15 The Second Rescue Operation Gets out of Hand (2/2)

Elated with my discovery I told the girls what I found and revealed my appraisal skill saying it was an ability I had and they were happy too knowing they could save their people.

Shirone - But how are we going to bring all of them away, if we leave them here than those people will take them away.

Yuu - Leave it to me! If they're not fully considered alive I might be able to find them in my storage space.

True to my words I walked up to one of the statues and tried to put it into my inventory. It went in without resistance, with my eyes wide open I looked at the girls who also had their eyes opened. Taking in a quick breath of air I spread my spirit sense once more and began to collect all the statues in the village and by the river stream.

Once it was over I opened my eyes I released a sigh of relief, matching my eyes with the girls I saw that they also looked relieved but then I noticed their ears twitch a little. Soon after I also felt something, gazing at the sky I expected to see a calm sky but I was meet with a lot of fireballs coming our way.

Yuu - F***!!!

Using [Ground Shrink] I quickly grabbed the girls but as I was about to use it again one of the nearby houses was blown up and a piece of shrapnel stabbed itself into my low back. Because of this, I couldn't use [Ground Shrink] cause using it will only make this injury worse.

Quickly I pulled the shrapnel out I told Kuroka to try and use Senjutsu on my wound while I ran. It was painful but Kuroka and Shirone both tried to numb the pain as fast as they could, but our enemy wouldn't let us go that easily.

They continued to shoot more fireballs and other spells destroying everything in sight, it took my 100% as well as all my movement and support skills to just leave the village. Once we were out I realized karma wanted to be a real b**** cause what we saw we about 100 armed soldiers blocking our way.

Among their ranks most were mid-rank with some high-rankers among them, looking at these numbers my heart went cold. Making quick work of my options I ran towards the river bank, putting most of my strength into my legs I jumped the bank without getting wet and ran into the forest behind it.

Running with all my might I focused half of my effort into healing my wounds but I realized that it would take more time than I had. Focusing back my conscious to my surroundings I notice I had reached a dead end. At first, I thought I could scale the wall but soon realized that the wall was too high for me to both climb or jump.

The height was even higher than [Ground Shrink's] current distance limit. While I was trying to formulate a plan I started to hear the marching sound of the arm. Turning around I saw that our only exit was blocked and more spells were being thrown our way.

Yuu - GRAND LOTUS PROTECTION!!!!!!!

Putting down the girls I turned round to face the army, extended my left hand, and shouted the name of my only defense based skill. This skills used my energy reserves to create a barrier and currently both my mana and life force were lower than 20% due to everything I've been doing today.

Between Spacial Essence and Demonic energy, I had more demonic energy than I did the other so I sent every bit of it into my skill to make a hard defense. Then from thin air, a beautiful red lotus appeared before me with an ever-changing shade of red.

It was beautiful but I didn't have the time to admire the sight, the lotus was also transparent and I could see the spells and soldiers coming.

While the lotus did protect me from damage, but the impact from the spells caused my feet to sink into the ground, and my left arm to fracture lots of bones. As the spells kept coming the soldiers continued their march and I had about 6 minutes before they'd get here.

Pushing my brain to the limit once more blood started to come out of my eyes (it seemed like I popped some blood vessels), but due to this I was able to come up with a plan but it was stupid and the chance of me dying was high but I could buy these girls a chance to get out of here.

Turning my head I saw the girls who looked frightened by the situation I returned my gaze back at the army so they wouldn't see my face. With a resolute tone I spoke:

Yuu - Kuroka.

Kuroka - Y-yes what it?

She was startled and I could understand why.

Yuu - Listen to me, I'm about to do something and it's going to be pretty big. When that happens but all your mana and life force that you can muster into the pendant I gave you, it'll protect you but only once. When this is all over I want you to take Shirone and get out of here. Find someone that you can trust to help protect you, and help make you stronger.

Kuroka - But what about you?!

I couldn't reply immediately, I could tell that my silence scared her so I needed to say something.

Yuu - ...If fate allows it we'll meet again.

Kuroka - What do you mean?!?!

I didn't reply to her and only started to channel all my spatial essence into the air creating a transparent dome one mile in each direction.

*Ding*

Using my right arm to support my left arm teal colored lines began to appear on my arm. The lotus was beginning to break but I wouldn't let anything stop me. My eyes started to water, not by blood but tears and I had to close my eyes.

Yuu - [Mom, Dad, Issei ... Irina, Kuroka, Shirone ... please forgive me]

Opening my eyes again, this time they were clear and a resolute look replaces my tears. The air within the dome started to spin out of control with me in the center of it. The image of the world outside the dome started to distort.

Sending out a plus of energy from my body I spoke and my voice was heard by everyone in the dome.

Yuu - I am the bone of my sword.

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Time spent on Quest: 29 hours 30 minutes

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*Ding*

[Host's bloodline has been stimulated. 9 percent has been awoken.]