Chapter 146: The gem and Ogres story (1/2)

Little Phoenix made a simple ball of mana with her Dark Element Mana, and when she finished, Shingi started manipulating it and moving it around. Little Phoenix made a ball as big as a ping-pong ball, but Shingi used only half of it.

He quickly took the hand of it as the source of the mana, Little Phoenix, wasn't putting and resistance against him. Since it wasn't one Element of his Mana Tree, so he couldn't manipulate as well as those, but still, it was better than average.

He focused his detection skills entirely on the gem of the collar and at the space that the opening they decided to use was.

Azalea focused on some of the Tower's energy on the gem, and Shingi could see its energy that permanently moved had slowed down by a little more than half. Still, it wouldn't give him a lot of time to react if something went wrong, but it would increase his chance to do so if needed.

He told Azalea to stay as still as possible; otherwise, it could cause an unwanted trigger.

The mana was close to the opening, but he waited a bit before moving to the next part of the plan. He needed to use an amount of the mana to create a hole in the gem's surface to get the mana inside, as the changes made an opening to the enchantment, not the gem itself.

The Dark element was slowly eating part of the gem to make the way in for the rest. After a few seconds, the gem reacted as part of the energy changed its regular route and headed towards Shingi's mana. It was like someone detected something strange happened and ordered some guards to check it out.

Azalea's action had slowed the energy, so it took it more time to reach the position where Shingi made his 'attack.' Shingi knew that something like that would happen. They chose one that its positions would be the furthest than where the energy would be when he started the operation.

Still, the gem's surface was pretty hard to break through because of its top quality.

The energy of the gem had made it halfway to reach the mana, and Shingi was still far from finishing his way of digging in.

Shingi sighed as he did something he didn't want to use that early on. Beliss Blessing's active effect to boost his INT.

With the boost, his control over the mana increased, and also his detection skill became a little more precise that also made his 'attacks' more precise.

The energy was getting closer at a snail-like speed while he worked with the Dark Element mana as fast as he could do, and it finally made it sometime before the energy reached its destination.

But he couldn't relax because it would be the same as seeing the mana when it detects the hole, so he started his attack from inside.

The plan was pretty simple. There was a core in it that empowered the whole enchantment, so he had just to destroy it. The hard part was getting in without getting detected, and if he got noticed to destroy the core before the explosion happens.

He started his ruthless attacks, and fortunately, the core wasn't as hard as the surface, destroying it just in time before the energy would reach the hole.

At the next moment, the gem started cracking and turned into dark red gem dust, and the collar fell as the gem worked as a button to keep it close.

The room was into deep complete silence.

Then heavy footsteps were heard as Grud ran and picked up Azalea to check how she was.

Tears fell on his face from Azalea's eyes, but they weren't tears of sadness, but the opposite. She was finally free once more after all this time.

Grud hugged her as she cried a bit and then passed out.

She used too much of the Tower's energy for more time than usual, putting a strain on her. Nothing that a good sleep couldn't heal, though.

”You did it. You ACTUALLY did it.” [Grud]

Shingi heard a loud noise from behind Shingi like a heavy object hit the floor. He even listened to the ground cracking a bit, as the cabin had no floor.

Turning around, he saw Durd on his knees and his head down on the floor. The same sound got heard again and turning, Shingi saw Gurd did the same thing but first had left Azalea on the side.

It was a clear sign of them to show how thankful they were for his action.

”Just stand up, both of you. Just saying a thank you is enough. You don't need to bash your heads to the ground.” [Shingi]

They both raised their head to look towards him, and after a few seconds, straightened their bodies.

”My brother and I are thankful for this act of yours. Azalea is too kind and had faced too many hardships because of that stupid collar. If there is anything you want help with, you can just ask.” [Grud]

”Grud truth. Ask Drug help, Drug give help. Drug no eat little meat.” [Durg]

”Of course you won't eat him. *sigh* Like I would let you do this after what he did.” [Grud]