Chapter 398 - 348 : Blindfolded (2/2)

After making a short trip South of the West Continent to check on the undead, he swiftly traveled to Earth. His trip only stayed there for four hours, at most, nonetheless, he became a professional tomb raider.

He possessed every skeleton in the graveyards. He didn't have much time to possess everyone but he focused on famous doctors and physicians.

He needed to be acknowledgeable about things like that as they are much needed in the near future. He ended up possessing 641 doctors and 89 Physicians. The skills he got were useful and his medical expertise became unparalleled.

”I think this is enough for what you want to do but you have to heal your other eye first.”

Claud stated his opinion while returning to his usual silence, merely watching everything from Arthur's point of view.

Arthur went back to Astria and teleported to where he set up the formation, after a blue flash of light, he found himself standing before Lucy.

She stopped supplying the formation, which crumbled a few seconds after. Arthur relied on such a disposable formation to not leave any traces. Although he can use his Space Magic to teleport to Astria or Earth, there's a strong chance God Monarchs or Overgods will sense such a strong spatial fluctuation. Moreover, he needs the specific coordinates for this residence so when he teleports back to Green-Leaf, he won't end up in the Wasteland.

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”Argh!”

In a world of darkness, a little girl a beautiful white fur that covered some parts of her body, was crouching and holding her stomach. The pain from just a single kick was unimaginable.

The first three days of her training were just a beating from the Joker. She would charge at him to attack only to receive the same kind of kick, even when she dodged to the side.

After three days, she managed to dodge his kick, which made him pleasantly surprised. To congratulate her, he put a blindfold on her eyes and demanded she attacks him.

Unfortunately, this was but the beginning of this hell as the kicks she received when blindfolded were ten times stronger.

She could hear here ribs cracking and taste the bitter blood in her mouth. Though she doesn't see him, she still heard his berating voice

”What? Down after one strike? Isn't that pretty pathetic? If Arthur saw this, he'd truly be disappointed. I bet he would even cast you out of the family.”

His words incensed the groaning Saly, who leaped at him only to be kicked again, however, she managed to shift her body as to receive less damage from the blow.

The Joker forbade her from using her magic or skills, telling her that those are useless. For two weeks straight, she was beaten black and blue. No sane person would be able to do this to a little girl yet the Joker didn't care and never stopped.

He didn't even let her sleep. He'd use some kind of a weird card to restore just enough Stamina for her to get up and get rid of the sleepiness. As for eating, the Joker was actually generous as he'd let her rest for twenty minutes and provide her with all kinds of extremely delicious dishes, she would often cry both from the pain and the delicious taste of the food.

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”GET UP!”

As Saly cried from the pain as she laid on the ground while holding her broken arm. It is exactly the 48th time her right arm was broken yet the Joker showed no signs of stopping.

”I gave you a chance to give up but you refused. You can only blame yourself.”

He walked up to her and pressed his foot on her stomach, causing her to cough blood. He waved his hand, getting rid of the blindfold.

The little girl glared at the man before her eyes, he was leaning his head close to hers while still pressing his foot on her stomach.

”What? You're angry? You think anger will make you stronger? Come on, then, attack me.”

Saly shook her weak body to free herself from his grasp but the pain was agonizing and the strength behind his foot was monstrous, it was like a mountain.

Seeing her futile and weak efforts, he shook his head and ruthlessly kicked her far away. Her body was on the verge of breaking, her usually stubborn will was nowhere to be seen.

”And you wanted to help your 'mommy' and 'daddy' like this? Don't make me laugh! This is not even pathetic, this is ludicrous! I've never had a student this weak and disobedient.”

He spat on the ground in disgust while turning away and waving his hand

”I'm not going to bother anymore, find someone else.”

Just as he took two steps, a white shadow appeared behind him. He nonchalantly turned around with a speed that seemed extremely slow yet was more than enough for him to see the assailant and block the incoming kick.

His hand turned illusory as it was suddenly holding a small leg that was about to hit him. Just as he was about to throw the petite body, she suddenly twisted her body in a weird manner and disregarded her broken ankle while punching the Joker in the face.

Unfortunately, before her punch reached its target, she was sent flying far away but unlike last time, she didn't even land on the dark ground but transformed into a white shadow that attacked the Magician again…