roccoschili Chapter 48: Nether Empress Observations -1
Chapter 48: Nether Empress Observations -1
Wang Chen didn’t know what was going through the head of this woman, nor did he care. She stood there like a bright sun in dark sky, hair and robes barely moving in the ghostly wind. For a long moment he simply watched her — not because he trusted her, but because on this floor trust was a luxury that killed quickly.The first floor had a single, blunt rule: kill anything that moved. Beautiful or not, a living thing here was either prey or predator. That thought sat heavy under his ribs, sharpening his gaze until it felt like a blade. He kept his posture loose, ready, eyes cold. The way she had looked at him, the tone of her voice — it all felt wrong. "So what do you want?" he asked, voice flat as it could be.o sleep for an hour, she sat outside the entrance humming softly to herself. When he sprinted for his life across fields of frozen, whispering corpses, she floated along beside him at the exact speed of his panic.
At first, Wang Chen was furious.
He cursed her, cursed the Tower, cursed fate. He cursed whatever twisted being had decided that instead of giving him a decent combat class, he would be stuck with a "Gardener" class and a personal haunting by a seductive ghost with questionable morals and infinite free time.
"This stupid Tower," he muttered during one of his breaks, lying flat on his back in a fissure of dead earth, chest heaving. "First, it gave me this stupid class, Then it sends me a woman who refuses to leave. What’s next? A landlord demanding rent?"