ALL NOVEL Chapter 174 “The Mission” Part 2
Chapter 174
“The Mission” Part 2
Two of the four black mana tentacles headed toward Hanna, who immediately dodged them.
“What the hell are those things?” shouted the fairy, flying back and forth trying to evade them as the four tentacles began to follow them, getting further and further away from the portal as they grew longer and longer.
“Stop evading them and get me closer to one of them!” Kalysto insisted, flustered by the fairy’s brusque movements as she evaded the continuous attacks of the tentacles despite Hanna’s skill in manipulating the wind.
“Are you sure?” Hanna questioned, doubting her ability.
“Yes, just do it!” After evading three of them, Hanna allowed the last of the tentacles to approach them, using Kalysto as a human shield.
Immediately, Kalysto reached out her hands and grabbed him, clinging to it tightly.
Hello, my free source of dark mana! Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this dark mana creation?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 500 DMP!]
“Now approach me again to another tentacle and then back to the portal!” Kalysto got excited. But as soon as she finished absorbing the second tentacle, a sharp pain squeezed her heart at the same time as the swirl of mana inside the portal began to spin to the opposite side and instead of four tentacles, twenty sprouted up along with a small army of trolls.
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
The heavy bodies of the trolls fell to the ground one after another as the twenty-two tentacles attacked them relentlessly, not giving them a chance to get close to the portal or for Kalysto to absorb another one of them.
And as Hanna dodged another attack from several tentacles, the trolls began to recover from the fall and after running to the nearest trees, they uprooted them and began to throw them at them.
“Who the hell invited them?” -Hanna complained, hugging Kalysto by the waist with one hand to point the other at the trolls, launching quick gusts of wind that cut their arms and legs, leaving their mutilated bodies bleeding to death without killing them. “That’s what you get for messing with a fairy!” she growled while looking at her arm that had been scratched by the branch of one of the many trees that they had thrown against them.
“Jhil Ezhil!” said Kalysto, as she noticed the wound. “Multiple targets! Lightning! Wind whirlwind!” she added, pushing the remaining trolls away as Hanna continued to dodge. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She added, regretting all the dark mana she didn’t manage to absorb as soon as the tentacles began to disappear under the golden light of her skill. Quick, get me closer to the portal!
“Next time, do that from the start!” Hanna complained as she pulled them closer to the portal.
Again, Kalysto placed the palm of her hands on the portal, just above the previous fissure.
“Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Dispel! Hold me tight and prepare to fall!” She shouted. “Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Dispel! Ready?”
“Whatever you’re going to do, do it at once before more of those things come out!” Hanna shouted as the swirl of mana inside the portal began to change again.
“Mana manipulation! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Purification Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil!” The spell that kept them flying was deactivated, and they both began to fall, Kalysto hurried and pressed what was left of her mana, expelling it out of her body as she conjured and directed it toward the portal, even as they both began to fall and the pressure of vertigo flooded her stomach.
A huge rift went through the portal, relaunching the flow of mana at the same time as a notification window appeared to her left.
[Warning! The user has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
The growls of the monsters below them filled their ears, mixed with the hissing of the wind.
“Damn, I still can’t activate my magic... Wasn’t there another way to do this?“ complained the fairy, struggling not to release her as they fell.
“With such quick results? No!" she challenged.
Too bad I don’t have that skill at a higher level, otherwise this would be much easier!
“As soon as we get away from the golden glow, you can use it again," she assured her, as they both watched with trepidation as the ground seemed to get closer and closer.
And just as they were seconds away from hitting the ground, swirls of wind softened their fall, causing them both to descend carefully onto the rubble.
Ready to go up again? -Hanna questioned, giving her a look.
“..." Kalysto wanted to refuse, but the sooner they finished, the sooner she could get some rest. And as she wished her stomach would settle down soon, she pulled a mana crystal from her inventory.
Absorb! She thought, and left the window of her inventory open.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 3000 MP!]
Too little! She thought with annoyance.
Come on, before it reactivates again! -She asked as she took out another mana crystal and began to absorb it.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 6000 MP!]
A strong pressure crushed her chest at the same time as the air started to become scarce in her lungs and Hanna pulled them back towards the portal.
Holy crap!
A pair of notifications opened to her left.
[Warning! User has absorbed more mana than her mana circle can handle!]
Mana manipulation! Dispel! Dispel! Dispel! Dispel! She rushed to conjure, expelling large amounts of mana from her body, as she felt as if something was beginning to crack inside her. Dispel! Regeneration! Dispel!
“Cough!... Cough!” Blood spurted from her lips as she coughed.
“Champion? Is everything all right?” Hanna questioned.
“... Yes," muttered Kalysto as she took out a small vial of holy water and drank it in one gulp. “Now everything is fine!” She replied, turning her attention back to continuing to deactivate the portal. “Dispel! Mana manipulation! Dispel! Dispel! Ezhil purification!” Nearly thirty minutes after continuously conjuring, drinking vials of holy water and absorbing more mana crystals, a loud crack resounded.
Several cracks spread from the center of the portal like spider webs all the way to the edges, the swirls of mana circulating inside finally stopped. Until what was once a reddish portal became a red circle, which looked more like a glass full of cracks about to collapse at any moment with the slightest touch.
[Warning! The user has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
A strong dizziness enveloped her and her stomach churned, and ignoring how bad she felt and the strong fatigue that washed over her muscles, she pulled out her last remaining mana crystal.
“Absorb!” she whispered, wishing that the fairy still holding her could not hear her.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 5000 MP!]
“It is now safe to take me in front of the portal!”
“Are you sure that’s necessary? I’m about to run out of mana!” warned the fairy. “Wouldn’t it be better to retreat and regain our strength first?”
“One last thing and we’ll be done!” Kalysto assured her, too tired to want to stay there any longer than necessary. And as soon as Hanna did it, Kalysto placed her palms on the cold surface of the portal, lamenting that she couldn’t absorb all that mana. “Mana manipulation! Ice creation!” She conjured, immediately investing almost all of her remaining mana into creating a thick layer of ice to cover the entire portal.
“I’m sorry, I’ll have to change my form or I won’t be able to hold our positions anymore!” Hanna warned her just before she shrunk in size.
“I’m almost done!” Kalysto assured her as she finished icing the entire portal on both sides.
But just as she was about to call out ‘ice manipulation’, a pair of notification windows opened to her left.
[Warning! User has less than 5 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skill again or your health will be severely affected].
[Mission accomplished!]
[Does the user wish to claim the reward now?]
[ Claim now /Postpone ]
“... I’m practically out of mana," muttered Kalysto as a sigh of relief escaped her lips. Now she just had to get some rest and go to the demon king’s territory to meet Alice and her grandparents. Then he could claim the reward and send them safely to land.
“In that case, there are two of us," Hanna commented in a tired voice as she led them back to the ground.
Kalysto’s legs could barely support her own weight, while her arms seemed to weigh as if they were made of iron.
I don’t remember that spending so much mana could exhaust me so much! She thought.
“I’ll be back in a moment. I’ll go report to the queen," Hanna murmured as she flew a couple of meters to present her report without Kalysto being able to hear the conversation. The small body of the fairy quickly disappeared into the bushes near where they had landed.
“Ok...” was all she could say as she looked at her collection of open windows. “Inventory!” she whispered, as she looked at one of the few vials of holy water she still had left and wished her arms would stop being so heavy and she could lift them up enough to get the vial out. “I can do it later," she convinced herself, as she concentrated on inhaling and exhaling carefully so as not to damage any internal organs that might not have healed due to the damage caused by the excess circulation of mana.
A few minutes later, the sound of footsteps caught her attention at the same time as the rustling of dry leaves erupted to her right.
“That didn’t take as long as I thought," she commented, thinking it was Hanna. But a shiver ran down her spine as she realized it wasn’t the kind fairy.
“That’s right. And I assure you, this won’t take long either. Sleep well!” A golden light enveloped her as darkness engulfed her.
The last thing Kalysto saw was Darla’s superior smile, Edward standing behind the other saintess as he avoided her gaze and the boots of the dozen temple knights accompanying them.