Chapter 188: Caught Up (1/2)
Tyler frowned as he stared at the unconscious figure of Rain inside the ice prism. She seemed to have been slightly wounded but was most like unconscious due to some other unknown effect that didn't seem to be an effect from the barrier she was in. Rather it seemed as though the ice prism was maintaining a steady temperature inside of it which was keeping her stable making shattering it a complicated process.
Tyler placed his hand on the seemingly fragile ice walls and knocked on the surface a few times. It sounded quite solid despit its appearance and although he didn't think it would be too difficult for him to break, he knew that wasn't the right thing to do.
He had never seen this type of barrier before but he was strangely aware that it was created by Liz. Or more accurately her alter ego, Snow. From what she had told him, Snow would only appear when her life was in extreme danger and since she was able to use her innate ability, she was stronger than Liz herself.
However, no matter how far Tyler expanded his perception range— which had current surpassed 50 kilometer radius— he could not sense Snow anywhere but could still feel her connection. Which should mean she was still the one in control of Liz's body.
Tyler frowned, he remembered Rain saying something like it was dangerous for Liz to remain as Snow as it might get harder and harder to switch back so the fact that it had already been a while since he originally felt her appear made him worry.
Tyler didn't bother trying to break the prism, instead he picked up a large rock and swapped it with the unconscious Rain and then she was laid gently on the snow. There had been no resistance from the unconscious Rain so swapping positions was fairly easy.
As he laid her down on the snow, he immediately casting a series of Light Heal on her until he felt her conditions were stable. Still, even after so many heals, he could still feel her connection slowly deteriorate from within.
His healing spell didn't seem like it could fix the whatever it was that was affecting her condition so Tyler used magic vision combined with magic sense on her body and soon noticed an intruding aura that was slowly breaking down and destabilizing her body from the inside as it was trying to make its way to her mana body and eventually her very soul.
Perhaps this was also why Liz or rather Snow had placed her in the ice prism. It probably had the effect of slowing down that aura. There was apparently nothing Tyler could do about the aura himself as he had tried forcing his mana inside her to push or pull out the strange aura but it had taken root inside of her and could not be forced out without harming Rain.
With nothing else to do, Tyler then decided to use his skill, •Universal Barrier• to isolate that aura and then freeze the space inside the miniature Universal barrier. Of course, doing such a thing in the insides of someone was very difficult and dangerous but he had no choice if he wanted her to live.
The process had taken him a while or more precisely, more than 3 hours because it required near perfect mana control to pull off. Luckily for him, he had been practicing his mana control for a while now.
With the Universal Barrier isolating the energy, he used •Frozen space• on the interior of the barrier and thus was able to temporarily keep her stable as he used Light heal on her once more. At some point he was forced to create another Universal Barrier around them as stray monsters kept distracting him which was another reason why the process had taken this long.
Normally, since what he had done on her was like an operation, he should let her rest some more but he needed to find out what had happen to Liz as a lot could have gone wrong in 3 hours. He then gently tried to wake her up. After her condition was stabilized, it seemed she had drifted into a state of sleep as she groaned groggily and turned in the snow as though saying she wanted to sleep a while longer not minding the coldness of the snow.
That attitude, albeit a tad bothersome, seems to have elevated Tyler's heart a little but still chose to pinch her cheeks until she could no longer take it and was forced to open her eyes.
Seeing Tyler crouched next to her in an endless world of snow and ice. She may have confused reality for the world of dreams as she spoke gently to him with a somewhat Lewd expression on her face.
”Darling? You're in my dreams again. Please hold me longer this time.”
She reached forth and grabbed Tyler's one good arm, placing his hand on her chest as she tried to embrace him.
Seeing this, Tyler sighed ruefully as he pulled his hand away and immediately flicked her on the forehead in a resounding *PA sound. That seems to have woken her up completely as she grumbled and rubbed her eyes, looking around in confusion.
”Huh, Lord Ty? When did you get here I wanted to be prepare— Huh? Where am I? What happened.”
”Relax, you got infected by a strange aura in a fight. But you'll be fine for now.”
”Infected? Fight? Aww my head it's a bit fuzzy. What was I doing?”
”Apparently, you were being a vanguard for some reason. Aren't you an assassin? You really should stop charging straight at you opponents you know.” Tyler gently criticized Rain's tactics as he smiled faintly.
”Hehe... I was just trying to protect Liz. Wait, where's Liz? We were ambushed by a demon duke ranked demoness and... its a bit fuzzy.” The mention of Liz's name had jogged her memories to some extent.
However, Tyler didn't rush her through the process and urged her to slow down and think carefully so as not to miss anything as he occasionally cast the Placate spell on her. She was in the midst of speaking when she suddenly noticed something and flared up.
”Lord Ty your arm! What happened to your arm! Who dare hurt my beloved Lord! I'll—”