Chapter 47
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Hours had passed and I lose track of time. Minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days. I haven't been able to sleep but Lilith could. She was currently laying her head on my lap, sleeping lightly, waking up regularly.
When she did, she sulked and recasts her Flame Cloak spell to keep us warm but every time she would sleep, her spell waned and the cold seeped in like radiation.
She likely gave up and slept in the cold because she hasn't moved for a good while. She seemed peaceful as I gently combed my fingers through her hair. It was going well too until I moved my leg to keep it from going numb and she quickly jolts awake.
Steven: "You alright, Lilith?"
Lilith: "Wha—Where are we?"
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Her breath was labored and she had worked up a cold sweat.
Steven: "Still in the dungeon, are you alright?"
Lilith: "Yes, I just had a nightmare."
She sighed in relief and leans against the wall.
Steven: "You did? What was it about?"
Lilith: "You… were in a sword fight and lost. Madelyn tried to rescue you and she lost too, Rayna shouted and used explosion magic… I guess I woke up before anything else happened."
Steven: "No kidding?"
She looked to her own hands which were tremulous. Whatever nightmare she had, it must've been a really vivid one or worse than she's letting on to have her like that. Either way, I wanted her to calm down so I grab her hand.
Steven: "Lilith… look, I'm fine."
Lilith: "Your hands are warm."
She was worryingly cold and I threw my cardigan around her despite her protests. I wasn't going to have any of it if she's going to suffer from hypothermia.
Lilith: "Thank you."
I tried distracting ourselves with a much needed topic change.
Steven: "You get along well with Madelyn."
Lilith: "I do."
Steven: "And everyone else."
Lilith: "We all relate with each other?"
Steven: "How so?"
Lilith: "We're different from the norm. You and Madelyn, I don't need to explain that. Dai-tai and Niroja, 2 different races and they see each other as siblings? And Young Mi! A Wight that took them in and raised them!"
Steven: "Where does that leave you?"
Lilith: "Me? I guess I'm just a worthless bastard child… not even my father wanted me."
Steven: "What? You're not worthless. Your father never understood your value as a daughter."
Her eyes widened, slightly surprised. She turns her head and looks up to me.
Lilith: "Then what am I?"
Steven: "My friend; Madelyn's friend; Dai-tai's friend; Niroja too; and let's not forget Young Mi, you like hanging out with her."
Lilith: "Oh, I…"
She shyly buries her head into my chest.
Lilith: "Thank you…"
Steven: "You don't have to thank me."
It turned out that instead of being shy, she was crying softly.
I guess I never really got around to putting myself in her shoes. It's what we get when we try to kill each other.
Steven: "Shh~ it's okay."
Captor #1: "Now we're kidnapping people?"
Chatting on the other side quickly caught my attention and I rush to the door to make out what was going on. Lilith slowly came to my side still wiping away her tears but ready to do what was necessary to escape.
Captor #2: "We need money somehow and a ransom is pretty much a good bet. We get money, they go; we don't get money, they die."
Once I started hearing the door unlock, I pointed to the opposite end of the cell so Lilith knew where to go.
Captor #3: "Aplos tous skotoste idi. Den chreiazomaste na tous deixoume ena soma."
(Just kill them already. We don't need to show them anything.)
Captor #2: "Ti skyla tous Diefthyntria einai pragmatika syneti. Den tha echoume tipota an emeis skotose tous
(Their bitch Headmistress is really prudent. We will have nothing if we do kill them.)
When the door opened, it opened outward and I hugged the wall as closely as I could to avoid getting spotted. One of the captors came in with a baton and started to slowly pace towards Lilith, not noticing me.
When I struck, I was quick about it and brought him down with a hook across the head as hard as possible. A thunderous crack echoed throughout the cell and he fell to the floor, motionless.
Lilith: "Oh my… did you just…"
What I feared came true: I hit him so hard that I killed him. It didn't really seem bad at first until I started to move him away from the door and left a small trail of his blood behind.
Steven: "I know, let's get out of here."
I don't even know my own strength!
We peeked outside the door and noticed the other captors had left. We moved aimlessly in one direction, the dimly lit hallways interconnected and created a maze. For at least 5 minutes worth of twisting and turning we finally come across a sort of lounge area.
There were 2 of them, both sitting at a table and playing cards, gambling with gold coins.
Lilith: "I see another door past them, what do we do?"
Steven: "You grab the one on the left, I'll get the other."
We had the element of surprise and used it. I grabbed my target into a chokehold while Lilith went on a more direct approach with hand to hand. The guy I was trying to choke fought back by piercing me repeatedly with his elbows and opened the opportunity to get out of my hold.
I was finally kicked in the shin and uses my arms to his advantage to swing me over him and slam me against the table. Giving up wasn't something I could do and I tried getting away when he breaks a chair over me and the table underneath.
It was too painful to move and Lilith quickly joined on the floor, bested in the fight. We forcibly dragged back down the hallways while being kicked and punched, ending back in our cell worse off than the last time.
Lilith: "I wasn't... expecting them to use martial arts. I guess we were lucky they didn't see the dead guy right next to them; it could've ended a lot worse."
She sits up holding her jaw, glancing over to me and seeing my badly bruised and bloodied body. Frantic, she rushes over to me and immediately began assessing my wounds.
Lilith: "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! You're bleeding everywhere!"
Steven: "Lilith… now, you can… use transportation..?"
Lilith: "What..? You want me to use Shadow Leap with your blood?!"
Steven: "And the other guy's blood."
Lilith: "A-alright!"
Anything was a good idea for an escape, and it just popped into my head. All this could've been avoided if I slowed down to think! Now that I was bleeding, it gave Lilith the opportunity to use her blood magic. It felt gruesome to have Lilith do this, and I'm more than sure neither of us is doing this willingly. It's necessary for our escape!
She eventually gets her spell to work and a portal to the dark void open. I was dragged by the collar and thrown into it, falling on my back, cracking even more bones in my body and making it very painful to breathe.
Steven: "Li-lith, it hurts~ it really hurts…"
Lilith: "Steven, you'll be fine, I can heal you!"
I felt my body slowly getting better, but it was still too little to do much. The only good thing that came out of this was the "pop" from nose fixing itself and I didn't even know my nose was broken!
Lilith: "I can't keep going or else I use too much magic and Shadow Leap fails. I don't know where we'll end up."
Steven: "Anywhere we land… we'd have escaped."
Lilith: "Eh?! You want me to keep going?"
Steven: "Yes!"
She continued using her healing spell and my pain gradually waned. I was mostly healed when Shadow Leap started becoming unstable, shaking violently and scaring us to the point where we started clinging to each other.
Lilith: "Ahh, I said this would happen!"
She casts a light spell so we can see what was going on.
Steven: "Alright, we'll be fine if we stick together!"
The floor cracked between us and forced us to separate. It was growing rapidly and I attempted to jump across it. I put all my strength into the jump but it wasn't enough to safely clear it and I barely catch myself on the ledge.
Lilith: "Steven!"
The ledge started to crumble as I frantically tried to pick myself up.
Steven: "Shiiiit~!"
I wasn't fast enough and started to fall further into the void…
Everything was pitch dark, and I could only hear the sound of the wind as I kept falling.
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Hours had passed and I lose track of time. Minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days. I haven't been able to sleep but Lilith could. She was currently laying her head on my lap, sleeping lightly, waking up regularly.
When she did, she sulked and recasts her Flame Cloak spell to keep us warm but every time she would sleep, her spell waned and the cold seeped in like radiation.
She likely gave up and slept in the cold because she hasn't moved for a good while. She seemed peaceful as I gently combed my fingers through her hair. It was going well too until I moved my leg to keep it from going numb and she quickly jolts awake.
Steven: "You alright, Lilith?"
Lilith: "Wha—Where are we?"
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Her breath was labored and she had worked up a cold sweat.
Steven: "Still in the dungeon, are you alright?"
Lilith: "Yes, I just had a nightmare."
She sighed in relief and leans against the wall.
Steven: "You did? What was it about?"
Lilith: "You… were in a sword fight and lost. Madelyn tried to rescue you and she lost too, Rayna shouted and used explosion magic… I guess I woke up before anything else happened."
Steven: "No kidding?"
She looked to her own hands which were tremulous. Whatever nightmare she had, it must've been a really vivid one or worse than she's letting on to have her like that. Either way, I wanted her to calm down so I grab her hand.
Steven: "Lilith… look, I'm fine."
Lilith: "Your hands are warm."
She was worryingly cold and I threw my cardigan around her despite her protests. I wasn't going to have any of it if she's going to suffer from hypothermia.
Lilith: "Thank you."
I tried distracting ourselves with a much needed topic change.
Steven: "You get along well with Madelyn."
Lilith: "I do."
Steven: "And everyone else."
Lilith: "We all relate with each other?"
Steven: "How so?"
Lilith: "We're different from the norm. You and Madelyn, I don't need to explain that. Dai-tai and Niroja, 2 different races and they see each other as siblings? And Young Mi! A Wight that took them in and raised them!"
Steven: "Where does that leave you?"
Lilith: "Me? I guess I'm just a worthless bastard child… not even my father wanted me."
Steven: "What? You're not worthless. Your father never understood your value as a daughter."
Her eyes widened, slightly surprised. She turns her head and looks up to me.
Lilith: "Then what am I?"
Steven: "My friend; Madelyn's friend; Dai-tai's friend; Niroja too; and let's not forget Young Mi, you like hanging out with her."
Lilith: "Oh, I…"
She shyly buries her head into my chest.
Lilith: "Thank you…"
Steven: "You don't have to thank me."
It turned out that instead of being shy, she was crying softly.
I guess I never really got around to putting myself in her shoes. It's what we get when we try to kill each other.
Steven: "Shh~ it's okay."
Captor #1: "Now we're kidnapping people?"
Chatting on the other side quickly caught my attention and I rush to the door to make out what was going on. Lilith slowly came to my side still wiping away her tears but ready to do what was necessary to escape.
Captor #2: "We need money somehow and a ransom is pretty much a good bet. We get money, they go; we don't get money, they die."
Once I started hearing the door unlock, I pointed to the opposite end of the cell so Lilith knew where to go.
Captor #3: "Aplos tous skotoste idi. Den chreiazomaste na tous deixoume ena soma."
(Just kill them already. We don't need to show them anything.)
Captor #2: "Ti skyla tous Diefthyntria einai pragmatika syneti. Den tha echoume tipota an emeis skotose tous
(Their bitch Headmistress is really prudent. We will have nothing if we do kill them.)
When the door opened, it opened outward and I hugged the wall as closely as I could to avoid getting spotted. One of the captors came in with a baton and started to slowly pace towards Lilith, not noticing me.
When I struck, I was quick about it and brought him down with a hook across the head as hard as possible. A thunderous crack echoed throughout the cell and he fell to the floor, motionless.
Lilith: "Oh my… did you just…"
What I feared came true: I hit him so hard that I killed him. It didn't really seem bad at first until I started to move him away from the door and left a small trail of his blood behind.
Steven: "I know, let's get out of here."
I don't even know my own strength!
We peeked outside the door and noticed the other captors had left. We moved aimlessly in one direction, the dimly lit hallways interconnected and created a maze. For at least 5 minutes worth of twisting and turning we finally come across a sort of lounge area.
There were 2 of them, both sitting at a table and playing cards, gambling with gold coins.
Lilith: "I see another door past them, what do we do?"
Steven: "You grab the one on the left, I'll get the other."
We had the element of surprise and used it. I grabbed my target into a chokehold while Lilith went on a more direct approach with hand to hand. The guy I was trying to choke fought back by piercing me repeatedly with his elbows and opened the opportunity to get out of my hold.
I was finally kicked in the shin and uses my arms to his advantage to swing me over him and slam me against the table. Giving up wasn't something I could do and I tried getting away when he breaks a chair over me and the table underneath.
It was too painful to move and Lilith quickly joined on the floor, bested in the fight. We forcibly dragged back down the hallways while being kicked and punched, ending back in our cell worse off than the last time.
Lilith: "I wasn't... expecting them to use martial arts. I guess we were lucky they didn't see the dead guy right next to them; it could've ended a lot worse."
She sits up holding her jaw, glancing over to me and seeing my badly bruised and bloodied body. Frantic, she rushes over to me and immediately began assessing my wounds.
Lilith: "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! You're bleeding everywhere!"
Steven: "Lilith… now, you can… use transportation..?"
Lilith: "What..? You want me to use Shadow Leap with your blood?!"
Steven: "And the other guy's blood."
Lilith: "A-alright!"
Anything was a good idea for an escape, and it just popped into my head. All this could've been avoided if I slowed down to think! Now that I was bleeding, it gave Lilith the opportunity to use her blood magic. It felt gruesome to have Lilith do this, and I'm more than sure neither of us is doing this willingly. It's necessary for our escape!
She eventually gets her spell to work and a portal to the dark void open. I was dragged by the collar and thrown into it, falling on my back, cracking even more bones in my body and making it very painful to breathe.
Steven: "Li-lith, it hurts~ it really hurts…"
Lilith: "Steven, you'll be fine, I can heal you!"
I felt my body slowly getting better, but it was still too little to do much. The only good thing that came out of this was the "pop" from nose fixing itself and I didn't even know my nose was broken!
Lilith: "I can't keep going or else I use too much magic and Shadow Leap fails. I don't know where we'll end up."
Steven: "Anywhere we land… we'd have escaped."
Lilith: "Eh?! You want me to keep going?"
Steven: "Yes!"
She continued using her healing spell and my pain gradually waned. I was mostly healed when Shadow Leap started becoming unstable, shaking violently and scaring us to the point where we started clinging to each other.
Lilith: "Ahh, I said this would happen!"
She casts a light spell so we can see what was going on.
Steven: "Alright, we'll be fine if we stick together!"
The floor cracked between us and forced us to separate. It was growing rapidly and I attempted to jump across it. I put all my strength into the jump but it wasn't enough to safely clear it and I barely catch myself on the ledge.
Lilith: "Steven!"
The ledge started to crumble as I frantically tried to pick myself up.
Steven: "Shiiiit~!"
I wasn't fast enough and started to fall further into the void…
Everything was pitch dark, and I could only hear the sound of the wind as I kept falling.
Hours had passed and I lose track of time. Minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days. I haven't been able to sleep but Lilith could. She was currently laying her head on my lap, sleeping lightly, waking up regularly.When she did, she sulked and recasts her Flame Cloak spell to keep us warm but every time she would sleep, her spell waned and the cold seeped in like radiation.She likely gave up and slept in the cold because she hasn't moved for a good while. She seemed peaceful as I gently combed my fingers through her hair. It was going well too until I moved my leg to keep it from going numb and she quickly jolts awake.Steven: "You alright, Lilith?"Lilith: "WhaWhere are we?"Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Her breath was labored and she had worked up a cold sweat.Steven: "Still in the dungeon, are you alright?"Lilith: "Yes, I just had a nightmare."She sighed in relief and leans against the wall.Steven: "You did? What was it about?"Lilith: "You were in a sword fight and lost. Madelyn tried to rescue you and she lost too, Rayna shouted and used explosion magic I guess I woke up before anything else happened."Steven: "No kidding?"She looked to her own hands which were tremulous. Whatever nightmare she had, it must've been a really vivid one or worse than she's letting on to have her like that. Either way, I wanted her to calm down so I grab her hand.Steven: "Lilith look, I'm fine."Lilith: "Your hands are warm."She was worryingly cold and I threw my cardigan around her despite her protests. I wasn't going to have any of it if she's going to suffer from hypothermia.Lilith: "Thank you."I tried distracting ourselves with a much needed topic change.Steven: "You get along well with Madelyn."Lilith: "I do."Steven: "And everyone else."Lilith: "We all relate with each other?"Steven: "How so?"Lilith: "We're different from the norm. You and Madelyn, I don't need to explain that. Dai-tai and Niroja, 2 different races and they see each other as siblings? And Young Mi! A Wight that took them in and raised them!"Steven: "Where does that leave you?"Lilith: "Me? I guess I'm just a worthless bastard child not even my father wanted me."Steven: "What? You're not worthless. Your father never understood your value as a daughter."Her eyes widened, slightly surprised. She turns her head and looks up to me.Lilith: "Then what am I?"Steven: "My friend; Madelyn's friend; Dai-tai's friend; Niroja too; and let's not forget Young Mi, you like hanging out with her."Lilith: "Oh, I"She shyly buries her head into my chest.Lilith: "Thank you"Steven: "You don't have to thank me."It turned out that instead of being shy, she was crying softly.I guess I never really got around to putting myself in her shoes. It's what we get when we try to kill each other.Steven: "Shh~ it's okay."Captor #1: "Now we're kidnapping people?"Chatting on the other side quickly caught my attention and I rush to the door to make out what was going on. Lilith slowly came to my side still wiping away her tears but ready to do what was necessary to escape.Captor #2: "We need money somehow and a ransom is pretty much a good bet. We get money, they go; we don't get money, they die."Once I started hearing the door unlock, I pointed to the opposite end of the cell so Lilith knew where to go.Captor #3: "Aplos tous skotoste idi. Den chreiazomaste na tous deixoume ena soma."Just kill them already. We don't need to show them anything.Captor #2: "Ti skyla tous Diefthyntria einai pragmatika syneti. Den tha echoume tipota an emeis skotose tousTheir bitch Headmistress is really prudent. We will have nothing if we do kill them.When the door opened, it opened outward and I hugged the wall as closely as I could to avoid getting spotted. One of the captors came in with a baton and started to slowly pace towards Lilith, not noticing me.When I struck, I was quick about it and brought him down with a hook across the head as hard as possible. A thunderous crack echoed throughout the cell and he fell to the floor, motionless.Lilith: "Oh my did you just"What I feared came true: I hit him so hard that I killed him. It didn't really seem bad at first until I started to move him away from the door and left a small trail of his blood behind.Steven: "I know, let's get out of here."I don't even know my own strength!We peeked outside the door and noticed the other captors had left. We moved aimlessly in one direction, the dimly lit hallways interconnected and created a maze. For at least 5 minutes worth of twisting and turning we finally come across a sort of lounge area.There were 2 of them, both sitting at a table and playing cards, gambling with gold coins.Lilith: "I see another door past them, what do we do?"Steven: "You grab the one on the left, I'll get the other."We had the element of surprise and used it. I grabbed my target into a chokehold while Lilith went on a more direct approach with hand to hand. The guy I was trying to choke fought back by piercing me repeatedly with his elbows and opened the opportunity to get out of my hold.I was finally kicked in the shin and uses my arms to his advantage to swing me over him and slam me against the table. Giving up wasn't something I could do and I tried getting away when he breaks a chair over me and the table underneath.It was too painful to move and Lilith quickly joined on the floor, bested in the fight. We forcibly dragged back down the hallways while being kicked and punched, ending back in our cell worse off than the last time.Lilith: "I wasn't... expecting them to use martial arts. I guess we were lucky they didn't see the dead guy right next to them; it could've ended a lot worse."She sits up holding her jaw, glancing over to me and seeing my badly bruised and bloodied body. Frantic, she rushes over to me and immediately began assessing my wounds.Lilith: "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! You're bleeding everywhere!"Steven: "Lilith now, you can use transportation..?"Lilith: "What..? You want me to use Shadow Leap with your blood?!"Steven: "And the other guy's blood."Lilith: "A-alright!"Anything was a good idea for an escape, and it just popped into my head. All this could've been avoided if I slowed down to think! Now that I was bleeding, it gave Lilith the opportunity to use her blood magic. It felt gruesome to have Lilith do this, and I'm more than sure neither of us is doing this willingly. It's necessary for our escape!She eventually gets her spell to work and a portal to the dark void open. I was dragged by the collar and thrown into it, falling on my back, cracking even more bones in my body and making it very painful to breathe.Steven: "Li-lith, it hurts~ it really hurts"Lilith: "Steven, you'll be fine, I can heal you!"I felt my body slowly getting better, but it was still too little to do much. The only good thing that came out of this was the "pop" from nose fixing itself and I didn't even know my nose was broken!Lilith: "I can't keep going or else I use too much magic and Shadow Leap fails. I don't know where we'll end up."Steven: "Anywhere we land we'd have escaped."Lilith: "Eh?! You want me to keep going?"Steven: "Yes!"She continued using her healing spell and my pain gradually waned. I was mostly healed when Shadow Leap started becoming unstable, shaking violently and scaring us to the point where we started clinging to each other.Lilith: "Ahh, I said this would happen!"She casts a light spell so we can see what was going on.Steven: "Alright, we'll be fine if we stick together!"The floor cracked between us and forced us to separate. It was growing rapidly and I attempted to jump across it. I put all my strength into the jump but it wasn't enough to safely clear it and I barely catch myself on the ledge.Lilith: "Steven!"The ledge started to crumble as I frantically tried to pick myself up.Steven: "Shiiiit~!"I wasn't fast enough and started to fall further into the voidEverything was pitch dark, and I could only hear the sound of the wind as I kept falling.
