Chapter 238 (1/2)

Chapter 238: You’ve All Been Very Naughty Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The glorious aura filled the sky for five seconds. After that, the brilliant light slowly dissipated, leaving only Link’s figure.

Link knelt on the ground. On the interface, rows and rows of notifications popped up. Once he took a glance at them, he realized that they were all reminders from the gaming system.

Player begins to burn his soul. Emergency protection started.

Clearing all reserve Omni Points…Begin consuming 500 reserve Omni Points.

All Omni Points consumed.

Elemental Affinity Bloodline transformation suspended, converted into 350 Omni Points. Begin consuming Omni Points.

All Omni Points consumed.

Player currently has 200 Omni Points. Begin consuming Omni Points.

All Omni Points consumed.

Purification spell completed. All reserve energy from gaming system consumed.

After reading this series of information, Link felt the emptiness in his body which was bereft with Mana and heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he’d only consumed the reserve energy, and his soul did not suffer any damage. Link regarded this as incredible luck.

“Link, are you alright?” asked Annie with a worried tone.

Link turned around and saw the concern in Annie’s face which warmed his heart.

“I’m fine,” he said. “But I can’t cast any high-level spells for a while.”

In fact, he still had about 500 points of Mana, but considering the strength of their enemies at the time, this amount of Mana was basically useless.

Felina walked over to him too, and she looked quite alarmed.

“Was that a Legendary-level spell?” she asked.

“Perhaps, I’m not sure,” answered Link. “It was a spell that I created when I was learning magic.” It was something that he just couldn’t explain, so he just had lie about it.

“I’m sure it was,” insisted Felina. “I’ve seen Legendary spells, so I would know. I never expected a mortal to be capable of such force!”

The scouts nodded eagerly. They knew nothing about Legendary spells, but from what they saw–how the darkness of the realm of the soul was dispelled, how the sky was now cleared and how the white fog that blanketed everything was now gone–if that wasn’t Legendary, then what was?

Link couldn’t say anything in response. He merely stretched out his hand and shrugged.

“Oh…” Karnose’s voice alarmed everyone. It seemed that he was waking up.

The purification spell had been successful. The signs of dark magic and the dark forces had been purged from his body, and the claws on his hands had vanished. Even the blood in his eyes was now gone.

But the powerful divine source of the dark energy was evident when they saw that although it was expelled from Karnose’s body, it was not destroyed. It merely turned into a pool of black liquid on the ground near the Warrior.

This black liquid would even move. Parts of it even took the form of a snake and would move threateningly as if it was ready to attack anyone at any time.

Naturally, everyone stayed away from this black pool of liquid. Felina stretched out a hand to Karnose to help him up, but Karnose didn’t seem to need any such assistance. He leaped up to his feet with surprising agility, almost as if he’d never been injured.

Then, he turned to Link and with his fist on his chest, gave Link a formal Warrior’s bow.

“Master Magician,” he said, “thank you for saving me. From now on, for as long as I live, you may summon me any time you wish, and I will fight for you!”

Just moments before, he was desperately hopeless. But at the very last moment, he saw the infinite brilliance of the glory of light. It was as if the heavens extended a giant hand down to him and plucked him out of the dark abyss.

He could only repay such kindness with his own life.

But Link merely responded with a wave of his hand and a cynical smile.

“I’m afraid you spoke too early,” he said. “We’re still trapped in the Black Forest, and the Dark Serpent is still following us close behind.”

Karnose’s face turned grave and serious. He looked around and only saw the Assassins’ daggers and the Red Dragon Warrior’s dragon claws. He couldn’t find a sword anywhere.

“If only I had a sword to fight with,” he remarked.

“What?” exclaimed Felina, glancing at the Warrior up and down. “Are you strong enough to fight now?”

Karnose nodded.

“The dark forces may have controlled my body,” he said, “but it had also repaired my injuries. Now that I’m purged of all the dark forces and all my injuries healed, why can’t I fight? Although my Battle Aura isn’t at its strongest yet, I’m sure I can kill a few ghouls now.”

Link’s eyes suddenly lit up. Karnose was a Level-8 Warrior. With his strength, they could probably get out of the Black Forest now.

Moreover, he did have a sword with him—the Storm Lord’s sword. He was just about to grab its hilt and hand it to Karnose when a voice interrupted him.

“Stop!” said the sword’s voice. “He’s not worthy of me yet!”

Can’t you let him wield you for a while? Link asked. Only until we escape the Black Forest. Or are you afraid of the Dark Serpent?

“Me?” retorted the sword. “Afraid of that snake?”

Then what’s wrong with letting him wield you for a while? Link asked.

“You don’t understand,” replied the sword. “It’s not that I’m afraid of fighting against the Dark Serpent, but I’m not suitable for it. I’m too weak now, but the Dark Serpent is infinitely strong. The moment I come in contact with it, I’ll be smashed to bits.”

Link thought this argument made sense. He dismissed the idea of lending the Storm Lord’s sword to Karnose, but there was another idea in his mind.

Link still had 500 points of Mana left. It wasn’t enough for him to fight himself, but it was sufficient for him to use Higgs Field to conjure up a sword using the Khorium in his storage pendant.

With this idea in mind, Link took out the materials from his storage pendant and turned to Karnose.