A Stone Can Kill Everyone

Loki hoarsely told his friends what the system had just informed him.

"The Amnesia Stone drains the lifeforce or people?!" Saltavore exclaimed. "What the hell?"

"Wait," Terrence made a choking sound. "Isn't the courtroom the middle of Aranea? And isn't the walls of Aranea exactly 50 miles away from the courtroom?"

A silence fell over the six as they realized just what that meant.

"Everyone in this town wouldn't know where they came from," Nishan whispered in horror. "And their life force is all being drained while they're here. We've been Aranea for so long! Doesn't that mean our life force was being drained this entire time?"

[An average person dies in a year after living in Arachne]

"Don't you mean Aranea?" Loki manage to ask the system.

[The rulers of Arachne has an Amnesia Stone in every city of Arachne]

[The rulers usually choose the ones who has stayed the longest in Arachne to fight newcomers so that they have new meat]

[If you leave the city that you are in before your lifeforce is entirely drained, it will be restored when you pass through the Aranea Telam, which is the magical barrier that covers every city in Arachne]

Loki filled the rest in on everything.

"We have to leave now!" Seraphine exclaimed. "Before we forget anything or the daemons find us and kill us!"

"It's a bit too late for that, my dear," a voice said from behind them.

They spun around to see Mr. Leroy.

"You've been tricking us since we came!" Saltavore yelled.

"Why did you have to go and meddle?" Mr. Leroy sighed in disappointment. "You could have lived a content life until you died in peace."

"Excuse me? I do not want to die in a year!" Daphne snapped. "Now leave us alone!"

"Oh no," Mr. Leroy smirked. "You're all going to leave Aranea. Now."

"And if we don't?" Nishan challenged.

"Your lifeforce will be instantly drained from you by the Amnesia Stone," Mr. Leroy said smoothly. "I'm giving you a slim chance to survive now. You might become an Exsilium, you might become monster food. Either way, you're either probably going to die, or going to die. It's your choice."

Terrence opened his mouth to say something but Loki pulled him back. "We'll leave."

'Why the hell did you agree to that?' Daphne asked Loki mentally as the six of them were sent to pack up their things, guards all around them.

'If we stay here, we die,' Loki answered. 'Killing the daemons won't do us any good, and I doubt that we'll be able to do so. There might be caves with some mana crystals outside the borders of the cities. We might even be able to let some monsters into the cities of Arachne before we leave."

'How many cities are there in Arachne anyway?' Daphne questioned.

'5 cities,' Loki told her. 'Aranea Oculo, Venenum, Aranea Femoris, Aranea and Centralis. These are the only cities in Arachne. Centralis is the city in the middle, and the other four cities surround Centralis.'

"Loki," Seraphine pulled out all their clothes. "Store them?"

"You got it."

[Set of clothes has been stored into Inventory]

[15 spaces remaining in Inventory]

"Time to go," a guard said.

The guards escorted the six of them to the walls of Aranea. "Goodbye," one of the guards mocked. "Be ready to die within a day."

The guards pushed the six of them out the gates and closed it in their faces. Daphne cursed them under their breath. "Damn them. They didn't let us take anything else. Even if we manage to kill some monsters, we won't be able to eat their meat because the meat of monsters in Aranea are known to be dangerous."

"It's okay," Loki reassured. "I see a river that we can drink water from, and I still have the strips of musk ox meat in my Inventory."

"We should get moving if we ever hope to find any mana crystals," Saltavore said.

With that, the six friends started to trek along the riverside, hoping to find their way home.

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