Chapter 63 “On the brink of death.” Part 7 (Patreon)

Kalysto stretched out her hand to Caranthir.

“I’m ready! Now let’s go to war!” And when she watched him blinking, not knowing what to say to her. She finished approaching him and after placing a hand on his shoulder, she whispered, ”blessing!”

“Why was that?”

“ Just a little incentive to ensure your cooperation," she told him.

And because I need to level up that skill so I can create holy water. She thought.

“I thank you," Caranthir replied, not knowing what else to say. And immediately transported them to the battlefield.

“Can you take us on top of the Sajhun?” The elf nodded and immediately teleported them on top of the monster’s thawed body.

“Why did you want me to bring you here?” Caranthir asked curiously, watching as his men tried to stop the advance of the legion of monsters. But without his help, it seemed almost impossible.

“Eagle eyes!” Kalysto searched with her eyes for the silhouettes of the creatures she had seen before.

“There!” she said. Pointing to the left, where about twenty dark goblins were approaching a small group of mages accompanied by five warriors and two archers, who were defending that side of the battlefield. And before he could teleport them there, she added, “Can you see those others who are hiding in the forest?” She pointed to the opposite side on the right, where barely the figure of one of them hiding in the trees could be seen- “Can you create a wall of ice that will prevent them from fleeing into the forest and ambushing us later?”

“I can’t see them from here, but what you are asking for is not something so easy to do. I can try though,” he assured her and immediately teleported them to the left in the middle of the group of twenty plump, dark goblins. Kalysto immediately went to work.

“Blessing!” she said, touching herself. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” And three of the unsuspecting dark goblins, who were surprised to see them appear out of nowhere, couldn’t even move as half of their bodies began to evaporate. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!”

Several violet notification screens appeared to her left. But she ignored them. Instead, she ran towards the rest of the small group who, after seeing the golden light, pointed their swords at her.

[You have gained 3000 experience points.]

[You have gained 2000 experience points.]

[You have gained 1500 experience points.]

“- Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” Kalysto was surprised to see that, although the skill hadn’t leveled up, she could almost swear that the radius had expanded a bit after she had used ‘blessing’ on her.

[You have gained 1500 experience points.]

[You have gained 2000 experience points.]

[You have gained 3000 experience points.]

[You have gained 2000 experience points.]

I definitely need to keep blessing myself before I use any other skills! She decided.

For his part, Caranthir was surprised to see how effective Kalysto’s skills were against a group of dark monsters that obviously outleveled her. And before the other creatures surrounding them tried to attack her, he conjured a fireball and launched it against the horde of monsters that were approaching her.

As expected, the dark goblins were little affected by his fire. But the same did not happen with the other monsters whose scorched bodies rushed to meet him, changing their target. And Caranthir was quick to impale them with spears of ice, and before a giant sand golem crushed Kalysto, he grabbed her arm and appeared on the other side of the battlefield, near the entrance to the other forest, where he had caught a glimpse earlier that one of his men was wounded.

“What the fuck? Don’t do that again without warning me!” Kalysto growled at him. Feeling her stomach twist and what little she had eaten so far, struggling to rise up through her throat.

“ Several of my men are wounded. I need you to heal them.”

“Then bring them in while I try to avoid throwing up my breakfast," she growled at him, holding a hand to her mouth.

A couple of breaths later, her stomach began to settle.

Maybe this whole teleportation thing isn’t as good an idea as I thought. The problem was, in a world where they still traveled by horseback, it was their best option for traveling long distances. I’ll have to get used to it.

Especially since it would be very useful for finding Alice.

At that moment, Caranthir appeared in front of her with two wounded elves.

“I’ll get the others," he announced before disappearing again. And Kalysto took a quick look at the forest, making sure there were no monsters lurking around, before approaching the warriors.

”Jhil Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil!” She cast her spells as she watched the crosscut across the torso of one elf was healed, while the wounded arm of another regenerated.

[Jhil Ezhil skill has risen to level 7!]

[Ezhil Purification skill has risen to level 8!]

As soon as she finished, she cast a blessing on them. And Caranthir brought another pair that she did not take long to heal. It was when he brought a fourth group, that one of the warriors, an older man, turned away from Kalysto as if she might infect him with the plague.

And as Kalysto healed the other three elves, Caranthir looked at the reluctant elf who, despite his injured arm, stayed away from the golden light of Kalysto’s skill.

“What are you doing?”

“I refuse to let a damned fairy touch my body!” he pleaded, his beard as white as his hair.

“Then go and die. You’re wasting our time," Kalysto growled as she shrugged her shoulders.

“But what the hell is wrong with you?” Caranthir replied.

“I’m hungry, I’m tired and my head is starting to hurt again. And like I said, I’m not going to waste my time trying to heal someone who doesn’t want to be healed. Besides, we don’t have time for this. There was another group of those dark things going into the forest, and we haven’t finished killing the first group yet, though I doubt they’re the only ones. If we don’t finish them off soon, it won’t matter whether or not your army wins this war because they might die from the plague before I get back.”

“Ha, I knew it! You can’t trust a damn fairy!” And as soon as the man turned to speak to Caranthir, Kalysto approached him quietly and whispered.

“Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well!” And as soon as the man fell to the ground asleep, she healed him. “If you think someone might be a problem, make him pass out. And next time bring a bigger group, I spend the same mana healing two as I do ten. Of course, it’s your potions I’ll be spending so..." she added, shrugging her shoulders.

As soon as they finished healing, the wounded Caranthir returned to her.

“I think you should stop wasting your time looking for the sick and dedicate yourself to diminishing the enemy army," commented Kalysto. “You are the strongest warrior your army has, and yet you are wasting your time looking for the wounded.”“--Excuse me if I don’t want my soldiers to die!”

“You are tired and you are starting not to think clearly. I think we should attack the ends of the enemy horde. Your warriors are already taking care of the front, and you tend to hold back to make sure they don’t get hurt because of you. But if we go to the back, you can attack freely. And as I noticed, the dark monsters seem immune to fire, so I would purify the ones that survive.”

Caranthir watched her in silence. The exhaustion after not having been able to sleep in the last thirty-two hours in which he had been fighting non-stop and keeping himself at potions point was reflected in his face.

“You’re right, let’s finish them off.”

But things were not as easy as they had thought. And as soon as Caranthir teleported them to the far left of the horde of monsters surrounding the portal, immediately a group of black-skinned, six-foot-tall goblins rushed to attack them. Their long arms changing shape into sprawling spears and sickles, one of which pierced Caranthir’s abdomen before Kalysto could purify them, as a huge mud golem advanced towards them.

“Ezhil purification! Ezhil purification! Ezhil purification! Ezhil purification!” She immediately disintegrated the elf’s attacker, along with four other creatures. But there were still another fifteen of them missing, who, seeing their comrades disappear, stayed away from the range of the golden glow.

[You have gained 3000 experience points.]

[You have gained 5000 experience points.]

[You have gained 4000 experience points.]

[You have gained 5000 experience points.]

“Jhil Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!”

And inadvertently, as she cast the ‘Dispel Ezhil’ spell, the magic circle that Caranthir had been summoning fragmented. And tiny sparks of the mana conjured by it glowed around the broken symbol.

“What the hell was that?” the wizard complained.

“I’m sorry!“ She apologized, while making sure to keep the monsters in black away and continue healing Caranthir.

“Make sure you don’t do it again," he growled at her. And as he regained his strength, he began to conjure again.

Several red circles were drawn around him along with one nearly two meters wide, which was drawn high in the sky.

And as she continued to conjure, Caranthir launched his attack and a rain of fireballs rained down from the sky, falling directly on the back of the horde of monsters while those near them were bathed in a sea of fire.

<<I want that power!>> That voice in her head cried out full of excitement.

“Yes, well, no one asked for your opinion, so shut up," Kalysto replied.