Amazon Apocalypse 2 by Marvin Knight

Author:Marvin Knight [Knight, Marvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Forty-Five

When I woke, it was to warm hands fussing over me. I hadn't been as exhausted as I'd been the previous night in a long, long time—not since before the arrival of the System and all the extra stats it brought. I hadn’t even been this wiped out when I’d come back from the dead.

I was normally a light sleeper. It was rather startling to think that someone could sneak up on me like this, despite my new skills. When I heard her speak, I realized why this person could sneak up on me. It was Bridget, and her voice was full of concern—even as she grumbled to herself.

"Stupid. All men are crazy..." she muttered.

Judging by the soft feeling beneath me, and the spring that dug into my hip, I was still lying in the recliner I'd flopped down onto. But now my shirt was off and I was a lot cleaner than I'd been when I'd fallen asleep.

Bridget ran a hot towel across my stomach to clean me up. I also felt something that was probably a bandage wrapped tightly around my right arm.

"We leave you alone for one night and you look like you went to war..." Bridget grumbled, still thinking I was asleep. "Maybe we really do need Myrina’s help to reinforce us. It'll take all three of us to tame a stallion as wild as you..."

I fought to keep from laughing at Bridget's fussing. Her nervous fretting was cute, and it sounded like she and Myrina had at least gotten along well after my departure. That was also good news.

I kept quiet for another minute, pretending to sleep a while longer before letting out a loud, jaw-cracking yawn.

"You're awake! Sakura, Carter's awake!" Bridget jumped off the recliner and yelled to Sakura, who was probably just outside the room.

"Coming!" Sakura came rushing in.

She set her fists on her hips and glared at me. "You, mister, are in big trouble! Just what kind of fight did you get into without us?"

I groaned as I pulled myself out of my chair. I still had quite a few bruises—where I'd taken an ogre club to the stomach or caught a glancing blow to the side of the head from the equivalent of a thrown tree. Under the effects of Blood Frenzy and Iron Will, I'd hardly felt any of them.

I was certainly feeling them now, though. As much as my stomach hurt, it paled in comparison to the pounding headache I had. I'd run my mana pool dry last night. It was a good thing that that last Mana Barrage took out the two ogres that got me to level 45. There'd been nothing left by the time I'd finished.

"Ogres," I replied, my fingers massaging my temples.

Sakura's expression softened when she saw my brow furrowed in pain. "Carter? Carter! What's wrong? Are you hurt? Maybe we should take you to Doctor Roswell."

I waved her off. "Fine… I'm fine. Just a splitting headache. Severe mana depletion."

Sakura narrowed her eyes at me. She seemed half a step away from carrying me off to see the doctor, anyway.

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