Chapter 75 In Time

If she tried to evade the attack, all of them would have been danger. Valerie knew that Kyouko had intended it to be that way. It was a choice that both Kyouko and her knew didn't exist. The result was inevitable.

Therefore, she could do the only thing she could. She mobilized the golden palms behind her in an attempt to stop the attack in its way. One after the other the golden palms wrapped themselves around the black sphere and tried to contain the power that was about to erupt from within.

Cracks began to appear on the golden palms and they started to shatter on by one while the oppressive force being felt from the sphere increased in intensity with the same proportion.

The sphere began to vibrate while the light hidden on the inside of the sphere began to sprout from within. The vibrating sphere continuously collided with the palms. The shockwaves from the collision almost sent Zavier flying even though he had been standing so far away from the centre of it all. He could only imagine what it was like for Valerie who was at the centre of it.

? Even Calista had to brace herself with her vines as the intensity of the shockwaves kept on increasing. The palms were shattering with an increasing pace but somehow the layers of the golden palms were holding it back.

But then the light hidden inside the ball tore its way out and Zavier knew what was about to come next. The sphere was about to explode and the energy contained within that ball was endless. His legs grew weak at the feedback that he had received from his transcendent senses towards this skill called 'God's gift'.

Zavier could not hold back his fear any longer and shouted at the top of his voice hoping that Valerie would let go of the madness and would retreat.

"Get back Valerie, or you will die. This is not something you can handle."

Valerie acted as if she hadn't heard anything. She continued to try to hold the sphere back but when the light escaped from its centre it tore down any and all defenses in its way.

Zavier thought that it was like the big bang was happening all over again. The first explosion amidst darkness that gave birth to light and then made up all life except that was the genesis of all things and this was meant to be the end of everything.

The light penetrated the palms wrapped around it and blinded everyone as if the sun had stepped down on earth from the sky. The air itself was boiling and steam was rising up from the ground, the earth was both scorched and parched like that in a desert.

Valerie who was the target of it all had already felt that she had reached her limit and was intent on dying to protect her friend and her students who were at the moment looking at her back.

Time seemed to have slowed down for her, the light that was heading her way was taking a long time to reach her. She ignored the stinging pain in her eyelids and closed her eyes to avoid the glare of the bright light and welcomed it with open arms thinking that her time had come.

However, the instant seemed to have passed but there was no pain at all. Valerie wondered if she had been instantly vaporized so she hadn't felt anything at all.

She opened her eyes but to her astonishment, nothing like that had happened since the light had never reached her at all. She was still standing in her place while the whole area around her was either scorched, parched or still burning.

The heat had yet to dissipate and it was hard to speak but the scene in front of her was a memory she knew would be etched in her heart forever.

In front of her stood two individuals. One wearing a mask and one who was very familiar to her and yet she felt that she knew nothing about him at all. Zavier had always been surprising her in similar ways at the most critical of moments.

His cards were endless and he could always bring about the most fortunate of results.

She could see that their clothes were in tatters and their skin was burnt but they had taken the brunt of the damage in her stead. They had protected her with their life on the line.

"Why don't you listen? I told you that I would protect you…didn't I?"

Zavier had looked back to stare at her with a smile on his face and uttered somewhat charmingly amidst all the pain that he was feeling.

Her eyes widened in shock and she realized that at some point, in her sight another figure had overlapped with his own and a smile formed on her face. A genuine smile that she had hardly ever shown anyone in forever. Her tears started to drip but her smile did not diminish in the slightest. She was just that excited.

Valerie was mesmerized in that instant. She had never felt that Zavier had been this handsome ever before. Even though he was dressed in rags, half burnt and had singed hair, he still looked more endearing to her than ever before.

Obviously, the masked man was none other than one of his clones who had arrived just in time before God's gift had landed on Valerie.

The clone with the Magus system had already learned Blood Blade and his corpse that was under the control of the clone with the Necromancer system also learned it through the inheritance as per the rules of raising the dead decreed in the necromancer system.

Since the clone with the necromancer's system had no fighting potential of his own, he stayed on the outskirts and hid himself while controlling the corpse remotely.

Both the corpse and the clone with the Magus system made it to them just before something disastrous could have happened.

When they noticed that Valerie was so close to death, the clone with the necromancer system ordered the corpse to release "Blood Wall". It was a defensive manoeuvre in the Blood Blade battle skill that the clone had managed to learn.

The wall of blood had been erected from the blood still contained in the corpse. On the other hand, the clone with the Magus system refrained from taking any action. He was to act only in case of an emergency.

As soon as the light hit the bloody curtain, it pierced through it after a little resistance. Its momentum had been immense.

Since the energy was still heading towards them, the corpse cast another "Blood Wall" in succession but this time it consumed all its flesh and blood in order to cast the skill. The clone with the necromancer system managed to barely stop God's gift with the help of the second wall by sacrificing Zavier's corpse.

Since the body had been destroyed and nothing of it remained, Zavier took advantage of the commotion and entered the dust clouds following the aftermath.

"System, enable the shared mode at once."

[Sharing mode has been successfully enabled.]

[You are now sharing your senses with four other clones.]

Zavier felt a flood of information through his consciousness but he managed to focus on the information that he had needed. He had been keeping tabs on what was happening through the senses of his clone.

So, when the dust settled, he was already beside her and had known everything that had happened at the last second.