"Idle Transfiguration."
In his groggy state, Arad seemed to hear that demon's voice again.
The moment that voice rang out, Arad's consciousness was swiftly jolted awake.
He abruptly opened his eyes and immediately saw Riezel standing before him.
"Feel fortunate."
Before Arad, Riezel spoke with a half-smile.
"Feel fortunate that you still have some value to be used."
As soon as those words fell, Arad's expression changed drastically, and his body instinctively sprang backward, distancing himself from Riezel.
The moment he moved, Arad immediately noticed something was wrong.
"M-My body..."
He was stunned.
Before losing consciousness, not only had both his arms been severed, but his insides had also been thoroughly mangled by some unknown magic, leaving him completely devoid of human form.
Yet now, Arad discovered in astonishment that his arms had been restored to normal, and his internal structure had returned as well. For a moment, he wondered if he had been in the Dreamscape from beginning to end, and that excessively brutal battle had never happened at all.
However, that was undoubtedly nothing more than wishful thinking.
That brutal battle had not been an illusion. It had truly happened.
The proof was that the room wrapped in a barrier still looked utterly wrecked. Moreover, his body seemed not merely to have returned to normal—it had undergone some inexplicable changes as well.
"What did you do to me?"
Arad looked at Riezel with shock and fury.
Only then did Arad notice that, besides Merlot and Naisha, who were watching him coldly, someone else had appeared at Riezel's side at some point.
She was a young girl whose looks and bearing were in no way inferior to Merlot's or Naisha's, yet for some reason, she gave off a chillingly dangerous feeling.
Seeing the girl with waist-length emerald-green hair, so