Chapter 291: In really bad mood
A day passes, and I remove the rubble from my body, which is now in a better state. However, it still bears plenty of wounds: cracked bones, not fully healed muscles, and a significant chunk of my leg is still missing.
It's raining once again, and I exit the building, letting the deadly rain fall on my skin, disrupting it with my mana.
[Perception] looks around, and I start walking. I do not use anchors, worried they might be tracked, and I use only a little mana, not knowing where the monster is. Just a bit to keep my body strengthened, allowing
to move faster and cross the rooftops.
It takes a bit longer, but I reach the old grannys place. At first, I pass by it a few tis. As wrecked as my body is, I cant locate the place with the field that surrounds it. It's either that or the granny changed the field a little.
When I finally locate it, I enter the rooftop and, triggering a signal, the old woman cos out of the house. Walking between the flower pots, I stop in front of her, standing on one leg and my mana prosthetic.
She opens her mouth to say sothing, but that's when my skill activates. [Redistribution] absorbs her kinetic energy and stops her mouth from moving.
"I will be brief," I tell her. "On another day, I wouldn't mind a bit of bickering, but right now, I am in a really bad mood. So now, I will let you go, and you will tell
what you want from
in exchange for healing, or tell
to fuck off."
I let go of her, and she staggers backward. Her expression turning serious, "I will heal you. We can talk about what you did later. If I ask for sothing annoying, you can refuse."
After that, she heads inside the house, and I follow her. She sends out a pulse of mana, which deactivates the item radiating the tranquilizing field. I sit on the chair as she gestures to .
Her hands touch my shoulder, and warm mana flows into my body, healing
for the first ti.
"What the fuck," she gasps, and I sense her skill observing my body.
She checks the wounds, feels the imbalance between my attributes, and peripherally senses my constant control over my mana.
"WHAT THE FUCK," she repeats, getting a better image of my body before she starts healing .
I feel my body sway and my mind spin, but I force myself to stay awake and carefully observe the entire process. Ready to react if she tries anything suspicious, I observe the way she moves her mana. Maybe I could learn a thing or two from her; that's what I hope for. But in the end, her healing is similar to Lily's. Yes, weaker and clumsier, but its the sa at its core.
As shes healing , she uses nearly all of her mana. Her healing doesn't restore my leg. Not because she is incapable, but because she heals the other wounds first. My Phoenix Embrace has healed a lot and given enough ti, it would heal the rest. But there are advantages to having an active healing skill, even though she is much lower level than I am.
When she is done, she moves back and sits on the couch in the corner, catching her breath. anwhile, I start generating thermal energy with my Thermokinetic Mana Heart and sending it to the places where I'm still hurt and towards my leg. It slowly continues to grow with the help of the passive.
The old woman doesn't ask anything or bicker with . When I look at her, she simply says, "I will ask later."
With a nod, I push myself back onto my feet and turn to leave. Outside of the house, I take a deep breath and jump over the edge of the roof, landing on the road. I absorb the energy of my fall and start running, transferring so of that energy into strengthening.
I head towards the Sanctuary and am close to exiting the city when I feel a signal from Vega. It's a signal I told her to send only if she needed help.
Disregarding the chance that the guardian will track and follow , I use [Tether] and teleport to the anchor.
Reappearing in our room, I find Vega in the barrier I made for her. She is fine and holding a knife in her hand, the one I created with [Regalia]. Her heart beats, generating kinetic energy that flows through her body.
Slowly, I turn towards the intruders in the room.
We were worried! We kept calling for you, Darren says. You didn't answer for close to two days, and when we tried to open the door, they were blocked, so we got inside. The
My skill encompasses them all: Darren, Nina, and a few n with them, too. They all freeze, unable to twitch a finger unlike the Veil Guardian I wasn't able to grasp.
I glance at Vega, scared, in a battle stance in the middle of the barrier and then at the intruders. For a short mont, I fight the urge to release just a bit of my kinetic energy and kill them all. My already terrible mood, which I've been pushing to the back of my mind with [Focus], sours even further at this situation. Especially seeing Vega scared, whom I left alone for so long without saying anything.
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A cone of kinetic energy bursts forth, about to tear the group apart, but at the last mont, I redirect it, and it obliterates the wall to their left.
A high pitch reverberates in the air, and the wall turns to dust. Fuck off, I tell them and release my hold. Without saying anything, they run away, Darren pulling Nina behind him.
Glancing towards Vega, I cancel the barrier surrounding her. My disciple then carefully puts the dagger away but doesn't relax her body. She looks at
as if expecting to get scread at or hit.
Instead of saying anything, I just lay on the bed and close my eyes, I wouldn't hurt you, I tell her.
I know, we made a promise, her tiny voice sounds, and I hear her taking a few steps closer to . Sothing bad happened? I can almost feel her eyes on my missing leg.
Yes, a shitty day.
Not saying anything, she just climbs onto the bed, and I move over as she lays beside . Understanding
better than most people here, she doesn't say anything. She doesn't offer words of pity, nor does she ask any questions. Vega just lays there, and soon enough, I hear her breathing settle as she falls asleep. Listening to her soft breathing, I synchronize mine with hers.
I wonder if it's my personality causing
to be in such a mood. Knowing myself as well as I do, I think it is. [Focus] probably added to it by weakening most of my useless emotions.
The Initiate of Pride could be at fault as well. No matter how I look at it, I got screwed over by the Veil Guardian. I still dont think subclasses affect emotions so much as they reflect the personality of their owner. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe ones subclass does affect their personality causing them to embody the concepts nad. I wont know for sure until a later stage.
Sothing touches , and when I look to the side, I realize Vega. Shes moved closer to
in her sleep and, curled into a ball, she is touching my side with her back. The little half-demon girl looks better than she did at the start of the floor. She is clean, less thin, and her bruises have all been caused by training. Once again, she is wearing clean clothes I bought for her through the system shop.
She gets excited every ti I buy her clothes, and Ive noticed that she keeps the older ones in a bag. They are dirty, often bloodied and torn, yet she holds onto them as if they are so kind of treasure. The sa goes for the dagger I made in the first facility, a trash grade uncommon item. Yet, the dagger has been carefully wrapped in a clean cloth and hidden deep in a bag I also gave her.
Such a silly little creature.
Careful to not release any of the thermal energy Im using for healing, I continue to lay in the bed while cycling my mana.
It takes a few hours, but Vega slowly wakes up and stretches on the bed like a tiny animal. She then yawns and burrows her face into the sheets before quickly opening her eyes.
Only then does she rember where she is, realizes what shes resting against, and pulls away.
I'm sorry, she quickly blubbers and jumps off the bed.
That's a great offense. Shall I call you minion for the day?
I'm sorry! she repeats, not understanding the joke.
I'm joking, you can calm down, I comfort her in an attempt to avoid so sort of silly trauma.
Examining my face, she accepts it as truth, and in the end, she adds, Master always calls
minion, so thats a dumb punishnt. Vega then moves closer again. After noticing that my mood is better, she returns to her normal self.
She is good at reading peoples moods. She had to learn to avoid catching beatings. She also knows that I, like her, prefer when people act honestly rather than pretending.
Her eyes examine my missing leg, Does it hurt?
Not really.
Will master have to live without a leg now?
It will regrow.
Is master a gray lizard?
The last ti I checked in the mirror, I was not a gray lizard, minion. What even is that?
Her fingers poke a skin that has grown over the wound. She looks at , It's a monster that lives in the forest near my village. They are said to be really tasty, but theyre fast. They can regrow their legs if they lose them.
Do you have healers? There are people with skills that can regrow limbs as well.
Vega nods, I only heard from songs. They don't co to the places where people like
live.
Of course, they don't. Sothing tells
that there will be much more trouble for Lily.
Minion, if you find a healer by chance, try to keep them for yourself as much as you can. Learning so healing skills would be good if you get the chance.
I'm Vega, but I will master!
Good, sothing tells
you will need a lot of healing, the sa as .
My minion gives
a confused look but then glances at my leg and probably rembers the wounds she got while training.
Understanding flashes across her face and then determination follows, Will do! she repeats but this ti more firmly.
Smart girl.
Did you get beaten up, master? her question hits
where it hurts, but she asks so innocently that I don't even get too annoyed.
A bit, I admit.
She turns around and rushes to her bag, taking out so food and pieces of cloth, That's okay! Master will surely win the next ti. As master said, it's fine to lose, the winner is whoever is alive in the end!
I have no answer for that and she smiles at .
After putting two pieces of the cloth on the ground, she turns to , Will master eat with ?
Gladly.
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