บท 16: Infernal Lightning Tiger
"Winter!!!" Aurelia yelled in panic at me, as she cast a spell right behind me. "Steel Wall!"
Thankfully the steel wall gave me just enough time to get out of the way before the Tiger broke through it. I hurriedly slashed at it only barely being able to nick it, with a minimal amount of damage. I quickly activated Quick Steps with both elements and sped away backwards for a short moment.
"Thank you," I yelled off handed to Aurelia, now completely in the zone for the battle. I quickly applied all my strengthening, as Aurelia applied a power buff to me with her magic. I made my way back to the tiger, as I activated severing slash with my ice element channeled into it, leaving a deep gash in the side of the alpha as it dodged a fatal attack.
Knowing what Aurelia was about to do I move slightly to the right as a flaming spear pierces through the air, stabbing into the side of the alpha. As the spear hit it roared in pain, thankfully tigers are solitary so we don't have to worry about reinforcements. In a rage the tiger starts to gather up an intense amount of mana, to which I can only smirk knowingly. In an instant I arrive inbetween Aurelia and the tiger and switch from ice to lightning in my scythe. The tiger releases a bolt of infernal lightning which I block and absorb into my scythe immediately activating Energy Severing and releasing all that energy back at the tiger.
Something we found out is that regular elemental energy can be absorbed by monsters of the element, but when adding infernal energy to the mix they can no longer absorb it. Not expecting its attack to be blocked let alone reflected the tiger took most of the brunt of the attack. Now in a severely weakened state we started to dominate and finally take down the tiger.
Now that the battle was finally over, and the adrenaline finally wearing off, I collapsed in exhaustion, my head leaning on Aurelia's shoulder next to me. Quietly crying on her shoulder I muttered, "I, I, I almost *hick* died. th, thank you for s, saving me Aurelia."
"You know I'll always be there for you Tess, I'm just one moment away. No matter what I'll always be by your side." She said to me while stroking my head to calm me down, just like when I first came out to my family. "You take a rest, I'm sure your pretty mentally exhausted right now, I'll take care of the rest," hearing that my mind was finally calmed down as I fell asleep.
In the time that I was asleep, Aurelia carefully removed the blood from the prior wolf pack and tiger, as well as their mana stones, and stored them away. Not to long after I woke up from my short nap and started skinning the tiger as well as the wolves. "Thanks again for saving my life, I was a little distracted at the time," I said to her with a light blush and a smile.
"Again, don't worry about it, I'm always gonna be by your side, I can't do that if you die," she said as she lightly squeezed my hand then let go. This caused me to go an even brighter shade of red as I looked at my feet. Over the next two days we slowly started to clear this floor of the dungeon, taking our time to not exhaust ourselves. by mid day of the second day we weren't able to find anymore monsters and decided to make our way to the next floor.
"Well this should be it, this next floor should be the boss room, you ready Tess?" Aurelia asked me this with a confident look on her face. Seeing this gave me a small boost to my own confidence as I answered in a similare manner.
"Ya, I'm ready, lets take down this overgrown bear."
"I'm with you on that one, before we do that though, we gained a few levels on this floor, and I think its about time to use our new points," Aurelia said to which I completely agreed, I just hadn't said it yet.
"Ya, let's do that."
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