" Sorry, Kane. It is all my fault. How can I suggest such an aggressive way of training to make you suffer. "
Cecelia was sad upon looking at Kane's face. No more bright blood color on his face, but covered with white as the same color as the face of a corpse.
Kane used great effort to turn his head towards her. Upon the time looking at the cute face, the memories he argued with Cecelia flashed across his mind, this was what the memories he had with this little fairy. However, he felt warm at least he was no longer a lonely person, he had someone argued with him and cared about him.
Why did he recall back these memories at the worst time like now? As if he had no chance to argue, to smile and to fight together with this little fairy.
Both corners of his mouth faintly curved up. Actually, he wanted to show a big smile to convince Cecelia that he was alright, needed not to too worry about him. But he couldn't,
Was he really alright? Cecelia's tears were almost burst out after looking at his poor condition, how could he really be really alright?
Beating her wings, she flew quickly towards Kane, to his front as usual. But this time, no more eyes of fulling with young and dedication aura but just weak and deadly eyes.
" You bastard, are you giving up so easily? You said that you want to be a magus and warrior at the same time, are these all you " Cecelia pretended to be cold-hearted, speaking coldly to question him.
In usually day, Kane surely would debate back with her cold words. Probably, Kane would show his stubborn soul and mentioned that he was confident on himself that he could accomplish his goal. Later, more fight in mouth between them. This had become their normal and daily life routine.
Yet, no reply from Kane. He kept staring at Cecelia with a faint smile, just like the time after bidding farewell to someone.
" Why don't you fight back? At least saying some words, don't just act like you are going to die. " Tears slowly fell from her eyes down to her cheeks. She felt sad and sorry to Kane.
" Th... Thanks... " Looking the fairy, Kane spoke with a low voice, the voice surely couldn't be heard if paying no attention to his speaking.
And then, his body collapsed and fell to the ground.
" Why do you show gratitude to me? I am the should be blamed, actually there is no need to gain strength through this aggressive way, but I push you to go through all these. Although knowing how dangerous of eating the fruit to gain strength, you chose to believe and follow what I instructed. And now, you almost died, yet you didn't blame and appreciate me. How kind you are? "
Cecelia's heart was shaken after hearing the 'thanks' word from Kane's mouth.
Just before Kane was going to fell on the ground, the green color of energy flowed beneath him and formed a green cloud to support.
At the same time, the energy slowly flowed into Kane's body. Not like before, as the energy flowed into Kane's body, it would probably show an immediate effect on him.
Just like before upon he was hurt by the backfire of Flame Burst magic, Cecelia just spent roughly ten minutes to cure his damaged hands and breaking soul. The effectiveness of her curing effect was very high and showed effect in a short time. Just half a day, Kane had recovered from burning damage.
This time, her energy didn't work as usual. That was not because her power had turned weak, but Kane was injured too intense to the point that a normal curing process could help him recover. For Cecelia, she could cure physical damage easily, perhaps more challenge for her to cure soul damage yet she didn't find it too difficult to heal one's soul.
Life energy, an energy stored in our body to made us stay alive. Everyone had his own limit physically and mentally, thus humans were restricted by these limitations. For instance, humans could only focus on certain things short periods of time. If someone was running, he couldn't last too long and his body would stop him to continue running. Everyone had their own limit, we couldn't withstand too much mental damage as well.
But, if someone kept pushing his limit in a short period without concerning the warning signal of his body, until a certain point, he was low livelihood to recover from that damage physical or mentally.
Kane was a young boy who had yet to cultivate like a warrior, even not reach Rank One level warrior yet. But, he had the strength to fight against the Ground Rhino, this was impossible in others' eyes. If someone did tell others that Kane won against the creature, the others probably would think that person was a liar or daydreaming.
So, where was his energy came from? The answer was his life energy.
Pushing the limit like this Kane would make him lose his life energy. The Golden Mush Fruit made Kane going in berserk, providing him the ability to break his own limit. However, Kane had gone too far to push his own limit. In exchanging of strength to fight against the Ground Rhino, Kane has lost his life energy.
This type of energy was not like the spiritual energy could be got everywhere, this was the energy stored inside living things. Once the life energy was completely lost, that living things would probably die. That was why some living things could live longer than other species, as they had more life energy stored inside their bodies.
Because of this, Cecelia's curing power didn't show too much effect on Kane, as the damage was no longer considered as severe damage mentally or physically. Kane's life energy had lost to nowhere and couldn't just get it like cultivating the spiritual energy from surroundings.
At least, Cecelia's spiritual energy prevented him from losing more of his life energy, allow Kane's body to be maintained at a better condition, but still to be considered his body was in terrible condition.
That cloud was heading to the direction of the cave, Cecelia followed the cloud behind. At first, she needed to find a safe place to settle down Kane. Then, she would figure out a way to save Kane, at his condition, the normal curing process showed no effect on Kane.
" Hold on, Kane! I certainly will figure a way to save, I won't let you die so easily. You still owe me a lot, don't think you can die so easily. "
Cecelia spoke with a convincing voice besides Kane's ears. Unfortunately, these warm words and soft voice couldn't be heard by Kane, he had completely lost all his conscious.
…
On the other side of the forest.
The three soldiers were still hanging around on the forest.
They had walked roughly an hour in the forest, one soldier asked : " How much longer the time we need to arrive at the village? "
" Roughly half an hour more. " The soldier with sword replied.
"Half an hour? I thought we are already very near to the village. " The soldier with ax replied, impatient was filling his eyes.
The soldier with bow replied : " Why do you so impatient? We come back every year to the village, normally you won't complain about anything. But this year, you have so many complain. "
" I hope we can get to the village as soon as possible, better leave the deep forest quickly. I don't want to fight with any fierce beast, just like the Ground Rhino before. Fortunately, the creature didn't notice us or else we had a hard time to escape ourselves. "
The soldier with ax spoke, some fear was shown on his face. Yet, face of the soldier with bow turned unpleasant, he was a Rank Two warrior, he could withstand with the Ground Rhino. He was not weak as the soldier mentioned, some disdain was shown on his eyes towards the soldier with ax. How could a soldier fear of hanging around in a forest? How could he show no guts as a man?
Just after the soldier with ax finished his speaking, all of them could tell that the ground was shaking, the vigorousness of the trembling ground almost made them lose their stability. Their hearts were resonated with the trembling ground, their alert was raised to the maximum and their heartbeat turned faster.
" What the heck is the matter again this time? We are so unlucky, today is not really our day! "
" Hide! " The soldier with bow spoke quickly.
Just a moment, they were in the shadow of the trees, hiding perfectly. It seemed that they were very skillful and experienced in hiding themselves.
A huge figure was slowly entered their field of vision, the scene before them made them shock until their jaws almost dropped out.
" Unbelievable! " They cried out at the same time.