Chapter 64: Despair (3)
Adrian’s bloodshot eyes slowly opened. He finally gained consciousness, but that was the end of good news for him. From what little vision he had left from his puffy eyes, all he saw was blood.
Slowly, Adrian began assessing his situation, and it wasn’t bad... it was horrendous. He couldn’t feel either of his hands, his head hurt like he was caught between two wrecking balls, and there were countless other wounds on his body that he couldn’t bother about.
’Why isn’t any... wound healing...’
Adrian wondered what the troll blood in him was doing and got his answer when he looked down. He was pinned to a tree by a sword that had pierced through his heart. It seemed the entire attention of his troll blood was on healing the heart, but it was a losing situation.
As long as the sword was lodged in his chest, his heart wouldn’t heal enough for the blood to focus on healing the rest of his broken body. But he couldn’t pull the sword with his numb and busted hands and his hand won’t heal until he got rid of the sword.
It was a vicious circle of misfortune all around him.
But that wasn’t the end of his troubles. He got worse news when he used [Analysis] on the surroundings to see if something could help him. The hallucinogen that Red had used was about to disappear from the air.
When that happened, nothing would stop the creature of the night. To make things worse, the smell of Adrian’s blood would attract them, and given his state, it didn’t take a genius to figure out what would happen to him once the beasts reached him.
"Fu...ck..." Adrian mumbled in his groggy voice.
It wasn’t how he expected his second life to end, but he knew there wasn’t anything he could do in his situation. His only hope was that someone from the tribe would find him like Akila did. But Adrian knew it was just wishful thinking and nothing more.
As the situation looked grim, help arrived from the most unexpected place in the form of a system notification.