The Mysterious Midnight Magnate

07: The Ring’s Healing Power (I)

Eric woke up with an audible gasp and saw himself at the hospital.

And the nurse who was about to attend to him flinched in fear.

"How did I get here?" Eric questioned, grappling with his ward.

"Someone brought you down here because you were in a critical condition, but she's gone." The nurse explained.

"What?" Eric's confusion deepened.

"You need to calm down, sir, as you aren't in the position to move," the nurse advised but Eric dismissed her please, sitting up with no hint of pain.

"But I don't feel any pain at all," Eric exclaimed, astonished.

The nurse's eyes rose in their sockets upon seeing this. She was silenced by shocked because when the man was brought in last night, he was covered in bruises.

Astonished, the nurse hastily left the room to summon the doctor, muttering, "Unbelievable," under her breath.

Meanwhile, Eric's mind raced with memories of the previous night's thugs' attack. His phone chimed, diverting his attention to a notification: $5,000,000 disbursed ten times into his account.

"Is this real?" Eric questioned, pinching himself to check for hallucination

His wounds miraculously healed, and a staggering $50,000,000 was deposited into his account?

Questions flooded his mind.

Was it Claudia? A Mistake? Or she found a way to put money in his account? $50,000,000 was a huge amount of money and Eric knew her net worth wasn't even up to that amount.

Perhaps it was a business profit transferred wrongly by someone else?

Then who was this person?

Was it a mistake?

Were they trying to transfer a business profit to another account and mistakenly sent it to him?

So many thoughts were slamming through Eric's mind, making it impossible for him to think straight until he remembered the ring from last night.

In a rush, held his hand to his face.

Only to find the ring still there.

It was reflecting, exhibiting different colors in a fast motion, that Eric had to quickly look away because he feared he would suffer possible blindness if he stared at it for too long.

"What are you?" Eric asked quietly when the diamond stopped the color-blinding and remained at a crystal blue.

Suddenly, another message rolled into his phone, and it was a credit alert of $10,000,000 this time.

The hospital's room door burst open, and in came a doctor and two nurses.

"What's going on?" The doctor inquired.

But Eric remained silent.

"Unbelievable," they chorused at once, their eyes widened upon seeing Eric seemingly unharmed like he hadn't suffered any severe injuries.

Aware of couldn't stay at the hospital with magically healed bruises, Eric desperately tried to remove the mysterious ring, but it clung to his finger like glue.

"Listen to me, you need to sit down," urged a nurse.

"No, I can't…" Eric shook his head in disagreement.

"We need to know how it happened?" This was from the puzzled doctor.

"Something isn't right, I need to go."

Eric grabbed his torn shirt from the chair and dashed out of the hospital ward, unaware of where he was headed to.

The doctor and nurses were chasing after him, asking him to wait.

But Eric didn't even listen to them, he ran like his life depended on it.

"He's a patient, don't let him get away!" The doctor yelled at some security.

Eric swerved into another direction upon realizing that if he wasn't smart, he would get caught because they saw him as a freak.

In order to hide from them, he stormed into another patient's ward and shut the door behind him.

He pressed his back at the door and waited, hoping to hear them run past, but nothing happened.

Until he creaked the door open and found them lurking around.

Quickly, he shut the door and locked it.

He was panting heavily when he returned his gaze to the sick elderly man on the bed, whose mouth had a breathing tube connected to it.

Some doctors and nurses were trying to jerk him back to life, and on the floor was a young girl crying so hard.

"Save my grandfather," she wailed. But it seemed as though the Doctors couldn't do anything.

"How did I even get here?" Eric muttered to himself as he wished he hadn't even gotten there.

He woke up with all of his bruises gone, he found a whooping sum of $60,000,000 in his account, his doctor thought he was a freak, and now he's was trapped with a dying man, more doctors, and a tearful little girl.

"We need to do something!"

"Can't you see there's no way out of this!?"

"So we're gonna let him die."

"It's the only way out."

"No!" The little girl wailed and ran to meet Eric who was at the door.

"Please save my grandfather," she begged a clueless Eric.

The doctors, upon realizing Eric was in the room asked him to get out, since he wasn't supposed to be there.

But Eric's feet were unmoving, and he was stiff in his position, because he had several possibilities in his mind on how to save the dying old man, despite lacking medical expertise.

It was strange.

Could it be the ring again?

First, it healed him, gave him money and now it wanted him to heal a man?

"Leave now! You aren't supposed to be here!"

"What do you think you're doing, I said get out!" The doctor ordered.

Ignoring that command, Eric took determined steps forward, "I can save him."