Book 3. Chapter 11.
“A mini enemy army” Part 2
What the hell was that? She was surprised, but immediately activated her skill again, not wanting to give Persephone a chance to try to take over her body again. What the hell does it matter? Come on Kalysto, concentrate!
[The passive skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 25 Stamina points!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 17 points of Agility!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 24 points of Strength!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 500 points of HP]!
At that instant, the namira’s body turned to ashes.
“Another one that didn’t have MP,” she muttered, realizing that healing her prey a little before absorbing it would help increase the amount of HP she absorbed from them. “Let’s test that theory. Jhil! Absorb!” She whispered as soon as she reached the other namira, whose leg was still stuck under the headless azura, while he was desperately trying to escape while muttering strange words in a language she still didn’t understand.
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
“Leave his HP for last and absorb everything else first.”
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 20 Stamina points!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 27 points of Agility!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 35 points of Strength!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 920 HP points!]
She then turned back, but among the remaining ten goblins she could only get 500 HP, and while the girls were still fighting the remaining goblins, she looted the few enemies she could and then activated the stealth skill and approached the back of the portal.
“Dark mana creation!” she said, darkening the air around the portal so neither the reporters nor the military could see what was happening. “Dispel! Dispel! Dispel Ezhil! Creation of dark mana!” Unlike the portals she had seen before, no black tentacles came out of this one for her to absorb. “Too bad, I could have increased my dark mana stats.” However, that didn’t mean she couldn’t absorb anything.
She took a deep breath before making any attempt and just as she pulled out a health potion, the notification that she had been warned of the curse reappeared again.
[Warning! The user has lost 10% HP.]
Kalysto clicked her tongue and drank the potion, worried that despite the collection of potions Caranthir had given her, ingesting them did not recover the same amount of points she was losing.
I need to find a solution fast!.... But I can’t leave this portal frozen in the middle of the street either....
On Elinor, that wouldn’t be a problem, but on Earth, so many things could happen that they could even blame her and sue her later. Even threaten and force her to use her powers against her will.
I’ve used enough mana. It shouldn’t be a problem now. She thought, however as she placed her palms on the cold surface of the portal, she hesitated.
Damn it, Kalysto, stop being afraid and just get it over with! She scolded herself. Absorb!
Unlike the other times, this time no notification came out, however, she could feel the mana that had been dispersed earlier with the previous spells, breaking the chain of spells that kept the portal active, enter her body. Although she suspected that the one who activated it would realize sooner or later, and would activate it again, so freezing it might not be the best option since they could find a way to melt her ice.
Blue veins were drawn on her hands and arms as the portal energy entered her body, but unlike when she absorbed it from the mana crystals, it felt like ice water.
However, almost ten minutes later, when the edges of the portal finally began to blur, a new notification appeared before her.
[Warning! The user has absorbed 15,000 MP, which exceeds the user’s ability to withstand it. The user’s health is in danger.]
Damn it! Regeneration! Regeneration! Regeneration! Regeneration! She conjured and immediately took out a bottle of holy water, just as the news of the curse was activated again.
[Warning! The user has lost 10% HP.]
She quickly drank almost half a liter of holy water until she got a new notification.
[Warning! The user must wait 10 minutes before consuming a potion again or its effect will be nullified.]
Kalysto cursed a couple of times, seeing that despite her efforts, the portal was still active, so she had no choice but to continue conjuring.
“Mana Manipulation! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” As soon as she realized that the dark mana together with the portal disappeared completely, she activated her stealth ability again, becoming invisible and ran with all her strength, positioning herself right next to the girls after taking her axe out of her inventory and positioning herself right behind Sakura, cutting the head of the hobglobin that was about to attack her friend from behind while they were fighting another one near a corner, almost a block away from where the reporters and the military were. “Girls, it’s time to go!” Kalysto announced after disabling the stealth skill when she saw that the reporters were approaching them, running as soon as they finished killing all the monsters nearby.
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[You’ve gained 1 experience point!]
“Tsuki, it’s time to go back inside the inventory! Katia, I need your permission to go back to do the same thing as when I rescued you before!” She hurried to say as she saw the reporters running towards them with the cameras on.
“But I didn’t misbehave!” Tsuki complained. “I did my job well!” He assured her.
“Of course, Mrs. Kalysto, you have my permission to put me in your inventory,” said the little blonde as she saw the journalists and a group of soldiers running in her direction. Kalysto put her and Tsuki in the inventory.
“What’s going on?” Natasha asked, exhausted after the fight.
“Can you put people in there too?” asked Sakura at the same time.
“Hold on, I don’t want to have to deal with the million questions from the others,” she said before grabbing each of them and hugging them around the waist, then starting to run a couple of meters and then jump over a house, then over a building and away a couple of blocks.
“I need you to call your driver,” she said to Sakura, who didn’t hesitate to call him.
By the time they reached Sakura’s apartment, Kalysto’s hands were shaking.
“Are you sure you’re okay? You are too pale” Sakura worried.
“Can I use the guest room?”
“Sure, you’ve stayed here before. You know where everything is, take what you need.” Kalysto thanked her for her help, then took Katia and Tsuki out of her inventory.
“I need to fix something. It will take me a couple of hours. I ask you not to interrupt me. I need to be concentrated,” although most of them agreed, Natasha didn’t agree to leave her alone.
“But Kalysto, Sakura is right! You don’t look well. It’s better not to be alone and go to the doctor!”
“Nat, I don’t have time right now and I can’t stay to explain the situation to you. I’m sorry.”
As soon as she got to the room, she locked the door and took off her jacket, throwing it on an armchair before throwing herself on the bed.
“Tsuki, I need your help!”
“Of course, Master! What do you need me to do?” commented the puppy, sitting next to her on the bed.
“I was cursed.”
“I know, I can see the chains surrounding your heart and trying to spread like a disease all over your body,” Kalysto was a little scared to hear that.
“...Ok...” she muttered and her voice broke at the end.
Come on Kalysto, concentrate! We need to do this! She scolded herself.
[The skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
It wasn’t activated already? She worried. Never mind... I’ll worry about it later!
“I’ll use dispel on the curse in addition to trying to purify it,” she commented, but her expression was full of worry. “.... If my purification skill works against something as powerful as the black plague, it should work for this too... right? Even if it’s a spell in a language I don’t understand, a curse is a spell, right?”
Tsuki kept silent as he turned his head and watched her for a few minutes before answering.
“The master is talking about the golden glow that you used the other time on the slimes that were contaminated?”
“Yes!” she replied, excited and full of hope.
“...Mmmm....it could be useful, as long as your skills are above the level of the curse, or the one who cast it.”
I definitely have a higher level than the idiot who cursed me! However, she couldn’t help but worry about the level of the curse.
Although she doubted she could remove it completely, she took off her shoes and stockings and settled on the bed. Then she took out a liter bottle of holy water and two vials of health potions and placed them on the nightstand next to the bed. As well as her cell phone, on which she set an alarm to ring every ten minutes for the next two hours.
“All right! I’m ready!” And after closing the last notification about the curse, she took another health potion. “Mana detection! Mana manipulation! Mana control!” She watched as the curse spread all over her body, wrapping itself like black chains around her heart and then spreading like thin branches entangled with each other, almost like spider webs that spread all over her body.
But the curse was not the only thing that was there.
Kalysto could not help but be frightened at the sight.
Take it easy! One step at a time! You just focus on one thing at a time, we’ll worry later about the other! She tried to convince herself, but her fear did not dissipate.
“Alright Tsuki! I’ll need you to help me. You have to make sure I don’t screw up! Let me know right away if you see something going wrong!”
“Yes, Master!” The little boy was enthusiastic, happy to receive such an important task even though he could never finish learning everything he needed to know as a magical beast from his late mother. Still, Tsuki was willing to do his best.
Kalysto sat on the bed and leaned her back against the backrest, then placed the palms of her hands on her right leg, where the roots of the curse were a little thinner and not yet leading to her feet.
And sighed deeply before starting.
“Dispel! Dispel!” She conjured, injecting as much mana as she could, taking advantage of the excess she had after the portal and was excited to see that little by little the tips of each line that contained the curse, she decided to take a little risk. “Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil!” she added, and to her complete horror, doing that to herself wreaked havoc on her mana circle, destabilizing it. “Shit!” She panicked.
Kalysto spent the next two hours trying to make amends for her mistake.
Although she could not use Dispel Ezhil near her heart again without affecting her mana circle, she could use Ezhil Purification without any problems. And after spending the next twenty-four hours straight purifying and using dispel on every part of her body she could touch, except near her heart. She could not remove the curse, but she was able to bring about a change in it.
[The skill Mana Detection has leveled up to level 20!]
[The skill Mana Manipulation has leveled up to level 26!]
[The skill Mana Control has leveled up to level 25!]
[The skill Dispel has leveled up to level 40!]
[The skill Dispel Ezhil has leveled up to level 28!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up to level 41!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has leveled up to Level 42!]
[ Warning! The user has been afflicted with Holle’oth’s vitality reduction curse. Every hour ten percent of your vitality will be stolen.]
“Yes, now I will finally be able to sleep!” She enthused.
After eating a hearty meal while talking to Sakura and Katia, explaining her situation to them, she drank a liter of holy water and drank a good portion of the health potions she had to leave her just above ninety percent. Then finally, she went to bed to sleep.
And woke up three days later, with Tsuki’s screams in her head.