273 Hyrks Problem (1/2)
Yale had difficulties to believe the information given by the Divine Light Eyes when he used them on Hyrk, but he decided to trust his Special Innate Talent and thus stopped Nurvey from going towards Hyrk.
Nurvey was shocked by Yale's reaction because at the start Yale had also rushed towards Hyrk with her.
”Any problem?”
Nurvey didn't like how Yale had stopped her, but she believed that he had a reason to do that. In fact, after being stopped, she believed that maybe the Hyrk in front of him was fake and wanted to kill her.
Yale seemed to guess Nurvey's thoughts as his next words replied to her doubts.
”He is the real Hyrk; there is no doubt about that.”
The Divine Light Eyes had told him Hyrk's name because even the normal Appraisal could do that for someone who was just at the Apprentice Rank and moreover, Hyrk was heavily injured, so it wasn't difficult for appraisal to obtain his true identity; his problem wasn't his identity.
Nurvey didn't know how to react at that moment because if that Hyrk was the real one, Yale shouldn't have any reason to stop her unless Hyrk was a traitor. Again, Yale guessed Nurvey's thoughts, in fact, that was a pretty normal way of thought in that situation, and if Yale didn't have his Divine Eyes and the methods to identify traitor marks, he would have thought the same.
”Hyrk isn't a traitor nor he had any bad intention when he went towards the Imperial Palace; the state of his body is terrible and need help desperately.”
Those words let Nurvey baffled; she understood even less the reasons for Yale stopping her if Hyrk wasn't a traitor and was really on the verge of death.
”Why?”
Nurvey couldn't resist from asking Yale about his reasons; she trusted him, but she was unable to understand his thoughts like Yale seemed to do with her thoughts.
”Do you think that someone who managed to leave him in such state is someone from who Hyrk could flee in such state?”
After thinking a bit about it, Nurvey nodded because it was indeed unbelievable that he managed to flee despite his current state unless the one who injured him let him go on purpose.
”I don't know the identity of the one that did that to Hyrk, but there is a strong poison inside his body. That poison had a retarding effect and would only appear after some hours, but anyone who neared him would be poisoned even while the poison isn't active. If you had rushed towards him, you would have been poisoned, and then you would have transmitted the poison to the people inside the Imperial Palace; that poison would spread quickly, and when it flared, the Imperial Family would be almost destroyed.”
Everyone who heard Yale's words was shocked by them. However, the most shocked was Hyrk, who was still conscious despite being unable to talk in his current state.
He thought that he managed to flee by luck and looked for Nurvey because he felt that was the most secure place for him; he would have never expected that he had a poison hidden in his body and was being used to deal with the Imperial Family.
Moreover, at that moment, Hyrk recognized Yale, he was happy that Yale had managed to exit the special realm alive, but that wasn't a moment to speak about the old times.
”Yale... kill me...”
Hyrk used all his strength to say those words; he was suffering a lot and was slowly dying with unbearable pain. Thus, he wanted his friend to finish him with some long-range attack to avoid being poisoned and put an end to his pain.
Originally Hyrk wanted to be saved, but after hearing about the poison inside his body, he was ready to die. He asked Yale to do it because he felt that if someone of the Imperial Family killed him, the Hyeran Clan would have a reason to oppose the Imperial Family openly.
”I won't kill you. I will save you.”
Yale had confidence in that due to his Divine grade Innate Talent in poison. Moreover, with poison immunity, he had nothing to fear to the poison inside Hyrk's body despite its lethality.
Despite saying that he would save him, Yale didn't move as he used the Divine Death Eyes to check Hyrk's state.