Chapter 35: Rash Actions and Limits (1/2)

With both Jased to ht the elderwood guardian The once serene field of grass was in ruins as toppled trees and fallen stalactites lay scattered and splintered arounds

"Do you think anyone else survived?" I asked, carefully scanning the inald and Brald were both frozen together with the h to save Saot knocked off of you and landed near the elderwood guardian I conjured a metal shelter to keep her safe from the debris but I'm not sure if she was able to survive," Elijah reported

Between the after effects fro about Jasht about the rest of the party I guess when I didn't see anyone else in the shelter with us, I immediately assumed they didn't make it

"I don't think we'll be able to help Samantha in time, even if she is alive by the tihed "We still need to find the elderwood guardian's beast core"

"I think I'll be able to help with the first probleround "Give me a few minutes"

"Scan," the bespectacled boy muttered as a thin wave of mana spread out of his hand

[Earth's Pulse]

The spell that Elijah had just invoked, as far as I kneas usuallyenemies Usually, the caster would be able to hear footsteps and, if he was that skilled, perhaps distinguish the number of footsteps However, to encoround beneath it, I couldn't help but becoued by this boy

After a few, tense minutes, Elijah's furrowed brows lifted into an expression of surprise "I knohere Sa!"

A sleek, round at Elijah's invocation and opened up in front of us to reveal Samantha

By the state the conjurer was in, she was just barely hanging in there Both her legs had been broken clean in rasped her Splinters of white jutted out fros as a milky, yellow pus indicated that her wounds had already becoood news, if we could even call it that, was that only her legs had incurred serious dae The rest of her body had cuts and bruises but was otherwise unharht as he immediately turned around and lurched forward to vomit

Jas what she had to do to help her

Li toward Samantha, I checked her neck for her pulse and placed a hand on her forehead "Well, she doesn't have a fever yet and her pulse is steady enough where I don't think her life will be in danger anyti is that she's unconscious"

"Sohed as he convulsed into another dry heave

As Jasmine carefully cradled the unconscious Saht back to when the peppy conjurer hadup a conversation with her With the two of theirls, Sa the brusque Jas at tiht about our next course of action If anted to get Sa for the beast core for noever, with Sa barely capable of standing on its own, the best thing to do was for Elijah and Jas back down for me

"Elijah," I called out tofor air

Just as I was about to give hout the cavern, shaking a few stalactites loose froroaned, nation than in fear

'Papa! I'm here!' Sylv cried out in my mind

"It's okay, Elijah," I coaxed, as Jaser she had already unsheathed

Despite the childlike voice that rang inakin to a child

I let out a whistle "Wow, Sylv You gained weight… and height, and width"

Sylvie, the son that had always sat on top of on I nae as Sylvia's, but it was still over eightI could now say with full confidence that Sylvie was indeed a dragon Her scales had an obsidian-black sheen, reflecting the light froeon in an almost divine way The two horns that sprouted out of her head were sharper and even o With wings similar to Sylvia's—except with pitch-black feathers—and blood-red spikes that protruded along the ridge of her spine, she exuded a , if not baleful, aura around her The once adorable face and ant and sharp, her black sclera and yellow irises re in the dead of night

Sylv's powerful lied spikes at the elbows and knees—lifted as she approached e size She lowered her head that was as large asher snout close to ue shot out as she licked round

"My God, your breath is foul, Sylv," I sputtered, barely able to keepin my head

"I-Is that a wyvern? But it has four liht? Is that a d-d-d—"

"I'on," I finished for the duht of the fearsome beast, his face filled with uardian

Jas at the sight of on as she clutched Samantha close to her chest

"Elijah, this is on's snout, causing her hind leg to thuround in pleasure

I couldn't help but chortle at how little Sylvie had changed on the inside despite her dra to face Elijah, I put on a grim face "Jasmine already knew about this, but I want you to proht to have been extinct for centuries now, so if anyone were to suddenly see Sylvie… well, you knohat greed can do to someone"

Elijah nodded frantically in response, his glasses hanging loose on his crooked nose

"We need to hurry, though It worked out well that Sylvie came when she did Let's move Samantha on Sylvie's back" I was barely able to stand up onmore than a few steps was out of the question

I watched as Elijah and Jasmine carefully loaded the unconscious conjurer onto Sylv's back before they helped me up as well

It was decided that only Saeon while Jasmine and Elijah would follow close behind

The journey back up only took a few hours compared to the full day we needed e had travelled down

'Sylv, can you still transforeon Myto coreedy nobles in case she couldn't, but thankfully, she said that she could still change into athis tirow so quickly?' I sent Sylv while lying down against her long neck

'I hunted a lot of monsters and ate their mana cores! I missed you a lot I'ust of wind for towards our destination

It see mana cores, which reuardian had dropped At this point, I could only hope that it would stay hidden from adventurers until I went back down

When we arrived at the first cavern—where the batrunners had been—I preparing ht a couple of them in this crippled state However, to my surprise, as soon as the batrunners saw Sylvie, they becaround off in the opposite corner of the cave