Chapter 48: Another Flame

Jin's POV

I blocked the flame with Leo. Although I managed to blocked it, it still grazed my clothes.

[Eva used Water Ball]

Eva threw a giant ball of water at me, and put out the flames. Really? That's your solution? To soak me? Now I'm drenched.

Jasmine kept on shooting the priestess to drive her away from me. I saw captain coming out of the car, as I was drying myself using Leo's flames. He then dashed at the priestess, and then Jasmine stopped shooting.

[Emray used Bullet Punch]

Captain tried to punch the priestess, but she blocked it with her staff. Although she managed to blocked it, the punch's after shock caused a great force causing her to flew many feet back.

"What does her staff made of?" Captain asked as he looked into his fist. It was bruised and slightly burnt.

Jane quickly went to the captain and casted...

[Jane used Enhance Regeneration]

at captain. His hand started to heal rapidly.

"Thanks" Captain said and Jane nodded. Then, the priestess came back and hurls a giant fire ball towards us.

[Eva used Water Ball]

Eva countered the giant fire ball with a giant water ball. When the two spells clashed, it turned into a cloud of smoke.

The priestess then threw her staff at us and it exploded into giant flames.

[Jane used Aqua Cube]

Jane tried to contain the flames from the staff. Then, Jasmine fired rapidly at the priestess. The bullets pierced her body a couple of times, the. she dropped to the ground.

"I cannot... contain it... any longer" Jane said as she tried to suppress the fire.

"Hold on!" Eva shouted and focused her mana to the cube.

[Eva used Fortification]

"Where did you learn to cast support spell?" Jane asked as she sighed in relief.

"It's Ive's. If I can learn the basic of the spells, then I can use them" Eva replied.

So Ive also gave her an ability. I wonder if any of them also had something in their sleeves because of Ive. Captain approached the priestess, he flipped her body and confirmed that she's already dead.

"This zone's seal is already useless, since the key is now dead." Jasmine said.

"Or maybe, there will be another priestess" Emray replied "Anyways, let's go"

We got back to our pick up truck and then we left. Jasmine and Mark went ahead of us.

"We're gonna be the front now. In case if something happen, we can quickly shoot it" Jasmine said and then drove in front us.

After a few minutes, an encampment can already be seen in a distance. Jasmine stopped on an area nearby and both she and Mark got down on the motorcycle.

We also got down, and went with her inside. Eva and Tristan followed, and went with us. Jasmine then lead us to a big tent with a sign that reads 'Chief Inspector Kyan'.

As soon as we entered, we were greeted by Andrei and Kyan and a pile of paperwork and documents related to the seals.

"Hi, welcome back" Andrei hugged Jasmine as soon as he sees her. It seems that these siblings haven't seen each other for awhile.

"What's the plan Kyan?" Captain asked. Kyan rummaged through the documents and pulled out a red folder. He then gave it to captain.

"21 female fire mages were listed, either they're missing, possessed or abducted. We confirmed that these women were being converted into priestesses. There are three priestesses in every seal. So there will always be a priestess in every zones." Kyan explained.

"We already killed a priestess on zone d" Jasmine said "We just left her body there"

"You do know that the dead can now be revive, right?" Kyan asked.

S**t, I think we messed up. We just left her there in a hurry. How could we forget in that short span of time that she can be zombified??? There were even corpses of acolytes being zombified.

"How did you forgot such a crucial information? You're even fighting with zombies for god's sake!" Andrei said.

"I-I... I don't knkw... I just forgot" Jasmine replied.

"All of us seems to have forgot that information, at the same time" Eva added.

"Remember when you said that there's a possibility that their minds could be altered?" Tristan asked.

"Maybe Ifrit's not the only one behind all of this. Maybe, they're not only trying to summon Ifrit, but also another one who's capable of necromancy and mind control" Mark said.

"Necromancy and Mind Control? There are only a few that I could count and most of them are either deities or higher demons" Kyan said.

"Have you consider a marquise?" Jasmine asked.

"What's a marquise?" Ashley added.

"Demons are classified by titles, for example lesser demon, marquise, duke, chancellor, higher demon, the 7 princes and then the monarch. There were many famous demons and they vary on ranks. Such as Ifrit a lesser demon, Vlad a duke demon and Mammon one of the 7 princes." Kyan explained "Yes, we did consider that possibility. If what they're trying to summon is a marquise, and not a lesser demon than Ifrit... then maybe it's a marquise not know to humankind"

"We'll be fighting an unknown enemy." Captain Emray said.

"Happens all the time" Ashley butted "I mean, in dungeons even if we know what type of monsters there are, we don't know what level they are or what can they do"

"She right. Let's just prepare ourselves for what is about to come" Captain Emray said.

"Captain, we also have some news about James and Heart." Kyan said.

"I have met James last week, so I know he's here somewhere. I only heard about Heart in gossips and news that travels by mouth and ear" Captain Emray replied.

"We found out that James were slaughtering people at ages 25-40. He's been followed by wraiths and skeletons. Looks like he's serving a demon now" Kyan stated "And about Heart..."

"Chief, the zombies are coming!" A voice from outside shouted.

"Let's go!' Captain Emray said and we left.