"What are you doing here?" Nathan asked after a few moments of awkward silence. He was feeling quite weird talking to Gloria. She had proposed to him just a few hours earlier, and it did not seem that she was about to acknowledge or mention that incident. Neither was Nathan about to bring up the matter.
Gloria, at this time, seemed quite different from the Gloria who had proposed to him. She was completely the opposite of the shy and quiet Gloria he had known. On the contrary, the way she carried her gun and the manner in which she walked and had behaved made her seem like an entirely different person.
"I live here," Gloria replied and did not explain anything further.
Nathan wanted to ask, 'Then why are you roaming in the darkness, and that too with a big gun in your hand?' but he held back and remained quiet.
"Although the house you are intruding into is empty," Gloria informed Nathan, "be careful."
"There are a lot of dangerous people and things roaming on the street," she warned with a thoughtful look, then disappeared back into the darkness.
"Who was she, Nathan?" Elia questioned after Gloria had moved away some distance.
"A classmate," Nathan replied, but he did not explain anything further.
Elia nodded as she added, "She seemed very confident in roaming the street even in the darkness."
Nathan, meanwhile, took the lock into his hands as he tried to shatter it. He and Elia could have very easily jumped over the boundary wall, but they also had to move the vehicle and the things loaded in it inside the house.
Nathan, despite his overwhelming strength, was not able to shatter the lock with his bare hands. Maybe he could have if he were at level 2. Thankfully, he had the dagger of that abaration. With a swift slash of the dagger, the lock was cut and the gates to the house were opened.
Nathan moved the car inside the lawn, and both of them unloaded the things from it and placed them in the kitchen.
The house was large enough, with 4 to 5 rooms on each floor apart from the halls, kitchens, and bathroom; it had all the feelings of an aristocratic mansion.
And thanks to their luck, it was also stocked with a good quantity of food grains like flour, rice, and pulses.
After settling in, Elia cooked dinner for the two of them, and both had their fill.
"How do we sleep?" Elia asked after their dinner.
"We will sleep in the same room," Nathan said without hesitation, and Elia's face turned red at this.
"And both of us cannot sleep at the same time," he continued. "One of us will have to stay awake and guard."
"We do not really know when and where those abarations might appear. For all we know, they may appear directly inside the house."
Elia was about to say something when both of them saw a new message flash before their eyes.
[The appearance of an abaration is not a very complex thing. At the very beginning, when the universe force invades any planet for the first time, the atmosphere of the planet is temporarily destabilized. The destabilization causes the space fabric of the planet to become highly unstable and weak which results in many ruptures in the space fabric. Thus, in the beginning, the abaration uses these ruptures in the space to open a portal and appear at any given location, and there is no fixed law for this.]
[But after a few hours, the universe force in the atmosphere is stabilized and the space fabric returns to normal.]
[After this, the abarations uses a special method to tear the space fabric of a planet to enter that planet. That method is called abaration gate.]
[The abaration gate is a method used by abarations to tear the space of a place. Using an abaration gate, a tear is carved into the space fabric of a planet to open a portal. The arrival of abarations at any place is preceded by formation of abaration gate at that location.]
"Did you get this message too?" Nathan asked quickly.
"Yes," Elia replied.
"Do you think… whatever this- world integration system' is would answer our questions?" she asked.
"Maybe," Nathan said.
"What are abarations?" he thought in his mind and then asked aloud so that Elia could hear the question.
[Low Authority. Access denied.]
This message was displayed to both of them.
"What is authority?" He asked again.
[Low Authority. Access denied.]
"Is authority connected to my strength?" He asked.
[Low Authority. Access denied.]
"It seems that it will answer our questions," Nathan sighed and added thoughtfully. "But we will not get all our answers… maybe as our strength rises, more and more of our questions will be answered."
"Alright, we will talk about this later," he said. "Both of us are tired, and we should sleep."
"I think a lot of people might have made some good progress in increasing their strength. We must not be left behind," he added further.
Even though the message had cleared their doubt about no abaration making a sudden appearance, Nathan was still cautious- cautious of some human intruding into the house.
Gloria had seen them entering this place, and he did not really know about her intentions. She had also given a subtle warning about dangerous people. And the way she had been carrying the gun- this area was a society of high officials, and a lot of people might have guns.
Thus, they still took turns to stay alive and guard. Elia almost forced Nathan to sleep first, and she slept later after midnight.
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