Each day felt like a week the occasional bandit or slime but ultimately uneventful and the very epitome of boring.
We travelled back the same way we came a series of winding main roads and side roads the amount detours added days to our trip and I had nothing to do except sleep and train.
I couldn't really train my staff fighting in a carriage but I did practice air magic I couldn't use full force because Elise was also in the carriage so I worked on controlling only a small pocket of air.
it wasn't really combat ready yet but my aim now was to get it at the stage where I could shoot it offensively without the need for a pebble or something and just use air itself.
After a while the carriage stopped and Eren spoke.
"The wind blows north"
Elise and I exited the carriage and I saw that we were surrounded by armoured people with spears their leather armour looked flimsy and they had no helmets.
A large man spoke.
"Pass over all your valuables and there won't be any need for bloodshed"
I started crouching down and spoke.
"oh oh of course take anything you want... PSYCH!"
I picked up a bunch of small stones and shot them in a spray towards the people I wasn't aiming to kill them but at least a few of them are injured I yelled my commands.
"Elise you take the left, Aaron and Eren protect the carriage and I will deal with the right START!"
All of them rushed towards us, they were obviously untrained they just had okay equipment for bandits.
Though i am now more accustomed to fighting now than I ever was back in my world that pill has made everything feel comfortable and my movements feel fluid.
Granted that did make sense since it was expensive enough to qualify as a trade deal between two nations.
As I knocked them down with my staff the big guy walked towards me he was different his spear was better looking and he wore chain mail and padding under his leather armour.
Then I saw something dark red but it was closer to a mist than blood...then Oz spoke.
"Are you fucking stupid? he is an aura user!"
I snapped out of my thoughts and attacked him he side stepped and hit me with the blunt end of his spear sending me backwards.
I was winded?! I caught my breathe just in time to dodge his attack the ground I was on had a small crack he literally broke apart the solid ground that should not be possible even with normal red aura
I finally built some distance and then I looked at him he held his spear in a reverse grip and it had a red tinge to it that meant he could reinforce his weapon which was an advanced aura technique.
The absurd way he held his spear could only mean one thing that he practiced a martial art all that along with his size and considering his equipment probably battle experience means that he is one strong mother fucker.
"Oh fuck!"
He was infront of me I got lost in thought again but I raised my staff just in time to block his strike and a miracle happened.
He broke my staff! he broke a solid bar of metal using a piece of wood! I activated my bloodline making a Web of red string all around myself.
I hadn't ever used my bloodline like this or to this extent but i can take no risks in this situation he looked stunned for a second but continued charging at me.
My red thread was not suited for causing harm directly in essence it was just extra strong thread I still had a few ideas on how to use it though.
I tried tangling him in thread but he was able to walk despite the hindering I tried to even whip him but I couldn't get past his thick red aura so I spoke to Oz in my head.
"Hey Oz anything you can do? it's kinda life and death right now!"
"Maybe but according to you I'm a 'side character' and side characters don't have any cool trump cards"
I yelled back.
"OZ!"
He spoke
"Fine listen carefully with your string make a circle with a triangle inside and inside that triangle make a smaller triangle and make sure he is in the middle then let me take over"
He was getting close but I managed to complete all of Oz's requirements then I felt my body slowly lose feeling and all my senses dulled.
My mouth started moving.
"Ahh it feels good to feel alive again now as for you... &^*$^@^*%&# alarico □♤■◇▪︎{°¤•""
Suddenly everything turned black it reminded me of when I was 12 and I got concussed by getting hit by a cricket ball in the head and my crush at the time carried me on her back all the way to the nurse.
My consciousness kept fading in and out I saw glimpses of Elise sometimes she was crying other times she was forcing food or water in my mouth making me swallow.
I also saw Aaron taking me to go to the bathroom which was usually a bush I tried to assist but I was barely awake.
Sometimes it was night and sometimes it was day seconds felt like years and days like seconds I felt like this might be my new reality.
I can't tell if I'm remembering or doing I stare at a camp fire for an unknown amount of time without a single thought other than what I think I'm thinking.
And then I feel water and for the first time in all those years a thought passed I am awake I was lying down with water around me I wasn't quite floating and my back touched the ground.
I sat up slowly and I heard an unexpected voice it was archbishop Abilene.
"Ah I see you have awakened little prince Zeth of Serothor"
I asked a question.
"Where am I?"
she replied smiling.
"The inner maternity sanctum"
Oh fuck I'm screwed.