RUN!

A few minutes earlier, in a long hallway on the second floor.

'Was I mistaken? I feel that the kid walked through here.' A bulky man in his mid-forties said while walking and having his right hand rest on the walls of the hall.

He was the one who arrived first in the room Achilles had resided in earlier, which now was filled with a bunch of mental patients who were the latter's unfortunate "cast crew" and doctors and other employees of the morgue trying to detain them.

When the bulky man was about to help the others to detain the mental patients since most of them were his teammates, he saw a silhouette flash through the corner of his eyes. And for some reason, he felt that it was the young man who was now dead.

He decided to listen to his intuition and followed the figure, of course, he could only see a glimpse of it taking turns but could not actually chase after it since it would reveal his position.

The bulky man walked behind the figure whom he presumed to be the young man for a while and noticed weird things wherever the silhouette passed through, but he couldn't put his finger on what it was.

...It was like something was blocking his mind from thinking about it any further.

The bulky man thought it was weird but he was a simple-minded individual, so he shrugged it off and thought it was probably his imagination.

He followed the figure for a while more before it reached the staircase and continued walking down for 30 minutes until they were only a few steps away from the first floor.

The bulky man was puzzled by the reason the mysterious figure didn't use the elevator, but he couldn't think of any answer.

When he was near the first floor he heard the voice of the figure say to itself:

"Goodbye stupid staircase, hello sweet and savory freedom!"

By now he was sure that the silhouette was the young man but his voice sounded slightly different from before, it was like two voices mixed into one.

He reached the first floor while getting more and more bewildered by the events that happened today as he thought to himself:

'What the hell is going on right now?'

The bulky man went after the young man for a while until they reached the entrance of the morgue and the former heard him speak again something he couldn't really understand.

Before the young man could finish his words he decided to intervene and asked in a puzzled voice:

"Kid? What the hell are you doing in this place?"

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Achilles didn't respond to the bulky man's words, he knew that if he said anything, he would be exposed instantly.

His eyes turned bright red while he gave the crow and the rat an order to go hide in a hidden corner, the bulky man was still focusing on Achilles so he didn't notice the two creatures.

10 seconds later, the man saw that Achilles still maintained his silence, so he said in a slightly irritated voice:

"I know it's you kiddo, draping that blanket over yourself is not going to work."

Achilles remained still without saying a word. This angered the man more and he started to shout:

"Hey! Knock it off and answer me already, what are you doing here?"

Once again, he kept his mouth shut without saying a thing. The man finally couldn't take it anymore so he started walking in Achilles' direction:

"What is going on with you right now, why is everything so weird today?"

Achilles heard the man's footsteps and he thought to himself in anticipation and wariness:

'That's right, come closer to your father.'

He clenched his right fist so tightly that it almost bled as he waited for the man to come close.

When the bulky man reached Achilles, he grabbed his left shoulder and asked again:

"What is up with y- !!"

Before the man could finish his sentence, Achilles turned around and tossed the blanket in his direction. While the man was distracted he raised his right hand and channeled his essences to strengthen his physical stats and brought his fist near the man's face.

The bulky man was caught by surprise but managed to dodge the punch in time before it connects to his jaws. He was a trained Divine after all, a mere sneak attack would not work on him that easily.

Achilles saw this and clicked his tongue a little before retreating and running away. His mind screamed one word only:

'RUN!'

He was not delusional enough to think he could directly 1v1 with someone who is a Lesser Surpassed.

The gap was simply too huge to overcome!

The bulky was about to ask why Achilles suddenly attacked him but he saw him running away at full speed, so he shouted:

"What the fuck are you doing brat! Get back in here!"

Achilles was obviously not a moron to listen to him and kept dashing away as fast as possible. But he knew that he would be caught if he kept running mindlessly like this so he changed his direction and headed inside the first floor.

Of course, he did not forget to command the two zombie creatures to follow him.

The man saw that Achilles wasn't responding to him so he decided to chase after him, he was determined to get an answer out of the kid.

Achilles kept running while his eyes darted around every corner of the room, it seemed that he was lucky because no one was on the first floor so he didn't bump into anybody.

'It appears my actors performed better than I had originally expected.'

Achilles and the man played a game of cat and mouse for a while before the man slowly caught up to him.

The former was starting to worry because he could not cut his tail, the difference between the two ranks was simply way too much.

Just as he was about to run out of his trashy stamina as a Lesser Evolved, Achilles saw a broom with a metal handle resting in a corner of the hallway and he stopped a few centimeters in front of it.

He also commanded the two creatures who were running behind him and the bulky man to stay in their tracks.

The bulky man also slowed down after seeing Achilles stop and said in an extremely angry voice:

"You're fucking crazy, I'll teach you a lesson after this!"

The man was about to come close to Achilles again when suddenly his hands and legs trembled slightly. He had a bewildered look on his face as a strange feeling of fear crept its way into his heart.