Chapter 78
“Back to the human kingdom.” Part 1.
Another ten minutes passed as she continued to purify the forest and bless every tree in her path to raise the skill and illuminate the route Tsuki was tracing.
[The Dispel Ezhil skill has leveled up to level 11!]
“Great, nine more levels and I can start making holy water!” She enthused.
Tsuki’s growl alerted her that they were no longer alone and as soon as Kalysto rounded the tree that separated them, he could observe him attacking with lightning a slime almost two meters tall that was surrounded by twenty other slimes just like him, except for one, whose left side had black spots. And as soon as Tsuki attacked one of them, the twenty-one slimes doubled, becoming forty-two.
Tsuki bristled as he saw that the circumstances were not in his favor. But Kalysto soon joined the party.
“Blessing!” she said, pointing to herself, “Purification Ezhil! -She said, attentive to the two who had black spots on their bodies, but instead of being exterminated, the spots disappeared from their bodies. Was that the plague? Then she drew her bow.
“Ice arrows!” three ice arrows shot out. One hit the target, another bounced off the stomach of the slime she had shot at, and the third landed near him. “How the hell does Caranthir launch multiple spears at the same time?” she complained, and as Tsuki continued attacking them, and they multiplied again, Kalysto ducked- “Ice creation! Ice manipulation!”
Let’s see if these things breathe.
And she spread the ice to cover half of the bodies of fourteen of them.
“Damn it! The problem with this attack is that I need to be closer,” she muttered when she saw that she couldn’t finish freezing them while Tsuki was finally able to eliminate one of them after electrocuting it several times. Kalysto was about to start attacking them again when ten of them launched themselves at her at the same time. She could barely dodge the first hit, for the second one she tried to use her bow, but it was absorbed by one of the slimes, so she took out a couple of daggers and was able to dodge in time the next punch of another slime and cut its arm quickly. And she did the same with the next five punches.
Although the slimes were not strong creatures, they were very fast and flexible.
“Tsuki, I need you to cover me!” shouted Kalysto, putting away the daggers and taking out a light sword, and after cutting another two slimes in half, whose parts then rejoined and continued attacking, Tsuki arrived at her side, positioning himself in front of her and sending electric shocks to all those who approached.
“Water creation!” She shouted and a large puddle of water shot out of her hands, drenching the slimes and soaking their feet. “Tsuki, now! Make it as powerful as you can!” she shouted. And as her pet electrocuted half of the slimes, she ran to the other half, where the one she suspected was the original slime was. “Ice creation! Ice manipulation!” She shouted, freezing the small puddles of water that had formed near them and freezing her feet. But soon, she discovered the problem with this attack, for even though their lower bodies were frozen and could no longer reproduce, they could still attack her from a distance, and Kalysto had to stop freezing them and concentrate on creating an ice barrier over two meters high in front of her, as soon as she received the third hit against her arms.
[Passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated].
[The skill Ice creation has been raised to level 3!]
[The Ice Manipulation skill has been raised to level 5!]
I’m going to have to start practicing with the ice that’s far away from me. She realized. The problem was that her skill wasn’t yet developed enough to be able to do it yet.
And as she finished freezing them, she noticed a slight glow behind her back and as she turned around, she saw Tsuki sticking out his chest and raising his snout, absolutely believing in himself as he stopped glowing.
Kalysto frowned as she saw the slight change in him. She could have sworn he looked a little taller and stronger.
“Did you just level up?”
“Arff!” He barked in agreement and then let out a prolonged howl towards the two moons shining high in the sky.
“Stop that! Do you want to yell our location to everyone in the forest?” Tsuki whimpered sadly.
After a few minutes, Kalysto got up from the ground and walked around the thawing wall and looked at her latest work of art.
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“I hope they finish suffocating soon," she commented quietly, earning a strange look from Tsuki, “What? If I could throw fire instead of ice, I’d kill them in a heartbeat! I have to do the best I can with what little I have! If it bothers you so much that I suffocate them, then electrocute them faster for the next time, and that’s it!” Tsuki raised his nose with dignity, as if he was telling her that he would do just that.
Kalysto was about to answer back but the notifications of their deaths finally started to reach her.
[You have gained 0 experience points.]
[You have gained 2 experience points. ]
[You have gained 1 experience point. ]
[You have gained 3 experience points. ]
[You have gained 0 experience points. ]
“What kind of fucking joke is this?” Another twenty-five similar signs accompanied the previous ones and Kalysto wanted to growl, full of frustration. Good thing I wasn’t here for the experience - she tried to calm herself down as she began to unfreeze the bodies and pull out their cores.
[Does the user wish to absorb this core?]
[YES/NO]
She selected yes.
[Warning! This core is a replica, and it duplicated all the physical characteristics of the original, but not its magical ability! In order to use the absorption skill, you must find the original core.]
Kalysto blinked several times, and a slow smile broke out on her face.
Come on Tsuki, bring me the cores of the slimes you killed! - she ordered him and hurried to unfreeze the rest of the slimes, and take out their cores.
It was after trying to absorb number twenty-two, that she finally found the original.
[Does the user wish to absorb this core?]
[YES/NO]
Again, she selected yes.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Replica. Level 1!]
[Replica: Duplicate the characteristics of any object, even if it is magical. Up to 12 MP peruse. Reuse time: 1 minute. By raising this skill in level, the amount of duplicate items can be increased and every ten levels, the reuse time and MP expenditure is reduced by half.]
“Another skill I’m going to have to level up fast," she got excited.
And when they found the next group of slimes, she let Tsuki do all the work. While she sat under a tree, she just blessed and picks up several leaves from the ground.
“Blessing! replica! blessing!” She said, shifting from one leaf to another. “Ezhil Purification!” She added as she saw that the golden glow had been extinguished and only the soft golden glow of the blessing could be seen on the leaves and Tsuki.
[The Blessing skill has been raised to level 12!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Ezhil Blessing. Level 1!]
“That’s curious. I learned the others at level 10. Why only this one took so long?....”
Not that it would be useful for now, lest I end up blessing monsters by mistake. She thought as she remembered how she had healed that carnivorous flower instead of herself when she discovered she had the healing ability and was just learning how to use it.
“Replica! Blessing!”
[The Replica skill has been raised to level 2!]
Several minutes later, Tsuki brought her five slimes cores.
“Water creation!” she said, putting her hands on them to clean them from the saliva of her pet who had left them on the ground beside her.
[Does the user wish to absorb this core?]
[YES/NO]
She selected yes.
[The user has acquired 0.02% of the regeneration ability.]
It was exactly the same with the other four cores.
“Ezhil Purification!” She said as she got up from the floor- All right Tsuki, two more rounds and we go to bed! Do you agree? -Her puppy barked in agreement.
“Champion?” Interrupted a female voice behind her back and both she and Tsuki turned to face her. What are you doing out of bed at this hour?
“...You’re Galatea’s friend, Hanna, right?” Kalysto asked when she saw the particular shade of pink in the fairy’s hair.
“Yes, ma’am. I’m honored that you remember my name, but it’s not safe for you to wander around here at this hour without an escort," she commented, looking around for an unseen threat. “Even if there are no elves around here, it’s not entirely safe, not with the barrier as weakened as this is.”
“Is there a barrier around the castle?” She asked with curiosity. “Who created it?”
“Lady Artemis, of course," she assured the fairy with conviction.
So that’s why she was assigned as my tutor, thought the saint.
“May I ask why you were so far away from the castle at this hour?”
“We saw a slime with black spots, similar to the plague a while ago, so I took the opportunity to purify the surroundings and Tsuki hunted them down and leveled up.”
“Oh! You’re right, he looks bigger” as soon as he heard the fairy’s words, the puppy puffed out his chest and stood up straighter, knowing she’s talking about him.
Both women tried to hide their smile when they saw him act that way.
“But is the lady sure the slimes she saw had the plague? Maybe it was too dark, and she mistook his freckles for something else.”
“ Ezhil Purification!“ answered Kalysto and immediately the golden light that came out of her body illuminated twenty meters around her, leaving a golden backing around the trees and every living thing around her, including the rocks, “I think that gives me enough light don’t you think?” Seeing that the fairy nodded, she continued- “Curiously, it was purified the second time I used the skill. So yes, it seems to me that he behaved just like someone who has just been infected with the plague.”
Immediately, the fairy’s attitude changed and her kind face became serious.
“In that case, I would be grateful if you would go back to your room and tell me where you saw that slime.”
“Slimes, there were two of them, although after I purified them, Tsuki killed them.”
And they did that.
By the time Tsuki and Kalysto returned to their room after taking Hanna to the place where they had fought the slime duplicators where the fairy tried to get information out with her remains, a violet window opened before the saintess.
[I have been informed of what happened.]