Chapter 33: Dire Tombs II (1/2)
On the other side of the large doors was a beautiful meadow that stretched out far beyond rass that glittered like polished eround seeuess, this field wasn't here last tilued to the enrapturing scenery in front of him
Brald let out a sharp breath as he continued to stare at the field "N-No, nothing of the sort"
After h of resignation and stepped through the door The rest of us just exchanged hesitant glances before following after the ha into the ht that we had stepped through soate out of the Dire Toh up on the ceiling The deposits of calciuhtly, to the point where I had to squint to make out any details
What I found suspicious, though, was the very fact that a space like this could exist underground There were no pillars visible and this area stretched for at least a few hundred meters in all directions With such an extensive open field with no supports holding it up, I was surprised that this place hadn't been buried in rocks
"Wow! It's so pretty!" Sa to take in the view
Tall trees and bushels of shrubs dotted the field Even I couldn't help wanting to just lay down and relax here but ever since alked through the door, the hairs onon end, as if uards seemed to be down except for Jas around as if searching for anything suspicious
"Soilant with rip of Dawn's Ballad, which was still sheathed
"Are you sure? I don't even hear anything, let alone see rass and trees," Kriol asked dubiously I could tell he was a bit doubtful but he followed my advice and raised his shi+eld
I continued exa ht that radiated frohter than the ones from the previous caves There was also a thin veil of haze layered over theelse besides the plants and this ?
However, soon enough, the row h so that I could only make out the shapes of everyone around h the silence hovering around the mist
"Clara? Is that you? H-How are you alive?"
I whipped my head to the direction of the voice in tiantic shi+eld and was holding his ar in the distance
"I knew you couldn't be dead, Clara! Stay there! I' his shi+eld behind hierous!" I cursed, trying to warn hi layer of fog
All of a sudden, sorabbed ahold of my arm and jerked me
"I think the ht next tohard to ht so too" I clicked ether! Thistricks on your senses Saather, using the sound of ether, we discussed our plans for clearing through this cavern inside a sphere of water
"Who's Clara?" Sainald shook his head "ItIt's Kriol's fiancée But it's ieon with ether!"
It was obvious that Reginald and Brald were both shaken up The three had partied before numerous ti Kriol go after his dead fiancée wasn't exactly the best of news either
"What the hell is going on?" Lucas cursed under his breath His knuckles hite fro his staff, and it looked like he was doing all he could to keep his wits together
"Jash to clear thisshe could give ood news We didn't have any wind attribute conjurers here besides her
She answered, lowering her gaze "Not strong enough to clear it all away, but I can ave her space inside the barrier of water as she began preparing her spell Soft gusts that glowed a greenish hue began swirling around her, gathering around her hands Her straight black hair lashed wildly around her as the swirls of wind circled her arest disadvantage coe of their spells, after a certain level, auged techniques Of course, the power and efficiency at this stage would be vastly inferior to a conjurer of the sah control over her rew thicker, li our field of vision to about a rass now emanated an ominous pressure, almost as if this mist wanted to s us alive
"Clearhowl," Jas to keep the frenzied wind in tow
[Stor around Jasether The impact of the two tornadoes expanded and burst forward, shredding the mist into a clear path in front of us
However, the once excited looks on everyone's faces turned pale at the sight before us The tornado revealed a path, but also uncovered so else
Tentacles of vines and branches were quickly h of this!" Lucas pushed Jas his tall staff at the wave of vines advancing towards us and muttered a spell
"Crescent Eht fla a large blade of fire
With a fiery explosion, the slithering vines and branches flinched back, but other than a scorched impression where the spell had hit, they were unaffected
"shi+t! What kind of trees aren't afraid of fire?" Brald hissed as he ignited his broadsword into a fiery tornado and charged into the wave of vines that were approaching rapidly
"Sa mana into my body and sword as well
Jas brightly The spell she had used to clear a path had drained a lot of her mana, but it didn't do much as the mist had already filled the path the tornado spell had created
Reginald stayed behind to protect our Conjurers as they casted spells
Brald let out an unintelligible battle roar as he continuedaway at the endless wave of vines that seemed to manifest out of nowhere
The vines, however, were regenerating faster than Brald was cutting the buried deeper and deeper inside the torrent of vines
"Fool," I cursed under one reckless or he wanted to die here in battle, I couldn't help but doubt that he was an AA class adventurer
Aug my sword in fire as well, II would ot hi wildly around ht red envelopedthe around me
I kept tabs on Jasmine to make sure she was okay but she see furiously like a cyclone of blades,a harder ti fresh blood on his face and body
"—spread and burn!"
[Liquid Blaze]
Lucas finished his spell first as he unleashed a spray of red liquid fro vines that targeted our conjurers
The three of us jumped back to stay out of the way of the spell I had to hand it to the noble brat for still thinking straight despite the situation The spell, Liquid Fire, wasn't as powerful as the actual fire spells but it spread quickly and, if not doused, would eventually envelop everything in its way