Affinity:Chaos

"He's gone?" The old man asked himself, stunned.

"How could someone just disappear without a trace?" He looked around.

He kept searching for Grey in the cave, but to his surprise, he couldn't find him anywhere. Originally, he thought maybe he hid somewhere just like when he hid in the lava pool, but he couldn't find him.

After looking around for a few more minutes, he gave up. There was no use in making sure he killed Grey. Other than being curious about him, he didn't really have any other interest in him. Well, he did want to kill him, but that isn't all that important since he had already killed everyone who entered the cave.

….

One hundred and twenty kilometers away from the cave.

Grey's figure could be seen coming out of a space tunnel. After looking around, he quickly burrowed into the ground, making a small cave underground and hiding.

He could sense some terrifying presence around this place, and he didn't dare to cause any disturbances. The beasts were all around the Mid stages of the Overlord Plane. A single one of them could single-handedly kill him, much less two or more.

Even if he stayed in the Fusion state, he wasn't confident in escaping from all of them at the same time. The reason he escaped easily from the old man was that he couldn't move due to being stuck in the middle of the absorption process.

He exited the Fusion State while sitting down crossed legs to calm himself. He brought out the wooden plaque and looked at Ellis' position again, and he could see he was still a good distance away from him.

The deeper he goes into the forest, the stronger the beasts he encounters. Ellis was still around ten the distance he just covered away from him, he couldn't help but wonder what sort of beasts were in that area.

If the ones here were already out of his league, it's no use speaking about those ones in the area Ellis was located.

'I think it's best that I do not keep going further. I can barely keep myself alive now, if I were to meet one of these beasts in the Mid stages of the Overlord Plane, then I wouldn't make it out of here alive.' He came to a conclusion.

If he kept on going deeper, then it was no different than seeking death. Although the rewards he would see are better the deeper he goes, he still cherished his life.

'*Sigh* If only Void could wake up on his own. I still don't know where to find that thing, and even with the help of Ellis who should at least be at the Peak of the Overlord Plane, I still haven't found the pond yet.' He contemplated.

The day would soon be over, and according to Ellis, he would be leaving the next day. Grey wasn't planning on leaving with him now, but he would follow him so that he could show him the array he wanted to use to leave this place.

He stayed in the cave he made for the rest of the day, replenishing his essence while also cultivating. The essence here was purer compared to the one on the outer parts of the forest.

The next day.

Grey brought out the glowing device from his storage ring, Ellis looked completely worn out even though he wasn't seeing him physically.

"Hey, I couldn't find that pond. And I have to leave now." Ellis said, clearly exhausted after two days of searching nonstop for the pond. He also fought some difficult battles, given how he looked.

"Thank you for your help. At least now I have a general idea of where not to look," Grey said.

He truly felt impressed by Ellis' dedication to helping him. Not many people would help someone they just met all because they wanted to be friends with that person.

"Yeah, where are you?" Ellis asked.

Grey told him about the wooden plaque he gave him and how it worked. On bringing out the plaque, a look of incredulity appeared on his face.

"Wow! You made this?" He couldn't help but ask.

From his shocked expression, Grey guessed he probably hadn't seen something like this before.

"Yeah," Grey nodded.

"This is amazing!" Ellis exclaimed in shock.

Even for someone like him who was from a better continent, he still felt intrigued and stunned by this.

"You don't have something like this in your continent?" Grey asked.

Ellis shook his head truthfully, he truly hadn't seen anything like this before.

Grey found it surprising, after seeing this orb, he thought they would have a better form of tracking their close ones or even other people.

Grey didn't speak further about it as Ellis soon started hurriedly moving in his direction.

He kept the orb and started to cultivate once again, it would take Ellis some time before he got there, so he wanted to continue cultivating in this area while he still had the chance.

One hour later.

Bang!

The cave Grey was sitting on shook furiously almost scaring the hell out of him. He hastily spread out his spiritual senses and realized the reason for this was because Ellis landed directly above him.

He stood up before calmly rising out of the cave, with the help of the wind element.

When he saw Ellis physically, he found out that his condition was far worse compared to how he looked in the orb. He had some scratches on his shoulder, although most of the wounds were almost healed up, some still looked fresh.

"You must have had a rough time out there?" Grey asked before bringing out a vial from his storage ring.

"Yeah, tell me about it," Ellis said with a depressed shrug.

"Take this, it should help with your wounds," Grey tossed the vial at him.

"My injuries can't be healed b… Oh… this should do," Ellis, who was about to reject the vial, changed his mind as soon as he sensed the content of the vial.