Chapter 91: Contemplate (1/2)
On the fifth floor of the west wing in the demon king's castle.
A male figure laid on the bed in one of the rooms in this wing unmoving. As the rays of the morning sun that escaped through the thick clouds in the sky shone on him. The figure slightly squirmed around before slowly raising his head and he sat up. He opened his eyes and his vision was a little blurry but got clearer as he blinked his eyes.
He slowly turned his head left and right as he observed the contents of the room he had suddenly found himself in. The room was almost practically empty but it contained all the essentials that looked to be of rather high quality and was sparkling clean.
As he turned his head around, a sudden ringing entered his ears and he soon felt like there was a loud beating drum in his head.
His vision got hazy and he suddenly began to feel faint.
”You're awake. Please don't move around so suddenly, it will still take some time before you're fully recovered.”
With great difficulty, he turned his head to the side as he saw a hazy female figure in a sort of maid outfit sitting beside his bed. At this point, the ringing intensified and his vision went black, his body falling back to the bed as he fainted.
He wasn't sure how long he had been unconscious as he raised his eyelids once more. His head still felt numb but he was still able to learn from his mistake as he opted not to sit up immediately this time. He slowly turned his head to the side where he had last seen the female maid sitting however, his eyes went wide as he saw something amazing, something completely different from last time.
There was indeed a goddess standing over him as she cast her aqua blue blessings upon him. Ah yes, he must've died and gone to heaven. Sure, he hadn't planned on that but the aura she exuded made him feel so calm and relax that he didn't mind dying if this was the result.
Suddenly, the aqua blue light stopped and Zomatsu returned to his senses. What in the world was he thinking. Since when was dying acceptable to him. His body immediately shot up as he narrowed his eyes to glare at the person that had done that to him.
”Oh, you shouldn't move so suddenly. You suffered quite an intense mental attack and healing mental problems is not my specialty.”
'Mental problems?'
With a somewhat reserved but mostly calm and soothing tone, she had spoken those words and Zomatsu was unable to tell if she was being apathetic, mocking him, or was genuinely concerned for him. Whatever the case may be, he couldn't just stand here to figure it out. He had no idea where he was so he needed to find a way to escape.
He quickly reached for his waist to retrieve his gauntlet from his medium storage box but to his dismay, there was nothing there. As a matter of fact, he wasn't even wearing pants.
”Please calm down, I'll inform Lord Ty that you've awoken so do rest until he comes.”
The calming tone of the blue-haired beauty before him brought a semblance of calm to his mind. He watched the lady walk gracefully out of the room and a young beastgirl walked in and stood by the door.
Zomatsu was sure she was there to keep an eye on him which meant, right now there was nothing he could do, at least not without information on his current location.
After a while he finally felt better so he slowly got up and wore the simple grey pants and the brown T-shirt that was placed next to his bed. The beastgirl didn't seem like she would bother him of he didn't try anything stupid so he walked over to the window in the room and opened the silk curtains. .
The view that came into his sight confused him. Large grey trolls were patrolling the walls at the distance and he occasionally saw small humanoid creatures he believed to be Kobolds moving around the ward checking on their traps.
This place must've been a castle but he wasn't sure why and how he got here. His memories were a bit hazy but he soon began to recall his last memories. There had been a mental attack and he had let his guard down.
He remembered following a group of ogres and beastmen towards the demon king's castle before being attacked and in his attempt to attract the attention of the people within the castle, he had offered a strange man information in exchange for saving his and Bor's life.
'Don't tell me, is this, the demon king's castle?'
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On the south wing of the castle...
Tyler stood by the entrance of the cell he had placed the undead Duo in as he contemplated on something. The magic library was still locked and he wasn't sure when it would be open again. This was definitely taking longer than the first time so that means the connection between the castle and the library was getting weaker. That meant Tyler needed to maximize his next chance inside the library.
He had realize that he didn't know much about magic aside from a few low-level spells. Sure he understood magic runes way more than most but there were just too many fundamentals he was clueless about.
If it wasn't for the scrolls he had retrieved from the library, that last battle with the trolls would have been a lot more troublesome. He closed his eyes as he examined the contents of his spatial ring. Most of the scrolls he had brought out had already been used and he had also spent five magic crystals in the process of corrupting the closest safe zones to the castle.
The current contents of his spatial ring were sorely lacking. He only had a few scrolls left and a single magic crystal. The one he had gotten from the frozen hide off the magic beast Liz or was it, Snow, had most likely killed in the forest.
Although, the settlement did have a large stockpile of scrolls and beast cores. Most of those scrolls were not as useful to Tyler as they were all just low-tier attack spells and Lifestyle spells and the cores were not something he could use on his own.
Basically, there was a lot he was lacking right now, including manpower. While he had bought himself some time with the Great Five by allowing a scout to escape with inaccurate information. He still needed to make valuable use of that time.