Chapter 225 Holy Nature

"AHHHHH!" Axel screamed in pain as his skin was burnt by the roots. The putrid smell of burned flesh spread in the air as thick smoke seeped through the entangling roots. Taking advantage of the distraction Elysia managed to free her spear, then jumped back next to Clara.

From the top of the palace, a group of 4 people were floating on a wind platform.

Elanor, Silver, Kiruya and Elanor's father were joining the battle and Elanor seemingly made the first move.

Shaman needed only one look at the roots to notice their holy nature, telling her exactly who conjured them.

'Makes sense the holy element would be effective… Maybe that's why she was exiled.' It was only a theory, but seeing as their entire family everything they knew about her grandfather was a lie, it wasn't out of the realm of possibility.

"Shaman! Clara! Elysia" Elanor screamed out from the platform grabbing the attention of everyone. Landing next to Shaman, Kiruya instantly pulled out a potion and gave it to Shaman to heal her wounds.

"So this is the person who has been masquerading as my grandfather." Elanor's father looked furious as he couldn't believe it at first, but seeing it with his own eyes, it was undeniable.

"Raiu, do you think you can take care of it?" Kiruya saw the satyr and knew it was too much for the girls to handle. Even though he was a tier 7 leader, he had been living for well over a hundred years, honing his skills to greater heights.

"I can, but Elanor… My daughter, I want you to use your roots whenever you can as it seems to be its weakness." Raiu noticed the damage it was doing and there was no denying she would be helpful in the fight.

"Mhm." Elanor nodded. She tried to keep a straight face, but her tears betrayed her happiness. Only after coming this far did she finally realise how much she missed her father. However, she stood strong as she no longer felt like the useless girl she once was.

"Bastards!" After getting over the initial shock from the pain, Axel proceeded to destroy the roots with his black flames. Veins popped out of his skin and his eyes were completely bloodshot. He looked back at Elanor with rage as he knew who was in possession of such roots.

"YOU!! This is why I exiled you! My only weakness and danger to my life! If only that stupid vixen listened and left taking you with her!" Axel was furious and blurted out the reason for her exile which caused Raiu to get even angrier.

"You made me abandon my daughter for your benefit, you piece of shit demon! Now you will taste the power of the elf king!" Raiu wasn't going to allow Axel to speak like he was still in control anymore. It was high time to get revenge for all the torment he must've caused for Elanor.

Reaching into his dimensional storage, Raiu pulled out a green blade with a golden hilt that had many engravings on it. Each engraving represented something, but only elves could read it as the old dialect was not commonly known.

However, Shaman was able to read it just fine as if it was being translated in front of her eyes.

"Wrath… Power… Love… Loyalty." Shaman had no idea what it meant in the grand scheme of things, but she was able to get a direct translation that closely resembled the engraving.

[Oops, forgot to remove that from the translator.] Rea spoke up, revealing why she was able to understand the engravings. When she initially got transported the system adjusted everything in Shaman's vision to English, but in reality, it was a completely foreign language.

In real time Shaman saw the engravings go back to their original form and she could no longer read them.

'Damnit! that's such a nice thing to have, why did you take it away?' Shaman could see the benefit of being able to understand ancient texts, so knowing now that the system had the capability, she definitely wanted to keep it.

[Ahem sorry, but you need to unlock it before I give you access and no it's not a skill.] Rea answered her question, but before Shaman could probe anymore the fight had begun.

Raiu slid his hand across his sword, lighting up the runes and illuminating the sword in a light green glow. Axel on the other hand created black flame tridents again in his hands, pouring as much mana as he could into them. Once the flames could hardly be contained, he took a step forward, yet before his foot touched the ground he suddenly vanished.

Doing another flash step he appeared behind Elanor while swinging his tridents, but before they got close Raiu blocked the blow. He was just as fast if not quicker than Axel and managed to protect Elanor.

Elanor was unable to process what just happened, but she still used her holy nature and shot roots from the ground into Axel's stomach.

He tried to move away by pushing with his wings, but as soon as they extended out they were shredded by a wind barrier. Raiu made use of the brief deadlock to put up a barrier that was slowly shrinking making it impossible to move.

This allowed Elanor's roots to pierce his stomach, immobilising him as the searing pain came back. Axel tried to use his tail to cut the roots, but Clara came to help and wrapped her whip blades around its tail.

She then pulled on her whips, spinning the blades like a chainsaw and slicing the tail cleanly off. Axel screamed once again in pain, his superior toughness failing him once again.

Elanor's nature was able to completely ignore Axel's base defence and disable his control over his demon blood which he could harden to mitigate attacks.

The black flamed tridents vanished from his hands which gave Raiu the opportunity to deal the finished blow. Raising his sword high he swung down cutting Axel in half in one swift motion. He even got all of Axel's hearts that were spread throughout his body by sending out small wind slashes as the blade sliced through his body.

Each of the girls got a notification saying the dungeon was complete and received their exp reward. Sadly they did not get much since Raiu and Elanor did most of the work in terms of damage. However, it wasn't all bad as Elanor saw she could already hit tier 6.

[Dungeon complete]

Rewards for killing dungeon boss:

Elanor 60% contribution: Skill select x 4, Skill level-up x4, level 127 -> 200

Clara 20%: Skill level up x2, level 200 -> 208

Elysia 15%: Skill level up x1, level 200 -> 206

Shaman and Silver < 5%: Level 200 ->203

Seeing the reward they got, Shaman and Silver were both shattered to see they got nothing, but it made sense since they hardly fought the boss. Elysia and Clara on the other hand high fived each other since they actually got something despite doing close to nothing in terms of damaging the boss.

"Should have fired an arrow at the end there." Elysia knew Clara got the extra 5% because she stopped the tail, but Elysia didn't have a good angle and didn't want to ruin the trap they had Axel in because of her greed.

"Oh well, maybe next time we won't be faced with an overleveled tier 7 leader that is beyond our skill level." Although Clara was happy with the rewards, she didn't feel satisfied with the fight and the fact it ended so quickly just because they had the right element didn't sit well with her.

"You have a point, it is disappointing, but at this point, it wasn't even about the dungeon." Elysia saw the dungeon reward as a bonus since well the boss they were dealing with controlled the entirety of Elfhiem.

"True, but enough about that let's head over to Shaman." Clara saw Kiruya use the health potion so Clara knew Shaman was completely fine, but still wanted to be near just in case. Elysia nodded, so they walked over and sat by Shaman while Raiu dealt with the body.

"Is everyone okay?" Raiu finished up destroying the body making sure there was no chance of Axel coming back.

"Everyone seems fine." Elanor looked around and saw that Shaman was recovering while the others sat down to rest next to her.

"Good job Raiu and thanks for your help." Kiruya walked up to Raiu leaving Shaman as the girls took over watching her condition.

"No worries, if you hadn't come I wouldn't have realised there was a seal around my room preventing me from getting any information, let alone hearing the commotion." Raiu scratched his head as he should have known something was off, but with him always being surrounded by magic it was hard to tell if a seal was confining him.

"Thank your daughter for bringing us to you, surprisingly she remembers the place quite well." After Elysia and Clara left to help Shaman, they changed their objective to finding Raiu.

"Well, I'm just glad I get to see her again." He wrapped his arm around Elanor's shoulder and pulled her into his side.

"O-oi!" Elanor pouted as she felt like she was being treated like a child, but at the same time didn't mind.

"Now how have you been Elanor? I wished I could have stopped the exile and helped you on the outside, so I wouldn't blame you if you hate me." Raiu let go of Elanor and faced her trying to be as sincere as possible.

"I-I umm, I don't hate you… I knew you cared." Elanor felt a wave of emotions and tried to hold in the tears.

"Thank goodness." Raiu pulled Elanor in for a hug, glad that despite being fooled for many years Elanor still didn't hate him.

However, Elanor couldn't hold it any longer and began to cry her heart out while hugging her dad as tight as possible.

"I-I've *hic* missed you *hic* so much dad."