Chapter 86: Promotion
"Ah."
Arthur groaned faintly and very slowly opened his eyes, but he couldn’t see clearly due to the fogginess of his mind and senses.
"What happened? Did I lose consciousness?" he muttered softly, then sighed heavily. "All I remember is collapsing from the hellish pain I felt."
Without panicking or feeling irritated, he slowly waited for clarity to return, and after a few minutes, his vision regained its sharpness. That’s when he saw the familiar ceiling of his room and stared at it for a moment.
But then he suddenly frowned and muttered, "Wait, this corner is above my bed. I don’t remember moving from my spot... Could someone have carried me?"
As soon as he thought that, he turned his head with difficulty and looked around, and that’s when he saw his loyal maid, Octavia, asleep on a chair beside his bed.
Seeing her gentle face, with slightly swollen eyes, gave him a strange feeling, but he didn’t focus on it. He examined his surroundings carefully and found that the place looked a bit different most of his alchemical tools had been gathered in one area.
"What happened while I was unconscious?" He wanted to ask Octavia but decided not to wake her.
With great slowness, he moved, feeling a faint pain in his abdomen, but he didn’t care. He sat up and asked the system, ’How did the mana core transplant go?’
He waited a moment but received no response, and the familiar screen did not appear.
"Wait, what’s going on?" he felt some anxiety and asked again, "System, show status window."
Naturally, he could summon his personal status window just by thinking, but voice commands were often more effective.