Episode 105 – Alive (1/2)

Episode 105 – Alive

Previously:

The day of the practical exae arena created by the Replica Dungeon Kiel and Nelaira e to defeat their opponents Rhur uses Razorblood petals to slice the neck of his opponent open Kiel and Rhur decide to each take one opponent, however, they can’t agree on which opponent to pick They end up bickering, neither one wanting to fight Deora Nelaira tricks Deora into attacking the Rroda brothers, and Deora ends up pursuing Kiel with a barrage of fireballs Kiel runs away, dodging the fireballs, however, Deora es to hit him with an explosive airball Kiel loses his consciousness and re house as a child

When Kiel’s vision lit up again he was lying on his side, his entire body aching in utter agony The flames had turned his stylish black clothes into scraps His chest and arms were completely bare, and even his pants were in tatters

His head pulsed with a h-pitched tone buzzed in his ears

He couldn’t hear the crackling of the fire, he couldn’t even hear his own heart beat

The sounds seemed far away, distant, quiet It was as if so all sound

His long eyelashes fluttered, trying to clear his blurry vision

The entire world was spinning,him sick to his stomach

Tilass

Trickle, trickle; his blood dripped down sluggishly, rolling down his chin onto the floor

It slid down so slowly that it looked as if it was floating instead of falling

The dust was floating too; it covered up the sunlight, turning his entire world dark

All his senses were co

How aht to enter his raine intensify His earth shi+eld reinforced by a protection spell had helped block the majority of the impact created by the explosion Otherwise, he would have died on the spot

It had sent hi cut, yet because his body was arched forwards in a running pose, his body ended up curling up and rolling Like a skipping stone, he bounced off the groundthe force

Ironically, his loss of consciousness made his muscles relax which helped absorb the ians andhim considerable pain, he suffered no serious internal injury

Yet, what baffled Kiel wasn’t that he survived the physical impact – it was because he survived the heat released by the blast His temperature isolation had dissipated shortly after he lost consciousness, leaving hih to melt steel So hoas he still alive?!

Kiel’s heart thu his sense of pain He stretched his mind out to cover the entire arena Out of all his senses, only hisproperly

The sweep of his mind helped his heart caler There were no fireballs or firewalls chasing hi from the explosion hi as Rhur and Nelaira were also looking disoriented and ruffled, Kiel figured that his loss of consciousness was brief

Unfortunately, that brought hiroaned, his atteony The husky sound of his voice spread like a beacon inside a silent world It sent out ripples that stirred up his senses one by one

A burnt s of fire that sounded so near, as if it was flickering right inside his ears

No… wait…

Only now did Kiel realize that his hair was still on fire

He tried casting coolinghis hair, yet all histo heed his co everything else Te his will over every particle of energy in his vicinity

Until his very last breath, he would ren of this mana–his mana This was his world A world where his as law

The wild particles of e Like scared little piwi, they struggled left and right but they could not break free of their shackles Slowly, but orderly, they got into line, trickling towards Kiel’s body and tracing a web inside of hih his body, soothing his scorched flesh and putting out the reain, Kiel weaved a dense net of ans And then in the center of the net he drew up a Morph spell

Besides the ability to alter reality, spells had an extra function the e of – an ability to extend the senses of the e, an extra lie the ability to feel the velocity of the target so as to control it better; a Tee very sensitive to the teet, and sie to feel the shape of the target, which was one of the reasons why using it to shapeshi+ft was much easier than if one tried to achieve the sae’s ability to “feel” through their spells was directly proportional to the density of their spell roots and their spell control And Kiel’s dense net of mana coupled with his fine spell control allowed him to directly feel all the little parts of his broken body through the Morph spell

His whole body including his inner organs was bruised, and three of his ribs were broken Yet, miraculously, his skin wasn’t badly burnt at all It was red and painful, stea off it But, these burns… were just first degree burns!

How is this possible?! Kiel’s mind reeled, but he had no time to ponder over the ive up on this exaritted his teeth and accelerated his broken ribs back into place, then he used the Morph spell to weld theether He was no healer, and he didn’t know if Morphing broken bones like this would cause future troubles, but this body was just a Replica He didn’t need to worry about future consequences

If he wanted to continue this fight, he couldn’t have his ribs threatening to poke holes inside his organs

After his ribs were put back into place, he found it easier to breathe He atteue from the pain

Not only was his skin burnt but the e bruises

He gave up trying to get up and tried to calht

I’m fine I suffered no serious injuries

In fact, I’m not even that burned I’ve had orse!

This is nothing!

The dust started clearing, occasional ray of sunlight traveled through, illu Kiel’s scrunched up face

Kiel released his Morph spell and attempted to create a si to cast a Velocity spell He needed to be ready to escape at a moment’s notice Since his body couldn’t ic to move it

However, before he could finish it, a faint sound of footsteps entered his ear Slowly, they were approaching hi louder and louder with each step