Chapter 118
Lith immediately regretted his latest experiment .
- "Dammit, my body is still weak . Even though my core is still cyan, the effects of the change are similar to the evolution process . Invigoration has no effect . I need real rest to recuperate . "
"Your mind is not faring better either . You are still wearing your hunter suit, if you don't change it, not only it would rise lots of questions, but I doubt they will let you in the academy . " Solus pointed out . –
The leather sleeves were reduced to shreds, the chest presented a giant hole, like someone had tried to rip his heart out, the metal protectors had whole chunks missing and between the bloodstains and the impurities it seemed that Lith had stolen the clothes from a battlefield .
Inwardly cursing his own stupidity, Lith returned below the tree line, swapping the clothes in mid air via the dimensional pocket .
After walking through the castle gates, he was halted by the front desk clerk, demanding to have back the distress device . It was the same middle-aged man that had lectured Lith that morning .
Seeing him with his hands and face dirtied by having slept on the ground, his short breath and worried expression, the clerk assumed that going solo didn't do well for the arrogant fourth-year student .
His chestnut eyes shone with gloat, while a condescending smile cracked his otherwise thick beard .
"Seems you had to experience for yourself how harsh the world out there . Not everyone can be a hero, now you know it . "
Lith looked at him like a madman, he had already forgotten about him, so those words made no sense to him .
"There, there . " The clerk continued, mistaking his confusion for embarrassment . "At least you came out alive without needing to ask for help . Also, you remembered my advice and returned before sundown . Realizing your mistakes and learning from your seniors is fundamental at your age . "
Normally Lith would have recognized him already, pondering if attempting to poison the clerk's mana core from a distance with spirit magic .
But worried as he were, he just pretended to be listening, nodding from time to time . Lith was so tired that even thinking was a struggle . Ever since he had seen the end of the vision, he was trying to put the pieces together .
All he wanted was to take a short bath to get rid of all the dirt, sweat and blood dirtying his body and then sleep for a whole week, but the scene of his parents murdered and his sisters screaming for help haunted his mind .
- "According to the vision the steps of the events are: 1) the mercenaries killing Nok . And that is out of the picture . Then 2) after that they were supposed to do a delivery, somehow connected to the fall of the academy .
Guess that part was metaphorical, to bring down the castle it would take an earthquake measuring at least an eight on the Richter scale . Which would lead to 3) a civil war and to 4) the destruction of Lutia .
It's unclear if it would happen by coincidence or because I pissed off someone in particular, but it doesn't matter . If my soul is a d*ck as much as I am, the reason it showed me all this is because more than anything I want to save them . Right, Solus?"
"Yeah, it makes sense, especially the d*ckery part . Guess that savings fluffy cubs and thousands of innocents is really not your style…" She had a dejected tone . After all that hoping for him to find true love or friendship, once again was just an egoistical reason . To her Lith and his soul were indeed a match made by the heavens .
"F*ck the innocents! I'm nobody's hero . A world that despite having billions of people can only be saved by someone brave and dumb enough to sacrifice himself for strangers, it's a world not deserving to be saved . " –
In the privacy of his room, Lith took out the communication amulet, thinking what exactly to tell Marchioness Distar .
He couldn't sleep before making sure that the events he had spectated had yet to happen, but if he did call her, then he would need to spill the beans without having the opportunity to make up a believable backstory .
The truth was too dangerous for him, and calling her the day after would destroy his credibility . Who in his right mind would take seriously someone that needed a power nap before reporting a threat to the Kingdom?
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