Chapter 52
“Open field”
A wave of intense pain flooded her body as the sharp blade that the enemy’s arm had become pierced her body.
A choked scream escaped her lips before she could close them and a series of windows appeared before her.
[The passive skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
Hatred and rage disfigured her face and with a swift movement she grabbed the blade that was tearing her flesh with both hands, not to prevent it from doing more damage, but to prevent him from escaping.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She screamed and watched with sadistic fascination as the body of the creature that had just pierced her began to dissolve into thin air. “Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She added, making sure he couldn’t get away as the creature tried to struggle, and its body began to disintegrate as it was completely within the range of both skills.
A few seconds later, the notification of his death reached her.
[You have gained 1600 experience points.]
Immediately, she continued to purify herself as she watched the black veins that had formed around her wound thin as she invoked ‘dispel’ and ‘purification’ on the injured area.
And just like the previous time disinfecting the wound immediately and using ‘dispel’ helped to prevent the plague from spreading in her body. But still the fear of catching a disease that could turn someone’s internal organs to stone was terrifying.
“Dispel Ezhil! Dispel! Purification Ezhil! Purification!” She continued invoking and took out again the bottle of holy water, the one she had left uncorked inside her inventory, and took a sip. Watching as the wound began to close as the black spots and veins around it eventually disappeared completely.
“Purification! Dispel!” whispered another arrow and launched it towards the left arm of the other huge black goblin surrounded by elves. Then she ran to the right as soon as she released the arrow. The enemy jumped to the right, attacking a couple of elves and jumping away from the sacred energy of the arrow, but Kalysto was already summoning her power again.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” And as one of the elves slashed the enemy’s side, the golden light of her spells dissolved one of his legs. Making him lose his balance and as he fell, Ardrach took the opportunity to cut off his head. And while the blood of that monster spilled on the ground, a black smoke began to spread. Kalysto immediately approached. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Purification!” she summoned and the golden light that came out of her body cleared the smoke.
[You have gained 600 experience points.]
The elves around her began to whisper.
“Ardrach, what was that black smoke? Was it miasma?”
“That’s right, saintess” The high elf almost looked like he wanted to tell her not to come closer as it was dangerous but seeing how she continued to conjure quickly to purify it even though his brave warriors had not hesitated to stay away, he didn’t know what to tell her. So he kept silent.
“All those who have been contaminated come to me. It will be easier for me to cure you that way.”
And this time all those who had risen from the stretchers to protect her, no matter how wounded they were or how fast the plague was spreading in their bodies, did not hesitate to surround her.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She continued to summon until the usual warning sign appeared before her.
[Warning: the user has only 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
“Those who have already been healed surround the perimeter. It was because of our negligence that the saintess was hurt! The gods were on our side this time and it was nothing serious, but we can’t count on their help forever!” After scolding his men again, Ardrach turned to Kalysto, who was drinking a mana potion. I apologize for the breach in security, saintess. I assure you it will not happen again. We will keep you safe in this tent if it is the last thing you do.
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“And I think we are too easy and obvious a target inside this tent, Mr. Ardrach. Besides, I’m running out of arrows to defend myself and I think that if we finish quickly here, my help might be needed out there if there are more of those things” by the way his face relaxed at her words, he seemed to agree with her.
“I’ll get you more arrows.”
And before she turned around to go to the other end of the tent where there were still wounded, Kalysto noticed that none of the black goblins she had killed dropped any weapons.
So no loot this time. She was saddened. But when he saw one of the elves picking up the swords and sharp knives and shields of the red goblins, an idea occurred to her.
“Could those who are leaving please wait a moment?” Then she turned to the two elves who were picking up the weapons-. And you two, if you give me those weapons, I think I might have something that would be of interest to you.
“I don’t think the saintess needs so many weapons, if you insert mana in this quiver you will have more than enough arrows to defend yourself in case we are too busy to defend you” said Ardrach while he handed her a quiver full of arrows and a bow.
No, but they will be useful for me to sell them in the human market and get some gold. She thought but stopped insisting, remembering that as soon as she reached the fairy territory after finishing this she could claim the emeralds that would come as payment for her mission.
It’s not fair. I wanted that sword. But there would be more opportunities in the future to get more weapons.
“Thank you for the gift," replied Kalysto, “but I don’t know how to imbue this quiver with mana,” she added as she took out the twenty arrows inside and put them in an empty box in her inventory.
“I’m afraid I don’t have the time to teach you," Ardrach lamented, “but I’m sure any of my men would be more than willing to help you reload your arrows if the saintess asks for them,” he added giving them a look that made the other elves not hesitate to murmur their consent.
“In that case, could they start right now before they leave? I’m afraid you’ll be too busy to bother you later.”
“Of course," answered Ardrach, being himself the first to take the quiver in his hands and injecting mana into it. Less than a minute later, twenty arrows were inside the quiver. Kalysto took them out and put them in her inventory, then opened her skill window.
She was sure she had a skill that could be of use to them right now.
[Skills]
Active skills:
Inspect: level 4
Mana detection: level 1
Mana sense: level 1
Mana Control: level 1
Mana manipulation: level 1
Dispel: level 10
Ezhil Dispel: level 4
Sleep well: level 5
Purification: level 10
Ezhil Purification: level 6
Jhil: level 10
Jhil Ezhil: level 5
Blessing: level 1
Passive skills:
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Languages: : legendary level (User can understand, read, speak and write any language that has been used or is still used in the world of Elinor. This is a bonus given by the administrator) (The skill has been upgraded by administrator so that the user can also understand the native fairy language).
Regeneration: 0.514% of acquired skill.(Incomplete).
Innate skills:
Focus: level 5
Empathy: level 3
Mental defense: level 40
Pain resistance: level 30
Absorb: level 3
Kalysto selected the skill blessing, wanting to check if it was something she could use on others, as did the healer and priest on the team Natasha was playing with.
[Blessing: grants a 2% increase in a target’s base stats when touched, a skill normally acquired at level 15 but currently unlocked by the admin. Starting at level 20, you can create low-level holy water.]
So this is the one I need to level up to finally create holy water? She got excited.
“How about we make a deal? All those who help me fill my quiver with arrows will be granted a small blessing to increase your stats. This will be quite useful out there, don’t you think?” And to ensure the cooperation of the fifty elves that were still inside the tent, she approached Ardrach and invoked. “Blessing!” A golden glow surrounded the man, who seemed to feel much lighter.
“Thank you very much for the gift, saintess. It wasn’t necessary to give us something in exchange for our cooperation, we would have gladly been of use to you without receiving anything in return," the man commented, but the truth was that she didn’t feel quite right about receiving something without giving something else in return.
She hated being indebted to anyone.
“No problem. I think this way we will all be satisfied with the deal” and so while the healed elves lined up to fill their quivers twice with arrows, Kalysto was giving a blessing to each one of them, while she finished healing the sick in the room.
As soon as she was done, a small group of elves stayed with her and while Ardrach ordered them to dismantle the tent and organize the weapons they had brought, Kalysto began to close the collection of windows she had open, until she got to the one she really cared about, but had been too busy or tired to sort out until now.
[The user has now passed the minimum threshold needed to unlock the skill Elemental Magic. Do you wish to select the first element of elemental magic you wish to learn now?]
[YES/NO]
And finally, she selected ‘yes’ and a new blue window with several options opened before her.