Requiem Of A Failed Hero

Chapter 364 The Death Call

It's been approximately seven hours since Raith entered the gate. Ruan Zhaohui had been standing on that spot since she entered.

"Mo…ther…" Hesitantly Gilly pronounced yet again.

It hadn't done anything before and she sort of knew it wouldn't still do a thing. When Ruan Zhaohui decides to do something, no one can stop her. And in everything she does, she always manages to outdo people, even when they are giving better shot at doing the same thing.

She was a woman of Valor, the only one that could have pulled the hunters together after Li Mingwu's harsh passing. Gilly looked at her with sparkling eyes.

Her eyes gathered water, but shone with so much respect for the woman in front of her.

She resumed her pose behind her. Having long decided:

'If mother is not going to move. Then I won't'

She had managed to stand alongside Ruan Zhaohui for close to seven hours with such steel conviction.

Unlike someone who was sleeping.

Ruan Zhaohui's eyes narrowed. It was not noticed by any other person except her. However, moments after she noticed it. However, Rizo slowly opened his eyes from slumber.

Sluggishly the young boy raised his head. Seconds later the gate began to shrink.

"Rizo!" Ruan Zhaohui who was paying attention to the gate all along caught on quick and called on to him.

With a slight movement of one leg the boy moved with the wind, gently arriving beside Ruan Zhaohui unperturbed about the finesse he just displayed.

He stretched out both his hand and gritted his teeth hard.

Immediately the gate that was shrinking began to enlarge again.

His teeth stayed gritted and with a frown he turned his gaze to Ruan Zhaohui.

"What?"

"He's not inside." He said, with an appealing grating voice.

"What?" Her eyes widened. "What about the monster?"

Rizo shook his head. "No one is there." With a frown, he turned quickly to his gaze. His veins were beginning to bulge over his forehead and around his neck.

"Even the monster?"

"It's not there!" He coughed out blood as he responded to her.

Ruan Zhaohui's brow drifted upwards. Seeing as he was struggling to keep the gate in place so much, she had to make a choice. If she told him to let go… that could mean she one way or the other allowed Raith to die.

'What if he's in there? What if someone needs to go in…"

Rizo began to bleed through his nose, he turned his neck sharply to Ruan Zhaohui.

"What should I do?!"

Ruan Zhaohui slightly opened her mouth but nothing came out. The young boy was struggling and her senses seem suspended in limbo. This was what she hated about being a leader.

She bit her lower lips and dropped her head.

"Let go…"

Rizo Immediately dropped to the ground, falling on his knees and blood dripping from his nose and mouth. His eyes were red and almost bleeding too.

Ruan watched the gate close in despair. She clenched her fist tightly, her whole arm shivering as she clenched harder, carving her fingers into her flesh.

Blood dripped from her lips as she bit herself hard.

'Today, I killed a hunter who could have been one of the greatest.'

Rizo stayed on the floor still coughing up blood but in reduced sequence. His scarred guard was now with him. Kneeling on one knee and softly patting his master's back.

Rizo with wrinkles formed below his face giving him a very sleepy expression turned to Ruan Zhaohui who stood like her statue with trembling arms.

"It wasn't… your… fault."

She didn't look like she was listening to anyone or anything and just stared blankly into the space that used to occupy the malevolent gate.

"Mother…" Gilly muttered with a bitter taste to her mouth. She of all people knew how heavily Ruan Zhaohui internally beats herself when a resource is lost. It was like that when Li Mingwu died - she blamed herself for not keeping a close relationship with him.

Now… would she ever be able to recover from what had happened today.

Ruan Zhaohui with a blank face walked away from the gate.

"Take me to Whitman immediately."

"Yes ma'am." Gilly responded immediately and ran ahead of Ruan Zhaohui to go prepare the ride. But turned back - realizing that Ruan Zhaohui had not meant with a car when she spoke.

She had an habit of saying the word, even though she would eventually use 'that'

Whooosh!

Before Gilly could retrace her steps, Ruan Zhaohui shot into the air, leaving a webbed crack tile in her wake.

"Oh shit. I messed up" she muttered as she watched her mother flew across the air like a military jet.

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Whitman entered into his office. He loosened his tie with one hand, the stress he had to undergo trying to find the Phoenixes was almost suffocating, maybe loosening the tie almost deceived him to think the stress would be eased.

His office was on thr highest floor of the American association building and was adorned by platinum glass that cannot be broken through. The glass has been proven through the test of withstanding the impact of a titanium hammer.

Whitman settled his chair and closed his eyes, thinking what could have happened to the pheonixes. Where did it all go wrong.

"Fuck it's that darned Korea hunter!" He slammed his fist on the table.

"Why did he have to go and accept challenge. He was never supposed to!"

Whitman was particularly concerned because he had heard the news that the boy was going to go alone. Honestly, he first scoffed at the news and wasn't worried about anything.

But the more he began to hear of the Korean hunter's achievement, the worried he began to get. If this guy happens to be stronger than Li Mingwu, he would defeat the monster and probably even find Li Mingwu's body.

And because of Ruan Zhaohui ability to communicate with dead souls. Once Li Mingwu's corpse was found, everything would come to a tragic end. His plans… the plans he had been working on for the past ten years.

Everything would become futile, the numbers of lives he sacrificed would all be for nothing.

No. He couldn't have that. Something had to be done and so he sent Eric to nullify the Korean's hunter ability and kill him.

However, never did he think that his trump card's ability wouldn't work on Raith.

And now he had to deal with the consequences.

He gritted his teeth.

"I'm fucking disappointed in that bastard!" He slammed his fist on the table again.

He suddenly threw his face to the side - but it was late.

Impact rang throughout the whole building as Ruan Zhaohui bulldoze her way into Whitman's office, shattering the glasses.

Her brows were tightly knitted and her eyes narrowed.

"Whitman!"

She summoned him, heaving with fumes.