203 Queen is Back (2/2)
Don noticed the glowing buried around him flicker and said to Knight.
”On it”
Don slowly stepped back so Knight would still be inside the barrier as Knight tried to destroy the door that they used to come here.
”Struggle, cry, beg for mercy”
Aathreya let out a burst of evil laughter as Knight and Arrora put their full strength to destroy the door.
While Knight and Arrora were trying to break out of this place, Don's gaze was on the two vials of the golden elixir as the glowing barrier around them kept flickering.
”I would have given you a sudden death if you had done what I told you before, now I will make you suffer, I will make you watch your friends suffer”
The evil aura started to seep through the barrier as the barrier's glow had on the verge of fading away.
”Don! I will distract her for a moment, use this time to grab the vials and use one of your teleportation scrolls”
The voice he heard in the arena shouted inside of his mind.
Don had no time asking any question to the voice since the barrier almost faded away.
”COME NEAR ME!”
Don shouted at Knight, Arrora, and the tigress. Hearing Don, Knight stopped punching the concrete as he pushed Arrora and the tigress at Don and came closer to him.
”PROTACTUM!”
The moment the three of them came closer to Don, a bright light emerged from Don and pushed all the evil aura back. Just when the evil aura was pushed back, Don reached his hand out as the two vials flew right into his hand, and then he immediately used the teleportation scrolls.
”EVAN?”
They heard the voice say the name Evan before the white light engulfed them.
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Don and the other had no idea that the mansion was completely destroyed after they teleported away because of the spell 'Protactum'. The ones who were fortunate enough to have a protective item or spell survived the explosion, unlike the unfortunate ones who were either dead or severely injured in the explosion.
”Where are we?”
”Are we safe?”
Arrora and the tigress opened their eyes to see Don and Knight were sitting before the campfire.
”You two are finally awake?”
Knight came to help the tigress stand up as Arrora felt weak like she lost all her strength.
”Drink this”
Don came towards them and placed the two cups before them as the tigress looked around for the cubs.
”They are safe and sound inside the ring”
Knight said as the tigress sighed in relief.
Arrora wanted to reach for the cup and take it but somehow her hands refused to move.
Seeing her struggling to move her body, Don hesitated for a moment as Arrora said
”I can't feel my body”
Looking at her helpless state, Don sighed and lifted her head, and rested her head on his shoulder.
”You'll feel better after drinking this”
Since she couldn't move her hands, he had to feed her the drink while Knight did the same to the tigress.
”Hot”
Arrora slowly said when the drink that Don fed her was too hot. Moving the cup near to his mouth, he blew on it to cool down the drink.
”Here”
Even though Don didn't like this very much, he knew that he had to do it as he slowly fed the drink to Arrora.
The bitterness of the drink made her frown while the tigress was coughing.
”What is this?”
Arrora started to feel her strength slowly returning to her when she finished the drink.
”Igoshil and Fire lizard milk”
”Yuck”
”Can you move your body now?”
Arrora slowly nodded and moved herself from his shoulder with an embarrassed smile.
After seeing them regain some of their strength, Don and Knight stepped away from them.
”What happened back there? What was that voice?”
Since Arrora had heard about Aathreya from Ken and the group stayed in the cave, she was not as shocked as the tigress. Knight could see that she was still in shock and terror.
”An Ancient being, a very powerful ancient being”
Knight would not easily be terrified of someone but Aathreya and her evil aura had terrified the hell out of him.
”So everyone reached that mansion...died in her hands?”
The tigress stuttered as Knight took a long breath
”It seems she only killed the ones who were unfortunate enough to find the underground, plus she had been covering her tracks well or the dungeon board would have warned everyone about this mansion”