"Sir Dylan!" Mary could not control her emotions anymore. She jumped into Dylan's embrace and cried tears of joy. "Thank, god..."
"Where is this..." Dylan stared blankly at the two individuals who was in front of him and scanned his surroundings. His mind was still elsewhere as he recalled the mories that he and her mother shared.
"I knew it! You definitely won't die on ! Hahaha!" Rian rrily chid. He let out a sigh of relief after having a hearty laugh.
After blinking a few tis, he began to rember about Mary's abduction and the fight with the alliance. When his mind beca more clear, his eyes lit up. "Rian! You're okay? Great! When the leaders ca back, instead of you, I thought sothing might have happened to you."
"Heh, you think those old farts could kill ? Hmph, you think too highly of them! As I am now, I could take care of the entire alliance single handedly!" Rian unhappily snorted yet as he looked away, there was a faint smile on his face. He was really happy that he could still talk with Dylan like this.
"Arrogant as always, I see. Mary, why are you here? Didn't I tell you to run as far as possible?" Dylan then turned to the crying damsel on his shoulders.
" I..." Mary suddenly realized how inappropriate her actions were. She imdiately detached herself from Dylan and answered. "I heard a large explosion. I felt sothing bad happened to you so I..."
"You shouldn't have! What would happen if the... The alliance leaders! They... Ugh!" Dylan, who was in the middle of speaking, could now fully feel the enfeeblent that lurked within his body. With the clarity of his mind returning, the sensation of his body had also done the sa.
"Huh?" It was only now that he discovered his chest was shrouded with bandages which were now drenched in blood because of its' attempts to stop excessive bleeding. When he tried to move his body, pain was the only thing that he could feel.
He, then, looked at Rian and Mary with an inquiring stare, "What happened to ? Why am I injured like this?"
Rian answered. "I don't know what happened exactly. When I found you, you were already like this. I thought that you might have fought the demon warriors of the clan leaders which resulted you being heavily injured."
After hearing Rian's assumption, he rembered his arduous fight with the demon warrior, " That's right! I fought with a demon warrior because I thought they already killed you. The last thing I rember was using my strongest attack against them, then, everything went white. I guess I fainted quickly after."
"But, still, you were able to destroy their demon warrior because when I found them, they were already lying on the ground so I cleaned up your ss and killed them." Rian ntioned Dylan's feat and ntioning his right after. He even grinned when he said 'I cleaned up your ss'
"Okay, okay. I get it." Dylan rolled his eyes in response.
"Hmph, how ungrateful! If it were not for , you would have died!" Rian growled in a dissatisfied tone.
"Well, that's what comrades are for, stupid. I would do the sa if you were injured like I was." Dylan wore a warm smile while he laughed.
"Anyways, you should also thank Mary. Regarding your injury, it was even more worse initially but Mary helped you with that. She was the one who took care of you when I went to kill those bastards." Rian spoke with a knowing tone.
"Thank you, Mary. I owe you one." Dylan turned to Mary and smiled gratefully.
Mary beca flustered as she looked at Dylan's captivating smile. She turned her head away and waved her hands while talking hurriedly, " I only stopped the bleeding, sir. Your body was already recovering at a visible rate when I arrived. It was continuously taking in spirit energy from its' surroundings and refining it to help your body recover. I only took off your shirt and..."
She abruptly stopped talking when she ntioned the matter of her taking off her shirt. Her hands stopped moving and she placed on her flushed face. Despite covering her face, there were gaps on her hands. Even if she was embarassed, a part of her wanted to see Dylan's reactions.
"Even so, you helped keep my life. That's why I'm really grateful." Dylan smiled warmly as he expressed his thanks.
"Mhm." Mary stared at Dylan in amazent. His smile suddenly beca more brilliant which made her heart skip a beat. She lowered her head and smiled secretly.
"Let ditate for a bit. I want to inspect what happened to my body. Plus, the pain in my chest is killing ." Dylan joked.
"Sure, we'll guard you." Rian guaranteed without heistation.
Without delay, he crossed his legs with difficulty and entered a ditative state. He scanned his body for any major injuries, blocked spirit veins or internal bleeding. After a thorough check, he could only bitterly smile as he witnessed how ssed up his body was. '6 broken ribs, a cracked sternum, severed chest muscles, 30 clogged spirit veins and ancestral veins... It's a good thing I managed to angle the strike to my upper torse or else my dogestive system would have been severely damaged...'
'My Supre Core already has spirit energy within it?' Dylan was stunned to find that his body was already recovering from energy depletion. After using the Lightning Breaker Piercing Blade, his body lost all the energy it contained. To his shock, he had already recovered 10% of his spirit energy. But, he soon understood that this matter was because of his Ancestral Veins System
'The ancestral veins could even absorb and refine the invasive energy in my body from the explosion earlier... Huu, I guess I don't have to worry about hidden injuries with the tandem of the Ancestral Veins and Supre Core in my body.' Dylan was satisfied with the results of his hardwork paying off like this.
His Ancestral Veins System could guide any type of energy that entered his body to his Supre Core while his Supre Core cleanses and converts those energy into his very own energy. With the power of these two, the Cosmic God did not fear just any type of poison unless it was one which could corode one's Divinity or anything of that level.
But, Dylan knew that one of the greatest advantages of the Ancient Veins Realm is that it could absorb spirit energy from his surroundings indefinitely and involuntarily. Though this absorption was lesser than if one cultivates manually, it could decrease the ti which a cultivator has to restore his energy and it could even be done without the user's will as it becos an involuntary function.
Sadly, Dylan's body could still not absorb the energy from nature for so unknown reason. He thought that if he were to successfully cultivate the Ancestral Veins System, he could finally absorb nature energy even if his original Spirit Veins System could not do so. Thus, he was really despodent once he had this discovery, 'Just what is wrong with my body?'
'I hope I can unveil the mystery of my body sohow... soday.' Dylan helplessly thought but he had imdiately cast away that thought as he crushed several Primal Stones and recovered so of his spirit energy.
He also noticed that as he refined his Primal Stones and Deca-Stones, he could use so of it to aid his body in recovering. With the rate of his conversion, he was able to fill his Supre Core in less than two minutes. After doing so, he guided so of his spirit energy to his abdon to up the speed of the clotting of the wound.
Several minutes later...
"Help!!" A cry filled with fear broke the silence of Dreamy Forest. This cry has also jolted Dylan, who was in ditation, awake! Rian and Mary was also alard by that abrupt scream.
After the shout, the ground seed to be shaking with loud rumbling sound coming from the north.
*Rumble* *Rumble* *Rumble*
"What was that?!" Rian, Mary, And Dylan stood up and looked around them with caution.
To their north, they saw a group of people who was running towards them at really fast pace. They seed to be running away from the dustwave behind them.
There were a total of seventeen people where majority of them were in handcuffs. There were six people at the front with three of them carrying a person each. The people which were being carried seed to have lost at least a single limb.
"Help us! Please!" The leader of the Ford Protection Squad cried for help as he ran with all his might.
"The Ford Protection Squad?!" The trio was shocked when they saw the distressed faces of the mighty squad which fended off every assassin which threatened to take Dylan's life.
With so effort, they were finally able to reach Dylan and their group. They all had ghastly complexions with them while they were panting nonstop. They ca to a stop when they saw that the dust wave could not just be found to their north but in all eight directions. It seed as if they were being slowly cornered and trapped inside a cage.
"We-we're done for!" A sect leader dropped to his knees and cried out.
"We're going to die!" Another sect keader wailed in fear and crouched while trembling.
With the approaching figures within the dust clouds, they could finally see what the group was running away from. It was an army of giant spiders which had varrying number of legs. These spiders were either a ter to 3 ters in height and 4 to seven ters wide. They were all dark purple in color with portruding horns from the sides of their heads. Their numbers would most likely reach beyond a hundred if they were counted.
"A beast tide!!" Dylan's face beca dark as he uttered those words. He turned around and asked the sect leaders in a deep voice, "What did you all do?!"
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