'Leo!' Nyx called out the moment she joined his side. 'I thought London was in that dire,' she pointed with her tail to the left. 'What's going on? You didn't tell me about any ge in pns.'

  The feline had the right to worry as Leo ged his path almost as soon as Eden was out of sight. He hadn’t pnned aours before, but as he was w about all the stuff he was leaving behind, a certain thought occurred to him.

  He fot about the Void Gate, which was quite sad and ing. After all, it was a mohat could bring over things from the Void or other ps in this universe. If that wasn’t a good reason to dey his jouro London by a few minutes, he didn’t know what was.

  'Leo? I could use an expnatiht about now. We're wasting daylight,' Nyx grumbled over their e as they sped past the same neighborhood where he had the memorable enter with the mad woman.

  Good times... To think it was barely two weeks ago...

  He shook his head; this was no time for reminisg. "Don't worry. I just o che something. Won't even take an hour. It's close."

  Feeling the feline's question ing, Leo quickly sent an image, or rather a short memory, over their link. Nyx's query died before it could e, and he smirked lightly.

  'Oh,' she tsked. 'I see why you would want to check it. It's been a while.'

  Yeah...

  Without another word shared betweehe duo left the ruined neighborhood behind and stepped onto the old farmnds. While before the Sed Cataclysm, those fields were empty, now all kinds of small flora filled the space. Red, purple, and bck represehe majority of colors, though here and there, other hues also slipped in, making the sight even more exotic.

  Some of the pnts were eveify-able, but just like with Bloody Vein, they didn't seem useful to someone like him. Maybe iure, oher survivained more experien their jobs, colleg items like that could be worth the time.

  Not that Leo had much of it to ponder about that. Soon, they crossed the nearby road and passed by the remnants of the gas station where he had obtained his first Install item. With all that behind them, it didn't even take a minute for their new destination to appear in their sight.

  A true Void Gate. Not those little things inside a ...

  The giant mo didn't move an inch from its old position. Its bck-as-night material still ed most of the light around it. Only the dark violet veins flowing through the gate, stopped it from being overe by darkness.

  Yet, upon closer look, Leo quickly discovered this wasn't the case any longer. Somehow, despite the gate not being active, a tiny amalgamation of swirling energy formed in the middle of the struct. It gleamed with the Void's usual colors, lightly illuminating the area.

  "This 't be good," he muttered, pausing a step before the gate's ptform. "There should still be over two weeks left."

  'Yes... should...'

  Pary Gateway of the Void:Or simply called a Void Gate by the popution of the Void and survivors. Pary Gateways are used to travel between the ps of the same Universe. In trast, Dimensional Gateways be used to journey into one of the almost infinite dimensions ihe Void.During every Outbreak, thousands of Gateways grow on every phey are made out of living material from the Void and ot be destroyed by anything weaker than an A-ranked User. Uporu, a Gateway will attempt to grow ba another pce.

  Current Status:This Gateway is still charging and will not activate for another 9 days, 16 hours, and 2 minutes.

  "Either I'm missing a few days of my life, or this tdown somehow sped up," Leo frowned, using Identify again to e didn't make a mistake. "Holy, I have no idea which option is more disturbing..."

  'I think both are as bad,' Nyx mused, her tails poking the dark ptform. 'Although, this time, the Sed Cataclysm might be responsible. The whole p ged back then, so why not the gates?'

  "True," he sighed, dismissing the description. "Still, this is bad, very bad. People are barely handling the Voidlings as it is. We don't need more from outer spad different dimensions... Fuck, and that's without even sidering all the other shit that might e out from those gates."

  'Timeframes might not be the same for every Void Gate, Leo,' the feliried to pcate, nudging him with her muzzle. 'We just o find another oo firm that. There's o panic over this. Not like we do much here.'

  Leo perked up at that, his eyes narrowing as they took ie. Even if it didn't work st time, he was stronger now. Much stronger.

  'Leo, please no.'

  He rolled his eyes, stepping oform. "Who is panig now? Calm down, I'm just gonna check. If anything happens, pull me out."

  Nyx growled as she followed him. 'Sometimes I really hate you.'

  "No, you don't. Now, focus," Leo ordered, pg his hand a bit away from the gate's pilr. "Okay... Last time, it almost overwhelmed me within a sed. Let's see if anything has ged."

  With a single move, his hand touched the gate's surface, the wild, powerful Essehin instantly surging out. However, uhe st time, it didn't try to force itself into his body. Instead, it started to pull, trying to drain him dry before he could do anything.

  No thank you. He scoffed, snapping his hand away as, at the same time, Nyx's tails dragged him away. "I'm fi barely took anything."

  'Are you sure? Even I felt that.'

  "Yeah, all's good," Leo patted Nyx's head. "But you're right, that was something else. Devour is nothio what the gate do. Hell, Ruthless Efficy almost activated the moment I touched this bloody thing."

  'I told you it was a bad idea.'

  He withheld the urge to sigh again. As much as he appreciated Nyx's , sometimes she worried too much. They had everything under trol, and thanks to his little test, they gained some valuable info.

  "Let's agree to disagree," he shrugged and stepped off the ptform. "e on. I got what I wanted."

  The feline nodded, and they bouoward a new destinatio, even as he ran, Leo couldn’t stop thinking that he was still fetting about something.

  Hopefully, he would remember before it was too te.

  A good hour had passed ever sihey stepped on the road leading straight to the capital of the UK. Like any other p the curreh, the path was far from perfect. Vetilim and the surrounding flora already cimed part of the asphalt while destroyed cars and some Voidlings tried to bloyone from passing.

  Despite the monsters' surprisingly high levels, they didn't stand a ce against creatures much strohan them. Not that Leo and Nyx even tried to fight them. For the most part, they just used shadow arrows or spears to kill as many as possible when they passed by.

  Not each part of the journey was that dull though.

  Already, they had spotted a few new beasts. One of them was a Steelhorn Stag Leo had the pleasure of meeting during the first days of the Outbreak. The mutated deer only spared them a gnce before esg into the forest as if a devil was on its heels.

  Another new Voidling they had entered was an evolved version of a Seeker, called Spitfire. The beast wasn't much different from its predecessor. Sure, it grew to be almost twice as rge as before, and its tail now possessed a bde at the tip, but apart from that, only oher thing ged.

  Its offensive capabilities, which maed in a jet of Essehat Spitfires could shoot from their tail. The small projectiles barely made small holes in the asphalt, but at least they could travel quite far. This was the only reason why those Voidlings survived against Leo and Nyx.

  They just couldn't hit them, and their shadow structs faded into nothingness before reag the target. As such, they let the Spitfires live a onward, which brought them to this moment.

  Not gonna lie; I didn't expect to find something like this in the middle of nowhere. Leo snorted as he and Nyx hid behind one of the broken cars, the road ahead.

  'Me too...'

  Wargon (Voidling) | Rank: E- | LVL: 18 | Type: Surface, Might, Ground, Armor

  After Cursed Juggernaut, this robably the rgest Voidling he had seen outside of s. The giant boar matched the size of the biggest hippos before the Outbreak. And if that wasn't enough, the beast's furless skin was covered in spikes and armor ptes made of storuly, just as its name implied, the creature was made for war.

  I just wish it was level twenty... Leo grumbled, his gaze darting to the dozen or so Duskboars that feasted on the Voidlings killed by the Wargon.

  'We still kill it. It's free expirien..' Nyx tried to reason, only to be cut off when a series of shouts and gunshots came from afar.

  Looking at the feline, he quirked an eyebrow. Maybe ter. I want to check that out.

  She huffed. 'ours, my ass.'

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