Afeus looked at the now fallen young man and didn"t understand what he was feeling. Well, obviously there was that fear of the unknown person that showed incredible strength. There was also grat.i.tude for the person that practically saved his life. But more than that he was curious extremely curious about the young man that he found lying deep within the Kerrolan forest. His curiosity had overpowered his fear as he wanted to know more about the young man. There were so many questions about him, like why was he there, why are the monsters afraid of him, well that question was already answered moments ago, but still, the young man held numerous mysteries within him. As a mage, he was someone who tries to glimpse at the very secrets of the world, Afeus wanted to destroy the shroud of mystery surrounding the young man.
He slowly approached the young man and poked him a bit, after making sure that the young man was truly unconscious Afeus came closer.
"At first glance, this guy looks like a normal human being. He doesn"t have any of the special characteristics other known races have. He could be from some unknown race or he could be a mixed breed."
Afeus started to touch the young man"s face, while he was observing the young man Afeus heard the roars of some of the nearby monsters. When he heard those roars he finally remembered what kind of situation he was in.
Afeus started dragging the young man"s body out of the Kerrolan forest. As he was walking through the forest, the reactions of the monsters were the same as before they fled from them. It was already nighttime when Afeus got out of the forest. He then took a few more hours just to get to the gates of the city. Once he was near he remembered that the young man had no identification papers, and during this time because of the war with Reschbeauch, security checks became tighter.
"d.a.m.n it... I"m just going to wing it then. I"ve been lucky the whole day so my luck might be able to pull me through."
Afeus picked up the young man placed the young man"s hand over his shoulder and walked towards the gatehouse while dragging the young man"s body. Of course one of the guards confronted them.
"Who are you, and what"s his problem?" Afeus quickly showed his papers and his uniform. "Me and my friend here were attacked by some monsters in the forest while we were gathering materials, most of my friend"s things have been destroyed." The guard looked at the two a bit skeptical about what was being said.
"Which forest are you talking about, also why were you gathering materials?" The guard looked at Afeus"s bag.
"We have no choice! We were about to fail and be kicked out of school! This was our only chance of pa.s.sing and we had no money to hire adventurers so we needed to risk it! Its been a hard day for both me and my friend!" Afeus tried his very best to look as crazy and as desperate as possible. He was thinking about what would happen if he really failed in pa.s.sing, which made his acting more believable.
Overwhelmed by Afeus"s emotions and how he was clinging onto him, the guard allowed the two of them to go through. Knowing about how crazy those mage apprentices were when they fail in pa.s.sing, Afeus"s reaction was pretty tamed compare to the others. Before it escalated the guard decided not to get too involved and let them through.
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Once he was far away from the gatehouse Afeus sighed in relief. He didn"t know if that act would work or not and was ready to use the name of his family he hated so much. That"s how desperate he was, but seeing everything going so well he wondered if he really was that lucky.
While having that thought Afeus continued to drag the unconscious young man towards his dormitory. It was a good thing that he shared his room with no one and thus could fit this extra body in his room.
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Upon arriving in his dorm room Afeus gently lay down the young man on the floor. He then organized all the materials he gathered. Once he was done doing that he sat on his bed and started to think while looking at the young man that was lying on his floor. After some thought, Afeus decided it would be best to just wake up the young man and maybe once the young man was awake most of his questions will be answered.
Afeus started by shouting excuse me loudly. When that didn"t work he tried slapping the young man"s face. When that failed as well he splashed the young man with cold water, then hot water both of which did nothing at all. Afeus then proceeded to do multiple things to try and wake the young man up. At first, he was really just trying to wake him up but then he found it was quite fun doing these random things seeing which one would work.
Since he was getting louder he drew a spell seal that blocks out sound from one side. After that, he went really crazy and did more experiments on how to wake up the unconscious young man. Yet as he continued to do various things none of them were working.
"Why did he wake up then, but not now? What triggered it?..." Afeus tried to remember everything that happened upon encountering the unconscious young man. No matter how he dragged him or when his body got hit by rocks and other things on the ground the young man never responded. The only time he responded and woke up was when that monster attacked.
"He only moved because his life was in danger." When Afeus reached this conclusion he decided to act on it. He circulated mana into his body and chanted a spell, now all he needed to do was say the activation word.
"Why aren"t you moving? Do I really need to hit you?" Afeus hesitated as he didn"t really want to harm the young man or worse kill him. Still, if he doesn"t do something the young man might be sleeping forever which was no different from death. "Well, he did do that to that monster, so he might be strong enough to survive this."
Afeus looked at the unconscious young man and since he couldn"t think of any other way he decided to risk it. Afeus then lowered the output of the spell, so that even if the young man gets. .h.i.t and injured he won"t die.
"[Light Pierce]" A ray of white light shot out of Afeus"s finger and hit the young man. But to Afeus"s surprise, the young man wasn"t affected at all. His clothes had a hole in it but the young man"s body was fine. Seeing that got Afeus even more curious as he proceeded to increase the output of his mana. Yet no matter how much he increased it the young man"s body was unaffected. Afeus nearly drained all of his mana trying this method.
"It seems like I"m too weak for him to even notice my attacks. If the only way to wake him up is to make him feel like his life is being threatened then-" Afeus started thinking of different ways as to how he could wake the young man up. He couldn"t help but smile excitedly as he thought about the numerous experiments he could conduct.