[Ugh…what's all the noise…]
The moment that weary voice rang out, Evan dashed over to the owner, the water spirit who was just regaining consciousness with a worried expression on his face.
"Are you alright?"
Milena blinked multiple times after seeing Evan and Eliza's worried faces come into view. It took her a moment to fully reorient herself before the memories of everything that transpired came back to her.
'That's right…I got stabbed.'
She reflexively held up her hand to her chest, but after seeing there was no wound there, she heaved a sigh of relief before looking around.
[It's…over?]
"Yeah, but that's not important. Are your wounds fully healed?
Do you feel weird in any place? Anaemic? Perhaps you need more time to rest?"
Evan's questions poured out in a flurry, showing how worked up he was about the fact that she had almost died.
In fact, when he sensed her near-death state via his contract, he actually lost control of the spell he was casting and nearly misfired it.
He pulled out multiple items from his inventory, holding them up in front of her as his flurry of questions towards the slightly dumbfounded spirit continued.
"Do you feel any pain anywhere?
I have a bunch of healing items here. Like this Tranquil Lotus Blossom, it's especially effective on spirits and has good pain-negation properties.
Or if you don't like blossoms you can use this celestial waterbird's feather. Or maybe th-"
[Calm down, Evan. I'm fine.]
The spirit recovered from her daze and held out her hands to calm him down, before reminding him of the fact that he could check her vital status via their contract.
"Right…I could do that."
Seeing him forget something so basic in his worried state made Milena sigh softly before shaking her head with a small smile.
To say she wasn't scared about the fact that she nearly died would be a big fat lie, but at least some of her residual fear had been abated by seeing and feeling how worried about her well-being Evan was.
The boy's actions had also increased his favourability with all the nearby spirits from the Underground Crystal Cove who were watching the situation silently, having been finally granted permission by 'Aidos' to go out to where the group was.
After he calmed down considerably, he still made her use some of the Essence-infused amulets he got in Uswil to deal with her anaemic state.
He then sat back down and opened the system interface, seeing that Adaptive Evolution was still conducting its analysis.
Right now, Evan was limited to being able to use only 30% of his maximum energy reserves, as everything that regenerated further than that was absorbed by the World to pay back for Limit Break's usage.
Some of his stats were also temporarily reduced by a sub rank and he was also feeling pain all over his body.
'Though things went as they did in the game, the Fake Hero Attack is not over yet.
The fact that they attacked me now meant that Laurene was also somewhere where she had a lesser amount of security compared to normal.'
The Demonic Hand wasn't foolish to attack one hero after another, as they were unaware if the heroes had some sort of secret communication method to inform the others and make them raise their guards.
Hence, they bided their time and waited until all three Heroes were in places removed from main cities, and had lesser amounts of their usual security before attacking all at once.
Evan pulled out his adventurer card and was about to initiate a call to Laurene, but it didn't go through and he didn't take long to figure out why.
"I guess the magic power fluctuations from the battle here had greatly interfered with the magic communication signals."
[All of those things you called signal towers that were nearby had been destroyed. Besides, no magical signals can pass through here for a while.
That Ouroboros' attack had the essence of the law of lightning, it messed up everything in the area.
I think even that city we stayed in last night might be affected.]
Kayla spoke of the side effects of the Hydran's means of attack, leaving Evan lightly stunned as he calculated the distance between here and Lastham, but he then sensed something and rose his brow in question.
He got up from where he was and opened up his inventory, pulling out Silverwing's corpse and tossing it on the ground not too far from the wyvern's dead body.
Pulling out a magic stone from his inventory, he crushed it in his palm and used the energy to activate Mesarthim, burning the mangled corpse of the Fake Hero to ashes.
Eliza who had also sensed the same thing he did wasn't too surprised at this set of actions.
|Adaptive Evolution Suggests you attain a closer distance to the body of Level 580 Existence: Demonic Fused Wyvern Craitid. |
Seeing the sudden notification, Evan was mildly surprised but acquiesced to the request.
He walked up to the less bloody corpse of Silverwing and moved it closer a bit, before jumping onto its body and sitting there.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm The young hero then changed the tattered shirt he was on to another of the same type while transmitting his intentions to his contracted spirits who informed Eliza, making the girl chuckle lightly.
Still, she decided to go along with Evan's little whim, activating Ethereal Equilibrium's combat mode before moving over to where Evan was.
Once everyone got into position, Evan took his pose and pulled out another magic stone from his inventory, hiding it in his clenched fist as he channelled the energy to activate his intimidation skill.
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To the people of Shelde, Lastham and a few other nearby cities, the 3rd of February 1053 was a day many of them were probably never going to forget.
The morning was fine as always, and people went about their days as usual.
However, when it was close to noon, they were suddenly hit by a deluge of high-magnitude earthquakes: the kind they hadn't seen in decades.
Things suddenly died down after a while, and just when they were beginning to start dealing with the effect of the quakes, massive explosions rocked the Giant Bear Woods, the forest that marked the border of the state they were in and the next.
A monster stampede then occurred, but it was not because of the monsters wanting to ravage the cities, but because they were fleeing from whatever was happening in the forest.
Even adventurers who had quests that led them to the forest ran for their lives, returning to the cities and relaying the information that 'some things' were battling in the forest.
Shelde was a major port city of Duscon, and Lastham was one of the nation's most populous Station cities and a major Tourist spot.
Naturally, there was no lack of foreign businessmen, nobles, and government officials, along with powerful mercenaries and adventurers present.
A lot of them (adventurers and mercs) volunteered to join the cities in resisting the monsters fleeing towards them, while others were ordered by their masters/lieges to join the Soldiers and adventurers to combat the monsters.
Eventually, they succeeded in repelling most of the monsters and making the rest flee in other directions.
But it was a hard-fought battle, as they had to deal with the shockwaves and tremors coming from the battle happening in the forest.
Investigatory teams were dispatched to the forest, only to be pushed back by the escalating chaos.
Some stayed back to monitor the situation while dealing with the fleeing rulers of the forest, the grandmaster-level Giant Bears that were fleeing for their lives.
Eventually, even they had to return to report what they had seen and call for more powerful beings to be dispatched.
The resistance forces from the various cities met with each other and exchanged information, but they saw they were all equally clueless about the true cause of the situation.
Things died down for a while, and then a strange phenomenon occurred.
Hundreds, possibly more than a thousand spirits of various ranks emerged from the forest, manifesting their physical bodies and launching themselves at the monsters.
From the mutterings of the spirits who happily attacked the monsters, they seemed to have been instructed by someone to assist them in dealing with the situation.
Regardless of who that was, their help was greatly appreciated as it made dealing with things easier.
When they could finally afford to dispatch S and SS rankers to check the situation out, they were met with a forest that had been half razed to the ground by explosions flames, ice and countless other elemental magic and aura.
That was when they felt a massive burst of ominous energy coming from the forest centre, followed by the sight of a giant Wyvern ascending to the skies while emanating waves of power that made all B rankers and below have difficulty in breathing.
The Wyvern's breath attack that levelled an entire mountain and rent the earth behind it, was something that could be seen from far away made the hearts of all those who witnessed it sink.
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