73 General Acharya Part 2 (1/2)

The moment they reached the hallway Rahz sat down against a wall, the two wounds look black and the pain was a.s.sailing him none stop. Along the wounds you could see little lightning serpents that lit up from time to time burning the tissue around it and preventing Rahz's body from recovering Itself. Elune came over to take a look and cast her healing spell but it didn't work. Everytime the cells try to start reconstructing themselves the lightning burned them once more, even the healing potions didn't have an effect.

Elune thought about it for a minute and said, ”Try using your Chaos Energy to dissipate or absorb the lightning on the wound, otherwise you won't be able to heal. It seems that the lightning element of that forbidden spell is a lot higher than the Nature Energy on my spells”.

Rahz had no other choice but to follow Elune's advised and used Strengthen Defense only on the wounded area. Chaos Energy rushed to the wound and very quickly thunder and Fire were in a battle of attrition. After 10 minutes of struggle, Rahz stopped the ability and sweat ran down his face.

”I did it, I was able to destroy one little Serpent of lightning but the element seems to be of a higher quality than even my chaos energy so is going to take some time for me to get rid of all of it. We should consider heading back out in the meantime, there is only a day left until the soldiers come back up”.

Elune was casting a healing spell on Midori while listening to Rahz suggestions and nodded.

Thanks to the Healing spell and the Potion, the muscles on Midori's tail started to squirm ever so slightly signifying the start of a new rebirth.

Once all the First Aid was done and they were about to move back to the Magic Screen, they were stopped by the old Guard that had finally been let off by the curse and very faintly said,” wait..wait, there is no need to go back out”

Rahz heard the specter speak and turned to face him ”I can't fight old man, and there is only a day left for the soldiers to return and attacked us again, we won't be able to defeat them”

”They only attack when the alarm sounds and it already did when you guys came in so it won't sound again, now that you made it this far all you have to do is defeat the couple of patrols and it should be alright, but if you cross the screen then you will activate the alarm once more when you pop back in and that would sent the whole floor after you”

The team looked at the Old Guard with a face that said, if you weren't already dead I would kill you myself. They had been fighting the soldiers for six months and in many occasions they stepped out of the Gate and waited for the soldiers to reanimate to be on safe side, as it turnout they could had just finished them off and wait in the tunnels. The information could have saved them a couple of months at the very least.

Sigh…

”Better late, than never” said the witch doctor to Elune with an air of resignation. The most important thing now was to protect Rahz and allow him plenty of time to eliminate the lightning in his body to start the actual healing process.

It was a very lengthy process to get rid of the Blue Lightning, Rahz had to take breaks every 10 minutes to recuperate his energy which was quickly depleted every time he destroyed one. The only good news was that the alarm didn't go off the next day and the team could relax and focus in developing an strategy to defeat the General.

A week pa.s.sed by and Rahz started to notice that the rate at which he was destroying the lightning had increased but this was not surprising. There was nothing supplying the lightning with energy so eventually they would have dissipated by themselves and without Rahz knowing it, the process of fighting this higher quality element strengthen his own energy and started to move it towards the higher level, Rahz energy took on a darker red and was moving towards the purple color.

The moment Rahz killed the last remnant of the lightning, it was as if some shackles had been remove from his body. The wound started to show signs of recovery as some black parts were started to be replaced with healthy tissue.

Elune cast her healing spell and also cover the wounds with healing potions. Rahz took this opportunity to finally relax and rest mentally.