“Come!” I knew these two looking as raised daggers in front of my face weren’t going any easy on me.

But if that was the only path, then let it be done!

“Ahhh!”

All I felt was such a scorching pain that I never imagined or felt before. It felt like all cells in my body got burnt and blazed like they were being baptised with fire.

I screamed, screamed for a long time that felt like a decade. I didn’t know what to do but to try and endure.

But would anyone be able to endure such pain? It wasn’t a pain any living person should experience.

Just after long minutes, and when I started to feel I was enduring this, the pain showed that it had another level I never knew of.

It started with dissipating towards my heart and mind, then my soul. I could feel my soul getting chopped to pieces, big ones, then smaller, and smaller.

It was so damn painful! I felt like I was dying, one time after a time, like thrown alive into a boiling oil container..

This pain kept assaulting me fiercely without any rest, like it would never stop. But I did my best to remain alive, dropping any hope of enduring the pain.

After an unknown period of time, my body started to feel numb. The pain started to grow dull, gradually fading away.

It stopped! It finally stopped! I didn’t know if this was something worthy of celebration, but all I felt was for my knees to touch the ground.

I was thrown out from this world, or perhaps I lost concentration and was awakened outside. I felt no power, so damn weak to even stabilise my body and prevent it from falling.

*Thud!*

“Hye!”

I heard this scream that was filled with concern and deep emotions before the world turned all dark from around me.

And the next second I fell unconscious.

I didn’t know for how long I slept like this. But the moment I opened my eyes, I recognised the ceiling of one of my chariot’s room.

“Hye!”

The second thing I noticed was the deeply distressed voice of Hilary. Then I felt a body thrown over me, while sobbing and crying.

“Hilary… What are you doing?” I felt like my voice was stripped off its vigour and came coarse.

“You… You were sleeping for the entire three days… Without waking up…” she said amidst her tears, while her body shook from time to time.

Three days… I slept for three days straight?!! This was…

And it suddenly hit me. I recalled what happened in my shadow world, making me unable to sit anymore.

I slowly and gently pushed her body aside, sat erect on the edge of the bed to be welcomed with the worried and concerned eyes of those standing at the door opening.

Lily, Angelica, the spearhead, and others were here. Even the jumper appeared here as well with his ugly cold mask.

Yet from under the mask, I could tell his eyes carried lots of worry and concern, and tons of questions.

“You… Are you… Alright… Sob?!” Hilary asked amidst her tears, and I could only pat on her shoulder, trying to reassure her.

“I’m alright,” I said, “there is nothing to worry about.”

“But…”

“I’m fine,” I grabbed her tighter to come closer to me. Her body shook for a few times before she finally grew calmer.

“You are really a master in making people worry,” the voice of the jumper came next with a deep sigh, “they brought me over from the frontline and I had to stop my invading plans to the north.”

“I’m good.”

“I can tell that,” he rolled his eyes, “but you were… Really in such a deep sh*t this time. What? Did you meet a formidable enemy you couldn’t overcome? But I didn’t see any wounds on your body at all.”

“You… Look at my body?!!!” I was baffled by this.

“I had to,” he shrugged, “after all she never stopped nagging me until I did.”

“I told you,” Angelica stepped in at this moment, showing a weird look to that dude, “he was practising over his chariot when he suddenly started screaming and twitching like he got seizures or something!”

“People in seizures won’t scream,” Leo’s voice came before adding when all the people here looked at him, “I just had a friend with such a case before.”

“Angelica is right,” I tried to stand up but hit violently with a dizziness that made me return to bed.

“Easy… Easy there,” Hilary stood up and helped me return to bed.

“You look like sh*t my friend,” the jumper said while I bitterly smiled.

“You finally called me your friend, fantastic!”

“Don’t get used to it,” he rolled his eyes, “folks, he is good and alive. So let him rest and let’s return to our business. Hilary…”

He said and Hilary seemed reluctant to leave my side. But when he said her name again, she had to leave me behind.

Everyone left, leaving me and that jumper alone.

“Sigh! You know you gave me a scare just now?” That bastard showed a soft side of him that I never thought existed.

“It’s not that easy to get killed.”

“I know, and that is what made it scarier!” he sighed, came to sit by my side before adding, “it’s not that easy to find someone like you in this world.”

“Speak more like this and I’ll start suspecting your identity!”

“Hahahaha, it’s just you gave me such a troublesome three days,” he laughed before adding, “anyway, the kingdom affairs are good. The building process has started and we are going to see the results soon.”

“And? Ores?” I asked as this was the most important missing item here.

“Our boys found a rich mine nearby and managed to claim lots of ores while you were asleep,” the jumper said before adding, “that Isac dude is a workaholic! He came only once to check on you, knew you were alive, and returned to oversee the rebuilding process.”