Chapter 199 - An Expert (1/2)
When Ray awoke, he noticed that his surroundings were different from what he last remembered.
”This isn't the cellar?”
Ray was in a large fancy room that was decorated with several paintings and ornaments. When he looked down, he noticed he was under silk sheets, a luxury only the rich could afford.
”Ray your awake?” Gary said. ”Just stay down, your safe here for now but the first thing you need to do Ray is cover your arms.”
Ray then looked at his arms and he noticed his transform skill had gone. Now his hands showed scaled markings and fins at the side of his forearms. Ray immediately used his transform skill and returned them to human appearance.
Gary looked away but Ray could tell his curiosity inside was killing him.
”You want to know, don't you?” Ray said.
”What me! of course not,” Gary said nervously.
Of course, Gary was curious about Ray. When Ray collapsed in the cellar the transformation skill had immediately deactivated, revealing Ray's true form. At first, Gary was shocked but whatever Ray was, it didn't matter, Ray had saved Gary's life.
”What happened? Where is Jack? Where are we?” Ray asked.
”Whoa calm down with the questions, one at a time.” Gary replied, ”We're currently inside the castle located at the centre of Kelberg.”
”You mean?”
”That's right, we're currently in the Mayor's house, more well more specifically in the Mayor's daughter's room. You remember that girl that was in the cellar with us, well her name is Lilly and she's the mayor's daughter. She came back to help us.”
Then another thought came to Ray, it was fine if Gary had seen his arms but what about Lilly. Ray touched his arms.
”Don't worry, before she came back, I made sure your arms were covered, she didn't see anything, only me.”
”What about the Demon man?”
”He escaped, after you touched his head and collapsed on the ground, the Demon man managed to free himself from the Chains, he looked weak but when Berg, Lilly's guard tried attacking him he was blown away with a single swing of his hammer. The man quickly left after that and that's when they decided to bring you here.”
”and Jack?”
”I thought it would be best if he stayed in the city, see if he could get any information about the man while we were stuck in here. You've been out for a week you know.”
”A whole week!” Ray said surprised.
Just then Lilly carefully opened the door to her room and closed it quickly behind her.
”Finally, I got away from those guys,” Lilly said. ”Oh, he's finally awake, you must be a bit tired, how about a bath, I have one just in the other room.”
”I'm sorry but I'm afraid we must go!” Ray said as he lifted the silk sheets and tried to lift his body from the bed but he was groggy and immediately fell to the floor.
”Ray, don't move man! you haven't moved in a week and you're doing this.”
”Silly boys,” Lilly said, ”can never admit when you need to rest, stay here until dinner and see how you feel, when you're all better you can decide to leave today or tomorrow.”