บท 56: Chapter 4: Antidote

John made sure to cast furtim while they flew there so that they wouldn't notice, and once they finally reached them, he decided to keep it activated and observed the situation.

Before they had come, the mage was keeping the wolves at bay by casting and chanting Fire Wall spells and attacking them with flame blades. He was running out of power, but their numbers were drastically decreasing.

Whenever the wolves sustained enough damage, they would disperse into thin air. There were around 20 and now only 10 remained.

"Advanced Fire magic: Flaming Sphere," He muttered.

John was surprised. Not by the fact that he formed a sphere of flames which engulfed around 4 of the wolves, or because he still had that much energy in him, but because he called it 'Advanced Fire Magic'

'Magic spells are given ranks... Then I wonder what my Ice Sphere would be... Probably advanced Ice magic... What about Glacies... Elementary magic?' John wondered.

As John thought of such things, the man suddenly collapsed.

"And that's our cue.," John muttered.

The wolves slowly approached the man with caution, they seemed smarter than they looked. They had also lost the majority of their group.

As they were about to move in to save the poor man, a girl came out of the back of the carriage, she wore noble clean clothes and had long golden hair. She seemed to be around their age if not older.

The three of them just watched as she stood beside the man and began chanting.

"Young Lady, It's dangerous...." He muttered.

Now that John got a closer look at him, the man didn't seem like a magician or adventurer at all. In fact, he wore a black suit which gave him the appearance of a butler.

It was just the two of them here, John couldn't feel the presence of anyone else.

As she was about to finish her chant, 3 of the shadow wolves jumped straight at her

"Young lady!!" Shouted the man on the ground.

"Glacies Murum" Translation: Ice Wall.

A wall of ice was formed right in front of the trembling girl who had her chant interrupted. The Shadow 3 shadow wolves hit directly at it, which formed a giant crack.

"Ariel, Serena, let's go." John said as he leaptleaped straight at the 3 wolves whichwho were about to go around the wall.

The teary girl looked around to find the source of the voice of the one who saved her.

Once Serena and Ariel left his radius, they became visible, and the girl looked at them with a confused expression but didn't question it. She began chanting her spell again.

John deactivated furtim and he and hershe made eye contact as he swung his dagger at the shadow wolf., but Iit went straight through.

"Physical attacks don't work on them!" Said Serena as she cast ignis and propelled it to one of the 3 shadow wolves which were on her and Ariel's side.

John was handling the 3 in front of the girl and the collapsed man, meaning he would protect them while Serena and Ariel would fire ranged attacks at the wolves at the back.

"And you only tell me this now?!" John said. with frustration.

The wolf which his dagger had gone through, tried biting on toonto his hand so John decided he'd let it.

"Glacio." John muttered as he moved his hand to avoid its bite and placed it on its head.

Shortly after, the head of the wolf froze up, and it disappeared into thin air.

"That's one..." John muttered as he looked over at the other two in front of him.

The wolves began to growl as they jumped straight at John.

They jumped at him, but John could tell he wasn't their target. If he had dodged it, they would have gone straight for the girl who was chanting. So instead... he started chanting.

"Gravitas." John muttered.

He stopped the furthest one from moving and jumped straight at the closest one. As it opened, its dark mouth with the objective to latch on to mehim, John cast Glacies and propelled it straight at its head.

Without being able to avoid it, it was hit head onhead-on in the face and ice slowly engulfed it and spread through its whole body before it dispersed.

As John was about to end to the last one, which was stuck without being able to move thanks to gravitas, the girl behind him had finished chanting.

"Intermediate Holy Magic: Holy Light," She said.

A bright light radiated from her hands and made the remaining Wolves Screech. While they were distracted, the three of them ended them. John finished off the last of the 3 in front of him with glacies.

Serena and Ariel finished off the 3 on their side shortly after, John hadn't been watching their fight, but they were doing well, they'd either use Ignis or Ventus against them and after around 3 hits they'd go down.

Shortly after that, the girl fell on her knees beside the butler and began to cry.

"Don't die, Alfred... Please..."

"Of course I won't *Cough* I won't kick the bucket until I get the young lady back to the city... I promise your father, after all..." He muttered as he struggled to get up.

The butler didn't look like he collapsed just because he used up too much magic... Magic doesn't make you cough out blood.

"What's wrong with him?" John asked as he approached her.

"I don't know... He was bitten by one of those wolves a while back and started growing weaker..." The girl uttered.

The man looked like he was in a lot of pain.

'Poison?' John wondered.

"Hm, I'm guessing he was poisoned" Said Serena as she got a closer look at him.

"No..." She muttered as she grabbed on to his hand.

"I'll be fine... *Cough*," He said.

'Fine? How? You're coughing out blood, you clearly don't look fine,' John thought.

"I have an antidote I can give it to you if you'd like," John casually said.

'They're not that expensive, and there's a chance that it won't work, but it's better than nothing,' John was curious to see how healing potions work in this world too. And Iif he dies, they won't be able to gain any information.

"Really?!" She asked.

"Yeah, I have more than necessary." John replied.

"T-Thank you! I promise that I'll be sure to reward you and your friends for this. Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Eleanor Van Mira, Thank you very much for saving us." She said as she made a noble gesture, or at least she tried.

It didn't seem like she realisedrealized she wasn't wearing a dress as when she motioned her hand to slightly lift it up, there was nothing but air.

"No problem..." John said as he pulled out an antidote potion from his magic tool boxtoolbox and gave it for him to drink straight away.

'Let's hope this works I guess... But why do I feel like I'm forgetting something…' John wondered.

As the man drank the contents of the potion John felt a chill go down his spine. He turned around and instantly cast 'Glacies Murum' and 'Sphaera Glacies' with haste as he felt his heart skip a beat.

Everyone was surprised by his sudden action, but they'll shortly knoew why.