Chapter 351 351 – The Outside

Chapter 351 Chapter 351 – The Outside

?The group walked towards the exit of Crimson City.

Nick wanted to know if anybody was following them, but that wasn't possible right now since his teammates were also looking at him.

Nick walked near the front, together with Clayton.

Behind the two of them were Petra and Jason, walking side-by-side but with a bit more distance than there was between Nick and Clayton.

Jenny was in the middle, in the back.

The positioning of the team wasn't related to authority but to where everyone would be most useful during a battle.

If one looked at their position from above and drew a couple of lines, one could see that the five of them were walking in an upside-down pentagram formation.

Jenny was well-defended at the back, and nobody could approach them from the front or the sides.

After a bit, they reached the bridge.

There were four Johns guarding the exit of the city, making sure that no normal people or Newbies left.

The outside world was extremely dangerous and leaving would be akin to suicide for most people. nove(l)bi(n.)com

Nick approached one of the guards and showed a sheet of paper to him.

The guard read through the paper, nodded, motioned for his colleagues to step to the side, and stepped to the side himself.

After the guards stepped to the side, the guard nodded at Nick. "Good luck out there," he said.

Nick nodded, and his group walked past the guards onto the bridge.

The bridge was only two meters wide, which meant that the group had to shrink their formation.

As the five of them walked across the bridge, their Barriers activated.

Even though the bridge kept most of the red mist at bay, a bit of it still floated across the bridge.

Luckily, they could survive this little bit of mist.

As they walked across the bridge, they felt quite claustrophobic due to the gigantic red "walls" surrounding the bridge.

"Can we walk faster?" Clayton asked in a deep voice from beside Nick. "My Barrier is using more Zephyx than I like."

Nick glanced at Clayton, turned to the team, and motioned forward.

The next moment, they sped up and ran across the bridge.

Nick still felt like he was walking at a comfortable speed, but the three Initial Johns were already running with a lot of power.

About a minute later, they reached the end of the bridge.

Jenny, Petra, Clayton, and Jason took deep breaths as they saw the outside world for the first time.

It was so big!

It was endless!

They could always see the end of the city from the roof of any building, and the city had been their world for all their lives.

This meant that they had always been able to see the end of their world.

But now, they could no longer see the end of their world.

The next thing that hit them was the sheer lack of metal.

There was absolutely no metal visible anywhere!

Just dirt, sand, and stone.

Almost everything that the eye could see was either light-

brown earth, light-brown dust, yellow sand, or grey stone.

There were dusty valleys, stony hills, and mounds of sand.

That was it.

That was the world.

Plants?

No.

Animals?

No.

Buildings?

No.

People?

Extremely few.

Life?

Almost nonexistent.

If one got rid of all of the life within Crimson City and left behind a world of metal, there would be just as much life inside the city as outside the city.

The world was huge and endless...

But also pointless and lifeless.

Except for the Specters and their minions.