Chapter 1182: The Blood Moon

"I’m sorry, Stella. Who did Jason leave in charge of the ship while he was gone? You or me?"

Valeria turned to Stella with a stern look and raised a brow at her, and Stella was forced to keep quiet! It was true that Jason had left Valeria in charge as the temporary captain, but Stella knew Jason never imagined Valeria would do something like this! Valeria’s expression became softer, and she spoke in a kinder tone to everyone.

"Hey, we’re all up here doing nothing while Jason’s having fun hunting those ghouls down there. We can go over to Lerette to have some fun, and we’ll be back before Jason finishes his hunt. Everybody wins!"

This was the first time Stella would see such a devious expression on Valeria’s face, and Stella wasn’t surprised that Valeria would only act this way when it concerned gambling! Stella had heard about Valeria’s horrible gambling habits back in the mansion on Earth, but since Stella had always seen Valeria as a responsible person, Stella didn’t know just how bad those gambling habits really were!

"Yay! I want to go to Lerette!"

Arte exclaimed happily when he heard about the world filled with games, and Valeria’s lips split into a happy grin as she immediately lifted Arte off the floor like a handbag and began heading towards the cockpit.

"Well, I can’t say no to that, now can I!? Come on, I’ll teach you everything I know! There’s this really cool trick you can use to cheat at cards! It works every time! We’ll clean out the whole planet!"

Valeria’s eyes lit up with excitement, and Tsara laughed softly as she quickly followed after the two of them. Back in the kitchen, Stella had a worried look on her face as she watched her crew members leave, and for a moment, Stella thought about sending a message to Jason and telling him about what was going on. But in the end, Stella decided that it was alright. Jason was busy with his hunt, and Valeria knew about Lerette better than anyone else. If they ever needed help or if Valeria ever went out of control, then Stella would send a message to Jason immediately!

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[The World of Edgar]

[With Jason]

’This is getting boring.’

Jason frowned in annoyance as he watched the Revali colony in front of him burning for the twentieth time. The immortal creatures screamed in pain as they were scorched by golden fire, and many of them were thrown back by the sheer intensity of the flames. Jason had been at this for more than thirty minutes at this point, and he had killed any Revali that came back to life to try and lure any ghoul out into the open. Jason had even moved from one side of this region to another in case he wasn’t close enough for the Ghouls to hear the screams of the Revali. But no matter how many times he killed the bastards, there were no signs of the Ghouls.

Jason looked up into the sky, and he began to wonder if he was doing it wrong.

’Maybe I should move to another area? Or maybe the ghouls are time-specific.’

There was a very real chance that ghouls in this world only came out at a specific time, and Jason might just be wasting time attacking the Revali.

[Phoenix Flame]!

PHWOOM!

A wave of crimson fire shot out from a magic circle in front of Helios and immediately burned a group of Revali that had been charging toward Jason. Helios let out a low huff once he saw the immortal creatures burning again, and Jason smiled and petted Helios on the head roughly before he turned to look up at the large moon in the sky. Jason had been in this world for close to an hour now, and Jason couldn’t help but admit that this moon was one of the most beautiful things about this world. It was unbelievably stunning, and Jason would sometimes find himself staring at it for long minutes without thinking about anything.

But this time, when Jason looked at the moon, he noticed something strange. There was something slowly appearing from behind the moon, almost like a veil was rotating around the moon. It was a bright blood-red veil, and as it appeared, the entire world was slowly painted in the same blood-red colour from the moon.

’Is that... another moon?’

Jason was shocked to realise that he was right. There was a blood-red moon rotating around the first moon. The second moon had been hiding behind the first one all this time. The moment the second moon appeared, it felt like the entire world went through a sudden transformation! Along with the new red tint painting across the sky, there was also an insanely dense amount of pressure in the air. A wave of magic and Qi flowed towards Jason rapidly, and Jason immediately knew that something was about to happen. There was movement from the side, and Jason quickly turned towards the immortal Revali that Helios had attacked. The Revali had gotten to their feet, but the Revali weren’t running to attack Jason anymore. Instead, the Revali went to their knees and looked up at the two moons in the sky reverently. Like they were worshippers waiting to be visited by their deity.

’My King! There’s movement towards the east.’

’My King, there’s something coming from the west. It’s moving quickly.’

’There are various creatures approaching from the north!’

Jason heard his subordinates sending him various messages all at the same time. Jason quickly activated [Eye of the King] to see what sort of beast was approaching! Jason gazed through the eyes of one of the Bengari warriors to the east and Jason saw some of the ugliest things he had ever seen in his life charging straight towards this colony. The creatures had blank faces with two large empty black voids where their eyes should’ve been. They had long bodies, and they walked on long arms and legs like some sort of rabid dog. Their bodies were dirty and slimy, like they had just escaped from some underground slime pit, and when you watched them against the red background of the blood moon, it felt like seeing something straight out of a horror movie.

Jason narrowed his eyes curiously and extended his vision into the distance, and Jason saw even more of the creatures digging themselves out from underground.

’Are these the ghouls I read about? I didn’t expect them to look like that.’

[And what did the user expect life-draining creatures from an alternate world to look like?]

The system spoke up with a tone that was almost sarcastic and Jason shrugged while saying.

"I don’t know. I thought it would be floating ghosts or something. Not... whatever these are."

Jason had watched a lot of shows back on Earth about ghouls and ghosts, and remembered the shows always depicting those creatures as translucent semi-physical beings that could float through walls and doors. And in a way, that same image must’ve gotten into Jason’s head when he heard the system say that there would be ghouls here. Jason should have known it wouldn’t be the same thing.

[... the user must expand his horizon. Reality is far from the user’s imagination.]

The system suddenly spoke up in a disappointed tone, and although Jason couldn’t see it, Jason had a feeling that the bastard was shaking its head at him. Jason clicked his tongue and told the system to fuck off before Jason began to float higher so he could get a better look at the charging ghouls.