230 Dick fan club (1/2)

After the fight with Pseudonym, Helial had been brought back to life and had spent a period of rehabilitation short enough, by the standards of a normal person.

Helial had not been able to train for several weeks and this had made him feel helpless as he had not felt for some time: he felt perhaps worse than when, due to his almost non-existent Statistics, he hadn't been able to erect stable walls for the houses he tried to build during the night on the edge of his village.

Luckily Lumia had been by his side the whole time he had stayed in bed and had given him loving care. Obviously, he had tried several times to kiss him, without ever succeeding.

Now that Helial had recovered, he felt more regenerated than ever, full of strength and fighting spirit, but he wanted more. The boy was now circling in the air, closely followed by countless white flames. On his way, along with the bonfires, several runic frameworks formed; they seemed to come out of nowhere, as if they were hidden before activating them.

Jump after jump, Helial got higher and higher, up to the clouds. He was really a Qilin who dominating the sky.

But it was not enough.

He looked at his Mental Energy.

Mental Energy2.853/210.324”Shit.”

He let himself fall at full speed, ignoring the wind that lashed at his face.

He was several thousand meters high in the sky and was now plummeting straight down to the ground. If he hadn't slowed down, he would have hit the ground like an insect on the glass of a closed window.

While in free fall, he felt unconstrained and in control. He fully enjoyed that feeling. He wouldn't have wasted even one of the last seconds before stopping his dangerous descent.

Helial was fully enjoying all those sensations, now amplified tenfold. After the clash with Pseudonym, there was something new inside his soul. It looked like that the warrior in black armour was unreachable for everyone, but Helial had danced in the sky with him, in a legendary clash. Their duel would have been told and retold for centuries by the few who had seen it, remembered as the first in a long series.

The young man hoped he could meet Pseudonym as soon as possible in order to fight him again; at the mere thought, the adrenaline began to flow into his body and to cross every blood vessel. But now that Pseudonym was far away, nobody knew in which remote corner of the planet, it would have been difficult for Helial to find him: he did not know his features and the only one who had the honor of seeing his face was Iblis. However, the Devil had promised to help him.

Helial got lost many times retracing the memories of that clash, searching every detail of their struggle with impressive precision, the precise and lethal movements of his enemy, even his smell of steel and blood.

Helial remembered the smell of Pseudonym's blood.

However little he had lost, the idea of being able to hurt him gave him a strange feeling.

While training, developing new skills and strategies, he had never met someone who could shock him so much.

Sometimes he even stopped to think that if Pseudonym had been a woman, he probably would have already fallen in love. Unfortunately, Helial wasn't in the dick fan club.

On the other hand, Circe had begun to move his heart, and some other bits too.

The Witch of Orma had been able to enchant him first with her handsome figure, then with her aggressive ways.

Still, Helial knew well how much Circe hated to be in Orma at the time.

Within the walls of Orma, Circe was a goddess. Still, she was a prisoner of a golden cage.

And even in there, this goddess always had someone to clash with.

Without middle ground, who was weaker was too weak for her, who was stronger was too strong.

As strong as her desire to grow and improve could be, Circe's future had been practically sabotaged by Orma's political condition; although the Goblins did not control a large territory and had many enemies, if the Witch had gone too far and entered the radar of her father's opponents, she would have risked a lot.

That was why Big and Roxy had stopped her from traveling alone.