Chapter 148: Good will
Delivering his ultimatum, Percy doubted Sol would accept his terms. He’d made a whole lot of demands, promising very little in return. It wasn’t like he could help it though. After all, he couldn’t give her much in his current state. Any favours from his end would have to wait until he recovered.
Surprisingly, the girl agreed – against all odds.
‘I guess she’s serious about making the most of her trait.’
Either way, this appeared to be quite a novel experience for them both. Percy could tell his host wasn’t used to swallowing her pride and working with others. Meanwhile, this was a first for him too, as he was stuck in one place, unable to interact with the world around him. Without access to the girl’s senses, he couldn’t see what her house was like, or how big her town or city was. Hell, Percy still had no idea what the locals even looked like, or how they used their soul mana.
‘All the more reason to come back then…’
While their initial interaction had been a little rocky, he didn’t hold it against the girl. Percy could tell she was rather young too – maybe in her mid-teens? In any case, he very much intended to uphold his end of the deal, returning to this place the first chance he got. After all, there was plenty of value to be gained here. Of course, that was assuming he managed to return to Remior first…
Sadly, their results in that area were rather mixed. At Yellow, Sol was among the most magically gifted class of natives, so there was hardly a better place to find soul mana than right inside her core. Despite that, it was already a struggle for her to prevent Percy’s condition from deteriorating further, let alone helping him recover.
‘I don’t think my clones were ever meant to heal on their own…’ he thought bitterly.
The severed chunks of his soul he crafted his clones out of weren’t exactly dead, but they couldn’t be considered alive either. His bloodline allowed them to survive for an extended period of time on their own, yet repairing the isolated wisps outside his body was a tall order. Both Sol and her father – Mi, as he’d come to learn – were currently working together to that end. They were focusing their efforts, fighting an uphill battle to fix Percy’s soul faster than it broke.