Healing System

'Fuck...' Michael gritted through the pain of his insides seemingly being crushed, however, as time went on, his body began adjusting.

He was slowly getting used to the pressure, although that did not mean that he was okay, it still felt suffocating.

But suddenly, the pressure disappeared, it almost seemed like it was not there in the first place, but he knew better than to think that.

Illusions were one thing; whatever that pressure was, was something else entirely.

However, as he was lost in his thoughts and the discomfort he felt, an annoyed voice resounded from right in front of him "Are you going to get up already?"

Michael looked upwards just to notice a very short man, he could almost call him a dwarf, yet he was just tall enough to not be labeled as one.

The strange part was, Michael knew the dwarf somehow "..Toad?"

"I told you not to call me that you fucking pigeon!" The dwarf began pouting as he got closer to Michael and hit him on the head.

It was a fairly weak attack, he did not even attempt to dodge it or negate it; level-wise, the dwarf would be around level 40.

If Michael wanted to, he could swat him away like an actual toad, but of course, he would not do that.

However, the situation still seemed a bit strange, almost as if he was gaining memories the longer he interacted with the surroundings.

They did not return instantly, returning almost as if they were fragments, bits of deja vu.

"Say.. Toad, or rather, Baldor, could you remind me where we are exactly?" Michael asked with a kind smile.

From what he could gather, they were really good friends, asking stupid stuff would not throw the dwarf off.

Baldor stared at him like he was some sort of an idiot "Hm? Pigeon, have you gone senile?"

However, Michael just stared back into his eyes, seeking an actual answer.

"You are serious... We are in the garden, those two fuckers keep breaking the laws of this place, so we were sent down to screw their heads on straight" Baldor explained with only a tinge of patience.

'Garden? Those two?' Michael raised an eyebrow at the development, he had some thoughts on where he could be just from those indicators.

Well, and the fact that he was technically an archangel, it would not be surprising for him to be associated with the beginning of everything.

He decided to try playing along, if his suspicions were correct, then...

"Which one broke the rules this time? Could you remind me?"

"The same one as per usual. Eve decided to eat another nectar, I believe the world tree can't hold on much longer.. Maybe this is fate?"

'Garden of Eden... well, aren't I in a tricky location..' Michael grumbled inwardly, there were a lot of stories and theories that were related to this particular place.

To find out that it actually existed all along seemed a bit unreal, even after all he had encountered so far, this situation seemed like a bit of a stretch.

He was a bit confused, why was this part of his memories? And why exactly was this noteworthy enough to be included in whatever the Halls of Reflection were?

"Huh.. her again? Seems like she never learns.." Michael chuckled and patted the dwarf on the head, and the moment he did so, his body froze.

"You..." Baldor was shaking from anger as he glared in his direction.

He had done it out of habit, or he thinks he did at least, it felt natural.

"Sorry, I needed a handrest for a moment" Michael added and began walking forward, the elevation increased in one particular direction, he assumed that was where the garden actually was.

But just as he began walking forward, the ground shook slightly, it was barely enough for most to notice, however, for Michael, it was definitely not difficult.

He turned around to look at Baldor and saw him just standing there with wide eyes before quickly dashing in the opposite direction of where Michael was going.

'Guess up was not the way..' He sighed and proceeded to run after Baldor, although it was a bit difficult.

Michael was surprised at the speed of the dwarf, he looked extremely weak, yet what he was seeing now did not add up.

It was a struggle for Michael to even follow his afterimage, he was just glad that they were heading in a straight line, if the path had been a bit different, then he would have been lost long ago.

However, he was not sure if he imagined it, but his speed was a little faster than usual.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

As they were running, a large tree appeared in the distance, it was so big in fact that Michael was unsure how he had not seen it earlier.

And strangely enough, it looked like it was radiating some sort of weird type of energy. It was not mana, but close enough to be considered as such.

The only reason Michael was sure it was not mana was because of his encounter with the rifts, it released the same type of energy.

The energy of chaos, it was similar, but on a different wavelength.

He could interact with it by using his inner mana, but it felt more like a chemical reaction than anything else.

Baldor had already arrived by the entrance of the garden and was waiting for Michael with an impatient look on his face.

"Pigeon-shit, you sure enjoyed taking your time, didn't you?"

"Why would I rush over..? She already ate the nectar, didn't she?" Michael tried excusing his lack of speed with logical reasoning.

"Well, no shit. That's where we come in to play to reset what she had done" Baldor walked up to him and smacked him on the head again.

This time, however, the force behind his smack was much larger than before.

It almost felt like he had been smacked by a Tier 1 individual.

But for some reason, it did not hurt as much as he thought it would, almost as if he had gotten stronger.

'No way right..?' Michael chuckled at his thoughts and cast a single sword of light.

The cast time was pretty much instant, he could not tell the difference from that alone, so instead, he decided to send the sword into the ground.

And upon doing so, he was left a bit speechless 'Uhh...? Did I do that?'

All he did was cast an ordinary sword of light like he had done all this time, however, the effects were a bit much.

His previous attack would have simply cut into the ground and dug deep, but instead, a small crater appeared. From a half-assed attack nonetheless.

Even a little bit of excess mana was left floating around, signifying the destructiveness of the simple sword of light attack.

Staring at the crater, he could not help but think 'What if I cast Heavenly Judgement..'

However, he quickly stopped that thought, it was in the back of his mind and he preferred not to need to use it unless absolutely necessary. Discover hidden tales at empire

There was also the fact that he did not know how to replicate the attack properly, after all, he had only used it once, and it was by accident.

As he was lost in his thoughts, Baldor's annoyed voice resounded from in front of him.

"Are you done playing around? Let's go."

"Right.."