Chapter 301 - The Note (8)

At least the fire wouldn't be able to go down here, a part of the research centre. Instead everything was replaced with the dangerous traps. Since we couldn't climb up, all we could do was to continue on our path.

"It wasn't like this last time," I whispered.

Everyone tried to escape through the treacherous path in a small group. One person created a barrier to protect everyone underneath while the others split into counter attacking the spells and weapons and serving as lookouts. No one wanted to attack another group by mistake, which was why we waited in the safe area.

"We can't open the bank vault," Shelly called again with bad news.

I started to recall how we failed to open the bank vault back then as well. We had to teleport to the other side to get in. But did the elementary school students learn this spell yet?

"What if you guys teleported to the other side with the children?" I suggested.

"We are, but we're running out of mana and we still have half of them left," Shelly sighed.

"We can't help right now," I showed Shelly the scene of a huge crowd in front of us.

This was the one of the worst timings to have a part of my mana sealed. And only Luke's father had the ability to unseal it. I helplessly ended the call as it was finally my turn to escape through the pathway. Each group that escaped together got bigger and bigger from the new tricks they got from the others before them. Unfortunately, only Luke and I were left as all the others couldn't go back to help us.

"You do the barrier Rika," Luke assigned me to an easier role.

I nodded my head as I pulled up the strongest barrier I could imagine. We carefully walked as Luke used his precise control to attack all the weapons and spells coming towards us. We worked well together since it wasn't our first time going through something like this. However, my head started to get dizzy halfway through as I fortified the barrier along the way.

"A little bit more," Luke encouraged me as he saw me starting to stagger.

"I can't," I panted.

"Then we run as fast as we can using only the barrier to protect us," Luke switched his position.

We began to sprint as all the traps bounced off our barrier. I smiled when we were almost at the end of the tunnel. However, I tripped, making the barrier waver at one last trap. My eyes widened as the dagger flew towards my heart.

"Rika!" Luke pushed me down with him.

We rolled towards the end of the tunnel. My heart skipped a beat as if Luke was half a second late, we could have died together. I took some deep breaths as we barely entered the crowd of people who watched us narrowly escape death.

"Why are there so many people here?" I wondered.

We were only a few minutes away from the bank vault. Ellen pushed through the crowd with Allan to get to where I was. Once Ellen joined us, she sighed, "not everyone has enough mana to teleport to the other side."

"Everyone is helping each other by teleporting someone with them if they can," she explained.

I nodded my head as thankfully, even though I was dangerously low on mana, I had enough to teleport myself. Since I wasn't getting any more calls from Shelly, I assumed she already escaped with everyone. I wondered if Luke had more of those drinks to recover one's mana.

"Do you have any medicine like before when I almost ran out of mana?" I turned to Luke.

"I already transferred most of it to the others," he appeared drained.

"We need one for ourselves," he placed ourselves first.

"Can you give me one?" I wondered if I could teleport everyone to the other side with me.

Luke passed me a bottle with no hesitation. I turned the cap to open it and chugged the drink, instead of taking small sips. Like I expected, my mana quickly recovered to the point my gauge was almost full. Since I knew Luke would have enough mana to teleport himself, I chanted a huge spell at the crowd in front of us. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #%!d(string=10609696606076405)/the-note-(8)_%!d(string=48926335858435115) for visiting.

Before Luke could react, everyone seemed confused as to how they were already at the other side. I staggered back and forth, almost stumbling onto the ground as it consumed more mana than I thought it would. Unfortunately, I was in the same state as before as Luke soon teleported beside me.

"What were you thinking?" He grabbed my shoulders.

I accepted a call from Shelly before he could continue, "is everyone safe?"

"We booked the entire hotel owned by the Monete family. Everyone is currently resting there. Do you need any help?" Shelly sent the location to my marble.

"We're fine. Thank you for letting us know," Luke ended the call for me.

"We could have helped the ones who didn't have enough mana to go to the other side instead of pushing yourself to death," he turned to me.

"But it would've taken so much time, what if something else activated during that time?" I recalled the laser beams that only appeared later on when we tried to climb up the stairs from last time.

"Then we would think of another plan when it comes to it. If father didn't seal off a part of your mana," Luke frowned at the thought of something happening.