Chapter 254: Its Our Fault (1/2)
SWOOSH!!
Lightning energy blasted from within Rex's body pushing Vashag back,
Rex inspected his body and found that Devo decided to help him, his lightning mana becomes even more destructive after Devo added his power to it.
After pushing Vashag back, the lightning energy creates a cocoon around Rex's body.
The area that is around Rex that was supposed to be covered with mist started to dissipate, it got pushed back by the cocoon Devo created, even the rain got blocked by the cocoon.
'What is this?', Rex asks inside his head.
[It's one of my abilities], Devo replied nonchalantly.
Hearing what Devo said, Rex then suddenly remembered, The system told him that Devo has Weather Control ability.
As the mist got pushed back by the lightning energy,
Rex saw Adhara revealed on the side sitting on the ground, she's still hurt but she then looks back when she notices the mist starting to dissipate.
”Rex!”, Adhara called out after seeing Rex.
Rex smiles lightly before he slowly walks towards Adhara.
The cocoon of lightning didn't dissipate the mist completely or even make the rain stop but rather it only pushes the mist away in a circle around Rex and block the rain.
It follows Rex's movement as he walks towards Adhara.
”How can you do that?”, Adhara asks while looking around her.
Rex then points at his head before he replied, ”The Spirit I assimilated with have this ability”
”You need to reach the sixth rank too, I will tell you how later so remind me to explain it to you”, Rex said before he glance to his side feeling something looking at him.
On his right, he saw a pair of red eyes looking at him from the mist.
Because the lightning cocoon pushes the mist away, Vashag seems hesitant to go out of the mist and rather stay in it.
Vashag can only glare at them from the side hoping the lightning cocoon will disappear.
While Rex is helping Adhara to get up, Devo suddenly remind Rex, [You can't maintain this for long, you're still not used to using my power]
Hearing this, Rex immediately picks Adhara up, ”Let's find Edward”
Rex then dashes away trying to locate Edward as the lightning cocoon follows him, even Vashag keeps following him from the mist.
The cocoon only uncovers the mist 10 meters around him.
Now that he can see his surrounding somewhat clearly, Rex can see that they're currently on another hill with a spikey top closer to the Bleak Everson Mountain which is the tallest.
Because of the mist before, Rex and Adhara didn't realize that they ran that far.
They're at least half a mile away from Edward's car position,
After running around while calling for Edward for five minutes, Devo reminds him again that the lightning cocoon won't hold.
Feeling the pressure from the glaring red eyes,
Rex suddenly got an idea as he chanted, ”Black Lightning Spell, Black Field Orko...”Although the lightning cocoon helps him in seeing his surrounding, the Black Field Orko spell reach further than the lightning cocoon thanks to reaching the sixth rank so it's better to use it.
The ground around him turn black as it kept going even into the mist, it kept going until stopping at 25 meters mark.
Instantly after Rex activates it, he can feel many presences standing on top of his spell.
'There's one over there', Rex thought.
He then went to the right as he feel someone is hiding there, and when he reaches the place, ”AAHHH!”, an old woman suddenly shouted.
Looking at this, Rex clicks his tongue because it's not Edward.
”It's okay, I'm not a bad guy”, Rex said slowly trying to calm the old woman down.
The old woman looks at Rex and found that it's not Vashag, she just got startled because of Rex's sudden appearance, ”Do you know your way back to the village?”
”Y-Yes...”, the old woman replied meekly.
Hearing this, Rex then said, ”Then go back to your village, you're not safe here”
The old woman then stands up but soon her expression turns pale when she saw the pair of red eyes glaring at them, her legs tremble in fright upon seeing this.
Noticing this, Rex sigh helplessly.
From the looks of it, the old woman can't be left alone.
But then, the old woman suddenly takes out a glowing red flower from her pocket.
”What is that?”, Rex asks in confusion.
Adhara who is on Rex's back also looks at the flower curiously.
The old woman looks at both of them before she realized, ”You both must be a foreigner”
”As you know we live in this place despite Vashag is also living here, but thanks to this flower we can somehow live peacefully without fearing Vashag might attack”, the old woman explained.
Rex stretches out his hand to touch the flower, ”May I?”
Looking at this, the old woman gave Rex the flower before Rex scans the flower.
<Vermillion Red Flower>
A fifth rank mutated flower that is the product from an active lava environment, Vermillion Red Flower will glow in red upon activation by twisting the bottom of its stalk and it will glow for 3 days at max. The flower will grant a slight mana boost for Fire Elementalist.
After reading this, Rex gives the flower back to the old woman.
”Normal light attract Vashag greatly and it will be rampage anything that catches its sight, the red light from this flower somehow annoys Vashag that is why the village collects this flower. But Vashag will be immune to the red light after getting exposed to normal light, that is why all of us are hiding until Vashag calms down”, the old woman added while looking at the red flower.
Hearing this, Rex then realized what they have done, 'So that's why the woman that meets us freaked out, turns out Vashag is attracted to the light from Edward's car'
Realizing that it's their fault for endangering the village, Rex sigh.
But then suddenly, tears fall from the old woman's eyes as Adhara pinch Rex's back after noticing that the old woman started crying.
Under Adhara's pressuring gaze,
”What's wrong?”, Rex asks lightly, he looks back trying to find Vashag but turns out Vashag is nowhere to be seen.
He thought that the old woman is crying because of Vashag but it doesn't seem like it.
The old woman sobbed lightly trying to hold onto her tears, she held the red flower tightly while biting her lips.
Rex holds the old woman's shoulder lightly and asks again, ”What's wrong?”
”I-It's just that, I just realized the other villagers will also activate their flower. Each of them has one for their safety, and then it hits me when I remembered that it's my husband's turn to restock the flower for the villagers”, the old woman said as her tears burst.
Looking at this, Rex frown in confusion.
Seeing that Rex is slow to figure the situation, Adhara then asks, ”Where can we find these flowers? We'll help the villagers restock the flower”
Hearing this, the old woman's eyes lit up in delight.