Chapter 108: Bystander

Chapter 108: Bystander

Lake Had been messing around on the formation trainer for a few hours at this point and he had made a lot of progress in actually getting more mana out of his body but not much progress at actually controlling it. He had long ago passed what he had wished to achieve in coming here so he was about to rap it up and head down stairs when he heard one of the Masters say. "Another fight has broken out inside the city."

Lake didn't know what source this news came from but it didn't really matter because within half a second every one of the Masters had disappeared from where they had been sitting. Lake wasn't sure where they had gone but he was sure they all had responsibilities to the guild they had to fulfill during times like these since they were the backbone of the guild.

Standing up Lake put his plans to test his new found skill into the back of his mind and walked out into the stairwell. Flying down the center, Lake stopped on his floor and headed to his room. He wanted to watch whatever fight was going on and while he knew other balconies existed the one in his room would be the easiest for him to get to.

Stepping out Lake saw his servants were already outside and were watching the flashes of bright light that were coming from the city. In between the flashes Lake could see there were lots of people fighting in a few places in the city but other than obvious details like what color their clothes were Lake was unable to really tell what was happening. The chapters is up by N0vEI__bin

It was still impressive that he could see anything though considering he was able to see individual people from miles away and while they were moving at a speed that was probably impossible for some jets in his original world. There was also some form of battle happening above the city but other than the flashes Lake had already mentioned that seemed to be coming from there he couldn't tell who or what was fighting in the sky.

After a while of watching the flashes of light that reminded Lake of a firework he had seen as a child He saw something new happen in the sky. He saw a pitch black bubble start to form and a few moments later five rust colored bolts came flying out from the bubble. Lake had expected something like this, but he was unsure why all five bolts were headed downwards towards the city.

Lake had to agree with Jason's assessment that was exactly what it was. They had all retreated after the golden shield had appeared so it was probably what they had been after. "There will probably be a real attack tonight where they will try and kill that Holy mage." Lake knew the Demon worshipers always did their best to kill anyone with the Holy attribute so there was a good chance that would be exactly what would happen.

Lake knew one of the reasons they killed Holy attribute holders was because they helped revive the Holy goddess in some way but Lake wondered if there was another reason. He remembered when he had read the book about different elements he had stopped on the section about Life magic because he had been confused why it existed when Holy magic had been a better version of it.

The book had said it had been created to heal around Unholy curses because for Holy magic to heal someone it would have to Fight the Unholy curse because they were opposite to one another. The two were natural enemies and it caused it to be almost impossible to save someone who had been cursed using Unholy magic because the clash between the two elements would usually be violent enough to kill the host.

It was possible that following that logic the only people who posed any real threat to the Demon Lord and his army were people like that mage in the city because from the fight he had just seen the Light Mage in the Sky had launched like a hundred attacks and it had done nothing to the Unholy Mage.

Lake hadn't even seen them fight back really because the only spell Lake had seen them cast had been at the city. It was almost like they had been disregarding the Light Mage Like they were nothing because they posed no real risk. Lake didn't understand the interactions between the elements very well, but he thought maybe Light just happened to be a bad matchup for some reason.

Now that the battle was completely over Lake headed back inside. It had been a good show but Lake had been too far away to really get anything from it. It had felt more like he was watching tv then watching something actually happening where he lived.

He was sure he would care a lot more if he was one of the people who lived in one of the now burning buildings. Entering his kitchen, Lake got himself a glass of water and sat down for a few seconds while he thought about what he would do for the rest of the day. Lake had nothing to do so he thought maybe Lucas would have something for him.

Lake was pretty sure that was how he was supposed to be acting anyway. Doing things for the guild was probably what most members did, and he was surprised that he hadn't been given anything to do yet.