Chapter 452 - Crossing Worlds 1

Back at the hospital a few hours after Stella had left, Cecil finally woke up after his body adjusted to the tranquilizing effects of the sedative which was injected into his bloodstream.

He opened his eyes groggily before laying limply there on the bed without moving. He stared straight at the ceiling and thought, 'Dammit...what did they put in me? I was knocked out so easily...'

Cecil began to look around and he noticed the unique apparatus and equipment around his bed.

'Who were those people? More importantly, where the hell is this?' He thought.

Cecil tried to get up but his body was still numb and weak. The sedative didn't cause this weakness but it was due to his body's severe injuries. It was hard to even move a finger but when he looked down at his body, it was all covered in bandages so he couldn't inspect his injuries.

His body's energy circuits were ruined and it was hard for him to even circulate his mana so Cecil couldn't use his Mana Sense to probe his body or inspect his surroundings.

'Dammit... It looks like I'll have to focus on recovering first. Once I repair my circuits I'll be able to check how bad my body's state is in...'

With no other choice at the moment, Cecil decided to meditate. It was better to calm his mind and let his body naturally heal itself. With the quality of his body, this kind of injury should heal in less than a day. At least, that's what Cecil thought.

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It was only until the next day did Cecil roused from his meditation and find that his body was a little bit better. It wasn't completely healed as he had expected, but the least he could do now was stand up and walk around. However, his vocal cords and many of his internals were still damaged so it might prove for him difficult if he wanted to communicate with those people from earlier.

'Was the damage from the void space really that severe that I haven't fully recovered?'

If he was able to scan his body with his Mana Sense, Cecil would find that his injuries were healing at a minuscule pace because there was a foreign energy in his body that was interfering with his natural recovery.

The doctors and nurses were out when he had awakened so they weren't able to stop him from getting up from the bed and pulling out all of the needles that they stuck into his body.

Cecil wasn't ignorant of these things but he felt that the numerous needles that were plunged into his body were a little overkill especially if he considered how great his physique was compared to an ordinary person.

There were a few hospitals back in his family's kingdoms and they used both the modern-day medical techniques supplemented with a little bit of magic. He wasn't too familiar with them however because he never really needed to go to a hospital before.

He looked around and didn't notice anything too particular about the room other than it being a bit more luxurious with a few strange machines located here and there. Cecil naturally became curious because these medical instruments were something he's never seen before.

'Did the portal throw me out of the trial?'' Cecil thought to himself.

Even though there were many things inside the room that he wasn't quite familiar with Cecil could see that the equipment looked quite similar to the things he knew his family's kingdom was capable of making. Only his Silvaria Kingdom was able to make tools this complex because they had the necessary materials, techniques, and craftsmen. The other Earth Kingdoms of the No-Man's Land weren't quite there yet so Cecil could only presume that he was back in his kingdom right now.

'It's a good thing I'm back in the Kingdom... I wonder why Lulu, Seri, or any of my family isn't here... Knowing them they'd throw a huge fuss if they saw me return severely injured!' Cecil got up and tried walking over to the door.

His legs felt a little weak so he was actually stumbling his way over instead of walking. Once he got to the door, he noticed that there wasn't a doorknob anywhere. He tried to push or slide the door open but he couldn't get it to open at all.

'What the hell? How do I open this door?'

He struggled for a little bit longer, but eventually, he gave up after exhausting himself.

'Shit...how did my body become so feeble?'

Cecil walked back to the bed and sat down. Just as he was about to think of a way to get out, the door to the room opened, and in walked the doctor from before and two nurses that he was seeing for the first time. The doctor and the 2 nurses were surprised to see Cecil sitting on top of his bed and just staring back at them nonchalantly.

"Y-you, you're not supposed to be up yet!"

Cecil frowned because he couldn't reply due to his severely injured vocal cords. He tried to gesture towards the doctor that he wanted to go outside, but the doctor only shook his head after he got the meaning behind what Cecil wanted.

He grew quite furious in the next instant when he saw that Cecil tried to get off of the bed and walk outside by himself.

"Hey you, at least try not to make my job difficult! The young lady told me to take extra care of you but if you continue moving around like that, you'll either cripple or kill yourself!"

Cecil tried walking past the doctor but was immediately blocked by the nurses.

"Please behave and get back to your bed!"

"Grrhhh, arrhhhh!"

Seeing him begin gesturing to go outside again, the doctor finally grew tired of playing nice and was about to act forcefully. Just as he was about to grab Cecil, Stella spoke up from outside the door, "What's wrong, doctor?"

"Uh, miss Stella. I'm sorry, but the patient just got up again and is trying to get out."

Stella walked in from outside and saw Cecil already up from the bed. She had arrived at the hospital not too long ago and quickly made her way to his ward since she had specifically timed her arrival to when the doctors would make their routine checkup on Cecil.

Cecil eyed the young lady and thought, 'It's that person from before... I think.'

Yesterday, his memory was a little blurry and so was his sight, but from her presence, he could somewhat tell that this was the person from before. His Mana was still in a state of turmoil so it was hard for him to probe his surroundings.

The moment Stella saw the severely bandaged Cecil already up from his bed, she frowned in discontent.

"I thought I told you to keep an eye on him."

"I'm sorry, miss. But the sedatives' effects have probably just worn off. We were about to make our way here because of that, but the patient was already awake and out of his bed."

"Hmm..."

Stella grunted in reply before she snapped her fingers.

"Urggh?!"

Cecil immediately felt something wrap itself around him and lifted him from the ground.

'W-what the f.u.c.k?!'

If his eyes didn't deceive him, Cecil saw a blue aura suddenly appear around the young lady's hand which suddenly shot towards him and lifted him from the ground.

'She used a spell without chanting?'

Cecil's immediate thought was that this young lady was a high-level mage. Unfortunately for him, he was wrong.

Stella used her psychokinesis to move Cecil back onto the hospital bed forcefully. Judging by how he was acting, Stella knew that the easy way wasn't going to cut it. She gently placed Cecil down on the bed when she remembered that his injuries were so severe that it was life-threatening.

Even with injuries like that, she couldn't help but wonder what kind of guts did this young man have that made him completely ignore all that.

"You...you really have a death wish, huh? It's not enough that your injuries are so severe, you want to make it worse by moving around when you're not supposed to?" Stella said in a rather surprised yet seemingly taunting way.

"Grrhh, hhhrgghhh!"

"Tch, even your vocal cords were damaged. It's this severe and just look at you making things difficult for the people who want to help you."

"..."

After being put back down, Cecil stopped struggling. He was handled so easily by the young lady that he felt a little bit depressed.

'Just how badly am I injured that I can't even resist this kid's magic?'

Cecil looked down at his body and finally noticed the bandaging. He had been so out of it that he didn't even take the time to visually examine himself. From how overly bandaged he was, Cecil determined that his external injuries were just as bad as his internal ones.

When everyone saw him calm down a bit, the nurses and doctor tried to get closer only to see him close his eyes like he had fallen asleep. They couldn't understand what he was doing, but in the next instant, Cecil's wounds began bleeding and he spat out some blood.

'Shit, I still can't circulate my mana?'

"Doctor, do something!" Stella cried out once she saw Cecil spitting up blood and the wounds on his body opening up and bleeding again.

"R-right!"

The doctor and the nurses were about to approach him again but Cecil stopped them with a furious wave of his hand.

"Graahhhh!!"

They didn't understand what he meant by that but they quickly stopped when they saw Cecil acting all hostile. Of course, with Stella there, it wasn't like he could do anything to them.

'Do these people not know who I am? They actually just let this girl use magic on me! I can't believe this. Also, this girl, this is the first time I'm seeing her. How could there be such a talented individual in the kingdom that I didn't know of?' Cecil thought to himself.

He already tolerated their disrespect once but now they wanted to interfere in him trying to heal himself. That was not something he could tolerate despite him knowing that they meant well. Cecil decided that he would settle with them later once his family came back. For now, he had to focus on recovering his injuries.

Cecil closed his eyes and this time, instead of moving his mana, he tried to move his Ki. The result was almost the same as earlier, but this time, he didn't cough up blood due to his circulation going haywire.

He didn't try circulating his Ki but instead, he moved his Ki into his circuits little by little to slowly heal them. This was what he had been doing during his entire meditation but Cecil felt a little odd that the recovery rate was so slow.

When the doctor and the 2 nurses saw Cecil just sit there cross-legged on the bed without moving they thought about approaching him again, but Stella immediately stopped them.

"Wait!"

"Miss, why? He's bleeding out as we speak!"

"Hold on, he's doing something interesting."

Unlike the doctor and the 2 nurses, Stella was a superhuman and she was able to detect the unknown energy that Cecil was trying to move inside his body. She wasn't exactly sure what this energy was, but she could feel the healing properties it had and this led her to believe one thing, this young man was a superhuman just like her.

"All of you get out. I'll stay here to monitor his condition. It seems he does not need any medical help."

"Miss Stella, are you sure?" The doctor asked.

"Yes, this person is a superhuman like me. He seems to also have a healing ability so let him heal himself. I'll keep my eyes on him."

"...Okay."

Once the doctor and the two nurses left the room, Stella pulled over a chair with her psychokinesis and sat down. She then turned her attention back onto Cecil and eyed him very curiously.

"This guy...he's actually a superhuman like me, huh? I wonder how he fell through that portal and ended up in this horrid state.���