Chapter 212 (1/2)

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at 12th of August 2019 12:45:10 PM

Chapter 212

”Stella, I'm glad we got the mech from the gnomes,” gushed Joseph as they flew over the ground in the wasteland, eating up the miles .

”Cause it's a man's romance, right?” she guessed with a smile he couldn't see .

”Well, obviously, yes to that, but no, I mean more than that . We're only about a hundred miles in from the border . If we go another 50 at this rate, I'm pretty sure it would be fatal without Chuck . And even if we were using body double and your golem, I'm not sure at another hundred that I would be able to keep the corruption from reaching back to us . ”

”Is that why we aren't teleporting? So, you can gauge how bad the corruption is getting?”

”No . The dragons are amazing to keep all this safely away from us . Especially, to keep it up for thousands of years . What I mean is that, I'm generating a field to force the corrupted mana away and purify what comes in . If I teleported in, we would be exposed to the corrupted mana before I could force it away again . We would be repeatedly exposed and purifying us will be difficult . ”

”Joseph, are we in danger?”

”No, not yet, but it's good I don't sleep . We should be good all the way at this rate because of Chuck . If it gets too bad, we will have to go home and work on something to try again . I still have 300 points and I can try talking to Saisho again . ” He sighed . ”But I am really hoping to avoid that . ”

Stella pointed past his head, so he could see her . ”What is that? It has…tentacles?”

HAWK VISION .

”What the…SHAVIST! It's alive, Stella!”

”But how? You just said even you would die out here . And there's another over there . ”

”I don't know what they are, Stella, and the corrupted mana blocks my magic at this range . It has tentacles, shark skin patches, some plates that look like maybe lizard skin, patches of fur and teeth growing all over its body . The other one is just as messed up, but mutated differently . I think its stomach is hanging from its back . I don't even know how it's alive much less walking around . ”

”Are they undead? Ghouls?” asked Stella, concern in her voice . She hated fighting the undead .

”No, they're actually alive, but so corrupted I don't know how . It's like the corrupted mana is keeping them alive despite trying to kill them at the same time . ”

Joseph shrugged after a moment of thought . ”Let's start testing . ”

MAGMA MISSILE .

It started to take on a hideous black color as soon as it hit the corrupted mana, but didn't change fundamentally .

”Probably not long enough in the mana to be affected that strongly,” Joseph muttered .

CREATE OBJECT .

CREATE OBJECT .

He created a 300-foot-long chain and a 300-foot-long wire . Chuck began dragging them, without really noticing the extra weight . They weren't really slowed down by it, either, but since each link was different, Joseph could observe the differences between the corruption on each link individually and the corruption on the wire that was one solid piece .

”Joseph, is that making any sense to you?” asked Stella, glancing behind them at the strange effects occurring to the links .