121 3.33 Panic - Part 1

"Damn! Then we have no choice but to take the chance. Summon the other spirit and focus on purifying the miasma while I keep the enemy distracted."

"Okay let's try that."

Zagan walked up to the wooden window and kicked it open. We were about to leave, but before that, there was something that I needed to do.

I walked up to Goro who was lying unconscious on the floor. The floor around him was covered in blood, so I turned him around to check his wound.

There was a long diagonal cut on his back from which the blood was still coming out. And if he continued to bleed like this, he would definitely die within minutes.

"If I were you kid, I would let that idiot bleed to death. The world would be a better place without fools like him."

"Yeah, but death is an easy way out. He should repent and compensate everyone who is in this mess because of him."

I put my hand over his back and used my holy magic to heal his wound. This would prevent further blood loss, so he would probably survive. Though it was still a matter of chance since he had already lost a lot of blood.

I could have used Flare's flame which would have saved him. But Flare's flames could only heal those whom I consider a friend, and at this point, he was no friend of mine. I was just helping him as a fellow human being.

"Let's go," I said as I stood back up.

"Well, one thing I learned in my long life is: never be so kind that you let someone stab in your back."

"I am not being kind. I am sure he will wish that he had died when he wakes up."

Both of us flew out of the window and turned towards the house.

Right over the roof of the house, there was a large black orb of miasma. And with every passing second, I could feel the miasma in the orb getting more and more condensed.

It was absorbing the miasma in the surrounding at a phenomenal rate. And compared to the miasma in the village where we fought Beelzebub, it would take several days to clean up all the miasma here.

When the two of us raised ourselves higher, I could see Miss Lilith fighting the demons in the northern part of the city. There were few knights led by Markus and Garo there too, but by the look of things, they too suffered heavy casualties.

When I tried sensing the number of demons left, I could still sense the presence of over a hundred demons. With that many of them, it wasn't a surprise that knights were having a hard time even with Miss Lilith there.

Even though I knew that it was fruitless, I tried firing a Fire arrow at the orb. And as I expected, the arrow couldn't do anything against that level of condensed miasma.

[Yoru, can you hear me?]

[Yes, Nara. How are things there?]

[It looks like I will need your help, can you fly over here?]

[Okay, I am coming there immediately.]

[Alright.]

I didn't want to cause panic, but it was better to be prepared for the worse. In the worst-case scenario, we would need to break the city wall on that side and let the survivors out.

I also wanted to warn the people at the noble's district, but at the moment I had no means to. Though as far as I knew, nobles were very cautious when it came to protecting themselves, so they must already be preparing to flee.

While the orb was absorbing miasma in the surrounding, I started purifying as much as I could.

Even though it felt like I was trying to empty a river using a bucket, this was the best and only thing that I could do at the moment.

I closed my eyes and tried intensifying the flames. My body was weak, but within me, Flare was burning bright. And it was her strength that was keeping me awake even after my body had already given up.

'I don't care if I sleep for a week or a month after this. For now, I will do what I need to.'

I intensified my flames even more, and with that, the rate at which I was purifying the miasma also increased.

After a while, when my body got used to this level of miasma purification, I opened my eyes. And when I did, I could see Yoru coming towards us in her divine form.

"Nara, you look beat up. Stop working too much and take a break. You don't have to burden yourself with everyone."

"I am alright Yoru. It's better to work hard right now than regret about the things that I could have done later."

"But you are making everyone worried by coming out here alone, dummy," Flare replied looking a bit angry.

"Yeah, but I would be more worried if they were here… Anyways, can you purify the miasma in the surrounding?"

"I think I can," She said while looking unsure.

"It's like breathing, but through your whole body. All you need to do is take it in and release it out."

This was the simplest way of explaining how it worked. Spirits could naturally purify the mana, so it would be a bigger surprise if she wasn't able to do it instead.

She tried doing it, and like Flare, she too was able to do it at a phenomenal rate. But even with the two of us, it would still take a few days to purify all the miasma.

"Kid, the orb is taking its form," Zagan said after which I looked back towards the orb.

The orb had started taking a humanoid form. Till now it was just condensed miasma, but now it was finally taking a material form.

As it was now, our attacks would just pass through. But once it materializes completely, we would finally be able to land a hit.

The energy I could sense was tremendous, but I clenched my fist and braced myself for whatever was about to come.

: Panic - Part 2