"So she isn't finished yet," he softly murmured, before he said to Amelia:
"I will send her over to supervise over the whole selection process," he said, before recalling something so he hurriedly added, "also prepare those who finish the selection, and make them ready for battle."
"Battle?!" she asked in doubt, as far as she knew it, there was no other enemy here in this area.
"Yes, I will go on monster hunt again," he simply said, making her eyes slightly widened as she realized his meaning.
"Sure," she simply said, as she understood how he did this monster hunt. "Are we going to make it here?" she asked.
"No," he shook his head, before looking to her as he added, "ask Noura and her grandfather, if there is a huge mountain here full of ores, very good ones. If not, we will have to go back to that red mountain."
"But that mountain is very far from here," she remarked.
"So, it's better we find a replacement here," he smiled as he added, "go and I will find Iman and send her over to you."
She nodded, with a strange look over her face, before she hurriedly left with tinge redness over her cheeks. Arthur just sighed, before he moved outside the tent, heading to the small tent nearby.
It was easy to spot it, as Don was there standing guard. Once he reached there, Don moved, clearing the way for him to enter. The moment he went inside, he felt how cold the whole tent was. It was miraculous the tent wasn't frozen under this very cold aura coming out from Iman's body.
Her body was showing strange transformations, as the outer layer of her skin was getting translucent, while the inner part was ice white.
"What is going on here?" he muttered, as he leaned, despite the extreme cold aura surrounding him, as he glanced at her with focus. "So, you are losing control over this energy, and trying to contain it? how could this be possible!"
That state she was in resembled some known condition he saw a few times already. When cultivators get desperate, and couldn't breakthrough, they sometimes tend to do some crazy things, one of them was to ingest many energy sources, and instead of channeling the energy through meridians, they just kept storing them inside their bodies, turning the energy berserk.
This berserk energy might stimulate the lazy potential of the cultivator, pushing him over this small, yet infinite, distance of the level he was stuck at. However, most of them would just explode and die.
The changes in their bodies were similar to the changes in Iman's body right now. Arthur didn't delay, as he sat in front of her, putting both his hands on hers, while closing his eyes.
The last memory of Iman was when she started channeling the energy inside her body, so she would never take this approach except if there was no other option in front of her.
Something went wrong, and now if she didn't get external help, his help, she wouldn't get out of this crisis alone.
If he didn't act, she would die!
The moment he closed his eyes, he took out one ice potion, and ingested it at once. the fluid entered his body, but it was such a low ranked potion that his soul didn't react to.
He didn't ingest it for his soul, as he started channeling the ice energy inside his body, and trying to connect it with the about to explode energy inside Iman's body.
He didn't try to force it, and also he didn't want to be late, so he tried to make a balance with his tries, until he managed to connect to Iman's icy energy.
The moment he did so, a gush of energy entered his body, relieving the pressure inside her own body, getting her out of danger.
However, the energy that got into him wasn't the pure icy energy absorbed from the potion; it was a tainted form of energy, with an extreme sinister energy controlling it.
'As I thought,' he muttered, while he observed that form of energy was trying to get out of control, trying to control his own energy, his whole body, and that gave him some ideas about what really happened to Iman.
However, this energy, even when being sinister, wasn't that high in comparison to Arthur's real energy. Arthur left the energy act berserk, and the moment it did, it tried to control his soul.
Just touching his soul had burned the whole sinister energy with the icy energy at the same time. He could hear the sizzling sound of the energy being burnt, and when the energy tried to retreat, in fear, he interfered, taking control of it, pushing it towards his soul, making it all vanish in mere minutes!
Doing this took him halfway, though. Iman's body still had a considerable amount of this sinister energy. Arthur could sense the presence of mind control in this aura, but when the aura tried to enter his soul and control it, he knew it wasn't mind control, it was soul control.
'The second time I face soul type attacks in this world, is that even such common here?' he muttered, as he took out another ice potion, and redid the whole process again, and again, and for five more times until the sinister energy inside her body vanished.
Halfway, though, she had regained her self control, but she didn't move, or even open her eyes. She knew Arthur was trying to help her, and she was very amused by this.
She just was about to die, but the first thing to see after coming back from death was this handsome very strong mage doing his best to help her, it was really a scene to be amused by.
"How do you feel right now?" he asked, as he knew of her awakening the moment it happened, but he was trying to make sure that sinister energy was expelled completely, or else it might cause more troubles later.
"I'm good, thanks for your help," she said, with sincere gratitude and some shyness, as his body was now covered with his small scales again, naked!
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