Chapter 69
[Sanguine Renewal’s Rank has increased to 4.
+1 Skill Point. You have 14 Skill Points.]
It was a difficult, painful, and loud process, but Zeth eventually got the two bodies of his enemies down into his base, dragging them over to the staircase and shoving them down the steps.
As he kicked them down each step of the spiral stairs, holding onto his aching neck whose stab wound had still far from healed, he slowly approached the bottom. The bodies tumbled to the stone floor, echoing out loud thumps and splatters along the way.
As he leaned against the wall and caught his breath, he heard another voice—though this one he thankfully recognized.
“Zeth?” Astrys called from the main room.
He tried to shout back to her, “In here,” but what came out of his mouth was a garbled cough, followed by an intense stinging in the inside of his throat. He winced, taking a shaky breath as the pain throbbed all through his windpipe. Right. Stab wound.
“Zeth?” she called again. “Was that you?”
He heard footsteps approach the entryway, then watched as Astrys’s eyes peered out from around a corner, clearly on-guard.