Meanwhile, Jill and her group are walking towards the castle with nothing new when she suddenly gets a call from Laura.
BZZZ!
[Jill, anything going on your side?]
[No, nothing at all.]
[Lucky you, we had to fight a squad of the rat king's army, and we lost 3 soldiers in the process.] She says as her team members are sitting and putting bandages on each other, as some are hurt with a gunshot wound, but Pierrot is healing them, for which they thank him.
[My condolences.]
[It's not your fault, but keep your eyes peeled, you never know what might come out of nowhere in this place.]
[Will do]
At the same time, at the far left of the forest, Clad was running in the woods when he eventually ran into Swan and the rest of the team.
"Swan!" He said as he looked at the Harpie woman, lying on the floor, breathing heavily next to the younger harpie girl.
"I tried to close the wound, but I've never done something like this before." He said
"She might not make it," He said as he looked down at her bleeding body.
Clad looked at her, and she opened her mouth, barely able to say the words she wanted to say.
Huff....huff....
"Protect...child....p-please..." She said as light left her eyes, but Clad didn't want her to die, nor did he want to make the young girl cry.
His eyes whitened, and his hands became more tree-like in appearance with a pale white colour, and he lifted the harpie up and walked towards a nearby tree and put her there before transforming his left hand into a pointy form and stabbing her where the missing arm would be.
!!!
"Clad, what are you....!" Swan said as he saw the blue mana all over the trees concentrate in his body and get transferred to the harpie, closing the wound.
"Now she won't die," Clad says as his eyes return to pink, which leaves Swan and the rest of the team speechless.
"What the hell?"