I ran and I ran as I reached the edge of the island when the boat started its engine but Luciela was just a kilometer behind me and was gaining acceleration.
I got on the truck and asked woden how long it'd take for him to start but he was pre-occupied with starting it so I doubt he heard me. My guess is that he made this ship with whatever he had so it ain't a perfect ship but to create this without help or blueprints, he must be a friggin genius but there was no time to marvel this piece of art. She was just 500 metres away in that split second.
I conjured up all my blood magic and used up all the saved dragon bone marrow blood to create spears to hold her back and that did the trick I was able to hold her back long enough so that we could get away as the ship started its voyage a single thread emerged from the fog in the direction from where we left. It would've pierced me if chreshield hadn't thrown her shield in time to block it. My awareness has reduced, shit normally that'd have been easy to deflect but I didn't think a 500-year break was bad thing till now.
I sat down to breathe a sigh of relief as Joyle came from under the hull as she asked "does it hurt papa?" I replied no but then "wait I ain't your father kid, I'm just taking care of you. We're taking you to your real father". But when I said this, she started crying.
I didn't know what was happening but as she started crying the water started rumbling, oh shit it was her latent power of the insignia activating, I tried to calm her down. I sang lullabies and I did upsies and downsies but she didn't stop, soon a tentacle rose from the deep waters. The boat started swaying as if it were drunk in the sea and as the tentacle came down to slam the boat to pieces, I simply stopped and went back to the deep sea.
When I looked at Joyle she lay there asleep like a baby. I guess even she was tired after having to put up with that bitch Luciela. I went towards Joyle and carried her to the hull where numerous beds were laid out. I set her on one of them and after kissing her on her forehead I tried to leave and check up with Woden but she didn't leave my hand.
And I was tired too so I slept beside her but she cried a few tears before completely sleeping but I didn't know why. And as time passed, I fell asleep. Slowly when I woke up, woden was in the bed beside me reading a book. The book was completely black and its cover was in tatters but it also had some runic inscriptions in gold on it.
As soon as woden saw that I had woken, he quickly kept the book aside in his bag and came to me. "How are you Mr. Fallenhyde? you have been asleep for a solid 2 days and we are pretty much just 8 days afar from our destination according to this map chreshield made. For someone who seems to have some power, you do sleep a lot."
Shit, it had been 2 days. I've lost a lotta time I could've used to work on my eon energy. And practicing blood magic. "Wait who told you my name though, I don't remember ever telling you my name?" "oh, it was madam chreshield. She told me your and her situations. How you came from a stranded forest and how she's carrying the future regent of the Basthion."
I still felt a little disoriented but then little Joyle came running from above and as soon as she saw me, she cried, ran and jumped on me. It seems I had broken a rib or two so I was close to spilling a little blood but I sucked it up as I didn't wanna scare Joyle. I never knew blood tasted this bad. Wait one of the threads grazed me. I instantly threw up the blood and then went into meditation form while crossing my legs and my hands behind me and bent over. Slowly I realized I was poisoned and this was a slowly acting poison that slowly crept across the users body and killed them. I circulated my eon energy across my body collecting all the poison in my veins capillaries and whatnot and redirected them to my mouth.
It was definitely difficult considering I had to vomit out blood for more than 5 minutes. It was black as a snake and instantly hissed upon touching the floor. Woden looked at me in disgust but I instantly used blood magic to sweep up the poison as it started releasing vapors which are also poisonous and threw them out of the window.
Maybe staying dead would've been better instead of reincarnating but whatever, I guess. Its time to get stronger but before all that, I had to console Joyle after she had just saw me vomiting blood after she had fallen on me. In all fairness I would've never realized the poison was in my body if not for Joyle so I'm pretty grateful for her.
Whatever happens next, it'll be my duty to protect Joyle and face against whatever endangers the world. Whether it be that bitch Luciela or any of the gods, their death will be at my hands for messing with me. Something kept ticking me off about the dragon at pancratia. It seemed so familiar along with the mana it was emanating even in death. Whatever it may be, I'll have to dig out what happened after I died 500 years ago.