Book 3. Chapter 28
“An Unexpected Encounter” Part 2
“Noooo!!!” Kalysto screamed, annoyed by the loss as she saw the remains of the mind mage's body fall and blood stain the floor. “I wanted that power!” She growled in frustration as the body of the orc next to her was about to be equally torn apart, if not for the black crystal barrier she created around the dark mana tentacles that wrapped around the orc. “What the hell do you think you're doing? I had a strong suspicion that he's the one behind the monsters' apparent submissive state! And now because of you I can't prove it!”
Aegir stopped his advance for a few seconds and looked at her blankly. Running his eyes over the low-cut black dress she was wearing, and although he saw blood races at her feet and couldn't find any wounds.
“Kalysto, you disappeared for two weeks and then showed up with three monsters attacking you! What did you expect me to do?” he questioned immediately. His figure disappeared in a swirl of shadows and then reappeared in front of her to check if she was all right. “And what monsters are you talking about? Are you sure you're all right? What happened?”
“I can heal myself so you don't have to worry about that,” she answered reluctantly, taking a step back to put some distance between them at the same time that with a simple wave of her hand the shadows surrounding Arkhas' body brought him to her. “Absorb skills! Absorb luck! Absorb strength! Absorb agility! Absorb stamina!”
A collection of black notification windows appeared to her left.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Fire Arrows. Level 100. Heroic class!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired a new skill: Fire resistance. Level 100. Heroic class!]
Immediately seeing the class of his skills caught the attention of the former saintess.
How does a simple goblin have heroic class? She thought, somewhat puzzled by the discovery while ignoring Aegir who was still checking if she was injured.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: fireball. Level 80. Heroic class!]
[Warning! The user already set that skill to a lower level but with a Superior class so the absorbed skill will be converted to experience!]
[The skill Fireball has been raised to level 50!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Fire creation. Level 70. Heroic class]]
[Warning! The user already set this skill to a lower level but with a higher class so the absorbed skill will be converted to experience!]]
[The skill Fire creation has been raised to level 45!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Fire Manipulation. Level 70. Heroic class]]
[Warning! The user already set this skill to a lower level but with a Superior class so the absorbed skill will be converted to experience!]
[The skill Fire Manipulation has been raised to level 42!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 1 Luck point!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 100 points of Strength!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 100 points of Stamina!]
[Congratulations! the user has acquired 100 points of Agility!]
Suspecting that he had a classy system, she added:
“Absorb everything except HP and MP!”
A few seconds later her suspicion was rewarded when a new notification window, one she wasn't expecting, appeared to her left.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new system. Class: heroic!]
“Kalysto What did you mean by that?” Aegir asked, but Kalysto was too surprised by her discovery, so much so that she had completely forgotten about his presence.
“What?” She questioned, as she used the black mana tentacles to bring the orc's body to where she was.
“You said monsters. Where are they?”
“I don't know, but Eris, the priestess of Seth is commanding an army of over a million monsters, preparing to attack,” she commented, downplaying the importance.
“How far away are they?”
“I don't know, I just woke up in their temple and escaped, right after they announced that they plan to bring the son of the god of darkness to this world.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
Absorb! She thought, and repeated exactly the same process she had already done with the goblin. This time, the blue system notification window joined the black ones.
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[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Portal Creation. Level 100. Heroic class!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired a new skill: Monster Summoning. Level 100. Heroic class!]
So that's how they got so many monsters. She realized, happy at her new discovery. Completely ignoring Aegir who had started giving orders, preparing for the imminent battle.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 25 Luck points!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 100 points of Strength!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 100 points of Stamina!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 100 points of Agility!]
Why doesn't either of them go over 100 points? She wondered, finding the coincidence strange, especially considering how strong the orc looked compared to the goblin. Doesn't their system allow them to pass level 100?
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new system. Class: heroic!]
[Warning! The user already put this system, the absorption will be canceled!]
Then finally, she absorbed the MP and HP of both of them and they both turned to ashes.
For the next two days everyone inside the Castle was on high alert, but nothing happened. Still, both Kalysto and Aegir were living on potions and no sleep, he while coordinating everything and she concentrated on leveling up while continuing her training.
The good news was that Jhil's skill had leveled up after regenerating all the damage she took when she was finally able to get rid of the curse.
“Portal creation!” she muttered after slaying hundreds of thousands of monsters during the last 24 hours inside the dimension the portal led to. But now, as exhausted as she was, she just wanted to go back to her room and sleep for a couple of hours. “I just hope the war hasn't started yet while I was gone,” although she doubted it since to reach Desmond's kingdom a vast desert had to be crossed, and before that the kingdoms of Aegir's two younger brothers had to be crossed.
A beautiful blue portal opened before her, consuming seventy thousand MP in a matter of seconds.
“Now I understand why that orc was using that big mana sphere,” she murmured to no one in particular as she stepped through it and appeared again near the palace's back garden, making sure to close the portal again. “Status window,” she whispered as she walked towards where the cottage Alice's grandparents lived in was, and where her friend had recently moved to, no longer wanting to live in the palace away from her family.
Two windows appeared to her left, one blue and one black. At the same time Kalysto remembered the words of Whanda, Aegir's younger sister when she was informed of the enemy's plan.
“Are they crazy? Do they know how many people they have to sacrifice in order to get it?”she growled, and without giving them time to answer, she continued with her diatribe. “Hundreds of thousands! And the more powerful the god, or the descendant of a god, the more sacrifices must be made!”
“And how do you know that?” Kalysto asked curiously, being the first time he had heard the term 'descendant of the gods'.
“It's in one of the books in the palace library.”
When they looked for the book, there was barely even a reference to what the other woman had said, as the following pages were torn out, much to the annoyance of Aegir, who never believed that someone would dare to enter his library and tear pages out of books.
'...in order to materialize one of the gods and allow his full power to enter a world, offerings and large amounts of sacrifices must be made for a couple of weeks, because if not, what would enter that world would be a weakened version of that god and he would not be able to access all his powers, which would put him in danger in case of encountering an enemy god, or one of his descendants, who...'
Unfortunately, it was the only copy they had of the book and they did not have the time to look for more information about it, not with the possibility of being attacked at any moment.
So they continued with preparations, making sure they had enough supplies in case the war lasted longer than they expected, at the same time as the ex-saintess dedicated herself to leveling up.
Kalysto continued to ignore the blue notification, as she tried to concentrate on the present, though she would have liked to be able to know what the pages that were torn off said.
So she forced herself to fix her attention on the black window. Not wanting to have any relation to Mhiralla or her system, but noting that her theory was true, as the blue system stopped giving bonus points after a user reached level 100, as well as no longer allowing them to level up once that limit was reached.
Quite a contrast compared to the black and violet systems.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: Half-Blood
Level: 200
Fatigue: 95
Class: N/A
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (avatar of Anissha) (Keeper of the seal.)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram/Desmond
HP: 170.000/190.000
MP: 1,250/195,800
DMP: 347.000/347.000
Strength: 37,200+55
Vitality: 3,800+80
Agility: 50.200
Stamina: 42.720+110
Intelligence: 4.050+100
Charisma: 50
Luck: 96
Ether: 135
Status: Tired.
Available Points: 50.]
Kalysto pulled a mana crystal from her shadow, after what had happened with the fairy queen and the goddess Mhiralla, she had grown accustomed to stop relying so much on a system's inventory.
Even one from a sealed god.
“Maybe I should undo the barrier I create for the queen?” she wondered. Since she had created the barriers for the palaces of Aegir's two younger siblings, the amount of mana she was losing daily by keeping four barriers active was quite high. “Absorb!” the mana crystal turned to ashes at the same time as a pair of different colored notifications appeared to her left.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 15,000 MP!]
Kalysto repeated the same process five more times before exhaustion forced her to stop. Beginning to think that the couple of blocks to Alice and her grandparents' house were too far.
I should create a protective barrier for her new home. She thought, as she pulled a revitalizing potion from her shadow, drinking half of it in two gulps. But before she could put it away, an annoying female voice appeared behind her.
“I knew you'd stop by sooner or later!” Khara gloated, her gaze brimming with haughtiness as she folded her arms.
It was at that moment that Kalysto realized how unusually lonely that street was.
Just as Kalysto turned around, two hooded men stood beside the tall demon woman.
The fairy champion was surprised to see the blonde hair under the hoods of both men, recognizing them immediately.
Gideon and Gabriel Black.
Two of the heroes who like Koden, and the rest of the heroes, had been summoned the same day as her.
“Long time no see,” Gideon greeted her while holding a round black crystal almost as tall as half of his masculine chest.