Chapter 124

“Hahahaha, you can finally hear me again, boy. Although your choice of places to lie down is still miserable. First it was that heap of bricks, and now this filthy grass surrounded by the corpses of these disgusting creatures. Seriously, couldn’t you have done this at home, in your own bed?”

Unlike what he’d expected, the transformation did not resume where it had left off. Admetos felt the golden fluid that had replaced his blood being reshaped once more, becoming cleaner and purer than before.

However, the most important change for him was that, after the second bite, he regained the ability to hear the voice of the leaf Lior had given him. But that still wasn’t enough, so he didn’t stop there.

Amid the pain, his consciousness slipped away for a moment—perhaps long, perhaps brief, such that the creatures around him didn’t notice anything when he reopened his eyes, except that the voice was clearer and more urgent than ever.