Chapter 306 - Help, I keep Coughing Blood!

Eric and Mogranius debated their choices the moment they've reached the location where they've stashed their supplies a few hours earlier! Eric wanted to return and fight King Xakro, but Mogranius found it pointless and dangerous! "Xakro couldn't have survived that explosion!" Mogranius kept repeating.

"How can you be for sure?" Eric insisted to go back, even walking towards the Kingdom's direction through his sentence. "He is more powerful than a full trained Electus!"

"He is!" Mogranius agreed to that point, grabbing Eric's shoulder and pulling him back, he added. "But if he was alive, he would face us again. Don't forget that he wants your heart, why would he miss the chance?"

And that's where sense and logic struck through Eric's mind and he felt frozen on the spot, although insistent to go there and stop a possible Ignite extinction, he still doesn't want to die. As mentioned before there is so much to sacrifice now for the sake of his race.

"You are right there." Eric agreed and tried to think it through, the crown stuck on his head forever helped him think a bit better once panic rolled out of his mind.

"I know I am, didn't you hear the Guards? Someone rushed in the Kingdom and caused all this trouble. Who ever that person was, he did what we weren't given the chance to!" At this point Mogranius just wanted to make himself feel better for not being able to do anything, but Eric is more of a realist at this part.

Recalling the first time he faced Xakro ill.u.s.tratio lll, he added. "We had the chance as well, we were just too weak to damage him."

"That's true, but at least the King is dead. The only thing the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance can rely upon now, is their weakened military." One more thought finally popping in his mind, which might completely convince Eric to finally ditch this idea of attacking, he added. "That explosion blew down 10 meter thick Castle walls, no Fire Shield could withstand it. King Xakro is absolutely dead!"

"Those walls were ten meters?" Eric asked in shock, trying to confirm that Mogranius wasn't just throwing around his theories. "How do you know?"

"Oh the Stonemasons used to boast about it all the time, the Castle was rebuilt shortly before I arrived to the Kingdom in search for a Teacher." This might not be the best time to tell more of his past adventures, but it proved his own point and finally convinced Eric to retreat.

Their destination now is rather Certain, they are going to the hidden Domain above where Maleemia used to stand. Commander Alia is there and Ada too, along with all those Ignites who might require some help settling in.

They have no idea what's going on here due to the fact of being a couple hundred Kilometers apart, the two Heroes have to bring the good news up there. And if everything is right, they will escort the two ladies back home.

It would be unnecessary to stand up there forever, they would be isolated from possibilities and most importantly the Demonite isn't up here. But the Demons are still a problem, Mogranius planned to see how they handled the situation up there to know if he should stay up there a bit longer.

If the tribe of Ignites can handle the portal there, he plans to go back to Gaster Kingdom. A portal has to be in that area under seas, which raises another question in mind or at least a spike occurs in his theories. If the Demons are as vulnerable as humans, how do they not drown if they appear deep in the ocean?

He can't be sure unless they find the portal and take a peek at the Demons up close, for such a case they would need help from Mogranius father who might or might not have found out more about the Demons.

As for meeting him it is rather easy, he can just speak to some fish as far as he is concerned and Becky would arrive in half a minute or so. The fishes won't go and tell Becky of course, but his father has developed the capability of seeing through any animal's eyes. Chances are he is watching Mogranius right now!

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They've crossed the border, set up camp a few times since they are not in a rush. It feels like a good reward too even though they walked 10 kilometers on foot each day and flew a 20-30 Kilometers as well. Compared to how much they exhausted their selves going to Crutal Kingdom in a rush, this is a breeze, a treat even.

But as they set up camp on the third day, torching some deer meet over a campfire to satisfy their bellies, a rather interesting scene approached them to disturb their peace.

"I need help!" A lady yelled with the little energy she has gathered up and fell on the ground knees first once she landed on the ground.

This face looks more than familiar, this is none other than Bear Claw. The lady that turned on Chan and killed his Guards. The two Heroes didn't even take this topic in to consideration since they couldn't care less of Chan's fate now that they know the King as dead. And since Bear Claw associated with Chan to begin with, the two heroes Categorized her as untrustworthy even though they didn't talk about this topic.

"What do we do?" Eric asked instantly, since he felt guilty about shooting down an Ignite. "Do we kill her?" If they kill her, Eric doesn't want to be the one who does it. It feels emotionally hard to kill a Fire Controller!

"I don't know!" Answered Mogranius truthfully as he took step after step back, the further he is from the potential enemy, the less likely he can be shot down.

"Please, I keep coughing blood." There is a word you wouldn't hear Dilli Flury say every day. "Please." Afterwards she continued, "Please you have to help me!"

Suddenly, her words were proven right and suspicion rivered down with the blood on the ground. Like the first process she went through, the first hurl was but a few drops. The second time she puked out a mouthful and for the third time she hurled intensively all across the field she was over, carrying dry twigs and rocks with dirt.

The scene indeed looks disgusting, but what hurts their souls more is BearClaw looking at them terrified and feeling helpless as her chin was covered with dry blood as a base and a new layer of blood rolling down too.

It is a miracle how she found them, and even a stronger miracle how she managed to travel over a hundred Kilometers in this condition. They can think about this all day if they want too, but it isn't going to help her in any way.

Now, it is a couple of hours past mid day. They have travelled for a few hours and they figured they could use a break, it worked to Bear Claw's advantage I suppose. But however since it is broad daylight, Mogranius managed to notice something very important in that pool of blood.

His eyes widened up in shock, and instead of rushing towards Bear Claw to help her, he jabbed his finger down to the pool of blood for a bit of an inspection. He took a whiff of the black substance he scooped up with his finger, and almost hurled across the field along with Bear Claw.

"What's wrong with her?" Asked Eric in concern as he went against his own nature and already had Bear Claw's head on her lap, trying to shake her awake.

Anyone knows that who ever is sick at this rate, shouldn't fall asleep no matter what. He didn't want to let a Fire Controller die, and quite frankly he was waiting for Mogranius to smack him behind the head so he can drop down a couple of tears to help her heal.

"She was under mind control." Mogranius answered, raising suspicion. Now Eric feels a bit stupid for trying to help a stranger, she could still be under mind control and turn this situation for the worse.

"How do you know? You can't tell that by the drops of blood." Asked Eric once he managed to put two and two together, I mean stuffing a finger down a pool of blood? For what other possible reason could he have done that for apart from inspection?

"I can! I saw Akareas getting an enemy under mind control and then snapping him out of it." Wiping the dark substance to the grass so that terrible smell won't go through his nose when he is eating, he continued to explain. "This dark blood is like a poison, it goes straight to one's mind. From the looks of it she was under heavy Mind Control!"