Chapter 116: Space Magic

Chapter 116: Space Magic

Whats going on with her left hand? Lightning? Is that the angel bolt?

With a name like that, its too dangerous to let her use it.

[Weight of the Moon]

Oh! Heres the Ogre one! I need to get rid of the small ones first.

[Celestial Pull]

[Repulsion]

Thats one Wait, it survived?! And the light Thats her healing skill? How many is she using at once?! What is thiiiiiis???!!!

Looking at her stamina going down by a point, Astelia started sweating.

This is going to be a problem.

Sofia tried to heal the skeleton Templar embedded in the wall to help it survive until [Sanctified grounds] was up. That did not work as Astelia grabbed the second templar that had barely stood up and sent it crashing into the first one. The already injured skeleton turned back to mist and the other came crashing down to the ground.

Right then, the ground lit up in holy light. With the two area spells creating light, it was bright as day in the open sky arena. The third Templar that had been charging up his [Light severance] finally fired it.

The slash of light closed in on the young girl, only to get waved off and sent crashing into a wall.

So she can also do that

Six more seconds

Sofia was going all out, multitasking with her skills, she was also healing the Templar down on the ground. The other Templar that had just attacked switched to casting buff skills on Pareth. And Pareth, whose area skill had finally gone off, rushed toward the vampire, shining light greatsword in hand.

The ogre closed in on Astelia, who tried to use her [Repulsion] on him, barely managing to make him flinch.

Pareth has [Higher magical damage negation], [Space magic resilience], and [Displacement skills immunity]. Hes a complete counter to a space mage like her.

Astelia was visibly surprised at the inefficacy of her attack, looking panicked, she floated back and multiple human-sized pink swords with green edges appeared, starting to orbit around her.

These are all orichalcum blades with mithril edges?! A single one of those swords had to be worth tens of thousands of gold just in minerals, and she has four!

Two of the blades swung in a circular arc toward Pareth, he blocked the one coming from the left with his sword, and the right one with his four [Flying shields of light], three of them shattering on impact and the last one finally stopping the flying sword.

There was nothing he could do as a third sword came for his legs. The impact did not sever his leg but it left a deep cut and sent cracks running through it, shaving off an insane thirty-four thousand health points.

Hey, are you okay, Astel?

...

Astelia said nothing, breathing a few more times. She closed her eyes and let herself fall flat on the ground, her blades collapsing around her as well. I win she mumbled, giving a weak thumb-up to Sofia as she passed out in exhaustion.

You sure did

Sofia walked up to the collapsed girl, she was going to pick her up, but was interrupted by the footsteps of the level 300+ butler, Agran. I shall take care of this. Beautiful fight, I hope you do not mind me watching, it is my duty to look after her.

As long as what we said in the salon was private.

Of course, far from me the idea of making the young lady lie. I have only come to supervise you when the alarm circles informed me that she had entered the arena, the pale vampire answered as he gently picked Astelia up.

Alarm circles?

These, he answered, a finger pointing at two small ritual circles around the Arenas door. They alert me of peoples movements around the castle. Shifting the girl around in his arms to make sure she laid in a comfortable position, the man led the way out.

Sofia followed, Does she collapse like this often?

Not too often anymore. It used to be a common occurrence. Such power at her age and yet so little endurance, it is painfully easy to imagine how that went. She has developed a calmer personality over the years.

She does seem very mature for her age.

We all think so. A pity. It is the burden she bears, too great a potential deprived her of a normal youth. Yours was a tragic childhood as well, my condolences.

That stunned Sofia for a second.

Saria

She took another step forward and kept walking.

Lets Not talk about that, please.

It was the mans turn to stop in his tracks. He lightly coughed. My apologies. Then, perhaps you feel curious about something? Please feel free to ask if there is anything on your mind.

Then Can you explain why, as she bled, Astelias blood set itself on fire?

This is merely a Vampires lot. As I understand, you conducted a status exchange with the lady?

Yes.

Then you must have seen it, the [Blood Curse]. It does not manifest in the same way for all Vampires, it offers both good and bad effects, which are passed down from a mother to her children. You may have a look at mine, as an apology for this eventful night.