'Squeak'
While Steven was digesting the memories of Victor, the door of his room creaked open, interrupting his train of thoughts. He looked at the door to see a mature figure walking into the room with a plate in her hands.
She was a Brunette who seems to be in her mid-thirty. she was wearing a black dress with a white apron(a perfect maid outfit). which perfectly exhibits her voluptuous body.
From the memories of victor, Steve knows that the woman who entered The room was the personal maid arranged for Victor by his father.
' Her name seems to be Mary '
When Mary saw victor sitting on the bed and the amount of blood coming out of the bandage her face paled.
After Victor was assassinated by an unknown person, He was directly brought to the Earl's mansion by the Knight guards. followed by he was treated by the doctor in the mansion. Although the doctor rescued him from the fatal danger, he has been unconscious for more than 48 hours.
And for the past few days, the doctor has been by his side treating him in case of any emergence arises with very few hours of rest. During the period when the doctor rest she will be the one in charge of taking care of victor (she is the only attendant the Earl trust)
So she must be by his side when he wakes up. After almost three hours of continually looking at victor she just left for a few minutes to the restroom(also bring food for herself).
But what she didn't expect was that while she was away her young master was awakened and ruptured the wound sitting up.
She kept the plate in her hand aside and moved by his side swiftly
" Please forgive me, young master, I wasn't able to be by your side when you need me. "
" Please allow me to dress up your wound. "
" yes"
Steve knows that it is important to clean and dress up the wound every once in a while to prevent infection from spreading. so he doesn't have any obligation about it.
He looked as Mary unwrapped the bandage around his chest layer by layer. Although he said it was a bandage it was just some strips of cloth stitched together.
Mary was very careful while unwrapping the bondage, especially while unwrapping the final layer (which was attached to the wound due to blood clotting ) Steve can see fine beads of sweet on her forehead. She was trying her best to not cause any extra pain for him.
Steve can understand why she was so careful.
In this world where strong people rule. The difference between the aristocracy and the commoners is as wide as the distance between heaven and earth.
In any kingdom, The royal family will have control over the wealth and power of the kingdom. And besides the royal family, the aristocracy is the most powerful people in the kingdom. Even they can be called gods in their given territory with absolute control over the people living there.
While some treat the people of their territory generously, some nobles don't even treat them as humans. There are even some extremists who will exert their dark desires on the people of their territory.
This difference is because of the existence of knights under the nobles.
Knight is a title awarded to the people who can break the limits of the human body and become powerful wielding extraordinary power beyond normal people.
It is said that an official knight would be able to subdue ten armed soldiers with bare hands.
And for one to become an official knight, one needs to practice a special set of exercises called the knight's breathing method while consuming resources to strengthen one's body.
And the aristocracy of this world has fully controlled the flow of these resources and the knights breathing methods. And the only way for common people to get them from the nobles is to join the army of the kingdom and work hard for a few years, earning enough military achievement to get one. And the other way is to join the noble family and form a contract to serve them( Basically, selling themselves, which will further increase the strength of nobels ).
So no commoner will be disrespectful towards nobles(except rebels).
While Steven was thinking about all this Mary has already unwrapped the bandage around his chest. The wound was not small. it extended from his left collarbone to the right side abdomen, It was a deep cut with a knife. Although there are sutures to keep the wound close, he can still feel the numbness on his bones.
'AI chip scan my body, and digitalise the data for me'
To better understand his body condition, he asked The AI chip to scan his body.
[Scan initiated....scanning the host's body....Scan successful]
[ Digitalizing the data...Task completed]
With the cold mechanical voice of the AI chip, another transparent screen appeared in front of his eyes.
[Host: Victor Ebony
Age: 13
strength: 1.4
physique: 1.6
Agility: 1.3
status: Injured, fracture in ribs, low blood level(recovering)]
There was also a humanoid body beside the status panel with a red colour circle around the chest.
It was his virtual body image.
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