《The life of a Soldier》Chapter 8 : A trip into the city pt2 (delay)
Advertisement
Dorian rushed to Arin's side quickly putting his hand to her neck checking her pulse. The slow barely noticeable beats were still there. The knot in Dorians stomache unraveled a bit and he took a close look at Arin's body. She had multiple cuts on her hands and arms showing that she had been fighting when she was attacked.
How Dorian had not woken up from the sounds of the fight was a mystery to him. The most logical explanation was that magic was used to cover up the sounds of the fight. Blaitz, Vor and Gladiel stormed into the room staring at Arin and the pool of blood she was lying in with a mix of anguish, rage and confusion on their faces.
“I-is she?” Gladiel stammered.
“She's alive, for now. The biggest concern is that she lost alot of blood. Mori go with Blaitz, get me some cloth, purified water, and needle and thread if you have them.”
Mori stood there shocked for a moment still staring at the blood but when Blaitz tapped her on the shoulder she nodded and they ran downstairs. “Gladiel, you know the city, get a priest here as fast as you can, i will keep her alive as best i can untill then.”
Gladiel gave him a grin look and sprinted down the stairs. “Vor could you watch my back while i work, the first stages i wont be able to move.” Vor grunted in response and placed himself in the doorway. The menacing aura emanating from his body would scare any sane minded person away.
Dorian took a deep breath and focused his magical power. Taking a deep breath he sat down next to Arin and put his fingers on her body. First thing first he needed to make sure that she would not die due to blood loss. Which meant slowing down the heart. The only way he knew how to do that was connecting his heart beat with hers and slowing his down to the point were the bloodflow would be almost completely stalled.
Advertisement
Putting his hand on her chest he started combining their magical circuits. He focused on her heart beat and his own and slowly yet steadily forced them to harmonise. His body slowly pulsated heat into the room cooling down her body by taking the heat into his own. By lowering her body temperature so much that the heart thought she was on ice would slow down the beat to nearly nothing.
Doing so was dangerous but the amount of blood Arin had lost was just to much for him to do anything else. Blaitz and Mori were rushing back upstairs, Blaitz holding the bucket and Mori holding a bunch of bandages and needle and thread.
The scene they walked back into was Dorian sitting in a meditative posture with almost visible heatwaves emanating from his body spreading throughout the room. Arin looked extremely pale as if she was already on deaths door. The 2 took a step forward to tell Dorian that they had the things he asked for but a few words from Vor stopped them.
“The magic Dorian is performing is best not interrupted, the only thing keeping Arin from bleeding out right now is that trance he is in, It would be best to wait till Gladiel comes back with the priest.”
Blaitz looked at Vor nervously and then to Arin. He knew that magic was not his area of expertise but that Dorian and Vor knew quite a bit about it and that they should be. A large burly man walked up the stairs behind Blaitz and Mori. He looked through the door with a grim look on his face.
“Wat kind of degenerate would dare attack the customers of my inn!” He grunted angrily. “I will rip their spines out through their mouths, i will cut of their ballsack and make them eat it, I!” Mori quickly walked forward to stop the owner from finishing his rant.
Advertisement
The large muscular man just looked at her for a second and then took a deep breath and calmed himself down. There was still an aura ready to kill hanging around him. The man was just oozing danger. He seemed extremely angry that one of his customers had died under his watch.
After wat seemed like an eternity Gladiel came back running up the stairs with a young bald priest in tow. The priest took a quick look at the situation and then after a quick look from Gladiel, Vor let the priest inside. The priest put his hand on Dorian and Arin aswell and joined in their magical little circle.
Dorian felt another magical presence enter the magical circle he had hastily created. He could sense an overbearing pressure of white magic and immediately concluded that this was the priest he had asked for.
He quickly led the presence on a tour through Arins body and showed him the injuries. Not all of the injuries were physical some of the injuries were magical and not something that Dorian could do anything about.
He could feel the presence that was the priest seeping onto the very fabric of Arins existence. He felt the wounds being sown shut and the magical wounds being engulfed in a soft white light. The priest did his job quickly and expertly.
The ones who were watching the priest work only felt a soft warm glow filling the room. The room temperature being restored to a much more comfortable state. The young priest eventually lifted his hands with a sigh and sat himself against the wall.
The group swarmed around him doing their best to wait till the priest had caught his breath.
“You can stop worrying she will survive the ordeal.” The priest told him when he saw how anxious they were. A combined sigh of relief went through the room. Everyone was more than happy to know Arin would survive.
“There is one thing however that i am not able to heal. Nor do i think there is any priest skilled enough to fix. Her eyes will never see light again i'm afraid. My apologies.” The priest said bowing to them when he said his apology.
Mori made a squeaking sound when she heard the news. The rest of the group looked grim and stared at the still unmoving Arin. suddenly they heard someone rushing up the stairs. Tolu walked in followed by a girl Dorian did not recognize. Pale skin, and a angular yet somehow exoticly beautiful face was framed by dark full hair.
“S-s-she said she saw the people who did this to your friend leave the building!”
Everyone stared at the girl Tolu had brought in. The very air of the room could be felt growing colder as a grim aura started to seep from the 4 young men as they realised they now had people they could hunt.
Sorry guys. I found something i really liked. (book serie) And i spent the last week binge reading all of it. I can get obsessed for short perioeds of time like that. Ill try to get back into my rythm now that i finished it. Hope you guys are still around!
And as always thanx for reading!
Advertisement
- In Serial36 Chapters
Carus - Libertas
participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge and also having a go at NaNoWriMo this November. This was a first draft published as it was written for Nanowrimo November 2020. A little rough around the edges, I hope to come back and edit at some point, and then continue the story on. In the grand scheme of things Elias was nothing special. Which was why he was surprised by a random company on a new colony planet buying out his contract. That was the problem with the large companies that ruled the colonies, once they owned your contract, they owned you. Imagine the greater surprise when he learnt that the new company held the promise of freedom. Not from the constant battle against the Swarm that were also trying to claim the colony planets for their own. Nor from the Crust, the mysterious substance that covered the same planets and held the resources they all fought for. No, the freedom from being oppressed by those with more power and to finally decide where to go and where to set down roots and call home.
8 139 - In Serial31 Chapters
The Interstellar Artship
Hello? Traveler? Hi. My name is Silas. I’m the Chronicler around here. Might I entreat you to stay with us a while? We are a meager fleet of artships, eking our way across the charred and shrewd universe. Please, join us around the table and tell us your story. Our lives depend on it. I’m sure you know this world proves demanding, strange, and lonely. But here we go together, a caravan fleet of spacefarers, challenging the starry frontier, investigating the strangeness. Our warp-drives run on inspiration—a volatile fuel collected from the active minds of the artists, writers, and musicians among us. But the clock runs out—the Heartless in their scarships seek to destroy all that is beautiful, systematically deconstructing all creativity in order to fuel their weapons and feed their evil powers. We’ve all been hurt by those hateful devourers. We’ve all lost loved ones. But no more. No more, I say! Together we unite and make our arduous journey to the dreadful Shattered Suns—the home of our enemy. Once and for all the question shall be answered—the path to life shall show itself. **** If you would like to read the Artifacts which Silas and the Sojournor crew restore, visit our patreon page. The Chronicles are cowritten by Paul T. Gibson and Lydia Donaldson. The fantastic cover art is by the great Kyle Sneed. **** Patreon supporters: Certified Pre-owned Utility ShuttleThomas GibsonThe Centennial Hawk (Rae)Seraphite Storm (Bizarre Bladesong) The Steel Miner's Extraction RigThe Washburn Revenge (Manderson)
8 95 - In Serial15 Chapters
Legacy (vrmmo game)
Is currently being rewritten. Darius is a guy with no friends because the friends of his friends don't like him and so he has no friends. Legacy, a vrmmo game, is the first of its kind to actually look like the fantasy games kids dream of. Darius gets the game, planning to just have fun and maybe get some friends. Unfortunately, he's the protagonist, so yeahhhh shit's gonna happen He chooses the mage class which is often ridiculed for its low health and high MP costs. And he somehow becomes the top player within the game... There is gonna be fucking profanity because books where the protagonist is like "fiddlesticks" when they fuck up are stupid and targeted at kids that haven't gone thru puberty yet. And yes, there will be gore. Otherwise what's the point of these games? The cover is not mine and I don't own it okay I just got it off one of those sites rate this if you feel like it
8 186 - In Serial36 Chapters
Oathbound
Your soul is a commodity traded by powerful beings that attempt to outwit mortals with tempting bargains and the promise that a soul is just an ethereal thing they won't ever have to worry about. Enter, Albert Carol: Idiot teenage boy and waste of space with no future. Killed due to mysterious circumstances, Albert needs to negotiate his way out of selling his soul to the so-called Grim Reaper and try to earn his mortal life back. But Death doesn't give up so easily, and Albert's soul doesn't seem to be the only thing he's after. New Story Theme Song: Bones by Imagine Dragons What to expect: -A contemplative strategy game of words and agreements akin to Death Note. -Discussions of death and value -Complex characters -Disguised motives and identities -Light action -Subterfuge and system breaking [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] - April 2022
8 206 - In Serial39 Chapters
Beast Games
OC Submit Fic. To rule the world - or at least Beast Island - requires skill, cunning, strength. Or at least being good at games. Every two weeks, characters will go at it, fighting and competing to control some sort of land on Beast Island under the control of general manager JAC. Official Discord: https://discord.gg/URXdVeu
8 113 - In Serial87 Chapters
Beyblade | The Girl Hagane
Gen Hagane, the twin sister of Gingka Hagane and daughter of Ryo Hagane gets Accalia, never beyblattled her whole life eversince her mom Aiko Hagane died eversince she was 8 years old.But at the age of 12, after a suggestion came from Kyoya that she had to continue battling, she restarts her journey...Together with Training Accalia, she undergoes obstacles and new rivals and later did she know, she got to know more about more about her mom and one step close to achieving her dream.....Note :1) If you don't know the story of beyblade metal saga, please watch it if you can otherwise you won't understand a thing.2) And I don't own any of the characters of the original series apart from some characters....3) Please don't consider this book as an "OC X Tsubasa" book...this is not just a romance book but also an adventure book and if u are gonna skip the other chaps just to read the romance part, then its best if you don't read the book at all
8 109

