Chapter 418 - Losses And Gains

Repapering, the rebel's mithril tower shook violently as it landed in a new spot and imbedded itself into the ground.

As this happened many of the rebellion members lost their balance and fell over, while some even began throwing up.

Being warped so suddenly and violently was a tough ordeal on most people, and the fact that almost everyone had depleted their mana to power the formation did not help their condition.

Though of everyone in the tower, the person in the worst shape was definitely Marcus whose soul was still in shambles from devouring Ludwik's.

Luckily, he was stable for now and it would hopefully only be a matter of time until he was restored.

"Marek are you doing okay." Tesia said as she appeared on the tower's bottom layer.

For the first time real concern could be seen on her face.

And she did have reason to be concerned as Marek's face was quite bloody and he was now missing an eye, along with other wounds all over his body.

Still Francis was definitely the most visibly injured and he said, "Lady Tesia what about me. I am missing an arm and ear. My wounds are a lot worse could you please heal me first?"

Looking at Marek, Tesia was waiting for his orders, and he quickly nodded his head towards Francis giving his approval to treat him first.

Nodding her head Tesia moved over to Francis and held out her hands, before a golden glow released from her as she cast the tier seven spell regenerate.

Francis' wounds began to close up and the horrible damage to his body disappeared.

And when his minor wounds had been healed the spell focused on restoring his ear and then arm.

She then took out a glowing purple potion and downed it, and her mana began to rapidly restore.

After that she moved over to Marek and healed up his wounds as well, and soon the chief of the rebellion had been fully healed as well.

"Now does anyone else need any healing from me." Tesia said looking around the room.

Though no one else had any visible wounds, Lyra spoke up and said, "Lady Tesia, Mar-. Jed is in trouble. I do not know what happened but something bad is afflicting him.

Turning her gaze towards Marcus, Tesia looked at him in confusion seeing no visible wound or sensing any sort of external malady.

Yet as she looked at him longer, she noticed something, before moving over to him, and placing a hand on him.

"Aghhhh."

Only a moment after she did she yanked her hand back and said, "There is nothing I can do for him. His soul is in turmoil. The only thing we can do is wait and see. It is up to him if he comes out of this or not."

Picking Marcus up, Lyra bowed her head to Tesia and Marek and said that she was going to take him to a safe place and get some rest herself.

"Jadzia. We are going to have a meeting in two hours to discus our next move. Until then get some rest and I will do the same." Marek said before Jadzia left.

Nodding her head she acknowledged her chief's order, and then walked outside the tower to see that they had appeared in a deep and wide valley, that had a large river running through it.

'Hm the Wielki Valley. Tesia certainly transported us very far away. If I remember correctly this is over four hundred miles from where we last were.' Lyra thought as she recognized where they had escaped to.

She then moved over to where a grove of trees was and set up her tent.

Entering inside she placed Marcus on her bed and laid down on her couch to rest while she could.

At the same time, thousands of members of the rebellion exited the tower and began setting up a makeshift camp. Though everyone moved fairly sluggishly due to mana exhaustion, and as soon as they had something suitable to rest on, they laid down to sleep.

Not even the captains were free of this burden as the ones that had not fought outside, had pushed themselves giving most of the fuel the tower needed from their own mana pool.

Two hours quickly went by, and the rebel leaders met back up in the top of the tower to discus what would be happening going forward.

"Larks have you gathered the total?" Marek said fist thing as soon as the meeting started.

Standing up, Larks who was a young dwarven man said, "Yes, I have chief. Unfortunately, around thirty percent of us did not make it to the tower and are likely dead or captured. Most of them were those that were on the outskirts of the base or those keeping watch outside. Though there is a good possibility that some of the watchers managed to escape and will head to a relatively close safe house. And for the officer class we lost fourteen men and women over level forty."

Larks then handed a list over to Marek, who looked over the names of the officers they had lost, and then skimmed the next page where the other hundreds of names began.

Slamming his fist against the meeting table, Marek was obviously displeased but, Kazimir the halfling captain said, "Chief I know that the numbers look bad, but I am sure you realize as well that we are lucky to have gotten away at all. We were up against six great knights and four of them were in the upper ten, and Cibor was among them. If it had not been for that vampire's interference, it is likely that many more of us would have died or been captured.

As Relia was mentioned everyone looked uncertain as to whether her appearance was a miracle, or a bad omen.

"Jadzia, that vampire came out of that man Jed's shadow. I can tell that the two of you are not strangers, and while I was willing to disregard it before, now is not the time. How do you know him and what do you know about that vampire?" Marek said, wanting to get to the bottom of the mystery that is Marcus.

However, Lyra looked around hesitantly at all of the other captains, not sure what to do until Tesia spoke up.

"Marek, I believe that we do need to know about this character that Jadzia has brought to us, but it is obviously quite personal to her. I have already glimpsed his true nature and can tell you that he will not betray Jadzia. Now how about she just tell the two of us, and we can make the decision on whether we want to further extend our trust to him."

Nodding his head Marek agreed with Tesia and asked the other captains to leave for now, which some did easily while other did begrudgingly.

Still, everyone did as Marek commanded, especially since it was actually Tesia who had suggested it.

"Now it is just the three of us. Please Jadzia would you tell me what connection you have to that young man who is an agent of Borealia, and has a powerful vampire following him around?"