Chapter 65 Birds and Dragons (1/2)

Arran awoke in a s in a bed so hard it alhness even when sleeping

The room was furnished with sis of battle scenes decorated the walls At a glance, Arran thought it should be one of the co he did after waking was to examine his body, and when he did, he saw that it was covered in bruises And not just that — with every breath he took he felt sharp stabs of pain in his chest From this, he knew that at least some of his ribs had to be bruised or even broken

His left shoulder and ares, and when he looked underneath them, he found several deep wounds, still open even if they weren't bleeding any his left arm was extremely painful, but he felt some relief at this — the mere fact that he was able to move the are

Worse were the injuries he could feel within his body Even if they were invisible to the eye, he could sense that they were more serious than his surface wounds

His dire state made it clear that he had co his life, and when he recalled the fight, he knew that it was a small miracle that he had survived at all

Even with the borrowed Essence fro Pills, he had been noin Body Refinement had allowed him to survive attacks that would have killed e for a fewacross the brink of death

He shuddered when he thought about how the fight would have ended had Panurge not appeared at the last moment, and once iants

The te Pills allowed hie, but only for a short while And each time he tried, it had almost cost hi Pills left, but if the golden-haired warrior he freed frole one of those would likely kill him

Not that it ht well kill hi to ignore the pain that seemed to be present in every fiber of his body, he closed his eyes, then began to perfor's circulation technique

With how badly hurt he was, using Body Refine to repair a collapsed building using only straw and e to be healed easily, and the only thing that could help him recover was ti coot started, the better

Hours passed, but if Arran's body saw any improvement at all, it was too s you did”

Arran was shaken from his meditation by the voice, and when he looked up, he saw that Panurge was standing in front of hier The ht be had locked Arran in a cell, then sent hie was berating hiic treasures,” Panurge replied, ”and you squandered it Although I will admit that you did so in a remarkable fashi+on”

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”Of course not,” Panurge said calift was the cell”

Arran was due, this sounded unusually ave you was a few decades to practice in safety,” Panurge continued ”Had you not used a foolish trick to break out long before you were supposed to, you would have eventually eh power to defend yourself”

”You expected me to stay there and slowly starve to death like the other prisoners?!”

”I provided you with food,” Panurge pointed out ”Unlike the others, you would not have had to feed on your own Essence A few short decades of training, and you would have been able to face Grandes on equal teresture at Arran's injured body, he added, ”And just look at you now — one sed by a pack of hellhounds”

”You had e!” Arran's eyes ide in disbelief at the ht a beetle,” Panurge replied flatly

”A beetle?” Despite his anger, Arran found himself speechless at the sheer absurdity of the stateiant The bird looks at both and sees only food” Panurge nodded in satisfaction, seeacity

”And I take it you're the bird?” Arran asked Without asking, he already understood that he was the ant

”Me?” A wide grin appeared on Panurge's face ”I'le bite and still feel hungry afterward”

Although Arran kneas a bad idea to provoke Panurge, he could not help but frown at the hed loudly ”If you don't want to believe me, I suppose I'll just have to show you”

At once, Arran felt panic He understood very well that whenever Panurge wanted to do sos were bound to happen