253 Ch. 253 'Zephyr's Interest'

Surprisingly, Niken's body temperature was abnormal because her whole body felt cold like ice cubes. Her lips turned purplish-blue, and her mouth was chattering, shivering from the cold.

They had already raised the room temperature to warm Niken's body, but the girl was still shivering with cold, causing others to be confused.

Zephyr, who was about to leave to continue his mission, was intrigued by Niken's body's condition.

His green eyes were like divine eyes that could see what was wrong inside Niken's astral dimension.

How interesting. Zephyr could see more than two different kinds of energy flowing in Niken's body.

Somehow, that girl possessed three different energy types that the other Elementalists could only dream of having it.

Zephyr could only guess. The girl used her strength without balancing the three energies' stability and mixed the energy's source, resulting in injuring her inner vitality.

Zephyr's green eyes headed towards Niken's heart were the source of the girl's life was, and suddenly his eyes widened when he saw something there.

The mix-blood wizard waved his hand toward the girl, causing a blue fireball to appear from above Niken's chest. This fireball was a humans' lifespan and would usually burn smolderingly, indicating that a human's life was still long.

But Niken's fireball was tiny, and the flame was fading as if the candle almost went out.

"That... isn't that?" Lionel already felt suspicious of what his master was taking and was worried if his guess was correct. He hoped that his guess was wrong.

However, Zephyr's answer shattered his hopes, and he became sorrowful to hear it.

"Her lifespan. She could only live for up to ten pr fifteen years."

"What? You're joking, right?" Izzy didn't think that Niken's life would be so short. If Niken was going to leave this world, then what about Kazuto?

Izzy's heart felt like it was being cut into pieces when she saw Kazuto's grip on Niken's hand tightened even further. The man's face did look flat, but they all could feel how depressed the black knight was to hear this bad news.

"Kazuto, what kind of magic technique your inamorata used?. If we could find a cause for her reduced lifespan, maybe I can do something for her."

Hokuto and Izzy were stunned to hear that. Not only could this wizard open the portal to the vampire realm effortlessly, but also he could increase the human's lifespan that has been reduced?

Kazuto told how his battle with Yang Shuo went and resulted in his death. He explained he did not how, but Niken managed to reverse the time when he hadn't turned into a wolf.

Kazuto lowered his head and bit his tongue hard. This is all his fault. If he hadn't let his emotion take over, this wouldn't all have happened.

"That is only half true. I guess this girl used her techniques a few seconds after the black knight died. Even though the human heart has stopped beating, the brain functions are still alive for several minutes. Besides, Kazuto had magic that protected his astral dimension, so the black knight had not fully gone. In that case, her lifespan shouldn't decrease this much."

"What about the degraded vampire fought? Have they included?" everyone turned their head towards Izzy, who was giving her thesis.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember when we fought vampires who were trying to get out of the portal door? When we were about to lose, the vampires walked back and disappeared for some unknown reasons. Only after a few minutes, they reappeared with new stamina as if they never feel tired."

"I remember. Even the vampires that we killed before come back to life and attack us."

"…"

Zephyr sighed and began to understand what was happening. "Looks like this girl didn't just reverse the human life around her. She reversed the whole vampire realm along with the life in it."

WHAT!?

"No wonder her lifespan is reduced drastically. I could help her ease the pain she is suffering from."

"Can you raise her short lifespan?"

Zephyr returned the fading fireball into Niken's body while shaking his head.

"I'm afraid I can not. All I can do is give her immunity. Having a short lifespan would make it easy for the girl to fall ill and worsen her health. I can give her immunity so that she won't get sick easily or tire too much."

Kazuto grasped Niken's cold hand with both hands while sinking his face into Niken's.

"Thank you," muttered Kazuto.

Zephyr did not respond even though he could hear Kazuto's muttering voice. Not long after, he transformed his physical body into a celestial orb before levitating and entering Niken's world of astral dimension.

When Zephyr arrived at Niken's astral dimension, he felt astonished because he now felt five different energy kinds.

What an interesting girl. An Elementalist who possessed more than one energy type was extremely rare, but this girl had five different types!

Even Kazuto, who had two opposing types of blood, had only one kind of energy in his body.

Niken, huh? Who are you, really? Zephyr desired to find out the origin of this girl.

Zephyr walked down a long corridor surrounded by windows until finally, he saw a girl squatting and looking at something.

"Are you Niken?"

The girl looked back, then rose to her feet and tilted her head.

"Yes, I am. And you are?"

"I'm a friend of Kazuto."

Niken offered a friendly smile when she heard that the stranger was a friend of her lover.

"What are you looking at?"

Niken shifted her position so that the man could see what she was watching.

A plant with a cacoon with a perforated tip.

It seems that, soon enough, a beautiful butterfly will be born, and Niken would be the new Phantasm Lord automatically.