I'm The supreme Fairy King

Chapter 237: The Poisoned Boss

"What do you mean by that?" All the disciple glanced in distress towards Jim who instantly shouted:

"Bring everyone back, hurry! We have little time!"

"What happened?" The disciple got more restless before grabbing Jim in a reflexive move from his neck, "what happened to the boss?"

"Hector... he is dying!" Jim slowly said and the eyes of that giant disciple widened all of sudden. "Let me go," Jim said, "and hurry and bring all here."

The kid let Jim down before suddenly running towards the pit. Even before he reached there, he shouted with his loudest voice:

"Come out now, come out... The boss... He is dying!"

Jim could feel the immense amount of agony in his tone. Nothing happened for the next moments before all of sudden that jeely piece jumped off the pit's opening and slammed even to the ceiling of the new cave before landing roughly beside Jim and Hector.

"What happened?" Many jumped off the jelly piece even before it got to stop over the ground, "what's wrong with boss?"

This question came from many while the disciple pointed to Jim, "He says the boss is dying."

"Nonesense," Roger, the kid who could summon the jelly, shouted at once towards Jim. "Our boss said he is fine, and he never lied to us."

Jim took a deep breath as he knew it would be a hard moment to convince them otherwise. "He did this to not make you worry or do something to help."

"Nonsense!" Roger shouted again, "our boss knows our strength quite well. He knows if he even asked us to attack masters we will and we will win!"

"There is no time for that," Jim glanced all around, "is there anyone with some medical abilities or spells here?"

"I'll check him," Roger suddenly moved, "but I swear if you were playing dirty tricks here I wouldn't care about the boss or what you did... I promise to chop your head off your shoulders."

"Just check him," Jim was slightly threatened by these words especially when all around nodded in unison. "You'll get what I mean."

"Step aside," Roger rudely said before leaning over Hector's body. The next moment the entire body of their boss was covered with a layer of Roger's jelly, making Jim feel like he was frozen.

"Ouch!" Roger didn't stay there for more than one minute before screaming in an alarming way. His body was pushed back and all of his jelly was decayed, eaten away by some sort of black sinister energy that crushed the jelly like fire eating grass.

"What's wrong Roger?" all glanced at Roger and saw his white ashen face. Two thin lines of blood emerged from the corners of his mouth while he weakly and shockingly said:

"The kid wasn't lying..."

"What do you mean?" Reg moved at once and helped him stand, "what's wrong with boss?"

"He..." Roger didn't know what to say and turned to Jim for help. This time his eyes weren't emitting any rage or hatred, but pleading and despair.

"He is poisoned," Jim just said what his old man said to him, "Something bit him at that pit, something far stronger than that spider queen."

"How can you tell?" Tom said in disbelief, "there was nothing else but that spider queen."

Jim waited for a brief moment while his old man gave him the answer. "This poison... isn't something that attacks the body but the soul. It's eating his magical power, and any other magical power getting in touch with it. See for yourselves, he just got the same backlash I got when I tried to inspect him."

He pointed towards Roger, shifting everyone's attention to the latter. And Roger simply nodded in agreement without saying a single word.

"But the boss was fighting the spider queen," one of the disciples said.

"Spiders can use toxins!" another disciple said.

"Indeed, but their toxin is a body type, not a soul or energy type," Jim said, taking a long breath before bringing forth the bad news, "whatever bit Hector, it was a very strong monster and not simply one that dwells normally here."

The entire group glanced at Jim without saying a single word. Jim could see the shock and despair all over their faces, making him feel great sympathy for them and envy for Hector.

"The monster who did this had two types of extremely rare toxins, one to hit the soul and the other to consume the magical energy away. This... thing can't be normal, can't be an inhabitant of such a place."

"Why?" Roger weakly asked.

"Because he is a kind of a predator that sees all around as food," Jim firmly said, "if it's living here then we won't have found any monster but it."

Jim waited for them to absorb the shock. "We need to return to the academy," one of the disciples said, "masters should have a way to deal with it."

"Yeah that's the right thing to do."

"Screw this test! We already passed nine before and losing one won't be a big thing for us."

"We need to save our boss' life!"

Jim heard all of their opinions and was about to express his support for such a decision... But his old man had another opinion about this.

"We... can't do this," he slowly said and his voice wasn't that loud but it was enough to crush all the sounds around.

"Why?" Roger slowly said while moving with the help of another disciple, "it's the only logical way to do it."

"This..." Jim found the reason given by the old man hard to explain. "I can't say much but all I can tell is that: this poison is so ancient and extremely violent. I'm sure, one hundred percent sure that the only people who can have such ability to heal him are... the dragons."

"What if they are the dragons?" Roger angrily said, "he is one of the most prominent disciples in the entire academy!"