Chapter 57
“On the brink of death”
A blue monster with more than six meters tall, two heads on its shoulders and whose arms from the elbow to the end of its claws were covered with a black substance that reflected the light in the same way as a suit made of latex, jumped on them. Falling into the small circle of elves surrounding Kalysto and crushing one of them with his huge feet. Before bowing down and letting out a mighty roar.
Challenging them to battle.
The saintess immediately recognized the particular black texture of his arms, so similar to the huge black goblins she had faced before. And she jumped back, putting several meters of distance between her and the strange creature.
“Ice blades!” Kalysto exclaimed and three bluish-white magic circles were drawn around her. “Ezhil Purification!” The golden light of her holy magic illuminated the three ice blades before she threw them against the monster’s chest, which let out a powerful roar that burst its eardrums.
“Shit!” she growled, but she could only hear an unpleasant ringing in her ears as the pain grew louder and louder.
[Passive ability Pain Resistance has been activated.]
“Come on, Kalysto, focus! Stay focused!” She scolded herself and, as always, the cold sensation that accompanied that sentence ran through her from head to toe. As the rest of the elves around her groaned in pain, kneeling on the ground. So Kalysto pulled out the bottle of the high quality holy water her boss had given her and took a small swig. The familiar tingle of healing invaded her ears and most of her head, relieving the severe migraine caused by her continued overuse of her mana and made worse by that monster’s scream.
[The passive ability Mental Defense has been activated.]
That creature, seeing that she was still standing, took two steps forward and stretched out his black hand trying to reach her as a few drops of the thick substance as black and shiny as the oil that covered her hands and forearms, fell to the ground contaminating the earth.
“Purification Ezhil! Purification Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil!” shouted Kalysto immediately, watching with bizarre satisfaction as the dark half of the creature’s arm evaporated while he cried out in pain at the missing limb.
A violet window opened to her left, but after reading it, she quickly closed it.
[Ezhil’s Purification skill has risen to level 7!]
“Ice Blades!” Conjured Kalysto and a blue notification window appeared on her left.
Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings.
[The Ice Blades skill cannot be used at the moment. User must wait 1:50 minutes before being able to use it again.]
“Stupid cooldown period! And just when I can finally use magic!” She growled and jumped away from the monster again as she pulled out her new bow and an arrow- “Purification Ezhil!” She conjured and the bow and arrow were bathed in golden light as she shot an arrow into each of the creature’s four eyes, blinding it.
Then she shot four more arrows into each of its two necks, hoping that would help so it could no longer burst everyone’s eardrums again. But as soon as he saw it open its mouths again, she became worried.
“Water blades!“ She called out, making sure to cut the end of his lips so it would hurt to move them and make sure he stopped screaming.
Then she ran to where the wounded elves were, and after checking that she was far enough away so that her power wouldn’t heal the monster as well, she whispered.
“Jhil Ezhil!” And she turned her head back to the creature, noticing that her golden light had reached a part of his body and began to heal the arm she had injured. Ezhil Ezhil Purification! -She growled, hearing him scream again as soon as the hand that had begun to regenerate vanished into thin air again. So she moved a little further away until she reached where Ardrach stood surrounded by other elves. “Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” Seeing that the golden glow of her healing ability stopped shining on the Elven vice-commander, she said: “Ardrach, I need you to distract that thing while I heal the rest!”
“Of course, saintess,” the muscular elf turned to the other soldiers, “You heard the saintess! Those who have been healed, attack the Sajhun!
Kalysto frowned at the strange name and looked at the monster.
“Inspect!” she whispered, and two windows opened to her left.
[Name: N/A
Race: Sajhun.
Level: 25
HP: 24,850/25,000
MP: 100/100
DMP:400/500]
“Twenty-five thousand. Is that serious? How the heck can a monster have that much health?” But instead of staying to question things that she probably wouldn’t get an answer to, Kalysto continued healing the elves that were far away from Sajhun with Jhil Ezhil.
“Wizards, attack!” Ardrach ordered, and four of the six mages that accompanied them began to throw fireballs at Sajhun while Kalysto healed the other two. As soon as she finished with them, she began to approach those who were closer to the monster and had not been able to heal before, placing her hands over the ears of one of the archers.
”Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” she whispered. And it was at that moment, as she desperately tried to hurry and finish healing the elf in front of her, that the ground shook at her feet.
And Kalysto turned, looking out over the edge of the plain, at the top of the small hill she stood on, where the thick forest opened up before them, and watched the twelve dark gray-furred wolves with hideous, sharp ridges of what appeared to be bone the same color as their filthy fur protruding from their spines
“Ice blades!” Kalysto exclaimed, attacking one of the wolves. “Water blades!” She continued, attacking another and drawing her bow just as the elf she had been healing had done and both began firing at the pack of wolves running at high speed towards them.
“Saintess, watch out!” Ardrach shouted, at the same instant that the shadow of the Sajhun covered her, and while one of the monster’s heads launched a puff of fire in the direction of Ardrach and his people, the gaze of the other head was fixed on her as it stretched its remaining hand, like a clenched fist in her direction, ready to crush them.