Chapter 470: Promise
Someplace in the western region of the Fourth Realm, a vast and seemingly haunted forest spread far and wide, its perimeter not even visible at the horizon even after several tens of miles!
And exactly somewhere at the center of this seemingly hunted forest where the trees possessed no leaves and where mist floated everywhere, a young man and a young woman sat around a small campfire, both of them having an incredibly stunning figure that only those royal figures in the Fifth Realm could rival against!
"So... What do you want to talk about with me?" breaking the silence after several minutes, Sofiel looked at Khal with eyes filled with caution.
Holding the piece of meat in his hand above the crackling fire and slowly turning it around to make sure each side of the food was cooked equally, Khal glanced at Sofiel and began to speak;
"How should I call you?"
"...Sofiel."
"I see." Khal nodded and after pondering for a second or two he took out a small pill from his pocket and threw it toward Sofiel, "Here, eat this."
"H-Huh?" although she was surprised by the sudden act of Khal, Sofiel was still a Fourth Stage cultivator hence her reaction was still top-notch.
"What is this and why should I eat it just because you said so?" once she caught and held the small black pill in her hand, Sofiel raised a brow and looked at Khal with confusion.
"That’s a Supreme-Quality Curing Pill. It’s capable of healing any diseases or poison while also reducing any curse on and inside the body."
"What?" Sofiel’s eyes widened the moment she heard the words.
According to her knowledge, just a single Middle-Quality pill needed an insane amount of recourse and time not to mention a High-Quality Pill much less a Supreme-Quality one!
For instance, A Middle-Quality Recovery Pill needed around 56 ingredients and around 24 days to concoct!
24 days for a single pill, and even then it was not guaranteed that the pill will work 100% as it was possible that thanks to a small mistake during the concocting process it will lose 50%, perhaps 75% of its effectiveness once it was formulated at the very end!
Hence, hearing she was holding a priceless treasure in her hands, which was thrown at her like a piece of trash, Sofiel couldn’t help but tremble from pure disbelief!
Meanwhile, Khal just cut a small piece off from the meat in his hand, and a throwing it into his mouth he began to speak;
"I was wondering about this for a while now as I just couldn’t get it out of my head no matter what, but why is it that I can kill thousands of cultivators without even the slightest care but whenever I consider taking your life I seem reluctant to do so?"
Sofiel’s pupils shrunk to the size of a needle and couldn’t help but feel a small amount of fear upon hearing those words of Khal. She even stood up subconsciously, taking on a stance as if she was ready to fight.
Khal, however, didn’t seem to care about this at all, and after throwing another piece of cooked meat into his mouth he continued calmly;
"I tried to find answers and considered numerous possibilities, but none of them seemed to give me the answer I was looking for. Until..."
Then, pointing at his eyes he said, "I have activated one of my abilities and checked your soul."
"My... Soul?" Sofiel seemed confused and didn’t understand why her soul would save her from getting killed.
"Yes, your soul." Khal nodded and slowly explained, "After mastering a rather challenging path in the Third Realm, I have gained the ability to perceive and even control for a limited degree the souls of others. This, naturally, includes yours too and it seems your soul is slowly but surely breaking apart."
"And if I have to take a rough guess, you had a fight with a relatively strong foe who through some special means was able to put a curse on your soul, correct?"
Sofiel’s eyes widened and her body started to tremble once again for numerous reasons but mainly because of the last part Khal just said.
"You... Just who the hell are you?" Sofiel asked with disbelief, indicating Khal’s guess was straight head-on!
"I am just a normal cultivator, a human who tries to reach the Sixth Realm for different reasons."
"The Sixth Realm..." Sofiel swallowed nervously and if she would have heard the same thing from the mouth of anyone else, she wouldn’t have even hesitated to laugh at their statement.
Like, was this some kind of joke? Let alone reaching the Fifth Realm and its peak, entering the Sixth Realm was so hard that only 1 out of 1,000,000,000 could succeed!
However, after seeing Khal’s feats Sofiel had to admit that his declaration was something that with enough time it was possible to achieve!
Thinking about this, Sofiel lowered her gaze at the pill in her hand and asked, "But... Why are you giving this to me? I gave you no reason to help me."
"You didn’t, that is correct." Khal nodded before adding, "That is why while I have indeed given you that pill, you still need one more to make the curse on your soul vanish completely."
And after saying that, Khal summoned another pill into his hand, one that looked exactly the same in the hands of Sofiel.
"If you want your soul to be cured, which can only happen if you eat two Supreme-Quality Curing Pills at once, I want you to promise me something."
Sofiel narrowed her eyes when she heard Khal’s words, but as she felt no lies in his voice nor his gaze she relaxed and asked, "Which is?"
Khal looked calmly at Sofiel in the eye and said, "I heard your race, the Lightkin, possess a Blessing known as the Life Light Sense which is capable of sensing if an individual is close to his or her death. And for that reason, I want to borrow yours and your Blessings help once we reach the Fifth Realm."
