A large amount of essence began to come from Viny. When he could not take more essences any longer, he immediately let go of his hand and closed his eyes as he meditated. He obviously couldn't take any more and immediately began to absorb the essence he just took from Viny's body.
Viny destroyed five used sun particles. These sun particles were actually kind of mana stones. Free mana, natural energies or essences outside could be stored inside of these stones. So, used particles probably held 90 to 100% blood essences inside of them. Commonly, humans with not using any energy conversing method couldn't keep all blood essences of monsters. Even if Viny's body was three times more durable, he would most endure 50 to 60% of one filled mana stone. He used five of them together.
Others took turns doing the same thing. After doing it all, Yaune was at last. Yaune had done the ritual just yesterday and she knew she couldn't carry much essence of blood. She was hesitant, but she was aware that Viny was facing death. Finally, she took Viny's hand and grabbed a particle with her other hand. And when she could not stand it any longer she threw the particle out of her hand. Yaune also couldn't hold her conscious awake and fainted over Viny. Because she's absorbed too much than she can handle. Yaune's eyes also started bleeding.
Three hours later the seventy soldiers on the way reached the campsite. Minbal went to Marquis' tent to report and could not find anyone. Meanwhile, they noticed that there was no guard outside, and they panicked.
"Soldiers, everyone should take a combat position. Our lord may also be in danger. Check out the other tents right away. Urgent! Immediately!" Minbal yelled.
While checking the other tents, a soldier who entered Yaune's tent couldn't believe his eyes. He saw that all seven were there and performing rituals.
"Colonel, I found them and they're all here. You have to come and see for yourself." He called out.
Minbal, who came running to the tent, was shocked too. "My lord, what happened to you?"
Marquis opened his eyes and when he saw Minbal "You all go out and wait in your tents!" then he closed his eyes back.
About four hours after fainting, Viny finally recovered. His whole body was in pain. He felt as if all his internal organs were torn and he was internally bleeding. He opened his eyes and saw that Yaune was unconscious on him. Yaune's face was touching Viny's chin. Meanwhile, he noticed that the blood flowing from Yaune's eyes had frozen on Viny's face.
'Hmm I guess Yaune wanted to lighten my burden when I took too much essence. I am very stupid. I may not get better again. Too bad if I stay in this world, but worse, if I go to the system room like this, who will get me out of there.'
Then Viny fainted again after vomiting a handful of jet black liquids. Yaune awoke after Viny vomited blood. Her eyelids were cramped open and closed. Yaune passed out again after vomiting black blood.
Marquis and the others came to have a look them because of the short movements of Viny and Yaune. Marquis immediately ordered the two to be placed in separate beds. Later, everyone was scattered in their own tents.
The next day, Viny's consciousness was restored. Then he heard the curse of Yaune, who was lying in pain on his right side in the bed two meters away. He fell asleep after a while because he was not feeling well. On the second day, when Viny woke up again, he saw old Bensen standing at the bedside. "Ohoo, young man, you opened your eyes."
Viny, who still thought that his internal organs were destroyed and could not move, was in pain and forced "Old man, Ya- Yaune, how is she?"
The man shook his head "She should never have done that. Her condition is as bad as yours. You may never get out of bed again. I guess Petras' healers are of no use as well, even I can't save you."
Viny thought 'what could I do but didn't know what to do?'. It soon occurred to him that he had paham fruit in his space ring.
Viny looked up to ceiling of tent for a while then remembered the previous quest. '-Paham fruits make us very strong. In fact, when one of those idiots ate too much, his third ball came out. As people eat, their intelligence gets worse. But they are getting stronger physically.' The commander said exactly that. Eating the fruit physically strengthened eaters.
"Hey, ahhh, old-old man, can you hand me my bag?"
Old Bensen could not understand Viny. He went and took Viny's bag from the corner where it was dropped and handed it into Viny's hand.
"Can you put my hand in it? Inside the back pocket of the bag." The man opened the back pocket of the bag and he put Viny's hand in the bag. Viny spawned two paham fruits from his space ring. He tried to be careful to camouflage his uniqueness.
"Yes, they are right here. Old man, could you please feed me one fruit and the other to Yaune?"
Bensen immediately took the fruits out of the bag. Old Bensen thought the fruit came out of the bag. After crushing the fruit in a bowl and removing the pulp, he fed Viny with it. Later, when he saw that Viny was not dead and was falling asleep easily, he prepared and fed his little lady in the same way.
About a day later, Viny woke up with a headache. He realized that he could move his arm as he brought his hand to his head. Then he gladly tried to rise on his bed. 'I think my thinking ability has decreased a lot. The more careless I get, the closer I get to death." Then he turned toward Yaune in the next bed. Yaune was staring at the ceiling with her eyes open. Viny rose from his bed and struggled to walk, but in vain he had trouble moving his muscles and lost his balance and fell to the ground. *(1)*
"Ahhh. "Off" Viny crawled over to Yaune's side and took her hand. "How are you? Are you better now?"
Yaune turned her eyes to Viny and smiled at him. "Bensen said you gave the fruit. I have never eaten fruit in my life. It had a very good taste. Gune said you were not from here. I know now that. When the time come, you will go as well. I want to go with you."
After she said, she got out of bed and sat on the floor next to Viny. She looked at Viny, her eyes sparkling, and she gave a long kiss to his lips. Viny was in awe.
"Hey, hey, if you're fine, why didn't you get up when I fell. Huh? Have you been acting all this time? You wanted me to stand in front of you on my knees, right? Huh?"
Yaune stood up laughing naughtily and took off her clothes completely. Viny couldn't help but gulped. She was perfect beauty and not shy at all. Was she thinking their intercourse just now and feeling horny? Viny couldn't even think properly with his intelligent loss, probably Yaune was not wise as well, especially after eating paham she was like hardhead and more rigid.
Since two of them with broken intelligence had feeling like doing it now, they did not even care about others. Their loudly actions somehow heard by soldiers, but no one spoke. The long night with so much passion, they used to touch each other. When they tired and felt weary, just embraced each other and slept.
It was the morning of the fourth day of the mission. Viny and Yaune went out of tent. Both was feeling shy when looking around, but nobody looked their way once. They went to Marquis' tent.
"What you did was very careless, son. You risked not only your own life, but also the life of my beautiful daughter. You are very careless…" Then he sighed deeply and continued "But I think you both benefited a lot from that, I feel high energy from both of you. As a person who almost performs rituals more than 50 times like me, I can say that although you both do your first rituals one day apart, I feel as if you have reached the same level as me."
"My lord, can I ask two things?"
Marquis nodded at Viny "Of course."
Viny began to ask the questions in his mind. "How do you collect sun particles?"
"Sun particles come out of the pouches of the ape-men we kill. Because the ape-men were so strong they drove us into this snow land, to the end of the green planet. Ape men are more than thousand times more numerous than our population. Occasionally some ape men go on a manhunt. We still don't know how they got sun particles or where they got these stones. And how they use them, of course. They probably use these stones as money, according to our guess. Long ago, when humans ruled on the green planet, people also used to produce coins from mines. For this reason, we think that ape men also dug up the mine."
Viny thought Marquis' predictions made sense. And when he realized that he couldn't find any more sun particles, he became a little unhappy. Marquis looked at Viny. "You said you were going to ask a few questions, young man, so what was the other question?"
"I was wondering how many days it would take us to reach to Petras' help, my lord?"
"Hmm I think we have six days distance. But you are as strong as an ape man. You can jump into a vukaa and arrive in a day. I guess the ape men will arrive in three days. If you want to catch up, you can try."
At this point, Yaune immediately got involved and requested "I'll come with you, Viny."
*(1)* [Viny Physical Power: 4.0 Agility: 3.5 Intelligence: 0.9]