The Holy Room.
While it was night outside, it was still rather bright inside the room, but it didn't an that the two of them didn't feel sleepy.
On top of one of the soft clouds, Lady Yu laid with her eyes softly closed, and her chest continued to rise and fall in a slow, steady rhythm.
She was sleeping peacefully while her mind wandered through dreams of distant lands and adventures.
A small distance away, behind so of the clouds, Adam swung his heavy sword down and up, his muscles straining with each powerful blow.
The sleeves of his shirt were pulled all the way up to his shoulders, and his exposed arms were coated in a thin sheen of sweat.
"Wooh..." Adam breathed heavily, swung his sword down, and lifted it back up.
During his adventures after the Eldertree Institute, he found a skill scroll for the Knowledge Master skill. It was a rather different skill from others, as it helped him to absorb all types of knowledge.
Thus, because of the skill, he'd been reading through so swordsmanship books and learning techniques that he never thought possible.
Victor's words cut deep.
He was indeed lacking in the swordsmanship departnt, and since he was Tank, he didn't have to be good at it, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few extra tricks up his sleeve.
After swinging his sword back down, he took a step forward and cut horizontally across the air. He then took another step and slashed up diagonally to cut his invisible training partner.
With a short thrust, he stabbed his sword behind him, then turned around and slashed through the air in front of him.
He then switched his grip and continued to practice his forms.
After doing it a little bit longer, he stabbed his sword through the cloud ground, left it there, and sat down on the cloudy hill.
With an exhausted look, he took so water from his inventory and poured it over his head to cool off.
'What're we supposed to even do here?' Adam looked around with a puzzled expression on his face.
This was his first ti being in the Holy Room, but he expected sothing to happen at least. He only knew that in this room, people turn into superhumans.
Around hundred years ago, Original entered the Holy Room with his holy partner-a beautiful holy maiden—and after three days, they erged from the room.
The Original, only three days prior to that, was a scrawny-looking man with skinny arms, but after three days in the Holy Room, he turned into a powerhouse that was able to fight God Beast, who'd been terrorizing the nearby villages, and was able to slay it.
'I don't feel any different...'
At that mont, he heard so painful sounds. It sounded like soone was struggling to breathe.
When he walked up the cloud hill, he saw Lady Yu clutching her chest, and looked like she was still sleeping, but her face had turned red and her breaths were shallow and labored.
"Yu?" Adam jumped next to her, crouched beside her, and touched her forehead.
It was burning up with fever, and Adam saw that his hand slightly burned from the heat.
'How's her fever so high?' Adam thought to himself and panicked slightly.
She was in a desperate need for dical help!
Adam rushed over to the rusty gates. He tried kicking and punching it open, but it didn't even flinch.
It was not going to open before the ceremony was over.
Adam returned to Lady Yu's side, took so cloth from his inventory, drenched it with cold water, and placed it on her forehead to cool her down.
She was sweating profusely, and her white dress was beginning to stick to her skin, turning slightly transparent, revealing her undergarnts.
"Mm..." She moaned softly and opened her eyes slightly. "Where am I?"
She didn't sound well at all.
She sounded like she was parched.
"Here, take so water." Adam placed the canteen of water between her lips and helped her take a few sips.
After a few sips, she let out a quiet mumble and asked. "I don't feel good..."
In her eyes, everything was spinning around her, and she couldn't even see Adam properly. It was like the world was stretching around her.
It was her fever that was causing her to see these strange things around her.
'Flasks of Setting Sun and Rising Moon don't help with fever.' Adam frowned. 'What should I do? This kind of fever is not normal.'
"It's so hot..." Lady Yu touched the cloth on her forehead, feeling the intense heat radiating from her body. "I am thirsty..."
"Take so more." Adam gave her more water, but it didn't seem to work at all.
He also had a limited amount of water with him, and he couldn't just leave the Holy Room to get so more.
He had so food with him, but nothing that fever-struck Lady Yu could eat. She needed so healing soup, and he didn't have the ingredients to make it.
"It hurts..." Lady Yu touched her chest.
"What hurts?" Adam felt his heart skip a beat and he touched her cheek.
It felt like the fever was turning worse with each passing mont.
At this rate, she would die!
"My heart..." Lady Yu clutched her chest and winced in pain. "So painful..."
'What the hell is going on with her?' Adam touched his own forehead, worry clouding his thoughts. 'Think, think, think!'
At that mont, she breathed heavily and sat up, the drenched cloth falling down on her lap. She was in such pain that tears stread down her face.
"Please, lay back down." Adam tried to help her lie back down, but she winced and refused.
"No..." She hugged him and whispered. "Take this pain away, please..."
Because of the intense fever, she drifted in and out of consciousness.
'Can't I really do anything?' Adam hugged her back and felt extrely helpless.
"Mm..."
She mumbled sleepily and planted a kiss on Adam's neck.
"?" Adam turned back to her and saw that her eyes were closed, but she was still mumbling.
It seed like even she didn't know what she was doing anymore.
"Soulmate..." She buried her face on his shoulder. "You're the one..."
"That's..."
Adam felt like he had the answer right at the tip of his tongue. He was sure that he'd heard
sothing similar from Lady Yu in the previous life.
A story of bygone tis, a story about soulmates, and painful love.
'That... I rember it!'
He turned Lady Yu around until her back was facing him. Her head drooped down as if she fell unconscious, and her body also turned limp, but she imdiately woke back up, and looked
around in confusion.
At that mont, Adam ripped the back of her dress, and exposed her delicate back. There was
a strap of her bra peeking out from the tear, but below that, there was a strange mark.
He lifted the strap to catch a better look of the mark, and when he saw it, his heart sank.
It was a mark of a broken heart.
'A symptom of a broken heart.' Adam thought. 'It's sothing that only can happen to a rare few. It happens to those who have loved soone deeply but lost that love in the end.'
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