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.Giving him a real reason would just make him even more determined to destroy Faar.Yata glanced over at Gavin.In order to convince such a dedicated soldier, Noah would have to show something that probably wasn’t in the public view—something that would be enough to convince even the most loyal of soldiers to turn against the government.But, from the looks of it, they were simply walking in the public streets, not anywhere where any secret government things would take place.Noah suddenly took a turn into a street that looked like a ghost town.The houses were tattered and old with rust and mold growing all over the wooden structures.Bodies were sprawled across the sides of the street from starved homeless individuals that had passed but hadn’t been cleaned up from the streets.Some of their flesh was decayed, with flies and bugs buzzing around.The very sight almost made Yata want to vomit.Gavin actually did.“I know that poverty is a problem in our society, but that isn’t a good enough reason to convince me to execute the king,” Gavin muttered, wiping his mouth of sick.“There’s poverty in every prosperous nation.There is no society where everyone is living high and mighty—”“That’s not what I came to show you today,” Noah said simply, walking toward one of the buildings.At the building’s side was a latch in the ground, camouflaged by a patch of grass.“My father has a large amount of prototype samples of artificial magic.These bodies that you see out here are not just from starvation.Would you like to see the truth? It is a rather sickening sight.” He reached down, grabbed the hidden latch, and pulled.A wooden doorway came up, some dust entering the air, and absolute darkness was all that could be seen beyond.Yata truly didn’t want to go down there.Perhaps it was a personal fear about entering catacombs.Well, not just catacombs.It was any type of underground activity, for that matter.He gave a smug look, but Gavin and Noah didn’t seem to quite catch it because Gavin followed Noah forward, rather curious as to what the darkness held.Yata gave a small shiver as he inched his way over, dragging his legs until he fell stagnant at the entrance of whatever this opening led to.“Well, it’s your call, Gavin.I’m going to hate the government, no matter what, but this is to convince you to join our side, right?”Gavin shrugged.“I’ll see what he has to show me.”Damn it.Noah nodded and flicked his wrist, summoning a glowing red stick that appeared in his hand.Such conjuring magic truly seemed like a very useful trick, fit for many different types of situations.He gripped the stick and pointed to the darkness, revealing a descending staircase that led into the abyss.He began to walk downward and conjured a glowing stick for Yata and Gavin to use as well.Gavin went second, and Yata followed after.Being in the back of the group was something that he didn’t favor at all.He definitely wasn’t afraid of the dark since he had embarked on his short trek through the Forbidden Forest.But the moment that they stepped down into the dark corridors of this underground facility, he was overwhelmed with a disconcerting feeling.Perhaps it was the clamminess or even the scant light that radiated from the small sticks they held.Other than that, it was pitch-black, and Yata followed the shadowed image of Gavin, who walked before him.The corridor was extremely narrow and scarred with some type of markings, carved delicately with deep incisions into the stone walls, as if they were in an ancient burial ground.Seldom was he this uncomfortable, yet here he was.His heart pounded as it had when he was a child whenever he felt fear.Nothing had happened, yet he already felt this foreign feeling—how cowardly of him.He blinked when he found the narrow hallway opening up into a massive room filled with blackness, their tiny glow sticks lighting up only a small percentage of the abyss that engulfed them.“How does your magic work?” Yata asked Noah curiously.“Anything that I imagine in my mind becomes a reality [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]