346 Wake up to reality
At the Zenith academy, 'Rio' who was recuperating (sleeping) in the nursing rooms, raised his eyebrow when the voice of Shiva came to his mind.
"Nina , is there anyone with you?"
"The Baron's daughter."
"Send her away, I'm back."
"So soon boss, everything okay?" Updated from novelbIn.(c)om
"Do as I say."
Hearing the cold tone, though a bad premonition came to Nina's head, but she didn't spend much thought on it now and looked to her side and slowly opened her eyes.
Lisa who was just resting by his bedside, opened her eyes as she heard him groaning and coughing lightly.
"You're awake." She excitedly said as she took some kind of healing potion and forced him to drink directly.
cough cough
"Don't move a muscle, I'll call the healers." She said and ran from the room.
'Rio' stared at her back for a few seconds and after being sure he was alone, he tapped on his watch a couple of times.
A sort of mana dampner effect started taking place which acted as some magical network jammer for a few seconds, blocking the recording crystals placed in the ceilings.
"I'm ready, boss." 'Rio' said, before a ring on his fingers started to shine and then there was just a flash of light.
Shiva appeared on the bed next second, his form already changed to his original appearance, with no sign of his previous bloody aura and dark clothes.
While Nina, the demihuman fox girl who played the part of Rio all this time with the help of her illusion magic and Loki's mask, appeared in the halls of Eclipse's mansion.
[Know your place, mortal.]
As Nyx's cold voice came to Rio's ears, his anger disappeared and only one thought remained in his mind. 'Fuck.' "Tskk ..fuck fucking fuck arghhhhhh"
A burning pain came from his hand where the mark of Nyx suddenly turned into a chain and started corroding his hand. Darkness left the sign of moon and flowed in his hand, breaking every vein and vessel in his right arm.
[Weak.]
The voice of Nyx came to his ears again before the pressure on his body disappeared. His whole body was sweating profusely, making even the bedsheet wet. His right hand lay limply on the side, covered in black veins like lines of tattoos.
There was this itching and annoying feeling like ants crawling on some open wound, eating at his hand -coming from deep within, and when he tried to channel some healing or purifying blessing, it only made his condition worse.
'Fuck this bitch.' He cursed the goddess in his mind, not daring to voice his thoughts openly again.
"Weak huh, just you wait..." Rio said, before giving in to his pain and tiredness, falling asleep.
By the time Lisa rushed back after calling the academy's healers he was already in deep sleep, and the staff could just check his pulse and shake their heads.
"As we guessed, he's probably suffering from some kind of backlash of Nyx's skill." One staff member couldn't help but mutter as they watched his hand.
"There's nothing we can do, light magic are all nullified directly as soon as they enter his blood, Let's just wait for him to wake up and the backlash to be over." The healer said, and looked at the two assistants behind him. "You two, stay here and watch him closely. If there's any change in his condition, inform me directly."
As the main healer said this, he turned around and left the room. They had just received the news that the missing students were found again and academy had just sent a team to bring them back.
According to the report, many of them are suffering from serious injuries and effects of Nether, so he had to make preparations for their treatment too. And couldn't just stay watching Rio.
"Evil's Scion are the worst lunatics." He sighed, thinking he'll probably have to work overtime a couple of days to save the kids exposed to nether.
Cases like these makes him hate his job. Cause students at these places don't get hurt normally, and when they do, it's some serious shit like this, which will ruin his sleep for weeks to come.
"Fuck these cultists." He cursed and left the room, thinking he should take a sip or two before anyone comes, so he doesn't lose his marbles after hearing all the screams and shit.