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Chapter 56: Standing Alone
All Helena could feel was unending fire and pain, racking her body over and over Constant torture that dug cinders into herbehind embers that seared her soul, over and over
It was the worst agony she had ever felt in her life
‘FOCUS HELENA!’ Sheto will her body to heal The natural regeneration of a va Class vaon had sent out was far too powerful for her defenses to handle She had e from just the air around it was too much
The beaon had spat was y, derived from the Law of Fire It was an attack one could use only if one had obtained co Class
A bar that Helena had been trying to surpass for a decade now, and constantly failed The biggest failure of her life
Over and over the pain washed upon her soul, sive up Her strength of will began to waver, tears foran to transforan to lose its edge, becoan to flash through her
Me parents, two relatively normal vampires that served as bookkeepers in one of the Fa before her eyes during the Invasion of Light by the Shade Coo Her pitiful weakness, unable to soalone, of being captured, taken to be a slave
Me a terrible wound in return
His gentle smile as blood spurted from a horrid slash on his chest, a wound that was cursed to never fully heal
Memories of the constant years she had trained, over and over, never letting herself slack off All for the chance to redee to protect her
And now… in the end…
She could not even protect herself
She had failed
Guilt, shaer, despair, loss
A plethora of ean to take over
The world began to close itself off from her
And, once an to fade, she sent out one last, quiet call, begging
‘Please help reeted her
‘…’
‘…’
‘…’
‘Come’
Just as she’d lost all hope, a voice appeared in Helena’s consciousness An honest, powerful voice, full of confidence, care, and sadness, the emotions in it visible to Helena It rocked her to her core, flowing through every fiber of her being
Like a beaht in a sea of darkness, this voice called out to Helena, echoing through her soul
‘Coht appearing in them once more
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Ifrit &8211; Growth Stage: (4/4) Elder Ifrit &8211;
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His forced erow his bloodline, in addition to skipping the soul adaptation period, though risking death in the process, as well as forcing him to fall unconscious in a few minutes If he hadn’t just sed a natural treasure, he had no doubt that such a risk would have ultimately killed him
Dorian pushed the infor forward
The world around hi that littered the sky, obscuring his vision
That fog rapidly faded, however, as an enorround in front of hie fire exploded off of it, rippling in the air
Dorian stared up at the giant ball of fla
His senses had grown stronger in his new fory
He could tell that this vast meteor of flahly two-thirds of its peak
Despite that, if the ball of fire was left unchecked, it would blast into the city, and devastate it, wiping out hundreds of thousands of lives
He had approximately six seconds to react
He took a deep breath and stepped forward, his fists clenched
Probus threw hi so quickly it was a blur The sharp Aura that surrounded hi of friction, and vastly increase his speed
It took him only a split second to appear next to the downed Helena, and the creature that was attacking her
His eyes were cold as he sla in the earth due to the force of his landing
The attacker appeared to be some type of humanoid, with pitch black skin It was oddly built, with afroerous air, but, for so its attack on Helena, and instead looking up at thetowards them
‘Trajan couldn’t stop it?’ Probus was temporarily shocked as he ca Class spell that was incredibly powerful Its strongest use was in sealing the energy of a creature or object
Their original plan was for Trajan to seal the Anomaly, and for him to slice it apart Trajan’s net would reduce the defenses of the beast to virtually nothing, while his blade strikes would literally rip it apart
A simple plan, but it is often the simplest of plans that succeeded
They had killed two other King Class opponents using this ht combined with Trajan’s tactical spells made them an incredibly potent duo, albeit one with coht noever, their plan had been thrown into chaos due to the appearance of the creature standing near Helena
No, he realized, as his hts in a split second
Even if this humanoid hadn’t appeared, they still would have failed Trajan’s spell so the net wouldn’t have landed on it anyway Some sort of colossal mistake must have taken place
The city was lost
His sword technique was powerful, but he had no confidence in splitting an attack of this scale
He needed to save Helena and get out of the way
First, though, he’d take care of her attacker
His hand rested on the hilt of his blade as he turned towards the distracted creature, his eyes cold
Just as he was about to strike, he felt a hand latch onto his foot, tugging him backwards
He looked down in surprise as he saw the still recovering face of Helena shake her head fiercely, blood spurting from her lips as her body treh ed His body shook with exhaustion as he looked up at the fireball headed towards the city, his ht
‘How?’
His Empyrean Rain Net had never failed him It was an incredibly complex spell, but one that perfectly matched the Law of Rain that he studied, a Law that branched off froest ability lied in Sealing things
His senses were incredibly intuned with his net when he cast it, the spell under his coed net to descend, intending on Sealing the Fire Energy in the Anoreat dragon This would leave it vulnerable, for a brief period of time, to Probus’ Blank Slash Sword Style
The plan should have been foolproof
Yet, at the exactball of fire, soe blaze had seey collided with the net and was subsequently Sealed
But at least a third of it soh, and continue unabated
It was so that should have been impossible
His net was by nothe spell, and was able to, on average, seal 98 of the energy of any being or object If he was extremely unlucky, it was possible he’d only seal 95 or 94
But, solyonly around 67 or 68 of it
Sohly 32 to 33 of the energy in the attack had h, completely undeterred
As he looked at the fireball blaze by, his hands fell to the side, listless
He had failed, for the first tileam of mirth he always shared with Probus seemed to fade from his eyes as he watched the attack fly towards the city, towards the unwitting civilians, unable to come up with a response
Three seconds had passed
In that time, Dorian had activated his Condense Ability and dashed forward, charging towards the fireball It had been launched down at an angle, and was now blazing along next to the ground towards the city
His Ifrit fory running through its veins Using the Condense Ability had a similar function for if he used it in his Lesser Throne De in his veins Condensed, vastly increasing his power
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Increased Energy Level: 54,027
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A s hihly was in this Condensed forer than he had previously been, his body containing a huge level of strength
The Energy Level of a creature was a good estis, this included the power of Law that they infused into their attacks and soul
The physique of a being could only become so powerful, after all This was the co the power of Law could one vastly increase the power of their soul, their Soul Spell Matrix, and their strength, usually through y Level represented the th he could output, without borrowing energy from the laws of the universe He currently was unable to use the power of Law, having never gotten the chance to actually take the time needed to study it
As he analyzed the notification, his face re, but barely half as strong as the feon with ease
Two seconds rehtly lessened due to hihly 800into the ground
He took a deep breath as he looked up at the giant blaze, his heart steady
When he had gained this fore that ca what he needed to do
Ifrits, in terhty De the rowth put their strength, at maximum, to around the Early Lord Class Co Class Demons, they were quite weak
That said, they did have a specialty, an aspect that set theave theenerative capabilities, as well as innate ability to learn Life Magic and its related fields
But, ave them virtual imave them incredible control over the eleo when Dehty Ifrits of old were known by a different name to some
The Rulers of Flame
A second passed
Dorian raised his ar heat in the fla towards hihtly, and took one final breath
The last second faded