Chapter 374 - Blood Gods Fountain (Part-4) (1/2)
Ryuu sat in front of Dhaeq as Dhaeq spoke with a smile on his face, ”Thank you brother Ryuu, we do not know what we could have done without your help.”
Ryuu simply smiled back towards him as he spoke, ”Brother it was combined effort of all of us that helped us to prevail.”
As they were about to speak a snotty voice interrupted them, ”If you could create something then why did you not create something like that before, then we could have save some more of our people.”
Ryuu's brow twitched as Dhaeq spoke with a snarl, ”Elder Myde cease speaking in such foul manner.”
As the Elder grumbled Ryuu gave her an apologetic smile as he spoke, ”I wish to apologize Elder, I cannot fathom to understand your grief for your martyred brethren, but please believe me when I say there will be no one happier than me if I could have been able to erect the array ages ago.”
Myde huffed as she spoke, ”And may I inquire what stopped you.”
Ryuu sighed as he gained a pained expression on his face, ”Brother Dhaeq, you remember the first time you met asked my left hand.”
Dhaeq's face scrunched up in confusion before he spoke with his eyes wide, ”Yes yes you said you were attacked by some creature.”
Ryuu nodded as he spoke with a sigh, ”What I failed to tell you that we were above 30,000 strong, before we met the enemy, we did not even get chance to attack it, it simply breathed towards us and in blink of an eye so many died.”
Upon hearing that the entire room was plunged into deathly silence as Ryuu continued, ”Its poison was so dangerous that they all turned to ash within seconds upon coming in contact with it, so many had died that day, and the best part it was simply its breath it did not even bother attacking us, yet we fell that day.”
Dhaeq spoke with soft sigh, ”But you manage to survive in spite facing such fierce adversary.”
Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, ”I did not manage to survive brother, I merely delayed the inevitable, I am dying, I have less than 5 years left to live.”
Upon hearing that Dhaeq's eyes widen with alarm as Kiesa spoke with a frown, ”Surely there is a cure.”
Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, ”I know someone who might be able to help me but I am so far away that I might not be able to reach him before a decade at the very least.”
Myde frowned as she spoke, ”So your injury prevented you from acting before.”
Ryuu nodded while looking a bit downtrodden as he spoke, ”It is as you have guessed esteemed elder, and the poison is slowly eating me from the inside and most I can do is suppress the poison with my strength but it is weakening me by a lot and every time I have to exert more strength the poison flares up and leaves me incapacitated and in great pain.”
Kiesa's eyes widen as she spoke, ”That was why you go missing after almost every siege we faced.”
Ryuu nodded towards her as she continued speaking, ”Then why did you exert yourself you could let your companions to deal with it.”
Ryuu chuckled at that as he spoke, ”My companions are my allies as long as I do not become liability then I would be culled, as such I cannot show weakness in front of them.”
Dhaeq with a worried look on his face spoke, ”Is there anything you know that might help you brother Ryuu, you helped us so much I cannot in good conscious just leave in to your death.”
Ryuu was quite for a moment before he spoke slowly, ”There is a way that might work, it involves ingesting poison and slowly building up resistance to it and hope to reach the level required that will make me resistance to the poison.”
Kiesa was taken aback at what she heard as she spoke with disbelief in her voice, ”How will the using of extra poison even work? Will the extra poison not interfere with the one in your blood?”
”A person when he has to climb higher level and cannot fly will make a ladder to reach the higher ground and this poison would be my ladder. As for working, well it should after all my teacher used similar method to help me gain poison resistance though I will have to tweak a bit and hope for the best.”