Chapter 132: Recovery
Arabella was wide-eyed when all the newly knighted Safirans groaned in pain a few seconds after they drank the potion Alwin gave them.
Bernardo covered his face with one hand and gritted his teeth in pain.
Miguel and Manuel held their arms that had been cut to the elbow. They bit the collar of their clothes to muffle their groan.
The others also held at various parts of their body as they groaned and writhed in pain; some even fell to their knees.
"What’s happening?!" Arabella asked in alarm looking back and forth between Ferdinand and Alwin for explanation.
"Some of their injuries from monsters were riddled with toxins and miasma. It’s rather a wonder they are all still alive despite their bodies already poisoned this much. It seems they have gained some resistance to it but their bodies are still in danger," Alwin explained.
Bernardo and his men were shocked about this. They did not even know about it. Yet, Alwin knew without having to examine them.
Arabella learned from Alwin and Ferdinand’s thoughts though that they could see the miasma from wounds that the monsters inflicted even if it had closed and were just scars now. It wasn’t visible to human eyes but was easy to spot for them.
[This must be due to the dryad’s power protecting them. If she can still protect them from afar, they must be her kin.] Ferdinand thought.
’Her kin?’ Arabella blinked repeatedly wondering if it meant the dryad was an ancestor of the Safirans.
It meant Nadia and everyone in Safiro had the blood of the long-lived races. But since Safirans had the lifespan of normal humans, Arabella figured it must have been a long time ago.