Zosia: Quick Transmigration System
Chapter 113 - 111- Death and Jewels.

For that split moment that she had held the book, her memories which had been faint or perhaps locked up, all came rushing back.

Groan!

She suddenly felt something stirring within her followed by a sound of something being popped.

Pop!

She finally remembered why that flowery fragrance was so familiar. It is a powder gotten from the pistles of a flower called the Red Thorn Lilly.

She had gotten her hands on it, in the last task world. The effect of the pistles is to sublimate the soul, giving you a cool feeling and like as if your soul is about to ascend with warmth spread around your body. But if added alongside its petals, it will have an opposite effect.

It would make your soul loose and more easily extracted when needed.

Pacing around the room, she remembered when Sister Marionette mentioned a young couple who had come here and were meant to go to the capital, but hadn't made it.

How did Sister Marionette know?

Was she behind their demise? In fact, that wasn't the question she should ask, but how had she done it?

Zosia was aware that they worked for a god called the Lord of Strings, but, what is the relationship between the two? Could they be servants or members of a cult.

Beep!

Beep!!

Beep!!!

Zosia opened her panel that was making a beeping sound. Since she couldn't access most of the functions, especially status, she opened the group chat panel.

She noticed that Xen sent a message but it wasn't something that was bearing good news. It was a message for a call for help.

She noticed that the light indicating if a member was alive or not had changed. Xen and Kevin's light had changed from green to red.

Her breathing became a little rapid. "It seems like the person behind the scenes has decided to stop watching." She muttered.

"But, what were Xen and Kevin doing? How did they die." She questioned, leaving the room to check on what exactly is happening.

Walking through the hallway with the flickering torches that kept the hallway warm enough.

Mina suddenly appeared from the side of the hallway, her eyes meeting with Zosia's.

She had also seen the notification that two of her members were already dead, so she had quickened her steps when leaving.

Zosia glanced at Mina, noting her neutral expression.

"Let's go."

Zosia turned and left not bothering to ask where she went to or if she found anything.

They soon arrived outside together.

"What happened?" Mina asked.

"They said they noticed something and left to go check for. It's been a few hours and after each and everyone experienced their own defect, we planned to go explore again, when we received the notification of their deaths.

"Well not dead dead.... But they are out." Tanya said.

Lucian stood by the side, gazing into the distance and not saying anything.

Tanya upon seeing how Lucian was, she decided to approach. Perhaps, if she could comfort him, then, he may end up liking her.

The moment, she was a few centimeters away from Lucian, Lucian shifted away from her and entered inside.

Asgar and Percival exchanged looks before following behind Lucian.

Zosia opened the chat and sent a message to the group, "Aren't we going to look for their bodies?"

"No need. Any body that is out or dead, their bodies are taken and stored in that black space you saw." Asgar answered her question.

Zosia stared at the snow, remembering the uniformly cut crystals she had seen on their way, that looked like it formed an array.

"Could that be what they went to check?" Zosia thought Inwardly. Biting her lips, she wondered, if she should also go and check it.

"Do you like him?"

Zosia heard Mina's voice sound beside her ear and turned to glance at her.

"Whom?"

"Seems like there are many people in mind, since you asked whom?" Mina continued, "Do you like Lucian?" Mina asked.

Tanya who recovered from her daze glanced at the two ladies and snickered. They were just bitches trying to get their hands on her Lucian.

Clenching her fist, she couldn't let them have him. Her eyes flashed with a viscous glint.

Leaving, she wanted to nudge Zosia's shoulder but realized that she was shorter. It only added to her anger.

Zosia glanced at the person throwing a tantrum and shifted, giving her a wide space to pass.

Tanya snorted, folding her arms, she stumped her feet and left.

Mina glanced at Tanya's face, feeling that she had gotten the effect she wanted, her lips curled up into a smile.

As for why she had done that, her plan of using Tanya still stands. As for Zosia, she had offended someone she couldn't afford to offend.

Zosia watched Tanya leave before turning back to Mina whose face was back to neutrality.

"You don't have to answer, just make sure to keep your feelings hidden." She smiled, patting Zosia on her shoulder, "Just a little advice from a senior to a Junior." Mina turned and left.

Zosia, now left alone, breath a sigh of relief.

She had felt an intense malice from Mina, something she hadn't noticed or sensed before.

Sitting down on the floor, she watched the snow fall, while allowing her thoughts to run wild.

The stillness was broken by the sound of crunching snow. Zosia looked up to see a person she wasn't expecting to meet. It was the old man they had met before, walking towards her with his snow shovel being dragged behind him.

Zosia stared at those hollow white eyes and gulped, her body tense and getting ready to attack.

Upon reaching her, the man stopped and only said a few words, "Run! Run!"

Zosia's facial expression changed. She had noticed a hint of struggle in those old eerie eyes.

Why had the man told her Run? Biting her lips with no answer to the questions that swamped her.

The old man turned and started going, still dragging the shovel with him.

She stood up, watching him as he disappeared back into the white abyss, his hunched form slowly consumed by the falling snow. The crunch of his footsteps faded, leaving only the whisper of the wind and the steady, rhythmic fall of snowflakes.

She didn't know what would happen next, but she had a nagging feeling that Xen and Kevin must have gone to investigate those ice crystals.

She decided to follow behind the old man. Stepping on the snow that made a crunching sound beneath her feet. With her spiritual consciousness covering her, she knew it was something detrimental to her to always have it wrapped around her but it is better safe than sorry whenever she goes to investigate something.

As she followed behind the old man, she watched him enter a bend and increased her pace, but upon arriving at the bend, she saw nothing.

She was about to leave, when she stepped on something. The sound wasn't anything like stepping on snow.

Using her feet, she swept the snow aside and was met with a bone, a white sparkling bone. Her gaze hardened and she stepped forward to keep searching when she felt a tap on her back.

"What did you find?"

Zosia turned to look at who tapped her and she met Lucian's cold eyes.

"Just this bone." She answered.

Lucian glanced at the bone, bending down to pick it up, he glanced at it for a while. Putting his hand into his pocket, he brought out a scalpel.

Zosia glanced at the scalpel, wondering what he planned to use that scalpel to do.

Lucian used the scalpel to make an incision at the growth plate of the bone. The scalpel sliced through the bone with ease, revealing a marrow.

Inside the marrow is a jewel pendant attached to a black rope. Lucian glanced at the pendant and tucked it into his pocket.

Zosia stared at his action in astonishment. "I found the bone, don't you think that if you want to collect the contents, you should replace it with something else."

Lucian raised his head, glancing at her with a raised eyebrow, "You would have just ignored it, if I didn't cut it."

"At least, I need compensation." Zosia retorted.

Lucian chuckled and said nothing, just tucking back the scalpel. He threw the bone and left, leaving Zosia to stare at his departing back in anger.

She was furious, after all, for Lucian to take it, it means it is something good. She liked to hoard and it had slowly become a thing for her, so watching what that should have been hers, slipping away from her very own hand, she was angry.

Anger— an emotion that she hadn't felt in a while.

Using her anger, she started searching around but was unable to find anything. It was as if that was the only bone and it was something that had been deliberately kept for her to see.

Feeling angry and the feeling of unaccomplishment that filled her insides made her uncomfortable and grumpy.

She decided to leave the place with the intention of checking it out again tomorrow.

"Maybe that was why Kevin and Xen decided to go check those things out by themselves. They probably didn't want their spoils to be taken by him." She thought Inwardly.

As she left the place, she was unaware that the old man whom she was looking for appeared just at the spot she was standing few minutes ago.

The old man's eyes blazed fiercely before fading out. A weary sigh left the old man's mouth.

He glanced at the empty space in his body where the bone he had pulled out from resided and another weary sigh escaped his lips.

He could only feel conscious, a few times a day and during those periods he had observed the guests and noticed that only the girl — Zosia, seemed to be purer at heart than the rest, as well as the guy — Kevin.

But the rest all had their own plans but he wouldn't mind as far as they could free him from that evil god's hands.

He wanted the girl to receive the jewel that would protect her and she could in turn help free him from that God, but now.....

He sighed again and entered the shed beside him, returning back to the stringed man he was.

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