Chapter 372.
Chapter 372 Waking Up
A strong feeling of nausea and headache slammed in!
Well …… it seems like vomiting!
The young man lying on the bed slowly opened his eyes.
A ray of light came into his eyes, dispelling the endless darkness.
So blinding! He subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands.
Uh …… where am I?
The young man’s mind was muddled and his headache and nausea did not abate.
He shook his head and the pain in his head intensified, but cleared his head a little.
There were shaky, blurry figures in front of him, there were other people here, and he was subconsciously alert.
“You’re awake ……”
It was a female voice, the words were half glad, half worried.
“You are ……”
The young man’s mind went blank, where am I? Who am I? And who is the person next to me?
A gentle caressing sensation came to his head and the female voice said worriedly, “Nathan, take a good look at me, don’t you even recognize me?”
Nathan? So familiar, ah, that seems to be my name.
Yes, my name is Nathan, I am a member of the Secret Society ……
Like rows of candles, all sorts of information lit up one by one in the young man’s brain.
This woman is …… He held back his headache and tilted his head to look.
The eyes gradually focused, and the blurred silhouette became clear.
“Well, mom …… it’s you who came.”
“Whew, you were really worrying ah ……”
The woman standing beside the bed relaxed, and her tone was not as full of gravity as before.
Nathan asked, “How long have I been out?”
“Along with the time on the ship, about a week?”
“A week? Why is that so long.”
“You took a hard blow to the head.”
“It seems so …… Where are we?” Nathan felt the right side of his face and temple still burning.
“In the secret base in Corner Bay, the one you set out from.” The woman asked gruffly, “What exactly happened to you and how did you get into this mess?”
“Our fleet at the time ……”
“I already know about the fleet’s defeat, I was asking about your own condition, Edward’s men said you were passed out on the deck when they noticed you.”
“Well ……” Nathan closed his eyes and tried to remember the scene before he fainted.
“I can’t remember much, it seemed like something passed me by and then I was unconscious. Ah …… judging from the opponent’s means of attack, it must have been a large iron ball.”
“A big iron ball?” Mother was very strange.
“Yes, the iron ball that was accelerated to a kind of terrifying speed is about this big.”
He raised his hand and clenched it into a fist.
“It’s so fast that even if your eyes could catch its trajectory, your body wouldn’t have time to react.”
The woman was beyond surprised as she tried to recall all the knowledge of weapons in her mind, “What kind of weapon is this? A crossbow? A slingshot?”
Nathan shook his head, “No, definitely not any kind of weapon we know of, it should be newly invented. However, to the best of my knowledge, I can’t think of any means used to give an object such power. Unless it is ……”
The woman went along with his speculation, “A caster …… on the other side’s ship?”
“Well …… that’s the only explanation I can think of.”
“That would make sense, but what did the other side’s caster use? Without a frontal hit, just passing by next to the body has such a great power, the world of magic is really vast and limitless.” Nathan struggled to sit up, and the woman hastily held him down.
She said in a peremptory tone, “Lie still for me, count your life as lucky this time.”
Nathan said with dissatisfaction, “It’s been lying down for a week …… Well, why is my head still dizzy, and there’s a buzzing in my ears.”
The woman explained, “When a person is hit hard in the head, they usually have these symptoms and even lose some of their memories. And our spell casters’ brains are more fragile and sensitive than normal people, ordinary people can return to normal after resting for about two weeks, while you …… have to rest for a month.”
“A month?” Nathan laughed to himself, “Oh, I haven’t endured such a big failure.”
He swore gamely, “Hmph, Gleeman, I’m going to make you look good.”
“What did you say?”
A voice full of shock rang in his ears.
He turned his head to look at his mother, only to see that the other party was like being struck by lightning, with a pair of almond eyes rounded open, full of incredulity, and his body seemed to be trembling slightly.
Nathan asked strangely, “Mom, what’s wrong with you?”
The woman was stunned for a moment, and only after a long time did she react, she asked without any concern, “Nathan, what do you mean by ‘Gleeman’?”
Nathan explained, “Hmph, I’m just guessing, but odds are I can’t be wrong. We were defeated by an industrious fleet that came south from the Northwest Gulf that flew a flag tattooed with a red flying dragon design.”
The woman’s body visibly shook when she said ‘red flying dragon’.
“And when I went to the West Harbor of the Aldo Kingdom to scout earlier, Edward told me that a ship flying a red dragon flag belonged to the Northwest Bay’s Graiman Family, so I think it’s basically certain that that diligent king’s fleet was sent by the so-called Graiman Family. Oh, I haven’t heard of this family, but I guess it’s one of the lords of the Northwest Gulf.”
He wondered why his mother reacted so strongly and looked at her with a puzzled gaze.
Only to see his mother say, as if to herself, “How come? The Gladmans have always kept a low profile, they never come out of the woodwork.”
“Mom!” Nathan shouted, “You know this family?”
The woman looked up and saw the confusion on her son’s face, she instantly regained her normalcy and said in a calm tone, “Well …… sort of. Didn t I mention to you that I took you to the Northwest Gulf before you could remember. This family …… has my deceased family.”
“Oh, that’s right.” Nathan gritted his teeth, “But now this family is our enemy.”
The woman’s face sank, “Shut up! Nathan, listen to me, you can’t treat the Greiman family as an enemy, and you’re not allowed to tell anyone else about the role the Greiman family played in this matter.”
The young man looked aggrieved and said in dissatisfaction, “Why? I almost died at the hands of the other party ugh! At that time, if that iron ball had been slightly off, half of my head would have been lost!”
The woman said with a grave face, “The Gleeman family …… is not just as simple as knowing …… him He is kind to us mother and son.”
“Uh …… it’s like this.”
Nathan choked, there is such a past, then it is really not good to start.
“What was the favor?”
“I don’t want to bring it up again, anyway just mark my words.”
“Well, you’re a great man who knows how to return favors.”
Nathan agreed, his mother didn’t want to mention it again, I guess it was something about witch status. Being in the circle of spell casters, he had heard stories of ordinary people helping witches, such as helping them hide their identities from worldly persecution and the church.
These were extremely rare examples, and in no way changed Nathan’s disdain and hostility towards mortals. But it was the rarity that made such favors rare, wasn’t it?
“I could have left it at that, but I’m not the only one who knows that the Diligent Fleet belongs to the Gladman family, Edward does, and he’s the one who told me about the Red Dragon Banner.”
The woman wrenched her face, “Just mind your own business. In the future you’ll stay in Horn Bay and do your work for now, stay out of the business on the west coast of Aldo.”
“Listen to your …… But it’s still really ungrateful, my first time I’m in such a mess, and I almost lost my life. If it wasn’t for the favor done to us, hmmm, I would have been …… sooner or later.”
The woman interrupted him, “Hum what? It’s also just a different position, if it wasn’t for your love of the limelight would there be this kind of calamity? My usual words you all as a deaf ear ……”
Seeing that his mom was about to lecture him again, Nathan begged for mercy.
(End of chapter)