Aftermath, Sabotage?

Aftermath, Sabotage?

Opening my eyes with difficulty, I felt a splitting headache. "Ugh", "Where am I?", lying flat on something soft I assume to be a bed, I asked no one in particular and surprisingly got a reply from familiar voices.

""Big Brother"", "Adrea". Hearing the familiar voices of Anna, Leo, and Lily, I ignored the headache and turned in the direction I heard their voice, but before I could, my siblings jumped on me, and immediately they did, I felt intense pain in my ribs were breaking. "Ugh", hearing my groan, Lily said to my siblings in a hurry: "Anna, Leo, quick, get off your brother's body, you're hurting him". After hearing what lily said, my siblings left my body in a hurry and were panicking.

When they left, Lily came to my side and held my hand, followed by a stream of warm currents in my body. I normally can't see anything in my surroundings since I can't open my eyes fully but I was able to 'sense' and 'feel' what is happening outside my body.

Seeing that lily left their side in a hurry and did not reply to them and also seeing no response from me, they started crying, and asked lily who was now flustered, a question. "Big sister, did we kill our brother?' was the question they asked. Hearing this question, my mouth twitched. 'Hey!!! Are you guys in that a hurry for your big brother to die?' 'it seems that I need to shower you guys more love', having come to that ridiculous conclusion, I struggled to open my eyes and give a reply.

"Anna, Leo, stop crying, big brother is still here", I said. Hearing my voice, their cries turned to joy in an instant, and they jumped on me, Remembering the pain of before, I feared for my life, and thank heavens that lily's here. Holding the heads of my siblings in each hand and reprimanding them, lily said: "After causing your brother pain before, you still want to do it again uh?". Realizing they're at fault, they apologized with their heads low after lily released them, "Big brother, Big Sister, we're sorry", they said. Lily, with a satisfied look, She bent low and rubbed their heads, "It's okay, As long as you know your mistake and don't do it again". She said as she comforted them.

Maybe because they were relieved that am okay, and were awake at the wrong time since it was deep in the night now from the bright stars am seeing from the window, their eyes were dropping and they were close to yawning. At the end of the day, they're still six years old.

Using my eyes to tell Lily to please put my siblings to sleep, I observed my body after they left, and heavens, I was in terrible shape. Apart from my head, starting from my neck to my toe, I was covered with bandages with no skin showing. Damn, What happened?

As I was thinking of how I ended up in this situation, Lily came back, wow, she's fast. Seeing the surprise on my face, she quickly said: "My family has an illusion master and since your siblings were with us for three days, he had to follow us to keep your sibling's mental health stable".

Hearing her reply, I immediately understood. illusion users are pretty rare and if am not mistaken, illusion affinity is a sub affinity of Mind Affinity, and mind affinity users are all dangerous but the thing is they're just too rare.

After taking a seat, she said: "From the expression on your face, I can tell you want to know more". I nodded at her, confirming what she just said.

Taking a slight deep breath, she continued. "The exam was sabotaged", she said. Wow, I never knew that some people have the balls and guts to go against something managed by a demigod. "The other party also had a demigod with them". 'Fucking hell', I thought and did not disturb her. "As you know, the prodigies, successors, and heirs of various powers were attending this exam, including the five great families and four great empires, and you've seen them". She said. Nodding at her to continue, she asked a question that left me stunned. "Now imagine this, What do you think will happen when 95% percent of the world powers heir died, and the suspect was among one of them?" "War will break out within the world powers whether they like it or not". I replied subconsciously. It was only a while later I understood what she meant. Seeing that she did not have to explain more, she continued. "A lot has been happening in the background that you don't know". She said and left this topic to another one.

"You remembered the monster we meet during the last hour of the exam right?" She asked. Remembering the incident that happened before, I shivered. I can still remember the pain and despair I felt, I don't want to ever be in that position again. Lily, seeing that my mood was dropping rapidly, held my hands to calm me down which helped.

"Is that the cause of my injuries?" I asked. "No, It's not. If it was, a healing mage will be all that you needed. The cause of your injuries is you, or more correctly, Your spirit?" Lily answered back with something that left me confused and baffled.

Lily, already knowing what was already going on in my head, said. "Don't think too much, I'll explain later". Hearing her say this, I listened to her and waited for her to speak. She continued. "After your spirit took over your body and saved me, a beast tide came. And there were bronze level monsters among them. Hearing this, I felt a chill on my skin. Not noticing me, lily continued. "When a spirit possesses a body, it gives immense power to the host according to how many circles they have and its grade". So that's the use of the circles I saw in the awakening ceremony, I thought, still listening to lily. "Although it gives immense powers, it comes at a cost. As your spirit uses your body, it damages it too while taking away some of your lifespans, and the injuries are not something that can simply be healed, so spirit possession is usually a trump card". She said and continued. "Of course, you'll not be this injured if it was only spirit possessing. What made it like this was while your body was being damaged from being possessed, it was getting more damaged from fighting the beast tide all by yourself. It's not an exaggeration to say that you took down most of the monsters yourself before the high humans, arch humans, and the demigod was able to settle their opponent".

Listening to Lily speak about the aftermath cleared my doubt but I still want to know something. "So who got first?" I asked. Am sure that if anybody can explain my situation, only the system can do it best.

"Oh, The ranking.........

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