Viswa went back to sleep after Sir Warden left.
Even with his excellent recovery and the cheat system, he was unable to recover immediately. But he could feel himself getting better. Even Mr. Guide didn't object to this. So, he took the chance to rest peacefully.
After around three hours he woke up around dusk. He wanted to go to the dining hall and have some dinner before taking some medicine.
But as soon as he woke up, he was greeted with a couple of friendly faces.
Erin and Jiva are standing in his dorm. Erin is sitting on his bed as he looked through a book, meanwhile Jiva seemed to have just entered. He had a bowl of soup in his hands.
"Oh, you woke up. I was just about to wake you up. Sir Warden told me to give you food and medicine on time today since you would be especially weak because of the injury."
Viswa scratched his head and spoke with an awkward smile.
"That is kind of you, thanks."
He took the bowl and drank the soup slowly. It is still not that good, but at least he got used to it by now.
"By the way, I have something to ask you."
Jiva spoke with a smile.
"Please go ahead."
"I am going to enter the forest for the first time. I am not going to enter the Second half of the Circle 1 forest, but we are going to the border there to train. I wonder if you could give me any tips."
"To the border of the Circle 1 second half? I highly doubt you would need any advice. It is basically the Circle 1's first half, there is not much difference. Maybe if the sentry are lax you might encounter some beasts from the second half.
That would only happen once in a blue moon anyway. You guys should be rather safe."
"That is great to know."
Jiva tried to make some more small talk. Viswa on the other hand took his medicine after the soup. As soon as he popped the pill in his mouth a notification appeared in front of him.
[YOU HAVE INJECTED CHAOTIC DEMONIC ENERGY INTO YOUR BODY.
YOU CAN REFINE AND PURIFY THE ENERGY TO ABSORB IT AS SPIRITUAL ENERGY.
COST TO REFINE I UNIT OF DEMONIC ENERGY: 5 KARMA POINTS.
DO YOU WANT TO REFINE THE ENERGY?]
Viswa widened his eyes in disbelief as he experienced the same feeling he had when he encountered the seed inside Shark's stomach. This time it is a lot less intense.
He had a pained expression as he laid down.
"Yes."
He said in a whisper under his breath so that others won't be able to listen to it.
"Alright, you can rest now. I will go. Sir Warden said that you would be fine from tomorrow onwards and wouldn't need my assistance, I will be leaving to the forest too. Feel free to ask for Erin's help if needed."
"Okay, thank you."
Viswa said in a weak voice.
Jiva left the room and Erin followed him out.
Viswa opened his eyes as soon as they left. He had a cold expression his face. The pain is gone along with five Karma points. This is not the first piece of medicine he took. He took one in the afternoon when he was talking Sir Warden.
He was completely fine then.
But now the medicine is full of demonic energy.
He took the bottle and tried to examine the pills. They just looked like the one he took in the morning.
"Mr. Guide."
[What is it now?]
"Can I recover without taking this medicine?"
[Of course. Why are you asking me something so obvious]
"About the demonic energy, would it have any side effects for taking it in? What would have happened to me, if I hadn't refined the energy properly?"
[Let's see. First, the demonic energy would forcefully merge with the body. It would forcefully make your body its home.
If you haven't expelled it, it would slowly try to fester and you will die soon as humans are not meant to house the demonic energy.]
"So, assuming all these pills have that energy, if I had taken them in, what would have happened?"
[you would have died in a couple of days. And as time passes, you would weaken like a bitch until you die.
Is that it or are there any other questions? I am already generous enough to let you rest. If you don't do that, do you want to train?]
"No, please. Thank you so much for your concern."
With that Mr. Guide disappeared.
Viswa started speculating.
He didn't expect that someone would give him this demonic medicine. He didn't know what had happened when he was asleep. So, he doesn't know who changed his pills.
He can eliminate Sir Warden.
He could have just let Viswa die in the sea if he wanted to kill him.
As for Jiva and Erin, they could be slightly suspicious.
He shook his head and thought of some other things.
If someone is trying to kill him with these pills, then there are two possibilities. One is that they knew that he was infected with the demonic energy from the shark and if he really died, his death would be considered as a result of that.
No one will be suspected and the investigation wouldn't be serious.
But from what Sir Warden said, he didn't mention this to anyone other than the principal who is in on the demonic energy investigation.
So, it would be someone high up that could even get the info only privy to the principal.
The second possibility is that someone doesn't know what happened to him and tried to use the demonic energy to kill him in his weakened state.
This would make Viswa the most likely suspect of the presence of demonic energy in the school. Of course, Sir Warden wouldn't buy that, but the same cannot be said to the other instructors.
The pressure on the actual demonic presence would be reduced.
As he thought to this point, many more possibilities are clouding his mind.
"Fucking hell. Who could have done this?"
Viswa almost yelled out in frustration.