ALL NOVEL Chapter 20 “The Twins. Part 1”
Chapter 20
“The Twins. Part 1”
The arrow whistled through the air until it reached its target, piercing the green neck of the goblin holding the bow, his breath getting lost in pitiful whimpers as he begged for some air. Without a trace of guilt or compassion, Kalysto launched a second arrow, burying it in the eye of the spear-wielding goblin, whom she interrupted as he was preparing to hurl his weapon at her.He screamed in pain.
And as Tsuki clung to the enemy archer’s leg, Kalysto grabbed him by the back of the neck and snarled at him, as she ran with him back to the leafy bush that had served as their hiding place earlier.
“I warned you that I didn’t want you to do things like this again! You’re grounded!” But she had no safe place to take him and it was too dangerous to return to the cave. Running out of alternatives, she struggled to find a solution, discarding one idea after another until she came up with a crazy idea. Then, taking advantage of the free space, she summoned her inventory, but when she was about to put it in the blue one, which had more empty space, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up, and she immediately put it in the last available space in the violet window.
But she wasn’t fast enough, and a knife thrown by another goblin buried itself in her thigh making her lose her balance and almost fall to the ground as pain spread up her leg as she kept running, trying to get to safety.
[Passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
[The passive skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
Immediately she closed the windows with a smooth motion of her hand and as she drew another arrow from her quiver, a spear passed by her burying itself right in the patch of ground her left foot had been a second before, and before hiding behind the safety of a thick tree trunk, she turned around and buried two arrows in the neck of the goblin owner of the spear. Unwittingly exposing her arm, an opportunity that one of the goblins with a pipe of what appeared to make wood in his hand, did not hesitate to take advantage of and launched a dart at her arm with which she held the bow. A strange itch spread up her left arm as she watched both arrows penetrate the monster’s neck as he whimpered and took a couple of steps before collapsing to the ground.
As soon as Kalysto checked that her arrows had hit their target, she went back into hiding.
“Kalysto? What are you doing here?” Gabriel shouted, surprised by her presence, but frightened by the dangerous maneuver she had just made.
Does this really seem like the best time to ask stupid questions? She thought, without a trace of sympathy for the handsome young man.
And she broke into a run, her feminine figure losing herself among the tree trunks and zigzagging from time to time to throw her would-be captors off her trail.
A few minutes later, she stopped as she dropped to her knees behind a tree.
Two signs appeared in front of her announcing the death of the two goblins she had shot earlier.
[You have gained 30 experience points.]
[You have gained 40 experience points. ]
She closed them immediately and pulled out the knife that had been buried in her leg, inwardly grateful that her mental defense and pain resistance had been activated, and now she could only feel a slight discomfort in her right thigh. She then looked at the dart in her left arm and grimaced at the sight of a pair of black veins that began to spread around the black spot with a purplish edge that formed after the impact. Without wasting any time, she pulled out the dart and placed her right hand on the strange black spot.
“Dispel!” she called out. She wasn’t entirely sure for what purpose it worked, but something inside her insisted that she use it. Then she continued with her usual purification streak and placed the palm of her left hand on the wound on her thigh and left her right hand on the wound left by the dart. A golden light emanated from her palms and penetrated both wounds. “Purification! Purification! Dispel! Dispel! Purification! Purification! Dispel! Purification! Dispel!” Then she took out one of the small vials of the low quality holy water potion she had looted earlier and sipped it as she continued. “Purification! Purification! Dispel!” The strange black spot began to diminish. Still, she was not satisfied, so she put her bow in her blue inventory and ran to hide behind another tree to avoid being discovered. “Come on, heal fast! Heal fast!” she pleaded. I’m going to have to go back to that road full of corpses and loot more potions. Hopefully, I’ll come across more bottles of holy water. She thought, as she heard the roar of the other goblins who rushed after her, most of them forgetting about their two previous prey.
“Shit!” she lamented as she saw that more than half of the remaining goblins were running towards their first hiding place, which she could still half observe from her new position, about fifty feet away. “Purification! Purification! Dispel! Purification! Dispel! Purification! Purification! Purification! Dispel! Dispel! Dispel! Purification! Purification! Dispel! Dispel! Purification! Purification! Purification! Dispel!” she whispered devoutly as relief washed over her as the small black veins that had begun to appear on her arm, around the wound caused by the dart, began to fade.
I hope it wasn’t poison. Who knows if I’m allergic to that stuff. She had never had a problem with allergies before, but the fact was that since they were from another world. She had no idea whether or not she was allergic to the components of whatever it was they had used in that dart.
It’s always better to be safe.
A violet window opened before her.
[Purification skill leveled up.]
“Great! Purification! Purification! Purification! Dispel!” And before she could continue with the intense whispering with which she summoned the skills while staying hidden, two windows, one blue and one violet, opened before her.
[Warning: the user has only 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
[Congratulations! The user has finished eliminating an outbreak, in its first phase, of the black plague. The dispel skill has leveled up.]
“What? Wait, a minute! Wasn’t the black plague the disease that my new boss said had damaged his land, his crops, and was making his people sick?” Her face paled. “Wasn’t that the deadliest disease in this world? And those idiots infected me with it?” She panicked.
Now I understand why my employer said it could only be cured by someone who was a Saint... and was surprised at how relatively easy it was to fight something that was supposed to be deadly. If so, maybe one of her missions wouldn’t be as dangerous as she had thought before... Although most likely it was easy because I was able to act immediately... Maybe I should do this to myself for several days afterwards, just to make sure there aren’t any rebound effects, or problems down in the future.
She consoled herself and drank a bottle of mana regeneration.
Then she looked around the bushes surrounding the old dry tree. The reason she had chosen those specific bushes to hide in was because of the thick and very abundant orange leaves. Hoping that the particular color would help her hide the golden glow that appeared whenever she used holy magic. Thank heavens, at least her caution had served, and she hadn’t been discovered.
Not even when two goblins passed by her.
Kalysto held her breath as she watched them pass. And after checking that the two of them were alone, and that there was no one else around. She drew her bow and shot an arrow, piercing the back of the first goblin’s neck.
The second one turned to her immediately and with an agility that took her by surprise, rushed at her with a thunderous war cry that Kalysto didn’t manage to silence in time. Her next two arrows pierced his throat just in time for his body to fall within two inches of her, allowing her to easily evade the stab he threw at her.
Unfortunately for Kalysto, as she backed away from his attack, she was left uncovered and a knife blade buried itself deep in her left shoulder.
Her brain numbed by the mental defense skill didn’t register the pain, but the sheer amount of blood emanating from her wound took her by surprise. Almost as much as the second stab that she could barely avoid using her bow as a shield.
Crack!
The sound of wood cracking flooded her ears.
“Shit!”