Chapter 51
“When war knocks at your door.” (Elven Arc).
Despite the sound of battle raging hundreds of yards further north from where she stood, Kalysto tried to put her nerves aside and concentrated on healing the large collection of wounded inside the makeshift tarp that served as a tent.
Don’t think about it. She convinced herself. He said I’d be safe here... She reminded herself, glancing sideways at the muscular elf who was now acting as her personal guard. This is my big chance to learn magic. Or at least that had been the deal she had made with Caranthir before being brought here. But despite repeating herself, the curiosity to see how bad the situation was and how many monsters were really out there, mixed with the fear of being infected by the plague and the excitement at the possibility of getting many more experience points.
Just a couple of arrows, I don’t even have to kill them and I could level up so easily! She lamented as she passed to the next group of beds and saw the poor state the next sick patient was in, whose bandages covered half of his face and were stained with blood.
This is a great opportunity, Kalysto. Don’t ruin it.
And before her eyes strayed back to the entrance of the tent, she stretched her hands over the wounded elf and whispered:
“Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” After using ‘Ezhil Purification’ a couple more times, to make sure the elf’s wounds didn’t get infected, and neither did she herself, she removed the bandages to work directly on the nasty wounds that were beginning to close. “Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!“ she chanted.
I can’t believe this is so much better than holy water, if only I could use it on myself! She marveled at the sight of the tissues on half of the elf’s face that appeared to have been disfigured with some kind of acid, regenerating right in front of her incredulous eyes.
I need to find a way to unlock this skill and use it on myself!... How can I convince her to unlock it for me? She thought, but no matter how hard she tried to find a solution, she came up with none... Maybe if I finished the first two missions fast? She questioned herself, but even so, she was well aware that she had no guarantee that would happen.
As soon as she was done, Kalysto moved on to the next stretcher. And out of the corner of her eye, she observed a pair of elves invoking the healing magic of water to heal some of the patients. Even though what they were doing to speed up the body’s natural healing, it couldn’t compare to what she herself was doing, though for sure their skill level was far above hers.
“If some of you can move and get closer to me, we would finish faster” only twenty-five of them did so, being able to be healed in the next round. The rest of them, seeing that, slowly began to join the next rounds, helping each other to hold each other up so they could get around the saintess and once they were healed, they went back out to the battlefield, on the opposite side of the canvas tent.
It was as she was healing the amputated leg of another elf, whose skin and bones were regenerating under the potent magic of ‘Jhil Ezhil’, that a group of goblin-like creatures, but with shiny latex-black skin and nearly two meters tall, along with forty other goblins, one meter and twenty centimeters tall and red-skinned, assaulted the tent.
“Ambush! Protect the saintess!” Ardrach shouted, drawing two of his swords as he attacked the newcomers.
Kalysto on the other hand immediately got excited and drew her bow and an arrow and after whispering ‘purification’ the golden light enveloped both of them and launched an arrow at one of the red-skinned followed by another, which she launched against the eye of one of the over powered black goblins, being surprised to see that half of her last target’s face disappeared as soon as it was touched by the golden light of her arrow and two notification windows appeared before her while several elves began to surround her as they fought against the invaders.
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have leveled up!]
Kalysto, excited at the large amount of points she had just received, didn’t hesitate to shout.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” And the golden light enveloped her and some of the Elven warriors that were next to her and the arm of a black goblin disappeared completely when it touched the light while attacking one of the warriors. Take care of the red ones, I’ll take care of the others! Don’t let them get close to the sick ones! -Just then one of the black goblins cut off the arm of an elf and with its claws tore his chest, infecting him with the black plague. Immediately Kalysto pulled out another arrow and after purifying it, she shot it at the goblin’s head before it ripped the elf’s front again.
Two notification windows appeared to her right, but after glancing at them out of the corner of her eye, she ignored them.
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[You have gained 700 experience points.]
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” she shouted as she ran over to the wounded elf. ”Dispel! Dispel! Ezhil Purification!” She chanted, watching as the thick black veins that had sprouted from the wounds on the fallen elf’s chest had spread with surprising speed to his arms and face, stopped as they were bathed in the golden light.
Well, at least for the moment, he would be safe. She convinced herself, planning that as soon as she could bend down and recite Jhil just for him, she would.
“Purification Ezhil!” She recited again and drew another arrow. ”Purification!” She summoned before launching it at the head of another black goblin and one more.
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have gained 700 experience points.]
She launched two more arrows, before the red goblins also started attacking her, realizing that she was finishing off those who were their biggest advantage. And she managed to shoot one right in the eye before it approached her and was intercepted by one of the elves surrounding her.
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have gained 1000 experience points.]
“Ezhil Purification!” She said, eliminating four other black goblins that were fighting against other elves. ”Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!”
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have gained 700 experience points.]
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have gained 1000 experience points.]
And while everyone was fighting around her, Kalysto did not stop shooting arrows at the red goblins in the eyes, and some in the neck as well, helping the elves who, despite their wounds, had united to defend her.
[You have gained 200 experience points.]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[You have gained 200 experience points.]
[You have gained 300 experience points.]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[You have gained 200 experience points.]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[You have gained 200 experience points.]
“Ezhil Purification!” She recited, eliminating two black goblins that were close enough to the ten-meter radius touched by the golden light, losing half of their bodies in the process- “Ezhil Purification!”
[You have gained 700 experience points.]
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
“Ezhil Purification!” She repeated, eliminating four other black goblins that were fighting against other elves who were trying to stay close to her and avoid being infected by the plague while keeping her safe. “Ezhil Purification!” Then she focused again on the entrance of the tent, where five other huge black goblins were entering. “Shit! Purification!” She shot an arrow that disintegrated half of the head of one of them causing the rest of his body to fall to the ground, the other four looked at the body on the ground just as she finished shooting the second arrow and immediately ran to different ends of the tent, away from the corpse. Causing the arrow she had just shot to not hit the head of the other black goblin, but instead vaporized the shoulder of another one behind it.
[You have gained 1500 experience points.]
Unlike the first group, these not only gave her much more experience, but they were much faster and, therefore, harder to hunt.
The next two arrows she launched were easily dodged by the newcomers.
“Watch out!” Kalysto shouted as one of them tried to pass them by and tried to attack the sick people still lying on the stretchers at the back of the tent and the others started attacking the surrounding elves, “Purification Ezhil! Purification Ezhil! Purification!” She shot another arrow at the one who was already wounded, who was the slowest of them.
[You have gained 1500 experience points.]
[You have gained 1600 experience points. ]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has been raised to level 6!]
The remaining two, seeing what the radius of the golden light could do, immediately moved away, staying away from her and her arrows, but ready to stalk against any unsuspecting elf that got close enough to them.
“Purification Ezhil!” Kalysto summoned and launched three more arrows at the red goblins, watching as the elves took advantage of their enemies’ blindness to decapitate or split them in half. With her taking care of the black goblins, it was much easier for them to get rid of the huge group of red goblins. ”Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification!” She continued to summon, not giving the newcomers time to get close enough to kill the elves.
“Ardrach, I need you to cover me so I can heal the wounded!” She shouted as she noticed that, despite her efforts, several elves had caught the plague, seeing the black veins invading their faces with alarming speed. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” she shouted, getting rid of the last three black goblins of the first group that entered.”..... Purification!” She recited launching three more arrows at the red goblins, while the two strongest black goblins were still studying her from a distance. She shot an arrow at one of them to scatter them, but just as she had imagined, they both jumped to opposite sides of the tent with surprising agility and continued to study their group in silence. Watching as the elves finished off the remaining red goblins, without lifting a finger to help their fallen compatriots.
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have gained 700 experience points.]
[You have gained 800 experience points.]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
[You have gained 200 experience points.]
[You have gained 100 experience points.]
“Wait a minute, saintess!” Ardrach replied as he cut off the head of another red goblin and then approached her. And as soon as she saw him coming, she leaned towards the young elf who had been infected first and after putting away her bow and arrow in her inventory, she began to conjure quickly.
“Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Jhil! Jhil! Jhil! Dispel! Dispel! Dispel! Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” And before she could continue with her healing rounds, the two black goblins jumped, and while one of them attacked the elves that were far away from her causing several to run to their comrades in arms, the other one jumped, flying through the air taking advantage of the moment of distraction of Ardrach who had turned for an instant to observe what was happening with the other huge goblin. And with an agility that rivaled that of a black panther and that of a circus acrobat, the other black goblin landed next to Kalysto without a sound as his arm transformed into a huge black spear that pierced the right side of her chest.