The Author's POV

"Ghua!"

Aaron's eyes shot wide open. Clenching onto his heart, Aaron started hyperventilating. He kept breathing, but with each breath he took, he felt this overwhelming sense of death wash over him.

"Haa...haaa..."

Only after taking a couple more breaths did Aaron finally calm down a little.

'What happened to me?'

He looked beneath him, his bedsheets were soaked in his own sweat. Touching his forehead, Aaron wiped his forehead which was dripping with sweat.

Faint memories started to surface inside of his mind as his face paled considerably.

"Ukh..."

Clenching onto his head and letting out a groan, Arron lifted his head and looked around him.

Wooden floor, white walls, and a white ceiling. He was in his own residence.

"Haa...haaa..."

His hyperventilation did not stop as he bit his lips till his lips bled. his body shook all over. Hugging his body, he repeatedly muttered.

"Spar..e..me...spare...me."

He could feel this vivid sense of pain course through his whole body. He just wanted it to stop.

'What is this smell?'

Sniffing around, Aaron suddenly smelled a strong and pungent smell, reminiscent of that of alcohol. Lowering his head, he pulled his shirt and smelled it.

"It's coming from me."

He mumbled underneath his breath. When he realized this, he pulled himself off his bed and moved straight to the mirror.

He stumbled a couple of times, but it wasn't long before he stood face to face with the mirror.

"...I'm still okay?"

Aaron muttered, touching his face and body all over. Though faint, images of different scenarios propped up inside of his mind. Recalling them his body trembled all over.

The pain.

It felt so vivid. As though he had truly experienced it.

Even now, he couldn't quite get rid of the sense he had experienced.

"It was just a dream, just a dream...I must've drank too much...he's dead for sure."

Aaron repeatedly muttered as he stared at himself in the mirror. It had to be that.

The smell of alcohol in the room and the fact that he was still alright were testaments to that. Also, the fact that the person responsible for torturing him was someone who was supposed to be dead, Aaron realized that there were simply too many holes in his dreams to make it seem that what had happened had truly happened.

He laughed.

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"Hahah, it must've been a bad dream."

His laugh was forced, but he was merely trying his best to remain composed.

Although he had no idea about what happened at the party, he was planning on checking later to make sure it really was a dream.

"Fuuuu..."

But just as Aaron had calmed down, and he had managed to convince himself that everything that had happened last night was merely a dream that came as a result of him getting too drunk, from the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a small letter by the side of his desk.

"What's this?"

An ominous feeling washed over him as he laid eyes on the letter.

"Huuuu..."

Taking another deep breath to calm his nerves down, Aaron slowly walked toward the letter. Extending his hand which was trembling, he slowly unfurled the letter.

"...Whew."

the letter, he realized that it

back down on his bed, he let

need to stop

since waking up, he felt paranoid about everything. Just the slightest

"Ukh!"

Aaron's head prompting him to flinch slightly. Fortunately, the pain only lasted for a brief

the area that hurt,

does the side of my head

***

Thump—!

I took a white towel from the side and wiped the sweat from

about everything that has

the incident. The one where I tortured

was probably thinking something along the lines of, 'Everything I went through is a dream.' or

I

merely something for my own self-satisfaction. I

and the others, we were able to somewhat create enough alibies and evidence to make it seem that he really had been drunk,

"You're early."

private training room, near my residence. This was a small perk I got thanks to

away, Amanda's voice rang out. Looking at her,

I'm used

disposal, I told the others that they could

my offer. Well, everyone expect Melissa who did not want to have anything to do

"You look quite tired."

dumbbells are

used to the mass-changing properties of my

and increased the mass of the sword halfway through my swing, by the time I was done with my movements, my sword would just drop to the ground and

"How heavy?"

"About 500kg?"

"...That much?"

anything lower would not

head. Extending her

gear, Amanda had a small hairband on her mouth as she gathered her hair

see, should we

"Yeah."

not the first time that Amanda and I met up. It was probably the fourth time by now. I was a bit surprised the first time, turns out we both trained at the

her, this was the routine she was used to ever since taking over the guild in her

she had to train very early since her days were usually very busy

it was more of a habit I developed when training

was good

Plus, there were a lot of things that I wanted to ask of

regarding Nola

and aiming it at me, Amanda's soft voice

"Are you ready?"

both of my hands forward, I channeled the wind psyons inside of my body until a

helping me train my reflexes

thing that I noticed was that one of my lacking aspects was my agility. Not only

a big help to

"Ready."

"Okay, I'm starting."

string of

first shot, Amanda extended her

shot out and following this more and more quickly headed in my direction. It wasn't long before a wall made of blue streaks appeared in front

from the distance,

is going to

set a couple of handicaps on myself for this training. I wasn't allowed to use any skill or any manuals apart from

training my agility, this was the most

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

through the air like missiles, the arrows soon materialized in

foot onto the ground, I took a

Xiu!

Following that arrow, two more arrows arrived in my vicinity. Moving my hands in front of me, twisting my heel, I swiftly

the ground and did the same thing for

through the endless amount of arrows, sweat started to accumulate on my forehead as I found my body progressively getting more and more tired

was feeling. I could vividly feel myself getting better and better at moving in

across my eyes as I continued

before I started to get used to the