The Author Is Speechless
Chapter 257: Rae, no. It’s someone else.

Chapter 257: Rae, no. It’s someone else.

A snowstorm hit the northern continent’s edge. The corner of the continent where nobody lives across a few thousand miles. It was the land of snow and glaciers.

There was no sign of civilization, no architecture, no sign of any living things but one bright red thing near a huge chunk of ice that looked like a mountain.

It was Viktor’s tent.

"Man, the weather is getting worse by every hour." He took off his thick jacket and went inside his blanket again after sleeping for 13 hours. But the weather was making him sleepy again so he took out his phone that had so many pictures of his small family.

The first picture was Adonis’ picture, trying instant ramen for the first time. Seeing his picture, Viktor chuckled and swiped onto the next picture.

It was Rae’s picture when he was on good terms with Viktor. He looked cheerful, happy and his eyes filled with hope. He was a good friend of Viktor who lives inside his heart now.

Viktor couldn’t help but give off a smile, a soft smile with a hint of sorrow.

But soon, his smile went out and he turned his eyes to his left where a man was standing right behind the tent.

"Hey Vik, will you come out for a second?"

It was Rae’s voice, Astraeus, the guardian of stars and moons.

Viktor’s heart wanted to stop at that moment but soon, he recovered from the shock. But it’s been a long time since he had seen Rae. He wanted to have a chat even though he knew it was not his friend Rae.

It was a Feo who took Rae’s form.

Without wearing a jacket, Viktor walked out of his tent barefoot. He then approached Rae and said, "Hey, it’s been so long, Rae. How are you?"

"Viktor. I’m glad I found you!!"

"Why, what’s wrong, Rae?"

"You don’t know why? Someone threw me here and I ended up losing the way home. But I’m glad...hic.. I.. f..found you!! Viktor, let’s go home."

Viktor stood there staring at his face unfazed. The feo looked just the same as Rae. His black hair with glittering dots that looked like stars shining in the dark sky. His dark eyes with bright golden suns shine beautifully. His pale skin with no hint of imperfection, it was the perfect replica of Rae, who was supposed to live on a different planet without any of his memories.

After a minute, Viktor finally opened his mouth. "Rae, how did you survive in this cold? Where is your jacket? You look like it’s been only a minute since you came out of a room. My eyelashes are already freezing. Why aren’t you cold?"

Viktor knew it wasn’t Rae so he wanted to see how the monster would react to his question.

Viktor wanted to check how intelligent it was.

"I have recently awakened so the cold doesn’t bother me, Vik. Besides, I’m glad that I found you. Let’s go home, Vik."

Viktor sighed and looked at the monster’s face. He then asked, "Rae, you don’t remember it. Do you?"

The feo flinched a little. After processing the answer for a minute, it replied, "How can I forget? I remember everything. I remember how all of us used to dine together!"

"Oh really? Then you must remember Adonis, right?"

It tilted its head a little and asked, "Adonis? Who is that?" The monster was struggling to sense his thoughts. But it couldn’t get access to his memories so it failed to know who Adonis was. But it became a little worried to see Viktor was still standing without moving an inch. It realised that something wasn’t right.

Viktor kept his indifferent face unchanged and started at the feo. He then slowly approached it and said, "Rae, you are not Rae. Right? You’re someone else who is imitating him by reading my memories."

The feo which was imitating Rae suddenly started to deform and melt. Viktor blocked his memories and started to give the feo different identities of Rae. Since feo reads the thoughts of a person, it imitates the images of the closest person to the person’s heart.

At first, it tried to take Adonis’ form but it couldn’t copy his face. It sensed Adonis’s existence around Viktor’s thoughts because that time, he was looking at his picture. So it took Rae as his appearance to deceive Viktor.

The feo took a different person’s form everytime but soon, it took his real form unwillingly and started to act as Viktor was thinking at that time.

"Viktor... let’s go home."

The feo raised his hand and suddenly, it realised it was its real form.

Viktor smiled and said, "A feo appeared on the eastern continent, took my friend’s appearance. And now the feo can’t understand why it’s using its real form. Huh? You’re a pretty cheeky monster."

"Monster? I am a monster? I am also a living being with memories and intelligence! How can you say that I am a monster!"

"That’s because the void didn’t give you a part of its existence. A soul. You don’t have a soul, no record book above your head. So, you don’t belong in the category of intelligent beings. You’re a monster who somehow ate a person and copied his intelligence."

"It looks like I have to kill you then." The feo made his hand into a long blade and dashed towards Viktor’s neck. But in a second, his world went upside down. He saw his body was still running headless but it couldn’t reach Viktor.

It fell in the snow and started to shake and bleed from its neck. Soon, its vision went black and went into its deep slumber. A dark realm where there’s no way out.

"A dangerous monster that can even read the thoughts of a guardian-level human. A monster that can imitate anyone and plays with its prey before putting it inside its bottomless stomach."

Viktor looked above and saw a new set of stars. It was shining bright right next to a nebula which was so close to Arcadia.

"Sigh... No wonder the void hated Feo. It’s an error creation so it must be eliminated from existence."

The corpse of the monster started to melt quickly.

’And the worst part of its existence is... it spreads a dangerous virus known as White Pox. After its death, it quickly melts with water, air, sand or anything that comes in contact. If a person somehow touches it, he will immediately get infected and in just 7 days, his whole body would become completely covered with white blisters. That’s also one of the reasons why feo was marked as an error creation. If just one of them gets inside any civilization, they are all dead. It’s over for them.’

Viktor cast a hells fire spell on the corpse to destroy every part of its cell that got mixed with snow. It quickly turned into dust and finally, it vanished with the air.

’To think it would read my thoughts...’

Viktor was angry. He was pissed off at the fact that it took the form of his one and only close friend and dared to speak by imitating his voice. It made Viktor so angry that he wanted to blow off the entire northern continent.

"That’s it. Radium, come out of the dimension room. Let uranium take care of the nectar machine."

Viktor opened the door to his dimension room and a fat-looking cat hovered outside.

*MATSER, it’s rare of you to summon me outside. The weather is not suitable for any living being. The outside world failed to catch my interest. I’d rather stay inside the dimension room and take care of what I’m supposed to do.*

"Stop being so dramatic, fat a**. I have a job for you."

*Your wish is my command, MASTER.*

"Go to the northern continent. There’s a monster called Feo that looks like a red wolf but has bright red wings. It might take the form of humans or demons or any race because it ate them. They are dangerous. Go and check on their moments for a few weeks. Send reports to me every hour and kill any feo that come near the border. Don’t miss a single cell. You must destroy every cell of that body."

*I have no map of the northern continent, MASTER. And the monster called Feo. I do not have any information on it.*

"Ah... sorry-_-."

Viktor gave the fat cat a small chip and gave him a copy of the world map from his phone. He then ordered Radium to keep a safe distance from them and finally, he bid goodbye to it.

"There goes my cat..."

Viktor dropped flat on the cold snow by spreading his arms and legs and looked at the clear sky. The cold wasn’t bothering him for his cold resistance skill attached to his soul. Only the existence of feo and his future where he was taking care of a baby was bothering him.

*Sigh...*

"Why does the key holder have to be a kid... give me a break.. I hate kids..."