bookpower Chapter 241: Symptom of Broken Heart
Chapter 241: Symptom of Broken Heart
Chapter 241: Symptom of Broken Heart
The Holy Room.
While it was night outside, it was still rather bright inside the room, but it didn't mean that the two of them didn't feel sleepy.
On top of one of the soft clouds, Lady Yu laid with her eyes softly closed, and her chest continued to rise and fall in a slow, steady rhythm.
She was sleeping peacefully while her mind wandered through dreams of distant lands and adventures.
A small distance away, behind some of the clouds, Adam swung his heavy sword down and up, his muscles straining with each powerful blow.
The sleeves of his shirt were pulled all the way up to his shoulders, and his exposed arms were coated in a thin sheen of sweat.
"Wooh..." Adam breathed heavily, swung his sword down, and lifted it back up.
During his adventures after the Eldertree Institute, he found a skill scroll for the Knowledge Master skill. It was a rather different skill from others, as it helped him to absorb all types of knowledge.
Thus, because of the skill, he'd been reading through some swordsmanship books and learning techniques that he never thought possible.
Victor's words cut deep.
He was indeed lacking in the swordsmanship department, and since he was Tank, he didn't have to be good at it, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few extra tricks up his sleeve.
After swinging his sword back down, he took a step forward and cut horizontally across the air. He then took another step and slashed up diagonally to cut his invisible training partner.
With a short thrust, he stabbed his sword behind him, then turned around and slashed through the air in front of him.
He then switched his grip and continued to practice his forms.
After doing it a little bit longer, he stabbed his sword through the cloud ground, left it there, and sat down on the cloudy hill.
With an exhausted look, he took some water from his inventory and poured it over his head to cool off.
'What're we supposed to even do here?' Adam looked around with a puzzled expression on his face.
This was his first time being in the Holy Room, but he expected something to happen at least. He only knew that in this room, people turn into superhumans.
Around hundred years ago, Original entered the Holy Room with his holy partner-a beautiful holy maiden—and after three days, they emerged from the room.
The Original, only three days prior to that, was a scrawny-looking man with skinny arms, but after three days in the Holy Room, he turned into a powerhouse that was able to fight God Beast, who'd been terrorizing the nearby villages, and was able to slay it.
'I don't feel any different...'
At that moment, he heard some painful sounds. It sounded like someone was struggling to breathe.
When he walked up the cloud hill, he saw Lady Yu clutching her chest, and looked like she was still sleeping, but her face had turned red and her breaths were shallow and labored.
"My heart..." Lady Yu clutched her chest and winced in pain. "So painful..."
'What the hell is going on with her?' Adam touched his own forehead, worry clouding his thoughts. 'Think, think, think!'
At that moment, she breathed heavily and sat up, the drenched cloth falling down on her lap. She was in such pain that tears streamed down her face.
"Please, lay back down." Adam tried to help her lie back down, but she winced and refused.
"No..." She hugged him and whispered. "Take this pain away, please..."
Because of the intense fever, she drifted in and out of consciousness.
'Can't I really do anything?' Adam hugged her back and felt extremely helpless.
"Mm..."
She mumbled sleepily and planted a kiss on Adam's neck.
"?" Adam turned back to her and saw that her eyes were closed, but she was still mumbling.
It seemed like even she didn't know what she was doing anymore.
"Soulmate..." She buried her face on his shoulder. "You're the one..."
"That's..."
Adam felt like he had the answer right at the tip of his tongue. He was sure that he'd heard
something similar from Lady Yu in the previous life.
A story of bygone times, a story about soulmates, and painful love.
'That... I remember it!'
He turned Lady Yu around until her back was facing him. Her head drooped down as if she fell unconscious, and her body also turned limp, but she immediately woke back up, and looked
around in confusion.
At that moment, Adam ripped the back of her dress, and exposed her delicate back. There was
a strap of her bra peeking out from the tear, but below that, there was a strange mark.
He lifted the strap to catch a better look of the mark, and when he saw it, his heart sank.
It was a mark of a broken heart.
'A symptom of a broken heart.' Adam thought. 'It's something that only can happen to a rare few. It happens to those who have loved someone deeply but lost that love in the end.'