Book 3. Chapter 30.
“Broken.” Part 2
The fight continued for at least another ten minutes more, the rage getting the best of her for the first five minutes and draining almost half her mana in the process.
I need to change my focus! Come on, Kalysto! Focus! Jhil! Jhil! She scolded herself, realizing too te that as long as she was locked inside her mental world she had no access to the mana crystals that were stored inside her physical shadow.
The usual coldness enveloped her completely, causing all her anger and resentment to freeze, shutting down any emotion within her and allowing her to think clearly.
[The skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
And for the next few minutes, though both were hurt, Kalysto studied the movements of her new enemy in silence, not falling for any of her provocations as she continued her attack.
A giant of combined bck mana crystals was created by Persephone to fight Kalysto and buy time while she concentrated on regenerating the wounds received.
The giant fist tried to smash into the fairy champion's face but she easily dodged it. Still the giant did not give up and tried again. But this time it crashed into the white glow surrounding Kalysto's body. Protecting her from any physical attack, mimicking what she had seen the goddess Mhiral do during their battle, a couple of months ago.
A pair of tentacles of darkness sprouted from Kalysto's shadow, their sharp tips turning into crystals that pierced the giant's arm and fist, shattering them completely.
The huge crystal golem took a step to the side losing its bance for a moment before steadying itself again, but giving Kalysto a perfect view of Persephone, who cast a new spell against her, drawing a magic circle from which a rain of bck crystal spears were hurled at Kalysto, mimicking one of the goddess Mhiral's attacks.
In one swift move, Kalysto used the giant Golem as a human shield at the same time as she turned into a cumulus of shadows that took shape again right behind Persephone's body.
Absorb system! She thought, as she tightened her grip on Persephone's neck with one hand while holding her torso and arms with her free arm, imprisoning her.
[Congratutions, the user has acquired a new system. Css: Divine!]
A small smile den with satisfaction tugged at Kalystoal's lips as the coldness that kept her emotions subdued began to grow fainter and fainter.
Absorb DMP! She added quickly, just before her prey turned back into a pile of shadows.
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 20,000 DMP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 15,000 DMP!]
[Congratutions, the user has acquired 35,000 DMP!]
A bck crystal sprouted from Persephone's back, piercing Kalysto's stomach.
Still, the former saintess did not stop. Quite the contrary, she pressed it harder against her body despite the pain.
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated].
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But before she could escape, Kalysto stopped her.
“Lightning! Creation of bck fire!” An extensive fre of bck fire spread several meters around both of them, beginning to absorb Persephone's HP, regardless of the fact that she had transformed into a mass of shadows that began to crawl on the ground, moving away from the attack.
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 600 HP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 550 HP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 750 HP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 900 HP!]
[Congratutions, the user has acquired 1000 HP!]
Kalysto watched her silently as she saw her escape, until Persephone moved far enough far away from the attack to try again to regain her form, at which point Kalysto transformed into shadows, hiding in the midst of the high bck fmes of fire, going unnoticed.
“Fire bst!” She muttered as soon as they both finished regaining their human forms.
Dark mana creation! Dark mana manipution! Two daggers appeared in her hands which she turned into sharp swords.
Telekinesis! She thought, as she kept the fire breath spell active, and sent both bdes piercing Persephone's body, preventing her escape and anchoring her to the ground.
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Absorb DMP! Kalysto thought approaching her, not even bothering to give her an answer.
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 35,000 DMP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 32,000 DMP!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 18,000 DMP!]
[Congratutions, the user has acquired 15,000 DMPs!]
[Congratutions, the user has acquired 10,000 DMPs!]
[Congratutions, the user has acquired 1,000 DMPs!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired 950 DMP!]
Persephone stretched out her hand, her pretty face disfigured with rage, but not a single tentacle of bck mana sprouted from it.
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Kalysto turned her head to the side, as if she were a small bird, and whispered:
“I doubt I will, because the next time we meet Persephone, I swear to you I will kill,” she sentenced with absolute certainty. "Sleep well!” she added just before she began to imitate the same spell she had seen her father cast in the memory, modifying it a bit and adding what she had learned with the demon king to strengthen the seal. And once she created the first one, she locked that one inside nine more seals. “Let's see how you escape from this,” she whispered before leaving her mental world and regaining full control of her physical body.
Once again, she found herself inside a room with the corpses of her acquaintances.
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” she conjured several times, approaching Katia with a heavy heart at the loss of such a sweet and innocent girl. Thick tears ran down her cheeks as she healed the little girl's body, feeling guilty for everything that had happened. “I should have listened to the queen from the beginning,” she murmured, before returning to Alice and continuing to close her wounds.
A strong dizziness weakened her, forcing her to stop healing Alice and instead concentrate on healing herself first. Noticing that all the wounds Persephone had caused her in the mental world had transferred to her physical body as well.
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” She spent the next few minutes healing herself before returning to heal Alice's body, wanting to finish what she had started, but to her surprise a group of notifications, appeared before her. Two bck and one blue. One of the bck notification windows was surrounded with gold-colored arabesques.
That must be Seth-Mainyu's system. She thought.
[Jhil's skill has leveled up to level 80!]
[Congratutions! The user has acquired a new skill: Resurrection. Level 1!]
She immediately ran to use it.
“Resurrection!” And with horror she noticed how her friend's heart began to beat again, expelling the rest of the blood that remained from her still open wounds. “Shit! Jhil!”
“What the...” was all Alice managed to say before she bled to death again.
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” she obsessed over healing all her wounds first, and when she was sure she had succeeded she forced her to drink a health potion. Which was the only position she knew of that could regenerate lost blood. “Resurrection!”
“Ah!” a loud groan erupted from Alice's throat as she tried to move.
“Don't do it! Stay still! I could barely bring you back!” tears of joy rolled down her cheeks as she hugged her tightly while trying not to hurt her.
“What happened?”
“I lost control of my body and Persephone locked me in my mind. But I was finally able to fix it,” she cut the hug short and looked into her eyes. I'm sorry,” she apologized, her voice cracking as she spoke. “I couldn't protect them in time,” she said, gncing at Alice's grandparents' corpse.
“Noooooo!” The blonde's heartbreaking scream broke her heart but helped her get to where her grandparents were. While she was shaking like a leaf in the wind unable to stand on her own as she wept inconsobly.
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil! Resurrection!” Kalysto tried, but instead of the old man's heart beating again despite his wounds that were finishing closing, a pair of notices appeared before her.
[Warning! The death time of the selected target exceeds one hour. The user cannot use the Resurrection skill on this target.]
Startled by the unexpected news, Kalysto ran to where Sakura's body was.
“Kalysto, try to revive my grandmother first, please!” Alice begged, but Kalysto ignored her.
With trembling hands Kalysto touched Sakura's cold body.
“Resurrection!” she murmured in a trembling voice as she did so.
Her heart squeezed with pain when instead of hearing a loud inhale from Sakura's throat, a group of notification windows, bck and blue, appeared before her.
[Warning! The death time of the selected target exceeds one hour. The user cannot use the skill Resurrection on this target.]
“No!...No!...It can't be!” then ran to where Katia's body was exactly the same process. “Resurrection!”
But her hopes were shattered when she received another notification window.
[Warning! The death time of the selected target exceeds one hour. The user cannot use the Resurrection skill on this target.]
Then she rushed to where Natasha and her mother were.
But she only got the same result.
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