Chapter 1136
The hole was a clear blemish in the old woman’s basement, but Abder much preferred it to being a charred corpse. Of course, fixing it was the best option. Moving aside the boards that might not actually stop someone from stumbling into the hole, Abder began to drop down. “I’ll head down first. Somewhere down here the barrier undercuts the city and we don’t want you stumbling into that.”
“Wait, you were outside?” Karl looked at him incredulously.
Abder gestured to his whole body. “How did you think I ended up like this, huh?”
“... Fire cultivators?”
“And the stab wounds?”
Karl furrowed his brow. “I’m gonna be honest and say I can’t really tell that’s what those were. Uh, I do need all this stone. Isn’t the barrier pretty far down? Maybe I should just seal stuff up here.”
“I brought a storage bag for the chunks,” Abder said, wrapping the opening of said bag around the stone he’d cracked apart. “Most of it ended up in the tunnel behind me, since I didn’t really have a better option. Anything outside the barrier will probably reform but I figured we shouldn’t leave huge gaps.”
Karl frowned as he saw Abder lifting heavy chunks of stone. “As long as you’re fine doing all that. I can’t really lift stuff right now, with my ribs. Should you be moving?”
“My muscles are mostly intact,” Abder explained. “Just some damage to my pecs on this side but I can use one arm just fine.” Or he could hook things with his foot. Even if he couldn’t grip things, balancing anything was simple enough.