179 Closer 1 (1/2)
Chapter 179: Closer 1
A year ago, Sylphalan was here, and he fought with Palosa.
A year ago, Palosa sealed himself away as he fell into his demonic tendencies.
Garen suddenly understood the correlation.
The reason why Sylphalan showed up coincidentally in Galantia and Eliza Province, was because he was motivated by some other objective. Perhaps that objective was to seek Palosa out for battle.
Since the White Bird now said that the both of them sustained heavy injuries from the fight, that means Sylphalan should still be recovering from his injuries, unless he has some sort of special recovery method.
Whereas for Palosa, his injuries were mostly mental, especially since he would later fall into his demonic form. Sylphalan must have sustained some bad injuries as well.
On the way out from the big waterfall, Garen kept thinking of that possibility.
As the four of them walked back, nobody spoke.
Garen’s body was covered from head to toe in the black cloak, nobody, not even the other three could tell how injured he was.
”Gate Master Garen, are you alright?” King of Fist Leo frowned and aksed.
”Not too good not too bad either, I’ll be fine,” Garen looked at him briefly, and answered.
”That’s good,” Leo’s face relaxed,”Since we’ve achieved our objective in this journey, what shall we do next?”
Garen stopped in his steps,”We’ll talk about that once we get back to Galantia. This fight with Palosa made me realize some very important things, but first I need to recover. The rest of the things just play by ear, if you hear anything about Black Mark Association you are to inform me immediately.”
”Yessir,”
Leo nodded.
As Cynthia and Jack heard Garen say that his injuries weren’t too serious, they were relieved. Now their fates were tied to Garen’s, if Garen fell, they wouldn’t be spared from the ensuing consequences either.
”I’ve arranged a carriage near the city, I’ll lead the way once we’re out of here,” Cynthia said.
”Alright,”
Garen didn’t want to say anything else, so he just agreed.
While he might have told the others that he wasn’t badly injured, but he knew himself that his status right now was not your average injury.
When fighting with Palosa, the true killing force isn’t sheer strength or overwhelming force. Instead, it is the small but potent beak attacks. Where the beak bit Garen, he could not heal completely, the only reason why they stopped bleeding was because of his muscle expansions covering the wounds.
Aside from this, the beak attacks were unlike any other pierces. The moment the dark energy pierced his skin, a large part around it went numb, and he couldn’t even feel if he was bleeding.
”3 spots on my abdomen, 12 on my back, 8 on my limbs….out of those 5 are bleeding internally, 3 are just surface cuts, the rest are completely numb.”
Garen checked his own body as he walked. Under his Attribute Pane, his vitality had dropped a staggering 5 points. Obviously due to the overwhelming injury, even his Body Hardening Technique’s efficiency was lowered.
”And then there’s my innards, all major organs seemed to have moved in different directions, my heart is slightly cracked, which means my recovery abilities are suppressed as well. I wonder what secret techniques Palosa used to do that.”
Garen looked at his palm under the cloak, it was pale, terrifyingly pale.
”Let’s try and see if there’s any effect if I use the attribute points,”
He tried to expense his unused potential points into the vitality section.
Disappointingly to no effect. His vitality went blur for a second, then it returned to the original amount, his body didn’t change the slightest.
”Looks like this time I will have to slowly recover,” he frowned,”an injury like this has surpressed my recovery abilities, even if it doesn’t get worst I will still need a whole month to fully recover.”
His issue with Behemoth’s Gate wasn’t even settled yet, but for now he could only return home to recover.
Garen’s fought a lot of opponents before, and has always won right out with everyone. He thought that once he reached this level, he would never end up in a horrible condition like so anymore, but little did he expect himself to be reduced to this after a simple exchange with Palosa.
Sylphalan, Palosa, even though he was still slighter weaker than them, but on the bright side it meant that he had stepped into the highest level of fighters.
Now whenever someone were to bring him up in a conversation, they would compare him to the two of them as equals, sometimes even as superior.
As he recalled Palosa’s fighting style, Garen continued to shake slightly, as he tried to fix his internal injuries.
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Ten days later…
The fight between White Cloud Gate’s Gate Master and White Bird Fist’s Palosa, ended without anyone knowing about it.
But after a few days, news of it had spread throughout the entire southern martial arts world.