Chapter 538: Teleportation (1/2)

Chapter 538 Teleportation

Ilea had to focus on forgetting the idea of a shedding Catelyn.

I could shed too… no pain and healing would make it a simple but bloody process, Ilea thought and nearly gagged. Let’s not.

Now where do I find a weak creature, she thought and blinked out of Hallowfort, quickly reaching the surface again.

She made a turn and entered the Penumra dungeon.

Never explored this one, she thought, jumping down onto one of the roots. The entrance looked the same to her as she remembered.

The Drop Saurians didn’t wait for long, a few of them cautiously crawling closer on the adjacent roots and walls.

Ilea waited for one of them to charge, catching the creature with her ashen limbs.

[Drop Saurian – lvl 363]

“Lower than me even,” she mused, looking at the frothing creature trying to bite and claw her but unable to break through her restraints.

The projectiles shot by the various ranged variants that had reached a sufficient distance to get to her didn’t penetrate her armor anymore.

Ilea sent a medium charged Heart of Cinder at some of the creatures, killing three more with a few ashen spears.

She called out with Monster Hunter, using her new second tier Deviant of Humanity to make it clear that the creatures were simply no match for her.

Ilea tried to grasp at what her captive felt and thought but it remained aggressive, trying to cut through the ash with continued vigor.

The others had retreated after her display, entirely uncaring for their captured friend. The corpses were left behind, one still falling down into the green hell.

Let’s try this then, she thought and activated her third tier blink.

She summoned a cloak and placed it next to her on the massive root. Her fire making sphere appeared too, carefully placed inside a nook so that it wouldn’t roll away.

Ilea testedher theory but couldn’t be sure until the six minutes were up.

Blink activated and Ilea used her third tier of Space Shift to attach the monster, the sphere, and her cloak to her own long range spell with Displacement.

She appeared inside her house, with her cloak, her sphere, and a thrashing monster that remained alive and well.

A grin spread on her lips, her healing counteracting the effects of the low mana on the Drop Saurian. It wasn’t quite as dramatic as on the insect creatures who had lived in Erendar all their lives. She assumed the Saurian would have survived even without her help.

Bad luck, I suppose, she thought and grabbed its head. A quick twist broke its neck.

Ilea slammed ashen limbs through its head, heart, and spine. The first move hadn’t been quite enough to kill it.

This might be enough… as long as it doesn’t resist, it should be possible.

She giggled, displacing both herself and the corpse out towards the Swordmouth tiger cave. Ilea didn’t wait for them and just threw the monster body inside. Her wings spread as she ascended once more. The mission had been a complete success.

“You have returned… earlier than expected. Were there complications?” Meadow asked.

“None. I brought them all to Hallowfort. My friend guaranteed their integration into the local society. The mana in the area is high enough for there to be no issues,” Ilea said, settling down in an ashen armchair.

“That is…,” Meadow said as a ripple of various magic types flowed through the large hall, the black grass moving as if touched by the wind.

Ilea knew that the air hadn’t moved.

“It worked… our training… the plan to bring them through. It really worked,” Meadow said.

“Sounds like you didn’t exactly trust me,” Ilea said and crossed her arms.

“Oh don’t look at me like that, Ilea. You know just as I do that there could have been many ways for this plan to fail. You act with an optimistic improvisation that I’m not familiar with. But it was you who saved them in the end,” Meadow said.

“Well you opened the gate in the first place,” Ilea pointed out.

“A selfish act, truly. I shall honor our deal and close it,” Meadow said.

“Hold up a minute,” Ilea said. She summoned a meal and started eating.

‘ding’ ‘Gourmet reaches lvl 4’

“Well I figured something out. Might be easier to demonstrate,” she said and stood up. Plate in hand, she threw up her fork and blinked, connecting the utensil with displacement to her blink.

Both appeared a few meters away where she caught the fork and continued eating.

“You… that is… does it work on your realm travel ability?” Meadow asked, sounding just a little excited.

“Well it worked from Elos to Elos. With a monster. I’ll have to test if it works beyond realms too,” she said.

“I see no theoretical way why it shouldn’t… this is. You really did consider me, did you not?” Meadow asked.

“Of course. Did you think I’d leave a friend behind, just like that? I would have paid, pressured, or beaten Gyffold and Lys into submission to have you pass through and close the gate from our side but now we might not have to worry about any of that,” she said with a smile.

Meadow remained quiet for a while.

“Ilea… I don’t know what to say,” the being said and instead sent emotions her way.

“I told you before. It’s not just a selfless act, Meadow. Your power and expertise is something we could use. As is the defense you can bring to the table with all your insane magic,” Ilea said.

A soundless giggle went through the hall, somehow manifesting in ripples of space magic itself.

“If you say so,” Meadow said.

“Well, I do,” Ilea said. “No nation I know of has managed to get a four mark to cooperate with them on such a basis. You’d be as powerful as the acquisition of nukes.”

“Oh sure. Sure,” Meadow said and sent a thought containing a smile.

“What are you getting at?” Ilea asked.

“Nothing, Ilea. Thank you. For your help and your trust. You saved several species from extinction and perhaps you may yet add another to your list,” the creature said. “Closing the gate from this side will prevent the destruction of your city. However the spirit problem remains.”

“I’ll protect the gate and then I’ll get you out of here,” Ilea said.

“The Spirits will not be interested in the gate. What they will seek, is I,” Meadow said.

“Then I’ll just have to protect you until it’s done,” she said.

“Despite your prowess, you cannot face the concentrated efforts of mundane Astral Spirits. You are no match for those who have yet to descend,” Meadow said.

“We’re not closing it immediately either. I can get stronger,” Ilea said.

“To an extent. But we cannot extend the risk too far. You will not reach sufficient power in time. Perhaps not ever,” Meadow said.

“Yeah I doubt that. You’re entirely useless while you close the gate?” she asked.

“Not entirely, no. However I won’t be able to stand against the creatures yet to come,” it said.

“You can’t stand at all,” Ilea pointed out.

“That is technically true,” Meadow said. “As is the fact that we need allies.”

“Allies. You didn’t mention that before,” Ilea said.

“I had not considered my continued survival. Well… perhaps I am overly dramatic. There is a chance I could survive against the Daughters for another eclipse’s length despite my weakened state during the gate closure,” Meadow said.

Ilea sighed. “Don’t agree to suicidal plans without informing me.”

“Ilea I know in what danger you live whenever you travel to the wastes. It’s unreasonable to expect of me what you yourself so obviously disregard,” it said.

“I can be unreasonable,” Ilea said and shrugged.

“Humans,” Meadow said, a sigh rushing through the hall.

“Oh don’t give me that. We’re all Eyes to you, aren’t we?” Ilea asked with a smile.