Chapter 191 - 191: A Faint heartbeat!

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Roughly thirty minutes earlier, Grey teetered on the brink of death. Vanica and Arthur had rushed him away from the battlefield, dragging his bleeding form toward the edge of the cavern, a jagged platform just seven meters away from the heart of the chaos. The clash behind them echoed like a war drum—roars, explosions, the cries of fury and pain—all distant yet deafening. They had considered entering the treasure room, but the traps embedded within its walls had made that impossible. With desperation etched across her face, Vanica's hands glowed with a brilliant white light. "Can you do anything?" Arthur asked, his voice tight as his eyes darted to the gaping hole in Grey's abdomen. Grey's skin had already begun losing its color, turning sickly pale. "I can try," Vanica muttered. She pressed both glowing palms against Grey's stomach, her jaw clenched as sweat beaded and dripped down her brow. "Shit. The wound… it's too deep." BOOM! The ground beneath them trembled. Explosive shockwaves reverberated through the cavern, dust raining down from above. The walls groaned with the force of the ongoing battle. "Damn… Scarlet's gone berserk," Arthur muttered, his gaze flicking to the battlefield. Scarlet was a blur of fury, charging the beast with unrelenting rage. Her flames burned with a wild, almost divine intensity, the cavern illuminated in pulsating waves of crimson fire. "Come on, come on…" Vanica murmured, her voice cracking as she fought to stop the bleeding. Though her magic managed to slow it, the wound stubbornly refused to close. Grey's body remained cold, unmoving. "Do you hear a pulse?" she asked, her voice almost a whisper. "Let me check." Arthur replied as he leaned down, placing his ear to Grey's chest. Silence. Then—ba-dum… ba— "It's faint," Arthur said, his face paling. "One beat… every two seconds, maybe." Vanica's breath caught in her throat. "We're losing him." Her hands flared with brighter light, mana pouring from her very core into Grey. Slowly—agonizingly slowly—the hole in his stomach began to close. Yet, his pulse faded further, his life slipping away even as his body mended. The cavern continued to quake with the fury of battle. The Ant King's savage howls clashed with Scarlet's firestorms and the screams of struggling students. Amid the chaos, Grey remained still. A minute passed. His physical wounds had finally healed. But there was no improvement—no flicker of breath, no spark of life. "I've done all I can…" Vanica whispered. Her hands dropped to her sides as she collapsed beside him, her mana spent. Her chest heaved with exhaustion. Arthur knelt beside Grey, shaking him lightly. "Come on, Grey… the team needs you. We need you. Wake up, dammit." But Grey remained still. "Shit! Why isn't he waking up?" Arthur's voice cracked as he pressed his ear to Grey's chest again—and froze. His eyes widened, panic rushing in like a tide. "No, no, no… This can't be happening!" "What's wrong?!" Vanica asked, forcing herself up with trembling limbs. "I… I can't hear a beat anymore!" Arthur choked out, eyes wild. Vanica scrambled to Grey's side, pressing her ear to his chest. Nothing. Absolute silence. Her expression shattered. "No… No, this isn't possible. I healed him. I closed his wounds! I… I—" Her voice dissolved into a stutter, lost in disbelief. Another thunderous bang echoed. They turned just in time to witness Kael's head being torn from his body, his corpse collapsing with a sickening thud. Horror etched itself into their faces. "This is bad… This beast is a monster beyond anything we've seen," Arthur said, voice hollow. Dante, consumed by grief and rage, roared and charged forward. "Grey! Grey! Please!" Vanica cried, shaking Grey's limp body, tears sliding down her cheeks. "You can't die now!" Arthur joined her. "You can't die now, we need you!" Arthur said as he began frantically shaking Grey up. "C'mon man, you can't die on us now, what about your dreams? Don't you want to surpass the captain? You can't do it while your eyes are closed darn it! Wake the f*ck up!" He shouted. Thankfully, the Ant King remained too focused on the second-years to notice the desperate shouts echoing across the cavern. "He's still... still not breathing," Vanica whispered, eyes locked on Grey's face. She rubbed her palms together, summoning a weak glow of white mana. She pressed her hands to his chest—but the glow sputtered and faded. "No, no, no! Not now!" she screamed. "I can't be out of mana now!" Tears streamed freely as she collapsed onto Grey's body. "What will I tell Scarlet? What will I say if you die here?" "You… you told me that nothing was impossible for peasants like us to achieve. You told me to dream big and show the world that I'm not useless. So why? Why are you laying down here?! Don't… don't you want to show the world what you can do?" Arthur asked with tears falling down his eyes as his head was bent when another bang was heard again with Dante punching the ant into a wall. "If you die, what… what will we tell the captain? What will we tell Scarlet and the team?" Arthur asked as more tears continued pouring down his face while Vanica was sobbing on Grey's body. "Most especially, what will we tell your family? Your mum, I can't imagine how shattered she would be when she finds out. Sёarᴄh the ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. So for that, you can't die Grey! So wake the f*ck up now! For your family's sake, for your mum's sake, wake up!" Arthur shouted with his eyes closed and more tears falling down his eyes when.. A silence fell between them. Then… a twitch. Grey's fingers moved. Arthur blinked. Vanica lifted her head. "He… he moved…" she whispered, staring at his hand. Grey's chest rose—once, then again. His heart thumped—slow at first, but steadily gaining rhythm. "His pulse!" Arthur cried. "Damn it! You guys are so freaking loud… I think my eardrums are bleeding," a familiar voice muttered weakly. Both of them looked down—disbelief and joy clashing on their faces. "Grey!" they screamed in unison, hugging him tightly. "Guys," he groaned, "I'm still sore, y'know…" They both let go at once. Grey looked down at his stomach—his clothes torn and bloodied, but no wound beneath. Slowly, the fog in his mind began to clear. And then— BOOM! His eyes snapped up to the battlefield. The Ant King had just slammed Dante into the ground with bone-rattling force. Students were flung into the air like ragdolls, then smashed back down with brutal precision. "I guess none of you are worth my time," the beast snarled, its voice chilling. "None of you even come close to matching the king of ants." It turned to move—but its feet halted mid-step. A dense, suffocating pressure slammed into the cavern like a divine presence awakening. The very air trembled. A voice rose, clear and unyielding. "But you haven't faced the king of mages yet." Grey stood tall, lightning crackling around his fingertips. His eyes burned with renewed fury. "Too bad the king of ants was unable to kill someone properly," he said, taking a step forward. "Let me show you how it's done." "Grey?!" Scarlet's voice rang out, disbelief and hope entangled in her words. __ {A/N} Are we ready for an inevitable clash? A tough and devastating battle between Grey and the ant king? Well I would have said click the next chapter to read further but too bad we have to wait till tomorrow for that. But there's a way to read more today itself for anyone interested. Our mass release goals guys! 100 Power stones= 2 extra chapters 50 Golden tickets= 2 extra chapters Magic Castle= 5 Chapters Spacecraft= 10 Chapters. Golden Gachapon= 15 Chapters... You want more chapters? 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Chapter 191 - 191: A Faint heartbeat!

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