206 Change of plans (1/2)
She talked about how she pretended to be defeated so the demon could bring her closer to her core, how Ellie used this chance to finally touch the core and steal one of her abilities, that being, the power to boost her strength from staying in contact with the soil, and finally how she managed to access terminal energy by combining said power with her blessed energy and her magic energy, which gave her the final push to defeat the demon.
She assumed that everyone would be jumping of joy from this news but they all were holding serious looks on their faces as if they were trying to solve a very long math problem.
”Something wrong?” Ellie asked, not being able to stand the silence any longer.
”Ellie... How do you feel?” Marcus asked while trying to be careful with his words.
Ellie wondered about that question. She was missing an arm and suffered another blow to her pride, but overall, she was feeling optimistic thinking she was finally on the right track to fight Mia.
”I was a little shocked at first... But... I think I'll be better by tomorrow...”
Marcus didn't drop his look thought, ”I'm glad to hear but... That's not what I meant... I was talking about how you feel physically...”
”Physically?”
Detra spoke next, ”try to stand, young miss...”
Ellie was a little confused with their concerns but she did as she was told and pulled her sheet. She then touched the wooden floor with her feet and tried to stand up, followed by immediately falling and almost crashing against the ground if it wasn't for Marcus catching her.
”That's what I thought...” Detra mumbled.
”What!? What happened?” Ellie asked while realizing she could barely feel any strength in her bones.
”It seems like your body reached its limit...” Detra explained.
”What do you mean? Am I out of magic power again or something? Cause if so, I can just absorb more...”
”Ellie, you slept the whole day yesterday...” Lilith commented, ”your body should be full of magic already by this point...”
”What...? Then...” the girl mumbled.
”I told you... Your body reached its limit...” Detra spoke again, ”the problem is not that you don't have enough power... Is that you have too much power... Way too much for a nine-year-old to handle...”
At this moment Claire raised her hand, ”actually, you said Ellie spent a whole month in the garden right? Then she's probably ten by now...”
Ellie widened her eyes at her friend's comment. She completely forgot about her birthday and didn't even realize that she was ten years old by now, ”I missed my own tenth birthday party??”
Ellie began to count, ”I have the magic diamonds, the future sight, the holy metal, spell breaker, the beastly howl-”
”What!? How did you learn all that??” Joseph shouted.
”Ignore him...” Detra commented, ”please continue...”
”Right... and now I also have the power boost I got from the forest demon...”
”Oh!! Can I name this one? We could call it, earth's blessing!!” Joseph interrupted again.
”We are not going to name a demon power with the word blessing!!” Detra yelled.
”Sorry...”
”Anyway...” Detra took a deep breath, ”anything else? You also came in contact with me many times... Did you get any ice spell?”
”Don't think so... I tried many times... But nothing ever happened... I think my mirror magic picks a power at random if I don't focus on what I want...”
”I see...” Detra whispered. She seemed a little down, as if she was disappointed she wouldn't get to see Ellie using one of her spells. This made Marcus smirk at her which in turn made her blush and turn her face to the other side.
”So... I think that's it... six powers...” Ellie finished.
”Right, right... Getting back to the problem... This might not seem like much...”
”You kidding...?? It took me a whole week to learn two spells and she just starts counting six of these things like she was talking about a shopping list! That seems like a lot to me!” Joseph interjected for the third time.
”WOULD SOMEONE GET THIS KID OUT OF HERE!!???” Detra shouted.
Claire pulled Joseph's hand and dragged him out of the room so he would stop ruining the flow of the conversation. Once Detra calmed down she began to talk again.
”As I was saying!!” Detra took a deep breath, ”She simply has too much power inside her body... Not only that, she gets a new power every time she touches someone... At this rate, her body might actually blow up from not being able to handle this much energy...”
Ellie's face became blue, ”Is... Is this another joke...???”
”I wish... It would be one thing if these powers had some consistency... But their natures are all over the map... If you keep gathering random abilities like this the same thing that happened to your hand might happen to the rest of you...”
”Oh, God...” Ellie whispered while holding her amputated arm, ”how do I turn it off??”
”You need to learn to control it with time... But sadly, we don't have time... The battle with Mia is tomorrow and you don't look like you are in proper shape yet... So for now... I suggest you try and not to touch anyone...”