nashuaworldcup Chapter 265 The Comatose Girl
Chapter 265 The Comatose Girl
Lorraine, with no distractions, vigorously shook the unconscious girl.
The young girl, Eileen, was finally woken up by the disturbance.
The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Lorraine's pale, iconic Forsaken face.
The undead's face was mostly shriveled and hollow, with blue spirit fire burning in its left eye socket and a black mist seemingly swirling in its right eye...like a miniature black hole. Another striking feature of Lorraine was that her face appeared to have been cleaved in two scars, a black fork-shaped mark deeply embedded in the bone.
Eileen had a deep impression of the black cross-shaped mark.
Lorraine, the plague messenger, was the enemy who killed her teacher Joseph, a fact she seemed to deliberately forget.
Since meeting Lady Aegwynn, she willingly became Lady Aegwynn's disciple. Eileen keenly sensed that Lady Aegwynn was far superior to the former intermediate mage Joseph.
Lady Aegwynn is the leader of all the mages in the Undercity Magic Quarter.
Given her status and power, Eileen quickly made a decision in the face of death...
Judging from some clues, Lady Aegwynn is the legendary human guardian from the ancient texts Erin was reading. Her mentor, Tyler, completely fails to see this; he insists that Lady Aegwynn is merely an evil undead...
Eileen's knowledge far surpassed that of her senior, Taylor. She was then transformed into a half-human, half-corpse state, which she accepted with equanimity.
Risking being burned to ashes to help Lorraine enter Dalaran, Eileen covered for Lorraine in Ambermill and successfully put the anti-magic potion into the mages' food.
She sent the Dalaran guards back to Dalaran, creating a wave of returning refugees.
Erin played a crucial role in the Battle of Ambermill... During the Battle of Dalaran, even when she was captured under duress, Erin still did not identify Lorraine, and Lorraine judged Erin to be a loyal ally.
Eileen did indeed experience nightmares, and the torment she suffered was no less than Lorraine's...
She also lacked Lorraine's methods; Taylor, that traitor, harbored a fanatical obsession with Eileen. He believed Eileen had been brainwashed by the undead and insisted that the mages of the Silver Covenant perform a spiritual infusion on her to dispel the evil aura emanating from her.
However, Eileen had already accepted her status as a quasi-Forgotten One. When she was subjected to magical torture, she only said some words that Taylor could not understand.
"You only think of saving me now? Ridiculous... Foolish! You don't know I've achieved a dream you could never have in several lifetimes. Though the price is heavy... I'm willing! Mortals, you'd better let me go... otherwise..."
Taylor insisted that Eileen was insane, and that he seemed to have failed to protect the junior sister he admired.
Taylor directed all his resentment at Lorraine, who had launched the attack on Wolf Island, leading to the current situation.
"Lorraine, the plague messenger, that evil necromancer. He must have cursed Irene and controlled her soul... My Irene, wake up!"
Eileen scoffed at Taylor, who had fallen into madness, twisted his personality, become half-human and half-corpse, and lost all sense of reality.
"traitor!"
The price of being a traitor is heavy. Taylor went from sadness and excitement to rage, leaving the mages of Dalaran momentarily unable to tell who had been brainwashed and bewitched by the undead... The Kirin Torri's attitude towards Erin and Taylor was subtle; they wanted to make good use of these two treasures.
However, they lacked Aegwynn's memory extraction abilities and were unable to uncover the secrets within the two individuals. Aegwynn had placed powerful magical marks upon them, piquing the interest and curiosity of the Kirin Tor.
They were unable to break through the Guardian's magical protective disguise...
The only conclusion is that Eileen and Taylor were infected with the Undead Virus and are about to transform into a new species of Forsaken...
Taylor was terrified, jumping around wildly. He underwent various experiments by the psychic, including the infusion of holy light, which was actually using the energy from holy light relics to burn his already zombified body.
Comparable to burning at the stake...
Because Eileen resisted the so-called baptism to become human again, she remained silent.
Master Yuvel was helpless, but with everyone watching, he couldn't directly order the execution of his former friend Master Joseph's disciple... Under Dalaran law, to use the death penalty against a Dalaran citizen, the Kirin Tor Council had to discuss the matter and hold a referendum... Only with more than two-thirds of the votes could a trial proceed.
The entire process was extremely complicated, and Master Yuvel, who was in charge of the enforcement team, knew that he could not hand Eileen and Taylor over to the Kirin Tor Council...
Find an excuse to take Eileen and Taylor out of Dalaran and leave them stranded in the deep pit.
Without the protection of Master Joseph Rune, the fate of the two disciples, who were identified as being infected with the undead plague, was almost certainly sealed as a tragedy.
In the Kirin Tor prison, Erin endured even more torture...
She remained steadfast in her convictions, uttering not a single word. Later, when they were besieged alongside the refugees, Marcus stepped forward to protect them, finally moving Eileen. She felt the warmth of her fellow human beings...
However, she was also physically weak, desperately thirsty, and covered in wounds... Unable to stand on her own, she collapsed into Marcus's arms...
The reason for this is simply that some scholars in Dalaran wanted to verify whether the undead truly don't eat... whether they are truly impervious to pain, and whether they can regenerate limbs...
In comparison, Taylor was perhaps lucky.
He begged for the hammer and received it, becoming the first excellent specimen of the early stage of Dalaran's infected undead. Master Yuviel used arcane energy to create a living specimen as evidence of the evil undead's cruelty towards humanity...
His remaining head still held a faint consciousness, occasionally shedding drops of bloody tears, a truly horrifying sight...
However, it was still displayed in the Treasure Gallery Archives, becoming a treasured possession of the Dalaran mages... a dead man's head that can talk... an eternal life form maintained by magic...
Evidence of the evil of the dead!
......
When Eileen saw Lorraine's face, she was first tense, then relaxed, and finally seemed about to close her eyes and fall asleep again...
"Hey, hey, Eileen, wake up..."
Lorraine shook her vigorously again, and Eileen coughed, fully waking up...
She murmured weakly, "Water..."
Lorraine immediately scurried out of the cellar, filled a broken wooden bucket with lake water, and poured it directly onto Eileen. Eileen snapped to attention, mechanically straightening her body. Soaked to the bone, she stared at Lorraine in disbelief, looking like a drowned rat.
Smacking her lips, Eileen licked the water droplets off her face...
She was indeed much more lucid...
I'm just speechless.
"Are you ok?"
"Lorraine asked with concern," Eileen asked instinctively. Eileen nodded, glancing around and noticing Marcus leaning against the corner of the wall not far away...
"How is he...?"
"It's alright, he's just too tired, like you... Here, I have some medicine. Drink two bottles, and you'll feel better..."
The clever Lorraine suddenly understood.
Besides anti-magic poisons, he also carried a considerable amount of healing and magical potions he had saved up... as well as buff potions that increased health regeneration. None of them were high-grade, but they were effective; in critical moments, the magical potions could even be a great help.
A mage is in extreme danger in battle once their magic power is depleted...
Despite repeated reminders from his teacher, Lorraine still carried these potions with him at all times, categorizing them and storing them in his bag for emergencies, even though he hardly ever used them.
The truth is, these medications really work.
Troll Growth Potion, Health Regeneration Potion, Basic Protection Potion, Antidote Potion, Bandages...
Lorraine, acting as a battlefield medic, gave Eileen different potions, and she visibly regained much of her strength; her wounds seemed to be healing. Lorraine applied medicine to Eileen's larger wounds and then bandaged them...
Eileen was in a daze and felt a little embarrassed because she had wounds all over her body.
With his head bowed, Lorraine felt, in a daze, as if a living person, a loved one, was bustling around him. Lorraine couldn't help but think of his former teacher, Tyler who always clung to him... and many other mage apprentices...
Eileen vaguely remembered that her family had once been somewhat famous. She and some other noble children were sent to Dalaran for refuge, and after selection, she became a magic apprentice in Dalaran...
I would occasionally receive letters from my elders, but after I came of age, I never heard from them again.
The young apprentices of Dalaran come from all corners of the world, from all seven kingdoms, and most belong to prominent families... a few are gifted individuals found by Dalaran...
After the Scourge ravaged the land, most of Lordaeron's apprentices were left orphans...
Eileen was one of them...