Chapter 126: Wound Rupture! (2/2)
Hot Rod didn't know what to say when he saw such a determined stance of Khrom. He felt touched and ashamed at the same time. Though he had joined them for a long time, and he wanted to build his relationship with Kadyn, it was only because he knew that Kadyn could give him many benefits. He thought that he would have a glorious future if he followed him. He didn't have much sense of belonging to the shop. However, at this moment his thinking changed. He changed.
Hot Rod struggled and stood beside Khrom. He looked at the huge shadow that had appeared almost in front of them and stared at it without a trace of fear in his eyes. ”If I'm going to die, then so be it. However, I won't die like a dog!” he shouted as he clutched the handle of the sword. However, no matter how courageous someone was, without strength he could do nothing. Hot Rod tried to slash towards the beast, but due to weakness, the sword fell from his hands.
He looked at his trembling hands and shook his head. But then he again turned towards the beast and punched towards with all his might. Khrom also attacked with the sword. Though he knew that he wasn't a snake's match — not after exhausted himself to the point of collapsing — he didn't back down, even if he was going to die, he would make this beast pay a hefty price. But just as they thought that their end had come a shout reverberated. ”Now!”
Soon after the first shout, another voice came. ”Wound Rupture!”
As soon as the shout echoed, the green light covered the snake, freezing it on the spot. Then in front of the shocked eyes of Khrom and Hot Rod it fell on the ground and started to twitch and twist as if it was in horrible pain and agony.
Afterwards, the disgusting bubbles appeared on the snake's body as someone was boiling it inside the water. The bubbles were made of blood. Not long after that the cracks formed on its thick surface. The blood pooled out of its body and puddled on the ground, forming a large pool below its colossal body.
And after some struggle it became silent. Dead.
”The heck has happened?” Khrom looked at the frame of the beast in trepidation and exchanged terrified glances with Hot Rod. Then the duo remembered two shouts before it all happened and turned around in that direction in disbelief. Elora was standing beside Kadyn with a frozen expression, covering her mouth with her right hand, while Kadyn had a smile on his face.
”Boss, was that your doing?” Khrom asked with an excited expression. ”That was fuc-uh, I mean it was awesome!” he controlled his surging emotions when he saw Elora standing near Kadyn and laughed awkwardly
”Nope.” Kadyn shook his head. ”It wasn't me.”
”Then?” Hot Rod looked at him with confusion. Other than Kadyn no one could help them because Barret and Cecilia were still fighting with Jinn. Furthermore, the spell that killed the beast was kind of weird. They had never seen or heard about it before.
However, it reminded them about the Necromancers. The same mages who controlled the dead and spirits of the dead. They were terrible people, even talking about them was a huge taboo in the Magic Association. Just thinking about them made Hot Rod's heart tremble in terror.
”Oh, it was Elora who killed that beast,” Kadyn patted Elora's head gently and said. ”She is super powerful, you know. However, it's just that no one knows the correct use of Healing Element. Very few people would be able to match her when she had full control over her element.”
Khrom and Hot Rod looked at Elora with disbelief. How could this be? Weren't healing mages non-combative type? Auxiliary type? How could Elora kill a beast who was 1 rank above her? (actually about half a rank above her if you talk technically) Kadyn could kill a Rank 1 mage was one thing. But now, even Elora. Hot Rod felt as if he had wasted his entire life.
Not only Khrom and Hot Rod were in disbelief, even Elora was left stunned when she killed the Rank 1 magical beast. She thought that she could at most hinder the beast for some time and give a chance to escape to Khrom and Hot Rod. This… this…