Chapter 279: Finally Returned

“Haha, I told you I could do it,” he weezed to Rebecca as he used a little bit of [Phoenix Renewal] to recover his stamina and his missing limbs. “It was a piece of— mmph.”

He was interrupted by Rebecca appearing in front of his face and shoving a bottle of something down his throat.

He flailed around but the woman was much too strong for him and managed to pin him down with ease, forcing him to swallow the potion. He kicked his legs instinctively, but there was nothing he could really do. Rebecca’s Domain had kept him immobilized and he didn’t think exploding his soul to escape it would be the smart thing to do.

Truth to be told, he enjoyed the cooling sensation of the injected life mana flowing through his stomach and heading to his injuries.

However, his skill quickly took over this life mana to repurpose it for its own use. In a brief flash of fire, his arm and leg, which he had sacrificed, were regenerated just like how it was before. He couldn’t help but notice that the small scars he had around his forearm were still there too and gave them a soft smile.

“What the hell was that?” She asked, staring at him with a look mixed with disgust and fascination as she grabbed his newly healed arm tightly.

“I told you he had some sort of healing skill,” Richard mentioned from behind his wife, not showing as much surprise as Rebecca.

“You never said that he had something quite like this. Is this why you were so confident in allowing him to go on that mission?” She asked Richard with narrowed eyes.

The man in question put his hands high up into the air. “I didn’t know it was quite like that. But yes, I had a feeling that it was more powerful than he was telling us. There was no other way Julius should have been able to push himself that hard in our spars.”

With one final dark look at her husband, Rebecca turned to look back at Julius.

“Even if you have such a skill, you shouldn’t be using it like that. It’s much too dangerous for something as simple as dodging an obstacle.”

He looked at the ground guiltily. He hadn’t meant to do something so rash. As a matter of fact, he hadn’t even been planning to show the extent of his healing skill to them. He was just so distracted by completing the course that he hadn’t bothered to hide his skill. Everything just happened so fast and before he even fully realized what he was doing, his arm and leg were gone.

He had gotten the idea from when he was fighting that Tier 5. But this time it wasn’t for more power, it was merely to give the threads less physical flesh to hit.

Furthermore, if there was anyone he didn’t really care about knowing in all of Blumand, it was the two of them. Reinera had already seen his healing skill in action so he wasn’t worried about her. Marcus and Stella had seen his skill in action, so maybe it was only fair that Richard and Rebecca saw it too.

Seeing that he was truly regretful, Rebecca didn’t scold him further. She merely sighed and stood up.

“Are you okay though?”

He grinned at her and showed off his arm. “Yep, completely fine,” he said as he waved it up and down.

She shook her head at his antics but begrudgingly smiled at him. “It was a stupid move. But still congratulations. You are the first person I have seen to finish this course without the use of some sort of spatial skill or other cheating skill.”

Julius couldn’t help but get up to his feet and do a little excited dance. Funnily enough, he was excited about doing this than completing the Challenge Rift or beating the Tier 4. For some reason, he felt this immense sense of satisfaction.

“Do I get some kind of reward for finishing it?” He asked excitedly to Rebecca.

The woman chuckled and before he knew what had happened he got slapped on the back of the head.

“There’s your reward,” she said smugly.

He rubbed the back of his head, which was still ringing from the hit, looking at her in disbelief before looking at Richard and Reinera for support.

Richard was in the middle of backing up, distancing himself from Julius.

Reinera on the other hand was looking at him with a look of supreme disappointment.

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“You all set?” Marcus asked him, barely giving Reinera’s presence any attention.

“I think so,” he replied with another quick check of his storage ring. “Did the two of you finish everything else you needed to?”

Stella, who was standing next to Marcus, sighed dramatically. “Yeah, as much as we could in such a short time. That Tier 5 had some nasty soul contracts attached to him. We actually got more information out of the two Tier 4s instead.”

“Anything of importance?”

“Not really, that list you got was probably more enlightening than anything else we managed to get from them. Like you said, they were smaller pieces of a much larger group. If we are going to find anything worth finding, it is going to be from that Tier 5. But breaking through the restrictions of his soul contracts is going to be very difficult and time consuming,” she explained.