ALL NOVEL Chapter 173 “The Mission”
Chapter 173
“The Mission”
“...on?” An insistent and annoying voice interrupted her placid slumber. A growl escaped her sore throat as the nagging voice continued its annoying interrogation.
“...Five more minutes!” she mumbled as she tried to grab her blanket and turned to the side, but even though she could turn her body, she couldn’t find her blanket.
Did it fall off the bed? She thought, but she was too sleepy to bother looking for it. I can do it later.
“Champion?... I’m sorry to interrupt, but you still have a mission to perform and the queen is waiting for my report," Hanna insisted in a firm voice.
“...Queen?...Which queen?” she murmured, more asleep than awake.
“The queen of the fairies, of course." it was at that moment that Kalysto’s eyes finally opened.
Shit! The boss! She sat up immediately and gazed in amazement at the pretty pink-haired fairy, whose hair now looked completely disheveled as she was already kneeling beside her.
A quick glance at her surroundings showed her that the earlier chaos she had witnessed was still there. On top of the remains of what had once been a beautiful mansion lay the portal still open, even though its summoner lay dead only ten centimeters from where she stood.
Oh, shit!
“Have you seen my axe?” She asked quietly, knowing that it would be impossible to find it in the midst of all the debris surrounding the remains of the garden and the mansion. But to her great surprise, Hanna pulled it out of her own inventory. And for an instant, the experience seemed as confusing to her as the first time she had seen Artemis using one.
“Here! I figured you need it and I thought I’d pick it up instead of wasting time later looking for it," she clarified. And she looked at it as if expecting something in return.
“Thank you, you’re very kind” but seeing that the fairy’s expression didn’t change, she hurried to change the subject. “Do you think we should finish the mission quickly and then go get something to eat? I’m hungry.”
“Sure! I don’t have much experience with human food, but I’d appreciate your guidance.”
“To be honest, the food here isn’t very good. If we were in my world, I could recommend a couple of places where the food is excellent, but here? The food I’ve tasted in this kingdom is too bland to recommend to anyone," she explained as she stood up and ran her hand over her messy, tousled hair, pulling it back and tying her ponytail back in place.
“We could go exploring together," Hanna mentioned as she turned her head to the right and watched her fix her hair.
“Oh!” she replied with some discomfort at the sudden request, but it felt wrong not to join her after Hanna had gone to the trouble of finding her weapon and handing it to her. ”Okay!”
“Then how about…?” Three trolls came through the portal at that instant, interrupting Hanna, who suddenly seemed very excited at the idea of going exploring together.
Immediately, their gaze fell on the three monsters, who fell face first to the ground with their faces kissing the earth as soon as they stepped out of the portal. Gusts of wind shot out of the fairy’s body, immediately cutting the bodies of the three intruders to pieces.
If it’s so easy for her to kill them, why didn’t she help me before? She got a little upset, however, she didn’t let it show on her face.
“Come on!” Hanna commented with a smile as if she hadn’t just cut up three monsters four times her size in less than a second. I’m hungry too, and I’m dying of curiosity to try whatever you recommend to me!
“... Sure!” She replied, mentally reviewing what food she had in her backpack that she could offer to the curious, but powerful fairy.
I’d better find something good to offer her! She thought, as her eyes strayed to the remains of the monsters for a second.
After Kalysto looted the rings and other items from the orc, Hanna led her to the back of the portal, while holding her under her armpits.
“Isn’t there a more comfortable way for us to do this?” Kalysto questioned, suddenly unsure of holding herself so many feet above the ground as she felt she could almost brush the tips of the trees with the tips of her toes.
“ ... I’d have to hug you for that," she muttered, and from the way she sounded, Kalysto got the impression that Hanna had as little tolerance for human contact as she did.
Come to think of it, the only fairies I’ve ever seen touching each other were Artemis and her daughter. She frowned at the sudden discovery, suddenly remembering that the only time he had ever come into physical contact with a fairy was when they had held her hand to thank her for healing them, and when Hanna had flown her around the kingdom while she purified it.
Even the few times she had seen other fairies, they seemed to be very careful not to enter each other’s personal space.
“Are you sure you would give me permission for that?” Hanna asked carefully, and from the tone of her voice, Kalysto suspected that she had just asked something bad to her.
“Will it be dangerous if we do it?”
“Dangerous? No... Rude and impolite, yes. Among fairies, physical contact is a symbol of great trust or familiarity," she explained patiently. It’s not something you do with just anyone.
“I understand," she hastened to answer. “In that case, if it’s not uncomfortable for you, I’d like us to find a position where it’s safer for me to concentrate on closing the portal without having to worry if I fall” and before the fairy could claim that they had done something like this before, she hurried to clarify. “The only time I’ve ever sealed a portal, it attacked me. So it’s possible that this one will too, and if you don’t hold me tight, I’ll end up falling," she said and then looked at the five hundred meters that separated her from the ground. And she swallowed saliva.
“Oh! In that case, it’s all right” After holding her more firmly, Hanna pulled them closer to the portal while at the front, occasionally a monster or two would go through it and then fall down and crash to the ground. And although some recovered quickly from the fall, not all of them were lucky enough to come out unscathed.
Absorb! She thought as she pulled out a new mana crystal.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 5000 MP!]
“Dispel!” she immediately recited as soon as her palms touched the cold surface of the huge portal. “Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Dispel!” But the skill ‘Dispel’ was not as powerful as Dispel Ezhil’s, unfortunately, if she used it, she would also deactivate Hanna’s spell that kept them in the air. ”Mana manipulation! Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Dispel!” She conjured, changing tactics, and expelling a greater amount of mana, thus forcing the spell to extend more than twenty centimeters around her hands, and causing the first crack to be heard inside the portal.
Suddenly, the strong current of mana inside the portal began to spin more slowly toward the center, and a thin transverse line ran through it.
“Oh, this is going to be much faster than I thought it would be!” Hanna got excited.
And just then, four black mana tentacles came out of the front of the portal, curling towards them.