27 Retreat! (1/2)

Yan Mei paused as she looked over to see Hina lying in a pool of her own blood, she quickly came over and started pouring potions over her body, after checking her over, Yan Mei breathed a sigh of relief as she ran over to Fei Lei carrying Hina on her back.

Fei Lei couldn't keep his eyes open any longer, as he passed out he felt a stinging feeling coming from his ankles, and if he could see the condition of them he would have known why.

Fei Lei's leg muscles had blown up, they were slowly starting to come back together but the damage was so severe it would without a doubt leave a sequelae.

Fei Lei and Hina were then carried to a remote cave in a hillside by Yan Mei, inside was a one-armed June, and an almost dead Terry, they both had barriers of light around them that was slowly healing their bodies, June seemed to be struggling to keep conscious, her spell was constantly flickering in and out of existence.

Seeing Yan Mei was the one coming in she let down her guard and fell asleep after stabilizing the both of them, Yan Mei looked at the last of her healing potions and frowned as she poured them on both Terry and June.

The two winced in pain as they started to feel themselves recover, after a few minutes June had managed to wake up, feeling around at her nub, she began to cry.

Yan Mei looked over and sighed, ”Can you heal Fei Lei?”

June looked over and saw his condition, his leg muscles were barely attached and many of his nerves were still exposed to the air, she whipped off her tears and said, ”I can only heal some of the damage, but the one on his leg is beyond me.”

Yan Mei shook her head, ”It doesn't matter, just help him regain consciousness.”

June nodded her head and shouted, ”Level 3 Healing.”

Fei Lei's body glowed when June suddenly shouted, ”Why is it costing so much mana to heal his body?”

”Because his body is special.” Yan Mei avoided giving her a direct answer.

As Fei Lei was being healed, half way across the dungeon Eriks party had killed their way to the core and were forced to retreat, using a level 3 Wind Step Spell, a superior type of wind movement spell that allowed him to move incredibly fast, he managed to escape without a single casualty. As Eriks ran through the forest carrying an unconscious Udo on over his shoulder, a wounded Momo who was pouring all her support magic into Eriks was being held by her waist with one hand, and Hachi whose face had turned pale from blood loss with his other.

A constant drip of blood leaked out from Eriks's armor as he grunted and said, ”Damn it! What the hell is that thing doing in a dungeon?”

He looked to the distance to see a flock of fire birds flying towards him, he through Hachi up and quick drew his pistol before shooting them all down with a water bullet. Holstering his revolver he caught Hachi and he felt his muscles scream out as they began to tear.

He ignored the pain and charged on, heading towards the dungeon entrance, ”Have to make it to the recovery zone!” Eriks said as he picked up pace.

Back with Yan Mei she frowned at how slow Fei Lei's body was being healed and said, ”We have to return to the recovery zone. I'll cast Lightweight on everyone, you carry Terry and I'll carry Hina and Fei Lei.”

June nodded her head as she picked them up and then said, ”I don't know any movement spells.”

Yan Mei frowned as she casted a Level 1 Wind Speed Spell on June, and said, ”Keep up!”

The two took off carrying their allies in hand, it took a while but along the way they were rejoined with Eriks as they ran to the stairs with all of their might, Yan Mei helped out by casting a Lightweight spell on them.

”Thank you!” Eriks said as they continued to move as fast as they could, he noticed that Yan Mei was beginning to suffer from Mana Drain, she was sweating and her body felt like she was lugging around a led block, but she persisted through and the two managed to reach the Recovery Zone.

They fell down panting heavily, and their friends tumbled onto the ground as they passed out.

Several Hours later Fei Lei was the first to wake up, he noticed they had returned to the second floor of the dungeon and an incredible pain surged from his legs, he noticed that the bone and muscles had been severely damaged, and were starting to die off.

Fei Lei quickly amputated the necrotic tissue and yelled out in pain waking up Eriks next, Fei Lei gritted his teeth as he began to pull out the 5-Star Hippo Rhino meat and began to eat it raw.

He quickly activated his Sigil and sent the new material in his body to repair the damage, Eriks's eyes widened as he saw Fei Lei eat and slowly recover to a peak condition, he wiped the blood from his mouth and stood up.

Looking around he noticed that everyone was still recovering and that Eriks was staring at him in amazement, ”Non-Elemental Spells are never simple.” Eriks looked at his two teammates and smiled before passing out again.

Fei Lei carried their bodies to their rooms and moved to the lake to wash off, he was about to jump in, but stopped himself, ”No, we drink from this. Better use that water I collected from the lake below.”

Fei Lei moved away from the water fall and pulled a chunk of ice from the frozen lake Hina made, next he pulled out his Clear Mist Blade to start melt it. After the water heated up, Fei Lei splashed his body in the warm water and cleaned the blood off of him.

He noticed the water was practically made of Mana, ”No wonder those Hippo Rhinos were so pissed off when Hina froze the lake. This water must be special.”

Fei Lei took out a small cube of ice and heated until it boiled into steam, killing all the bacteria in the water, then he captured the steam, and turned it back into water before swallowing it.

His body suddenly inflated with Mana, he felt that not only did his mana start to recover quicker, but his maximum capacity had also increased a little.