Vol 1 Chapter 16 (1/2)
Chapter 16 – Legacy
Cloudhawk lay there in Mantis’ workshop, co, Slyfox, and the otherto one side as Mantis did his job, and Slyfox was already beginning to frown “What’s the situation?”
Mantis replied, “He lost too much blood He needs a blood transfusion” The ruins didn’t have access to blood transfusion technology, but Mantis was the most talented physician in both the Tartarus co Outpost He not only had the ability to test blood phenotypes, he had even developed his own blood transfusion apparatus Despite that, given the sanitary conditions in Blackflag Outpost, actually using that equipment posed an enormous risk to everyone involved
Slyfox didn’t give a daive him the blood he needs! I don’t care what you have to do; you need to save his life and bring him back to us If he dies, that’llThat would be an abso-fucking-lutely stupid travesty!”
Mad Dog just said, “It’s just blood, right? Use mine!”
“You can use mine as well!”
“shi+t, I got plenty of blood Take as much as you need!”
“No e can let the kid die like this”
“Yeah, life would bewithout’m”
More than ten of the mercenaries spoke up to offer their blood Cloudhawk had only joined the Tartarus co this pasthabits had caused everyone to take a liking to hied theroup
If Cloudhaas still awake, he would probably be so shocked that he wouldn’t be able to shut his mouth Normally, the mercenaries treated hi for the chance to help save hi their own blood
As for Mantis, his features rele word, he ran a few blood phenotype tests, then selected the mercenaries who fit his criteria He withdrew sole one of thean to transfer it into Cloudhawk’s body
In the end, their greatest fears were realized Although Cloudhawk’s condition was teain worsened at around ht His entire body was beet-red, and his skin was so hot it was as though he was being burnt by coals His mind was a blur, and he repeatedly slurred random words
There was nothing Mantis could do The medical conditions and equipment were simply too poor Whenever an injured party suffered a severe infection like this, he would have a less than ten percent chance of surviving Things were in the hands of the Gods, now All they could do was hope that the kid’s destiny was not to die here!
Cloudhawk found hiy, hazy state He felt incredibly hot, so hot that he could barely breathe It was as though he was sleeping inside a giant burning cauldron When Cloudhawk tried to trace the heat to its source, he ended up discovering that it was all co around his neck
The stone seeewith his bones and his flesh to becoe energy that was capable of i Cloudhawk’s entire body
In his dazed state, Cloudhaas actually able to make out the voice of the stone more clearly than ever before It sounded like the furious waves of the ocean, like the sky, like the earth, like sohtless dark of the night, like a behemoth so vast that it could silently s a hundred enor any stir
This was a sea! A sea of willpower, a sea of y! Was he able to better commune with the stone when he was in his current, trance-like state?
Not only could Cloudhawk sense the ebbs and flows of that sea of y inside the stone, he could even hear a hoarse voice whispering to him from a hidden location at the very bottom of the sea
“Truth springs forth frohts shall deterine is what you shall see!” Although the voice was soft, it was filled with an astonishi+ng presence and was as stately as the voice of a king “Awaken, heir to acy!”
Cloudhawk felt as though someone had just poured a bucket of icewater over his face He suddenly woke up from his stupor, only to realize that he hadn’t actually returned to the real world He was located within a very strange region, with his two feet standing on a pitch-blck sea that was as smooth and clear as a mirror
This wasn’t the real world This was a dream-world created by that ithin the stone!
“W-who is talking?!” Cloudhawk frantically scanned his surroundings He knew that this was a dream, but he found hi as strange as this before, and it was completely outside the bounds of what he could understand
The endless black ether and forure didn’t seem to be human, but Cloudhaasn’t able to see what it looked like He could only see a pair of red, ape-like eyes gloithin that dark silhouette, as well as a jewel that was glowing in front of the figure’s chest
Was that jewel the one Cloudhawk had found the other day? Was it originally an adornment upon that suit of unique, peculiar ar before Cloudhawk, he had to be the jewel’s previous master He must’ve been able to store his will and his h soone e was due to this e drea such heavy injuries, they were also caused by this man
Cloudhawk stared at the h the blurry mist that separated the two of them “Who exactly are you?”
Aout frootten Who I aer matters What matters is for you to knoho you are”
“Who I auy talking about? He shouted out rather nervously, “fuck,on here? Why are you in my dreams?”
“No need to be afraid I won’t har more than a part of my hich I left inside this stone Only when certain criteria are fulfilled and when a person with certain potential ees shall this stone be activated For now, you can neither see nor sense o” The speaker was saying such confused, baffling things that Cloudhawk understood none of it at all
“It has been many years I have stubbornly re your arrival Ever since you picked up that jewel, you have assumed a destiny that you cannot shake off” The black silhouette looked at Cloudhawk, then said slowly, “The world has been bewildered by lies and deceptions Since the cycle has begun anew, I hope that you shall continue the path which I started but was unable to finish Bring an end to all these things”