Chapter 1745 Crown [2]

Chapter 1745 Crown [2]

"Raul!"

Valerie ignored everything that was going on around her. While Ophelia tried to figure out why Lucas had betrayed them, the rest didn't care.

He was a traitor. Nothing else mattered.

Valerie tried to heal Melania in the time she had, but her power wasn't working. Originally, she left the blade inserted so Melania wouldn't bleed out, but that wasn't the decision she should have made.

She only realized it after following the path her mana took and sensing the changes in Melania's body.

Leaving Juno and the girls to guard the prison, Valerie hurriedly called Raul over.

"She's been poisoned," she said with a stern expression.

"I can't heal her with ordinary methods, and now that he's here, we can't lose any bit of our fighting power. I need you to put her in stasis."

The poison in Melania's body was made to instantly kill a dragon. It was vile poison that forced its victim to suffer pain even after death. If Valerie kept trying to heal Melania with her wood abilities, she'd only rush the threat of death.

Melania needed to be carefully treated with the right antidote if she wanted to live. However, none of those antidote materials could exist in this place, and Valerie couldn't figure out what they were when they were facing such a massive threat to their survival.

The only option was to halt the spread of the poison through Melania's body and wait to treat her until the current issues were solved.

Raul was the only one capable of performing such a technique. And he knew how important Melania was to August.

"Leave it to me. Will you be fine on your own?"

Valerie nodded.

"We can manage. Just...try to finish as soon as possible without rushing. We'll need all the help we can get."

Raul nodded solemnly and went to work drawing an array around Melania's body.

Stasis arrays were the height of his clan's formation techniques. It was also their speciality, which was the only reason why both Raul and Valerie could maintain their hope of saving Melania.

Still, her body could only be kept in stasis for so long. She would eventually succumb to the poison if nothing was done to save her.

Valerie was certain that she could trust Raul. She heard the story of Bastille from August. These people had abandoned everything to follow him. They would not betray him.

The traitor was elsewhere, and he'd brought with him a calamity for their group.

This battle had already become impossible for them to win.

However, Valerie, Raul, Yuna, Juno, and Mikaela had the same exact thought.

No matter what happened, they would survive and see the light again.

All of them, without a single member missing.

This wasn't where they would fall. This was only the start of their story.

Even if impossibility stood in their way, they were prepared to cut it down.

***

Time was in a strange state after Serena's array was completed. The geniuses hadn't even realized that they'd entered a dilation when they found their way into the cave system.

Likely, their perception didn't find anything because it wasn't a natural phenomenon.

To make events parallel, an unknown third party influenced the cavern to extend its time flow.

That was how a week passed in the dragon kingdom in the time between their arrival in the cavern and the moment August grabbed the crown.

In that time, the war had not progressed much. The Sea Tribes and Wood Dragon Clan focused on stalling for time, so while losses did increase, it wasn't by a large margin.

There was one main difference between the current situation and the one from before the week passed.

The arrays being laid by the Bastille people were finished.

Using handheld teleporters and coordinates that had been plotted since before they even began operating, they were able to move with precision and spread out enough to put together the complicated arrays in a short period of time.

Their efforts could be compared to Serena and the Krone Clan in the Heavenly World. On a much smaller scale, they'd completed a similar operation.

Both arrays had been laid in tandem, and they would activate the same.

As soon as news was sent back to the Surge Dragon Tribe which acted as a control center and a connection point between all of the different divisions working together, everyone came to know the same fact.

The moment to counterattack was here.

A long-awaited revenge against the nobles, and the extermination of a threat that was once salvation for the people of Arulion...

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