Chapter 602 - Seeing Hope
Greya was ensnared by strands, which had pierced her body and became reddened with blood.
The strings had forced her into a strange posture just like the clowns outside. It was as if a puppeteer was hiding somewhere nearby while controlling her actions.
There were glowing dots in the area that were trying to invade her body but without any success.
Greya let out a painful breath as she chased away more dots. Her original soul of a truth-finder wizard was getting weaker at an alarming speed. Should she “fall asleep” and allow the second soul of the little girl to take over, she would be possessed immediately.
“Ah…!” She moaned as she felt something sucking at her finger.
Apart from affixing her body in place, the strings were also draining her blood at the same time.
She couldn’t help but tremble under the great pain. Yet each time she did so, the pain would grow worse as the strings cut her flesh apart like the sharpest knives.
Blood loss, razor-sharp shackles, and flying spots that kept tackling her body… Greya was not sure for how much longer she could endure.
Angor thought they should rescue Greya as fast as possible. He saw Sunders still observing a string nearby, so he also moved to a string that was not connected to Greya’s “prison” and tried cutting it up by using the sequence of gravity.
When affected by Angor’s gravity power, the string trembled a little, while the pillar that supported it suddenly shattered to the floor, causing smoke and dust in the hall.
Angor walked out of the dust cloud and saw his teacher giving him a stern look.
“Sorry, I just… gave it a little poke, and this happened.”
“You don’t ‘poke’ things with your gravity power.”
Sunders didn’t scold Angor too much since no harm was done.
“The red fox monster left these things here, didn’t it?” Sunders suddenly asked a question.
Greya coughed up some blood. “Yeah… you already met with it?”
“No, I’ve been going after it.”
Sunders cast a healing spell called Resuscitation at Greya. The green aura of life slowly patched up the cut wounds on Greya’s body, but it couldn’t help her escape from the strings.
Still, she looked a lot better after receiving the treatment.
“Thanks…”
Sunders snickered and extended the Spirit Bond between him and Angor toward Greya.
“Let me deal with these strings first.”
Since that string inside Greya’s throat looked rather dangerous, Sunders did so to help Greya avoid some pain.
Although Toby was left out of their “private connection”.
“How did you run into Fox, Lady Greya?” Angor asked a question while Sunders did his work.
“Fox… Is this how that fox monster is called?”
“Yup.”
“I see. There are strange voices praising some names, and I heard this ‘Fox’ among them.” Greya frowned. “There was quite a ruckus in this teleportation station just now. Why isn’t anyone coming? Someone must have heard all the noises.”
“Do you not know what these shiny dots are?” asked Angor.
“No… I only know I should not let them do what they want.”
Since he had nothing else to do, Angor offered to explain what happened to Sleepless City since the darkness showed up.
“Are you saying the outer city is so dangerous that no one should come in? Then why are you here? Also, the spots all disappeared when you came. Did you two scare them off?” Greya wondered.