Chapter 300 - The True Power of Buffs (2/2)

Whoosh!

Before Horell could reply to his words, Argentum sent out a strand of energy towards Herellia, instantly forming a connection between the two as Argentum asked in a slightly serious tone, ”How's your current situation?”

”To be honest, better than I expected,” Herellia replied as she focused all of her attention on running. After a while, she stopped in her tracks before sending out a wave of beams to fight against the dense bolts, dispelling a great number of them. She then continued to run after that before saying, ”Then again, I feel like I'm reaching my limit. Although I could use a trump card to turn the tides, I wouldn't have enough energy to make use of it, so it would be useless.”

”I see,” Argentum said in response before the sounds of hemming and hawing resounded in Herellia's mind. Fortunately, those sounds did not last long as Argentum asked her, ”So, would you like us to cast a buff on you?”

Argentum then followed up with another statement, not letting Herellia respond as he continued, ”Before you say no, this buff would increase your combat power to a great extent. I've thought about the consequences brought by casting this buff, and I can say with full certainty that the pros outweigh the cons.”

”If you say that…then I have no choice, do I?” Herellia said not long after in response to Argentum's words, letting out a light chuckle before adding, ”Cast it as fast as possible, I might be swallowed up by the lightning bolts at any second.”

”On it,” Argentum responded to Herellia's words before cutting off the connection between them. Noticing that Argentum was not preoccupied anymore, Horell went ahead and asked him, ”So what did Herellia say?”

With an aura of slight happiness, Argentum replied, ”We're going to cast some buffs.”

”Alright!” Horell said with immense glee before asking, ”What buff should I cast?”

In response, Argentum went ahead and started to mutter a long incantation as a ball of blue energy gradually manifested over one of his hands. While he was doing so, he turned his head to look at Horell for a bit and said, ”Save your buffs for now.”

”For now, this buff I'm casting will allow Herellia to turn the tides without a problem,” Argentum added soon after. A few seconds later, he stopped chanting incantations as the ball of blue energy hovering over his hands radiated an aura that made one feel like they were going to be reborn if they were basked in it. Not long after, Argentum went ahead and utilized his enhanced vision to locate where Herellia was before flinging it towards her at lightning speeds.

”[Supreme Aqua Benefica: Selfless Variant]!”

Whoosh!

Although Argentum did not know if it was due to the spell being a Blessed Water spell or not, the ball of blue energy headed to where Herellia was within a few seconds, with Herellia's body absorbing the ball of blue energy not long after.

Swoosh!

In an instant, the effects of the blue energy ball had shown itself, increasing the gap between Herellia and dense lightning bolts chasing her in an instant as she felt that all of the cells making up her body were in an energized state. Not only that, but she also felt that the amount of energy she could hold at once was greatly increased, which meant that she could fire out more attacks at once before running out.

Seeing the effects brought about by the ball of blue energy she had absorbed, Herellia instantly thought that this was one of Argentum's buffs, thinking to herself, 'I wonder what hardsh.i.p.s Argentum had to go through to obtain such a buff like this?'

Soon after, she placed the thought at the back of her head as she continued to increase the gap between her and the dense lightning bolts, allowing her energy to recover. Eventually, she stopped running away from the lightning bolts as she felt that the energy in her body was more than enough for her to fire a salvo of golden beams, hovering off the ground to position the petals to face the lightning bolts.

Swish!

Not even a second later, a wave of golden beams was soon fired towards the lightning bolts, thinking that only a few dense lightning bolts would be dispelled from the wave she fired. Contrary to what she had expected, the golden beams instead wiped out a greater amount of dense lightning bolts at once, making Herellia soon realize that this was all due to the buff Argentum cast on her.

Nevertheless, seeing as a great number of dense lightning bolts were being dispelled with a single round of her golden beams, she gained more confidence in her power as she allowed her aura to be released to its fullest extent. She then fired another salvo of golden beams once she met the energy requirements.

Swish!

And just like that, the remaining dense lightning bolts, which had plagued Herellia with the feeling of dread and despair a while ago, were dispelled as a great swath of royal blue strands made their way to where Herellia was. After those strands were absorbed by her body, she felt that the power improvement brought by the strands this time around was at least ten times higher than the power improvement brought by the last ten rounds combined.

While allowing her body to get used to the increase in power, she could not help but recall the feeling brought by the ball of blue energy after it was absorbed by her body. Although it was still activated, it was only at that time did she feel like she had ascended to a higher level of existence, as if the dense lightning bolts chasing her were nothing to her.

With that in mind, she could not help but ask herself, ”Is this the true power of buffs?”

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