Chapter 1451: The Spider and Rot
Cerilla and Jasmine came out first, followed by Grace, Merida, Dalla, and D. Plum was the last to show up, and she landed right on Arad’s head as she did before. For a second, she froze in place, sniffing the air. "Smells like blood."
Plum looked around, noticing the terrified face on everyone except Mathilde in the back, and she looked down at Arad below her.
Arad usually healed in seconds after getting hurt and never needed to carry his wounds for long, but now, he was still wounded. Sitting like a bear, while his torso and legs were all slashed to the bone, dripping blood as he bandaged them. With one glance, she could count more than thirty gaping gashes on his arm alone.
Seeing Arad wounded like that reminded her of the time when Mary told her about how she met Arad in the wild lands of Yog’s world. He was severely injured with a massive hole in his chest, and still boxed a bear. She doubts Mary had seen that, but apparently it was the story the adventurers who met him told her.
If a human showed with as many wounds as Arad now had, they would’ve been long dead from blood loss.
"What did happen?!" Plum gasped and flew down, looking at Arad’s face, his massive chest, and wide shoulders. "It looks like you’ve been mauled by a bear!"
"I’ll be fine. The wounds inflicted by the threads of space are hard to heal because of their nature. The spot itself is unstable, and it’ll take a while to stabilize." He reached into one of his wounds with a finger, and the tip of his finger got cut.
Merida approached, looked at his wounds, and then looked back at Cerilla. "You’re the warlock of Sylph, can’t you cast any healing magic?"
Cerilla looked at Arad’s wounds, wondering why he didn’t heal himself with Kali’s divine magic.
"Arad." Cerilla approached, "Did you try Kali’s divine magic?"