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As Ellergest saw Blake being so tired and exhausted, he realized he had been being a terrible mentor. To think he would let his new young apprentice face such danger by himself, it was already impressive he somehow survived through the entire ordeal. He desperately looked at his Gold Dragon, who was still wrestling and desperately fighting against the Demon Spirit, whose strength could even surpass the dragon sometimes.
“Damn useless lizard, how long are you going to take to defeat that thing?!” Muttered Ellergest. The Golden Dragon heard his master’s words, roaring back at him.
“If it wasn’t because you’ve been doing nothing but slacking I wouldn’t be so old and weak now!!!” Cried the Dragon.
“Well if you weren’t so lazy I would had made you fight more!!!” Roared Ellergest.
For a moment, the Demon Spirit stood still while looking at both of them roaring to one another wildly, he felt a bit shocked, and didn’t knew how to respond to this stupid scene.
CLAAASH!
The Golden Dragon used this opportunity to whip the demon’s chest with his enormous, scaled tail, without letting it regain his head so easily, he quickly unleashed a breath attack, blasting the demon spirit several meters away!
BOOOOMMM!!!
“Now move your ass and go help the kid!” Roared the Golden Dragon, as he saw Ellergest already running as much as his old body could across the grass in the backyard of the manor.
Meanwhile, Blake looked into the distance, as Cassandra seemed to be doing something strange, she was conjuring demonic energies and mana, and fusing them together to enhance her body, which continued to grow more and more demonic as time went by.
“Hahhh… Is she trying to reinforce her strength to finish us off in one attack?” Thought Blake, as he began to gasp for air, his soul was forcing his body to move at this point, but his body was barely responding, the amount of damage he took was still big, and his entire body felt stiff. “If only I could have my former strength…” Blake couldn’t recover his stamina in time, even his Qi seemed mostly exhausted…
However, a sudden white glow covered his body, his various wounds closed, and his stamina was slightly recovered, alongside the energy of his body and even his mind was calmed down as the headache he was having quickly dissipated.
Blake looked behind him, finding the old Ellergest who had just conjured a strong healing spell on him, the old man seemed just as worn down as him, but was standing on his ground even better due to the power he had.
“Blank… You must escape, go back to the manor, bring Seth and the others, and escape… This woman’s power cannot be handled so easily… She had corrupted herself with demonic power way too much… Call the church, adventurers, mercenaries, bring them all here!” Said Ellergest. “This woman might even destroy the entire village if we don’t do a thing!”
Ellergest attempted to persuade Blake, but the boy was not a scaredy cat, he was a man that had lived thousands of years, wiser than him in everything except the knowledge of this world. His mind was unwavering, despite the odds, he knew he could win if he played his cards correctly, like he always did against the countless enemies he fought on his previous life, with the exception of Lucifer…
“I won’t.” Said Blake. “I know I can defeat it. You’re a good fighter. I hate to admit it but you’ll have to do.”
Despite sounding rather foolish and immature, the voice of Blake was strong and determined, not naively so, but so confidently powerful that it even made Ellergest feel a chill down his spine. This wasn’t some naïve confidence, this was the confidence a man that has lived thousands of years had over his own strength, his own body, and the experience he had accumulated over all this time.
“Y-You’re saying that I am not a competent companion to fight with?!” Asked Ellergest, misunderstanding what Blake said, the thing is, his old soul had a hard time asking for help from others, even less recognizing another person’s strength. He found such things as corny and useless, so he spoke so directly and indirectly sometimes that his words came out confusing, making people become confused if he was insulting them or praising them.
“You’re useless, but not that bad.” Said Blake.
“Eh? What does that even means?!” Asked Ellergest.
“…” For a moment, Blake looked into the face of Ellergest expressionlessly, scaring the old man by how expressionless he could be. “You’ll help me.”
“Okay, I get it! Damn you have a hard time complementing or asking for help to people, don’t you?” Asked the old man.
“Stop talking nonsense and let’s get over with it…” Said Blake, as he touched Ellergest shoulder.
“What are you doing- UUOOHH?!”
FLUOOOSH!
Blake quickly infused Qi inside of Ellergest, awakening all of his Qi Veins and even the Qi Core in a mere second, filling the old man with a new and rejuvenating energy that quickly filled him with stamina.
“T-This is… You used this before, didn’t you?” Asked Ellergest, realizing a new sort of energy he had never felt before started to flow through his body, unlike other people that often cluelessly thought this was magic, Ellergest immediately realized this was not magic, but something else entirely, a new power he had never seen before was flowing across his body! …But somehow, he also recognized it as very closely related to Life Energy, a concept that most healers had about a special type of energy that flowed inside of people. Their healing spells specialized in infusing this energy inside of people to heal them.
Could Qi… be closely related with Life Energy, or be this very concept? Blake had thought about it for a while, but he didn’t really had the time to do some in-depth thinking when there was an insane demon woman about to one-shot both of them.
If they didn’t stopped her now, the entire town might be in danger… And he wouldn’t really want that to happen to this village before he gets his pay.
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