143. The Only Purpose
Ever since becoming Calysia’s vassal, Reina had been able to do this. As a vassal, it was only natural to offer her magic power and body to her master.
But Calysia had never “taken” magic power from her body, so it was only when Reina offered her blood that she learned how to give her power to Calysia.
And out of her vassal’s instinct, she would gain the supreme honor and pleasure of a vassal.
So comfortable.
So good.
Being possessed by Calysia, being deprived of everything by her master, wasn’t it only natural?
“Awoo…”
“Hehe…”
“Dummy Reina, do you want Master’s concern so much?”
Calysia chuckled, but quickly stopped the transmission of magic power.
She was actively refusing.
However, a portion of the power had already been absorbed.
“Ah?”
Reina, having just recovered from her strange state, felt that something was amiss.
Just before Calysia had said those words, she had been nuzzling against her with affectionate gestures.
Like a small pet showing affection to its master!
—I’m so weak!
“I… I’m so weak!”
She was completely unconfident in her own strength. In this situation, wouldn’t it be more convenient for Calysia to obtain her power?
“Master, are you a dummy? Hurry up and fight… What if he runs away?”
Of course, Calysia wouldn’t.
But she still sighed and placed a strong gravity shield around Reina.
She didn’t even glance at Dragon Slayer.
Calysia’s physique, having absorbed a large amount of Reina’s magic power, became even more terrifying. Silver magic patterns even appeared around her eyes, as if she had evolved into a god.
At least, Reina could be certain that the woman before her could now rival the Goddess of Light she had previously defeated.
She casually raised her hand, and purple magic materialized into a giant dragon claw. Dragon Slayer quickly got up and dodged. In just a moment, the ground where he had been was flattened by a powerful shockwave. Then Calysia’s attack had just begun. She almost teleported to Dragon Slayer’s jumping direction and intercepted him in mid-air, using her most destructive skill from before.
[Phase Stripping]
But the difference was that this time, the attack exploded instantly, with basically no time to react.
Reina opened her eyes. Although her body was exhausted from giving her power, she still saw clearly.
Dragon Slayer hadn’t died.
What was going on?
“White Miry?”
Reina said, and the latter understood.
She took Liya from the other’s hands, and then, White Miry transformed into a “Grim Reaper” in a long robe, just like she had against the Beast King.
The Grim Reaper raised her bone scythe high above her head, and the next second, Calysia had already exchanged several blows with Dragon Slayer.
“[Annihilation Slash]”
A massive wave of ghostly blue sword aura shot out from White Miry’s scythe… Calysia seemed to have noticed and controlled Dragon Slayer with a magic-conjured dragon claw.
As the ghostly blue sword aura focused on Dragon Slayer, the entire underground space was enveloped in a ghostly blue light.
After this magical attack, she was surprised to find…
Dragon Slayer was still completely unharmed!
Although this person was no match for Calysia, the attack just now hadn’t even scratched him.
“Hehehe…”
Although this person was completely inferior to Calysia, he also couldn’t be killed, just as he had described.
It wasn’t an exaggerated recovery ability, but a defensive ability… no, it was something else.
Reina had never seen such an enemy before.
But soon, even Calysia’s gravity began to have less of an effect on him. He relied on his brute force, and seeing that Calysia’s giant dragon claw was about to be broken, she threw him away with great force.
“What’s going on?”
White Miry couldn’t understand what was happening. Now, she had also exhausted her magic power after that full-powered attack. In a battle of this level, just being able to participate was already difficult.
“He can nullify magic.”
Reina said.
If she wasn’t mistaken.
Although magic was a macroscopic phenomenon caused by magic power, and it was objectively happening, the attacks caused by these magics seemed to not exist in front of Dragon Slayer.
And as time passed, his resistance to gravity magic would also gradually increase.
Similar to [Eternal Golden Radiance].
So, to defeat Dragon Slayer, Calysia needed to “fight him head-on,” to engage in close combat.
Calysia’s physical strength was also already “off the charts.”
Reina glanced at Dragon Slayer’s condition… one of his arms was already broken by Calysia, and a few of his ribs were also broken.
But this couldn’t kill Dragon Slayer immediately.
Especially in the current situation, a quick battle was necessary.
Reina returned Liya to White Miry’s hands, flew to Calysia’s side, and said:
“Master.”
“Try using my light power.”
But just then, Calysia looked at Reina with an expression of disbelief.
Reina froze.
A master absorbing a vassal’s power, wasn’t that only natural? Why did Calysia look like she was rejecting it, and even had such a sad expression?
And
Calysia’s state was very strange.
As if she had remembered something, she looked very pained.
“As expected of the Goddess of Light. You’re a truly fearsome person.”
Dragon Slayer seemed to have sensed Reina’s intention.
“We’ll have our chance to fight, but for now, farewell.”
Suddenly, Dragon Slayer’s body, starting from his feet, was enveloped in spatial cubes—it was the bandaged girl’s spatial magic.
Reina wanted to continue pursuing, and with her speed, she could definitely use [Chaos] to break the teleportation in time.
But just then, Reina held Calysia and said:
“Little Cal, we might not have much time.”
Even if she continued to pursue, it would waste time, and the Shadow of God’s actions had already begun, even earlier than them. If they continued to delay, it would only set back the ruins exploration further. Now was the time to race against the clock.
This was also one of the reasons why Reina wanted to quickly deal with Dragon Slayer.
But now that the other party already had the intention to escape, and she wasn’t completely sure she could stop him, she couldn’t bet her victory on this one person.
The good news was,
Calysia obediently stopped.
Little Cal was just like that, completely obedient to her.
“Yes, okay.”
“I’ll listen to Reina.”
Calysia said sweetly, stopping her actions and holding Reina as she landed on the ground from the sky.
“White Scale, how is the situation?” Reina turned her head.
White Miry shook her head.
“The injuries are mostly healed, but it will be a long time before she wakes up.”
“Is that so…”
Reina shook her head.
“White Scale, you and Liya should avoid combat as much as possible. The Dragon King and I will go ahead.”
Reina frowned slightly:
“It will be very dangerous below.”
“I understand.” White Miry understood, found a flat spot, and placed the unconscious Liya on her lap.
Only then did Reina breathe a sigh of relief.
But there was another matter that was worrying.
This ruin was almost certainly real.
But why didn’t Calysia care?
There might be Goddess’s Treasures here, or even everything.
But she, who wanted to regain her strength, actually acted as if she didn’t care?
It was as if…
Her only purpose was to protect me.
