Chapter 77

“The smell of death.” Part 8

A cold sweat ran down her back as she realized that Galatea had been there.

And for an instant, she wished she could believe in the gods of that world to beg the fairy to say nothing.

Unfortunately, the queen’s distraction was brief, as her attention turned back to Kalysto.

[And you! What the hell were you doing outside the elves’ territory?]

“I... I...“ she stammered, and her face paled at the thought that she was referring to what happened in that other city.

[It wasn’t necessary for you to go to that stupid camp to cure their sick! They should have brought them to where you were! Not the other way around, you silly girl!]

“I thought they would be part of the deal," she excused herself quickly, taking advantage of the opportunity given.

[But they were out of the territory, so they weren’t part of the deal! This is why it’s good that you learn some geography! I even gave you a map! I thought you were smarter than this, Kalysto!]

“Sorry..." she muttered as she lowered her head, letting her long, light brown hair, hide her face. That way, none of them would notice her enormous relief.

But how am I supposed to know that if the map is opaque in the areas I haven’t explored yet? She wanted to defend herself, but chose to keep quiet. It was better to keep the subject as far away from the devastated city as possible.

[Didn’t you check the map?]

And Kalysto blinked in confusion. Raising her head again.

To be honest, it didn’t even occur to me.

[...]

[You didn’t...? Agg!]

[...]

[ I haven’t finished talking to you yet! But we’ll talk later. Right now I need to go interrogate those damn elves and show them what happens to those who dare defy me! Go take a bath and rest in the meantime]].

“Uh... yeah, sure," she answered, not knowing what else to say, but for some reason she got the impression that even though her screen was still open, there was no one on the other side anymore. And the next second, on her map still open, the queen’s purple dot was already in the elves’ territory.

Hundreds of miles away.

A sigh of relief escaped her lips but was interrupted halfway through when a surge of magic, not as powerful as the one she had felt minutes before, hit her.

An annoying pressure seized her, and she had to strain to get some air into her lungs. A second later, a huge violet window opened in front of her. The text highlighted in bold.

[You damned elves! I will hunt down and exterminate each and every one of you who was involved with the kidnapping and torture of my chosen one! ]

[Don’t even think of escaping, because I will find you!]

And although Kalysto knew that those messages were not for her, her knees trembled and her face lost all color as she realized that the last one could also apply to her case.

But I’m not stupid enough to run away and make her even more angry. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she watched Galatea, who seemed to be closing her own window.

Did the boss forget to send the message only to the elves... Does that mean that now all the users of the violet system know what happened to me? Embarrassment seized her at the thought of it.

“Well... this... uh..." Galatea stammered uncomfortably.

“Yes...” Kalysto agreed, thinking that she too had received the same warnings and not wanting to talk about it.

“Are you all right?” The fairy worried.

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“Yes," she answered automatically and then thought better of it. “Not really... I think I’ll go take a bath and rest. But I think after I talk to the queen” if I survive that talk, she wanted to clarify. “I’d like to get away for a few days and spend time with my friends in the human kingdom.” Although it feels strange to say that Edward and Koden are my friends. She let out a long sigh. And I still have to find a way to help those idiots escape, otherwise who knows what trouble Edward will get into. Not to mention that it would be nice to find a way to get them home, that would help me confirm if Alice really isn’t on Earth... I’ll ask Caranthir next time I see him, in case he knows anything about traveling between worlds.

And although she felt a great weight on her shoulders, she was exhausted and just wanted to rest.

“Of course. I will inform Alynn and the queen. I will also tell Mistress Artemis not to expect you for tomorrow’s session.”

“Oh crap, I completely forgot about that!” Kalysto closed her eyes and sat down on the bed. The magical pressure of the queen’s power began to fade. Surely she had already found someone to focus her anger on.

“Don’t worry about that. For the moment, focus on resting. The queen ordered me to bring someone who can remove those handcuffs. I’ll go get him now.”

Kalysto blinked. She didn’t even remember she had them on.

“Thank you,” she said, and the warrior nodded her head and went out silently.

After taking a long bath in which she took advantage of the silence and solitude to cry a little and commiserate with herself for everything she had been through in the last few hours while looking at the marks the handcuffs had left on her skin, Kalysto began to draw a plan of action. Then, after eating some of the meat broth Alynn brought her with some bread and putting the rest of the food away in her inventory, she lay down to sleep, hugging Tsuki.

But a couple of hours later, she woke up bathed in sweat with the feeling of those nasty hands on her body and was unable to go back to sleep.

After tossing and turning in bed for more than half an hour, she started to get dressed. Putting on her favorite black Hela t-shirt, along with her black sneakers and sport pants.

It was still more than five hours before sunrise. And her stomach growled with hunger, so she ate the lunch that Alynn had left for her yesterday on top of the nightstand and that she had put away in her inventory. As soon as she was done, she left the dirty dishes on the nightstand, took out a thel and a revitalization potion from her inventory. Unfortunately, after drinking the potion, her fatigue was only reduced by 40 points. She then bit into the thel and woke up her pet.

“Come on, Tsuki! Get up! Let’s go eliminate slimes!”

The little fenrir looked at her as if she was crazy for trying to wake him up at such an early hour of the morning.

“I need a way to make sure they can’t get rid of me so easily," she excused herself in a low voice, then leaned close to his ear and whispered, “I don’t know how much we can trust the fairies,” she explained. Besides, while I was kidnapped there was something I had to do in order to survive, but I doubt the queen is very understanding about that... And although I can heal you, she blocked my system so that I can’t heal myself, which is too strange, don’t you think?” Tsuki nodded, agreeing. He suddenly seemed much more awake and alert than a few seconds ago. “So I need those slimes cores, to at least have an ability that can help me survive the three missions she gave me.”

After that, she gave Tsuki a loaf of bread to eat and they both went out into the forest surrounding the queen’s huge castle.

“Ezhil Purification!” She whispered, and for a strange reason, it seemed like an eternity had passed since the last time she had been in those woods. “Alright Tsuki, you know what to do. I need you to find me as many slimes as possible. I need those cores.”

And after sniffing the ground a couple of times, Tsuki did exactly as he was ordered.

Less than ten minutes later, they had already found the first group of five slimes.

And after drawing her bow, she conjured:

“Ice arrows!” Three arrows were launched towards the little slime, but one of them missed. Damn, this thing of adjusting your aim with three arrows at the same time is not so easy! -she complained.

Immediately, a pair of windows appeared in front of her.

[You have gained 1 experience point.]

“Really? Just one point?” Annoyed, she went over to pick up the core.

[Does the user wish to absorb the remains of these slime cores?]

[YES/NO]

She selected yes.

[The user has acquired 0.005% of the regeneration skill].

I had forgotten how slow this was -sighed and then absorbed the four cores of the slimes Tsuki killed.

She then opened her status window, as she went even deeper into the forest in search of another group of other slimes.

[Status window]

Name: Kalysto Luna

Age: 21 years old

Race: --

Level: 20

Fatigue: 59

Class: saintess (Heroic).

Professions: Enchantments

Title: Champion of the fairies (?????? of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)

Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram

HP: 1120/1120

MP: 1100/1146

DMP: 2800

Strength: 54

Vitality: 59+10

Agility: 63

Resistance: 61 +40

Intelligence: 67

Charisma: 2

Luck: 3

???: 50

State: With insomnia.

Available points: 42]

And she frowned.

“Why am I still at level 20...?” She muttered without understanding-. If all those people died because of me, why didn’t the system recognize the experience points?” Then she folded her arms. “I understand that the blue system doesn’t recognize them, but the violet one is a soul pact, which means it must have recognized Persephone? Why didn’t it? Where did all those points go?”