around."Whatever, forget it.""No."Leo stopped. Nadia's voice was quiet but clear, and Leo knew well enough by now what that particular tone meant."I'm not forgetting it." Nadia stepped forward. "What just happened... I don't know exactly how to describe it but I know what it felt like."She paused, searching for the right words. "It was like a kind of seduction spell. Like my will was taken from me. I thought I wanted it myself but the wanting wasn't coming from me."Her voice dropped slightly. "Maybe it's another sorcerer. A field spell, or something that affects the soul.""This isn't a magical world, Nadia. Maybe you haven't realized that yet."She clearly had realized it already.After a brief pause she continued."Your world might not be magical but trust me." Nadia raised an eyebrow, not defensively, just correcting. "Mine was. And I recognize this feeling. I know what it feels like to be affected by a spell because I've experienced it before."Leo said nothing. H
Chapter 146
Leo was about to thank him and close the door.He stopped.The delivery guy had taken a few steps but his pace had slowed. He had drifted off again just like before, walking like a zombie with no particular destination in mind.He had nearly come to a complete stop in the middle of the corridor, head slightly drooping forward.Leo thought to himself.An ordinary world. That was how he had seen it in the webcomic he had read, at least. People here could zone out, could be tired, could have their minds somewhere else entirely. That didn't require any special explanation.He turned back inside with the food bag in hand.Nadia was standing in front of the window.Right in front of it, completely still, her hands hanging loose at her sides. Her head was turned toward the glass and her gaze was locked on a single point. Leo calculated the angle of the window to work out what that point was.The library.Something tightened inside Leo.He didn't lower the food bag, just kept holding it, and t
Chapter 145
Leo closed his eyes.The delivery guy was still in the corridor. The footsteps were steady, slightly heavy, the rhythm of someone carrying something. Just by listening, Leo could map out exactly where in the corridor the guy was. He had started from the far end, was now approaching the middle, and would be at the door in a few seconds.Leo noticed this and stopped.Just by listening.He could hear Nadia's heartbeat through the wall on the other side. He could track the delivery guy's exact position in the corridor. He could potentially distinguish sounds coming from other floors of the building.But strangely, there were no other sounds in the building at all. Apart from the hum of a few machines like refrigerators, that is.Leo furrowed his brow.Normally the campus was noisy at this hour. Students moved through corridors, the elevator ran, music seeped in from somewhere distant, someone's laughter could be heard. But now there was only Nadia's heartbeat, the delivery guy's footsteps
Chapter 144: ARC foundation IV
When the screen came into focus, everyone froze.Over the campus of Seoul National University, in the hyperspectral camera feed, there was an enormous light. Square-shaped, with clean edges, it occupied roughly one city block between the buildings. Everything around it was dark. It was dense enough to nearly fill the screen.Nobody spoke.Everyone thought the same thing.Anomaly 0004...The anomaly cells were producing a massive response to 34 kHz. There was no other explanation for a flare this intense. Leo was there, and the sound frequency had done this to him.Layla looked at the screen and an image formed in her mind without her permission.A figure in the middle of a crowd, face contorted against this invisible sound coming from every direction, mouth open, a scream coming from somewhere inside but nobody able to hear it.Layla blinked and pushed the image out.Rafael had furrowed his brow."One second."He moved to the keyboard, fingers moving quickly. The camera zoomed in, the
Chapter 143: ARC Foundation III
The countdown was still running.Everyone around Layla was watching the large screen. Eyes waiting to see what the radars would show, fingers trembling over hands. Some of the researchers were standing, some were seated, but every single gaze was locked in the same direction.Everyone was asking themselves the same question. How many more anomalies were out there in the world beyond what they had already found.Perhaps the world was very different from what any of them had imagined.Nobody was looking at Layla.Layla stood in front of the central glass enclosure, watching the iron fragment inside it. Distracted, but not empty. Quite the opposite, her eyes were very active, very curious, just pointed somewhere else.When the 34 kHz had been projected, that fragment had moved.It was a small thing, a matter of a few millimeters, more like a vibration than anything else. And it had made a sound, close to a creak, like metal against metal. Some of the researchers in the laboratory had hea
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