12 The Man Behind the Flames (2/2)
Hana made a mental note of both the berries' effects, then went to dig out the core of the boss. ”This is payment for your subordinates' actions.” She then took the watch off his wrist. It looked pretty high-end, should fetch a decent price. ”This is compensation for my healing services hehe. See you around.”
Hana did mental calculations. From all her earning within the week and now this, she should have at least 50,000 credits!
Not more debt! Her predecessor had a accumulated a debt of 10,000 over the last 5 months. And she had a spend at least 18,000 this month for mandatory expenses. So now she had 22,000 for spending!
Hana made her way up toward the portal. Smiling, her figure vanished out of the dungeon.
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Searing pain wracked his body. The poison was getting stronger, even the icy environment failed to suppress it now.
The man suddenly detected a presence near him. Someone had got past his flame barrier. Enemy. He opened his eyes.
A young women stood before him. Snowy white hair billowed slightly from the breeze, framing a pair of beautiful violet eyes. A black creature clung on her shoulder. She met his eyes.
His immediate thought was 'An angel'. His heart thumped slightly.
No, why was she here? He tried to summon his flames, but paused. The pain raged back, surging through is body. He shut his eyes, readjusting his meditative state.
She was saying things.
A cool finger touched his cheek.
The painful fire within him receded with her touch. Actually, her body emanated a cooling air. As if to calm the raging fire within him.
Not an enemy.
Her words were incomprehensible in his state. But he felt her cold finger on his lips. Feeding him something. Against his will, he swallowed. Immediately, he felt slightly better. The pain receded slightly. Was this an elixir? He had taken elixirs before, but none worked.
She feed him something else. This time almost immediately, the pain vanished. He felt his control over his the fire return. He opened his eyes, to see her vanish out the exit portal.
”Young master!” Five figures immediately appeared and knelt before him. ”We have let the enemy escape, please punish our incompetency.”
The man looked impassively at the lieutenant. ”Report what happened, Bren.”
”We were guarding against the remaining ice elves when we detected the enemy. He was an ice user and overpowered two of us immediately. He also has a unique summon, a blue creature that resembles a dog. Both of them had tremendous ice abilities, at least a rank B.” He recounted the battle events.
The man's eyes narrowed. ”A boy?”
”Yes, a teenager. He was dressed in white and had white hair and teal eyes. He used a katana sword, likely an artifact weapon.”
”Describe the sword.”
Bren looked at the others. ”It should be a in a dark blue sheath with a light blue hilt.” The others nodded in affirmation.
The man stood up. The girl he saw had the same sword. Besides his fire ability, his eyes also had an illusion breakage skill.
It seems like the girl had been in disguise. Interesting.
”We are leaving.”
Bren looked up. ”But young master, your fire poison . . . ”
”Has been suppressed.”
The guards looked at each other in surprise and elation. The young master had been poisoned when he conquered an S-ranked dungeon. Although the rewards were heaven defying, he had a severely poisoned by the final boss. The fire poison affected him every month, growing in severity over time. No elixir or healing ability was effective. He had been secretly going into icy environment dungeons to cure it, but no avail.
Dark eyes over his subordinates. ”Locate my watch immediately if you don't want to enter the punishment chamber.”
Watch?
”It is related to curing my condition. It has not been fully healed.”
All the men bowed immediately. ”As you command.”
The man looked at the portal where the girl had vanished. Who was she?