76 Chapter 76 Ice Trolls And Monsters Fleeing The Fog (2/2)
CREATE FIRE filled the area they were in, and their screams filled the air. As the fire died back, super thin little skeletons were all that were left. They were made of some kind of crystal that wouldn't melt or burn.
”Think they can heal from that?” he asked.
Stella looked at the skeletons and then back at him.
”Right,” he said, nodding. Throwing the skeletons on top of each other, he cast CREATE FIRE again. This time he used the rune within rune to double its power and burned the bones until they blackened. Crumbling into a pile of dust, he waited a few moments for it to cool before collecting some. He never knew when it might come in handy.
”If it's that hard to kill them, its no wonder the barbarians couldn't kill them.”
Joseph nodded in agreement before they continued on, as if nothing had happened.
The third night out camping is awful. Neither of them was able to sleep. The monster attacks were constant and wouldn't stop until dawn. They even went ahead and used some of the bags of charcoal so that they didn't get surrounded. Joseph thought it only attracted more monsters though.
The last pack of dire wolves showed obvious signs of fog touch, either missing a piece of tail or having a spot of ice on their body. It melted off quickly with magical fire from CREATE FIRE, or when exposed to DETONATE, but normal fires or IGNITE FIRE on their fur didn't bother it at all.
It took a bit of study for Joseph to figure out, but the mana itself had gained an attribute. The mana around it was also affected and became influenced, or maybe corrupted would be better. At any rate, once he figured out the mechanism for how it spread, he simply forcefully circulated his own mana into it and pull the influenced mana into himself.
Stella freaked.
Once the ice mana entered his body, he forced it to obey him and it returned to normal almost instantly. Meanwhile, his own mana was displacing the ice mana in the block, so even though the block remained frozen, it didn't have a spreading influence anymore. Once he pulled his own mana back from the block, he found that he had more mana than before he started.
”Why would you do that?” Stella shouted, panic evident in her eyes. ”Don't you know that if that hadn't worked, you would have been frozen?”
”What? Like I would be overcome with that puny amount of mana.”
”Joseph.” The look in her eyes told him that she had been more than terrified.
Reaching over, Joseph gave her a hug and she froze.
”Stella, calm down. I needed to a.n.a.lyze it to know how to protect you when we get to the icy fog. I knew that wasn't dangerous for me. If it was dangerous, then we are all doomed to die long before we can beat whatever is causing this. There is far more to this world, that we have to travel through.”
With a sigh she said, ”The next time you are about to do something dangerous, that you know is ok, let me know.”
”You mean like a tickle fight?” he asked with a laugh.
”No, those won't be ok.”
”Wow, that was your, 'I am no fairy' tone.”
She didn't respond, but her look told him plenty.
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