Chapter 83: Through the steam and heat

Chapter 83: Through the steam and heat

The wave of hot air was well on its way. Pareth's shields of light appeared in between her and the steam, then broke one by one, failing to block it at all.

Sofias mana had still been quite high. It took a deep plunge. The only thing she could do in so little time was using instantaneous skills. [Summon blood]The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

The skill had gone all the way up to level 62 from all the training after and during their digging sessions.

[Summon blood] : Summons liquid human blood anywhere in a 62 meters (1*Skill Level) radius from the Saintomancer (Must be free space). The quantity of blood summoned this way is : (1*Skill Level*Mana Spent) Milliliters.

She summoned for twenty thousand mana of blood, spreading it all between her and the steam burst. But this was nothing but a bit of blood, it wouldnt be enough on its own. Inside the blood, she emptied some of the bones from the storage of her armor.

A wall of blood and bone appeared in between her and the attack. It was already collapsing, but that didnt matter, the mana-charged steam hit it. Everything melted down, the blood vaporized, creating even more steam. When the blast actually reached her, it was only an uncomfortably hot air wave. Her health still took a hit as her skin burned, she lost about four hundred health points.

Have to thank Orvod for this storage trick.

Her health however climbed back up by sixty, it was the lifesteal from her weapon. Since it was level 100 it would heal her for 10% of the damage dealt. That means the light burst right then was 600 damage? It was the first time she could know exactly how effective an attack of hers was. Considering it had hit three cables, that was 200 Health Points per severed cable.

Sofia retreated, she backed up near a small section of the wall that had no machinery on it, and looked to be in a blind spot. No steam attack should be able to reach her there.

Pareth had switched his goal to severing more cables for now, but Sofia knew he was ready to teleport to her anytime. She canceled [Graveyard of the righteous]. As things were it would only be a load on her already dwindling mana.

Health : 5204 / 5565

Mana : 24752 / 46000

To have a mana shield sandwiched between wall layers was an interesting design Sofia couldnt help but notice, even though it was absolutely not the time for that.

Next the ceiling machines launched their attacks. This time it was not a clockwise motion but a sweeping shower of fireballs, raining straight down from the ceiling like a meteor shower. Sofia and Alith were at about the midway point of the trajectory.

Sofia gave Alith and Pareth an order, Cover me!. She curled up into a ball against the outer walls mana shield, stepping right into the melted Midenicite that used to be the rooms walls. Her forearms and lower legs were directly against the floor. So they were submerged in molten blue crystal. Despite the bone armor, it burned, her health was slowly going down. Im getting cooked.

Alith sprawled over her, trying to cover Sofias head and torso as much as possible. Pareth stood a bit on the side.

Sofia looked through Pareths vision. Although she would be hit by at most four of the fireballs as she was against the wall, each of them exploded as they touched ground in a worrying display of firepower. And every ceiling machine exploded after firing, because why not add some more heat and shrapnel to the mix. At least that meant they couldn't fire twice.

Some of the ceiling machines straight up exploded without firing. Each of these shook the whole castle and added even more heat to the room as they bathed the ceiling in waves of flames. Misfires?

The fireballs that would reach Sofia were fired as half of the room was already engulfed in the fiery explosions.

She ordered Pareth to jump away and start channeling [Gravity well], somewhat diverting the fireballs away from her and Alith. Then he would cancel the skill and teleport back.

But he never teleported back. Channeling [Gravity well] at full power as the fireballs from all around collapsed toward him. Just before they hit him, he used a last [Greater Heal] on Sofia, restoring her to full health. All the fireballs compounded as they hit Pareth, creating a greater explosion.

The hero : Pareth has succumbed.

You smooth skulled skeleton! Who told you to die?!

Most of the shockwave of the massive explosion was contained by the remaining effects of [Gravity Well] but nothing could stop the heat. She couldnt do the blood-bones wall trick this time, the attack was too much. She needed every gram of bones to refresh the armor. She would fare way better if it didnt run out like it had when she was hit by the explosion of her own attack during the Siren Queen fight. With Alith body blocking some of the attack, the bone armor had much less to deal with. It burned down and reformed, as many times as needed.