And as Lance was finally sure that Ray was alive but Ray was bleeding and he tried to carry him back to one of the houses and sensed something move and as he looked back he saw Garld stand up.
'What!? He's still alive? He was hit by that sun that was made by master Ray himself how can he still stand up??' Lance asked himself as he hurried back to the house only to be caught by Garld.
"Oi oi oi, you thought you could run away from me?!" He said with an angered and frustrated tone.
"That burned my beautiful red skin! Give him to me or else you'll die too!"
Lance was overwhelmed just by Garld's words but he still didnt give in to him and attempted to fight back.
"Never! I will protect Master Ray until the day I die!"
"Are you really sure you can protect him?"
As Lance face slowly turned white he still had the courage to run towards Garld but his efforts were in vain as even though Garld was severely injured he still flung Lance with just one strike.
And as Garld was about to stomp on Ray's head Lance threw his sword which he coated with all his Aura left and cut off Garld's right foot.
"Ahh!!" As Garld screamed in agony as he saw his foot fly off into the distance due to him not having an injury this severe his entire life as he had a skin that was stronger than steel.
"H-how did you break my reinforced skin!!" Garld shouted as he cried due to the overwhelming pain he felt.
'is this his first time being injured that badly?" Lance thought as he looked at Garld screaming from a distance.
"Gah! He broke so many bones but I need master Ray to wake up Master Ray!!!" Lance shouted.
'Where am I? It feels so relaxing here, I don't wanna leave this place.' Ray was in an unknown place where he couldn't use all 5 of his senses but instead of feeling threatened he felt relaxed as if he was in a deep sleep.
'Huh? I feel like someone's calling me, it must be my imagination.'
[User
'What was that? System activated? Just let me sleep for a while more.'
[Detected blood loss attempting to heal ERROR user does not have Blessing: Regeneration]
'Regeneration? Why would I need that I feel more than fine right now and since when was I bleeding-'
Then Ray's memories rushed inside his head remembering everything that has happened until now.
'I still don't want to wake up.'
[Attempting to acquire blessing: regeneration, Acquisition successful Blessing: Regeneration has been strengthened due to user's excessive blood loss Regeneration has evolved to blessing: Immediate Regeneration]
'Shut up! Let me relax for a while, wait no i need to wake up but it's just so comfortable in here.'
Ray was finally starting to get back to his senses as he fought back the temptation to keep sleeping.
[Attempting to acquire blessing: Endless Stamina, Acquisition failed "Endless Stamina" has been weakened to "Stamina" user has acquired blessing: Stamina]
'I need to wake up!!' Ray tried again and again but his body wouldn't listen to him.
'Why can't I control my body properly!'
[Attempting to acquire blessing: Great Control, Failed Attempting to acquire blessing: Great Control, Failed, Failed, Failed, Great control successfully acquired]
'Why do I keep hearing the system, come to think of it It's the first time the system has activated ever since I came here don't tell me I reached level 10 already, and why do I keep getting so many blessings? Wait Don't tell me i got the "Adaptive System".'
Back on earth when the first humans reached level 10 their were several types of Systems and Ray got the "Adaptive System" which can make the user adapt to any kind of situations that was one of the reasons how Ray became the strongest human.
'This is insane I had a hunch that when I reached level 10 this would happen but I didn't really have any hope for it before but this is amazing with this I can definitely grow faster and defeat Garld.'
And as ray slowly started to gain back his senses he finally woke up only to find Garld screaming in pain in front of him.
'What happened to him?' And as Ray looked at Garld's Foot and the sword that was stuck on a wall he instantly knew what had happened.
"Master Ray!! You're awake!" Lance shouted.
'No!! Why would he shout that I was planning to have a surprise attack and kill this guy.'
"H-human! You're awake, you may think you can run but I can still go after you-"
Garld's head went flying as Ray used Lance's sword to cut off his head.
"Thankfully his skin armor was weakened when I used "Sun" that's the official name now." Ray was glad that he was able to defeat a monstrosity before it became much stronger.
"*sigh* we finally won." ray then passed out again and as the villagers who were spectating them and was scared to even make a sound before cheered for Ray as they could finally be free from these monsters.
"Everyone! Take our village's hero here to a healer." The village chief shouted worried but also felt a sense of relief that Garld and his underlings were finally gone.
"I sincerely give my thanks to you, Ray Grandfell." the village chief whispered
"Hey guys!! What about me!" Lance shouted as he couldn't even stand up from the damage that was inflicted to his body.
"And the hero's knight as well!"2
And just as they were celebrating their triumph Garld who they thought was dead as they clearly saw his head cut off suddenly disappeared from where he was causing panic in the village.
"Everyone hurry! Take these two men inside!" Tard said as he was nervous as to where Garld could've gone to.
Everyone hurriedly took Ray and Lance inside the village chief's accommodation as the villages only healer was there.
"Ugh!" Ray woke up only to find himself looking up at a wooden ceiling.
"Where am I?"
"You're inside the chief's house." A woman beside him said as her hands where pulsating green light.
"Are you a healer?"
"Yes."
"Where's Lance? The blue haired guy."
"Oh he passed out when we got here he's over there."
'To think there was no casualties this time.'
"Although I'm using healing magic on you when I arrived here your wounds already healed I'm just making sure that nothing is wrong."
'It must've been the immediate regeneration I got before.
"Don't worry my body is a bit special." Ray said as the healer looked at him with suspicious eyes but decided not to ask about it.
"So anyway you're ready to go, and the chief is waiting for you downstairs."
Ray then went out of the room and went downstairs and saw Tard seating in a chair with 2 other people.
"Oh master Ray you're awake, we have some news to tell you immediately." Tard said as he invited Ray to sit with them.
"So first of all these are the best warriors in this village I and the people have agreed that they would accompany you and they're also happy about it."
"It's a pleasure to meet the Ray Grandfell, I hope we will be of some use to you."
"And anyway about the news I was talking about..."
"The lizardman's body suddenly disappeared and we saw a trail of blood leading to a nearby forest."
'What?! That guy was still alive, no wait that's highly unlikely then someone must've took him into the forest without anyone noticing but to do that someone would need to be have been at least an archmage but the only people who would collect a monster's body would be dark mages specifically necromancers.'
"That's suspicious but don't worry I'll call some reinforcements to guard this place after we leave since I'm heading to the academy."
"I'm very thankful for what you have done so it will be selfish for us to want your help even more."
"No! It's the least I can do, we don't know what happened to that lizardman yet, and what about the other lizardmen that was there did it disappear too?"
"Lizardmen? There were others?"
'So someone took them as well, but what's weirder is that they should've noticed the lizardmen behind Grald when he arrived did someone mess with their memories but again that's highly unlikely.'
"N-nevermind it's nothing."
"Okay then we hope that you will arrive at the academy safely."
"Thanks we'll immediately leave after Lance wakes up."
Ray then left the chief's house and kept gathering mana around him as he was close to acquiring the 6th circle.
"There's not as much mana here than there was in the City of magic but i can still gather a decent amount of it here, that's good enough but I'm starting to feel like the capacity of the 5th circle significantly increased."
A mage can form a new circle when their current one is filled with mana.
'If a dark mage is really here I need to contact my family right now since this village is in grave danger revealing it to everyone here will cause panic so I can't do that.'
"Oh? Ray Grandfell was in that shithole?" Someone in the shadows asked
"Yes it seemed like he was protecting it from these lizardmen and the named monster you made." Someone wearing a dark cloak said as the 4 lizardmen and Garld were behind him.
The man laughed
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"This will be quiet fun the Flame Duke's grandson is here and he's also the son of the great hero." The man laughed hysterically
TO BE CONTINUED