Chapter 253 - Avoiding disaster

With the 7 ladies joining the scene once the explosion shook the ground, they ran in without even waiting for any type of permission. The ground shaking was their permission which made them break the deal, what if their Grand Leader was blown to bits? What if the three need help fighting demons?

Staying all the way back to the entrance wont help them figure out whats going on in any way, they had to intervene. But it wasn't no trouble, because as Eric crossed the second section half way to invite them down here.

He felt more than happy to save Bittore's life even though he was smacked in order to help, and to have 7 pairs of hands helping settle everything down is indeed more than they asked.

How did they help? Well while a couple of ladies where helping Bittore treat some wounds, since them as women don't mind giving a deeper glance at what injuries she is carrying, they managed to find a few wounds that Bittore herself didn't notice due to the intense pain on the head and knees she had a while ago.

Several spots on her legs faced cuts, the same situation on her waste and stomach. The wounds weren't deep but indeed troublesome if not treated right away, they weren't deep but each one was bloody! When combined this can lead to constant blood loss, this will weaken her more and more because she lost a lot of blood when her head injury wasn't tamed.

These wounds were likely recieved from the shattered staircase clawed by the Demons before they even entered this place. Perhaps Eric healed them a bit if not all when he dropped 3 tears on her. But where did they give her a deeper more analytical check?

While two of these ladies grabbed Bittore carefully, the other 5 gave the place a through and through check. They are ladies who had to survive in the wild for a while and handled some pregnancies too, finding private spots has become a habit. Specifically knowing that she is injured further triggered these instincts.

5 ladies stormed two openings on the second section, specifically on the left side starting from the bottom. Interesting enough both of these spots appear to be sleeping areas, the first sleeping area is closest to the second section, having only a short tunnel before all those beds catch one's attention.

While the second sleeping area is a bit further from the first, by that I'd like to specify that the tunnel is longer. But how come you might ask? Well both of these sleeping areas are 30 meters wide upon entry and 20 meters long. The tunnel leading to the second sleeping area takes a right turn for 10 meters before it takes a left turn forwards for 20 more meters, leading to the second sleeping room. Such trick was used to fit these large sleeping rooms, 30 meters wide doesn't sound too big does it?

Well considering how big the beds are, yes it is large since it can fit precisely 100 beds! Each bed is 2 meters long and 1 meter wide, they are separated a meter away from each other. When the calculations are done, exactly 100 fit. The Snow Ignites likely did the required calculations before they went into action. They are also only half a meter above the ground, perfect actually because if one rolled out of bed the fall wouldn't be too damaging.

Getting to what's a bit more important, the two ladies brought Bittore on the first sleeping room and stripped her n.a.k.e.d to treat her wounds. One highly embarrassing situation Eric managed to avoid thanks to Mollara shooing him away, was him almost walking in on Bittore while she was n.a.k.e.d.

There was this entire place to explore yet he wanted to ensure that Bittore is doing better or at least be here if her situation turns for the worse, he wasn't at all aware of how these ladies check for wounds.

Although Bittore doesn't necessarily care if she gets caught n.a.k.e.d by someone who wouldn't try to approach her thanks to it, the situation would become awkward and they would have to avoid eye contact for a few weeks.

Lucky enough, they stripped Bittore out of her clothing on the second bed at the left side. Therefore Eric didn't even manage to look at her feet for that matter, not to mention anything else.

Getting back to the wounds, Eric managed to tame a lot of them, more than he thought actually. Bittore was cut more than she was bruised, you would think that the thick fur coat that makes her look like a ball would protect her more but no it was as if she didn't wear them at all.

These ladies evacuated the Kingdom too quickly, everything they have is the clothes on their bodies, here their clothes are their best sort of tools to tame wounds. Ripping their fur coats open isn't the best idea at all considering the cold weather but they can rip their leather shirts.

Considering the wounds, only one shirt had to be ripped in order to tie each wound! So after shooing Eric, Mollara took off her fur coat and afterwards her leather shirt too. Leaving nothing to protect her upper body from the cold apart from the under clothes she was wearing that didn't cover her body at all.

Good enough, she didn't want to get into action partially n.a.k.e.d. She put back her fur coat and started ripping her leather shirt using her bare hands! She didn't require any dagger even though all of them are equipped with one, mostly because she is naturally strong but also because her shirt is quite a few months old, handmade by deer skin actually.

Speaking of clothes, these beds here have nothing but carved rock on them. There was likely leather here as a Snow Ignite's physical durability isn't so different from that of an Ignite, but thanks to this place being untouched by outsiders for decades and due to Demons likely storming this room too there is no fur to be spoken off.

So they had to use Bittore's clothes along with Eric's fur coat to provide her comparability as they flipped her around like a pancake to check and tie wounds, the soft fur indeed made everything more comfortable.

They tied every wound using that one leather shirt, making her wiggle her fingers and toes, move her arms and legs. They assured that she doesn't have any cracked or broken bones, little did they know her knees were shattered a bit earlier. Perhaps Eric's tears focus on the worst wounds and leave the lightest ones last?

They put her clothes back on her, they didn't want her to feel cold wearing ripped clothing so each lady exchanged a more durable cloth for her ripped ones. Some gave their leggings, some gave their coats and Mollara gave her hat.

The rest gave their hats too so Bittore has some comfortable cloth to sleep over instead of just Eric's coat, they can fare without hats here where cold is less impactful. Bittore is alright, they covered her like a mother would cover a newborn child. But she has lost a lot of blood, the best way to replenish it, at least the best way claimed by people who faced blood loss before, is to eat something heavy.

But as mentioned before, they left the Kingdom with the clothes on them only, no food. Bittore didn't have enough energy to talk, or else she would point out where to get food. 2 ladies walked out of the room, and talked with each other. "We need to go hunt a Blue Eagle, Bittore loves that type of meat."

Eric jumped in front of their path, asking. "Is she okay? Can I do anything?"

Finally able to give this boy another look in the illumination, they noticed that he is the one who gave the fur coat. Odd enough he wasn't shivering, little did they know he used fire to keep himself warm as he waited.

"Yes yes. Nothing but minor wounds, you can have a look for yourself If you'd like." Grabbing his soft cheeks as she walked past she stated. "There isn't anyone n.a.k.e.d in there this time."

Seeing this fine Ignite lady with her hat off, Eric immediately felt nervous. Furthermore she even squeezed his cheek, nothing less but intimidating and it made him quite shy. She appears to be on her late twenties but for a second it didn't really matter to him.

He was snapped back to reality when he heard them murmur about food as they walked away. "I have food!" Eric spoke a bit loudly to grab their attention. "I have Blue Eagle meet even, we killed a bundle right before we reached Maleemia."

"Really?" Asked the lady who grabbed his cheek, feeling relieved that she doesn't have to face the cold just yet.

"Don't brag child, I have 4 types of meat in my backpack." Specified Mogranius as he walked closer towards the illumination.

When they managed to take a peek at him, they saw him dragging two Ratbugs with their heads torched off. "There is a whole den at the second section, second tunnel on the right. If you don't fear Ratbugs, I recommend to take care two things at once."

"Which is?" Asked the other lady feeling a bit confused.

"Secure a bit of food and get rid of the Ratbugs completely, those little critters can poison your food supply considering how filthy they are." He specified as he dropped the torched Ratbugs down and threw his backpack towards them after.