Chapter 343: Somehow Worked Out

Lily noticed when he started to awaken because she helped him sit up.

“What am I doing here?” He asked her, confused at his situation. Truthfully, he had been half expecting to be somewhere in the middle of a forest because the teleportation went wrong. However, he never expected to be in Lily’s room.

“We were worried when you didn’t show up for the finals, so we had Professor Kellar help us find you,” she started to explain, but before she could continue, he interrupted her.

“What?! You’re saying that I have been unconscious for a whole day?” He couldn’t believe it. While he hadn’t been planning to show up, it didn’t mean he was expecting to be knocked out for a whole day.

It was certainly one hell of a way to finish the tournament. Though to be fair, he would consider this a pretty good way to end things. This way, he actually had an excuse for why he didn’t show up. Plus, the reward for winning would not have been anywhere close to as good as earning a Space Concept and evolving his skill.

“You were unconscious for almost a week,” she dropped a bomb on him.

“Almost an entire week?” He repeated in disbelief.

How had that happened? A whole week was a very long time and from his perspective it definitely didn’t seem that long. His time trapped in the void was less than an hour and while it was hard to estimate how long he was trapped in his soul space acquiring his Space Concept, it definitely didn’t feel like it was more than a few hours.

“What the hell happened? We were worried sick when you didn’t show, and we couldn’t find you. Then, when we finally did, you wouldn’t wake up no matter what we did. Even Professor Kellar told us that there was nothing we could do and that the best thing would be to leave you alone for you to figure it out for yourself,” she said to him.

“He said that? Did he have any idea what was happening to me?” Julius couldn’t help but question whether or not Gabriel knew what was happening to him.

“I don’t know. He seemed like he had a clue, but he said that if we wanted to know, then we would have to ask you when we got up,” she explained.

It was likely that the baldy indeed had some idea of what Julius was going through.

He puffed out his cheeks at that annoying possibility and looked around the room, noticing all of the decorations. Surprisingly, it was more girly than he had expected from either of them.

However, Lily must have seen him inspecting the room because she shook his shoulder. “No judging,” she rebuked him.

He held his hands up. “I’m not.”

She shook her head, knowing that he was. “So what happened? Did you learn a new skill that took you a long time to adapt to?”

“Do some skills take that long?” He asked interestedly.

She nodded. “I had one that took me several days to wake up from and another couple of months to actually learn how to use. I have heard of more extreme stories, too,” she said to him.

He shook his head at her. “I did get a new skill. But I don’t think that was the reason why I was unconscious.”

“Then what was the reason? You don’t seem injured, and except for you just vomiting, you have been perfectly fine health-wise.”

“I learned a new Concept,” he admitted. From what it sounded like, she had been taking care of him for the past week, and she deserved to know why.

“A new Concept?” She repeated, not sounding too shocked at his answer.

“Yeah. But it definitely didn’t seem like I was out for a whole week,” he said.

“What kind of Concept?” She asked.

He thought about how he wanted to answer for a moment and eventually decided that the truth usually worked out the best with Lily.

“A Space Concept,” he said softly.

She had been doing a very good job staying composed and calm this entire time, but when he said that, she visibly got agitated. She also immediately created a barrier that surrounded them.

“Are you serious?” She asked with wide eyes and a hushed tone.

“Yeah. I thought I told you previously that I have been working on acquiring one,” he said, confused at her reaction.

She looked at him in sheer disbelief before letting out a chuckle. “Working on one and actually acquiring one are two totally different things. How did you even do it?”

He shrugged. “I have been continuously meditating for a very long time, and with the new spatial skill I got, it made it much easier to experiment with.”

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It looked like she wanted to say something, but refrained. Instead, she just sighed. ‘I should know better by now,’ she muttered before looking at him with a soft smile. “Are you okay, though?”

He smiled back and nodded. “I am. Thanks for taking care of me,” he made sure to thank her.

“It wasn’t hard. Except for that,” she pointed at the small remnants of vomit. “You didn’t move an inch.”

He winced at the reminder of vomit on his chest. Realizing he also had a new pair of clothes on, which made sense because his old ones were destroyed. However, that also meant that they must have found him naked on the floor. He tried not to blush at that thought.