Chapter 183: The Damaged Origin
Chapter 183: The Damaged Origin
{Current Condition: On The Verge of Dying...}
Raiden stared at the line in front of him with bloodshot eyes.
"No!! That’s not possible. Is there any way to heal him? Any at all? Help me, damnit!!"
{The Current System does not have the capability to heal anyone. Detecting special circumstances, running possible simulations. Estimated Time: 5 Mins.}
Raiden was filled with desperation as he watched Woolie’s breath getting weaker and weaker by every passing second. 5 minutes? At this rate, he wouldn’t last even 2 minutes.
"ANYBODY, ANYBODY AT ALL!!!, ANYONE WHO CAN HEAR ME?!! HELP!! HELP ME!!! ANY HEALER, PLEASE HELP!!! SOMEONE IS DYING HERE!!!!"
Raiden shouted at the top of his lungs until his voice turned hoarse and started to crack, but on a battlefield where death was roaming in every corner, nobody paid any attention to him.
Just as Raiden started to lose all hope and fall into despair, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
He quickly turned around only to find the blonde girl standing there. She was carrying a half-broken staff with exhaustion completely filling her face.
Raiden turned ecstatic as soon as she saw her, scrambling towards her feet.
"Holy Saintess!! You are my last hope! Please, I beg you, save Woolie!! Help him. I’m willing to do anything!! Please!!!" Raiden knelt down and lowered his head in desperation, hoping to move her.
"Get up Mr Raiden. We don’t have much time. I might need your help. I’ll do the best I can to help you." Without wasting any time, she moved towards Woolie, who was lying down on his side and waved her staff over his body.
A warm light started to fall on Woolie, healing all his external wounds, but much to Raiden’s despair, his condition didn’t get any better, as he could still feel him rapidly weakening from his bond.
"This is not working. What’s wrong with him?!! Please help him!!"
"It’s as I suspected. His body is suffering from multiple internal wounds and injuries, but more importantly, it felt like he had overdone his potential. I don’t have enough power left to heal him. I might need your help." The Holy Saintess leaned on her staff; her resolute voice was filled with exhaustion.
"I’ll do it, anything!! Take anything you want. Just please heal him. I am ready to do anything."
"You don’t have to do too much. Just give me your hand and don’t resist when I use your powers to heal him." The Holy Saintess extended her fair hand, and Raiden grasped it firmly, doing his best to channel the inner meditation technique.
A second later, he felt a devouring force originating from his hand. Without a second of hesitation, he poured everything he had into that devouring hole.
The Holy Saintess felt the vigorous force of light from his hand and used its power to heal Woolie as a warm light fell on top of him once again.
The light started to take effect immediately as Raiden could feel the connection between him and Woolie grow stronger once again. But only after a few seconds, he felt his own body getting empty. There wasn’t much power left inside him anyway, and he had exhausted it all within a few seconds.
’No, no, no, I can’t stop here. I need more. Much more!!’ Without hesitation, Raiden tapped into that depth of his body, locating the origin of his power inside his heart.
He started snatching the power from the fragile origin, causing it to crack as he coughed out blood. But he did not stop for even a second, drawing even more and more power, causing the cracks to get bigger and bigger.
That origin was the power source for his whole body, and if it got destroyed, it meant he would forever be stuck at his current level, but he didn’t care at all. The only thing he had in his mind was to save Woolie, his family.
The Holy Saintess felt the incoming power from Raiden, going from strong to weak to even stronger, roughly guessing where it was coming from, but she did not say anything and put even more concentration into healing Woolie, or at least getting him out of the danger zone.
Just like that, two fragile souls did their best to heal the little in the chaotic war zone.
A minute later, the Holy light went out as Woolie’s injuries stabilised, causing him to take a faint but stable breaths.
Seeing this, the Saintess immediately cut the connection between Raiden and herself, withdrawing her hand from his grip.
Raiden threw up even more blood as he kneeled over in a pool of his innards and blood. The origin in his heart was full of cracks. Only a single step away from disintegrating and crumbling into dust.
But he didn’t care about himself at all. He moved his body with desperation and moved near Woolie, only to find him breathing steadily once again.
"I am glad you are okay, Woolie, I am glad you are okay..." Raiden took a sigh of relief as he just lay there next to him, holding him close as if he was scared of something.
Thump!!
He turned his head a little bit to see the Holy Saintess also collapsed near him, her chest heaving up and down in effort. She had joined the fight midway and has been doing her best efforts to heal as many people as she can inside the war zone.
But she was just a Gold-Tier Battle Master and felt exhausted already. With this last healing, she overexerted herself and couldn’t help anybody anymore. Whether they win or lose this one, she left it all up to faith. She had done her best.
Before Raiden could also rest, he felt the faint vibrations on the ground getting bigger and bigger as a familiar roar filled his ears.
Roar!!!
Raiden sat upwards with difficulty, only to see a sight that made his blood run cold.
That Black Dragon had followed them back here, clutching a bloodied figure in his mouth.
"Maple, NO!!!"
Looking at the half-dead green dragon hanging from his jaws, as well as Maple, Raiden felt anger rising from the depths of his soul. He felt anger towards the Black Dragon as well as his own powerlessness, which led to her capture. But he could do nothing but wish for revenge while staring at him with hatred.
As if reading all the emotions on his face, the Black Dragon looked straight into his eyes and grinned before opening his jaws wider and snapping them shut, intent on devouring the girl whole.
{Simulation Complete!!}