ALL NOVEL Chapter 161 “The Mission” Part 3
Chapter 161
“The Mission” Part 3
Her heart beat like a runaway horse against her ribs.
Truth be told Kalysto was still a little freaked out by her boss’s sudden outburst, but she was still to upset about what happened with Katia. She needed to kill a couple more monsters and focus her remaining anger elsewhere before Hanna arrived. and noticed something was wrong with her and informed the queen.
And she was worried that her boss might decide to intervene.
So she closed her eyes for a second as she took a deep breath, trying to normalize her heartbeat in the hope that it would help her finally calm down, but out of the corner of her eye she could tell that her hair was still two shades darker than usual.
At least it’s not black. She consoled herself... At least I’m still in control of my body.
And with dissimulation, she opened her eyes and looked at her arms, feeling relieved not to see any serpentine black stains on her skin.
Then her gaze fell on the only dark-skinned hero.
“Oscar, how high can you jump?” she asked the only other hero who had dedicated himself to increasing his agility. Although Kalysto suspected that he was already agile, even with a knife, long before they were summoned to this world.
Oscar frowned and instead of asking, he looked at the debris and everything around them, while calculating in his mind.
“At least ten meters,” he answered, ”maybe a little more if I have enough impulse.”
“Great!” Then Kalysto jumped to where they were, coming out of the fifteen meters wide crater the queen had caused and stood in front of him, at the same time that Rita, worried about her, came closer to verify that she wasn’t hurt. “Because I need you to find a route for us to escape as quickly as possible.”
“Are you sure you are not hurt anywhere?” Rita whispered, and the fairy champion smiled at her genuine concern.
“I’m fine. She’s just in a bad mood because I made the stupid mistake of telling her I was busy. So she got rid of my distractions,” fear flickered across Rita’s face, and she couldn’t believe how calmly Kalysto was telling her this. “It’s not me she wanted to hurt,” she assured her.
For now. Her treacherous mind reminded her.
Focus! She scolded herself. Immediately, a violet window appeared to her left and the usual coldness covered her body.
[The Mental Defense skill has been activated.]
Why didn’t I think of doing this before?
Rita and Oscar blinked in surprise as the color of her eyes and Kalysto’s hair lightened in front of their eyes.
“Is everything all right?” asked the blonde cautiously. Your...your eyes changed color.
A small smile full of relief appeared on Kalysto’s face.
“I’m glad. I was worried about that,” she commented, not wanting Hanna to see her like that. But seeing that the problem was easily solved, she turned to Oscar. “I’ll give you a boost. I want you to concentrate on looking for where we can escape more easily. And don’t worry about the fall, I’ll take care of catching you.”
Accustomed to following orders in which his life was exposed to danger during the years he had been working for a mobster in Italy, Oscar nodded his head and put his foot in the middle of Kalytso’s intertwined hands.
“Are you sure he won’t fall?”
“Your future husband will be fine. I just hope you invite me to the wedding,” Kalytso joked, making the blonde blush.
“How is Katia doing? -Rita asked quietly, wanting to change the subject.
“Safe for now,”” was all she replied before propelling Oscar upward.
And while both women kept their eyes on him, waiting for him to point out the best way to go, the rest of the group approached where they were.
“What are you doing?” asked Eric and Koden at the same time.
“Give me some room and get ready to run in the direction Oscar points us,” the dark-haired man pointed to the northwest. “Eric, Madha and Koden! Lead the rest of the group to where Oscar pointed us! Hurry!” Then she jumped, grabbing Oscar by the waist and landing a couple of meters away from where they were before. “Everything all right?”
“Yes...” he assured her with a pale face. “There’s a trail of corpses in that direction. Although we will encounter a good collection of monsters, it seems that they already destroyed everything they were going to destroy when they passed that way.”
“Then it’s time to run,” and so the three of them did.
As soon as they caught up with the group, it was obvious that Rita was already running out of breath as Kalysto noticed her holding her stomach while lagging behind the rest of the group.
“Oscar, carry Rita on your back! The rest don’t deviate and keep moving forward along the path that Rita opened!” She ordered when she saw a group of undead that ran towards them as soon as they saw them break through the burnt wall of bushes that led to the corridor of the labyrinth where they had been left behind. “I’ll take care of them!”
“Are you sure you’ll be all right on your own?” Koden questioned, worried for her.
“Protect the group!” She replied before dashing in front of the small wave of three hundred undead that rushed to meet her. “Hello experience points!” She greeted them with a smile, convinced that she still had a chance to reach level fifty before Hanna arrived to pick her up. “Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!”
[The Dispel Ezhil skill has been raised to level 12!]
[You have gained 200 experience points!] x50
[You have gained 400 experience points!] x20
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x30
[You’ve gained 500 experience points!] x20
As their bodies faded amidst the golden light of their abilities, Kalysto ran through their remains with her axe in hand, ready to cut down a few, if necessary.
To her great disappointment, this batch of monsters had only skeletons and resurrected soldiers.
At least none of them were contaminated with the plague. She consoled herself.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Purification!”
[You have gained 200 experience points!] x60
[The skill Ezhil Purification has risen to level 17!]
[You have gained 400 experience points!] x30
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x40
[You have leveled up!]
[The user is now level 45!]
[You have gained 500 experience points!] x20
[You have gained 100 experience points!] x30
[The Dispel Ezhil skill has been raised to level 13!]
As soon as he was sure he was done with all of them, he returned to the group, which was fighting a group of wolves several corridors ahead.
“Move aside!” And as soon as all the heroes moved aside, Kalysto conjured: “Ice creation!” covering the wolves completely.
“Hey! I wanted to kill some!” Edward complained.
“We don’t have time for that, we have to get out of here as soon as possible! If you want to stay and fight with them, that’s your decision, but don’t expect me to come and rescue you later! Fire blast!” she conjured, looking at the map out of the corner of her eye and noticing that Hanna had already left the fairies’ territory.
Shit! I’m running out of time! She worried, as she focused her mana on burning several rows of bushes in the hope that they could finally reach the exit of the labyrinth.
“Rita, the next wall is all yours!” She added as she ran towards the new path she had opened for them and the smell of burning flooded her nose.
“Ready! But I still have twenty seconds to go before I can use my fire again!” Rita replied as they all ran to the final wall. “Fire creation!” A smile came to the blonde’s lips as the last barrier to their freedom burned down, giving way to a sea of severed monster corpses and wounded soldiers.
Gabriel, Gideon, Emanuel and Edward blanched at the sight of the remains of the cruel battle.
“Are they all dead?” asked Gabriel.
“We don’t have time to find out, and if there are any soldiers alive, they will try to subdue us and force us to return to defend their kingdom, which I don’t intend to do. I suggest you keep walking. We still have a long way to go,” she then turned to Rita’s boyfriend. “Oscar, are we on the right track?”
“...” He nodded his head, not missing any detail of the hundreds of dead that were lying all over the place, as if he didn’t trust any of them. “We should come across a huge destroyed fence in a few minutes and then the remains of a large pink house. From there, the path will be completely clear.”
“You heard him guys, let’s keep running!” Seven minutes later, when they were a block away from the remains of the pink building Oscar had mentioned, another lich, at least three meters tall and surrounded by almost a thousand undead, was advancing in their direction from the intersection with the other street.
“What the hell? Why are there so many of them everywhere?” Edward complained.
“Keep moving! Keep moving! Don’t deviate! I’ll take care of them!” said Kalysto.
“Are you sure you don’t need our help?” Eric asked. They look like too many for you to fight on your own.
“Don’t worry about me and escape as soon as possible! I’ll join you when I can, but for now, get as far away from this kingdom and the southern continent as possible!” She assured, squeezing the handle of her axe tightly. Her hands itched with the need to cut off the lich’s head and take his core.
But to her great annoyance, while the rest of the group of heroes escaped down the street where there were still a large number of corpses scattered about, in the window of her map, the dot symbolizing Hanna indicated that the fairy had just arrived in Solis.