Chapter 286: Elemental Boost (2/2)

”I feel my Water Elemental Energy to have gone up in intensity… But the duration isn't that long.”

Before I could ask her, Fleur already described what she felt. Afterwards, she also gathered Water Elemental Energy on her palm. A Spell Nucleus and a single Elemental Node flashed for a bit before that ball of Energy shot out from her palm and bore a deep hole on the ground.

The 10% amplification included the absorption, output, and casting speed. Since it's not amplifying any of the three stats, it became possible to do that.

”Thank you for detailing it. It seems it's a success.”

”Anything for you.”

I heard her whisper in a voice that only I could hear. The way she also flashed a smile along with it increased my fondness of her.

Well, there's no time to flirt with her at the moment so I turned back to the World's Will to cast an Aether Elemental Boost on her.

Though she was surprised, she received it willingly. The patched-up shoulder of her instantly went back to its normal structure and the Energy she lost from the leak instantly got filled up.

Everyone exclaimed after seeing that and even the Incarnation showed an awed expression. By interacting with us, she's slowly perfecting her expressions and emotions.

Well, as long as she doesn't turn hostile to everyone, I also want to see what will happen to her when this World successfully leveled up.

After that brief pause in our mission, we once again readied ourselves for the next Dark World Zone. To disguise the World's Will's Incarnation, we relied on Boris' Illusion this time since Jayna's disguising technique won't work on her Incarnation body.

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”Huh? What's happening? How come there's no report from the outer Zones? What are they doing there?!”

The Transcendent standing guard at the third Zone shouted as she flew up to face us. Faced with our combined Transcendent Auras, her movement slowed down and a difficult expression appeared on her face.

When Hikari saw her, she recognized the Transcendent as one of those she fought against a week ago in front of Serenia.

Telling us she wanted to finish what she couldn't finish back then, we let her face the female Transcendent while we cleaned up Zone of the Dark World guards and the few Noxians in place.

In less than five minutes, I brought the Incarnation with me inside the area to take apart the devices. With her help, it became easier to store the Dark Energy in the whole zone.

A little above us, the battle against Hikari and the female Transcendent was still raging. Within a space filled with Dark Energy, the female Transcendent was proven to be stronger than a new Transcendent like Hikari. However, when we gathered all of the Dark Energy existing in this space, she instantly fell into a dilemma.

”You. You're not a Noxian… You're that fledgeling relying on someone else's support!”

Back during that fight, Hikari was being supported by Arland's Magus Tower. That's the reason why she could fight multiple Transcendents at once even without my Support Buffs.

Since Hikari kept using her signature spells, the female Transcendent guessed her identity even if she couldn't take the disguise off.

”So what? What will you do with that information?”

”Report you, of course! Out of the way!”

Since she's already at a disadvantage, without the Dark Energy which she could passively absorb, she instantly planned out her escape.

It's commendable but with six of us here, there's no way for her to run.

When she pulled away from Hikari, Jayna's vines came rushing towards her and restricted her feet. And even with only an illusion, Boris wielded his whip making it look like a gigantic greatsword as he slashed towards her. Contrary to her expectation that she would be cut in half, the whip only lodged to the female Transcendent's neck.

”Haa. I'm still weak. I can't finish her by myself.”

Hikari lamented before delivering a final blow to the restricted Transcendent. When she fell from the air, her indignant expression could be seen plastered on her face.

Looking at that face who couldn't believe that she would die here made me think that it will also be what will happen to us, especially my Companions, if we failed to close the Portal and stronger Transcendents continued to descend in this world. Even if that Dark Elf Transcendent told us that there would only be 20+ Transcendents, it's not impossible for them to send more if the result remained stagnant.

We have to succeed no matter what. I don't want to see the expressions my girls had back in the Transcendent Mind Trial.