Jed took a deep breath and continued speaking, "At that time, I knew that I was in trouble and didn’t want to drag anyone else, so I turned and ran away. But, Brother Albion began to worry about me when I didn't go back at the appointed time so he came to look for me, and that was how he got dragged into it.
Brother Albion did everything to protect me; Brother Dwight did too. Fortunately, Brother Albion had a defense instrument that could block against the spring solidifying level fighter's attack. But even then, we were still gravely injured and could only escape after throwing out the instrument to stall them..."
Suddenly, as if he sensed something, Albion started coughing violently and
blood trickled out of the corner of his lips. His tightly closed eyes were twitching and both Jed and Dwight rushed to his side to calm his wounds with their own true energy. Albion coughed a few more times and slowly opened his eyes. He was still very weak.
"Brother Albion, how are you feeling? Do you feel better?" asked Jed anxiously.
Albion nodded his head with difficulty. Even in times like this, he tried to put on a smile—a smile that was more heartbreaking than if he were to cry. "Don't worry, I'm okay. Where are we now...?"
Jed quickly told him everything from top to bottom. Albion's face darkened when he realized they were still in Mount Beasts. With his last energy, he grabbed Jed’s collar and in a weak voice said, "Leave me and get out of here fast! They won't stop chasing after us until we're all dead." He coughed violently again.
"I know, Brother Albion, but you're badly hurt. We would get into trouble if we go on like this. Don't you worry, we’ll definitely bring you out of Mount Beasts," said Jed tearily.
Those few words just now seemed to have exhausted Albion's last strength. He became unconscious again whereas Jed and Dwight started to panic again. Fane's face darkened because he finally realized he had encountered something tricky. He did not have to turn his head to know that Nash's expression was probably the same as his.
"I told you so. We should have left this mountain a few days ago. We would have been safe then..." said Nash with a low voice. Be that as it may, things had not progressed to a truly dangerous level so Fane was not that worried after all, they were already at the outskirts of the mountain. They would only have to walk two or three miles to be completely out of the mountain and it would not take them long to reach the city then the Dual Sovereign Pavilion.
It would only push him to dangerous grounds if he panicked right now. He suddenly stood up and this caused Jed and Dwight to do the same while looking at him with a quizzical expression.
"We need to get out of here now. It’ll be harder if we put it off," said Fane with furrowed brows.
Jed’s face darkened. He glanced at the unconscious Albion and knew that Fane was right. No matter how much he could not bear to drag Albion to run in his state, he had to, if they wanted to avoid bigger trouble.
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