As soon as Luna and Mira confirmed with the healers they were in good shape, the pair left the tent to make room for the ascenders who needed healers more. Mundane soldiers were rushing in, some carrying their comrades, others dragging themselves into the tent before the only available healers rushed in to work on them.

Although useful, it was unfortunate that only one of the three available ascenders was capable of healing the nastiest injuries. The ascender had entered this dungeon for a second time as a mere first gate user, but while he was at death’s door in a battle against a cursed tyrant, Hyeon awakened his second soul gate and gained the ability to heal himself.

Triggers like this were rare, but because they were inside a structure connected to the divine realm, the possibility was always there.

Similar to how some humans recently awakened inside the tower.

However, Hyeon’s healing ability only worked on living things unlike Diana’s which was more advanced and could repair even broken structures and objects as long as she knew how they originally looked like before.

Luna guessed that the two Auras probably shared the connection with Diana’s being superior in a way it was more of Restoration.

As for the other two healers Luna first saw, Jin and Ellie were basic healers who could close life-threatening wounds but not regrow entire limbs.

They were still essential though, healers were rare almost as rare as diviners.

***

The pair ran through the icy wasteland without stopping, avoiding clashing with Cursed Soldiers unless it was really necessary. Mira was running behind, her gladius glued to her tight grip as they traversed the frozen region.

Luna and Mira had decided to take a different route. A route that required them to circle around rather than moving in a straight line. It was safer to move this way since most of the abominations had left their posts to fight the powerful ascenders and their summons.

Even though the buildings were in her way, Luna could feel the intensity of the fights happening on the ice. Their clashes sent powerful ripples through the battlefield and made it tremble each time.

‘I hope Len is okay.’

Luna was concerned about her sister because she knew that affecting nature for a person who only possessed an Aura was very difficult. Even Monic was immensely weakened each time she tried controlling the weather with her ability.

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“She will be okay. She’s a Feng.” Luna reassured herself as she ran straight ahead. She wasn’t willing to let her personal feelings cloud the belief she had in her older sister.

After a few minutes of running and fighting off the weaker creatures, Mira and Luna made it to the boundary line created by the white ice and the red territory.

They hid behind one of the half-red buildings to hide their presence from a wyvern that seemed to guarding the territory. Strangely enough, this wyvern didn’t seem like the previous one that had been sent out to roam the skies. This one was larger about the size of two buses stacked upon each other.

“It's a cursed soldier. And its core is powerful… it's soon evolving into a dragon,” Mira whispered after peering through its scales with her qi sense. It wasn’t as good as Luna’s of course but she felt the faint pulses of its core as the energy inside it shifted.

Luna nodded and asked, also whispering:

“Any idea about its powers?”

The young woman lingered and after a while, she responded:

“Blast Breath. Wyvern soldiers have a common ability known as blast breath…if I remember correctly, that is.”

Luna scowled. Blast Breath…it sounded so familiar. She was pretty sure she read about it somewhere when she was still interested in cursed creatures.

“What is that exactly?” she asked, rubbing the side of her neck. It should have been basic knowledge if Luna was an ascender.

“It's an attack creature with an affinity to the fire aura have. They gather energy from their core and burst it out in a beam of red flames…like a giant laser from a death star.”

Luna raised an eyebrow. What exactly was Mira talking about? Like a what? Why would there be a star of death? What level of technology can create a star that shoots lasers?

Why didn’t anyone tell her about the Death Star?

Her gaze lingered on Mia for a while before popping out the question:

“What is a death star?” she tilted her head, confused about the matter.

Mira frowned. Then scowled. “It’s from one of the gre…you know what. Never mind. Let’s focus on our friend for now…”

Choosing not to press on the matter, Luna turned her gaze to their ferocious enemy waiting for them at the boundary. The Wyvern hadn’t moved its position. Its sinister wet red scales glistened under the small rays of sunlight penetrating the now dissipating dark clouds. It had golden red eyes that observed the battle happening on the icy wasteland with eerie intelligence.

From just looking at it, you could tell it was no ordinary beast like the rest of its kin.

“How about we confuse it? You act as the bait, I take it down from its blind side.” Luna suggested. She was confident that her weapon’s enchantment would let her cut through its tough scales with ease.

Mira nodded softly before exhaling her breath. Much as she fought to steel her appearance, she was still trembling. “That doesn’t sound like a bad idea,” she agreed, her tone balanced.

She gripped her gladius and activated her suit’s helmet. She then turned on the suit's heat resistance functions. The heat resistance was not powerful enough to block a blast breath but with the shields at full capacity release, Mira’s chances of surviving a blast breath were not zero.

“Sigh. See you on the other side. Wait…that came out wrong. You know what I mean.”

With that, Mira stepped forward and gave Luna one last look before dashing towards the cursed soldier.

Once it noticed her, its entire body moved and the ground trembled with each step. It let out a world-shaking roar. But Mira charged at it. Flames gathered in its mouth as it prepared its Blast Breath. However, Mira put her shield at an angle. Its reflective surface reflected the sun’s crimson light which she guided to one of its golden eyes.

In response to the distraction, the Wyvern closed its mouth and charged at the small instead. It was a proud creature so it chose to remain on the ground despite having wings to fly.

Under the helmet, Mira let out a bestial roar of her own as she deflected one of its claws with her round shield. Instinctively, she lowered her body and dodged its other clawed arm. And when she was back up, Mira thrust her weapon into a small opening between one of the scales on the arm that she had just dodged.

“How is that you bastard?” she laughed and pulled her weapon. The abomination reeled back after her weapon struck true and faced her directly. Its rage-filled eyes were now focused entirely on her.

…it was Luna's turn to act.