Chapter 52: Chapter fifty one

"Does this world despise me so much, or is someone pulling the strings?" Akira groaned, shaking the dirt off his armor and hands.

 

Nothing but dense jungles surrounded him, which was the worst possible location to be transported to after leaving Sector X. The jungle reeked of foul mana, blood, rotten flesh, and dead mana beasts, making it an ideal transition zone between the two empires.

 

"Now, why the hell does everything look the same?"

 

Even the trained foot soldiers of both empires would be perplexed if they were placed in these jungles, where even the leaves resembled one another, making caterpillars curse their misfortune.

 

BOOM BOOM

 

The earth trembled, the trees shook, and the leaves hurriedly fell, like a whirlpool of fire devouring everything.

 

He said carelessly, "Well I am definitely not going there.

 

He had accomplished his goal by altering a significant portion of the future and subsequently the plot, even though it didn't benefit him in the short term. The tensions in the Romanov empire were now their own problems to solve.

 

After about an hour of walking in the opposite direction from where the sound of explosions was coming, his eyes finally caught sight of the sun's glint peeking from the dense forestry around the jungle. 

 

“Hehe, I take back everything I just said; arriving here was a stroke of luck, after all.”

 

The scene before his eyes was as ethereal as one could imagine; the reflection of the small church in the lake's still water was a blissful addition to the place's floral splendor and pungent odor.

If a nun ever imagined a place like heaven, it would be this exact location.

 

"Wait, where the hell did this church come from?" 

 

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Now beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, what could have been one of the most beautiful places for anyone else was becoming a disturbing place for him.

 

The church, which served as the center of attention in this location, quickly came to him as an eyesore because, in accordance with his foresight, the location of the church was now over something he didn’t wanted to.

 

Sigh

 

"It must have happened because of a change in the history of this place, which prompted the people of the town to build a church here." He shook his head and walked to the front door.

The wind brushed against his bare face before he covered it with the mask of koh, it was something that he learned the hard way, to hide his presence before going inside the enemy’s territory. His mana senses had already swept the entire area and had found no trace of anyone else.

 

When he shook that, the lock on the church door rattled. The building as a whole appeared outdated, and the layer of dust covering it was so thick that it appeared no one had recently visited.

 

Cough Cough,

 

The church seemed to be chuckling at his antics, as all it took was a slight shake of the door to make him cough hard and back off from the entrance.

 

"They haven't cleaned you lately, have they? Don't worry, I've got some good ol' fire with me,"

 

With that, a tiny arrow-shaped flame erupted from his hands, latching onto the brittle, old wooden door, and burning it in one swift motion. Though it appeared simple, this quick action required a high level of mana control.

 

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