Chapter 54 Uninjured
His sudden shout made Lori stop and glance at him with raised brows.
"Lori, my… my wife also needs help and… she is seriously injured." Rio said, almost begging while fighting to hold his tears back.
"Ah…" Lori finally realised that it wasn't her daughter who was affected by the shockwave, but everyone.
"M-Mom, I'm alright. Go help her." Julia said, trying to stand up, but as soon as she moved, a sharp pain assaulted her mind. Wincing, she stayed put.
Lori became worried when she noticed this but Julia smiled, "I'm alright, mom. There is just some pain. It'll go away. Now, hurry and go help aunt Lisa."
"Alright. I'm going. You don't move, okay?" Lori said, before standing up. Although she wanted to stay with her daughter to ensure she was fine, she couldn't ignore Lisa, who, from what she could gleam from Rio's expression, was in a bad condition.
"Argh!" As soon as she stood up, a sharp pain in her left ankle made her wince.
"Let me help you." Rio hurriedly came over to her. Putting her hand over his shoulder, he supported her waist with one hand and led her over to Lisa.
Rio's expression changed when he saw his wife. Her face had turned pale white. Her eyes were squeezed shut, and her chest was barely moving. At a glance, it would seem she was no longer breathing.
Fortunately, with his enhanced senses, he could see she was breathing, albeit it was very weak.
He helped Lori sit beside Lisa. Lori looked at the wound on the right of her abdomen before carefully pulling the concrete shard out of it.
Spurt!
Ahhh!
As soon as the concrete shard left her body, a jet of blood spurted out of the wound. At the same time, Lisa's eyes snapped open and let out a loud, pained cry.
Rio sat on her other side and grabbed her hand. "Endure it, dear. You will be alright." Lisa clenched his hand, her jaws clenched tight and her eyes constricting.
After pulling the rock out, Lori was about to activate her [Minor Healing] when she recalled that Luke and Alice were the closest to the explosion's epicentre and would most likely be injured.
However, seeing Lisa's condition, she gritted her teeth and while muttering, "Luke, Alice, please be alright." She activated her skill and placed her hand over her wound.
As the skill took effect, her bleeding gradually stopped and her wound started healing, but it only healed around 20% before the skill's glow vanished.
Thud!
Ha! Huff! Huff!
Lori fell back, panting.
She had exhausted all of her mana, and because in the explosion earlier, even though she didn't get any major injury, there were many minor ones all over her body that had finally started taking a toll on her.
At this moment, she wanted nothing more than to close her eyes and fall asleep, but couldn't because she still didn't know if Luke and Alice were alright.
Besides, the explosion earlier was way too loud to not attract the zombies from all over the city or half the city at least. So, she couldn't afford to rest now and be a burden on others.
…
'Hm? That worked?' Luke thought, staring at the blue sky, blinking in amazement.
Right before the shockwave hit him, he had instinctively activated his [Mana Amplification] and covered himself with a layer of mana. He had been thinking, if his [Mana Amplification] could strengthen his attacks and amplify the active skill although he hadn't tried it yet, couldn't he use it to enhance his body too?
Because it wasn't in the skill's description, he had been hesitant to try. But the explosion earlier gave him the right opportunity to experiment, and the results pleasantly surprised him because… he was completely uninjured.
Lying on top of him, Alice was also uninjured, as he had made sure to shield her. She struggled to open her eyes, raised her head to look at him with a guilty expression on her usually icy cold face.
"I'm… sorry." She said, and before Luke could respond, her eyelids drooped and she lost consciousness.
Luke stared at her pale face in a trance before smiling wryly.
'Shouldn't you have asked if I was alright before apologizing?' He thought.
Whoosh!
Just then, Shadow, Ben and Professor Nina arrived. The latter two looked incredibly worried, while Shadow had an impassive expression.
His gaze roamed over him and Alice and, seeing both were without any injury, his brows raised in surprise,
"You are… unbelievable, dude. How can you be uninjured after enduring that horrifying shockwave? Even I got many wounds and my internal organs practically shifted even though I only faced the weakened version." He said, while pointing his wounds on his forearms, face and knees.
Luke gave him an impassive look before saying, "Can you at least pretend to be worried? You are one of us now, after all?"
"Eh? Yeah, I forgot." Shadow nodded and then wore a worried expression on face, his eyes almost tearing up as he said, "G-Group leader. Are you alright? Did you—"
"Stop that. Don't make me cringe." Luke said, before gently moving Alice down to the ground.
He then extended his hand toward Ben, who grabbed it helped him up.
"Ugh!" Luke's expression hardened, and he wobbled on his feet, prompting Ben to support him.
"Luke, are you alright?" Professor Nina asked, arriving at his other side and putting his arm over her shoulder.
This made Shadow click his tongue and mutter, "What luck!" which earned him a glare from Professor Nina.
"I'm fine. It's just that my internal organs are shaken by the impact." Luke said and then asked, "You guys are fine, right?"
"Yes, we only got some scratches, nothing major." Ben said.
"Good." Luke nodded. "I never expected her fireball to become so strong."
"But it fulfilled its intended purpose," Shadow said, pointing to the city wall.
As they glanced over, they saw a four feet high and three feet wide hole had been blasted open into it.
"Such a powerful attack and it could only blast open a hole in it?" Ben said, amazed by the city wall's sturdiness.
Just then, a voice drifted over to them from a distance.
"It's enough for us. Thank you for your hard work. Now, can you let us kill you guys so we can use it and leave this damned place?"
Shadow's expression turned ugly when he heard the familiar voice and cursed.
"We are fucked!"
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