Wizardry System - Chapter 36

Chris felt like he was going to faint at any moment.

‘This is not good,’ Chris thought.

Blood was continuing to gush out of his body and while he did want to fix it, unfortunately, he didn’t know any healing spells.

The Servant came up to Chris. He took off his hood to reveal his face. Chris was now wide awake and completely shocked. The Servant’s face was full of huge scars from cut wounds. One of his eye was sewn shut and one of his ear was gone as well. However, he was grinning ear to ear.

“You know as a Servant, I’m not allowed to show my face or talk, but since I’m going to die anyways, I might as well right?” The Servant said with a grin.

The Servant started laughing maniacally.

“You’re crazy,” Chris said while gasping for air.

“Crazy? Perhaps I am, but compared to those maniacs over there, I’m nothing,” The Servant said pointing at the cult members fighting his parents and Martin. Chris saw that Bradley and Lorraine were desperately trying to defeat their cult group. “After a Cult member kidnapped me, I was forced to be trained and look at my face. This is what they did as punishment for not meeting their standards. There was no escape. I couldn’t leave nor could I die. I was stopped every time I tried to commit suicide and they would punish me heavily after finding me. Can you stand that? Can you stay sane after being tortured everyday having your ears chopped off or having your eyes gouged out then sewn shut? Well you’re just a child, what can you really understand other than the fact that I look disgusting. I see that your two lady friends are shivering over there,”

“I know! After I kill you, I’ll kill those two. Surely that’d make my short life mean something!” The Servant said as he lifted his wand.

‘I can’t concentrate to create a shield. Well it’s quite surprising that my body actually lasted this long,’ Chris thought as he lost his consciousness. The last thing he heard was Hermione and Kristine call his name as he fell.

…

When Chris woke up, he was in a hospital room. When he looked next to him, Bradley and Lorraine were next to him sleeping.

“Father. Mother,” Chris said weakly.

Both Bradley and Lorraine immediately woke up and Lorraine started to cry.

“Chris, I’m so sorry. I swear I’ll never leave you again. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have left you. If you had died, I-I wouldn’t know what to do with myself,” Lorraine said whilst she was crying.

“Mother, it’s not your fault. It was either you fight or Father and Uncle Allen perish from the combined attack of all those Servants. If you hadn’t gone to fight, we would’ve all died,” Chris said. “Oh yes, what happened to Hermione, Kristine and their parents?”

Lorraine nodded and left the room.

“Son, good job staying brave enough to protect your friends,” Bradley said as he patted Chris’ head. “You’re certainly much braver than I ever was,”

Lorraine soon came back with water.

“Father, how long have I slept for and when am I getting discharged?” Chris asked.

“It’s been 1 day since you fainted,” Bradley said. “The hospital used everything they can to help you so you recovered quickly. However, while they did treat you, they can’t remove your scars since it’s created by Dark Magic,”

Chris lifted his shirt to reveal 2 deep scars that resembled that of a cross.

“You could leave the hospital tomorrow,” Bradley said. “The cuts were severe, but they didn’t touch anything important,”

“Father what happened to those Servants?” Chris asked.

“Don’t worry about it too much Son. We’ve taken care of them,” Bradley said. “More importantly, we plan on canceling this trip. It’s a tad bit too dangerous here,”

“Chris your father is right, it’s too dangerous here,” Lorraine said. “We could get attacked again and this time we might not be so lucky. There’s so many places we can go to. I’m sure ,”

‘Shit if they cancel this trip, we can’t get what we need for the diary,” Chris thought.

“Mother, we’re already here and I’m sure that if we have more guards with us, we can deflect any attacks thrown at us. I was looking forward to going to the Statue of Liberty,” Chris said.

…

Bradley and Lorraine looked at each other and left the room. After about 5 minutes, they came back inside the room.

“Alright, we’ll stay here. We’ll have the Magical Congress have people send people to help us fight if necessary. However, we’ll scrap the idea of being separate for a week. Tomorrow, we’ll go to the Statue of Liberty and then we’ll plan things from there,” Bradley said. “Also, no matter what happens, you’re not allowed to fight. Lorraine, you’re not going to fight either so Chris do not urge your Mother to fight because she definitely will not. Your top priority will be to help the kids and the Granger and Alder family escape,”

Lorraine and Chris nodded.