Chapter 279: Abyss & Nesephise (1/2)
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After sleeping over the night, Abyss and company woke up with a lot more of energy. Although some of the members of the group had bodies that couldn't be easily worn off, such as Abyss and Belphegor, they had a strong feeling of exhaustion in their minds and souls, so around 12 hours of sleep did wonders to their mental stability, which had been through a lot of stress in these last hours.
After waking up the task that had to be done was rather simple, they had to quickly get up and move on, Nesephise said that she was going to help and use her abilities for that purpose, however, she had yet to even awaken such an ability, and it would certainly take its time.
This is why she had woken up very early in the morning, and was currently in the nearby swamp, trying to sing and bring forth the power to communicate with amphibians.
According to the Elder, the priestess of ancient times had used this power to speak with the frog and let the child it swallowed go away, could this apply with her?
Nesephise was nervous, since her childhood that she had always been doing many things and working to both survive, thrive, and also protect those she wanted to protect.
”Sigh… La, la , laaa~”
She began to sing something minimal, as she infused her mana and the spiritual power of her frog spirit into her voice. Instead of sounding like an hideous frog croaking, she sounded like a delicate maiden.
A wave of green-colored essence came out of her voice, there was a small frog croaking near her, only looking at the air to pick up flies with its tongue. However, when it heard her voice and then the waves hit it, something changed.
It looked back at her.
”Croak…”
”Oh? Can you hear me?”
”Croak…”
She slowly approached the little frog, as she gentle extended her hand towards it…
”…”
”Jump!”
”Croak!”
SPLASH!
However, the frog simply went away and submerged into the water.
”Eh?”
She was disappointed, it seems nothing had actually happened… her song had not affected the frog nor it made it have some change of heart, the frog was simply at her direction because she was making sounds.
”Agh… Okay, let's try again…” she sighed.
She began to sing once more, as Abyss had woken up already and had left everyone having breakfast in the house, walking around and looking for Nesephise.
”Oh! Nesephise, you're here.” She said.
”A-Abyss! Sorry for not being there, I left the oldest children in charge of making breakfast for the rest… I've been like four hours trying to sing so I could control or speak with amphibians, but nothing seems to work.” Sighed Nesephise.
”Oh…” said Abyss.
”B-But I am trying! I really am doing my best…! I really want to be of use and to help you guys… I-I'll keep trying until I can! I-I'll do everything I can so I can finish today!” said Nesephise.