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<01/18/1972 – 21:49 | Route 96, Junon Region, Sprawn Valley>
The road continued like this for several more minutes. Jane used a healing orb on herself to replenish her stats from the last heated battle, but the air grew frigid and desolate. The howling winds reminded Jane just how alone she was on this road, giving no rest to her thoughts. Jane began to beat herself up over the choice of leaving in the middle of the night rather than the day, but she couldn't trust her luck any further.
It's entirely possible that local authorities might be looking for her since the Tilsit incident, so it would be unwise to wait for even a day. Deep inside the Outback far from civilization, Jane knew she and her friends were better off, safer away from her, until this curse can be undone.
Regardless of the threats, her thoughts constantly cycled between the fond memories of Danny and Taylor, and then that of making it to the Den of Purity. She had been walking straight forward for some time now, but Lennith City was nowhere in sight. It would take more than a full hour to reach Lennith City on a bike if she had one. But alas, she has to put one foot in front of the other for a much longer time, and hope the battles here are kept to a minimum.
The starlight above served as a guide line for Jane's sense of direction. In order to make sure she was still heading east and not getting turned around, all she needed to do was follow a specific constellation, one that stood out from the others. The moonlight overhead was getting just a little bit stronger as well, thanks to the cycle of day forcing night to become denser than it ever was. Because this place has no nearby forests around, Jane felt so exposed to danger out here. It's not like there was anything to fear though. Sprawn Valley doesn't have any magical monstrous beasts roaming around, so far as she has ever heard. Only very specific international species of animals can become transformed by Leray magic, and even then, they are not very harmful afterwards.
The silence and darkness around her soon made Jane feel more alert than before, though perhaps it was the brisk air breaking through to her skin that gave her the electric chills. The constant walking seemed to drag on forever, all until the voice of another broke through the silence, making Jane flinch in terror.
"Sorry! Didn't mean to scare ya."
Jane checked it out for herself. An older woman almost twice her height was standing in front of her, slightly hunched sideways to express her apologies. How did Jane not see or hear her until just now?
The woman backed up a step after realizing that Jane nearly walked straight into her position. Formalities were dispensed with immediately. "Sorry about that. I should've watched where I was walking. Name's Blair," she introduced.
Jane couldn't see many physical features on Blair's face. It really was getting this dark outside, more so even with the presence of moonlight, but her hair had to be black from the way it shadowed in view. Something was off about the way Blair was just standing around though. It didn't seem like she was in the middle of traveling to or from either direction. Jane couldn't be certain, but this could still be a bad thing. "I don't suppose you're here for a battle?" Jane didn't want to get involved in one, but she already knew that Blair was at least going to ask her about it. Force of habit seems to make other wielders behave this way.
"That's right," she admitted with excitement. "It's my last one before I head home tonight. That's why you asked, isn't it? Man, am I lucky you came along!"
"I don't want to fight you," Jane tried once more. "I really need to get to Lennith City, and a battle will slow me down."
"You do realize that you have a really long way to go, right? Monoc Port is almost just a mile west, which means you're really far away from the city right now."
A defeated expression decorated her face. Jane hated to hear that sort of news. After all this time, she had only traveled about one mile, one out of nine! "Great," she spoke sarcastically. "I'll have to walk faster then." This will never work!
"Now - now," Blair hesitated. "I must insist that we have a Leray battle. We both have licenses you see? And if you're that far away from the city, then a battle isn't going to slow you down that much more."
"Is this another formal request?" Jane allowed anger to take form in her vocal tone. She was already cold, tiring out, and lonely. Instead of any relief, all Jane received was a status update telling her how far she was from Lennith, followed by another battle to slow her down against her will.
"It is. If you need to move that badly, then just take a single strike. You don't have two already, do you?"
Jane kept the aggression in her voice as she spoke. "It doesn't matter! I can't keep denying battles and skipping everyone forever. It's people like you that piss me off. If only personal matters could count as an emergency." I'll never reach Lennith at this rate!
"Hey, you don't have to get snippy with me," Blair retorted. "If you had personal business there, maybe you should have tried wearing normal clothes instead of full battle armor to stand out." Does this girl not realize that weekly vacation statuses can be added to license cards too? You get three weeks spread out for time off every year!
Jane knew it. Another big head who can't understand when or how to be nice. "You're right," she agreed. "I just have to knock some sense into you instead." Jane figured this would be her luck, but she might as well take it out on this loser. If people won't get out of her way, she'll just have to knock them out in battles by force. "I suppose taking some credits from you will teach you a lesson."
Blair tightened her eye brows while keeping her smile, unable to choose which emotion to express to this idiot. "I see confidence is still on your side. So then I take that to mean you accept the offer?" Blair couldn't be certain of the girl's next intentions, but the fun in defeating her would be too big a chance to pass up. If she didn't want to fight, then don't get a mage license in the first place!
"Duh!" Jane already prepared her battling stance, ready to fight it out right here and now if Blair doesn't back down. "You would dare slow me down and wear out more of my energy, even after knowing how important it is for me to get to Lennith City." Jane knew that Blair didn't actually know all of the details regarding the importance of Jane's physical haste, but she could have at least taken her word for it by not making the offer official. "I can't decline all of my battles, because my license is too important for me to lose as well. So if you won't spare me a single fight, then I'll have to make you regret it."
Blair smirked, putting her face really close to Jane's. "Beating you down will be the highlight of my night. Wielders this bratty deserve a shake down every now and then."
Jane backed away from Blair and her awkward spite. "You're going to regret doing this. If you think you can take me down so easily, how about I wager a thousand credits this time?"
"I can accept that. I'm no easy target ya know." Despite Jane making the offer of a credit count she didn't fully have, Blair just accepted anyway without checking, one manner in which this rule can be bypassed.
Jane drew her daggers, already prepared to strike. Blair had to back away and get some distance between them. After that happened, the Siriean dome formed with a large radius and a light at the top just like before. The battle was already beginning quickly, much more because Jane was in a hurry, so much that she forgot to announce her name to the opponent. It wouldn't matter soon since the energy scopes take care of that. Jane was ready to move first, but still, she had to wait for the battle parameters to be set with the reward spoils. Blair engaged her energy scope before the text could even appear. Obviously Jane's opponent was an impatient person as well.
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Jane wondered if everybody on Route 96 is like this. They just challenge everyone even if they aren't ready, damn the consequences! How childish can one get? Jane stopped moping around, and chose to engage her energy scope as well. In preparation for her battle, Jane wanted to coordinate the very first move.
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However, Jane didn't get to go first. Blair was more than ready for her first strike against Jane, already exercising a spell. "Flameburg!" Blair pulled out a short blade of a sword from behind, further surprising Jane. Blair then slashed the sword through the air, creating a two-dimensional diagonal line of fire. It was as if some invisible object caught flames, and it was pushing forward towards Jane at a really high speed.
Jane wanted to dodge, but dared to block it instead. Jane had no intelligence on the Flameburg skill or what is was capable of. Expecting purely a fire based attack, Jane's upper body suddenly exploded in a burst of heat, while her armlets and chest plate began to smoke and burn with her. The solid line of magical fire drilled through Jane like she was made of paper, and continued flying through to the other side of the arena. The line of fire then became absorbed by the dome shield around them, but Jane took a significant amount of damage. She let out a painful yelp despite the armor protecting her from this specific element.
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Flameburg was something Jane would likely never see until now. It's a devastating attack that uses a sword to create a perfect line of fire, while infusing a lot of magic into the spell simultaneously. It turns into a beam of flames, strong enough to pierce solid metal armor while dealing a ton of damage in the process. Alternate forms of Flameburg can be spawned from a glyphring, using a pure beam of the same energy form. Jane unfortunately had to learn this the hard way. While her armor allowed her body to resist fire, the damage was still quite high - all things considered.
Despite the damage, Jane noticed that her armor integrity carried over the damage previously. So that's how it works! No matter how many battles you win or lose, the armor eventually fails on you, putting all of that good money to waste. If Jane could just win this, her money won't be wasted. Jane recovered, snapping out of the feeling of taking a lasting fire attack. It was now her turn for sure this time. Jane decided not to let up at all, not after using all of those words towards Blair. "It's time!" Jane drew her daggers, chanting the name of a cool attack and then throwing her daggers forward. "Drilling Fate!"
Jane threw her small knives, but infused them with Leray magic just before releasing them. This time, as the daggers spun through the air, they changed direction and angle. Soon after, a massive visible tornado formed, horizontally angled towards her target. It was like seeing a small tornado flipped on its side while shooting forward like a bullet. The attack itself added magical damage upon its wind elemental slashing damage, increasing the potential greatly. Blair didn't know what to expect at all, totally new to seeing such an elegant spell.
Blair took the Drilling Fate of the twister head on, the wind strong enough to push her back and off balance. She fell down, but quickly got back up by rolling backwards some more. Despite her damage, Blair wasn't about to lay down and lose so easily. Even after taking several small cuts of slashing damage, she was more than agile and energetic enough to keep in the game.
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Jane wanted to be ready for the next attack, so she braced herself to try and dodge this time. Blair was quick to retaliate, shoving a lot of her MP energy down into another orange colored glyphring. "Crimson Flare!" The familiar ability shoved three large sized crimson colored spheres of magic outward from the glyphring, though all three of them were traveling at their own angles and spanning outward. Jane knew the trick to dodging the crimson spheres, but under an amazing formation of special training, Blair's crimson spheres suddenly increased in speed, shooting forward at a most impossible acceleration. Crimson Sphere isn't supposed to travel fast under any circumstance, but this was the exception, and Jane let that surprise get the best of her. The speedy large sphere of magical fire based damage shoot through Jane like a ghostly figure, but it left behind an incredible mark of damage and fiery pain like before.
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Jane fell to her knees with a loud painful gasp as she tried to keep it together. This time, all of her armor became blazing hot compared to before. As Jane checked the energy scope, it was a shock to see that the sphere had damaged all sectors on her armor.
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A single Crimson Sphere is always big enough to swallow a tall person whole, and this left Jane's armlets, leggings, and chest plate all vulnerable to damage at the same time. Because of the fiery infusion of strong magic, the damage didn't get repelled by her armor enough. It was evident in how badly the sensation burned Jane's entire body. Blair either knew what she was doing, or she was getting a lucky break tonight.
Jane pulled herself together, rising again to counterattack. If Blair wants to dish out attacks that cannot be evaded, then Jane will simply do the same. After charging the MP energy into her hands once again, causing them to glow radiantly blue, Jane aimed at Blair. She unleashed another magical attack while chanting the name at just the right time. "Sphere of Might!"
A red sphere of magical light with much of the same design as a crimson sphere spawned right in front of Blair, spinning as fast as it possibly could. Blair was already immediately taking damage, despite the smaller size of the sphere. Though the type of damage is purely magical, Blair took a devastating combination of hits again, forcing her downward when it ended much like what happened to Jane a moment ago.
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"Ugh!" Blair groaned. "You fight bravely." Jane didn't seem to be talkative even now. She was waiting for Blair to make another move. "We'll see how long that lasts. Electro-Ball!" Blair didn't even have her glyphring for that attack up yet, but it was part of her plan. When she lifted her hand, the glyphring formed instantly as it launched out the ball of flying electricity from the center the very moment her aim was complete. Blair obviously had a lot of practice on that spell; her invocation timing was absolutely instantaneous.
Jane didn't care about how fast it was. Electro-Ball has no homing properties. As a result, Jane quickly jumped out of its way before it hit her for an enormous amount of damage. Without even confirming that Blair wasn't happy about her dodged attack, Jane charged up one of her own. "Magical Blitz!" Two energy spheres formed in her hands again. Jane threw them forward at the same time as Blair took both hits to the chest. Jane then did the same thing as last time, kicking the third blitz ball forward, then spinning around full to throw the final energy ball. All four of them landed on Blair this time, and it caused a lot of damage to her health as well. Blair was obviously hurting from the spell; her expression said it all, but her stance wasn't budging so easily.
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Blair stood her ground, charging in more MP energy and unleashing it into the sky. "Storm Build!"
"What?" Jane had never heard of a magical spell like this one. She still wanted to be ready for anything, but as Blair let her magic shoot into the sky, the entire climate above them began to shift. Suddenly, dark clouds began to grow and swarm in all directions. Jane couldn't look away from the amazing sight she was witnessing. A climate changing ability is very rare to see and difficult to learn. Though she had one of her own, it would become useless right now, as Blair would simply use Storm Build over and over again to counter Jane's Moonglow spell. The dark clouds grew wider and darker until it seemed that the entire sky above both of them was darkened out. The wind began blowing more intensely, penetrating the dome shield and brushing Jane's hair in all directions. Small electrical jots of lightning then populated the dark clouds, shooting in random directions. Jane never did see this before, but apparently this is a spell that changes the weather to an electrical storm. What possible reason could Blair have for doing this?
Jane returned her focus to Blair, who was charging another magical spell. Jane decided to try and beat her to it, invoking a quick and easy to use skill. Jane aimed her arm at Blair, generating another blue glyphring around her wrist. "Ice Needles!" Jane's spell spawned dozens of sharp pointy shards of frozen water, all heading straight for Blair at multiple angles.
Blair was in the middle of charging a large attack, but had to stop it in order to take Jane's Ice Needles head on. She had just been interrupted in that moment, taking on the painful piercing damage caused by Jane's Ice Needles attack.
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As expected, the damage inflicted was minimal. Blair didn't allow the pain to take over, despite having sharp needles all inside of her skin now. They melt away quickly, but the pain was lasting, and because she let herself get interrupted, Blair lost some MP energy in the same process. Jane was thinking on her feet well; if only Jane didn't have time to stop her. "Crystal Arrow!" Blair spawned a bow with arrows into her hand using a yellow glyphring, then began to pull back on the string after loading the first one. Her hands were fast with the device, proving she had much practice with this weapon before. The sharp tipped arrow wasn't easy to aim in that arc, but Blair had so much practice doing this that it came natural to her. She was so good at it, the time it took for her to load in a single arrow and then take aim was less than a full second in duration.
Blair fired her arrow, and then loaded the next one before even waiting to see it hit. She already knew that the first two rounds wouldn't do a thing with Jane's armor protecting her. Crystal Arrow is a strange attack that first fires two normal pointed arrows, causing piercing damage to unarmored targets, but the last and third arrow tip is made out of a crystal in the shape of a heart, the bottom piece being extra sharp. The crystal arrow is capable of dealing the most damage, as it adds in blunt force with much more knockback power as well. Blair loaded and fired her crystal arrow at Jane, shoving the heart straight into her chest plate.
Jane stood still in boredom after realizing that normal arrows would have nothing on metal armor even with piercing properties. Jane was then suddenly forced back by the third arrow that hit her. Her metal chest plate suddenly cracked out from the spot that was hit. The arrow itself was still stuck inside of Jane's armor, but she left it there. Pulling it out would hurt it even more, and she had to accept that her advanced armor would not last forever. It was a soon lived regret trying to underestimate a simple spell.
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Jane wasn't just going to stand around and do nothing. Blair's health would eventually reach zero long before Jane's could. Jane decided to use another spell, one that Blair didn't seem to be resistant to like Kenshi was earlier. "Triple Fire!" Jane's glyphring formed in half the time it did in her last battle. She twisted her arm to fire the second and third Fire Bolts, becoming the cannon like force needed to do so. All three Fire Bolts ended up slamming into Blair after zooming through the air, forcing her body downward without falling as she took the damage in full.
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Blair's attention was suddenly taken by the electrical storm building above her. It was from her ability earlier, finally blooming to its full sense of perfection. Even Jane couldn't look away completely. Each lightning bolt shooting around in the sky was full of light, flashing to brighten the entire field around them. Each bolt had a unique color. The bolts that were not blue were a mixture of orange and bright purple instead, signaling in its elegant beauty that the timing for post-activation was at hand.
"Thunder Strike!" Blair unleashed more of her powerful energy towards a certain spot high in the clouds, and it formed a glyphring one hundred feet vertical from where Jane was standing. Jane simply didn't know what was about to happen, but it was too late to do anything about it anyway. A massive lightning bolt shot down from the clouds, shooting right through the center of the glyphring and then landing on Jane. It's an aerial electrical attack with double the force of a normal Lightning Strike, using the storm's intense energy for a bigger and better jolt than other electrical spells.
Jane couldn't move, her muscles tense and frozen as the intense electrical voltage traveled through her entire body. Everything heated up burning her skin again, but this time, the damage was much more severe, as was the painful sensation of the electrical shock. It lasted for 2.5 seconds this time, draining much of Jane's stamina as soon as it ended. Jane suddenly felt dizzy, despite her high HP levels, and the tingling sensations were still hurting her every nerve after the voltage had ended. Jane was totally fazed by the attack, and she couldn't help it one bit.
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Jane couldn't tell what else was going on during that attack, but she found out afterwards. The Thunder Strike had so much force and electrical energy that it cracked some more of the armor in her chest plate, damaging everything else. Her right armlet actually exploded during the sequence, leaving behind only chunks of metal still attached to her skin. She might as well throw that armlet away now. This single attack destroyed what was going well for her metal suit, and dealt a lethal blow to her HP too.
Jane held her head in frustration, and she realized how quickly she needed to focus. The loud storm was still overhead, and could last for a good while. Thunder Strike uses the electrical storm as a reliant source of Leray energy, which means the power level must be higher in perspective. It will all be over soon if she fails to disrupt Blair's crazy spells. For this, Jane needed a better plan. Though the damaged armor was beginning to make her feel lighter as well, it was only her very second battle using it. Jane came up with a good enough plan to work for now. "Earth Glave!" Jane aimed at the ground in front of Blair, shoving up the dirt and gravel more and more as the pillars of earth continued forward towards her target. She had practiced this much earlier with Danny, putting the spell into a quick invocation for perfection.
Blair didn't expect an Earth attack, but the pillars of the ground eventually slammed into her, knocking her body high upwards into the air. The ground shifted until it was back to normal, all before Blair hit the ground again.
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Jane wasn't finished yet. She charged towards Blair long before her body slammed back into the ground for extra impact damage. By the time Blair managed to get control of herself again, Jane was already there, daggers drawn out in preparation for one of her close combat attacks.
This time, Jane didn't bother with the ability of her Knight Dance. It took longer to perform anyway, and though her attacks would be only physical and non-magical, Jane executed a well thought-out combination of punches, kicks, twists, and dagger slices. Blair didn't even know what was hitting her anymore because Jane was so fast. Though she would have preferred to backflip in her random dodging techniques, it still wasn't possible in this armored shell. Jane executed one attack after another, mixing in random dodges that weren't even necessary anyway. Blair wasn't able to think about counterattacking right now to break Jane off of her. After Jane had scored about 22 hits of random slashes, kicks, and punches, she jumped back drawing away and gaining some distance.
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Blair wasn't looking well anymore. The massive drain on her HP was making her dizzy and exhausted, not to mention that her MP levels were only good enough for one more potent spell. She didn't try and give up just yet. Despite her balance issues and all of that pain coming from the close combat attack Jane just executed, Blair had it in her for one more magical energy burst. So after charging it up again, she formed a big jade glyphring around both of her wrists. With all that metal armor on Jane, electrical elemental magic would be her weakness. She was aiming both her hands at Jane closely together, palms open and energy expending. "Thunder Flare!"
Jane heard about the legendary electric attack of Thunder Flare before. It's a powerful combination attack of electrical shocks, and she wouldn't have the power to stop it. Before she knew it, Jane suddenly got herself surrounded in a translucent blue sphere, its walls totally covered with electrical energy. Then Jane began to take shock after shock, again and again and again while the sphere lit up with a brightness. These individual shocks were not nearly long lasting, but every single one caused devastating damage and a brutal jolt of pain to Jane's entire body. Imagine getting zapped for just a split second, then another split second of relief, then back to another jolt all happening in a loop over a long period of time total; that is the extent of this powerful spell.
Thunder Flare works in this manner. The target is surrounded by a large electrical sphere, emitting electrical energy inwards, causing slight damage at a low voltage over time, and in that total amount of time, random jolts of much higher energy and voltage hit the target in an unrelenting combination without end. Every single time an increment of 0.25 seconds time passes in the sphere, a powerful jolt of electricity strikes and fades instantly, but then it keeps happening so long as the spell is going. The spell of Thunder Flare can last for up to a total of four long seconds, making it the longest electrical attack for all Leray abilities. Blair wasn't holding back at all using a spell like this, but it did waste away at all of her MP energy just to make it happen.
Jane continued taking damage every increment, until the final blast of an electrical jolt hit her one more time with enough power to break the sphere and make it fade away. Jane then collapsed on the ground, too drained and weak to get back up.
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Blair was in the same position though. Her MP was entirely wasted, so she couldn't perform magical attacks anymore. When MP levels drop to zero percent, the wielder tires out much more quickly. Blair felt like she had just ran a full mile without stopping, her heart pounding against her chest while her heavy breathing made her entire body bob. Blair tried her hardest to stand up carefully, showing off that she could still go on, but in doing so, Jane copied her movements.
Jane wasn't looking much better than Blair was, but that was because Thunder Flare drains the life energy right out of anyone in a battle. Jane had one more tactic left. With all of this MP energy still left unused, there was one more trick she could try, an attack that would stop Blair without fail. One thing was for sure; if Jane couldn't stop Blair in the very next attack, she would be finished. There was no other choice. Jane quickly charged every single ounce of energy remaining inside of her. 48% wasn't a lot to go on with this spell, but it could still be enough.
Jane unleashed her energy, making her entire body glow brightly as her stats of MP dropped down to zero in one instant. The outward burst forced Jane to try harder. Sending all of that energy out at once was no easy task, and Jane had to strain herself to make it happen. "Redemption!" She screamed. The same vertical beam of light used before shot down from the sky onto Jane, designed not to damage the user. The beam then split into five smaller vertical beams, endlessly reaching past the clouds and through the dome shield. They then began to move, spanning outward towards Blair's direction while spinning in the formation together of a spiral design. Because of the way each and every beam moved, Blair was obviously very confused by the entire ability. Just like that, one of the vertical beams of light went through her.
The physics of the spell were strange. Though the light drilled through Blair like she was a ghost, her entire body was shoved back like she was hit onward with a brute attack. Blair let out a painful "Nagh!" just before falling down on her face, an unstoppable instant knockout. Blair previously had above 20% of her HP remaining, but it only took a single beam of light from Redemption to knock it all the way down to zero percent.
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Blair thus fell down, passed out before even hitting the ground. In that same instance, Jane fell down too, all from how much that spell drained her. Jane was now out of MP energy too, but she had survived the match with low HP remaining. Jane immediately became dizzy and disoriented, enough to make her vision blur and her stomach churn in distress. Redemption can be dangerous to use like this way, especially when one has lower MP levels to start with prior to. Even if it worked out that time, Jane should never repeat the tactic again unless there is more MP in her pool.
Jane was still okay though. After staying conscious long enough, the dome shield finally faded, showing to Jane that she was once again a victor. She still needed a minute to breathe, the entire battle took everything out of her this time. Blair was sure a tough opponent when it came to offense. Must have been the type to learn expensive skills before even graduating. Then again, there were actually several levels of graduation allowed in a Leray training facility. Jane chose to journey only after basic graduation, but she knew more about magic than the average person did for her age.
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Satisfied that her license now had 1605 credits on the strip, Jane opened up her supply sphere, phasing a healing orb out of it. In the same instance, the electrical storm above her quickly began to fade, no longer supported by the climate summoning effect. The natural weather for today was still clear and cold, which became heavy again with the climate-altering spell fading. A large piece of metal was chipped off the bottom of Jane's metal chest plate, allowing for even more cold air to seep through, but right now, she was focused on getting better fast. After what she felt using Redemption, holding off on healing would likely lead to a loss of consciousness. Jane lit up her healing orb, using it on herself to restore her statuses.
The orb took a while to allow Jane to feel better, though it was the cheap ones she bought at that store anyway, thus the process was not instant. The night had not gotten much darker than before, and it was time to head out again. Jane almost felt sorry for having to leave Blair passed out like that. She doesn't have anyone around to help revive her, despite the fact that it happens automatically anyway. Jane got over it though. She did try to warn Blair after all, but she just wouldn't listen. Jane proceeded east on the path by aligning her eyes to the same constellation she noticed before. To think Jane has only traveled just one mile so far! Why can't the road be shorter? With a heavy sigh, Jane kept those legs going. Tonight is going to be a very long night.