Book 3. Chapter 31.

  “The Awakening of Darkness.” Part 1

  [The skill Jhil has leveled up to level 85!]

  [The skill Jhil has leveled up to level 86!]

  [The skill Jhil has leveled up to level 87!]

  After trying to resurrect Alice's grandmother and failing miserably in the attempt, Kalysto tried again with Sakura at the same time as Alice's crying sounded throughout the room.

  “Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” Kalysto conjured, desperate to make it work while she watched as the huge collection of wounds that still remained on her friend's body finished closing completely, and then gave her a health potion with the firm desire to repeat the same miracle that happened with Alice. “Resurrection!” she murmured with her heart hanging by a thread wishing that by some kind of miracle this time the outcome would be different, although in the back of her mind she feared the worst would happen.

  Kalysto's heart roared violently against her chest as she waited for an answer which seemed to come an eternity ter, only for dozens of tears to run down her cheeks as she hugged the cold body when three notification windows appeared to her left.

  [Warning! The death time of the selected target exceeds one hour. User cannot use the Resurrection skill on this target.]

  All her hopes were shattered in that instant as her heart clenched in pain and tears streamed down her face.

  “I'm sorry! They were right, I should never have trusted her!” she murmured through her tears remembering the warning the demon king had given her when he first came to visit her in Japan. “I'm so sorry!” She added, knowing that no matter how much she apologized, nothing she did could bring her friend back.

  And a great shame enveloped her as she thought of what she would have to say to Sakura's older brother as soon as she returned to return the body to her family.

  She spent the next few minutes saying goodbye to her as she continued to apologize, before pulling her body into her shadow and walking over to where Katia's body y.

  “Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” she muttered, at the same time Tsuki came out of her shadow.

  “Master, you're back at st! I missed you!” excimed the fenrir caressing with his furry head the arm of his mistress. Kalysto immediately began to heal him while checking him part by part, making sure he was unharmed. “I'm fine, master,” he informed her. “For the entire month that 'that woman' took control of your body, I was trapped inside her shadow and could not get out.”

  Although she was gd to know that he was not in any danger, Kalysto frowned as she listened to his words.

  “How come it's been a month?” she asked in confusion as she continued to heal Katia's torn body, making her arm grow back and her broken bones heal again. Persephone had really gone to the effort of tearing their bodies apart, but leaving their faces intact so that she could recognize them. Leaving them with a countless amount of wounds and cuts, all their bones were completely broken, their fingers, hands and toes were torn off along with their nails and teeth.

  However, the bodies of Alice and Sakura were the ones that had been in the worst condition. As if they had personally offended her and she had made sure to make them suffer a lot before killing them.

  Kalysto could barely contain the rage boiling inside her, wanting to return to her mental world and torture her to exhaustion.

  But she had to restrain herself and keep trying.

  She needed to get Alice and Tsuki out of there alive while she took all the bodies.

  It was curious to note that Gideon's body was nowhere to be seen. Nor was there any trace of the door he had used to enter the room, or of Gabriel.

  [Jhil's skill has leveled up to level 88!]

  [Jhil's skill has leveled up to level 89!]

  “Are you sure it's been that long?” asked the former saintess. It had been a week st time, but since the feeling of time passing inside her mental world was completely different from what was happening outside, she couldn't help but be surprised at the news.

  “I'm sure, Master! When I'm inside your shadow I'm aware of what's going on outside of it, unlike how it happens when you send me to the punishment zone!”

  “It's called inventory,” she corrected him, before realizing what she was doing. “But its name is not important now. What really matters is that you're okay,” she murmured as she hugged him tightly, the fear of losing him growing inside her spreading faster than the pgue or a petrification spell.

  “I am, and I'm gd the master is too,” Tsuki added as he returned the hug with his front paws. “I'm sorry, master. I couldn't do anything to stop 'that woman' locked inside you from hurting your friends.”

  “...” for a few seconds Kalysto couldn't answer as she hid her tears in the soft fur of her pet. “What matters is that at least you're alive,” she whispered before cutting the hug and looking him in the eyes. “If something like this happens again, hide until we can meet again! Stay safe, no matter what happens around you! Do you understand me?” she added in desperation.

  “Yes, ma'am!”

  Almost half an hour ter, when Kalysto was finishing healing Alice's grandparents to put them in her shadow, Tsuki interrupted her.

  “Master, the barrier protecting this pce from the outside world has weakened and is about to break, it seems the battle going on outside has weakened it, that, or the wizard who conjured it is dead.”

  [Jhil's skill has leveled up to level 93!]

  Then, Kalysto drew five mana crystals from her shadow.

  Absorb!

  [Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]

  [YES/NO]

  Yes! she thought.

  [Congratutions! The user has acquired 15,000 MP!]

  Then, Kalysto repeated the same process with the other four crystals.

  [Congratutions! The user has acquired 22,000 MP!]

  [Congratutions! The user has acquired 20,000 MP!]

  [Congratutions! The user has acquired 17,000 MP!]

  [Congratutions! The user has acquired 25,000 MP!]

  “Alice, we have to go!” She said, at the same time a loud explosion shook the wall in front of them. And the noises of a battle began to be heard on the other side of the wall.

  “I can't go and leave their bodies here! “ cried the blonde, refusing to part from her beloved grandfather, whose lifeless body y in her arms.

  “... “ Kalysto pursed her lips, although the dark god was sealed and asleep somewhere in the universe, she was unsure about putting the bodies into the inventory of the bck system, even knowing that before there had been no problem in putting the corpses of horned rabbits into the inventory of the violet system.

  And while it was safest to get them all into her shadow, she could already feel the resistance in it, refusing to accept any more bodies. “Tsuki, get out!” She said, at the same time that a pair of dark mana tentacles sprouted from her shadow and took Alice's grandmother's body inside it and then did the same with the body of her friend's grandfather, who immediately sobbed at the loss while Tsuki approached her to comfort her. “We don't have time for that, Alice! We have to get out of here!” She said, still on her knees. Pulling out of her shadow an invitation that would take her friend directly in front of Aegir's pace.

  Though for the second she doubted if it was safe to take them there.

  But they didn't have time to think about it.

  The wall that had trembled earlier was completely colpsed as a sickle of bck mana with a red border smashed into it, cutting through everything in its path, passing just inches above their heads to then destroy the altar and the back wall.

  Above the rubble, Kalysto could see Aegir with his brothers and an army of demons fighting fiercely against an army of monsters.

  And in front of them, an altar with a gigantic closed eye, in front of which Eris together with another woman Kalysto did not recognize, seemed to protect with their slender bodies covered with sensual ceremonial dresses of bck with gold.

  Alice began to tremble as she sobbed and her face lost all color.

  “It can't be! Morrigan can't be here! We're going to die!” she began to scream.

  Kalysto immediately transformed into a whirlpool of shadow and appeared behind her, covering her mouth with one hand as soon as she regained her human form.

  “Who is she?”

  “That's the woman I told you about before!” she commented in despair. “The one who destroyed almost all of humanity and killed all the hunters to bring her god to Earth!” she began to scream as her whole body trembled, completely terrified.

  She can't be here! How is it that she is here and not on Earth?

  “Sleep well!” Kalysto whispered as she saw how hysterical her friend was starting to become and immediately forced her into her shadow. At the same time a familiar presence touched her mind.

  “I'm gd to know you're still alive, you had me worried, where were you?” whispered a voice in her head at the same time the demon king cut the body of another monster that stood between him and Eris.

  “Tsuki, kill as many enemies as you can but stay away from that eye and those two women!” She ordered while pointing at Eris and Morrigan. Then she transformed into a swirl of shadows and appeared right behind the demon king, and cut off the head of another monster while conjuring the two bck crystal daggers. “Fire bst!” A powerful fre of fire erupted from her mouth in the direction of the eye and the two women, but a protective barrier shielded them from the attack. “Tsk!”

  “So, you attack the one on the left and I attack the one on the right?” commented Aegir.

  “No. The one on the right is mine! We have unfinished business!” she muttered, looking at Eris. Who materialized a huge bck spear while looking at her with hatred.

  “How dare you betray our lord and attack him?” she shouted angrily.

  “That's not Persephone, Eris” the other priestess corrected her calmly, her melodious voice stretching out smoothly over the fight.

  “I know!” A dozen bck bolts of lightning shot from the tip of her spear and shot toward Kalysto.

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