Chapter 185: Darkness... (1/2)

After some unexpected delays, Jayden who was in her wisp form had finally entered the school's forest in a hurry, flying through it as fast as possible to reach her destination.

As she was flying deeper and deeper into the seemingly endless sea of trees, she managed to spot a yellow dome-like barrier surrounding a specific area of land, she knew that it was no doubt Nags's barrier that she was informed about.

As she drew closer and closer to it, she managed to make out Moby in that form she saw him in back during the exam, flapping his wide, half-devil half-dragon wings, dodging the attacks of his opponent as he rushed towards him. However, unlike the last time, this time he looked like he was in control of the form and not berserk like he was when she pulled that sick prank on him, pretending that she was dead.

If anything, she thought he looked even hotter and cooler in that new form of his, making her non-existent wisp cheeks turn flushed red as she continued flying in his direction.

They were both moving and maneuvering so quickly that it became somewhat hard for her to keep up, even with her enhanced demon senses, they were just on 2 completely different levels. Still, she was sure that at the end of the blitz-like fast encounter it would be Moby who was undoubtedly on top.

Yet, after a yellow explosion, completely unlike what she had expected, it was Moby that seemed to be the one who had lost and greatly injured himself with many disks flying at him from behind.

When she saw what she saw, Her anger grew as she felt her now non-existent heart ache like it had suddenly broken and exploded into a million pieces. She wanted to do nothing more than to stop and fly towards him to help.

However, despite all the pain that seeing her lover in such a state brought her, she could not allow herself to do that, it would only show a lack of trust.

Moby had already ordered her to stay away from his fight, most likely because she would only serve to be a hindrance in the end and make things harder.

Of course, she fully understood that fact and didn't get mad at him because she also knew that she was still weak compared to all of her peers. She now had the urge, and wanted strength and power more than ever before in her life, she did not want to be useless and fall behind all of her friends.

All her life, she had never trained or even bothered to get any stronger, she thought that due to her family power, she was safe and no one would even dare try and harm her. And, even if they did try to hurt her, she could always just send her butler after them. She only thought about herself and her own well being and survival overall.

But now it was different, she had gained so much more in the past month… Good, real friends that cared about her more than just for her money and an actual lover that she cared about as a person and not just as her personal slave and sex toy.

Her parents had tried to force her to train but she would always reject because she was lazy and didn't think there would be any benefit in doing so. But now thanks to her previous carelessness and overconfidence, she was not able to do anything to help her love in her current situation where only her own powers mattered, not the power and influence of her family.

So, despite how much it hurt her, all she could do now was have faith in Moby and follow her orders of helping Alex and Abby.

Jayden shook her head, trying to stay focused on her task at hand as she swooped down into the forest and turned from her wisp form back into her normal body and decided to travel the rest of the distance on foot.

Staying in wisp form was a very risky endeavour. Wisps were so fragile that even rain was more than enough to kill them. So, that meant that anything unexpected like debris, or a stray attack would be more than enough to kill her in 1 shot and she was not willing to take the risk.

Although she was in a rush, she would much rather be late than sorry... be late and alive to help than just be dead.

She had already had a few close calls in the city, more than she had expected which was why she was so late. And, with all the fights going on in the forest and due to the clearer non-urban sky, she would be more easily spotted by the enemy and taken out faster than she could react, even if she tried to mask herself in her shadows since she was not fully comfortable using it in a non-human body which was more than enough reason to now travel on foot.

When she landed on the ground, she just sped towards Abby and Alex's location at her top speed. She had already used a good chunk of her demon energy on her way from her house to the school's forest and her mana reserves were running slightly low from trying to mask her presence in the air. So, since she doubted that anyone would be able to spot her in extreme darkness and under such a thick layer of trees, she decided against using a lot of her mana to cloak herself so she could have enough to fight and not just reach her destination only to be useless.

And, she decided against transforming into some sort of animal like a wolf since she was still not yet proficient at walking on all 4s, making her much slower, and time was something that she was very low on.

'I am 1 or so minutes away from your guys' location, I am coming to help, it shouldn't take long,' Jayden said, opening a mind-link between her, Alex and Abby.

'Why!? Shouldn't you be helping my lord! We can handle things here alone! My lord's safety is the top priority!' Abby responded with clear vigour, heavily panting and struggling.