“A small light of hope.”
Seth-Mainyu's sword pierced the demon king's hard-back and Kalysto's stomach.
“Agg!” once again pain flooded her body just before partly notification windows popped out to her left.
[The skill Mental defense has been activated]
[The passive skill Mental Defense has been reactivated]
“Turn into shadows and pull out the sword.” Aegir barely managed to materialize next to her. “This is going to hurt. Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil!” The golden light of her skills hit Aegir's body just as he finished pulling the sword out of her stomach. “Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil!” She conjured again, taking advantage of the proximity of her pet to cure the black plague. Unfortunately the continuous use of the purification skill ended up burning the demon king's skin killing him despite having cured him of the black plague. “Resurrection!” added the former saintess as she placed one hand on her stomach and another on Aegir. “Jhil! Jhil!”
“Looks like I'll have to take care of the nuisance first, Morrigan!” The god commanded, and the black mass was injected with ether causing a feminine silhouette to re-form and from her outstretched hand, the familiar scythe that Kalysto had seen the dark saintess use. Whose silent figure lunged at Aegir, who barely had time to pick up Seth's sword and use it to defend himself.
The tip of the scythe crashed into the ground just a few inches from Kalysto's neck, although Aegir's stolen sword tried to deflect the attack. Fortunately he managed to make the following ones stay away from the fairy champion.
But despite the help, Kalysto barely finished healing when Seth stretched out his left hand causing her body to levitate in the air and be transported into the air at great speed and then hovered in the air just a few inches in front of him.
“It's a pity we were interrupted, but we have a lot to do,” smiled Seth, knowing that his saintess would take care of the hindrance. Then he finished destroying the sixth seal while Kalysto's screams flooded the whole place.
[Warning! An unknown entity has deactivated the skill Pain Resistance]
[Warning! An unknown entity has disabled the skill Mental Defense. All the user's stats have been reduced by 100%]
“Master!” Tsuki shouted, his body trembling after all the blood he had lost.
“Don't come closer!” Kalysto shouted, too immersed in pain to realize that she had said it out loud.
“How touching!” Seth scoffed. “But you should be worrying more about yourself than about your little pet,” he added, at the same time that another thread of darkness came out of the body of the ex-saintess and joined the cluster of energy that Seth began to crystallize thanks to several threads of ether that left his body.
But the crystal that formed barely made up half a circle.
Seth frowned, annoyed at the lack of progress.
“We'll have to speed this up,” as soon as the words left his mouth and strands of ether covered his wounded hand to prevent his blood from continuing to stain the floor as other strands of ether left his body and buried themselves in Kalysto's chest.
Destroying the fifth, fourth and third seals in less than three minutes.
As Aegir tried to fight the dark saintess, aided from time to time with Tsuki's continuous electric shocks, Kalysto's piercing screams squeezed both of their hearts.
And just after Seth broke the second seal, and a strand of darkness gushed from Kalysto's body, she was able to rest for a second, in which she watched in horror as Aegir's body fell lifelessly to the ground, while Morrigan approached Tsuki with the intention of killing him.
Absorb ether! Dark mana creation! Dark mana manipulation! She thought, absorbing the ether Seth had used to invade her body at the same time as thirty-one tentacles of dark mana sprouted from her body, thirty from her forehead, crystallizing and piercing Seth's chest.
At the same time the one that came from her back stretched stealthily across the ground.
But before she could reach her prey the god's wrath exploded.
“Insolent one, it's time you learned your place!” He shouted, as he spent his ether on healing her wounds at the same time as a huge puff of wind-fueled fire erupted violently from his hand, hurling Kalysto several feet backwards.
Unaware that she was immune to fire.
Giving her the opportunity and the perfect smokescreen to with the tentacle of darkness that had sprouted from her back, catch Morrigan by the waist just before she severed Tsuki's head and drag her in front of her, using her as a human shield while forcing her to receive the full power of the attack.
“Morrigan!” Seth shouted, at the same time Kalysto transformed into a cluster of shadows with the intention of taking human form again in front of his pet. But the god, in a fit of pure rage, manifested all magical force throughout the battlefield, crushing Tsuki's lungs while Kalysto could barely struggle to breathe and was forced to materialize by force, almost a meter away from her target.
“Tsu...Tsuki,” she could barely mumble as the pressure in the air increased and she could feel her lungs being brutally crushed. “Jhil Ezhil!” She whispered. But the enormous magical pressure mixed with the god's ether seemed to be able to override her skill. “Jhil!” She tried, stretching out her fingertips, reaching for the trembling figure of the shivering, shaggy sacred beast in front of her. A soft golden glow illuminated her fingertips but it wasn't enough to reach her pet.
So she forced her body to cover herself with ether before trying again.
“Jhil!” She conjured several times, trying to concentrate her mana and expelling it through thin golden threads that reached to touch one of Tsuki's paws-, starting to heal the wounded puppy's body after Morrigan's attacks.
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Kalysto's eyes were covered with tears when she saw the bad state Tsuki was in.
“Master... it's so cold,” whispered the little one's weak voice in her mind and Kalysto's heart squeezed painfully.
As soon as she opened her mouth to answer him, words of encouragement died the moment a voice she did not expect to hear again so soon echoed inside her.
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No, not at all! In fact I think you were much better off where you were before. ?Purification Ezhil! She thought but a wave of miasma washed over them, as the pressure of Seth's magical power seemed to eclipse her skill to purify, causing her to watch in terror as Tsuki's body became infected with the black plague again.
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil!” she conjured in despair. “Don't die Tsuki. I can't lose you too,” she whispered between tears, knowing that if his body would turn into ashes thanks to the black plague she could no longer revive him. Then she noticed with growing fear how the back paws, together with Tsuki's fluffy tail, turned to stone. “Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil!” Added quickly, but just like the previous times his area skills were nullified. “Jhil! Jhil!” She added, desperately trying to form more strands of golden light and bring them to Tsuki's body, despite the great effort she had to make to get it.
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Shut up! Nobody gives a shit about what you want, not even the god you serve the one who until a few seconds ago was willing to kill me!
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Either you shut the hell up or I'll finish absorbing you and you'll disappear forever! I'm in no mood for your shit! Jhil!
But a couple of notification windows appeared to her left, at the same time she noticed Seth busy reviving Morrigan again.
[Warning! The user has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected]
Are you serious?
Kalysto forced the ether in her to vibrate more strongly allowing her to pull out the last ten remaining mana crystals and absorb them.
“Jhil! Jhil!” she conjured several times straining to make the strands of golden light thicker so she could bring more energy to her pet while the pain from all the internal damage Seth caused her, barely let her move.
Unfortunately, when she tried to fight the god's power and get closer to Tsuki, Seth was much faster, and Morrigan was revived with his huge scythe in hand. And before she could finish healing herself or her pet fifteen black crystal stakes buried themselves into her body, pinning her to the ground.
Three in each of her legs and arms, another pierced her lung and the last two pierced her chest.
Each of the stakes was glowing with ether.
Kalysto coughed up blood, as she slowly felt the last of her life begin to slip through her fingers.
“Master! ....please...run away....”
“I can't...leave you…” she managed to reply, straining to extend her shadow and try to reach him before being interrupted.
“How touching!” Seth murmured with false tenderness. “Stop it at once or you'll make me start throwing up!” He growled as he approached them, at the same time summoning his sword. “It's time to finish you off. You're too much trouble to be left alive, I'll see how I comfort Persephone after your loss,” he added just before he and his first Avatar swooped in with weapons raised ready to finish her off.
Jhil! Shit! Kalysto didn't even have time to react, or carry out her plan to pull Natasha's mom's body out of her shadow so she could pull Tsuki inside and use the transportation spell to get the hell out of there.
Less than half a second later, the tip of Seth's sword was already less than three centimeters from her neck, as was the tip of Morrigan's scythe, which was pointed at her eye.
It was then that for the second time in her life, Kalysto witnessed time stand still.
She could feel the power of the fairy queen surrounding her as she nullified a little more than half of Seth's power, allowing her to breathe again.
But even though the queen had slowed the passage of time, to almost a complete halt, Seth's sword was much closer to her neck than the queen's summoning symbol had yet to finish drawing beneath her.
A warm tear began to slide down her cheek, knowing that she would die long before the queen could save her.
Worst of all, Tsuki was not inside the summoning circle.
I don't want to lose you! She thought, sending the last of her strength into healing the puppy, and giving it a chance to escape while Seth and Morrigan's attention was fixed on her.
Noticing how time began to run less and less slowly.
But despite her efforts the entire battlefield was covered with miasma.
And the black plague, despite her continued efforts, had already petrified half of Tsuki's body.
And it was still advancing.
“Master!...” The faint whisper came to her mind as she could feel the bond with Tsuki weaken as life drained from his tender blue eyes.
“Noooooo!” she screamed in her mind, but no one answered her. The pain of loss burst inside her and her heart broke, “Don't leave me, I can't lose you too!” she sobbed, her eyes bathed in tears. “Jhil! Jhil!” She wailed again and again in utter despair as she watched the queen's summoning circle finish drawing itself. “Tsuki!”
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And as the seal broke, and time began to run again albeit slowly Kalysto's body glowed with ether as she tried to finish healing him.
“Resurrection! Jhil! Jhil!” but again the golden glow of her skills was being blocked.
And as the fairy queen's power weakened, Seth's grew stronger and stronger.
But just as the tip of Morrigan's scythe was about to bury itself in her eye and Seth's sword in her throat, a pair of notifications appeared to her left.
[The skill Jhil Ezhil has leveled up to 100 level!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired a new skill: Sacrifice. Level 1!]
Immediately, Kalysto remembered Alice's words and didn't hesitate for a split second to use it.
Sacrifice! Take me as far back in time as you can! Let me save Tsuki! She thought with desperation as she felt the darkness begin to devour her consciousness as Persephone took control of her body.
[The skill Sacrifice can't be used! The user doesn't have enough mana to send its consciousness that far back in time!]
Damn it!...Sacrifice!...Take my body! All my stats and skills! Even everything in my inventory and inside my shadow! I offer you everything I have, but send me back in time and save Tsuki!.... A wave of weakness enveloped her at that moment as the darkness grew stronger and stronger, blurring her vision. Sacrifice!
Making it increasingly difficult to think clearly.
[The skill Sacrifice cannot be used! The user doesn't have enough mana to send its consciousness that far back in time!]
[The user only has 10,000 MP and 45,000 MP are needed to activate the skill Sacrifice!]
Her chest sank as she read those words while watching a pair of tears run down Tsuki's cheeks, and Morrigan's scythe about to pierce her skull.
At the same time Persephone regained almost all control over her body.
It was then, when she felt that there was nothing left to do and gave up, that from her right hand a thin thread of white light burst from her body.
And it broke the window.
Then the darkness devoured her.
Author's note: ok guys that's all for now. Just an epilogue and we'll be done with book 3.
This was a pretty rough book for Kalysto. Still, I hope you guys enjoyed the ride.
See you Tuesday with the epilogue.
Have a nice weekend.
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