Chapter 52 (1/2)

Chapter 52 Heart of Fire

Roland knocked on the door, and when he heard Nightingale’s response he entered the room

The s in the room were closed and had thick curtains They were only open during the earlyto let in fresh air At any other time the ere closed to keep the room warm

The only light in the room came from two candles at the end of the bed The candles burned quietly and threw out hout the room

Roland went towards the bed Seeing that the wo still had her eyes closed, he sighed softly

“Is Border Town’s defense still holding?” asked Nightingale while co him a cup of tea

“At thes a save her the cup back, “Froroup of demonic beasts like last time hasn’t attacked us Also, all of our injured ht Their fighting passion has becoh”

“What is with the daed part of the city wall?”

“Karl rolled logs under the carapace of the mixed beast to move it towards the hole in the wall There, he will use a capstan to get it up and use a wooden fra it a part of the city wall,” Roland knew that Nightingale was trying to distract hi him, so that he wouldn’t worry himself too much However, when he stepped into the room, all his attention would always stay on the wo in bed

If we say that the last tie scale invasion we obtained a victory worthy of pride, there is no doubt that the biggest contributor for the victory was Anna If she hadn’t used her wall of flaap in the wall, the consequences would really have been unthinkable

However, she hadn’t woken up since she fainted in his arms

“It has already been one week,” whispered Roland

Theoretically, if a person laid in a coma for one ithout food or water, with no possibility of supplying her with nutrition through external measures ,such as injection, the body’s functions will shut down and the brain will gradually go into shock and die However, Anna did not have any signs of poor health – in fact her appearance noas better than when she fell into Roland’s ar was smooth, and when Roland put his hand on her forehead he could feel that she had a nor showed that Anna was at full health, but … she wouldn’t wake up

“This is also the first tiale stood at Roland’s side, shaking her head while explaining, “She depleted all her ic power s already at the point of saturation, even more rich than it has been in the past If I did not calculate it wrong, today at ht will be her day of adulthood”

“Do youto be an adult while in a coma?”

“No, she will die while in a coale said bluntly, “Youon your day of adulthood If your resistance is broken, the bite of the witch’s ic poill irreversibly destroy her body”

Roland moved a chair next to the bed and sat down, “I reic backslash, no matter how painful it becomes, you will always stay conscious and clear-headed Either you will be able to cross this hurdle or you will choose to terminate your life”

“Indeed, it is exactly like this Within the Witch Cooperation association we also had so unconscious when passing through the bite of the evil spirit … only having to bear the torale hesitated but then continued, “she said that she relied on alcheless … when the ic without any chance to resist”

“The pain does not slowly increase?”

“No When your ti, but how long you have to resist varies froh, but …” she trailed off

Roland understood what shethey had to suffer the pain was already a kind of torture in itself, not knowing how long they have to resist – it was si on an abandoned shi+p in the ive up the desire to live on

During the moment of silence, Roland felt a hand on his shoulder

“During my homeless and miserable years, I had seen too ed, burned, or tortured to death just for the entertainment of the nobility The only way for a witch to survive was to live far away fro a cloistered life I do not knohere the Holy Mountain is located, but in our hearts it is an unattainable paradise” Nightingale’s voice became softer than it had ever been in the past “but Anna is different In addition to the help we sisters can give her, I have never seen so so concerned about a witch as you She is needed by people, she is valued and treated like a norh her adulthood yet, but she has already found her Holy Mountain”

However, this was not the outcome Roland had hoped for He closed his eyes, and recalled the scene when he had meet her

She was barefoot, and was only wearing tattered clothes She had been living in a cage, but there was not the slightest hint of fear in her face Her eyes resembled an unpolluted lake surface, clear and calm

She was the fla like a flame