Injury
Sorea's head was glowing with golden light as she sat panting heavily, her body tense. She feared that the Greedy Blood Eye, having lost her trail, would recklessly destroy all the buildings. She was prepared to escape with the others at any moment.
After more than ten minutes, when the Greedy Blood Eye outside showed no reaction, the group finally relaxed a little.
"Sister, it's alright, it's alright." Louis was also terrified by what had just happened. He knelt down next to Sorea and patted her back to help her catch her breath.
Edward, still shaken, exclaimed, "The sun attacked people?"
“That’s not the sun, it’s the greedy blood-red eye of the evil god,” Sorea said weakly.
The others have many more questions, but now is not the time for them to ask.
After regaining her senses, Lilith immediately took out a healing potion from her storage scroll and poured it onto Soraya's wound.
The blue potion mixed with Solaya's blood flowed down. The stimulation from the potion made Solaya grab Louis's arm, then bite her lip hard to suppress the painful groan that was about to escape her lips.
The irritation from the medicine caused Sorea to break out in a cold sweat, but it had no effect on her wounds; her blood wouldn't clot, and her face grew even paler.
Soria looked at Lilith, whose hands were trembling and who was on the verge of tears, and said, "Don't apply any medicine to me. We don't have many potions with us, so use them sparingly. This is damage caused by an evil god, and ordinary potions can't heal it."
"Where is the divine power? Don't you have the divine power left behind by that being? Can't it heal your wounds?" Lilith had to face the fact that Sorea's wounds could not be healed, and her voice was tinged with a sob.
Sorea had used up her last bit of strength after saying what she had just said. She didn't have the strength to tell Lilith that she would have died if it weren't for the divine power within her.
She was in a semi-comatose state, her body temperature was rising, and she could not hear her teammates.
“We must find the safest way out of here. Sorea won’t last much longer!” Lilith said anxiously, touching Sorea, who was running a high fever due to her serious injuries.
Edward saw the distraught Lilith and the unconscious Solalia and knew he had to step up and lead them to find a way out; the longer they delayed, the more dangerous it would be for Solalia.
Edward repeatedly told himself to stay calm, suppressing his trembling voice, and firmly told the others to follow him, assuring them they could leave safely.
The others felt like they had found their pillar of support when they heard Edward's voice. Louis carried Solia on his back, and Lilith held Vivian's hand, following Edward as they slowly made their way deeper into the factory. Only Edward himself knew that his back was completely soaked with sweat. He didn't know what he would face next, but in this situation, only moving forward could lead to a way out.
"Money is everything, long live work!"
Before Edward and his companions even reached the textile factory's production line, they suddenly heard a series of deafening slogans.
Edward raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop. Their group was either injured or panicked, and they would be discovered as soon as they entered the factory.
“There’s a warehouse over there. Lilith, you take the rest of them and hide there for a while. I’ll go check out what’s inside first,” Edward decided after observing the surroundings.
“It’s too dangerous for you to go alone!” Louis objected.
Edward's attitude was firm: "It's better for me to be in danger than for everyone else to be in danger."
Lilith nodded, ignoring Louis's struggles, and dragged him and Vivian toward the warehouse. Lilith's attention was on Louis, and she didn't expect that Vivian, who had been silent the whole way, would suddenly break free from her grasp and run toward Edward.
"Teacher, I'll go with you. The two of us will be a smaller target and it will be safer."
Edward was surprised to see Vivian coming over. He was about to refuse her outright, but under her determined gaze, he decided to let her come along.
Lilith saw Vivian running away and was about to chase after her when she saw Edward agree. She nodded to Edward, pushed Louis, who was starting to make a fuss about following, and whispered, "Don't drag your sister down with you!"
Louis snapped to his senses upon hearing this. He wasn't usually this impulsive and irritable; he was only insisting on following her because he was extremely worried about Soraya's injuries. Now that he was clear-headed, thinking of Soraya on his back, he quietly followed Lilith.
Edward figured that everyone here was an ordinary civilian, and no high-level inscription mage could see through his invisibility inscription and directly cast invisibility inscription totem on him and Vivian.
“Vivian, the invisibility period is half an hour. We must return here within half an hour, regardless of whether we find any clues or not.” Edward’s intention was to have Vivian act with him.
Vivian, however, thought differently. She wanted to split up with Edward to search for clues, believing that this would be the most efficient way.
Edward disagreed with Vivian acting alone. After a moment of eye contact, he knew they couldn't waste any more time and had to agree to Vivian's plan. He then repeatedly reminded Vivian to be careful.
After they parted ways, Vivian returned to the place where she and Edward had parted ways twenty-five minutes later, having searched outside the factory without finding anything.
After disappearing into the shadows, Edward was still nowhere to be found. Vivian, realizing something might have happened to Edward, turned deathly pale and her forehead was covered in sweat.
"Impossible, it must have been an accident on the teacher's part. He won't be in any danger." Vivian kept reassuring herself. She didn't believe in God, and although she knew the prayers for thousands of deities, she didn't know which deity to pray to for Edward's safety.
Ten more minutes had passed since the time she had agreed upon with Edward. Every minute of that time felt like torture for Vivian. She knew that waiting there wouldn't do much good, so she tried to calm her racing heart and prepared to set off in the direction Edward had gone to look for him.
Vivian's strength was insufficient, and the steps required to become invisible through the inscription totem were too complicated. Without the power reserves of a demigod, it was impossible to complete. Just as she looked around helplessly, she suddenly saw a ventilation duct.
Vivian had to curl up to enter; the inside of the pipe was not only small but also extremely complicated. She could no longer see many dead ends and could only keep changing her route.
As she passed the junction of two pipes, Vivian vaguely saw some light. Unable to find her way, she decided to head towards the light first, and soon she reached the end of the pipe.
Fortunately, Vivian successfully found Edward this time. Unfortunately, through a vent covered with barbed wire, Vivian saw Edward hanging from a dyeing agent used to color textiles. The agent was placed inside a giant boiler, which was constantly heating it, and the agent made a gurgling sound.
Edward sat atop the boiler with his eyes closed, guarded by two men whose ranks Vivian couldn't discern.
Vivian covered her mouth, trembling as she quickly retreated to where she had come from. Finding Edward had taken a long time, but Vivian had memorized most of the route and soon found her way back.
Upon arriving at her destination, Vivian didn't dare to delay and immediately ran towards the warehouse where Lilith and Soleria were.
Lilith, who was at the warehouse, was relieved. All the workers were either manufacturing goods on the textile factory's assembly line or patrolling the park outside the textile factory. No one noticed that they were hiding in a warehouse full of scrap.
Soraya leaned against Louis, her back bleeding profusely. Lilith had changed the bandages on her back countless times. Even a demigod would have died from bleeding like Soraya.
Soraya's body, nourished by divine power year after year, possesses a vitality far stronger than others; unless it is a fatal injury, it cannot bring her to the brink of death.
Sorea's tenacious vitality caused her immense suffering. The wound on her back was not fatal, but she constantly felt her blood flowing out and flowing back in, her consciousness fluctuating between clarity and confusion.
Just as Lilith was relieved that nothing serious would happen to Solaya anytime soon, Vivian stumbled in.
"Edward has been arrested!" Vivian blurted out before she could even stand up straight.
Upon hearing her words, Louis was so shocked that she stood up abruptly. Soraya, who was leaning against her, slid down. Lilith was also startled by the news and did not notice Soraya's condition. The intense pain from Soraya's wound hitting the ground instantly brought her back to her senses.
Under the watchful eyes of the three, Vivian recounted what she had seen.
After hearing this, Lilith's already furrowed brows furrowed even deeper. She kept searching her mind for a way to rescue her, while Louis, realizing he couldn't help, paced anxiously in circles.
"Help me up," Sorea's voice rang in the ears of the three who were deep in thought.
Lilith and Louise only then discovered that Sorea had collapsed on the ground.
"Sis! How did you wake up! I'm so sorry! Are you alright!" Louis immediately helped Sorea up and leaned her against him.
Sorea shook her head and said to the three of them, "Louis, turn around. Lilith, remove the bandage from my wound. Vivian, use the fire to light Lilith's way."
Although they didn't know why Sorea made them do this, the three of them obediently listened to her.
Lilith carefully cut open the bandage with a knife, and Vivian used fire to illuminate Solaya's back, revealing a shocking wound to the two of them.
"Lilith, can you see my veins?"
Lilith, unsure of Soleria's intentions, instinctively replied, "I can see it, it's bleeding, what happened?"
Despite the pain, Sorea said, "There are red lines in my veins. Pick them out for me so I don't have to cut myself in the hand again."
Lilith and Vivian could hardly believe what they had just heard and were stunned.
Sorea knew that the existence of threads in her veins was puzzling, so she explained, "Lilith, didn't you ask me before if I had any commonly used weapons? Those threads are my weapons; I was born with them."
Louis suddenly remembered what Sorea's weapon was, covered his eyes, turned around and shouted, "Sis, you can't take that thing out of your body! Are you crazy?!"
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