Chapter 75 - Phase

3rd Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

A water ball formed atop everyone with a radius of 50 meters and splashed on the group except for Ken who’s left dry by a translucent barrier, everyone was shocked awake and alert of the situation, they all stood up, except for Allen and Flin who were alert from the start, just soaked.

“What’s happening?” asked Riyah.

“Ken’s second phase of his sleep, we have to evade every random spell Ken conjures in a duration of thirty minutes.” said Allen.

“What?! Why?” exclaimed Icarus, and dodged a fireball, the group jumped at opposite ways from an earth pillar that emerged from the ground.

“We have no choice...?” said Wilbert shrugging.

“We have and that is to run away from this place.” said Riyah as she dodged an area ice spell that froze the flowers over. The ten elemental magic circles were each flinging spell after spell as they rotated in counter-clockwise.

Everyone understood what Riyah meant, but Allen and his friends weren’t able to inform everyone another vital information as they had separated from one another avoiding a large fire ball as it exploded the ground they were at previously.

By this time everyone had scattered, or so they are scattered, the six people who had experienced this phenomenon have wandered far to gain more space to rush through in case a large area of effect spell occurs on their location.

The others are left wondering what to do, but are painstakingly huddled with one another, which the others think to be a pain in the head, and just as they thought, their four companions along with the four adult beasts were bombarded by fire balls.

The other six could not go and help them when they too dodged one spell.

“Everyone, separate from one another so people around you does not get caught by large spells. Like this one!” shouted Saber as the fire magic circle rained down fire glaves at its surroundings.

Each one of them evaded in ways they know how, the panther siblings dashed from place to place, while the other siblings flew with wings sprouting from their back. Princess Lang along with Glen, Wilbert, Celine, and Allen ran around dodging the firey weapons.

The adults parried the blades that had come too close for comfort but mostly dodged them. Flin had conjured a barrier to protect himself, but still ran to dodge the glaves in an attempt to not break his barrier.

Suddenly the air crackled with electricity indicating that a lightning spell was preparing to be cast, Celine noticed the change in the air and rushed to shout at everyone as the barrage of glaves ceased.

“EVERYONE JUMP!” the group was confused but the other five did as was told, suddenly the group felt their hackles raise as goose bumps ran down their spine, their instinct kicked in, the ones running or dashing on the ground jumped high into the air.

The four disciples and adults barely avoided the electric discharge that coated the ground with lightning then rushed atop Ken and formed a lightning ball, everyone landed back on the ground, except for the six, when they noticed that the others were standing on the ground, Lila shouted…

“Wait! Fly-.” her sentence cut short when lightning shot out from the ball of lightning towards the seven. They all got caught in surprise but their system could not register the attack coming and was shocked to their core with the lightning.

Cries rang out from them as the lightning coursed through their bodies, along with the residue water in their clothes made them even more sensitive to the pain. Glen rushed to disperse the lightning rampaging through them with the help of his earth attribute.

Celine and Wilbert then healed each one of them so they could stand up and avoid the next attack, luckily, while they were occupied, the next spell was directed at Saber and Lila who dodged with ease since it was just a nature spell that grew flowers on the area.

“That lightning spell was so powerful, how strong is our nephew!” said Trunk, the first to recover from the electric shock.

“I don’t know, and for a human, that’s even more surprising.” followed by Coralia, the two stood up and assisted Celine and Wilbert heal their comrades, the former two having already known how to apply first aid -even if they do not know the word-.

Immediately responded as how they were trained to, thanks to the many times Ken had recreated the situation in order for them to adjust accordingly, this was when it was just seven of them.

Let’s just say Ken’s a manager and a scenario adviser.

“We might need to hurry I feel a spell coming towards this direction.” said Allen, who dashed in front of Celine and Wilbert then dashed to another location again, Celine and Wilbert nodded understanding what Allen meant.

“Glen, please carry the princess while the rest of us try our best to heal the others.” said Celine, healing Granarados who is responding back and slowly attempted to stand up.

“Please be careful leader Granarados.” She said, Granarados nodded and fully stood up, vitality returning to his body through his call of the nature, Celine noticed green lights absorbing to his body that seemingly went and did the rest of the work to heal him.

Celine then immediately turned to Riyah who was unconscious and Princess Lang being carried by Glen, Celine went and healed Riyah as she knows that the Princess will be safe. Wilbert is now helping Icarus stand up.

“Quick! Dodge!” shouted Allen from afar. Celine, Wilbert, Glen, and Granarados heard the shout and immediately dodged the wind spell consisting of wind blades that rained down on their previous location.

Granarados, Glen, and Wilbert jumped to the sideways. Wilbert settled Icarus down to continue healing him. Icarus collected his bearings and was conscious of his surroundings, he remembered the wind blades that fell down before them and looked frantically for his sister.

“Where’s Riyah?!” he said.

“Relax, you’re sister’s fine, Celine’s taking care of her.” said Wilbert and pointed to Icarus’s back, where Celine and Riyah were. Riyah who had slowly stirred awake was being held by Celine to steady her balance, Icarus slumped his shoulders in relief and released a breath.

“There, I think you’re good to go.” said Wilbert and slowly pulled Icarus up. He then looked at Celine and the two nodded at each other. Celine released her hold on Riyah and jumped to Glen’s location together with Wilbert.

“Everyone, do your best to dodge the spells while me and Celine tend to Princess Lang.” said Wilbert, the rest nodded in confirmation and prepared to avoid any incoming spells.

The two got to work and started simultaneously healing Princess Lang up, the reason why Celine had Glen carry the Princess was because out of all the seven who got struck by the lightning, it was Princess Lang who suffered more of the impact as she was the first one struck by it.

And the two knew that by being struck first by that lightning spell would sustain immense damage from the initial strike up to the electrocutes, they don’t know why but they remember that when Glen was struck by the same spell, he was unconscious for eight hours straight,

And was heaving with his body temperature going up. Ken woke up to fix the problem and told them to treat the victim of such a spell immediately or their conditions would worsen, he even warned them to not use such a spell.

Wonder what the expressions the two held while having such conversation. The two checked first the spell coursing through the Princess’s body and dispelled it before treating her condition.

The condition of the princess’s body was similar to that of common cold, and with her royal bloodline the symptoms were not severe so the two quickly healed the Princess, but they would have to wait for her to wake up.

A consequence left by that lightning spell, that whomever was struck first shall sleep, and the duration of the sleep differs from person to person, the tougher their body and stronger their magic, the lesser the duration they have to sleep.

“Okay, Glen, just hold on to the Princess so that we can make sure that she is safe while sleeping.” said Celine, Glen nodded and the three jumped on opposite directions to avoid a fire spell that exploded the area.

Glen resituated the Princess in a piggy back ride and held the Princess’ hands under her legs to secure her to his back. Although this may be a bit too much of a position for her, if Glen refuses to secure her then his quick movements would either result in Princess Lang in a bad state or worse.

The group was doing a good job of avoiding the various spells and coping through the different effects the spell left in their wake.

Like frozen flowers, burned flowers, thick bushes, protruding pillars and many more, and at every other occasion, they would raise their barriers to defend against elements that they were strong against.

Wilbert conjured fire walls to counter tall nature spells, Celine would conjure earth barriers to redirect burst of winds from a spell, Allen summoned ice shields to defend against elemental arrows or knives, Glen would use his superb strength to jump upwards in a high altitude and land on a far location.

Saber and Lila dashed around and disappeared and appeared in smoke, While Riyah, Flin, and Icarus were running around to avoid the spells, the adults were comfortably dodging the spells by now as their battle hardened experiences made it easy in avoiding simple attack patterns.

Everyone took breaks in awhile when needed and then moved to other locations to resume dodging.

“Has anyone ever asked why we are doing this anyway?” asked Riyah to no one in particular as she dodged an ice spear flying in her direction. Allen who heard her shrugged beside her. Riyah stared at him.

“We don’t know, we’re just doing it.” He replied and jumped to the side to avoid a fire rain.

“Then why not go away from this location to let all these spells die out.” She said repeating her point from earlier, back-flipped twice, avoiding earth spears. Allen pondered on her words.

“We can’t.” he said, sidestepped to the right as a fire surge passed through.

“Why?” asked Riyah, confusedly, and dashed to the left to avoid a big water ball.

“We’re trapped in a dome.” said Allen, Riyah’s face contorted more in confusion. Allen looked at her and said…

“You can go ahead and see for yourself.” he pointed at the top, Riyah followed his finger and looked at the sky but she saw nothing, she looked at him again in confusion.

“Go fly up.” said Allen, and both jumped backwards as a lightning spell with a fixed radius erupted to electrocute the area. Everyone had avoided the spell finely.

Riyah summoned her wings and flew just high up the tree line, she didn’t feel or notice anything different so she looked down at Allen in a questioning stare.

“Fly further up!” Allen shouted. Riyah pushed herself higher and about 250 feet high up into the air she collided with an invisible force because she didn’t expect there to be something that’d block her way.

She shook her head to get rid of the dizziness and felt around the barrier. It is here, she thought.

Whenever she would touch places of the barrier it would appear in the color of white, the property of the barrier that would condense as to show itself to the intruder or the trapped individuals. She looked back down to her friends and flew down.

She avoided three fireballs on her way before landing on the ground, retracting her wings.

“Do you believe me now?” said Allen who jumped towards her location, while dodging an earth spear. Right about now, the field looked deformed as the spells had ravaged the once serine looking place, except for where Ken is sleeping.

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