Chapter 53 Immortal Flame (1/2)

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Chapter 53 Iled to open his eyes As his vision slowly focused, he saw Neph's pale face loo close to her skin

She was standing on her knees beside his broken body, caressing his face with her hands In her eyes, there was a strange expression

It was as though she was frightened, but resigned to so

Her pupils ide and dark

'Wh—what?'

Greeting her teeth, Nephis htly against it, causing a pulse of pain to radiate through Sunny's body

Then, a soft, radiant brilliance suddenly ignited beneath the skin of her pal white sparks

Alriony, and she let out a terrible, muffled scream

Her skin became white as a sheet of paper, and as she bit her lower lip, drops of blood soon rolled to her chin

ReadNovelFullrew in intensity, Nephis shut her eyes tightly, tears strea down her tortured, bloodless face

Sunny, on the contrary, felt like he was in heaven All pain disappeared fro war pure and sacred

By a white, pristine, purifying fla body began to repair itself His shattered bones were reasseenerated and becaed heart were brought back to life and rejuvenated, instantly turning strong and healthy

Suddenly, he could breathe again

As his chestin a new breath, Nephis flinched aith a harrowing moan The white radiance beneath her skin dihtful place

Crawling away a few steps, Changing Star stopped, standing on her knees and hands, and violently vo uncontrollably, as though on the verge of a seizure

As the shi+vers died down, she slowly lowered herself to the ground and lay therethe raindrops with her mouth

Sunny, meanwhile, raised his hands and carefully explored his body

To his surprise, nothing really hurt It was as though he was never wounded in the first place, let alone almost died

With the help of Nephis and her mysterious Aspect Ability, he was completely healed

It was a miracle

By the tiht Sunny, Nephis and Cassie huddled together for warh they were dead, too tired towere to happen, the shadoould probably alarm them in advance

If not, so be it They were just too exhausted to care

Luckily, the rest of the night ithout incidents

In the est leaving the cliffs They just gathered soers, collected the two soul shards and moved to the opposite side of the small island, afraid that the remains would attract some creature's attention

As it turned out, they were right Not long after the group left the place of the battle, a dark spot appeared in the sky Soon, it beca near the corpse of the centurion in a ind

Sunny had never seen anything like it The creature wastwice as much as the carapace monster Its body hite as a corpse and hty paws in the back and six in the front, protruding , sharp talons

The neck of the flyingblack feathers, as well as its enore round eyes and a terrifying black beak

While they hid behind rocks, the creature feasted on the dead centurion, easily breaking its carapace apart with its talons and beak Then, satisfied, it grabbed a few scavenger carcasses with its paws and rose back into the air, creating a ss

The creature left the cliffs and flew back the way it ca the black dot as it disappeared into the distance, Sunny sighed

"Neph What do you think that thing is?"

Nephis was also looking at the sky After a few seconds, she lowered her gaze

"I have no idea"

Sunny simply nodded and went about his business He still had to perfor a fire, they roasted the centurion's meat and had a delicious, hefty breakfast Then, stuffed, the three of theainst two scavengers at once, running away and barely surviving the sudden flood, cli an awakened le day — they deserved some time off

Plus, Sunny needed to sort hie

The reason for this was not his trauh it had a lot to do with it The thing was that, after the unexpected epiphany he had while trying to fight against the deathly ed

Because the clarity he gained never went away