Chapter 108

It wasn’t due to Yerina that he was sweating, however reasonably some type of immune response.

The royal priest who had rushed over mentioned.

— Alongside psychological and bodily exhaustion, overlapping mana exhaustion usually results in restoration like this.

Balancing one’s physique and thoughts is necessary.

Simply as you should get well mana and bodily power, you should additionally relaxation your thoughts.

The priest of the royal household emitted a sacred aura as he rambled on in his speech.

‘… Oh.’

Come to think about it, was this the primary time experiencing real holy energy?

Solely Yurran, whom he had met at school, got here to thoughts, however that man was a follower of the Bloodstone Cult.

Holy energy was heat but strong, not like magic.

As if defying trigger and impact, it started to heal accidents.

It reminded Ian of his personal skills for a second.

— Properly then.

The priest completed the remedy and walked away.

Ian sighed as he lifted his higher physique.

He felt like he may transfer a bit now.

“… I’m wondering in the event that they sleep with none again ache.”

Danya and Lina have been sleeping deeply below a blanket soaked with sweat, indicating how drained they have been.

After all.

Each of them should have used up their mana utterly.

They couldn’t get well mana inside Richard’s jail.

Nonetheless, they endured and not using a single criticism.

Ian moved Danya first.

— Ugh… it’s an excessive amount of to complete…

Danya squeezed out the final remnants of her mana to develop Snowflake Flowers for his grasp.

“Okay.”

Lina, in an unfavorable chilly area, managed to not get exhausted regardless of specializing in others’ physique temperatures and monster methods.

— Ugh. Please press more durable, grasp…

‘… What sort of dream are you having.’

Ian sighed once more as he positioned Lina subsequent to Danya.

They each slept soundly, exhibiting varied indicators of their efforts.

“Hoo.”

Now that he checked out them, they actually went by loads.

“I’ll depend on you for the subsequent eventualities too.”

— Nom. Drink it…

As a substitute of responding, Danya performed together with her cherry blossom-colored hair.

Ian chuckled as he tidied up their hair.

Whereas he was doing that.

— Clack! Clack!

Footsteps sounding pressing may very well be heard from afar.

They slowed down in entrance of the remedy room.

Creak.

The door cautiously opened.

The Third Princess, fairly raveled, peeked in from past the door.

“Your Highness?”

The princess awkwardly caught out her tongue.

“I heard you awakened.”

Creak.

The princess opened the door and got here in cautiously.

“I used to be planning to simply sneak a peek at your face and go away.”

Then she plopped down on the mattress.

The princess’s face was full of fear.

It was fairly a contemporary sight.

Asteria, the Princess of Riot.

Asteria, who wouldn’t hesitate to do something to ascend to the throne.

Opposite to her public picture as a mild princess, she had an endlessly chilly actual self.

Ian chuckled with out realizing.

“Why are you laughing! I used to be genuinely fearful about what would occur in case you didn’t get up!”

“It appears to be like like Your Highness’s situation is worse than mine.”

“Huh?”

Asteria blinked in entrance of the mirror that Ian held up.

Asteria regarded on the nook of her personal eyes for a second.

The deep, darkish circles below her eyes have been a type of guilt.

To her, everybody was a type of chess piece.

To ascend to the throne, she used them and generally discarded them boldly.

However Ian was completely different. His expertise and distinctive humanity intrigued Asteria. After he saved her life, Ian grew to become the primary particular person she discovered “humanly intriguing”.

It should have been like that.

Nonetheless, she wanted to ship somebody to the north.

She wanted somebody reliable.

Ian naturally got here to thoughts.

However Grand Duke Richard of the North was merciless and audacious, way more so than Asteria had anticipated.

Karen’s emergency report was stuffed with issues that shocked her.

Asteria instantly crossed over to the North with as a lot pressure as she may muster.

What caught her eye was Ian, who was sticking a sword into Richard’s coronary heart.

She couldn’t assist however fear about Ian, who fell like a puppet whose strings have been minimize, with all power drained.

She ought to have been joyful that Richard had fallen, she ought to have been overjoyed, however for some cause, her guilt and fear about Ian took precedence.

The consequence was the darkish circles below her eyes.

“… This, that is…”

Ian chuckled as he watched the flustered Asteria, unable to reply like herself.

Two sides of Asteria.

The actively flirtatious and considerably provocative look, and the ever-serious, power-strengthening Princess of Riot, each in several instructions, have been equally resolute and robust.

However when she regarded so exhausted and defeated, it was, properly, one thing.

Asteria, who smiled brightly as she checked out Ian’s confusion, continued to talk.

“Oh, I forgot to say. You’ll discover if you go searching, however the state of affairs in Lichten Metropolis, particularly on the Lichten Academy, is kind of precarious.”

“On skinny ice?”

The princess replied.

“Sure. First, the saint candidate Aria will not be in good situation. Due to this, tensions between the clergy and different factions are slowly coming to the floor.”

“Not solely that, however Raymond oversees the Lichten department. Emilia is working tirelessly to broaden her affect by any means mandatory.”

“Simply hold it in thoughts. Don’t act rashly. We don’t understand how the Bloodstone Cult will reply to you, so be further cautious.”

Because the carriage departed, the princess added yet one more factor.

“As soon as I return, I’ll be capable of exert extra important affect.”

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They determined to make use of a portal as their technique of return.

The rationale was easy: Ian had no want to experience the trans-mountain practice of the North once more.

Portals have been sooner and extra handy.

Arriving on the Northern checkpoint felt like getting into a terminal.

“Wow, there are such a lot of individuals right here.”

“It’s packed like ants, nyah.”

Though magical portals have been primarily utilized by rich retailers and nobles, they have been additionally accessible because of the lack of dependable transportation from the North to the mainland.

Due to this, varied outlets and eateries crammed the checkpoint.

Danya’s ears perked up, listening intently.

Her nostril twitched each time a pleasing scent wafted by.

All of the sudden, Ian remembered Danya’s sleep-talking and chuckled.

“What ought to we eat earlier than we go?”

“Actually, nyah?!”

“My deal with. Lina, decide one thing too.”

— Jingle.

Ian shook his coin bag.

A part of the compensation acquired from the princess.

After all, he wanted to separate it with Lina and Danya, however they may simply subtract that quantity after they acquired it.

Excitedly, the 2 of them picked out what they wished to eat.

Danya had an extended delicate serve ice cream that reached as much as her face.

“Isn’t it chilly?”

“Heh.”

Lina selected fruit lined in frozen sugar.

‘Traditional insider.’

They loved a short respite on the customs workplace.

Buzzing chatter crammed the air.

Laughter from Danya and Lina.

A peaceable scene after a life-threatening wrestle.

A smile naturally etched on their faces.

Then, all of a sudden.

Within the distance, he noticed an individual strolling unsteadily.

The espresso of their hand shook uneasily, as if it’d spill.

“Oops.”

The drowsy, unfocused particular person collided with one other.

The espresso cup slipped from their hand.

The pouring darkish brown liquid stood out vividly.

— Clunk.

Ian vaguely anticipated espresso to spill and make that noise.

Nonetheless.

—……

Silence.

No subsequent sounds adopted.

No.

It wasn’t simply that sound that was absent.

Your entire platform fell silent.

“…?”

Ian slowly surveyed the environment.

Everybody froze in place.

Danya’s mouth, large open to take a chunk of ice cream, remained as is.

Lina’s vibrant smile, arms gesturing with a handkerchief, froze.

Every droplet of espresso within the distance was sharply seen.

Time stopped.

Aside from him.

In that realization, a single chilly sweat bead ran down Ian’s backbone.

— Clack.

The sound of sneakers reached his ears.

Ian turned his head.

Whether or not he turned or the environment rotated, the nonetheless background was unsettlingly immobile.

— Clack.

The sound of sneakers getting nearer.

Who on earth was shifting?

Obscured by so many individuals, irrespective of how a lot he turned his head, I couldn’t see.

— Clack

All of the sudden, a determine appeared in entrance of him.

Black sneakers.

Black hair.

And crimson eyes.

Eyes so pink, they appeared constructed from blood.

As their eyes met.

— Sasasasasasak

Goosebumps unfold throughout his physique as if a whole lot of spiders have been crawling on it.

“You have to be Ian.”