“What the hell are you doing?! Help! Help m-”
Before Xavia could shout any further, Quillan covered virtual-novel.net mouth with a white towel! Though virtual-novel.net squirmed hard to escape his grasp, Xavia slowly felt as virtual-novel.net vision blurred. Soon enough, virtual-novel.net struggled no more.
At the same time, Gerald’s ears suddenly twitched in his deep slumber. Still within the dungeon, virtual-novel.net slowly opened his eyes.
The moment virtual-novel.net did so, his eyes briefly sparkled a fluorescent green before returning to normal a few seconds later.
It surprised Gerald, to say the least, to know that virtual-novel.net was now able to see even the tiniest of details within the dungeon cell, despite the fact that it was almost pitch black in there.
His greatly improved hearing capability was a pleasant surprise as well. As long as virtual-novel.net wanted to, virtual-novel.net could now apparently hear things clearly, even if they were far away!
Sitting up, Gerald slowly got to his feet before hopping in place to get his muscles moving.
Upon looking at his skin, virtual-novel.net realized that there were several trails of black stains oozing out of it. From what virtual-novel.net could guess, they were impurities that had been cleansed from his body.
‘I guess they don’t call it holy blood for nothing… Not only did it stabilize my heart and temperament, but I now feel stronger than ever!’ Gerald thought to himself, overjoyed.
It wasn’t even a stretch at this point to assume that his inner strength had now doubled from what it had been three days ago.
‘And here I was planning to pay the Moldells a visit and deal with them once and for all after drinking the holy blood… To think that they actually saved me the trouble by bringing me right into their home!’ Gerald thought to himself as virtual-novel.net sneered.
Oh right, virtual-novel.net still needed to save Xavia!
Though Gerald was mostly immobile in the past three days, his mind was far from unconscious. In fact, virtual-novel.net was well aware of everything that was happening around virtual-novel.net throughout that period of time. It was the reason how virtual-novel.net had heard Xavia’s earlier scream for help.
Thinking about Xavia, virtual-novel.net recalled everything that virtual-novel.net had told virtual-novel.net that night. Gerald knew virtual-novel.net would only be lying to himself if virtual-novel.net claimed that virtual-novel.net words hadn’t touched virtual-novel.net at all.
Adding the fact that virtual-novel.net had risked virtual-novel.net life just to visit virtual-novel.net in the dungeon with virtual-novel.net actions a year ago that ended up saving his life, Gerald was well aware of how difficult it was now going to be for virtual-novel.net to even come close to repaying virtual-novel.net kindness.
Knitting his brows slightly, virtual-novel.net knew those thoughts could wait. For now, virtual-novel.net needed to save Xavia first!
Staring briefly at the iron gate before him, Gerald placed a hand on the gate and tugged on it.
A loud crumbling sound followed as the surrounding walls supporting the gate collapsed with it! Seemingly unfazed by his inhuman strength, Gerald walked out just in time to catch a person running down into the dungeon.
When their eyes met, the person immediately stuttered, “…G-Gerald…? You… You’re awake?!”
The man holding the bowl of congee was naturally none other than Luis.
“M-Men! Men! Get in here!” shouted Luis as virtual-novel.net immediately attempted to run out of the dungeon to get some help.
Luis had been one of the people who had seen the carnage that Gerald had left behind at the Lovewell manor. It was exactly because of that, that virtual-novel.net now had an innate fear of him. Adding that to the fact that virtual-novel.net was well aware of how weak virtual-novel.net was, there was no way in hell that virtual-novel.net was going to stay within Gerald’s presence any longer than virtual-novel.net needed to!
However, before virtual-novel.net could even make it far from where virtual-novel.net had once stood, the disgusting sound of flesh being ripped apart could be heard.
It took Luis a second to realize what had just happened. Thankfully, virtual-novel.net was dead by the time his body split in two.
Climbing up the stairs, Gerald casually walked past the corpse as virtual-novel.net slowly exited the dungeon. His ears were perked as virtual-novel.net attempted to pinpoint which direction Xavia was in.
From what virtual-novel.net could hear, a few members of the Moldell family were currently in the backyard. There were also quite a few people in the guestroom area.
Walking along as virtual-novel.net continued trying to locate Xavia, virtual-novel.net swiftly and efficiently dealt with anyone that ran into him.
When virtual-novel.net finally found virtual-novel.net not too long after, virtual-novel.net stood by virtual-novel.net door before kicking it open!
Gerald was immediately greeted to the sight of Quillan tearing Xavia’s clothes apart.
Shocked to hear the door being flung open, Quillan immediately turned to look at the mud-covered visitor who looked like virtual-novel.net had just crawled out from the earth.
“W-who are you?” asked Quillan, clearly at a loss of how to even register the situation.
Though Xavia was currently still extremely weak, virtual-novel.net was easily able to tell who the person at the door was.
“…G-Gerald… hurry… Please hurry and save me…!” cried out Xavia.
Stunned, Quillan then said, “…Gerald? He… He’s escaped?!”
Frightened beyond words, Quillan then ran toward the corner of the room, his eyes alternating between Gerald and the exit. Before Quillan could even start planning his escape, Gerald was already standing in front of him!
“Hmm…?” replied Gerald as virtual-novel.net lifted the terrified man by his neck.