The Princess And The Lord-Chapter 1325: The Convalescent

The touching moment only lasted for two seconds when Fargo burst into the room with long strides and shouted loudly, "Yo, show me what you brought that you said could save Luc?"

"And...the moment is over," Jay chuckles at how familiar this feels like.

Fargo felt the strange atmosphere inside the room, instantaneously his protective nature kicked in. Fargo rushed towards Lucas’ sleeping pod to check his condition, first, he checked Lucas’s body after that he carefully checked the body monitoring system one by one only after he was sure there was nothing out of the ordinary with Lucas, did he let out a sigh of relief.

All of a sudden he heard a small giggle, "You’re already so old but you’re still so noisy, stupid Fargy!" she huffed.

The familiar voice caused his whole body to become rigid and for a few seconds he was unable to move, it was then his eyes caught the reflection of a woman with wavy bluish hair from the glass surface, and his lips quivered, he wanted to say something but the words seem caught on his throat, only after so much struggle he managed to lift his gaze in slow motion.

"Lor..." Fargo gaped, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Hi," Lory grinned.

The next thing happened Fargo roared at the top of his lungs "IMPOSTER!" Fargo was about to lunge at Lory.

Zhao Li Xin’s eyes darkened but Lory shook her head and smiled calmly, indicating that she could handle this.

"You stupid musclehead!" Fred pushed Fargo away and then quickly pulled Lory behind him in a protective manner.

Fury boiled inside him like boiling lava, he couldn’t believe someone dared to use Lory’s face to trick them, even worse, he thought Fred had fallen for this cheap trick, "Move aside Fred, this girl can’t be Lory, this is the enemy’s trick! How dare they use Lory’s face, this is unforgivable!"

Jay and Clift jumped between Fargo and Fred as they tried to stop them.

"Hey, calm down!" Clift pushed Fargo’s chest to put some distance between them and Fred.

At the same time, Jay also grabbed Fargo’s arm trying to stop his movement, "Yeah, musclehead, use your brain for once, look at her!" Jay tried to reason with Fargo, but unfortunately, it fell on deaf ears.

Meanwhile, Lory was not worried at all, because she grew up with Fargo, she had more or less expected this kind of reaction, especially since Fargo’s reaction reminded her of Hadius’ reaction. It seemed that the legend was true, the eluite race did have a hot temper.

’You guys really do come from the same ancestor, huh’ Lory was amused.

"Hey, if you think I’m fake, how would I know that you once used Fred’s picture to hit on a girl who worked part-time at the national library who according to her profile said she liked a smart - preppy-looking guy, and the girl ended up head over heels with Fred and decided to look for Fred, then after meeting Fred she confessed her love, but Fred said that he didn’t know her and the girl was heartbroken, she cried and made a scene outside the school"

The room immediately fell silent, everyone looked at Fargo in disdain. Lory didn’t stop there as she continued, "I also know that you once hid porn magazines under Fred’s bed during a room inspection and that’s why Fred lost his points and reputation."

Fargo was stunned, "How...how could you..."

Meanwhile, Fred’s eyes shone with fury "So, it was you" he hissed.

Fargo gulped, "Wait, wait a minute, I eventually explained it to the teacher okay—"

"Doesn’t matter! Do you know what I have to do to restore my reputation?" Fred was completely outrage.

This time Jay jumped in front of Fred and pushed his chest away. "Calm down, Calm down Fred!"

Lory was still upset because she was accused of being an Imposter and said again "Fargy bribed me with a pack of discount cards from twelve famous cake stores in Herriond, and he gave us a car when we sneaked into the summer music festival" Lory decide to burn Fargo mercilessly.

Jay and Clift remembered that then Jay chimed in "Oh yeah, the annual music festival, right? wait, aren’t we end up trapped in the middle of a riot?"

Fred remembers that day clearly. That night he suddenly received called from his father asking about Lucas and Lory’s whereabouts. Once he found their room empty, he and Fargo along with several Noxcra agents stormed the festival site to look for Lory and Lucas.

"You said they stole your car!" Fred’s anger exploded, no wonder his attempts to discipline Lory and Lucas often failed, it turns out he had a traitor on his side.

"Come on, why bother about the details...Buddy" Fargo said nervously.

Full of fury, Fred was about to jump on Fargo, luckily Jay and Clift stood between them trying to stop them from fighting, meanwhile. Lory watched with a giggle.

Zhao Li Xin watched with amusement, he could imagine how naughty Lory was when she was little, and at the same time he felt happy knowing that the warm environment that Lory grew up in was the opposite of his childhood environment.

"Luc must be laughing seeing you all like this..." sadness dripped from her voice as she stared at Lucas’ sleeping face, "Now, I understand why I was sent back here... because you needed me, right, Luc?" Lory tapped her index finger on the glass surface.

Fred and Fargo stopped their silly banter and turned to look at Lory, it took them a long time to accept that this wasn’t a dream, Lory was here, alive and well.

"Lory..." Fargo’s voice trembles as he struggles to control his emotions.

"Hi... I’ve never seen you with a full beard before" Lory tilted her head.

Fargo rubbed his beard that he had forgotten to shave for days, "Yeah, I would have shaved it if I knew you were coming" The edges of his eyes were red.

Lory couldn’t hold back her emotions any longer, she opened her arms, "Stupid Fargy, come on, give a hug!"

Fargo laughed then stepped forward and pounced on her and hugged her tightly, "You’re still alive..." he choked on his tears.

"En..." Tears streamed down her cheeks, "I’m sorry...for everything I’ve done to all of you, I didn’t mean to leave you like that..."

Fargo stroked the back of Lory’s head gently like he used to comfort her when she was little, "It’s okay...as long as you come back to us, everything will be forgiven...You’re here now, and that’s all that matters"

Fargo’s words only made Lory’s cries grow louder, she was like a child crying her eyes out in Fargo’s arms and everyone was trying to hold back their tears.

A warm smile spread across Zhao Li Xin’s beautiful face. Finally, Lory managed to untie the knot in her heart, Lory had been holding on to guilt for making her own decisions and leaving her loved ones without proper words. Because of that, no matter how happy she was in the cultivator world, there was always a hole in her heart that could never be filled, untill now.

"You look so ugly when you cry" Jay teased Clift.

Clift rubbed his nose and then snorted "Tell that to your face!"

"What - this?" Jay wiped his tear stained face, "It’s just sweat!" he denied shamelessly.

Clift’s mouth twitched, "I’m sure that’s not where the sweat comes from" he quipped.

Fargo released his hug, after that, he carefully examined Lory’s face which didn’t change at all, but it was not surprising since people with strong mana were able to maintain their youth longer than ordinary people.

Fargo flicks Lory’s forehead, "You don’t change much, huh?"

Lory smiled sheepishly, "Well, I’m married though"

"WHAT?" Fargo and Fred exclaimed simultaneously.

Lory laughs and then waves at Zhao Li Xin, "Li Xin, darling, come here!"

Zhao Lixin clasped his arms behind his back, he walked towards Lory with steady steps and a calm demeanor but Fargo and Fred could feel the menacing aura emanating from him.

However, as he got closer to Lory the sharp aura he radiated slowly diminished.

Lory stretched out her hand then Zhao Li Xin took her hand, Lory then introduce him with abog smile, "He is my husband, his name is Zhao Li Xin, and he saved my life..."

"She saved me too," Zhao Li Xin said as she looked at him gently.

Lory and Zhao Li Xin exchange loving gazes, meanwhile, Fargo and Fredhardt look consecutively between Lory and Zhao Li Xin then become speechless as they never saw Lory look anyone like that.

Lory could tell Fargo and Fredhardt must have a lot of questions, but now was not the time to exchange stories, "We’ll talk later, let’s save Luc first."

"Yes, let’s start it!" Fargo’s face lit up with hope for the first time in a long time.

"First I need to know what’s inside Luc’s body," Lory said. Fred nodded in understanding, "Look at this," Fred went to the monitor and typed a few moments later an image appeared inside Lucas’ body.

"You see this, we don’t know what this creature is, but from its shape, it looks like a plant seed, but the problem is the roots wrapped around Luc’s organs." Fred’s expression turned heavy as he showed the image on the monitor.

"Can’t we operate Luc to get it out of his body?" Lory asked.

"No, every time we tried to remove the roots, the creature wrapped itself around the scalpel and attacked the doctor who was trying to operate on Luc. After that, we tried using lasers to destroy the roots, but it didn’t work, the creature was too strong, and maybe because it felt disturbed, the creature’s roots just got thicker and spread wider," said Fred in frustration.

"Is this the Scion they were talking about?" Jay said while staring at the reddish seed with dark red roots that spread and wrapped around some of Lucas’ internal organs, it was a miracle Lucas was still alive.

"Scion?" Fred frowned hearing Jay’s words.

Clift then handed the tablet to Fred "Lory infiltrated the Aeon institute and she found this" "You did what?!" Fargo widened his eyes and then looked at Lory with a reprimanding look.

Lory shrugged casually "How else would I have gotten the important information?"

"But she almost died, tough" Jay sold out Lory in front of Fargo freely without guilt.

Fargo’s face darkened, "What the—"

Lory justified herself, "But I’m alive!"

Fargo took a deep breath as he swallowed his anger, when he opened his eyes he glared at Lory hard "We’ll talk about this later!"

"Y-yeah..." Lory replied weakly then shot daggers at Jay, who seemed to be delighted seeing her misfortune.

Zhao Li Xin didn’t feel sorry for Lory, he felt its about time, for someone other than him to put a leash on her reckless behavior.

"This confirms the motive for Luxemborough and the S.A.I.N.T. organization to injure Lucas. It seemed to revive this creature called the Scion needed a light-type power, but the healer mana was not enough so they used Lucas, instead"

"Those bastards, I’ll kill them all!" Fargo hit the nearest wall and managed to make a hole.

"Save your anger for later, the most important thing right now is to get that thing out of Lucas"

"But how? That thing consumes mana, Lory’s power also uses mana, even though Lory could heal Lucas but it wouldn’t kill that thing, right?" Fargo’s words made sense because of that, their hopes were dashed again.

"No, there must be another way...we can’t give up" Fred frowned as he scrolled the tablet, Lory and the others were also racking their brain for another solution.

Zhao Li Xin stared at the monitor for a while then turned his gaze towards the sleeping man in the glass, he pondered for a minute then suddenly spoke, "What if we don’t use mana to kill that thing"

Everyone simultaneously looked at Zhao Li Xin not understanding what he meant.

"Li Xin, what do you mean?" Lory was confused.

"What if we used Immortal flame?" Zhao Li Xin gives a meaningful look.