I Broke Off My Engagement and Got a Job at the Academy

98. Where hearts meet hearts

Akantiras continued to vomit blood as he felt the fire inside his body.

Naturally, fire and water are mutually contradictory. If a large amount of fire energy enters the water spirit’s body at once, what are the chances that it will be fine?

That was why he could not come to his senses. Even Giselle felt like her body was burning from the flames, but the water spirit, Acanthiras, felt pain that was incomparable to that of Giselle, a human.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh!”

Eden did not miss the Acanthiras who was vomiting blood while in so much pain and stuck another thorn of absorption into it.

Then, Acantiras instinctively made the fire energy be absorbed into the thorns of absorption.

The idea was to somehow preserve his intact magical powers while also reducing the pain that was engulfing his body.

Eden blasted an attack spell at Acantiras, but Acantiras tried to block it with a wall of frost, then with bloodshot eyes, he let out a gasp and started to move.

“How dare you… I left it alone because if something went wrong with that body, it would be a problem for me too, and now you’re doing something like this!?”

The spirit began to move towards Giselle. Eden watched it quietly, then soon realized its intention and began to chase after Acantiras.

“swiftness!”

I tried to chase after it with speed magic, but it was not easy to catch up with Acantiras because he used ice to glide.

The spirit closed his eyes and looked for the direction of the girl he was connected to by contract.

Not long after, Giselle saw the spirit approaching her.

As soon as she saw that sight, Giselle was terrified. Could it be that Eden had been defeated? And now he had come to capture her again?

So, Giselle tried to take out her dagger one by one. And at that moment, Eden was seen chasing the spirit.

“ah….”

It wasn’t dead. Thank goodness. Giselle unconsciously felt a brief sense of relief.

However, even at that moment, the spirit was approaching Giselle. Finally, Acantiras arrived in front of Giselle and shouted at her.

“Stop the fire right now, right now!”

And with those words, a voice inside Giselle began to ring continuously telling her that she had to follow those words.

Although she had physically escaped the ice crystal, the erosion within her still persisted. The erosion that the spirit had placed upon Giselle was a mental control and bondage.

“Ah… uh… .”

My body won’t move. It can’t. I need to be more, more helpful. Once again, I can’t be controlled by the spirits without doing anything.

To such a Giselle, a voice was heard.

“Wake up!”

Professor Eden’s voice. At that voice, for some reason, Giselle felt her mind clear up a little.

Yes, I can’t let this happen again. Giselle gritted her teeth. And she continued to mix firepower with magic.

“I told you to stop!”

When her command did not work, the spirit’s eyes became confused. Giselle, seeing that look, let out a sob.

Look at those eyes. He created them himself. He hasn’t changed much. He’s still foolish, still weak. But… can’t he do something, at least one thing?

“You dare….”

“Just because I was fooled once.”

Giselle looked at the spirit. A man with a puzzled expression was reflected in his green eyes.

“Don’t think I’ll keep taking it, Spirit.”

“Ugh, euaaah… Kwaaahhh!”

In the end, it was the spirit who lost consciousness first. Akantiras began to howl in pain. Giselle was concentrating her mind so as not to give out any more magic power, and as the magic power continued to be drained through the thorns embedded in her body, only about a third of her magic power remained, including firepower.

Eventually, Acantiras reached out to Giselle.

“How dare you… a human being…! Fine. I’ll kill you however you want. Even if I kill you and you’re summoned back to the spirit world… there’ll be another chance. So… you die here.”

Giselle shut her eyes tightly at those words. And at that moment- Eden stopped her.

“No, you won’t be able to lay a finger on him.”

Even now, the magic power continues to decrease due to the combination of the Absorbing Thorns and the Devourer. Even the amount of magic power absorbed through the Absorbing Thorns is increasing, to the point where you can feel the magic power draining away every second.

“Yes… you…!”

In the end, the spirit made a final choice in pain.

The spirit’s body began to glow blue.

“…what.”

“All… just die. I will return to the spirit realm, recover, and then wait for the right time…!”

It was a sign of self-destruction. When Eden saw it, he scrunched up his face, put away the cane he was using, and took out another one.

A staff made of pure white that shed beautiful light. At the end of the staff was a diamond.

Eden bit his lip and began casting a spell with his wand.

I didn’t want to use this wand. Because – it was the very same wand that Ariel had given me as a birthday present in the past.

To Eden, the cane was nothing more than a symbol of a happy past. That’s why he kept it hidden away, out of sight. He didn’t know how to deal with the past.

However… the wand Ariel gave me had performance that was different from that of a normal wand. It seemed like the power of the spell had increased by three-tenths.

So, Eden hid Giselle behind his body and stopped the spirit from self-destructing.

Squeezing out all of the remaining magic power, and with the help of the Eye of Twilight and the staff, I completed the 5-circle defensive magic, Wall of Hot Wind.

“Do you think you can stop me with that kind of magic…!”

With those words, the spirit began to self-destruct. Blazing wind and blasts of cold clashed.

“Eww!”

Eden gritted his teeth and screamed. He didn’t think he could endure it if he didn’t scream.

The cold air continued to pour down on me. It was cutting into my skin, tearing at my flesh. I felt like I would lose consciousness at any moment.

The spirit was also pouring out all of its power to self-destruct, but it was also pouring out all of its magical power. And yet, was it so difficult to endure?

He had absorbed the spirit’s magic power, so he had quite a bit of magic left, but the spirit didn’t have much magic power left either. But, and yet… .

The pain continues. It must not have been long, but time continues to stretch like rubber.

“Ugh, ahh, ahh!”

Every second feels like an hour. I feel like I could lose my mind at any moment.

Gradually, the flames began to be pushed away by the cold air. It seemed that Eden was being pushed by the spirit.

At that moment, Eden felt human warmth in the midst of that cold.

Giselle was hugging him from behind.

“Wake up. You have to live. You told me to live. You have to live, too, Professor. If you just hold on this one time, it’s over. So… please hold on.”

Gradually, the chill subsided. The body heat seemed to spread from my chest.

Once again, the flames flared, blocking the cold. Eden gripped his staff tightly.

Hold on. Hold on. You have to hold on.

There is still a lot of debt left to pay. There are more than enough reasons to live.

Eden continued to endure the cold, feeling the warmth of the girl hugging him from behind.

So, little by little, the flames began to push away the cold.

“What, what is this? This is ridiculous. A human being, and the spirit is self-destructing…!”

A panicked voice was heard. At that voice, Eden forced the corners of her lips to lift up and smile.

And so, as the cold subsided, the flames died down. Eden had prevented Acantiras from self-destructing.

“Oh, don’t… laugh… .”

Akantiras was crawling on the ground. Even his last resistance had failed, and he had no strength left.

Eden looked at his staff. It was broken and damaged.

A gift from Ariel, his former fiancée. An object that symbolized a happy past and could not be let go even when his family was falling apart.

It was broken.

But… there was no more foolishness. Eden put the broken staff in his subspace pocket, took out the good staff, and aimed it at Acantiras.

“Oh, no.”

Akantiras said so. The current Akantiras is the main body. If you die in Middle-earth, you really die.

Looking at such an Acanthiras, Eden said.

“Okay.”

A fireball flew towards Acantiras. Acantiras was burned to a crisp, without even a trace remaining.

“ah….”

Giselle felt the contract disappear along with the bonds that remained inside her. After confirming that, Eden smiled.

“…I, just a moment… I’ll sleep.”

As he said that, Eden fainted with a smile. Giselle caught Eden as he fell and laid him on the floor.

“…Thank you for your hard work.”

Seeing the Spirit Realm and High Mountain connecting again, Giselle said to Eden.