Fountain Of Blood [2]

Eren received only simple treatment and was left in solitary confinement, suffering for two days.

Originally, if you were promoted to a gladiator, you had to stay in the underground quarters, but someone could target the defenseless Eren, so solitary confinement was used temporarily.

"Ugh…."

Eren, who was groaning, opened his eyes with difficulty.

After a while, a long shadow appeared between the iron bars.

The man standing in front of the iron bars with his back to the sun was none other than Yutalo.

"I can't believe I felt a presence even while I was in pain. I guess I should know this. Drink this. The pain will go away."

What he pushed into the feeding hole was black, watery porridge.

"It's just black because it's mixed with black herbs that dull the pain. It's not harmful. Then."

Yutalo left immediately before anyone saw him.

Eren crawled over and began to drink the thin porridge little by little.

For a moment, he felt a strong bitter taste, but as Yutalo said, the more he ate, the more he felt his sensitive senses gradually becoming dull.

For two days, Yutalo was the only one who showed any interest in him.

Each time he came, he brought a little bit of porridge, which helped Eren a lot in regaining his strength.

He didn't know why Yutalo was helping him, but now wasn't the time to think about that. First of all, recovering his energy was a priority.

On the deep night of the third day, Eren, who had been suffering until the day before, was quiet today.

What's even stranger is that a black haze was rising from his entire body.

As his body reached its limit, another change was taking place within him.

Growth hormones increased rapidly, promoting growth, muscles expanded, and bones became stronger.

In fact, the black herbs played a role in these results.

Although Eren's mind was faint, he was clearly feeling the changes in his body.

The next morning, Yutalo, who visited Eren early in the morning, could not help but be surprised.

Eren, who had been sick as if he were dying the day before, was sitting in the middle of the cell with his back straight

He quickly scanned Eren's body. The marks of the wooden sword that were all over his body had already disappeared.

Shine!

At that moment, Eren opened his eyes.

The blank look in his eyes that Yutalo had felt before suddenly disappeared, replaced by a poisonous look.

But soon his indifferent eyes returned. It was intentionally hidden.

"What on earth happened overnight?"

Hearing Yutalo's bewildered words, Eren slowly raised his head and looked at him. Then he slowly opened his mouth.

"Black…herb. Where can I get it?"

His tone was dull, reminiscent of scraping metal.

He hadn't spoken so much that it was almost awkward to even open his mouth.

"You know how to talk?"

Yutalo looked at him with wide eyes in surprise.

Then he shook his head once and continued speaking.

"A herbalist comes by once a month. I got it from him. I heard that only a very small amount can be obtained in the desert."

"Desert…."

"I guess what I gave you yesterday was effective for your body. Still, there's nothing we can do. We have no choice but to wait another month. We can't go to the desert, can we?"

"Well."

Yutalo frowned at Eren's ambiguous answer, then quickly bowed and left.

Two of his lieutenants were on their way to pick up Eren.

"What Hilton said was true."

"Damn it. I bet a thousand shillings that he would die today. How did he come back to life? Am I really a child of the devil?"

The two talked while looking at Eren. It seems that one of the adjutants went to check on Eren's condition early in the morning.

"Let's take him with us."

"Hey, kid. Give me your hand."

As the adjutant knocked on the bars and spoke, Eren calmly approached and stretched out his hand through the bars.

Once he was shackled, the cage opened and the two deputies led him to the basement of the main building.

He was finally free from the solitary confinement where he had been teetering between life and death.

Eren glanced around.

A high barrier was erected around the training site, and only the third floor of the main building rose above the barrier.

As they entered the basement, the gladiator's space, the gladiators who had just woken up and warmed up looked at Eren with curious eyes.

A lot of attention was focused on him, but Eren didn't care.

Eventually, a large underground space appeared, where gladiators mainly lived.

Gletch and Yutalo were already there talking with others. When Eren came in, their eyes immediately focused on him. Gletch narrowed his eyes and walked towards Eren.

"That bastard!"

"Don't cause trouble and stay calm."

One of the adjutants unchained Eren.

"Gletch! Get back!"

At the same time, another adjutant stepped forward to sanction the fast-approaching Gletch.

The moment the two lieutenants' eyes turned to Gletch, Eren quickly glanced at the scabbard strapped to the waist of the lieutenant behind him.

"Huh?"

The adjutant, who felt something was missing, looked down at Eren and could see his sword in Eren's hand.

His eyes became as big as a flower lantern.

Wooosh-!

Eren's left hand disappeared for a moment. Then the flesh on the adjutant's neck split and blood poured out.

The deputy instinctively grabbed his neck, but it was already too late.

"Gagging! Gagging…."

Blood poured out between his fingers and he eventually fell to his knees.

At that moment, all the gladiators, including Gletch, froze and looked at Eren.

At first, they were surprised that it happened so quickly, and then they realized that something that should never have happened, happened.

The moment the adjutant who stepped forward to sanction Gletch realized something strange and looked back, something flashed before his eyes.

Then the thoughts in his head stopped. A straight line of incontinence appeared on the adjutant's face.

Spurt-!

And the blood fountain that followed.

Eren and Gletch were drenched in the blood that burst out in an instant.

"This… you crazy bastard…."

Gletch looked at Eren with a bewildered expression.