Bab 125: Chapter 120: Struggling
Chapter 120: Struggling
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[Rumble~]
The ground cracked and more than a dozen beetle-like ants began to appear.
"They're coming…" said Vincent quietly, as he looked in the distance.
The skin on his hands that were on their chests began to darken.
'I've already located all the toxins inside their bodies. It should take around 3 minutes to completely extract it away from them. But…' Vincent looked at the few huge beetle-like ants that emerged from underground.
He assumed that they were at 3rd rank in Darkness and Earth elements, and maybe even have some "WE" within them…
If they have that… Then he wants it all.
'… I might need to stop the extraction process if my girls would meet the life-threatening situation,' added Vincent, and then lowered his gaze to look at Annie, who just placed her hand on his chest.
"Are you fine? Your hand…" Annie bit her lip, as she looked at his darkened hand.
"Master…" said Selena as she wipes the blood on the corners of her lips and felt that her vision was slowly coming to normal since some toxins had already been extracted from her body. She was in a much worse state than Annie.
Vincent calmly looked at them but didn't answer.
To be honest, he had already begun to feel the effect of the toxin on his body.
If Vincent continued to talk to them, they would understand from his weird voice that the poison had already begun to damage his body, so he decided not to talk to them as often as before to lower their worry.
Selena stared straight into his crimson eyes as his big hands on her chest continued to extract poison to save her life.
The more she looked at his calm face, the more her lips began to tremble, and she literally started to quietly cry with tears as emotions began to overwhelm her.
'I'm so happy that I managed to meet you in this forest… I heard rumors that the sect elders planned a marriage agreement for me when we will come back. I didn't hear details of it, so I didn't believe it much, but now it doesn't matter anymore, since I met my fated one…' said in her mind Selena, as she closed her eyes and began to choke slightly from tears.
She doesn't want him to save her anymore if he will need to pay such a price. She better die, rather than see him suffer in her stead.
[Thud]
Selena felt how something liquid dropped on the fingers of her hand that she placed on Vincent's leg and opened her eyes.
It was a drop of dark red blood…
Selena raised her eyes to look at Vincent and froze.
Vincent began to bleed through his nose and eyes, as toxins entered his bloodstream and began to destroy his insides at a faster pace.
"V-Vincent…?" said shocked Annie as she had just noticed his state.
He is killing himself by taking a double dose of "black corrosive ants" toxin into his body.
The skin on his face slightly darkened as the bleeding intensified.
"Vincent, please, *sob* I beg you, stop! I will be fine since you already took most of the toxin from me. I will not die! Enough, please… *sob*" said though sob, Annie, as she looked at his suffering while treating her.
Vincent didn't answer them anymore. He fully focused on toxin extraction.
Annie turned her head to the side while Selena closed her eyes before they began to cry even more after they saw how blood started to leak from his mouth…
'Tsk… The toxin damaged my heart slightly, but the unnatural regeneration that gifted me "Zarack" is enough to restrict the toxin from damaging me further. No toxin in this world will manage to kill me, but to make me suffer, easily. This regeneration doesn't make me immune to poisons, only raising my resistance to them, but it's enough. This way, I can naturally temper my body to resist poisons further using this chance,' thought Vincent as he was halfway to finishing the extraction.
He could hear the girls' screams from afar.
'We had yet to create proper teams that will do specific stuff like "Defense", "Offense", "Healing", "Summon", and "Assassination". If we had it, then they wouldn't even need my help.
Vincent opened his bloody eyes and looked at those 3rd ranked black ants that arrived in the distance.
'They will all die if I don't finish the extraction in time and come to help them. Maybe… I just want too much for them right now. I should just save whoever is still alive. The training will wait for a better time and place…' wondered Vincent before he turned his eyes on Skylar that was nearby the twins, Fiona and Flora, and used sound magic to reach Skylar's ear.
"Skylar, bring all the girls to me," said her, Vincent, and then send his message to each of his wives who were protecting him, Annie, and Selena 10 meters away.
"Help Skylar to prepare the corridor for them and the rest of the girls to come here. Soon you all will enter the Pocket World," said Vincent calmly as he monitored those big 3rd ranked ants 200 meters away.
He already counts a dozen of them as they slowly emerged from underground, just like the first one that he killed.
…
Not far away.
Skylar arrived at Fiona and Flora's place.
*Boom!*
Skylar quickly cast the [Fireball] spell at ants gathering place nearby as Fiona and Flora were too busy to take care of it since they were almost encircled.
"How are you Fiona, Flora?" asked, Skylar.
Fiona weakly turned to look at Skylar.
"We are both fine, but… we didn't manage to protect all girls in time, and some of them… died," said sorrowfully Flora, as she looked at the two female corpses nearby that had holes in their heads from the ambush attack of flying ants.
"Will we all die here… We are doomed…" said one of the girls as she held her channeling fire spell active to stop "black corrosive ants" from advancing, but her hand almost reached the limit of what damage it could bear.
"Enough! Stop the panic and just do what you can to resist the swarm," said Fiona to that girl before turning to Skylar, "What is worrying me even more… Where are those elves? They left just before the ant's attack began, and I'm certain that they can't fly, so they should be nearby, but they're not. What is happening here?" added Fiona as she cast her next spell. To be honest, she was scared. They could not resist for long, her own body already was on the edge of collapsing from spell overuse.
Suddenly, Skylar's eyes twitched before she turned to look at Vincent as she received his message, and her body shivered a little from seeing his current state.
"Fiona, Flora, we were called inside that chamber to meet Vincent. He just contacted me," quickly said Skylar as her eyes became wet slightly.
Fiona her, and the possibility of survival appeared in her mind. She turned to look at her sister and saw her nod.
"Aurora, Remi, take everyone to Vincent, I will open the path, and you will immediately run towards him, understand?" said Skylar hastily as she turned back to the two women who were fighting.
"We understand!" shouted Remi, while Aurora already gathered the weakest girls around her.
Skylar took a deep breath and raised her hands, while Fiona and Flora protected them.
Skylar looked at Vincent, who was sitting in the inner row of the tempering chamber 50-60 meters away. His state visibly became worse and worse, but he didn't show any concern about it on his face.
This distance was a bit far away for the 3rd rank mage to clear, but she has to do it.
*Boom!*
Skylar heard the explosion that lady Anna made as she swiftly cleared half of that distance, creating a 4-meter wide corridor with fire on its sides, making Skylar understand that Anna was also helping them.
Skylar immediately used this chance and cast her spell to do a similar thing.
To create a corridor of 60 meters long was a problem for her, but for half of that distance, it was very possible.
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