Chapter 22: Healing
Thankfully, she acted fast enough and her healing spell was able to quickly close the multiple layers of split flesh and remove the blood trickling into his lungs.
Within seconds, Gan Brooks was as good as new.
Well, not completely, he has had a very close meeting with death, and he was quite traumatized by it!
He laid there on the ground gasping in terror.
The expert ignored him for a moment and glanced at the other four dying kids. She made a quick decision and acted efficiently to save both young ladies.
But by the time they were healed, it was too late for the two guards. They had bled and choked to death.
Everything happened so quickly, that by the time fatty found his tongue, everything was over, and the beautiful middle aged woman in black was already glaring at them.
"What the hell? Boss! You are too cool! Too strong! Too fast! Too amazing! You are truly worthy to be my boss! But how the hell are you E ranked? There must be a mistake! There is no way that you are a trashy E ranked!" Fatty hooted excitedly.
"You're the E ranked awakened of the Bloodbane Clan, Damien Bloodbane?" The beautiful woman from the Brooks Family asked in a frosty voice.
The young master she was tasked to protect had almost died, and if she had failed to protect him, her life would be forfeit as well.
To say that she was pissed off would be an understatement!
But she was not an expert for nothing. She could detect the presence of another expert hiding in the shadows.
And unlike the insane Damien Bloodbane who dared to act without bothering to consider the whole situation, she had to prioritize protecting Gan Brooks, and put venting her anger on some overconfident trash on the back burner. For now.
To act rashly at that moment would only endanger Gan Brooks and leave him vulnerable to counter attack.
However, she truly did not expect that instead of appreciating the fact that she wasn't attacking him in revenge, the E ranked trash actually moved to attack her at that moment!
Insanity!
Damien Bloodbane's lips curled into a cold smile as he flew towards the middle aged woman with his dagger swinging dangerously towards her neck.
He was not one who would reject gifts falling down upon him.
Clang! Bam!
In an incredible show of agility, the middle aged woman actually managed to parry Damien Bloodbane's dagger slash with a dagger of her own!
In addition, she also managed to block the ruthless punch he unleashed with his off hand.
Damien Bloodbane spun at incredible speed to reposition himself for another attack, but the middle aged woman was no pushover who only waited to receive attacks.
Thin but supremely tough spiked vines shot out of her body at that moment and wrapped themselves around his pivot leg!
Clang!!
Damien Bloodbane swung his dagger down to cut the vines, but the vines were too tough.
And at the same time, the spikes had penetrated his flesh and were pumping in some sort of poison into his body!
Without hesitation, Damien Bloodbane unleashed his Death Energy and sent them to crush the vines.
The instant his Death Energy touched the vines, they weakened and withered.
BAM!!! Crack!!
Damien Bloodbane's knee from his non pivot leg smashed into the middle aged woman's back and sent her flying away with blood spurting out of her mouth!
The high speed battle was over in an instant.
In just one blink of an eye, the two combatants had come together in a fearsome clash and then separated in an explosive manner.
The middle aged woman was heavily injured. Her spine had been broken by Damien Bloodbane!
However, Damien Bloodbane's condition was not that much better.
The poison that was pumped into his body was not a simple one that causes mere paralysis.
It was a deadly poison that would enter the victim's brain through the bloodstream, and cause it to explode!
"Boss! You're insanely awesomely cool!" Fatty cried out excitedly as he moved forward to him.
But before he could reach him, Sheila Shadowbane shot past him and got to Damien Bloodbane first!
"Do not resist." Sheila Shadowbane said urgently as she placed her hand over his head.
"Hmmm? What are you trying to do?" Damien Bloodbane asked her in surprise.
"Those vines are poisonous. I will help you neutralize them. Don't move!" Sheila Shadowbane ordered him in a serious voice.
"I guess you finally got your wish of measuring my brain activity." Damien chuckled lightly and allowed her to do whatever she wanted.
Sheila Shadowbane ignored him and frowned deeply in concentration.
Her Ice Energy entered his brain and traveled downwards in the opposite direction of the poison's flow.
It surged all the way downwards, past his heart and towards the wounds caused by the spiked vines.
"Huh? The poison hasn't spread? Thank god!" Sheila Shadowbane gasped in surprise and relief, and placed her other hand over his wound.
Swoosh!
Ice Energy surrounded the poison and quickly froze it completely.
"Sit down. I will need to remove the poison. This will hurt, but it is better than dying." Sheila Shadowbane warned Damien Bloodbane.
"Do it." Damien Bloodbane did as he was told and merely shrugged casually.
A dagger, much more exquisite than the one she sold to Gan Brooks, appeared on her hand at that moment. She deftly sliced the flesh on Damien Bloodbane's leg open and proceeded to remove the frozen poison bit by bit.
She handled the dagger expertly with impeccable precision, and her confident, efficient moves indicated that she was very familiar with what she was doing.
Damien Bloodbane smiled as he looked at the poison master working hard to remove the poison in his body. A warm feeling bubbled from deep within his heart.
Having a beautiful girl tend to your needs was really amazing!
"Oh my god! Boss, that's so disgusting! Ah! My eyes! My eyes!!" The damned fatty cried out loudly after peeking over Sheila Shadowbane's shoulders to see what exactly was happening.
His hands shot up to cover his eyes, but his wide open eyes were still staring at everything through the gaps between his fingers.
"Boss, you're so amazing! Isn't it painful?" Fatty didn't miss the chance to unleash his S Grade bootlicking skills on Damien Bloodbane.
"From now on, you will have to give me a mid human grade material for every time you needlessly praise me." Damien Bloodbane glared at the fatty and warned him threateningly.
After being praised for so many times, Damien Bloodbane was getting quite irritated by it.
"Ah! Boss, I was being sincere this time! But if you put it that way, then I won't praise you ever again! Don't you worry. Not even when you do an incredible, world shaking feat such as not screaming when your leg is being operated on!" Fatty shouted.
The instinct to bootlick must have been completely ingrained into his very bones as he still managed to do exactly that even when trying his best not to.
But Damien Bloodbane was seriously impressive.
It was as though he did not feel the pain of his leg which had been sliced open.
Much too quickly, Sheila Shadowbane was done.
She took out a small roll of bandage from her robe and tied Damien Bloodbane's wounds with it.
"There, all good." Sheila Shadowbane said with a satisfied smile over a job well done.
And it was not a moment too soon.
Before Damien Bloodbane could even get in a single word of thanks, a MASSIVE explosion rocked the entire Chinese Camp!