Book 3. Chapter 10
“Portals” Part 1
“I’m on my way!” Kalysto shouted and immediately started running in their direction, away from the camp. But as she looked back at her location on the map on the way, she touched Sakura’s spot. “Sakura! What’s going on?” After she stopped concentrating on her and touched her spot, she focused on her pet. “Tsuki! What is she saying?”
“Master, she’s saying your name and looks lost while looking up at the sky.”
“Good job. Approach her and tell me everything that’s going on.”
“I can’t Master, some guys in strange clothes are pointing a strange version of branches at me. The other two are in front of me.” Annoyed by what she was hearing, Kalysto touched the Japanese teacher’s point again. “Sakura! I need you to tell me what’s going on! I’m on my way! Tsuki can tell me everything you say but for now, I have no other way to listen to what you say!”
“The human keeps shouting into the air, Master. She doesn’t understand what is happening. She asks how is it possible that you can chat over there. She says it’s impossible...” Kalysto was exasperated to hear that and was picking up her step when the puppy spoke again. “Master! The girl with the bow asks if you are talking to her friend!” That gave her hope, and she immediately touched Katia’s point.
“Katia, I finished destroying the enemy camp, but Tsuki informed me that you are surrounded.” Can you please inform me of the situation?”
“Hello, Mrs. Kalysto! I’m glad to know that you are well! As we couldn’t take so many people, someone called the police and apparently, there was a car nearby, but when we started to report the situation, the two policemen saw Mr. Tsuki and got scared. And just now a van is arriving with a group of armed military. They are upset because we are still inside an area that is supposed to be evacuated.” Tsuki reported. “Now she is just looking ahead like you do when you are trying to do something with the violet light, but hers is blue and everyone is watching her... is she sick, Master?”
“She is not sick. Her system is blue and the one the queen gave me is violet,” she explained as she jumped over a bush and continued running. “And I didn’t know you could see them.”
“I don’t understand what they say, but I see the light. The other fairies also have it, but yours is fainter and more difficult to perceive,” the puppy hastened to explain.
“Thank you, Katia. Please tell them I’ll be there in a few minutes and make sure they don’t hurt Tsuki. Tell them he is my pet,” she asked her, but just before sending the message, a group of three goblins and two hobgoblins appeared before her. “Shit! And where did they come from?” She muttered before she stopped touching Katia’s spot on the map. “Ice creation! Ice manipulation!” She immediately conjured, taking them by surprise and freezing a little more than half of their bodies, but leaving their heads free along with the upper part of the trunk of those who were taller. And with a smile on her lips, she murmured: “Absorb!”
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
“Skills! Give me all of his skills first and then all of his stats!”
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Knife Throwing. Level 5!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a 10 strength!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 5 points of agility!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 3 points of endurance!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 100 HP points!]
Just like the previous time, as soon as she received that notification, the goblin turned to ashes.
She performed the same procedure with one of the hobgoblins, but this one only gave her a stat.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 50 HP points!]
And the same happened with the next goblin.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 70 HP!]
Kalysto clicked her tongue and immediately moved on to the last hobgoblin.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Axe Throwing. Level 25!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 10 points of strength!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 25 points of agility]!
[Congratulations! You have acquired 15 Stamina points!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 150 HP!]
Again, the creature turned to ashes after giving her the HP points.
Is there no way for it to absorb something more before they disappear? She thought as she clicked her tongue. I guess I’ll have to raise the skill level more. I need to increase my HP.
Then she continued with the last of them.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Dagger Throwing. Level 15!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 20 strength points!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 27 points of agility!]
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[Congratulations! The user has acquired 21 points of endurance!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 175 HP!]
“Ice manipulation!” She conjured as soon as the last enemy disintegrated, completely melting the ice block she had conjured before, and then ran with all her strength to where her friends were.
It took her three minutes to get there, running with all her strength.
“I’m sorry, miss, but we’ll have to take him with us!” said one of the armed soldiers who had gotten out of the truck.
“You can’t take him! He’s my friend’s pet!” Sakura interjected, “He’s harmless!”
“It’s a monster!” She was interrupted by one of the three police officers.
“Mr. Tsuki helped us rescue the kidnapped people! You can’t take him away!” Katia interrupted, causing some of the freed people to join her and argue with the police officers.
“Instead of interrupting these good people, you should be doing your job!” said one of the few men who had been kidnapped. “A group of monsters have been kidnapping people for weeks and you never did anything! And now a group of young girls are doing your job right and you want to steal their pet?” The man got angry and stood in front of Katia who was in front of Tsuki.
“Tsuki, come here!” And the little fenrir immediately obeyed his mistress while she approached the group of people. “Gentlemen, I hope it won’t be a problem that my friends and I rescued these people and destroyed the altar with which a group of monsters planned to sacrifice them.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” questioned a police officer. “Since when do monsters sacrifice people?”
“If you go into the nature reserve, you will notice a crater. That’s where a camp the monsters were building.”
“Camp?” scoffed the man who had defended Katia before. “That looked more like a village than anything else.”
“Yeah, well,” Kalysto shrugged. “It was strange to see a couple of campfires when it is forbidden to make them in this area, so we went to investigate and now we are here,” she said, turning to the soldier while carrying her pet. But I see that instead of thanking us for helping these people, you are preventing us from going to help with the situation of the portal that opened a few hours ago. It was my understanding that you asked all the hunters in the area to participate, but I see you seem to prefer to kidnap my pet.”
“Careful what you say, young lady!” one police officer scolded her.
“I doubt that can be considered a dog,” muttered one of the two soldiers who had gotten out of the van. Just at that moment, Tsuki started to growl and the two military men pulled out their guns and pointed them at Tsuki, as did the three police officers.
“Master! Someone is coming!” Kalysto immediately raised a hand, asking them to stop silently.
“Someone’s coming! Everybody stand back!” Kalysto informed them while releasing Tsuki. “Mana sense!” She conjured and could feel two presences approaching from the opposite street to the entrance. “We don’t have time! Two monsters are coming!” She shouted as she pointed to the corner where they would soon cross and enter the two-way street on the opposite side of which was the park. “What are they waiting for?” She shouted to them when she saw that no one was doing anything. “Everyone, move away! I can’t move easily if you are so close!” she shouted to the people they had rescued. “Sakura and Natasha, stay back! Katia, get your bow and arrows ready! Now!”
“Yes, ma’am,” replied the girl, a little used to what this kind of situation with the saintess meant, and immediately put her sword in the enchanted bag she had given her.
“Tsuki to the front! Shoot with everything as soon as I give you the signal!” Kalysto ordered as she walked a couple of steps and stood in front of the rest of the people while she took out her bow and arrow and aimed at the corner. “Katia, shoot at the opposite eye I’ll shoot at. They’re almost at the corner! Remember to activate the eagle eye and perfect aim before shooting!”
“Yes, ma’am!” The little blonde prepared herself, drawing her bow and an arrow.
“What’s going on?” asked one of the military men while the other one led the civilians away.
“Two monsters are about to cross that corner. I would recommend you to move your cars, they are too close to them!”
“Are you sure?”
“Katia, get ready to shoot. At any moment, they will cross the corner!” Kalysto ordered, drawing her bow and with an arrow ready to be shot. The soldier, seeing himself ignored, turned to one of his comrades.
“Mobilize the vehicles! Monsters are coming!” He shouted, at the same instant that a huge red feathered bird, a little bigger than the one she had killed before, flew out of the corner.
“It’s another Aevo!” Natasha recognized it immediately.
“Eagle-eye! Perfect aim!” Kalysto muttered at the same time, shooting the arrow into the monster’s right eye a second before it turned its head towards them. “Katia, shoot!” she shouted at the same time as the monster let out a thunderous shriek, as it moved a few meters away from them, crashing into the apartment building behind it and another monster came out from the same direction the first one had come from.
“Holy shit! Those things are huge!” shouted one of the police officers.
“Don’t shoot! You’ll only get in our way if you do! Tsuki, your turn!” shouted Kalysto while shooting two arrows into the eyes of the second monster, blinding it.
Tsuki immediately obeyed his master and attacked the second Aevo, making it fall to the ground, and Kalysto immediately took out her axe from her inventory and put her bow away, then jumped on top of the fallen Aevo and cut its neck.
[You’ve gained 7 experience points!]
Blood stained her face, but she ignored it while in the distance she could hear the frightened murmurs of the group of former kidnap victims and of someone who began to vomit, disgusted by the butchery she had just performed with such ease.
“Tsuki, take the other one down!” She ordered, and the puppy attacked him, but this one, unlike the previous one, did not fall to the ground, but resisted the attack. “It’s time to test my new skills,” she muttered to herself, turning to the new enemy to face him face to face. “Perfect aim! Axe throw!” She conjured and threw her new favorite toy into the middle of the space between the eyes of the huge red bird, whose body fell hard after the impact.
[You’ve earned 10 experience points!]
“Good job, guys!” She congratulated them and turned to look at them with a smile on her face without realizing that she was still bathed in the blood of the other monster, which made those who were not her friends recoil in fear of her.
“Master, I’m already level thirteen!” Tsuki got excited while running towards her and wagging his tail from one side to the other.
“Congratulations on that. You’re doing a good job!” She congratulated him, kneeling down to pet his head and immediately the puppy stuck out his chest, proud of himself. Making Katia and Natasha smile at his smug attitude.
“Was that all? No more enemies coming?” Asked one of the military men with a communication radio in his fist and Kalysto raised a hand, in a stop sign and closed her eyes.
“Sense of mana!” She whispered, extending her mana as much as she could, but she couldn’t sense any presence besides the humans she was observing, and the mall across the street and in front of the park seemed to be empty. “Tsuki, do you sense any other enemy nearby?”
“This place is full of enemies, Master,” he muttered, giving the military a dirty look.
“I meant monsters like the one we just killed,” she clarified, and the puppy shook his head. “Not for the moment,” she informed the soldier. “But I think it would be convenient to take these people to their homes or to a nearby hospital and escort us to the portal through which those things came.”
The soldier nodded and brought the radio to his lips.
“Sir, we will bring reinforcements.”