Chapter 382 (1/2)

Chapter 382

A/N: Hi, hey, hello, it’s TurtleMe Many of you have been waiting patiently and eagerly for the arrival of Volu the first few chapters, I really had to think about hoanted to start this volume and where I wanted to pick up It took some deliberation but I decided that it will start off almost exactly where we left off I say alue for this volume in order to step back even further and actually start just a little before where we left off, but in a different perspective This chapter was definitely bit of a challenge but I hope you enjoy, and welcome to the start of our journey into Voluh with ue

ALICE LEYWIN

Time slowed and the very air around me turned viscous as the asura’s spear so effortlessly passed through Ellie’s body

The asura’s heavy hand releasedin round

I choked back sobs “It’s okay, baby, it’s okay I’ to take away the pain, sweetheart, Ellie I’ to take care of you”

My hands pressed into the wound in Ellie’s side, ineffective in staunching the flow of blood that ca heart Mana rushed out offroht, but I choked on the incantation inin and out

But Ellie was s, her eyes closed, her face tinted a light purple She wasn’t breathing… intent was suffocating It swelled just aboveto happen A sob shook ain

I pictured Reynold’s face, i his hands throughthe back ofArthur’s But even in my mind, in my memories, Arthur was covered in blood, his face half-hidden and stained black and cried himself back to me from some distant, deadly threat…

My eyes refocused on Ellie She looked so round covered in her own life’s blood…

I closed ht and waited for the spear to fall, for the asura to send Ellie and is, help ht, I realized belatedly, was issuing fro portal that had coure silhouetted by the aht hair, and golden eyes before he waselse came toward me…toward Ellie Help my sister What did those words mean?

What could they possibly y flew into Ellie’s body, but nothing happened, nothing changed

I nearly slapped an chanting again There were other words—and fighting—but I pressed it out of ic The incantation spilled out of helse, too

An e just beyond the reach of my awareness that no one had ever been able to explain to me before Mana alone couldn’t heal wounds like Ellie’s, but ed it, showed it what I wanted

Like a guiding hand, the wisp of energy drew thening it I felt…strong, powerful in a way I could hardly rean to fuse, veins and nerves knit back together, then—

The room spun wildly beneath ht froing inup the back of eton e of the dais I could just see Ellie’s ar off the side of it

The asura and the olden eyes clashed, their movements so fast I couldn’t follow

I tried to move, to stand, but my head swam dizzily and I nearly retched Someone took me by the elbow, tried to pull me to my feet The world see crack fro into a ball as the shadow of the stone ceiling descended onpurple light cut through it Uncurling, I looked up

A huge e chunk of stone propped up on its back Its wolfish body reathed with dark purple fire, and its glowing eyes ence

Sorunt from the steps aton ed myself free of the collapsed rubble and up the side of the dais Ellie had been sent sprawling by whatever blast had knocked me off my feet, and she lay twisted aardly, her wound stretched open and furiously puht in front of le before vanishi+ng into the portal Stranger? some distant corner of my mind wondered The words “Help ain

“Ellie!” I rolled her over, pressedher was all that mattered

The chant poured out of me, and mana followed it Distantly, I heard the cries of pain and terror, the shi+fting of rubble, the shouts for help Virion’s crushed-gravel voice ground over the rest, calling my name, but I couldn’t I just couldn’t leave Ellie Not until—