Chapter 6
Zeth slept for about eighteen hours.
He went to bed soon after reuniting with his mom and sister, which was around midday, and awoke the next morning. For a moment he had the irrational urge to check if it had somehow been another four months, but when he left his room, he was greeted by his mom eating breakfast, notably not looking like he’d been missing for another third of a year.
“Are you feeling okay?” she asked. “You were asleep for a while. We don’t need to call a Healer, do we?”
“No, no, I’m fine,” he said, taking a step toward the door to leave. His plan was to go to the library today to do some research on all of this unknown Class stuff, so—
“I still haven’t been able to ask you, what happened?” his mom asked, interrupting his movements. “You said you were stuck in that cave-in?”
He stopped and turned to her. “Uh, yeah, that’s pretty much it. I eventually found my way out through a natural cave.”
“There weren’t any monsters in it, were there? I’ve heard closed-off cave systems often have portals naturally form within them, so the guild has to call in soldiers to fight off infestations all the time.”
He shook his head. “No. I guess I got lucky.”
He still hadn’t gone in-depth about what had happened in the cave, though he had told them the basics. But talking about the specific details…What could he even say about the Blood Magus Class? He didn’t know the first thing about it, and didn’t know if he’d be executed upon speaking his first word regarding owning it, either.