BXBX NOVEL Chapter 20: Chasm
[ Sure, so let's start from the very beginning, but since there are things even I can't tell you so I'll only mention the important points.
In terms of strength and abilities, this planet has already surpassed your earth by a big margin, since only a few could have access to what we call 'Chasm' there, but on this planet, the women have already gone through many dangers and many of them had survived in the end.
No one has been able to discover the origins of these Chasms yet and no, they are not what you are thinking, the Chasms are completely different from what you call gates and portals. It's almost like connecting to a different planet.
The creatures inside them, may possess intelligence and when they are killed, a fog is released from their bodies which directly strengthens the human body, but the fog on this planet could barely affect the males, though the fog on your Earth works completely opposite to that.
Based on the strength of creatures inside the Chasms, they have been divided into several Phases.
They are called Phases since the Chasm also possesses the ability to grow, there have been several cases here, when a lot of strong women had died inside a Chasm and then it evolved into a new Phase.
The Phases are numbered starting from one and the strongest Chasm seen on this planet so far was of the 8th Phase where the 1st Phase is the weakest. You will understand it much better after going through this experience yourself, as for the power levels for the women of this world- ]
' That's enough for now, let's continue it later. ' Lucian spoke in his mind while looking out of the window, where a man was screaming as a couple of women dragged him into a dark alley.
" Scary Star, what are they doing? Is that for real? And in broad daylight? " He spoke pointing towards the alley.
" Don't call me t- haa, don't you know how dangerous it has become for males, especially good looking ones. Since the number of men has become so scarce, don't tell me you had never been attacked by anyone? "
Scarlett spoke while maintaining her gaze on the road ahead, though her tone was still cold.
" Oh yes, I was attacked by a crazy woman on the first night of my marriage, she acted like a wild beast. " Lucian replied, but Scarlett stayed silent and just looked away.
' Hmm I have so much to learn about this new world, just how did the population of men decrease by so much? By any chance, the Fog you told me about earlier, does it affect the males and act as poison? ' Lucian asked.
[ No, the life span of males is much shorter compared to the women and the birth rate of women is much higher and hence the situation became like that. ]
While Lucian was reading that, the car stopped in front of a big shop. Then both of them got off and walked inside, Lucian bought all the tech materials he needed to start his plans, then Scarlett paid for it all. The whole time, she didn't even glance at him and had her brows creased.
The owner of the shop was a woman who kept staring at Lucian, but it seemed Scarlett was also given the duty to protect him, so the shop owner made no move despite seeing the most handsome boy she had seen in her life.
Scarlett was surprised that he bought so many things and then he ordered her to bring these all to his room in the company, the things ranged from several powerful laptops and screens to various types of cameras, external storage, USB rubber ducky and many other things.
" I also want to buy a few set of clothes. " Lucian spoke while checking all his techy gadgets.
All of them were pretty expensive and the best in the market, with these gadgets in hand and his knowledge, he could even make the government of a country to shut down for some time.
" Okay. " Scarlett spoke as they walked to another shop after giving their address to the tech shop to deliver everything.
While Lucian was walking towards the second shop, he narrowed his eyes feeling that he just saw the reflection of someone familiar in the distance.
" Was that... Jasmine? No way right, why would she come here and it hasn't been long since I left that place. I must be mistaken there is no way she would be here, right? Right? " Lucian mumbled and in the next moment, there was no one at that spot.
[ Who knows. ]
' By the way, this Italic font is better. '
Soon they entered the cloth shop, Scarlett stood to the side while keeping her gaze on Lucian since she also needed to make sure that no woman kidnap him.
No matter how much she thought, she just couldn't find a way to get herself out of his clutches.
" Why are you buying those kinds of clothes? " Scarlett asked in a cold voice and a frown on her face.
" Don't mind me, it's a gift for someone. " Lucian replied, while Scarlett wondered who would give such clothes as gifts to anyone.
Then she went to pay for all the clothes, so Lucian looked around and then sat down on the bench where a man was already seated, he was in his thirties and was holding his head as tears rolled down his face.
" What's wrong, hmm? " Lucian asked causally without much interest.
"..." The man glanced at him with his bright red eyes and then continued to drown in his misery.
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