Chapter 155 - 154 Aftermath

Looking at the eight familiar people that had just walked into the room he was in, Marcus got a good grasp of the situation and figured he was back in the town of Klopot.

The Eternal Queens seeing that Marcus was now awake all ran right up too him with concern in all of their eyes.

"Irene how are you doing, you have been unconscious for around three weeks, and we were really starting to get worried. If you had not woken up soon, we were going to make the trip back to the capital and find an expert healer." Atalie said, with a hint of relief in her eyes seeing that Marcus was okay.

"Yeah, I tried casting healing spells on you multiple times as well as feeding you stamina and healing potions, but nothing seemed to have an effect." Rekia said.

With a heavy expression on his face Marcus began soaking in the information that he had just obtained before sighing and said, "Jesnay and Branna, they are dead right?"

A part of Marcus was hoping that maybe it had been an illusion of some kind, that maybe they were not dead, but in his heart, he of course knew what he had seen was real.

The remaining members of the Eternal Queens' expressions all changed from worry and relief to deep sadness.

Seeing their expressions, Marcus understood that any hope he had that either of them were still alive was gone and with a shacking voice full of grief and anger Marcus said, "I am so sorry, all of you got caught up in that because of me. The person that attacked us was after me and all of you suffered for it. Had I been alone none of you would have been injured and Branna and Jesnay would still be alive."

Hanging his head Marcus was expecting to get yell at and cursed by the Eternal Queens, since he felt mostly responsible for two of their members' deaths, but instead Bridget their leader said, "Irene, we already figured that man was after you, but it does not matter, as adventures we all knew the risks, that we could die at any time. And we have thought of you as a member of our team for months now even if you will not officially join. Any of us would put our lives on the line for the others and we know you are not any different. If you could have saved either Jesnay or Branna we all know you would have. We know you have just woken up but all of us have already had three weeks to grieve and come to an acceptance about what happened. Now you have been unconscious for quite some time you must be hungry right?"

After Bridget's speech to Marcus, she looked at the Baron and his two knights who promptly got some servants to make some easily digestible food for Marcus.

Of course, Marcus had no need to eat anything, but he figured saying that he was not hungry would bring up some suspicion.

However, while waiting for the food to be delivered the itching question at the back of Marcus' mind could no longer be contained.

"So, what happened after I passed out, I was certain I was going to die but here I am and all of you seem to be doing alright now even though all of you were severely injured.?"

Hearing this Bridget began narrating what had happened, telling Marcus that they had been saved by the famous wandering mage Kasonog who used a special magic to stabilize Marcus and cast high tier healing magic on all of them.

However, for some reason Marcus felt that this was not right, the way Bridget was telling the story sounded almost rehearsed and Marcus could not get the image of the beautiful blonde girl he saw walking towards him out of his head.

Looking towards Xander, Marcus wanted to confirm if he had heard of this Kasonog and to his surprise Xander said, "Yeah I heard some of my mage friends talking about a powerful mage who wanders the continent when I was still at an academy in Fornon City and I think his name was Kasonog, but that is all I know."

Marcus was actually a bit surprised to hear that this Kasonog person was real but even if this powerful mage had helped them, why would he and how would he know that Marcus was a ghost.

'As far as I know the only one that has been able to see through my status was Voda, and she is some type of crazy powerful spirt. I suppose that there are probably other powerful people that could find me out, but as far as I know even Aria could not see that I am a ghost, and she is certainly the strongest person I have met.'

While thinking over what he had been told it was not long before the food that had been sent for arrived. At this point Jasper and his two Knights wished Marcus a quick recover saying that they had work to attend to and that if he needed anything he need only ask the servants.

Nodding his head and bidding them farewell, Marcus seeing the food being wheeled towards him tried to get up and move over to the nearby table, but soon found that his body was still in rough shape as he collapsed onto the ground.

His face flat on the ground, Marcus began trying to stand up but adjusting from having herculean levels of strength back down to an average person was quite the ordeal.

After being helped back into bed with the help of the Eternal Queens, Marcus was quickly served a light and warm soup along with a few pieces of bread.

Soaking the pieces of the bread in the soup, Marcus did his best o play the part of a famished person who had been a coma for three weeks eating for around twenty minutes before saying he was full.

Once that was done, he talked with he Eternal Queens for a while longer making sure to get every detail that he could get while also relaying everything he knew.

Nevertheless, before long the day was getting late, and the rest of the Eternal Queens began heading to their rooms.

Except as they were leaving the last one in the group being Yrsa, stopped and walked back towards Marcus.

Marcus seeing this was wondering what Yrsa could be doing when she pulled out a letter from her bag and handed it over to Marcus.

"I nearly forgot the one who saved you left this message for when you woke up, please make sure to read it thoroughly." Yrsa said, in a robotic fashion as if she was in a trance.

Marcus then saw a brief flash of red light in her eyes before she began rapidly blinking and told Marcus to get some rest before leaving the room.

'What the hell was that. There is no way that was normal, someone must have charmed her to give me this. I suppose that whoever gave me the spirt gem probably left this message. I still have no idea why they did it but hopefully this letter will tell me.'

Opening up the letter, Marcus began reading the message and immediately felt a sense of danger just from the opening greeting.

'Dear Marcus Ferrous or Irene Geist, whichever you prefer. I am the one who implanted the spirit gem into you in order to save your life on my master's command. My name is unimportant, but I am sure you realized that I am not the mage Kasonog, and even if you did not it would not have been hard to find out eventually. My master has taken a great interest in you which is why we have saved your life on this occasion, and we are expecting you to pay back our good will in due time. In the future I will come and find you again and come to collect on your dept. The spirit gem that was given to you has been one of the crown items in my master's vault for centuries and its value is nearly incalculable so do not think that your dept will be paid off easily and refusal to do so will activate the curse I have embed in the gem. I look forward to seeing you again.

Sincerely,

R.D.'

Loudly gulping Marcus quickly burned the letter while shacking a bit since the ominous content of the letter was written quite threateningly and Marcus felt as if he had entered into a forced deal with a devil.

'They were able to see both of my names, but what else could they see. Could they see my unique skills as well, do they know that I originally came from Earth? Damn, and I have no idea what this person or their master are going to want me to be doing in the future. What if they ask me to bring them the bodies of ten thousand innocent children, or heck maybe they even want me to help them destroy the world. But when the hell did, I attract their attention.. Augh this is like someone just took a blank check from me and they can use it whenever.'