288 The Shedding (1/2)

'The whole pile of bodies disappeared…?'

Scanning through the battle scene that I was pretty sure of it being full of dead bodies, only left me astonished as I didn't really know what to say, it made it look like the battle didn't take place at all…

'Could it be that the corpses were used as some sort of a sacrifice to complete the 'Bloodline Burning Curse'...'

Remembering how the corpse of the Shaman turned into smithereens and disappeared after he stabbed himself with that dark dagger, it only made sense that the 'Cleaning' of the whole scene must be something associated with the curse's price or maybe a side effect of it.

'What about the trio…'

Taking a long look back at the location I left the three tied humans before I headed off to confront the demon army, I actually found them still in the same place…

'They didn't wake up after more than 3 days…?'

Dashing towards the spot, I started inspecting their bodies to make sure they weren't simply dead…

'It's faint… But they are breathing…'

The result of the inspection was as simple as it could be, the way their bodies functioned at this point was the same way one would do when sleeping, that would have been a normal occurrence any other day and no one would doubt something was wrong, unless… He knew that this has been their state for almost four days!

Could a normal person even sleep that much?

'Is it a hibernation of some sort…?'

It could be some sort of a reaction their bodies acted on due to having been brainwashed for a good while as their body rejected the thing that applied the mind confusion itself, or it could be…

'Why bother anyway, let's check the pinned subjects of mine, if they didn't escape during my sleep collapse then it would be easier to ask them how that thing operated…

Moving my head a bit to check as my perception was still somewhat drowsy due to everything that happened so far, I found the two demons were still pinned there, just like I left them also before heading for the battle with the demon army.

'Is this some sort of a deja vu…? Or am I still dreaming?'

Everything felt it has been reset to a certain point… Or, it was more like everything could be easily explained if you said that this current scene happened before my confrontation with the demon army…

However, that thought vanished from my head as I soon started to realize differences on the two demons once I inspected them closely…

The first one I looked at closely, being the retarded Overseer, he was in fact awake somehow, but he looked like he was half dead, the strange thing about him was that I could see purple glass fragments inside the crystal-like ice encasement he was currently in, which didn't really help much…

”Hey, Are you still alive?”