Well even in his condition there were some things Nebel had to do.

Getting to his feet and heading off to the North West, Nebel mostly staggers, instead of walking and occasionally vomits blood or falls on his face...

“Hmm...” he thinks to himself after the third time “I’m worse off than I thought... at least the medicine seems to be replenishing my blood...”

He eventually managed to actually get somewhere and arrived at the foot of the valley’s northern pass but that was about it, he didn’t have enough strength to actually climb it and instead got to work setting up a small trap.

It didn’t need to last long or be able to kill tons of enemies at once... he was pretty sure most goblin’s wouldn’t try to come back for a long while but the few that tried would need to be dealt with, along with those that retreated into the mines or to the edges of the valley...

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When Rosa had finally managed to gather the medical team and was heading towards the northern pass in a military truck, she remembered to call Nebel’s underlings...

“Oh I forgot he asked for his techies!” was what she yelled out before making the call.

The transport truck swiftly arrived at the last possible point it could take them to so Rosa and the medical team get off and continue on foot. The forest pass had been widened and smoothed out since the first time Nebel had walked along it, not enough to make it into a road, but at least enough to drive to the beginning of the pass.

And from there it was just a quick hike up the pass to Nebel’s trap where he was waiting for them in Bö’s cave... or so Rosa thought... instead the cave, other than containing Nebel’s pack, was uninhabited... so Rosa thought “Ok maybe he’s just a little past this trap! He could have laid a new one after all!”

So the medical team walks a distance farther along the path until they reach the first point from which the valley floor can be properly observed.

“Hey is that smoke?” one of the medic’s says point towards the abandoned town at the center of the valley.

“Yeah... yeah it is!” another one of the medics says after raising his hand up to shield his eyes from the sun.

“It must be Nebel’s doing!” Rosa shouts and fiddling with her display, she opens a communication channel with Nebel.

“Oh...hey Rosa...” Nebel greets her slowly

“Nebel where are you? Why is there smoke in the valley?” Rosa asks forcefully

“Oh... that... I’m cleaning up the town... the goblins are gone.”

“Really!! Ok just wait the medic’s will be there to treat you and your group soon!” Rosa closes the channel cutting off the call before Nebel can say anything more.

“Let’s go guys! He’s in the town, its all clear!” Rosa says starting down the path.

“Seriously!!!” The medic’s say all at once...

Arriving at the ruins of the town, Rosa and the medic’s move towards the center while looking around at the burnt out goblin hovels, Near one of the small shacks Rosa finds a small plank that had a phrase written on one side “Hovel, sweet Hovel!”...she decided to keep it...

The buildings were barely foundations and the hovel’s were burning but they still couldn’t see Nebel anywhere so Rosa and the Medic’s head deeper into the ruins and eventually reach the center.

After weaving their way between fires and rubble, Rosa and the Medics see it... Rising up like the ugliest war memorial ever, the giant Oblivec’s frozen body stands over them with a spear frozen along with him.

“Oh my god!” one of the medics says looking where the spear was thrust... the man holds himself in the same spot and grimaces... “Utterly ruthless...!”

Rosa looks at the spears entry point and blushes slightly “We don’t have time for this, we have to find Nebel!”

“Oh hey Rosa...” Nebel says from right behind the group, from where he was lying against a fragment of wall that was in a “U” shape.

Rosa takes one look at the blood splattered area around him and yells “Medic!” Making the medic’s remember why they were there in the first place...

The three medic jump out of their surprise and quickly but gently lift Nebel onto a thin cot they had lain out in the more open space in the middle of the cleared area where Nebel had fought Oblivec.

“Blood under his finger nails!” One medic says after pulling off his boots and gloves “Internal haemorrhaging.”

“His pupils aren’t responding!” another says that was checking his eyes.

“BP dangerously low!” the last one says having done the test.

The medic checking his eyes starts to question him “Did that thing tackle you? Was there any poison involved in the fight? Did you use internal magic?”

“No... no and yes...” Nebel replies weakly.

The medic’s eyes widen in shock “Are you an idiot!? Special Procedure twenty one!”

The medics dig into their packs and retrieve a few vials of clear liquid. “Are those going to help him?” Rosa asks worriedly

“These aren’t for him.” One medic replies before all three down the liquid and place their hands over three locations, head, heart and stomach. Their palms start glowing just as they are about to place them on Nebel and once they do it start to transfer onto him in a small around where they touched.

The treatment lasted another hour and a good ten vials more...each... and when they were done the medics sat down on the ground to rest and message their temples; they had drained most of their mental condition.

“Ok, Nebel, now the doctor’s orders... so mine...” one of the medics says to Nebel who was still conscious and way more alert that before. “...is to stay in bed for at least the rest of the day, Internal magic is special, in that it completely messes up your body’s functions and tell it that everything is fine... Even if you had died and respawned, the effects would have made your fully healed body malfunction, since it wouldn’t know what to do...”

The Medic touches his thought for a moment before sweeping the area with his eyes “But I guess you won’t listen to me... hell! I don’t even know how in hell you survived, let alone burned down the shacks!”

“I also set a trap at the northern pass... but it’s only a temporary one... Rosa where are the technicians?”

The Medic shakes his head in disbelief and Rosa stammers out a reply “They’re on their way, they should be here fairly soon... um Nebel... where’s the rest of your team?”

Nebel grins up at her from his sick bed, showing off blood dyed teeth “What team? I did this alone!”

Rosa turns around and stares at the Oblivec ice sculpture... correction at Oblivec... and the medical team’s jaws drop...

After a little while Nebel’s guards and the technicians arrive and He greets them from the diagonal position he was in thanks to the medics propping him up with a board leaning against the “U” shaped wall fragment.

“Oh hey!” he says greeting them without lifting his arms or moving at all “I’m Nebel your new boss, Nice to meet you and I hope we get along.”

All of the soldiers and most of the technicians greet him back but a blond hair girl with a braid down her back ignores it all and runs over to check out the Oblivec-sicle. “OMG! Guys you’ve got to check this out! He shoved it right into his urethra!”

The girl starts laughing her head off, her legs bowing at the knees and her braid shacking around wildly... eventually she starts to lean on the spear in question while holding her sides “HAHAHAHA oh god! I can’t take it anymore! I’m going to pee myself... he boss your paying the dry cleaning alright?”

Nebel recognised her voice right from the start and actually absolutely loved her reactions but someone else had a differing opinion.

“Technician Rustung! Behave and introduce yourself to Lord Nebel!” One of the soldiers shouts at her in a stern voice.

The girl turns on her heel showing off her tight fitting dress uniform with its flaring skirt and gives him the finger with both hands and sticks out her tongue after saying “Cram it in your pie hole Olsen! He already knows me!”

“How can he know you? We haven’t seen him since we were assigned!” Olsen says shaking his head at her.

“Argg! You’ve totally ruined my mood!” The petit girl screams out before dashing over and punching him in the face with a right hook. “Damn it! I think I’ve broken a nail!” she holds her right hand up and looks at her nails before turning to Nebel and greeting him with a toothy smile.

“Hey Nebel! Nice seeing you again!” she says curtsying smartly in her uniform before showing a playful smirk “Just for the lols you gave me I’ll let you eat me out! So what’s your first orders?”

Nebel smiles at her “Hey Claire, nice to see you also. Umm I would do it myself but I’m sort of indisposed at the moment... can you move the trap from the southern pass to the northern one?”

“Yeah sure I can! Hey guys let’s get moving!” Claire says already picking up her pack which she had dropped on the ground before having her laughing fit.

Nebel smirks “Oh and Claire!” She turns around to face him once more with a little smile “I might just take you up on that offer!” Claire goes red and turns away without a word to head towards the southern pass.

Nebel returns to serious mode after that and starts giving out orders to the soldiers, since they and the medics were the only ones left. “I want half of you to accompany the technicians, three of you to escort two of the medics back and the rest to sweep the area for any remaining goblins.”

The soldiers salute and Olsen chooses which men for which jobs, thirteen of them head towards the pass with two of the medics while the other seven, including Olsen start searching the area. Nebel had to hand it to him from the one direction he could look in they were quite thorough, they kick down or crushed the ruins of huts, lifted debris to check beneath and one of them even popped open a sewer cover, climbed down inside and started to clear the sewers which were strangely large.

Nebel lays his head back on his cot and closes his eyes... waiting for it.

“Damn it Nebel!” Rosa yells at him, seeming to have finally gotten over her worry “Why the hell did you do all of this alone!!! You could have asked for my help! Or Nayder’s he just finished his last job! Or...”

“Now if Nebel could only rest for a bit...”

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Mean while a certain little girl was just opening her eyes to look up at a white canvas roof...

Bö looks around and notices that she’s in a medical tent... “How did I end up in a medical tent...?” she asks herself before remembering... she blushes furiously and looks over at “Bubbles” who was sitting beside her bed.

She narrows her eyes a gives him a glare “That NEVER happened!” she hisses to which he nods his head repeatedly. “Ok, good!” Bö says her expression returning to her usual smile. “Because if Onii-sama heard about this I would surely lose my gaming privileges... and he would find out I know about sex...” Bö blushes once more but smiles deviously “I only want him to know when I hit puberty!”

a little late today but here it is!

Hope you all like it... good night!