Everyone was sitting minding their own business, some were even discussing something, there were also various crystals around that illuminated the area without making it dark, the captain was the one who sat furthest away he was polishing his spear an unusual weapon to use yet it works well except in closed spaces with little space it becomes useless, in the distance Fia noticed the captain's somewhat sad look 'what happened? Could it be the fight we had?' Fia was a little worried but I discarded the idea, Hein seemed in a world of his own.
"Cough, cough" shortly after the captain began to cough up fresh blood it was on his hand it was his, 'Shit!' the captain said a little swear word to himself, he cleaned his hand 'It's still too soon for him to die from this shitty disease!' he said in his head, the captain had been afflicted by a deadly disease equal to the black plague or even worse than the black plague which struck the human race twenty thousand years ago, the symptoms of the disease are not external but internal, the cause is the uncontrolled magic that corrodes the internal organs, although the captain is not a magician mana is the source of life of all living beings [Overload] [Mana discharge] [Magical destruction] there are different names to call this disease which uses mana to destroy your organs, roughly the captain had five years left to live and in two years because of this disease he will have to retire as captain and find a new captain for his team he had not yet decided nor was he ready he did not want to leave his dream job he did not want to leave his team and yet this disease left him no other choice.
Shortly after the captain took out a silver pocket watch he opened it and a display appeared.
[Heart rate: 75 per second
Years of life left: 5 years 3 month 5 days 8 hour 53 minutes and 32 seconds]
The display showed his heart rate and the time remaining, this watch was connected directly to the heart, if the heart rate exceeded 100 per second it would make a sound, when the heart rate increases the circulation of mana becomes faster since mana flows in the blood the faster the blood flows the faster the disease is a tough nut to crack basically, with a sigh the captain put the watch back and started cleaning the launch again while some looked at him worried "But what happened to the captain?"
"I don't know."
"Is he sick by any chance?"
"I don't think so."
There were various voices many were worried they had never seen the captain so even Maxwell with boundless pride was worried normally the captain always smiles but seeing him sad was a blow to the heart, he wanted to get up to ask him what was happening but a hand on his shoulder stopped him a man twenty years old more or less with brown hair and yellow eyes was behind Maxwell "Brian."
Maxwell said turning towards the man with yellow eyes, him did not answer but only shook his head to tell him to stay still Maxwell understood immediately and remained seated.
Fia was observing the scene from afar a little desperation was in her watchful eyes in a low voice she opened her mouth and said: "Captain I know you are sick I apologize if I even investigated on you but you can never be too sure," the voice was like a hiss, Fia had still committed an act of research on a person who knew nothing about it but she don't felt guilty, Fia thinks that caution is never too much and therefore she does various researches, for now she decided to remain passive.