Chapter 351 - A Pressured Choice
"Oh right, I was going to kill you. Well, enough time wasted, I'll kill you right now," Aiden said, not caring about this whole situation anymore.
"Wait, don't kill me just yet!" Garestsa shouted as she knew that Aiden wasn't bluffing anymore, his voice was extremely serious.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
It was as if he had realized something that made him speed up this whole torture process that he was currently doing.
"Don't you know what's going to happen if you kill me?" Garestsa shouted panicked as she knew that the consequences would be absolutely terrible. "The director, h-he will come to kill you. He'll come to you and kill you."
Garetsa seemed to have trouble believing her own words as she was staggering while saying them. Maybe it was stress, however, Aiden couldn't care less as he looked into her eyes one last time.
"You think I don't know that?" Aiden said, taking a small break. "Of course, I know that I'll be in a lot of trouble, but I'll be in trouble either way. You don't understand what I did… that potion, it was going to remove the director's access to mana forever! Not one hour, forever!
Once he learns that, I'm done, so that's why I don't care anymore, he's going to kill me either way."
Garestsa's eyes opened wide. "It was going to remove our mana forever?"
Aiden this time, was getting extremely annoyed. "Not for you, fucking bimbo. I tried to save you by giving you a fake potion, but you helped him. Didn't I tell you this already? I literally tried to save you and that's how you pay me back, that's why I'm so mad at you and want to kill you. You fucking ruined everything."
Aiden took a deep breath, calming his heart rate. "Enough about that, let's just end this whole thing right here."
As he said that Aiden grabbed his dagger and decapitated her as he knew that the more time he wasted the more time it gave the director to come back to this spot.
The only sound that was around him, was the one of her head which fell onto the ground. Aiden briefly looked at it as he instantly flew away from the wooden cabin.
[You have killed a Mage.]
[You have gained Experience Points.]
[You have leveled up.]
His next destitanation? The sky.
By flying in the air, it would give Aiden some time to think about what he would want to do next.
Aiden knew that the proposition from the system was quite risky, however, he couldn't help but think about the "what if".
'But what if I was able to kill him?' Aiden thought.
He knew that it would be much more advantageous for him.
Also, the time was ticking and ticking, he knew that in a couple of seconds… he would be done. The director would come back with all the knowledge about what Aiden had transpired behind his back.
Thinking back on it, Aiden had made quite the stupid move revealing his real identity at the end of the potion making. If he hadn't done that and kept his mind focused on the plan that was ahead of him, then everything would have been fine.
Everything would have been great even since Anna wouldn't have been able to tell the director anything about him because… it wouldn't have been Aiden in the first place, it would have been Gerald the guy who had black hair, not white.
A beeping sound was heard in his mind.
[You have until arriving at Evelynn's dorm to decide.]
It seemed that the system was trying to apply pressure on Aiden, making him rush into choosing the wrong decision or the right one.
However, Aiden truly didn't know what to do. He knew that the only way to beat the director was with those blue vials that he had in his pockets.
But… the thing is, how was he going to make the director drink them now that he knew the truth and that he knew that Aiden was a killer?
Chances are that there would be an insane amount of protection and security around the director which would make Aiden's task a lot harder as a result and that wasn't exactly what Aiden wanted.
If the director knew that Aiden was coming for him, then there was almost no chance for Aiden to succeed.
*BEEP*
[Your rewards will compensate for the difficulty of the Trial Objective.]
"Trying to convince me, you sneaky bastards!" Aiden muttered in the sky as if he was a madman.
'What if Anna talk about Evelynn, wouldn't that blow my cover entirely though?' Aiden thought as he knew that Anna had seen Evelynn with him through this whole process.
However, he remembered that Anna hadn't paid attention to her at all, well… except at the end when she had literally tortured her.
"Uh… let me think, is this even a good idea?" Aiden asked himself as he was slowly getting closer to Evelynn's dorm room.
Aiden knew that if he accepted there would be two possible outcomes, either he would survive and get a lot stronger or he would die and his entire journey would end right here and now.
'If only I had a plan… I have nothing prepared anymore, will I even be able to kill him?' Aiden thought for one last time as he could feel himself getting scared by the second.
As Aiden was diving looking through all the dorm's window in search of Evelynn, he knew that he needed to make a choice. He was cutting it close and he knew that the system wouldn't like such a thing.
Who knew what would happen if he simply didn't give an answer?
'Ah fuck, fuck, fuck, can I really do this? Even when I had his trust it didn't work, there's just no way that I'll kill him now. Still, the rewards, the strength that I would get by succeeding…'
The rewards were becoming more enticing by the minute.