Inside the Strom Well

Pain.

Imaginable, excruciating pain was all Marcius could feel as he reopened his eyes. He felt heavy all over his body. And his skin felt like it was on fire, which was an impossible feat because he had gained a decent immunity to heat and fire in general due to his status as the champion of the goddess of the Sun.

"Did I lose consciousness?" Marcius slowly muttered to himself as he tried to open his equally heavy eyelids. And what he saw was blurry and blue everywhere.

And then, he remembered.

He had been thrown into the Storm Well by its guardian beast. And he fell unconscious as he sank deeper and deeper into the well.

Well, it would at least explain why he felt very painful all over his body. The pain was still unbearable. Marcius could barely keep a sane thought without screaming out in agony.