The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Force Guiding (1)

A wild animal.

She was reminded of that when she looked at him.

Perhaps, not at the same time. But something far, far more dangerous. One that has been captured once, caged, tortured, and starved for years. Endless pain and suffering would remind them to never let anyone get close to them.

Wild animals can still be tamed and trust once an appropriate amount of time and care is shown toward them. But that didn’t seem to apply to this man.

His gaze remained fixed on her. They looked intense one second, then dull the next.

Aisha could tell he was trying his best to hold back the rampaging power within him.

The man sat on the ground with his back against the tree. His hand was pressed against the wound in his chest, but the blood continued to slip between his fingers, soaking the dark fabric of his clothes. That wound on his chest looked severe enough for an ordinary person to be seconds away from dying.

Aisha stopped just three feet away from him.

Then—

A crushing pressure fell on her entire body.

The surrounding trees seemed distorted, as though something invisible had taken hold of the space and kept pressing down on it.

In just a few seconds, it was already hard to breathe in air, as though oxygen was stripped away from that place.

He was a Sentinel. That Aisha could be sure of. Aisha Novalis had seen many powerful sentinels before. In her memories, some were close by, and others were seen from afar. But this was the first time she had encountered such a strong person. Both Aisha and this body.

This sentinel’s overwhelming pressure filled the entire space, making it impossible to physically function. She felt pathetically small for the first time. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

So, this is what a true high-ranking sentinel’s power feels like when they’re at full power. Aisha thought as she sensed the pressure growing even more around her.

Any normal person, a guide or a sentinel, would have fled by now. They could never take on this kind of pressure and power. The first thing they would have thought of would be to seek help from the Guide and Sentinel Association.

"Gururu?"

The tiny spiritual beast in her palm wriggled, antennae facing up at her, moving excitedly.

"You want me to save him?"

Aisha lowered her gaze at it.

The tiny antennas waved up and down, which was unusual with the overwhelming pressure still coming from that man. Are spiritual bodies just unaffected by this kind of pressure, or is her little worm just not feeling it?

"But it’s dangerous..."

She looked at the man again. His eyes looked completely hollow now, with his pupils swallowing his irises, leaving only two bottomless, pitch-black voids staring back at her. Arcs of static energy were leaking from the corners of his eyes.

He was already losing his real self.

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