HE was very sleepy, so so sleepy
' wa... ae'
Oh god what was that annoying voice, interrupting his precious sleep
"wak.. aer"
Huh? was that voice telling him to wake up?
his eyes opened wide, his body felt heavy, very heavy. all he wanted to do was close his eyes and drift back into sleep.
"Wake up you bastard!!"
This time his body jolted up, eyes searching around, his head was pounding and he could not think. sunless was right Infront of him, but he could not make up the words he was saying
"are you having a stroke sunless?"
This time a singing pain was felt on his left cheek along with a small sound, sunless was now making an even weirder expressions but some part of his speech was relatively understandable
"Gods! i cant with this guy... bastard.... stroke?..... castle."
His senses seems to finally come back to him, he registered cassia standing in front of him holding the glass water bottle which was a memory of hers, also sunny, though he was strolling away from them now.
His throat felt dry, very dry, even speaking sent a pain through his lungs
"what happened?"
his voice was raspy, ' what the hell happened?' finally he was registering the worried expression of cassias face, she handed him the glass bottle.
"you were having a kind of stroke... i think, im not sure but your body was writhing in some sort of pain"
' I was having a stroke? me? gods im too young to die,' he placed the glass bottle on his mouth and greedily drank, though it seemed as if no matter how much he drank, the thirst inside him did not end.
After about 7-8 minutes of continues drinking, he finally handed cassia the water bottle back and stood up. looking around he saw neph and sunless talking about something while looking at the direction where the stone statue was, he could guess what they were talking about
" thankyou lady cassia, though do i insist you dont make that expression anymore, as you can see im fine" in fact he felt much better than fine, his body felt just a little bit, but it was lighter, his muscles felt better.
Cassia looked at him with a dubious expression
"are you sure, what was that? you suddenly started convulsing"
Aeric sighed
' if its not some condition that the previous owner of this body had then its probable something related to me being a transmigrator, maybe this soul... body? is not used to my soul yet? who knows, it does not seem to affect my body negatively anyways'
"Im sure, it was just a nightmare" ofcourse both of them knew you cant dream in the dream realm, let alone have nightmares, cassia must have seen this as a boundary of some sort, and people the considerate person she is, did not ask more. well she was kinda considerate at least.
He stretched his body a little and then walked up to sunny and nephis, the blind girl following him closely.
"good morning lady nephis, are you two planning on what we should do next from here?"
Sunny looked at him with grimace, he was probable cursing him out quite a lot
" your awake thats good, cassia saw a vision about a castle filled with humans, it probable has a gateway too, its in that direction" she pointed towards the west where aeric and sunny had came from, her voice though remained as neutral as it always way
he gave them both a smile, then turned towards sunny
"Fine by me, but sunless might i remind you, is that not the way where we came from? you know the place filled with those carapace scavanger's?"
Sunny shrugged his shoulders, " what choice do we have, unless you have a batter way, that is the only path i see"
Aeric paused for a moment, pretending to be understanding the logic, ofcourse they had to go that way, but he himself had got to be convincing too. he also shrugged
" fine by me"
Sunny nodded ' atleast this guy's craziness comes with some pros'
Aeric could guess what he was thinking, right now, he felt so so weak, it was to the point that his body withered in pain whenever he thought about it 'it just makes me want to puke'
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As the dark see resided back to wherever it came from and the sun finally rose up, the group had a quick breakfast, finishing the meat that him and sunny had brought. they had chattered among themself even nephis joining in quite often, though she was still a lot awkward that later on in the series.
He had quite pleasant chats with cassia, though most of it were cassia speaking about her life before the spell, he didnt mind, who would mind hearing her voice? it was soothing in a way.
They abandoned the tall hill and ventured west, retracing their steps from yesterday. Knowing the path, the small party made quick progress.
Nephis was walking in front, her sword arm ready to strike at any moment. A bit behind her was Sunny he had sent his shadow out to scout ahead for any signs of danger, and to also look for dead ends. This time, the responsibility of holding the golden rope and guiding Cassie along was entrusted to aeric.
The labyrinth was just as it was before, confusing and seemingly endless. Crimson blades of "coral" protruded from the black mud, creating a vast, tangled forest. However, today something about it felt different.
It wasn't long before the shadow stumbled onto a mass of hulking, hungry scavengers…