Chapter 72 - Getting stronger (1/2)

Monk and Gary decided to stay in the hospital with me for a couple of days. Although the doctors said I was fine, they still wanted to do extra checks just to be sure. After a few day's Jasmine had woken up. We decided to go check up on her to see if she was okay. Gary was epescially insistent, he felt bad about the whole thing and even apologised to me and Monk many times.

When we entered the room Jasmine was fully awake and wasn't covered in badges or anything but couldn't move well. The doctor told us that she had a few broken ribs that would take a bit longer to heal before she was free to leave.

”How are you holding up?” Monk asked.

”I'm okay, I can't really remember what happened though, I thought I was dead.”

We then told her everything minus Noir, that Sir K had come and saved us and we weren't going to be expelled from the academy. I asked Gary and monk to keep Noir a secret. I told them I had learnt to use magic and could summon a pet. How I found out about my magical abilities later but wanted to stay in Avrion rather getting transferred to Roland. Summoning or having beast wasn't rare but it was a thing linked to mages. This satisfied their curiosity and they stopped asking about it.

Jasmine then asked, ”How did Sir K know we were there?”

”He said something about the Lurker told him, do you know who that is?” Gary asked.

Jasmine was quiet for a while before she decided to answer.

”The lurker is a myth between students at the academy, apparently he's someone who is always hiding in the shadows and protects the students from any dangers or reports anyone who breaks the rules.”

Although I would have liked to believe this Lurker character existed, whenever I used my dragon eyes skill there was no appearance of someone hiding in the academy. There was currently only one person who could avoid my detection and that was Sir K himself. Perhaps he knew of this myth between students and thought it was a good way to hide the real person who had informed him.

After checking Jasmin was all okay we decided to leave her be and get back to our Dorms. After all, we had been gone a few day's and the others were properly wondering what had happened to us.

When we arrived at the dorm just as we thought everyone was wondering where we had gone. We simply told them that we had been in an accident during our special black sash training. It explained why the three of us were gone and also explained Gary's cast. Kyle didn't believe us and kept pestering us about it. Of course, he knew we weren't telling the truth because he also was a black sash. In the end, sir K had told him the same thing as us so he decided to drop it.

Gary seemed to no longer have nightmares at night and I hadn't had another dream about the red door since. I decided that I would attempt to go down there again once I was stronger.

While lying in bed for the last three days there were a lot of things that I got to think about. Noir was surprisingly helpful in battle and its speed was amazing. It would be good to improve Noir with crystals as fast as possible. The next thing on my mind was beast crystal weapons. I needed to get my hands on one of these.