Chapter 70 - Commotion

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

“The reason behind why we can’t get rid of it is because it doesn’t possess a body, it created one, with the chaotic energies it was exposed to, and no spells of physical form is able to vanquish it.” explained Flin.

“How did you get that information? I thought your gift was only able to perceive the context behind words spoken?” said Ken jokingly.

“It did, but my gift lets me delve deeper into further understanding, and I advise you to not be so nonchalant with the situation, this creature might be able to recover quickly if given enough or sufficient time.” said Flin, gazing hardly at Ken, Ken scratched his neck timidly.

“Then what do we do? Do you guys have any idea how to solve this problem?” asked Ken, as he looked at his companions and the three adult deers. The group sheathed their weapons and looked at the lifeless looking body.

“Apparently no, we haven’t encountered one before, this is the first time one of this abominations appeared.” said Granarados, while tending to his wounds. Coralia and Trunk walked up to him to help him in healing the wounds.

Ken stared hard at the wound, he walked towards Granarados.

“May I inspect the wound?” He asked.

“Sure.” said Granarados.

“If you don’t mind me asking sir, did you get wounded by one of the creature’s attacks?” asked Ken.

“Yes.” replied Granarados.

Ken hovered his hand over the deep wound on Granarados’s arm, and used minor healing, the wound closed, but slowly it opened again, the wound opening was small making it unnoticeable to the naked eye, but Ken noticed, his mana sense was ticked by it.

“My goodness, this is bad.” Ken muttered, he concentrated on slowing the slowly opening wound with a slight patch of ice magic, he doesn’t know what will happen after this but he can only hope that the spell will delay the further opening of wound.

“I don’t know why but my healing magic is not working on the wound.” said Ken, making the group confused, but before anyone could say anything, Ken beat them to it. “Look closely at the wound with any kind of focusing spell you have, and you will see that the wound’s slowly opening.”

The group did as what was told, and gasped in realization -but not exaggeratedly, some just had their eyes wide open-.

“I don’t know what to do, but, do you guys have any idea on what to counter dark energies, if my speculation is correct, this is a kind of dark curse or a demon one.” Ken said.

“Isn’t it like darkness magic?” asked Allen.

“No young one, that magic is not similar to darkness magic of this world, it’s of different origin, and since the creature came out of the demon gate, then it must be related to demon magic.” said Coralia.

“Then, what does counter demon magic?” asked Saber. The group fell into deep thought.

“How about we try light magic?” Ken said. “Wilbert, try it out.” He added, Wilbert nodded and approached Granarados with the wound slowly becoming more visible despite being sealed by ice magic.

“Remember to be very careful with trying out a new spell for your magic, or the energies will fluctuate and cause more harm than good.” explained Ken, Wilbert nodded, he hovered his hand on the wound of the Nature Deer Leader, and slowly summoned his light magic, at first the attempt was a failure.

“It’s not working.” Wilbert said, frustrated.

“Imagine what you want your magic to do to the person.” said Ken. “If you want to heal someone, then imagine your magic healing the person.” He added. Even while under pressure, Ken’s voice guided Wilbert to his desired outcome, and soon enough the wound closed up, completely healing and not reopening anymore.

The group cheered in delight at their success, but was halted as they felt a fluctuation of energy behind them, the creature was steering again.

“Wilbert, use an offensive light spell!” shouted Ken.

“Right! Light Magic: Light Sword!” chanted Wilbert that summoned a yellowish white magic circle above the humanoid monster and struck it with a light sword, ceasing the collection of energy, ending the creatures life.

The group sighed in relief as the problem had been solved finally, Ken gave Wilbert a thumbs up, Wilbert smiled and the two proceeded to fist bump.

“Good thing I didn’t get to use moon magic.” said Ken.

“Yeah, it would be a disaster, otherwise the warriors would be caught by the blast.” said Wilbert.

“That reminds me, the other warriors were wounded by its darkness onslaught earlier, Wilbert tend to their wounds now.” said Ken, Wilbert complied immediately and rushed to the center of the barrier were the warriors were teleported earlier, Ken modified his enchantment on the barrier allowing his friend to pass through the still erect barrier.

Ken told Granarados to tell his warriors that had erected the barrier to keep it active while he scouts the area and look where the gate is located if it was still open or closed. Ken departed immediately after Granarados nodded, and sent a mental message to his companions to either help Wilbert tend to the wounded or stand guard.

And check up on the dead humanoid, one person complied as Icarus went back on the battle site to check up on the corpse, and he witnessed the corpse turn to ash in a matter of seconds, but at first the complexity was pale, and covered in black blood.

He must send this message to Ken immediately. Forgetting that he can just telepathically contact Ken, he went back to the group and told them what he witnessed, now the group plan to join Ken once they were done with the treating the injured, and have secured the area.

On the way as Ken entered the forest, he encountered monsters again, but this time, they were few, and with him flying in full speed, he just swooped down on the either fleeing or lagging around monsters, and used his scythe to cut off their heads.

Well, his friends and others cannot witness him doing so, then might as well eradicate these monsters i one swift movement. Ken felt a fluctuation of dark energies by the distance, he went up the trees to get a better feel of the energy.

He sensed the direction going further south, and after traveling fifty meters further, there, he saw a gate opened at a clearing at the forest, with other nine humanoid creatures, he notice them gathering energy from the world, turning the lush greenery to brown dead grass.

‘They’re killing the forest, Concept: Concept of Concealed Presence.’ chanted Ken, as his body was covered by a translucent barrier, this type of concept makes Ken go unnoticed by anyone he wishes to not reveal his presence, even if he’s pretty much visible to the naked eye.

Only downside, is that he is required to have vision of his target to nullify their senses of perceiving his presence. So pretty much others can notice him.

And so he waits, and watches on what these twisted humanoids are plotting, he sent a message to his friends via wind spell, a ‘Surveillance Sweep’ spell, but one that he specifically targeted to his friends.

Now, he waits, for them to arrive, good thing they thought of the same thing.

‘I hope my commotion earlier had gone unnoticed, if not, then I would be in big trouble.’ Ken thought.

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