Chapter 147
Sitting in the valley, Michelle felt the exhaustion hitting her, but she knew she couldn’t fall asleep. If she did fall asleep, she could end up sleeping for maybe even a month or more. And although she could afford it time-wise, before that, she had to at least explain to everyone what had happened in the cave, or they would just pointlessly panic if they couldn’t wake her up.
As the darkness in the valley slowly retreated as the sun rose behind the horizon, Michelle could hear movements around the campfire. She wasn’t looking that way, but she could guess that the one who woke up was Ivona. She was a light element Spirit Master, so with the concentration of light element spirit energy increasing with the dawn, she sensed it and woke up.
But Michelle was sure that Ivona wasn’t the first to wake up. Nyxaroth must have already woken up a while ago since he possessed dark element spirit energy, but as he was most of the time in the form of black mist, Michelle had no way of hearing him when he moved. And as her other senses were dulled from exhaustion, she couldn’t even feel his presence behind her.
"Michelle?!" Ivona was pleasantly surprised to see Michelle sitting close by. "When did you get here?" she asked and quickly looked around, seeing Mare sleeping next to Cold Flame.
Turning to look at Ivona, Michelle smiled a bit. "I’ll explain when everyone gets up," she said lazily, a long yawn leaving her mouth. She really felt like sleeping, but she had to wait for a while longer.
Instantly noticing the paleness on Michelle’s face, even though it was already better compared to when she had just left the cave, Ivona understood that something must have happened, so she quickly got up, and, one by one, she started shaking everyone awake.
After a while, everyone was sitting in a circle around Michelle, staring at her suspiciously.
"Michelle, how did you get so pale?!" Snow asked with a frown before Michelle could even open her mouth. "Don’t tell me you did something reckless in the cave!"
Hearing that, Michelle felt her eyebrow twitch a bit. Did she really seem like a reckless person in Snow’s eyes? Why was it that no one else seemed to think that way?