Damn, I Awakened With A Horror System!

Chapter 43: Someone killed the Crows?

Jake closed his eyes as he took a deep breath, calming his disappointed heart.

"With my perception skill, I only managed to catch the existence of the Soul Eating Crows after they were only 500 meters away from us.

Although it seems far away, with their ability to fly and their level, reaching us in a few seconds is reasonable...'

Even though Jake knew that it was not entirely his fault since it was only a matter of time before the Soul Eating Crow found them, the feeling of blaming himself still passed and rested in his mind.

Sigh...

"Ohh, you're finally awake?" Leo suddenly spoke as he eyed the bloody face of Jake for a second before looking at the bottle in his hand seriously.

"How long has it been since I fell unconscious?" Jake asked Leo as he eyed him with surprise, never expected that he would be the first one to wake up...

Or probably, he never fell unconscious in the first place... However, it's very unlikely since...

Suddenly thinking about the pain he experienced earlier, the corner of Jake's eyes twitched violently as he grimaced in pain silently, starting to feel the aching muscles on his body.

"I don't know, it's probably an hour or a day, but it's likely at least 3-5 hours." Leo ponders slightly before answering.

Thinking for a while, Leo took out a water bottle and bread from his inventory, giving it to Jake who was struggling to sit up in the distance.

As Leo was about to sit up again toward his previous seat after giving Jake the bread, a familiar deep voice of Roland from the corner of the room entered his ears.

"Cough... Can you also give me one?" Roland coughed slightly as he closed his eyes, feeling that the surroundings were spinning around, causing him to be unable to access his inventory.

"And also please help me to sit down..."

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"Sigh, much better...Thanks a lot!" Roland sighed in relief as he thanked Leo in the distance, his eyes still closed as he tried to stabilize his mind.

"Did you find anything outside?" Seeing the relief on Roland's face, Jake who was drinking the water in the distance asked Leo seriously.

Due to his mind also slightly spinning around, making him dizzy, Jake couldn't use his skill successfully(couldn't use his skill by 100%), causing him to be unable to detect life outside.

Ehh?

Scratching his head, feeling slight embarrassment upon noticing that after waking up that he never checked the situation outside, Leo replied in a weak voice.

"I... Still didn't check the situation outside since I also just woke up from being unconscious."

Cough... Cough...

" ( O - O ) " Jake.

Spewing the water in his mouth surprised by the carelessness of Leo and knowing that Leo was just finding a reason, Jake couldn't help but stare at Leo's face in disbelief.

"Did you really... survive on your own in the past?" Jake asks in doubt and suspicion.

Knowing that he made some mistakes, Leo's cheeks noticeably redden slightly as he coughs up weakly before standing up.

Cautiously approaching the window, Leo slightly lifted the curtain with his left hand, slightly poking his head enough for him to see the scenery outside.

This...

In an instant, after seeing the situation outside, Leo couldn't help but instinctively gasp in shock and puzzlement as he stared at the lying figures on the ground.

The familiar pure dark wings that span up to 3-5 meters in length are now broken, their dark eyes similar to an abyss that stripped of vitality, and the long deep wound on their neck as if a long sharp object slashed through it.

1... 2... 5... Leo counted in shock as he took a long deep breath.

"Who could kill those 5 Soul Eating Crows!"

Although Leo has no idea about the current level of the dead crows outside, his experience after fighting the level-15 Soul Eating Crow in the past told him that the dead crow outside is at least at the Foundation Realm!

Jake who was eating the bread that Leo gave him while staring at Leo's figure in the distance, immediately noticed the shock and oddity in Leo's face.

What happened?

Misunderstanding the expression of Leo, thinking that Leo saw something worse, Jake gritted his teeth in pain as he forced his body to stand up...

Slowly approaching the window as his face contorted in pain, Jake immediately peeks through the gap in the curtain.

"They are dead? Other than zombies with sickle hands and Household cats with sharp claws like a dagger... Who could kill these flying beasts?"

Unlike Leo, the look on Jake's face remained composed as he calmly analyzed the situation outside the building.

With how chaotic the world was, there are a lot of things that couldn't explain... It's highly likely that other monsters caused this.

After pondering for a while, Jake silently shook his head as he made his way toward his previous location, continuing his resting in an attempt to recover the loss of his blood.

Seeing that Jake seems not surprised by the mysterious death of the crows outside, Leo's shocked mind begins to calm down as he takes a last glance outside before moving toward his previous location.

Hesitating slightly for a while, Leo raised his head and directly looked at Jake meters away.

"Could we retrieve those crows? I might get materials that can boost our stats permanently...

Besides that, I also need materials to create a puppet... their beak, feathers, eyes, and talons could do."

Jake replied as he took a deep breath, "Wait for the group to wake up, or wait till I recover..."

"Cough... there's no need, I will just cast my skill toward you and you could retrieve the corpse outside on your own."

Just as Jake finished speaking, Roland at some point, opened his eyes and replied toward Leo in the distance.

Pausing slightly to get used to the discomfort he was currently experiencing, Roland then said.

"But you need to make it fast since my skill has a time limit... 2 minutes at most."

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