rune hunter

Chapter 60 Awakening
The pain, the endless pain, the pain of tearing muscles, the pain of crushing bones... All the pains mixed together make one desperate to live.The body seems to be smashed into a fleshy pulp, recovering a little bit and being smashed again. This process seems to be endless.

There seems to be something gathering strength in the body, but when I feel it carefully, there is no obvious feedback, my mind is in a mess, unable to send effective signals, and I try to grab something with my hands and feet in vain, but in the next second Caught in a painful cycle.

"...Hurry up and carry it in!"

"... who is this man... call the pastor!"

"Hopeless……"

"Please save him..."

"...Your Highness, this is impossible..."

"I owe you a favor..."

"Never mind."

The shadow of death still lurks in the darkness, but the inescapable cycle of pain quietly dissipates.

The consciousness that was almost completely stagnant gradually woke up and began to feel the existence of the self. The faint blue light condensed little by little in the level of consciousness, and finally merged into two mysterious runes that flowed slowly like water.

From those two runes, one can vaguely perceive some vague things, which seem to be some kind of rhyming text, or a poem with a strange rhythm.However, it is difficult for the slow-moving consciousness to analyze the specific meanings represented by those runes as usual. Only weak, fragmented words are subconsciously sent into memory.

With the continuous recovery of consciousness, the two runes gradually disappeared in the depths of his mind, replaced by another kind of warm power, as gentle as a spring breeze, gradually blowing away the painful feeling.

I don't know how long it took before a tiny ray of light appeared in the darkness.

Al let out a muffled groan and struggled to open his eyes.

Consciousness finally returned to the body, or the body finally recovered.He wanted to get up, but found that he didn't even have the ability to move his fingers.Although I can already feel my own body, it is extremely difficult to control it.Neck, shoulders, wrists... These formerly flexible body parts are now more like lumps of water-filled dead flesh.No matter what commands are issued in the brain, the final feedback is nothing more than a slight trembling
El can't help but think back to the veterans he saw in the taverns in Queensland City. Many soldiers survived the battlefield, but because of serious injuries, they couldn't use their hands and feet. The old people often said that It's a muscle injury.Compared with beasts, the human body is extremely fragile, and sometimes a single knife wound may cause lifelong disability.

And before he lost consciousness, he still clearly remembered that he had been hacked fourteen times.

I survived?The first thought in El's mind at this moment was not rejoicing, but surprise.Through insight into the power of runes, he knows all kinds of data about his body like the back of his hand.If it was said that before the last praying mantis monster appeared, there was still a [-]% chance of surviving, but after that, dodging with all its strength would be fatal.

Surprise is surprise, anyway, at least I survived, and other problems are not a big deal.Slightly relieved in his heart, El raised his head as much as possible with the strength he had just accumulated, and expanded his sight to the surroundings.

The place where I am is surrounded by rough canvas supported by wooden frames. Judging from the style, it seems to be a temporary marching tent set up in the army.He soon discovered the main reason why he couldn't move, because his whole body was wrapped in bandages as tightly as a mummy.The air is filled with the smell of a mixture of various herbs, among which there is a vaguely familiar fragrance.

The sound of footsteps came from far to near, and someone opened the curtain of the tent, and the bright sunlight poured in and shone on El's face, making him squint his eyes involuntarily.

Although he couldn't see the figure clearly, the impressive smell wafting through the fresh air was enough for El to confirm the identity of the visitor.The delicate and elegant, indistinct faint tea fragrance is the same as the fragrance left in the tent just now, and it belongs to a different person. If you think about it carefully, this tent may have been the girl's residence.

El raised the corner of his mouth, habitually trying to speak a few words, but found that his voice was hoarse and obscure.There was still clotted blood in his trachea, and he couldn't help coughing when he opened his mouth.

There was a soft touch behind his ears, he gently lifted his head, and fed him a spoonful of warm concoction.I don't know what kind of herbal medicine it is. Although the effect stopped the cough immediately, it was so bitter that El rolled his eyes, wishing to die again.

He raised his head, just in time to see the pair of bright and clear eyes above the veil, with seven points of joy and three points of cunning.There is no doubt that this bowl of concoction is obviously revenge for his past pranks.

"Your life is really hard enough, you can survive being hacked like this." Although she said so, the worried expression on Tiana's face was visibly relaxed, and a smile could not help but hang on the corner of her mouth.

"Yeah, I can't believe it myself." El smiled wryly. Of course he knew his own body, so he became more suspicious.He knew very well that with his injuries at that time, even if he was rescued, he would not be able to survive.Unless it is a miracle, and it must be a high-level magical treatment to be possible.

In El's memory, as the price for the temple priests to perform such high-level magic, even aristocratic families would inevitably go bankrupt.And how could such an unknown person like him be favored and merciful by the priests of the temple?Looking into the girl's eyes, the answer is self-evident.

"I don't know how much my life cost?" El asked in a low voice.

When I first arrived in Istaron, the girl was almost the same as a beggar. Even if I serve as the lord now, I don't necessarily have a lot of money.He didn't know what price the girl would pay to the temple for his own life, and he didn't want to think about it deeply.Either way, he can't pay it back now.

"It's nothing, I just paid off the favor I owed you, and then owed another favor." Tiana spread her hands with a helpless look.She raised her eyebrows, and passed the medicine bowl in her hand to El's mouth.

El very cooperatively made a tangled and painful expression, which made the girl overjoyed, and her mood became visibly brighter.

"Well, this time you not only paid back the favor, but also the revenge." El begged for mercy with a sad face, "Miss Tiana, your lord has a lot, please let me go."

"Do you think you won't have other troubles if you survive? Divine magic can heal the wounds on the body, but it can't replenish the consumption in the body." Tiana looked at Erbao's mummified body and sighed, putting her face away. smile.

"They said that you used a special method to stimulate your potential, and then you lost too much blood and couldn't recover by yourself. Now your body is exhausted. If you don't take care of it, you may spend the rest of your life in bed."

"There's no way, if you don't do this, you'll be dead." El felt a little cold in his heart, but he still pretended to be nonchalant and playful in front of the girl.

"You wouldn't be in this kind of danger if you didn't go to the front," Tiana said relentlessly.

"Hey, hey, who wants to die, I was forcibly recruited." El yelled angrily.

"If you listen to me and leave Istaren early with Tika, you won't get involved at all." Tiana raised her eyebrows and tapped El on the head with a spoon.

The relaxed atmosphere in the tent cooled down, and the two stared at each other, speechless for a while.

"Okay, okay, it's my fault." El silently muttered in his heart that good men don't fight women, and he looked away first and retreated in defeat.When he stared wide-eyed just now, he realized that the girl's eyes were bloodshot, and the eye sockets were slightly blue.

"Um... Tiana, how long has it been since I lost consciousness?" He tentatively asked cautiously.

"You have been in a coma for three days and three nights." Tiana noticed El's weird expression, a blush flashed on her face, and she turned her head unnaturally: "I thought you wouldn't be able to wake up."

"Anyway... I still want to thank you." El said seriously.

The concoction in the girl's hand is still warm, and the answers to some things are self-evident.

(End of this chapter)