Free Web NovelChapter 37: 37. The Unbloodied Valley ( II )
Three figures stood several metres above the valley, standing atop the air as if it were solid ground.
They were clearly not cut from the same cloth as those being massacred below, the signature galaxy-black attire of the Nebula adorning their forms.
They stared down, peering through their balaclava masks, coloured eyes the only things visible.
Silver, clear blue, and dark blue pairs of eyes stared down quietly.
"Let’s wait it out. When her mana depletes, then we attack..." the silver-eyed Nebula said to his comrades, the two nodding in agreement.
They stared silently, those below unaware they were above.
Meanwhile, Raika continued to rain down her lightning, a fifth-resonance spell which was very difficult to master, Thunderstorm.
Most mages could use it for at most thirty seconds, but she had been at it for a minute now, all her foes reduced to dust.
She made sure no one was left alive to tell a tale.
Those who bared their fangs at his son, deserved death.
Done, her figure slowly fell, body covered in sweat, breath rugged.
She had burned through 420 days worth of mana in a minute.
"I need to recover..." She quickly sat cross-legged, five palm-sized crimson crystals materializing around her.
Fire mana crystals, with which she hoped to recover her magic before continuing the journey.
She closed her eyes, breath rhythmic as wisps of mana entered her body through every pore on her body.
With each inhale, the bright crystals lost their color by small but significant degrees.
"Let’s attack her now before she recovers," the Nebula with dark blue eyes said to their leader, the silver-eyed one.
"Wait" He narrowed his eyes, his gut tingling, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
"Sir?!..." the dark blue-eyed one urged.
He feared what Raika will do if she regained her mana.
The three put together were not her match, and they knew it.
But as assassins, they had a shot, at injury not death. Luckily Raika wasn’t the target but the sleeping Alaric.
"Let’s go..."
They slowly descended, walking down midair as if they were descending a flight of stairs.
They couldn’t risk what happened the last, time, this was the perfect time to attack.
Alaric was unconscious, Raika’s mana almost depleted, and they were in the Unbloodied Valley.
Though it was neutral ground, they knew the loopholes.
Just as Raika had killed numerous people without waking the Drake, they too knew how to go around it.
Thunder and lightning were natural phenomenas.
As long as they were brief, they wouldn’t wake the Drake.
Raika used that to her advantage, and for them, they had...
The deafening silence fell. Raika’s eyes opened reflexively.
" They are here?! "
A devilish smile tugged at her lips.
The silver-eyed one noticed the smile but didn’t fret.
No matter how she spread her senses, she wouldn’t be able to point them out unless they attacked, and they were not going to make the same mistake of attacking from an easy-to-follow point.
Raika stood to her feet, the fire crystals around her disappearing back into her storage ring.
She held Alaric close, lightning wrapping around the two like a force field.
Intertwined like a spherical net, crackling as it moved to cover any openings.
Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!
It began to rain, though the sky was clear, the sounds of raindrops naturally breaking the silence.
The silver-eyed one, a cautious assassin, decided to try a different tactic.
The raindrops sparked as they touched Raika’s lightning force field.
Evaporating upon contact, leaving her untouched by even a molecule.
Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!
The rain intensified, obscuring vision and, for some reason, louder than the average rain.
Raika could barely hear her own breath, the rain threatening to drench her lightning.
She remained calm, her eyes closed as she tried to spread her senses but couldn’t.
The amount of heat in the air wasn’t enough to spread her senses.
As a fire mage, she used heat like a radar, but the cold rain scrambled her connection.
Clang!
Her lightning spear materialized in her hands, the tip pointing downwards.
Lightning streaked from it, conducting through the water outside of her protective dome.
"Oh, so that’s how you want to play it."
With her eyes closed, she could materialize the pathways of her lightning like a sonic radar, creating a picture of how the outside her dome looked like.
The rain a metre outside her dome was barely falling, but within a one-metre radius, the rain fell with vengeance, so heavy it was sure to claim a life if hit by it.
"But why don’t you just attack?" she screamed at the top of her lungs, enraged those sneaky bastards were using underhanded tactics instead of facing her.
After screaming so loudly, there was no response.
Only the sound of raging rain.
For some reason, she felt light-headed, her gaze unconsciously falling on Alaric, whose breath was laboured.
"What?"
She hadn’t noticed, but the air within her airtight dome was depleting, Alaric’s small frame the first to feel the effect.
"I am playing into their hands," she growled, eyes bloodshot.
This wasn’t their initial plan, but after noticing the airtight force field, they improvised, and surely it was working.
Well, Raika wasn’t going to allow that, but if she removed her shield, she feared the worst.
But if she didn’t, the worst was inevitable.
Not one to think too deeply about such things, she plunged her spear into the ground, a loud thunderclap resounding, breaking the earth underneath their feet, causing the earth to tremble for several feet.
Lightning shot upwards from the ground, directly into the eye of the rainstorm, where she instinctively believed they were, and true to her instincts, it caught up to them.
The two water mages responsible for the rain dodged by a hair’s breadth, their arms, which were interlocked, scorched black.
An arrow shot through the chaos, aimed at Alaric’s chest, but before it could reach him, Raika turned, the arrow bouncing off her armor.
The rain had dissipated, but the threat very much remained.
She dashed towards the direction of the arrow, appearing there in a second, only to be faced with a barrage of wind arrows, all aimed at Alaric, their shooter nowhere to be found.
The force field of lightning materialized around her, repelling the arrows instantly.
Without the water to interfere with her senses, she stretched them to the max, spotting the two water mages who failed to block her earlier attack.
She dashed towards them, spear poised to attack.
But then, millimetres away from her targets.
Boom!!
They exploded like suicide bombers. freewebnovel.cσ๓
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