The Demon King's Paladin

Chapter 99. Wake Up

                                                                    Anna Ericsson's Point of View

Sarah cleared the smoke from the building. I looked up to see that the ceiling was gone. All I saw were the clouds that were passing by. Sarah and I both looked at each other and then at where John was last. What we saw scared both of us.

" My Love!"

" Master!"

We saw John was laying on the floor and not moving. We rushed to him. Once we arrived, Sarah and I began to remove all of the dust that was covering him. I placed my hand over him and began to cast a healing spell.

" Divine Healing!"

My spell worked, but John simply laid in our arms. He was breathing deeply. Actually, he didn't even look injured.

" Sarah... I think.... He's sleeping."

" Yes, it looks like it. Why would he pass out though? Mana exhaustion?"

" No, his mana is still at a decent level. Why would his mana go out of control? What could've happened?"

" Was he poisoned?"

" No, I checked every grain of food he's had on the road. He's also been using Holy Heal after every meal."

" This doesn't make any sense!"

While Sarah and I were trying to work out what happened, a different person spoke.

" What did that human do!?"

" Who are you!?"

A red demon approached us. He was a tall and burly man. He had 4 eyes and large fangs protruding from his mouth. He approached us with bloodlust leaking out of his body and a sword raised at us as soon as he saw John in our arms. He tried to swing his sword down at us. I protected John with my body and began to use a barrier spell.

/CLANG!/"

It seems that it was unnecessary to erect a barrier.

" How Dare You Try and Attack My Love!"

even stronger bloodlust began to leak out of Sarah as she clashed her halberd with the red demon we had never seen before. I placed John's head on my lap, so he wasn't laying on the hard cold ground. Sarah spoke once more after confirming that John and I were fine.

" I'll tell you this once. He is the new Lord of these lands. To attack him is to attack these very same lands! Put your blade down now! Before my Husband has one less mouth to feed during the winter!"

" You married a man, who needs his wife to protect him!? How weak can a human get!?"

Sarah seemed to have enough. She pushed the man back with the effort it takes to swat a fly and began to spin her halberd.

" Death it is!"

" No human lover can kill me girl! He's the one who used some kind of weird magic in this house in the first place!"

" STOP!"

" You!?"

" Sis!"

All of a sudden, the girl that John had healed jumped in between the man and Sarah. She looked at the man and began to speak.

" Garlo! Enough! This man healed me! He isn't an enemy!"

" He blew up a house, Claire! How much more proof that he's working for Promethia do you need!?"

" What ever happened, was out of his control! He pushed Mikey out of the way before he got hurt!"

" Garlo! Enough! That man is an ally! He helped us kill the Demon Alligator out back! It's the reason that Claire was hurt in the first place! I stand as a witness that man fought the gator and healed Claire!"