Ery's figure could be seen rapidly flickering through the sea of trees as he made his way towards Brutus. He found the tough hairy man lying next to a tree about two hundred feets away.
For a man as strong as Brutus to be so heavily wounded and even thrown that far, that blow he received must have been extraordinarily powerful. Ery certainly didn't want to receive one himself.
Dispelling his mind of distracting thoughts, Ery quickly approached the man. He crouched next to him and checked whether he was still alive or not. Fortunately, although he was very weak, the man was still breathing.
Without further ado, Ery quickly started casting his healing spell on the man.
[Nature's Blessing]
As his spirit root entered the half-unconscious wolf, Ery noticed that, apart from several torn flesh, there were at least a dozen broken bones and dozens more cracked. If that wasn't bad enough, he also perceived that Brutus' spirit core was in turmoil.
Ery did not expect his condition to be so dire. If the man was just slightly weaker than this, he would most likely have died before Ery could even get here.
This man, Brutus, had a rank 5 wolf gene and was a high-stage rank 9 acolyte, which should be around 7 or 8 pillars ford. Ery could say Brutus' strength was on the sa level as his right now, most likely even stronger, yet he was so easily crushed within seconds.
If Ery did not have his [Blink], it would probably be him lying on the ground here right now.
After a minute of healing, the man finally began to regain his consciousness.
"Who... Who are you… Why…?" Brutus asked confused, when he realized this unknown person was healing him.
As he said those words, he struggled to lift his head a little. He tried to focus on the face of the person crouching next to him, but unfortunately, even though he had already regained his consciousness, his vision was still really blurry and would take ti to recover to normal.
"Hang in there, brother… I'll heal you..." Ery said, still focusing on healing the man.
Brutus was montarily stunned, but after a mont, he finally reacted.
"Space magic and nature magic... this sll… You are Ery, aren't you…?" A faint relieved smile could be seen on his face as he said that. He was relieved Ery was fine.
"Yes, it is . Hang in there, I will definitely heal you," Ery answered, his voice filled with determination.
"You... how?… haha, that's right. I just rember, this is your shapeshifting innate ability we laughed about in the past..." Brutus muttered before letting out a dry laugh.
"Yes, you can laugh all you want later. Right now, you need to take a breath and relax. It will not be easy to heal you again if complications start to appear."
At this mont, Ery's spirit root finally reached Brutus' spirit core. However, just as he tried to transfer so spirit force to it, he discovered sothing inside was blocking his spirit force.
A shocked expression colored Ery's face when he realized what it was. A fearso ice-cold spirit energy: Magus Niria's spirit force.
Brutus coughed up blood again and the man closed his eyes before weakly sighing.
"Ery… I am such a fool... I should not have gone. You should not be here as well… you… you should leave too ... go..."
Ery heard Brutus' words, but he did not give a word of response. Instead, he put more concentration and employed his nature core to maximize his [Nature's Blessing], trying to pull and yank the cold energy away.
Alas, the difference in levels between him and Magus Niria was simply too much. Not only did he fail to pull the cold energy away, the cold energy also even dealt so damage to him.
He could feel that Brutus' spirit core, which had been fighting against the coldness for a while now, was getting weaker and weaker. Its energy was so faint Ery could barely feel it.
"No… no... hang in there, Brutus! Tatjana is waiting for you! She's waiting for you!" Ery shouted. He tried to pull the cold energy again and again, but it did not budge no matter what he did.
As if it was retaliating, the cold energy beca fiercer and began crawling all over Brutus' body…
The hairy man's body shook. He was not strong enough.
Ery used even more of his spirit force hoping it could sohow help, but it did nothing to make the man's condition better. As life slowly began to fade from Brutus' eyes, the desperation in Ery's heart crept up even more.
"No… please… No!"
Even though Brutus' senses had already beco dull due to the loss of vitality, he could still hear Ery's trembling voice.
He knew there was no hope for him, but he was grateful Ery tried his best to save him. He held Ery's arm with all the remaining strength he could muster from his body, but he was thinking about soone else instead.
"Tatjana… Tatjana… I am sorry..."
That was the last thing the man said before his body turned to ice crystal. At that mont, any signs of life the man had completely and entirely disappeared.
Brutus was dead.
Ery's hand froze in mid-air. He felt as if his heart had just been pierced by a cold blade.
He could not help him. Brutus was really dead.
Ery slowly stood up and glanced at the fight behind him.
It really was not his fight. He was just not strong enough…
He was afraid.
Ery was one step away from leaving, when he noticed the fight between Magus Niria and Magus Leon. The two were clashing so hard both of them were almost just as injured as the other.
Even so, the tiger bloodline was still one level stronger, as she successfully managed to freeze Leon's right arm that was holding his sword and crush it apart.
"Urrrghhh!"
Magus Leon scread in pain. However, to Ery's surprise, the ice tiger did not charge at him again to finish him. Instead, she charged toward Magus Beatrice, who was a short distance away.
"No! Stop!" Ery reflexively scread.
At that split second, maybe, just maybe, Ery could have used [Blink] and saved both Beatrice and Silva.
But fear got the best of him. He knew he had to move, but his body froze and his feet were stuck in place. At that mont, Ery knew he lost the window to interfere.
The next thing he knew, Magus Niria's frozen claw had almost struck toward Magus Beatrice, but instead of defending or dodging, the windwolf magus shockingly decided to throw the unconscious snake girl toward the charging female tiger magus.
"What are you doing!?" Ery shouted in panic.
Ery quickly used [Blink], but he was too late. He only managed to blink halfway when he saw Magus Niria had already grabbed the girl and with her two terrifying arms, tearing Silva's apart.
Splattt!
"Nooooo!"
Regret and despair overwheld him as he witnessed the girl, who had been very kind to him, his good friend, die in front of him in such a grueso manner.
Ery was still shocked, but the next second, he noticed it was not blood that splattered from the girl's body. Rather, it was a white liquid that now covered Magus Niria's body.
Right after, Magus Niria painfully scread. Her eyes glaring at Magus Beatrice were filled with hate as the liquid quickly burned, piercing her entire body with scorching pain.
Realization dawned upon him; the body was probably not Silva. No, it might not even be a human at all!
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Written by Avans, Published exclusively by W.e.b.n.o.v..e.l,
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