Chapter 159
“The Mission.”
Eric and Madha were the first to escape but ended up getting away from the rest of the group while fighting a couple of monsters that were almost at the end of the dead end. But soon after Kalysto arrived and sent them to the other side of the wall, suddenly the compulsion to go back inside the castle and look for Milo took hold of them.
As did Emanuel, who shook his head several times, but then his gaze became empty again and he started walking back towards the castle, just as Eric and Madha were already doing.
“Emanuel, where are you going? Come back!” Edward shouted as he blocked the attack of a skeleton armed with the sword he had stolen. His shout alerted the fire mage, who was fighting next to her boyfriend against a lone wolf five feet tall with a blue horn on its head.
“Eric, Madha, what are you doing? Could you check on Emanuel? I think there’s something wrong with him,” Rita shouted. “Fire creation!” She added, burning the wolf’s head just as two skeletons launched themselves at her and Oscar immediately intercepted them.
But both shadow mages ignored her, as well as the monsters that attacked them, turning their bodies into shadows just as the swords of their enemies approached their bodies, only to return to their physical forms seconds later when the attack was over. Repeating the same process over and over again until a wave of golden light hit them, followed by another one, disintegrating the two skeletons that had been attacking them and others that were attacking the rest of the group.
Eric blinked in surprise to find himself in a different place than he had been a few seconds ago as he watched the skeletons disintegrate in front of him.
“Where am I?” He looked around and immediately noticed that when a new wave of golden light bathed his body the tracking mark that the court mages had placed on him also disappeared, as well as the daze and the voice that seemed to dominate and cloud his mind. He turned around, looking at Madha on his left. “What happened? Where are we?”
“Eric, Madha, look out!” Rita shouted at them, causing both wizards to immediately transform into shadows as two-horned wolves charged towards them.
Eric immediately transported himself near a skeleton that hadn’t been disintegrated and, after pushing it, he stole its sword, then transformed into shadows again and appeared right next to one of the wolves, causing a big cut on its neck. Madha, seeing this, imitated him. Emanuel instead began to scream, terrified by everything that was happening.
Several meters away, separated by a wall of bushes and the orc’s body, was Kalysto with the Minotaur’s axe held high, ready to split the annoying lich in two and the three spears of the headless horsemen piercing her stomach.
“...Cough!....” Surprise washed over Kalysto’s face as the metallic taste of blood flooded her tongue and spurted from her mouth.
The lich’s smile grew as he swung his staff in front of him while Kalysto’s body began to descend and a huge red magic circle was drawn in the air, less than a meter away from his summoner.
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“It’s time to end this game!” The lich rejoiced, and as he began his chant, Kalysto whispered:
“Tundra!” A wave of ice spread from her body outward, freezing the spears and the front half of the horsemen’s bodies, along with the lich’s arms, chest and lower half of his face.
Immediately, a pair of windows opened to her left as a strong dizziness overcame her and her body fell to the ground with a thud.
[Warning! User has less than 5 MP remaining. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
“In... inventory,” she whispered and her inventory window came before the previous notifications, allowing her to pull out with trembling hands a vial of holy water and drink it in three long gulps. Then she pulled out one of the mana stones, noting with fear that she barely had a little more than a dozen left.
What a bad time to be running out! She thought, noticing the large number of monsters that were still advancing towards the castle and how a group of them, at the end of the long corridor that was part of the labyrinth, decided to enter the dead end where she was. Shit! Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought as she noticed that most of the new wave of monsters were undead, accompanied by over seventy five-foot-tall wolves with a horn on their foreheads, similar to that of a unicorn but blue.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 5500 MP!]
“Blessing! Regeneration! Regeneration!” She conjured, feeling her strength recover and her wounds finish closing after getting rid of the spears that pierced her body and storing them in her inventory. Then she stood up and approached the horsemen. “Ice manipulation!” she said and finished completely freezing their bodies at the same time the army of undead almost finished reaching where she was and the ice containing the lich began to crack as the monster’s magic began to surround his body.
Kalysto pulled the Minotaur’s mace from her inventory and split the body of two of the horsemen. The fourth one, seeing this, lunged towards her.
[You have gained 2000 experience points!]
[You’ve gained 1500 experience points!]
Kalysto evaded his attack, then jumped to the side and ran in the direction of the third horseman. Breaking the ice on his chest with a single blow.
[You have gained 1700 experience points!]
“Ezhil Purification!” She conjured several times, eliminating dozens of undead that began to surround her as she evaded the sword of the fourth horseman.
[You have gained 200 experience points!] x15
[You have gained 100 experience points!] x15
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x20
“Blessing!” She said, pointing to her chest and a faint golden glow enveloped her as her strength and agility increased, allowing her to run in a split second to where her axe had fallen and pick it up, then put the mace away and attack the fourth horseman while the ice that contained the lich slowly began to fall until it gave way completely and he launched the attack that had been halfway through his conjure.
After severing one of the horseman’s arms, Kalysto’s senses, heightened by the blessing, alerted her to the danger. And just before the lich’s magical attack fell upon her, Kalysto stepped aside, evading it and allowing the fourth horseman to be vaporized by the violet light cast by the lich.
[You have gained 200 experience points!]
The lich, annoyed by his failed attack, took advantage of the fact that she was not only far away but now surrounded by almost a hundred undead and seventy wolves to prepare his next attack.
Immediately, Kalysto prepared to do the same.
“Dispel Ezhil! Blessing! Purification Ezhil! Tundra!” She conjured at the same time that a violet window appeared in front of her, obstructing her vision.
But what the...? She was about to curse aloud when she recognized the fairy queen’s message.
[Kalysto, someone has opened a portal near my kingdom! I want you to go and close it immediately!]