Chapter 295 - Fatal Error (2/2)

Fortunately for her, just as she was on the brink of despair, a decently large green ball of energy hastily made its way towards Herellia's body. Due to the nature of the ball's energy, Herellia's movement speed was instantly increased to a level where she could outrun the lightning bolts. Within a few seconds, the gap between the two was large enough for her to stop where she was and focus all of her attention on the large crimson thorns. And just like that, the remaining lavender bolts were dispelled by Herellia, although the time at which she had taken to do so had increased in the process.

Letting out a sigh of relief as she made her way back to her original position, Herellia went ahead and focused her sense of vision towards Argentum before saying through an energy strand, ”Thanks for the buff.”

”Don't mention it,” Argentum said with a light chuckle. Soon after, he told her in a somewhat serious tone, ”In the next round, I won't give you any more buffs. I hope you can survive the next round with what you currently have.”

Although she wanted to ask a few more buffs from Argentum, she understood where Argentum was coming from, prompting her to keep her requests to herself as she replied, ”I'll try my best.”

And with that response, Herellia ended the conversation between them as she unhesitatingly went ahead and fused the two large crimson thorn into one large crimson thorn. This time, the golden sheen surrounding the thorns had become a bit more intense, making anyone that looked at it from afar think that the thorn seemed to be made out of gold.

As for Argentum and Horell, Horell could not help but look at Argentum with an aura of shock as he asked, ”Did you just buff her up?” In response, Argentum lightly nodded, prompting Horell to ask him yet another question, saying, ”Didn't you say that we shouldn't buff her up too much?”

”I didn't say anything like that,” Argentum said. He then added, ”In any case, we can't afford to buff her up one more time as this round might be the hardest she would ever face.”

With that, the two of them focused their senses of vision back at Herellia…just as the final round of lightning bolts had come crashing down.

Bzzt…crash!

In an instant, 100 lightning bolts filled with destructive intent had come down from the dark clouds to smite Herellia down. To her dismay, these 100 lightning bolts…were all lavender!

”Ahhhh!!!!” In response, Herellia let out a loud shout as she went ahead and activated one of the offense boosting skills she had in her arsenal. Simultaneously, she willed the large crimson thorn to head towards the lavender lightning bolts, willing it to move in a spiral direction as she took the tendril connecting the thorn to her body into consideration. With that, the number of lightning bolts heading towards her way gradually became less and less.

90…80…70…50…30…

Unfortunately, although the number of lavender lightning bolts continued to decrease, the gap between her and the lightning bolts decreased as well, prompting her to head into the trees once more to buy some time for her to push herself to the limit and break through the current situation she was in.

Whoosh!

Just like before, the remaining lavender lightning bolts, which amounted to about 20 or so, swerved around the trees like slippery snakes, continuing to head towards Herellia to achieve their ultimate goal. Thanks to the movement speed boosting buff Argentum cast on her earlier, the gap between her and the lavender lightning bolts continued to gradually increase. After about ten seconds or so of utilizing her movement skill to the fullest, she felt like there was still hope for her to clear the tenth round without asking for help…

Until there was none anymore.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Out of the blue, a few lavender lightning bolts appeared in front of Herellia, instantly making her radiate an aura of disbelief as she wondered how these bolts came in front of her all of a sudden. She then noticed the arcs of the lightning bolts in the sky, seeing that some of the lightning bolts, noticing that she had entered the trees, decided to change their approach…as if they had a mind of their own.

'This is it,' Herellia could not help but think to herself as she was basically sandwiched between two groups of lavender lightning bolts wanting to smite her and turn her body into a mangled mess. But just as she felt like there was no more hope for her…

A barrier was soon cast around her body!

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