SSS Awakening: I Can Class Change at will - Chapter 366 Fighting The Spirit!

Chapter 366  Fighting The Spirit!

The spirit wanted her dead fast, that much was evident. Whatever was lurking nearby had made it cautious, and a cautious predator was a lethal one. It wanted to finish the woman and shift its full attention to the hidden threat.

The woman was barely holding on. Her staff caught most of the blows, but each impact rattled her arms and pushed her closer to breaking.

Then she heard the galloping noise once more.

The same horse came charging from a far, bearing down on the spirit from behind. The spirit’s eyes narrowed. The woman’s did too.

‘The same horse from before.’

This wasn’t a coincidence. The first charge could have been a stray beast acting on instinct. But twice? Targeting the same enemy?

‘Somebody is sending me a signal.’ The thought clicked into place. ‘They want to help me.’

It was the only explanation that made sense. Someone was out there, using the horse as a distraction, waiting for the right moment to strike. And they needed her to stay in the fight long enough for that moment to come.

The woman gritted her teeth and tightened her grip on her staff. In her peripheral vision, Mirage’s clone continued to charge toward the spirit, hooves pounding against the rocky ground.

When the horse was seconds from reaching the spirit, the woman broke away. She abandoned the fight and moved herself to the side, putting as much distance as she could between herself and the spirit as she spotted something on the horse’s body.

‘Good…she moved at the right time.’

Moon let out a quiet breath of relief. His plan had nearly fallen apart twice now, but the woman had done what he predicted. She was a little late, but enough to ensure his plan proceeded smoothly.

The spirit swung its blade at the charging horse. The same killing thrust aimed at the flank.

But halfway through the swing, its eyes shrank.

The hidden lines across the horse’s body flared bright, as the runes activated. The spirit tried to pull away, to abort its strike and create distance—

“Too late.” Moon grinned.

~BOOM~

The dozens of runes Moon had inscribed onto the doppelganger detonated at once at point blank range. The explosion swallowed the spirit whole before it could do anything more than cross its arms over its torso and head to protect them.

The shockwave tore outward in every direction. Dirt erupted skyward as a crater ten meters wide was carved into the ground where the spirit had been standing, and fire and smoke billowed upward in a thick, rolling column.

The woman stumbled from the blast wave, catching herself on one knee. She stared at the smoke with wide eyes, her chest heaving.

‘This could have hit me.’ She swallowed hard, her grip trembling around her staff.

Before she could think of anything else, a bolt of blue light streaked through the air toward the smoke.

Upon a closer look, it was a lightning wolf crackling with violent energy, moving so fast it was difficult to track with the naked eye.

The woman’s eyes widened.

‘Lightning element.’

Her mind raced, lightning wasn’t a basic element. It was a middle-tier advancement element, rare and difficult to spot. The chances of encountering someone who could use it were slim. The chances of encountering someone who could shape it into a guided attack like that were even slimmer.

‘Could it be…’

The wolf plunged into the smoke and detonated. A sharp thunderclap echoed across the clearing, and arcs of lightning spiderwebbed outward through the dust and debris.

A figure emerged from behind the boulders. A young man on a white horse, moving with a calm expression towards them her. His hand was still extended from releasing the attack, faint sparks dying between his fingers.

The woman saw his face.

Her expression, already battered beneath the layers of dirt and dried blood, changed. Her disheveled hair hung across her eyes, but she could see him clearly enough.

She winced.

‘It’s really him…’

Isabelle’s guard, which had been wound tight since the moment the horse first appeared, dropped immediately. The man walking toward the crater was someone she had interacted with on multiple occasions before. They weren’t exactly friends, but they weren’t enemies either. He was someone she could trust enough to fight alongside in order to defeat the spirit.

‘Does he know it’s me?’ She glanced down at herself and shook her head. Caked in dirt, drenched in blood, her hair a tangled mess hanging over half her face. Her own mother wouldn’t recognize her in this state.

“Hey, the spirit isn’t dead yet. Let’s fight together, okay?” Moon’s voice cut through her thoughts.

She nodded her head rapidly, like a chicken pecking on seeds. Her eyes moved back toward the smoking crater.

The wind was doing its usual work. Up here on the floating island, smoke didn’t linger for long. The strong gusts tore through it in sheets, peeling away layer after layer until the outline of a figure began to emerge from the haze.

The spirit was still standing, albeit it wasn’t as proud as before. Its white light body suite was scorched, and filled with multiple holes, its beautiful white hair stood on end, and blood trickled down from its mouth, it was injured severely, yet it still stood.

“Be careful, he is really strong at close range.” Isabelle said, holding her staff infront of her, preparing for the incoming attack.

Moon nodded his head, he had seen it, and knew that fighting it at close range was a bad idea. He had got off Mirage for more mobility, and to ensure he didn’t put him in danger.

Lightning crackled in Moon’s hands once more, “You can fight it at close range, I will support you from a far.”

Isabelle turned to look at Moon in disbelief, ‘Do you not see how injured I am? Yet, you still want me to fight it at close range…when its this pissed?’ She thought but didn’t speak aloud.

“I need some more time to recover before being able to do any damage to it.” “You don’t need to do any damage, you haven’t done anything to begin with. I just need you to buy time as I prepare my spell once again.”

Isabelle’s mouth twitched but she couldn’t refute him, he was right after all.