Agility: 1.31, Constitution: 1.55, Vision: 0.67, Mana: 0.01, 1, 19 Uncertainty: 1 Source-ification: 0.3 Curse of Darkness: 1
Zachariah was dead, but Wilbur hadn't killed him.
When Wilbur said Zachariah was dead, Hope didn't feel especially sad. He wasn't even very surprised.
Old Whateley had tricked Zachariah into going up the mountain, but he hadn't actually wanted Wilbur to kill him. It didn't matter whether Wilbur acted or not.
All that mattered was that Zachariah saw what was on the mountain.
Unlike Hope and the others, who were "the Chosen," Zachariah was only a mortal.
King of Kings, that great god—no mortal could look upon Him, even in a vision.
Zachariah had spoken without thinking. Hope had thought he was terrified... but he'd simply gone mad.
After he died, the last digit in Hope's stats went up by one, becoming nineteen.
Wilbur died.
So the second-to-last digit became one.
The last digit had increased the previous time when the Transparent Monster killed the Corey couple. It had eaten two people, and the number had gone up by two.
The time before that, when Robert was killed, one person had died, and the number had gone up by one.
Hope thought he understood what these were.
Two counters.
One counted the number of times Wilbur had been killed by Hope, and the other counted the number of humans killed by the Transparent Monster.
So far, the Transparent Monster had killed nineteen people, Robert included. Hope didn't know whether that was a lot or a little.
He didn't want to think about it.
Nineteen people had lost their lives, while his time kept marching on.
Old Whateley had kept his promise and told Wilbur almost nothing.
And Lavinia hadn't even noticed that Wilbur had died once. She thought she'd