Chapter 195: Divine Spear Sefarim (2/2)

“O human child, go forth and perform a miracle.” Xi Wei whispered as he looked down upon the mortal realm.

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Jessica lifted the divine spear and aimed it true at the Drake that was charging fearsomely at them, doing as the lunar radiance instructed to energize Sefarim.

The blossoming leaves and fruits immediately withered then, with every golden leaf and silver fruit vanishing.

Countless golden symbols swirled over the body of the spear as its two tree limbs coiled around each other to form a spiraling tip—anyone looking carefully would find that it was hollow, with its inside filled with silver fruits.

Soon, Jessica felt something being drained out of her body from the hand she was holding the spear with.

“Jessica! Your level!” Edward cried out in surprise beside her.

Jessica looked up and only realized then that her Player Level was plummeting, that her EXP was used to activate the divine spear!

Even so, she did not let go.

She had always been the weak link of her party,

With Eleena, a Saintess-in-training who was basically a powered-up cleric in every aspect, Jessica’s necessary in their band had always been ambiguous and not even the readers would remember her name.

So… she would unleash her own radiance even if it would only happen once!

Or she was never going to catch up to her childhood friends who by now had gone far ahead.

But reality was always cruel—even as Jessica paused and prepared to unleash Sefarim, she did not have the time to do so.

The Drake was going to swallow her in a single stroke in less than ten seconds!

‘No! I’m not going to make it.’

She despaired, but it wasn’t despair in the face of death since she was more or less used to dying as a Player.

Instead, she was despairing in the face of her incompetence.

Even after all this, was she still going to fail and everything would end just like that?

“Vine Cage!”

“Warped Roots!”

“Cane Creepers!”

“Holy Light Barrier: Mirror Reflection!”

The elves who had been fleeing had somehow stopped, turn around and casted their spells at the Drake and doing all they could to stop its advance.

Then, several warm hands touched Jessica’s back, sharing the drain of EXP.

She turned in surprise to find Edward, Joe, Eleena and even Gou Dan whom-they-had-not-seen-for-a-long-time helping her.

They were not heroically taking the draining Sefarim from her and take her place in slaying the Drake, nor were they blaming her for her actions which was meaningless aside from self-gratification.

They simply stayed silent, supporting her from behind and waiting for her to continue adventuring with them.

Jessica almost couldn’t stop her tears.

Nonetheless, she forced herself to smile as she turned somberly towards the Drake and unleashed Sefarim’s splendor.

Like a giant silver flower blossoming upon the world, the attack was quiet and without a presence, but was of unmatched elegance.

The whole world seemed to have its light taken away just then, and even far away from the forests, people could see the flower’s blossoming.

When the flower finally wilted and the rest was silence, the Drake had completely vanished along with an enormous chunk of the ground, leaving behind a geyser and a crater…

“To use Sefarim and unleash a blow of such might… who—no, what are you?” Brom could not help mumbling even as he watched the sight before him.

Jessica remained impassive, rubbing the corner of her eye as she beamed widely, showing her flowery dimples.

“Players. We’re just a few Players passing through,” she replied.